Robert Menendez actually said...

Why would this rig not require the oversight and regulation mandated under our country's most important environmental legislation?

What I see is a company not prepared to address a worst case scenario, but a company that is flailing around trying whatever they think of n...

Here we have a rig that the industry has told us so many times is so technologically advanced it supposedly could not spill.

This incident appears to have been entirely preventable if internationally accepted practices were followed.