Ben Cardin actually said...

"It is important that accurate information is made available about the potential risk, about the potential environmental damages, and the capacity to respond to that."

"Because my point and the question I would at least put for the record is that the oyster issue is a very sensitive issue for all of us because we are doing everything we can to get the oyster back."

"Yet MMS accident reports state that blowout preventers have failed or otherwise played a role in at least 14 accidents."

"Was the report Friday accurate that MMS has granted another environmental exception for a Deepwater Horizon that will be 4,000 feet deep?"