Hearing with Speaker Pelosi on the oil spill.

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I'm at a Congressional hearing about the oil spill in SF Bay, with most of our local congressional members, including the Speaker. It's not clear what needs to happen,but it is very good to see this happening here in SF rather than just DC. Rep. Tauscher asked a # of questions about bunker fuel an howmuch info we need on the cargo ships. Rep. Lantos seems to want to take this back to terrorism. While using language like "calvacade of calamities" he wanted to know whether this could have been prevented and whether language barriers are to blame.