Byron Dorgan

The fatigue rules in the U.S. do not comply with the ICAO standards.

The issue of pilot fatigue is not new.

The issue of pilot fatigue is serious and merits attention.

Pilot fatigue has consistently been an issue with the NTSB and the FAA.

I think we should not ignore it.

I believe we need to do more to address the challenges of drug smuggling and gang activity in Indian Country.

Because there's no longer a restriction on drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, and, I think, because there's a generally different view about the eastern Gulf...

The issue of energy security will almost certainly require us to pursue the production of new energy from virtually every source.

My understanding is that about 2 percent of the volume of oil released into U.S. waters comes from spills.

The issue of environmental stewardship is about a lot of things. It's about visual line-of-sight issues with respect to drilling. It's about ecosystems and other things.

The technology has advanced in a very significant way.

I think this question of environmental stewardship, and the technical questions that relate to that, vis-a-vis, line-of-sight and 25 miles verses 45 miles, et cetera, are very, very important.

As Senator Dorgan noted, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita moved through oil fields in the Gulf as powerful category-5 storms.

The bulk of that was not spilled from offshore drilling, the bulk of that was onshore storage.

There's no nice way of describing this. This is wholesale cheating of a lot of people, and I think it just has to stop.

It just seems to me if someone is taking money out of your checking account and giving you nothing in return, that's something beyond just shameful.

The question in your mind would be: Why are you following me, number one? And number two, who are you selling the information to about where I went and what I did?

It looks like we've got some consumers here that need protecting pretty badly, right? Probably millions of people.

You would always expect, especially on a reputable website, that that's not going to be shared with anybody, that that's protected.

They have some liability in my judgment. They may not now, but maybe we ought to find out if there ought not to be some way to do that.

That seems to me like fraud.

Shame is not always an emotion that persuades people who are making a lot of money to stop.

The issue of post-transaction marketing, data passing, free-to-pay conversions--I mean, that's all a fancy way of describing practices that are engaged in by people that ought to be ashamed of themselves.

But, there needs to be a local sponsor for that. Is that correct?

Is there, in this same task force, a notion of what kind of protection might be needed?