Bob Bennett: “If I understand what the Chairman is asking, it's that you put a camera in the chute.”

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.

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.

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.