I certainly hope that this committee will follow through.

I would hate for us to appropriate $421 million for you to develop a system and then it cannot ever be implemented.

I thought I was hearing wrong when the Senator talked about Liberal.

I think this panel has made a really strong case for looking at DOPMA and the fact that it really doesn't make sense to use a one-size-fits-all

According to your testimony, your Bureau is now reviewing over 5,000 pages of technical feedback on the draft rule.

Thank you, Madam Chairman.

If the environmental and safety regulatory standards laid out in the WCR are implemented, operators will have to factor in the cost of the compliance with the rule in addition to their operating costs.

I think that if we define 'constraints' as, really, speed, thrift, simplicity, I think that's what we're getting at.

Did you also take into consideration--I realize this is difficult to predict because you do not want to make any predictions based on the actual occurrence of disasters--but when there is a disaster and there are deaths, then the company…

Our acquisition process is highly complicated, and yet we are stuck in a bygone era.

I think it's a great approach.

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