Mr. Chairman, in this instance it may or may not have, but I do think that this committee has to give some focus to the merging of some of t...
Any constriction of domestic oil and gas production either onshore or offshore will only further put us in a perilous situation.
The commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico harvested 1.27 million pounds of fish and shellfish, generated $659 million in revenue.
I want to call on this committee again to relook at the revenue-sharing proposals that have been put before this committee.
I think because of the opportunity that the administration and the Congress have to influence the way things are done in the U.S., it does h...
So you would say that the requirements that--and this committee has a great deal of responsibility in this regard as the oversight for Inter...
the Small Business Administration yesterday has made clear that on an individual basis the 6,000 small business disaster loans that are stil...
We want to make sure that the government agencies like the Small Business Administration, like Commerce, like other industries, can step up ...
Are the requirements, Mr. Newman, which you say you exceeded, that MMS requires for this deepwater drilling--are our requirements the highes...
Another big concern, Mr. McKay, as you can imagine, is using as much local labor and assets in the response as possible because these are th...
I think is a mistake, and I think by definition is pulling some amount of focus and resources away from that ongoing disaster.
We need to examine closely the extent to which each of these systems failed to do what it was supposed to do.
I believe that the right course is reducing our oil consumption by promoting safe and clean alternative energy while increasing our domestic...
Banning offshore drilling will not keep industry workers safe and it won't prevent our shores from the threat of an oil spill.
America must reduce its oil consumption, for national security, and yes, for environmental reasons.
Clearly, we need to learn an enormous amount from these events, and significant changes will have to be made to Federal law and policy and p...
I believe it would be a terrible mistake to retreat from domestic energy production.
I intend to work with Senator Murkowski, the ranking member, and other members of the committee on a bipartisan basis.
