On the recordJune 16, 2010
What I would recommend, if I could, what I would demand, if I could, and I can do neither, so what I would beg--what I would beg the leaders in this country and the oil industry together would be, before you lift the moratorium, before you do that, to please have cleanup technology in place or at least on a way in a specific time that is designed to meet and match with full force the worst-case scenario that can be presented to us.
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