04/27/2009
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"After the Commission concluded its work and issued this report, we still don't know why that blowout preventer failed."
"We faced an engineering issue. A blowout preventer failed, and it failed catastrophically. It caused enormous environmental and economic devastation."
"More than 200 billion gallons of water have been cut off to the Central Valley of California."
"No one would argue for the need for additional water facilities, but I think you would have to agree that 200 billion gallons of water would have made all of the difference in the world in the Central..."