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Mike Turner, the top Republican on the Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, released the following prepared remarks for the subcommittee's markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011: .

The oil spill, currently devastating the Gulf of Mexico and the coastline of several states, is an environmental and economic disaster. Even as BP, the affected states and the federal government try to contain the spill, there is an urgent need to discover what went wrong so we can prevent a similar crisis in the future. Simultaneously, there should be a full review of our initial response, because it is obvious we were unprepared. .

My speech on the House floor asking the Obama administration to identify where the regulatory lapse occured that allowed this disaster to happen, and what will be done to correct the problem for the future. .