I would also, Ms. Randolph, like to ask you to submit for the Congressional Record the resolution from the National Association of Counties.
This should not and must not be a political game.
If those rock jetties were there, Senator, we would not have additional oil coming into Barataria Bay.
The natural resource damages assessments are imperative for cleaning up this mess properly and to ensuring the future environmental health o...
Can your agency get that in some detail to my office?
Again, if you could have NOAA respond more specifically to me, I would appreciate it.
I urge everyone in the Senate to come together around my legislation which would remove any cap for this event.
I again want to quickly emphasize my extreme concern with the drilling moratorium in the Gulf.
what the Federal agencies were best at was raising countless objections, slowing things down to an impractical pace.
This isn't a non-emergency situation. This is a clear emergency situation, and clear environmental damage was happening every hour of every ...
All of those areas have been dramatically impacted by this spill, and those are areas Senator Merkley and Senator Cardin and others joined m...
I am afraid perhaps OPA 90 had this assessment-restoration model set up, but no prevention model.
What our frustration is is the Federal Government is essentially saying we don't know what the adverse effects of the rock jetties may be.
And this is a letter I sent to President Obama on July 26th, and that should be reflected in the record.
If the weather holds, it's possible this weekend they could do the static kill and once and for all kill this -- this well.
I think it's unbelievable that we never got the instrumentation on there. And the comical thing is, is that BP said they really didn't care ...
If they can clean some of this stuff up with science, you know, technology, people think of things. And we may be able to do this and do a v...
Yes, this is -- this is going to be for the rest of my days and for a long time to come after that.