Well, again, I was inquiring through the Chair. I ask unanimous consent to inquire through the Chair and to propound the question, What is the nature of the objection? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is no objection to the request. No Senator…

I hate to say this, but I think the United States government is naive. They're -- they're -- they're -- we could have subpoenaed that on day two. We are the United States government. We have the power to subpoena. We have the Justice…

No, of course, not. They haven't been honest about a single thing. And based on what I have seen on '60 Minutes' and what's in the paper, I think that they're guilty of criminal negligence in the deaths of 11 people. I want to know…

I thank the gentleman. I won't need much time to close out my remarks, and that is that, again, the Federal Government has failed to do its job. It's failed to protect its citizens, it's failed to protect its borders, it's failed to…

I thank the gentleman from Iowa. I would like to state emphatically here this evening, Mr. Speaker, that I support the law of Arizona. Just as the gentleman said, it is really a mirror image of the United States law. I would say that those…

Mr. Speaker, recently the IMF announced a giant bailout to keep Greece from defaulting, defaulting on its own debt, debt for its socialistic economy. The U.S. is the largest contributor to the IMF; therefore, we are the largest bailout…

Mr. President, as Chair of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I am pleased to introduce the Strengthening Entrepreneurship for America's Veterans Act of 2010. This vital and timely legislation builds upon the Small…

But, the laws are written by Congress here. Those laws are supposed to be obeyed by this industry. Those laws are supposed to be enforced by MSHA.

We just can't keep doing this. I mean, I've only been here 25 years. And it just seems like, about every 5 years, we've got something--we've got to come back here, miners have died.

I think that the fact that other Massey Energy mines have been inspected, since this explosion and before this explosion, in close proximity of that time, and been determined to be unsafe--and, quite frankly, one of the upper leaders of…

We have to get in place, for miners, safety measures that they can rely on.

Why didn't Don Blankenship shut this coal mine down? We don't have to question his authority. He runs this place.

Sometimes, caring is not enough. I know you care. I don't doubt that for a minute.

It's a culture of safety, and when you have hazardous conditions like that, of making sure that everyone understands that safety must come first.

I think that the government thinks they're partnering with BP. I think they actually believe that BP had some kind of a good motivation here.

I wouldn't trust them to do anything and nobody does.

Look, this is -- how many -- how many P.R. people does BP have? How many lobbyists do they have? This is a company that makes $2 billion a month.

They seem like they're inconvenienced by this, this is some kind of giant thing getting in their way.