You also mentioned that under the Oil Pollution Act cities can recover only the net costs of the spill response, not the total of all diverted public service or lost taxes.

Thank you. We are going to open the hearing again, and thank you for waiting.

Tomorrow will mark 100 days from the time the BP oil spill began with the tragic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon.

we appreciate the jobs that you have brought, all of you, to our country, in this development, here.

I also note that your son is there behind you.

I really appreciate that.

I will take away from this hearing and others is that, you know, some of these things we are going to have to--we will not know for sure the effect on dolphins off the coast or the effect on birds in Minnesota when they go down there.

We're trying to give adults that--on that computer more information about what their kids have put on there.

I think we need to see how we can proceed. Can we create a circumstance that puts great pressure on the responsible party?

Unfortunately for our country and for the world, this is not the first oil spill that we have seen.

How does a local economy that is organized almost entirely around one network of jobs recover from the spill?

Given Mr. Feinberg's experience with the 9/11 victims, hopefully that will not happen in this case.

I hope all your companies will support these changes.

Senator Thune and I have a bill to try to address it.

it's our duty to be here to say, 'We need to do something better here.'

I appreciate that. And I just hope we can continue to work on this issue to see if there's a way we can just highlight those safety links so these kids know what to do, because these are just kids.

I thank the Senator from Louisiana. Again, I thank you for including the piece of this bill on exports because we have waited so long to include it. This is something that came out of the Commerce Committee. So I appreciate the Small…

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