Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, after line 6, insert the following (and redesignate accordingly): ``(3) Other safety and environmental requirements.--The regulations required under paragraph (1) shall ensure that the proposed drilling operations meet requirements for-- ``(A) third-party certification of safety systems related to well control, such as blowout preventers; ``(B) performance of blowout preventers, including quantitative risk assessment standards, subsea testing, and secondary activation methods; ``(C) independent third-party certification of well casing and cementing programs and procedures; ``(D) mandatory safety and environmental management systems by operators on the outer Continental Shelf; ``(E) procedures and technologies to be used during drilling operations to minimize the risk of ignition and explosion of hydrocarbons; and ``(F) ensuring compliance with other applicable environmental and natural resource conservation laws, including the response plan requirements of section 311(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1321(j)).…”