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On the recordJune 16, 2010
Let's see, that fellow Murphy was right. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. And BP didn't plan for what could go wrong. In fact, they ignored it. They put together an application that just ignored the possibility of the worst case. In situations like this, we must force the industry to assume the worst case will happen. We have seen it. No more.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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Garamendi addresses the failures of BP in planning for worst-case scenarios.

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