It would help, but I don't think it would fix the problem.

Do you think they're resourced adequately to do that?

We need institutions that bring students who have historically been left out of higher education into the fold.

I want to hear your honest thought about it.

One of the challenges, I think, that we are going to face, and that the DOE is going to face is that it's so difficult to monitor every individual transaction that occurs.

What are the tests of the blowout preventers showing?

A great deal of attention stemming from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon has focused on the spill.

This committee has a serious responsibility to explore the issue of workforce safety and workplace protections generally, and BP in particular.

I understand that. But I would, if I were reading the things that you also are reading--I guess I will try one more time--rather than expecting that people are actually fulfilling their obligations, what are you doing to assure that people…

Have those been changed since the Deepwater Horizon accident?

I know the tests have occurred, and we wouldn't--and if there was a problem with any of the blowout preventers that we have, then we would have looked at that, and we would have made sure that we could operate safely.