Thank you for your leadership here, and I appreciate the panel being here today, too.

I think that's what the public wants and I'd have to commend PHMSA for doing it, even though it's at the expense of the pipeline industry.

I think PHMSA is aggressive in their audits and in their enforcement practices.

But, I've noticed that there are a lot of--seems like, in recent years--more private foundations and patient groups who are pushing very hard to get certain things through the approval process.

Thank you for conducting this hearing today.

From a consumer's point of view, this is a massive mistake, but DOT has drunk the airline Kool Aid over the objections of Justice.

There is no doubt that this merger will affect Cleveland.

As I understand it, in Louisiana you have something we do not have in Arkansas. You have an oil spill coordinator's office.

Thank you for that very touching testimony.

So as long as they can justify their out-of-pocket losses, you pay 100 cents on the dollar?

Are there any legal reasons that you are aware of why people would, by virtue of getting a claim, under any law, State law or whatever the case may be, that they might be forgoing their right to sue if they decide to later?