Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"But I think it is a very important hearing because it is obvious to all of us that it has taken painfully long for the oil spill in the Gulf, Deepwater Horizon, to be stopped."

"Surely, this catastrophe should prompt the Administration to reconsider that ill-conceived budget cut."

"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..."