Susan Collins

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Now, BP did file a Regional Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico, and in that plan, the worst-case scenario that you present for offshore drilling is when a highest capacity well experiences an uncontrolled blowout volume of 250,000…

The relief well has been held out as the ultimate solution if everything else fails.

It feels like you are making it up as you go along, that no one really knows what will plug this well.

But the U.S. Government has a responsibility for protecting the public safety that is more important.

Doesn't it make sense for the Administration to submit a revised budget that fully restores the money cut out of the Coast Guard using those funds?

This catastrophe is the first spill to be classified as a Spill of National Significance since that term was first coined in the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989.

I think the regulations should be looked at, and anything that would make this a lower probability event and safer should be looked into.

Let us also remember what a personal tragedy this incident is for the families of the 11 workers who lost their lives.

I do want to acknowledge that BP and Mr. McKay have fully cooperated with our inquiry, and have not tried to get out of testifying today.

It does not make a lot of sense at first blush to have one agency responsible for approving the plan if it is above the water, for the vessel, and a different agency responsible if the plan applies to the wellhead.

I think there was an Area Response Plan for an oil-related incident just in March off the coast of Maine.

We will ask what the government and industry could have done differently to avoid this catastrophe.

Sanctions have no impact if they are not enforced.

We are at a critical juncture in our efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

I have pushed the Chairman, Mary Schapiro, on this issue and did so in a recent Appropriations Subcommittee hearing just a couple of weeks ago.

It seems certainly to me, and I think to most observers, that the decision of a company to invest in Iran is material and that its shareholders deserve to know that.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that, in order to achieve the level of shipbuilding that is set out in the 30-year shipbuilding plan, you would need about $4 billion more a year than what the Navy is budgeting.

I think it's important, for the record, for all of us to reemphasize that this breach was caused by the reduction in quantity.

How do we protect the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms, while preventing terrorists from using guns?

Our Nation remains a target for terrorists.

The right to own guns is part of their heritage and way of life.

We cannot let down our guard, and we must continue to meet this ongoing threat with strength and resilience.

Let me emphasize that none of us wants a terrorist to be able to purchase a gun.

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