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From Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Tex.), incoming chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, on the BP oil spill:
As we saw that thing bubbling out, blossoming out — all that energy, every minute of every hour of every day of every week — that was tremendous to me. That we could deliver that kind of energy out there — even on an explosion.
Words fail me.
