Thank you, Madame Chair, for convening this hearing on my bill, the Upper Mississippi River Protection Act (S. 2779).
When companies are clearly trying to do something about what may be perceived or is anticompetitive conduct, they are ta...
It is a step in the right direction.
Every percentage point we lose of tourism costs us 170,000 jobs in this country.
A few weeks ago, I actually went down to the Gulf and saw firsthand the scope of the disaster.
I have no doubt about the damages. I am just wondering if people believe some extra protection would help them.
Thank you very much, Senator Lautenberg.
If we are going to have a $75 million cap, and BP made $16 billion last year, how is it an incentive for them to take sa...
The taxpayers of my State and others not have to pay for this when BP clearly made some decisions that were wrong decisi...
I wanted to talk to you about the status of that case with Ovation.
I want to thank him for his leadership--I am a cosponsor--that would make these pay-for-delay agreements... presumptivel...
I just think we have to protect the taxpayers from taking those risks, because it was not their decision to go down 5,00...
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 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...
we will do everything we can to help your family.
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 $...
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...
