A football player, okay. Now, according to the quality- adjusted life years, the 35-year-old has not only more years left to live, but he has more productive years, that is, he's going to work for the state more years. In fact, the…

If you would yield for just a comment about employers. I'm a small business owner, and you, as a medical physician and one who has to run a business, in essence, for health care, I think a lot of people out there may feel safe in the fact…

Madam President, I am overjoyed that I have been let into this discussion considering that heavy oil is now getting into Louisiana marshland and is impacting my State and the State of Senator Landrieu more than any other in the country. It…

That is absolutely my intention. That is what this bill would do. Several Senators on the other side correctly pointed out that we should not depend on the goodwill of BP. So let's not depend on the goodwill of BP. Let's fix it here. Let's…

Mr. Speaker, it's been a month now, over a month, since oil has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon well explosion. And now 2 weeks after our Governor submitted a request to the Federal Government for a plan…

I thank the gentleman from Indiana for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this bill dealing with professional education, but I just arrived from New Orleans and landed in D.C. a little while ago, and I am angry. The people back…

Where is the president? Does he not understand the magnitude of what is probably the worst environmental disaster in the country? And then we get mixed messages from his various cabinet secretaries who've come down and they say it looks…

I couldn't agree with you more, the polluter should pay. BP should be--pay everything, as I've said; and if anyone else was at fault, they should, as well.

I think--overall, however, I think that a primary point is, 'the polluter pays' should be at the core of this.

S. 3346 would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act by enhancing penalties.

I can assure you that what I saw yesterday certainly has reinforced my commitment to help make things right for all those, whose lives and their livelihoods are being so vastly affected by this disaster.

I commend Senator Menendez's leadership on this issue.

I think, we have all stated around this table here, in this committee room, with the CEO of BP in front of us, that we must hold, and we will hold, BP accountable.

I'm sympathetic to the concerns of our fishing community.

So, whether the Congress moves to a $10-billion cap, as suggested by Senator Menendez and others, or the unlimited cap, as suggested by the administration...

I would be the absolute first to introduce legislation to correct what would clearly be a flawed system.

Oil is now also washing up on coastal beaches and wetlands.

I want to go back to this liability question, because Senator Menendez and others have recommended a cap, I think, for the whole offshore, but he clarified, just a moment ago, for deepwater, so I'm not sure, but a cap of 10 billion.