Any constriction of domestic oil and gas production either onshore or offshore will only further put us in a perilous si...
The commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico harvested 1.27 million pounds of fish and shellfish, generated $659 milli...
I want to call on this committee again to relook at the revenue-sharing proposals that have been put before this committ...
I think because of the opportunity that the administration and the Congress have to influence the way things are done in...
So you would say that the requirements that--and this committee has a great deal of responsibility in this regard as the...
the Small Business Administration yesterday has made clear that on an individual basis the 6,000 small business disaster...
We want to make sure that the government agencies like the Small Business Administration, like Commerce, like other indu...
Are the requirements, Mr. Newman, which you say you exceeded, that MMS requires for this deepwater drilling--are our req...
Another big concern, Mr. McKay, as you can imagine, is using as much local labor and assets in the response as possible ...
This incident is clearly a major human disaster, and again, I repeat, my heart and prayers go out with all of ours to th...
I think is a mistake, and I think by definition is pulling some amount of focus and resources away from that ongoing dis...
We must find out what went wrong, hold BP accountable, and on the record they said they will be accountable, under oath,...
We need to plan for the long-term impacts this accident will have on the Gulf Coast.
We owe the workers of this industry a debt of gratitude for what they do.
Thank you, Madam Chair, thank you for taking the initiative to hold this hearing today.
We need to ensure that techniques utilized in recovery efforts are safe and that we continue to do everything possible t...
This oil spill could become our Nation's worst environmental disaster in decades.
But we need the oil that comes from offshore to keep this economy moving.
