Thank you, my colleagues. You just heard the comments. Again, I couldn't have a better friend or compatriot on many issues and on many improvements that we've made to transportation on the committee together: Mr. DeFazio, the gentleman…

A spill in one of those sites would be even more catastrophic than what happened, based on the currents.

there's this real concern in the Gulf region that, the spill happened, but that the full impact of it may not be known for years

If permitting moves forward at a reasonable pace for projects in the Gulf, then we can put 190,000 more people to work.

Mr. Speaker, today the House will vote to enact a Cut, Cap, and Balance plan to put an end to the spending-driven debt that has crippled our economy. There has been a lot of talk about getting our fiscal house in order. While some in…

I'd like to figure out a way where we can create some leverage there, because a spill in one of these places would be deeply disastrous as much as anywhere else.

I think Repsol's one of the companies. There are some other companies we don't know a lot about that are talking about being a part of it.

I think there is something in here that. I've had, I was just in Portland with other counties, and there's a lot of comments that, again, in some places it worked well, and that is when they engaged the locals.

Obama is addicted to spending America into insolvency. His record proves it.

I'll never forget, with all the problem we've had in the Gulf Claims Facility, of getting them to try to help out people.

Now, I don't want this to happen again. And there are lot of lessons learned--that we learned from your state--that we didn't pay any attention, and it happened again.

If there's a spill there, do you know what runs right by there? It's the Gulf Stream.

But the next time around we sure want a crisp, chain of command.

We had a failed decision-making apparatus. The Unified Command, to begin with, did not react as hard as people were working.

I think we're all saying that we should look at the Oil Pollution Act and see if there are amendments that are needed.

I want others to have a chance.

But, you all let BP, basically, direct a lot of the response.

What we're trying to do here is lessons learned, so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.