with all due respect to my colleague, who I have the utmost admiration for, Senator Menendez and others that are calling for unlimited liabi...
The people of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast want to know and have confidence that BP is going to do everything that they are required to unde...
What this could do to Florida, if all of this oil washes along our shores; what it's going to do to our tourism industry, what it's going to...
This is obviously a historic event with a big negative impact on fisheries. If this doesn't qualify, I don't know what does.
I would think that we shouldn't outsource our responsibility for cleaning this up.
Timing is the big issue, and this request has been out there for a week or more.
I am going to request acceleration of revenue-sharing today.
The right to produce is not the right to pollute.
We are prepared, they say, to pay above $75 million on these claims, and we will not seek reimbursement from the U.S. Government or the Oil ...
I am assuming that BP is going to step up, as they have said, and cover all of these costs.
I hope that we will get answers to the questions that you asked in your opening statement, and I thought that they were excellent and right ...
It is important that we get this right because it has a major impact on how these wells are drilled around the world.
I think, for us to try to be as clear as we can be about how people might actually receive assistance.
I hold the Federal Government responsible for continuing to issue permits for deep-water drilling without demanding that the companies who r...
I support the President's 30-day look. I most certainly support tighter controls over deep-water wells.
I wanted to make sure that the Small Business Administration here as part of our Federal system was as strong as it could be.
the law, I understand, not policy, limits the disaster loans to $5 million.
We are going to take a very close look at the recommendations that you have made in your report and weave them into the proposals that we ar...
