Ron Wyden

I'm still not clear what changes the company has made since those comments from Tony Hayward.

Again and again, major safety problems, problems that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in fines being paid by your company, settling criminal charges.

It seems to me there are some pretty significant safety gaps at this agency that need to be corrected as well.

The agency allowed rigs like Deepwater Horizon to drill with near certainty that blowouts would occur.

The culture of this company is that there's been one accident after another.

To me--Mr. Chairman, I'd like to put into the record as well this particular study, because it looks, for example, at the number of blowouts...

People who are riding on airplanes aren't going to say it's acceptable to have a tire blowing out every 500 takeoffs...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

This sure fits in my view a pattern, a pattern of serious safety and environmental problems at BP.

I hope colleagues will take a look at this study, because what this study is all about is sending a message that there really are not the safety concerns in this industry that the American people now full well exist.

S. 1241 addresses the inequities, enforcement and process confusion as well as the severe burden placed on individual journalists.

I'd like, within a week, a response to the question.

The current law on commercial filming fees directs your agencies, your 2 agencies, to establish reasonable filming fees.

The majority of filming and still photography that takes place on federal lands and waterways has no deleterious impacts.

The subcommittee has been told, by some organizations, that it's their view that the agencies charge fees that are geared to larger commercial filming operations.

We, in the West, feel that these bills are also a true economic engine for our region.

You've obviously got broad support, and it seems to me, after more than 3 decades of prosecuting the cause for the North Fork, you deserve to get a real victory on this.

We want to thank you for having a hearing on S. 1241 and express our support for this legislation.

The reason this information about your proposals is important is, we've got colleagues, on a bipartisan basis, that want to move forward with legislation.

The purpose of today's hearing is to receive testimony on several bills pending before the subcommittee.

Always glad to have Chairman Baucus here--Senator Tester, Senator Inhofe.

I think that the States could usefully play a bigger role.

I just think that is a prescription for trouble.

I want to walk through a situation--Ms. LaFleur, you and I have talked about it--that will help us address the question of how to get the States a bigger role in key parts of this debate.

I think this has certainly been a step in the right direction.