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I want to start just by giving you the opportunity to tell me if you think i've gotten any of the facts wrong. >> i think you've gotten a lot of the facts wrong. i think you've laid out a narrative about what we've been focusing on that completely ignores the enhanced safety requirements that we've imposed throughout the industry. we've not focused just on containment. we haven't focused just on blowout preventers. we put in place this past fall a set of new drilling safety rules that imposes the first -- for the first time a set of quite substantial requirements on operators who propose to dr...

And they've got to comply with all of those requirements before we'll even consider granting their application to drill. so that's the big missing piece of the puzzle that i haven't heard you talk about, and that is extremely significant, far more significant than blowout preventers and far more significant than containment. although those issues are very important, too. >> well, i agree with you that we have not been talking about the changes to drilling process and well design and well casing and cementing. we've been talking about the blowout preventers issue because we were sort of horrifi...

New requirements in each and every application to drill that they file with our agency. and they've got to comply with all of those requirements before we'll even consider granting their application to drill. so that's the big missing piece of the puzzle that i haven't heard you talk about, and that is extremely significant, far more significant than blowout preventers and far more significant than containment. although those issues are very important, too. >> well, i agree with you that we have not been talking about the changes to drilling process and well design and well casing and cementin...

We haven't focused just on blowout preventers. we put in place this past fall a set of new drilling safety rules that imposes the first -- for the first time a set of quite substantial requirements on operators who propose to drill both in the gulf of mexico and anywhere else. it requires certifications by independent engineers of the drilling process. it requires them to address issues relating to well design, well casing, well cementing, which are all in the category of prevention which the president mentioned in some of the clips you played and that you mentioned. i don't think any of your ...

All of those requirements before we'll even consider granting their application to drill. so that's the big missing piece of the puzzle that i haven't heard you talk about, and that is extremely significant, far more significant than blowout preventers and far more significant than containment. although those issues are very important, too. >> well, i agree with you that we have not been talking about the changes to drilling process and well design and well casing and cementing. we've been talking about the blowout preventers issue because we were sort of horrified to see the new report come o...