Maria Cantwell actually said...

"we want to be competitive with our shipping interest in the Arctic as well"

"this is a very keen interest obviously to my colleagues, Senator Begich and to myself"

"the United States is lagging behind, as your chart well depicts, the other primary Arctic nations"

"So would you say that we don't really have a plan for cleaning it--we don't have the technology available to clean this up if, in fact, we did have an incident?"