"I respectfully call on President Obama and my colleagues here in the Senate to concentrate on fixing the problem."
"We do have a lot of people right now who are trying to use this very tragic situation to advance their own agendas."
"If you stop the drilling, stop our ability to produce and export our own resources, we are going to have to be reliant upon foreign countries."
"If the liability cap is increased to levels we understand are now under consideration, in our view only the major oil companies and the NOCs would be in a position to do this."
"How would cap and trade, a massive energy tax on consumers, stop the spill?"
"The President's active drilling suspension alone will result in the loss of 3,000 to 6,000 Louisiana jobs in the next few weeks."
"If we get it wrong, we can set back this Nation's energy future for decades."
"I respectfully call on President Obama--and my colleagues here in the Senate--to concentrate on fixing this problem."
"I think they underestimate the impact of the cap, and so I support the change proposed in S. 3305."
"the limits that were put in place back during the Exxon Valdez... that $75 million is too low, we all understand that, and it certainly needs to be changed."
"I would say this would put them in a more advantageous position than they would be in today."
"if we were to take the cap altogether off it could be instituting a de facto ban on offshore drilling."
"Yes, you have. And all the way through this thing, I have been wondering when they talk about economic damages, that sounds good."
"I think that is arbitrary."
"I am one of these few in Congress who believes in order to run this machine called America we have to have fossil fuels."
"The Army will begin fielding the new M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round cartridge in June 2010."
"We need to mitigate and contain the environmental impacts; provide assistance to the Gulf's commercial and recreational fishing industries; and investigate the causes so we can prevent a disaster of t..."
"The most important order of business is to stop the leak . . . and we need to stop it as soon as possible."
