As the Democratic spill response bill would do, we need to hold these companies responsible for their actions, and we need to ensure that th...
The facts are in and it is well past time for this Committee and this Congress to enact comprehensive legislation to ensure that we prevent ...
The Republican Majority has blocked all legislative action because they said they wanted to wait until all the facts were in before taking a...
Mr. Markey. No.
I do believe they have a responsibility to testify postinvestigation as to their view of the findings so that they can be accountable to the...
following the BP oil spill this Committee has a responsibility to the American people to ensure that offshore oil and gas drilling is occurr...
As Mr. Markey may recall, I provided a briefing to him and his colleagues on May 4 last year in the initial stages of the review of the inci...
Please detail the capital investments made by BP in oil and gas exploration in each of the last three fiscal years?
Unfortunately, the monetary penalties associated with these violations, which led to the worst environmental disaster in American history, w...
Again, the reason I am raising these issues is that it is not just the Gulf of Mexico, it is everywhere.
You think that Congress should consider raising them much higher in order to ensure that the oil companies pay a price when people die, when...
Let's talk about some of the real lasting impacts from the spill itself.
I think that you have to give President Obama some credit for degree of credibility, and having the worst environmental disaster of all time...
You want to persecute the agency that is asking for help, and then claim that you are persecuted because they are not moving more quickly.
Mr. Chairman, if I may.
we are not seeing the same attention being paid to that as we saw to the sea lion issue with 3,000 salmon total on the West Coast.
You can't have it both ways. You can't kill the program that the Administration wants in order to expedite the handling of it, and then comp...
The most important species impacted by the spill has been the resilient people of the Gulf of Mexico.
