This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an issue of getting the job done.

We just need to see some more urgency.

Well, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Roshto, you have been so compelling, and I appreciate that you have come here to talk about your personal problems with the lack of conformity and understandable laws that would affect your future.

I don't think we should stop drilling in the Gulf, where we have safely drilled for 40 years.

I have introduced Senate Bill 3512, the Waiver Act, cosponsored by Senators LeMieux, Cornyn, Isakson, McCain, Barrasso, Bond, and Sessions.

I think you laid out the problem very well, and certainly, from your personal experience, it's clear that there is no intention whatsoever to make it easy to waive the Jones Act in this response.

I hope that, frankly, the President will waive it on his own. He can do it. He should do it.

I would respectfully suggest that maybe on another day we could have a hearing to talk about that more fully.

This disaster is having a profound effect upon my state, as well as Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.

This is unacceptable, and clearly we need to be looking for ways to prevent this type of action in the future from happening.

I am concerned that regulations may not be uniform and that in the event of an accident, there could be confusion about who is in charge.

Any excavation accident is a preventable one.