I am very disappointed here with you, Mr. Neal.

It is good news to me. I think you understand that you are going to have to have some real flexibilities in the beginning.

I admire him so much for his continuing to have hearings just about every week dealing with the issue of human capital.

We need to improve hiring. We need to improve training.

It seems to me that you have to prioritize.

The fact is if you have a cap on what you can do, the only choice in some instances is say we have to go to a contractor to get the help, right?

The point of this, and I have taken too much time, but the issue is how come you used FCIP and you did not use the regular system in order to hire new people?

In my opinion, if you are going to do this thing rapidly, there is going to have to be a lot of creativity.

Our problem always around here is something happens, and we spend all our time going back over it rather than saying here we are today, and what do we need to go forward.

Why wasn't somebody from MMS on that rig 24 hours a day overseeing what they were doing to make sure that they were doing this according to what they were supposed to be doing?

What I want to know is what kind of an organization are we going to put together so that this kind of thing doesn't happen and we can assure the public that if we do another one of these, which I think we need to do, the same thing is not…

There is a statement here to be made from this awful tragedy in the Gulf Coast, and that is we need to move forward with a new energy frontier.