John Sarbanes actually said...

"I am embarrassed on behalf of the government's failure to respond to these warnings for so many years."

"It didn't have to be this way. There was another path. Things could have gone differently."

"Our failure to get the testing done early in effect means we missed the containment window and now have to move rapidly to the mitigation stage of this thing."

"I completely concur with Maria's remarks. I think, you know, as you look at the existing fleet, we have extraordinary capability to produce large amounts of carbon-free power."