How did we get to a situation where the trailers are now being used to house people without notification to them that it could be dangerous to their health and to the health of their families?

We know that, inside of the -- a preparedness plan that BP put together, that they did not mention hurricanes or tropical storms.

I am concerned and that's why I'm pressing the Coast Guard and the EPA to make public what their criteria is for use of dispersants, what the dispute may be between Coast Guard and EPA and what information, if any, that the oil industry…

Unfortunately, during the Bush administration, they made a decision to sell these trailers, to sell these toxic trailers.

It is absolutely preposterous that workers who are asked to go out to clean up toxic materials are then going home to trailers, toxic trailers loaded with formaldehyde that are not fit for human habitation.

I thank the chairman very much. I thank him for his excellent work and for his timely hearings on this catastrophic event. I thank the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps) for her excellent work on this indispensable piece of…

But I think it's important for the American people to know that BP has such a document because that will help us to ensure that we keep the pressure on BP and that we're also properly prepared.

I guess he must have felt that it was time for him to go and to go for a nice sail on an ocean that BP has yet to despoil.

Yes, they were not preparing for a worst case scenario. They didn't have the boom. They didn't have the skimmers. They didn't put in place the protective equipment for the health of the workers who would be out there cleaning up this mess.

We now know in retrospect that when BP in the first week was saying that the spill was only 1,000 per day that they had an internal document in the first week that said it was 1,000 to 14,000 barrels per day. They did not any -- let anyone…

And that's why we have to stay on them every single day until the well is plugged and everyone, including the people in the Gulf and the ocean, are made whole.