Senator Feinstein and I will never forget what hit our state, and I'm going to go through this with some photos so, my colleagues, you can see this.

Thank you so much for your help in getting this out here today.

the easiest thing for you to do is make the changes that can be done via regulation, through your protocols.

Look, what we're doing here is trying, all of us together, to make sure this never happens again, or anything close to this.

I just wanted to add my voice of thanks to Senators Lautenberg and Wicker, and the rest of the Committee.

If you had these automatic shutoff valves, it would make all the difference in the world.

No one knew whether the pipeline under San Bruno was safe. Not the utility, not the state regulators and not the Federal regulators.

So you don't agree with the NTSB after they made that exhaustive investigation?

I want to thank you for the meticulous work by your team on the San Bruno investigation, and for the recommendations in your final report, all of which PG&E fully embraces.

So you don't know why they didn't make any corrections. Could you get an answer for the record for me, please?

Well, maybe that's why they sent you to this hearing.

Forty plus regs. Would you send me the proposed regs that you have that are related to this incident?

to me what's really important is go after those high-risk areas first.

I again want to thank Senators Lautenberg and Wicker. I want to thank Senators Rockefeller and Hutchison, the Chair and Ranking Member.

People are dead because of this.

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I would suggest you look at page 121. It's the clearest English.

Extreme weather is what was predicted.

Your agency gave 100 percent rating to the CPUC.

Before you get there--what about in the rest of the country, any of the other explosions?

Do you support eliminating the grandfather clause that exempts pre-1970 pipelines from pressure tests?

If we had that, it would've sensed the leak and we would've not seen this happen.

The NTSB believes that safety improvements are needed throughout the pipeline industry.

I want to thank my dear colleague Senator Feinstein for her eloquence today, and, you know, I feel in my heart that we can make a difference here, and I'm ready to work with everybody.

I think we ought to require this. And you have caveats. And I think that is critical.