So, therefore, your moratorium not only figures out how to move forward in a way that is safer, because I know that the administration still has a view that we have to have drilling.

Isn't this something we should be looking at? Isn't this the very essence of what we want to change at MMS?

I hope and look forward to working with the chairman as we incorporate some of these ideas.

Now, what would happen if that was still the law?

It is with this in mind that we have introduced S. 3516, the Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2010.

Well, I hope we have a cop on the beat, not asleep at the switch.

We need to change that dynamic, in my mind.

A law is only good if it is enforced.

No wonder Ahmadinejad goes, 'Ho hum,' to the resolutions; they mean nothing.

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