You may want to just consider opening up an avenue for some of these elected officials who are down there.
It is our responsibility to respond to this challenge.
The American people deserve a Government that will fight for them, regardless of whether a profit is to be made or not.
The Federal Government is the only entity, in stark contrast to BP, whose sole responsibility is to the public interest ...
I am also concerned, as I know you are, by the enormous hit small business is facing by the drilling moratorium.
Do you know how many responses the Coast Guard can handle in a given day?
A dual-track system remains in place with BP vetting some ideas while the Federal Government examines others, and that i...
I believe that indisputably it is the size of the spill that must dictate our response to this disaster and how we mitig...
Does the Coast Guard have the ability to issue a contract immediately if a silver bullet white paper comes across your d...
There is a de facto moratorium right now because the Administration is not prepared to take new permit applications unde...
Big Oil makes so much in profit every month--they can afford to pay for their recklessness.
Americans are fed up with hollow words, false assurances and broken promises.
When you make a mess, you have to pay to clean it up--it's that simple.
Polluters--not taxpayers--should pay these government expenses.
I want to put the oil executives here on notice: We will not accept any answer from you that smacks of something like th...
This amendment is critical to addressing the abuses of the card companies' fees and rules.
Thank you, Chairman Harkin and Ranking Member Enzi, for convening this very important hearing.
As Federal agencies spring to action, I urge them to keep in mind the vulnerability of the Gulf Coast population.
