Thank you very much, Professor Eagle, for your comments.

Our challenge then is to ensure that new drilling, or any energy development in the OCS, is done responsibly.

Today's hearing will explore that last point in greater detail.

I can't imagine that we would do anything else but to go forward and take the responsibility upon ourselves.

We are pleased to receive your testimony, and you are recognized for 5 minutes.

I respectfully request and appeal to the Committee to include in its proposed budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2010 sufficient budgetary headroom to allow for Congress to pass legislation implementing the recommendations of the Guam War…

Support for the enactment of the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act continues to grow, and I hope that the Senate will pass the bill this year.

We have to share it.

We need specific, practical, and constructive recommendations and priorities.

We begin the 111th Congress during a period of great uncertainty for our Nation.

The dynamic nature of our time suggests the need for a new conservation paradigm.