Senate panels open hearings on companies' role in Gulf blowout

摘要

Washington-Lawmakers on a US Senate oversight panel blasted executives of BP and two other companies May 11 over their failure to prepare for a massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. "I see a company that is flailing around," Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said during a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "You all seem to be jumping from action to action."