Bob Bennett: “We need to continue to work to adequately address these issues before there is a major infrastructure failure.”

The more dependent we become on imported oil, the more difficult many of our challenges are.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

I think the outcry would be very, very strong. There is a huge conflict of interest here, and such an individual should not be included.

I think the implications for this are very serious. NASA, I think, is making a mistake.