Are the requirements, Mr. Newman, which you say you exceeded, that MMS requires for this deepwater drilling--are our req...
We want to make sure that the government agencies like the Small Business Administration, like Commerce, like other indu...
the Small Business Administration yesterday has made clear that on an individual basis the 6,000 small business disaster...
So you would say that the requirements that--and this committee has a great deal of responsibility in this regard as the...
I think because of the opportunity that the administration and the Congress have to influence the way things are done in...
I want to call on this committee again to relook at the revenue-sharing proposals that have been put before this committ...
The commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico harvested 1.27 million pounds of fish and shellfish, generated $659 milli...
Any constriction of domestic oil and gas production either onshore or offshore will only further put us in a perilous si...
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 ...
I just have some documentation about the value of the Louisiana seafood industry, which is more than $3.4 billion.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the people that work in this industry.
the last thing we want to do is for a region that has been hammered by storms and other disasters, is to have this be an...
Will BP pay? ... if you're not found to be grossly negligent, is BP prepared to pay the full extent of real economic dam...
We will also be looking to identify any problems or risks that might exist for operations that are ongoing.
Transporting larger quantities of oil from far away places will increase, not decrease, our risks.
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.
We need to examine closely the extent to which each of these systems failed to do what it was supposed to do.
