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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.