The spill has been referred to as the worst environmental disaster in the United States.
Senator Boxer has been very encouraging to this Subcommittee Chair to move forward on these issues.
It is a pleasure to have you here, and also another Marylander on the panel.
Thank you very much for inviting me to testify today.
He has been a strong advocate for us in Maryland, part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
The stakes are very, very high for all of us. It affects our entire Country, not just the directly impacted regions.
I would just observe this is a similar issue that came up at our first hearing, whether we would have the capacity.
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