Every percentage point we lose of tourism costs us 170,000 jobs in this country.
The taxpayers of my State and others not have to pay for this when BP clearly made some decisions that were wrong decisi...
Thank you very much, Senator Lautenberg.
I wanted to talk to you about the status of that case with Ovation.
I have no doubt about the damages. I am just wondering if people believe some extra protection would help them.
I want to thank him for his leadership--I am a cosponsor--that would make these pay-for-delay agreements... presumptivel...
I was frustrated--I know many of us were--that this should have been part of the health care bill also.
we will do everything we can to help your family.
I just think we have to protect the taxpayers from taking those risks, because it was not their decision to go down 5,00...
I keep going back to is whether or not BP would have acted so recklessly if it knew that there was not a $75 million lim...
But isn't this the one that you just told Senator Durbin has the $1.6 billion in it, and we are looking at over almost $...
We want them to do their work, but we want them to do the right thing and be incentivized not to cause damages to the ta...
I want to look at it. But it does not--I know they have to get insurance, but I have not heard that they have the protec...
if we are unable to be doing this retroactively, who do you think is going to pay for this $8, $10 billion that BP cause...
I think that we have to rethink our entire energy portfolio and what we are doing to drive the demand for oil.
I have never seen a solar panel or a wind turbine kill 11 people.
I remember part of the discussion we had during that hearing was that that merger could usher in a wave of consolidation...
I think everyone feels those frustrations, and you more than others.
