Joseph Lieberman actually said...

I believe the Administration is correct in calling for a halt to the approval of further drilling in deep waters.

And as Senator Collins said, my understanding is that increasingly in the Gulf and elsewhere we are using deep-water wells.

The private sector must accept responsibility for this failure in modern engineering.

I appreciate what you are doing now to contain the spill, and particularly, Secretary, what you are doing with Secretary Salazar to come up ...