Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"But isn't it true that--and, Admiral, I welcome you to come in on this--those kinds of drills were not really to deal with a blowout in a deep-water well?"

"I hope that you will take a close look at the special requirements for protection that it seems to me we now have all learned have to apply to deep-water drilling, including the blowout preventers, th..."

"Of course, the ominous note here--I appreciate hearing that--is that, as you said quite openly and directly, it could take 3 months."

"I certainly agree that too much reliance was put on the blowout preventer here."