Madam President, I know that the Senator from Massachusetts has time. I just want to take this time while he is coming into the Chamber to say that you can almost hear in the background very foreboding music as we are counting down the…

I want others to have a chance.

I'll never forget, with all the problem we've had in the Gulf Claims Facility, of getting them to try to help out people.

If there's a spill there, do you know what runs right by there? It's the Gulf Stream.

But the next time around we sure want a crisp, chain of command.

We had a failed decision-making apparatus. The Unified Command, to begin with, did not react as hard as people were working.

I think we're all saying that we should look at the Oil Pollution Act and see if there are amendments that are needed.

But, you all let BP, basically, direct a lot of the response.

What we're trying to do here is lessons learned, so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.

Now, I don't want this to happen again. And there are lot of lessons learned--that we learned from your state--that we didn't pay any attention, and it happened again.

And to do that cheaply, and it saves a lot of electricity.