"So why do we have that standard that appears to apply to bankers?"
"Is it basically the consensus that Congressman Meehan's question that implied more information is better is a point that all of you agree with?"
"safety is my concern. And I know that safety is your concern, but I just have a few questions that caused me some concern about how active and aggressive the Commission is on coming to a conclusion ab..."
"When things like a cooling tower fall down and the reaction on the part of the company that runs it is that it's not really a big deal, that doesn't provide great assurance to the people of Vermont."
"if something can go wrong, even when we think it won't, it probably at some point will go wrong and that's what we saw in Japan."
"when we have a nuclear power plant that the cooling tower collapses and we're told not to worry about it, that's hard to be comfortable."
"I regret, obviously, that we're here. This is not a personnel committee, and it is regrettable that there is this conflict at the senior level of the Commissioners."
"I don't think that Congress is the place to go to resolve this."
"A lot of the situations that you are uncovering just reflect the impossible expectations oftentimes that Congress has."
"If it were as easy as writing a check and having the police force in Iraq and Afghanistan be established, it would be no problem."
"I am going to be introducing legislation that does trigger debarment proceedings for contractors that are convicted of violating the bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act."