Robert Menendez actually said...

"I think it's pretty reasonable to understand that $75 million is not going to reach the amount that is going to be conducted in damages here."

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

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

"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 next."