Ben Cardin actually said...

"I don't know what BP Oil's position is going to be a couple of years from now."

"It is important that you have done as thorough a job as possible in looking at the scope of damages."

"But in response to Senator Whitehouse's point about the responsible party being brought into the process, doesn't that almost per se bring into question the objectivity of the work?"

"Transparency is important here."