Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"To go back to bioaccumulation, once you have combined the dispersants and the oil, and now it is being taken up by the bottom level food chain species together, are you equally confident that the bioa..."

"What are you doing to test for that, just so I understand?"

"To go back to what we do know about the dispersant that Chairman Boxer referred to, which has these characteristics of hazard to humans of liver damage, internal bleeding, and all those sorts of thing..."

"It could be as toxic as all get-out, and it still goes on the list as long as it meets the 45 percent effectiveness threshold."