Tom Udall actually said...

"It stunned me that the emergency response plan, as I understand it, didn't include plans for the blowout preventer to fail..."

"Thank you, Chairman Lautenberg, and thank you to the panelists."

"Thank you for doing this hearing. I think the issue of pipeline safety is a very important one."

"I think that also speaks to the importance of the legislation I have introduced, which would give us more research."