Maria Cantwell actually said...

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

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

"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?"

"we want to understand whether the Coast Guard feels a new process should be undertaken for this technology"