Why do you drill deep? That is where the oil is.
I appreciate everybody being here. I know this may be an emotional meeting.
We cannot let big oil companies play roulette with our economic and environmental resources.
It is time we modernized this law again.
BP is the one that under the law and under the procedures of our drilling is the responsible party.
If you thought, Boy, you are really going to have to pay for any screw-up you cause, are you going to be a lot more care...
It has now been 50 days since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
I insist that, in the future, oil companies do everything they can to prevent needless deaths and catastrophic environme...
If criminal conduct occurred, it should be and it will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The Exxon Court believed that predictability for corporations was more important than deterring misconduct. I disagree.
I expressed my concern at that time that the Supreme Court's Exxon Valdez decision would encourage corporate misconduct.
Congress must act.
The impact on the lives and livelihoods of Americans is enormous.
your proposed Survivors Equality Act of 2010 would remedy that inequity.
Those corporate entities responsible will be held liable for the actions.
Our Nation faces an environmental catastrophe. Americans are angry.
The tide of corporate money that influences politics stops at the hard square corners of the jury box.
That is perverse, and I think Congress should act to avoid this absurd result.
