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Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order that the bill we are about to vote on allows CBO scores to be posted on the Clerk's Web site. Would it be in order to amend the bill to also include the Nation's debt clock on the Clerk's Web site? The…
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the bipartisan Women Members of Congress softball team, we want to once again extend an invitation to all Members, staff, and anyone listening to attend the second annual congressional women's softball game, which…
Mr. Speaker, in an effort to engage Floridians to talk about the challenges facing our country, I hosted an America Speaking Out town hall meeting in Plant City, Florida, late last week. City Hall was packed with people who are concerned…
Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 340 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' ____________________
Right now, it took the President of the United States to come down to approve a Jack Up Boat to put in the mouth of the river.
How would you respond to Senator Landrieu's statement that the vessel of opportunity is employed in a place where the oil is not?
And that is part of the problem, that we are not responding because somebody does not know what is happening.
In any major disaster such as this and command and control, what I would suggest that you should have is what is standard operating procedure in any major military type chain of command, which is you have a map, you have a specific…
We told them from day one, 'You will not clean it up out of the marsh.' They said it will never get there. Well, it is there.
You cannot leave BP in control of this because they are not going to get it done.
the present system is not working. The information is not flowing. The decisions are not timely.
I do not care who is in charge. I want somebody with some authority, and it cannot be BP.
The Coast Guard has part of control of the operation, but BP has a part of the control of the operation, and therein the two do not talk.
They're certainly not in charge when the communication is not going to our emergency operations center in Pensacola, when oil is coming into Florida waters. They're certainly not in control when I ask a week ago, how many boats are out…
You know, that's exactly right. If we need to know for trying to clean up the gulf and protect marine life, how much oil is in there, then we need the clear pictures, and we need all the streaming video in order to let the scientists…
We have people in charge that do not know what they are doing.