To put in your statement that you are working closely with the Navajo Nation is totally misleading.

The EPA must be held fully accountable for the accident.

To begin with, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inexplicably delayed notification of the spill to the Navajo Nation.

I have to tell you I am highly offended by those comments.

Just from what I've read, I have not seen the memo myself.

I want to know about overseas flights and how many of those are covered.

Energy production in the Gulf of Mexico is an energy lifeline for our Nation--today providing 17 percent of our domestic crude and 5 percent of our natural gas.

Many examples demonstrate how the Interior Department has been dead wrong in their so-called 'management' of Federal lands.

While production in the Gulf has remained relatively stagnant over the past several years, skyrocketing oil and natural gas production on state and private lands has propelled the United States to surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia to become…

The bottom line is we could be doing better, we should be doing better, and this Nation must have us do better.

We are not only the Oversight Committee, we're also the Government Reform Committee.

I think that has been exemplified here over the last 2 1/2 hours through this hearing.

I would really challenge you both please to come up with something, I don't know if it's a letter...

Somebody made a decision to say we're not doing that anymore.

We want to find a way to help make these people whole.

One of the great frustrations here is that people make mistakes. I get that. But this is not a simple mistake.

It's amazing that you get down there and see that there's no plan and no--other than, 'Hey, we're going to continue to look at it.'

The reason that we are going to continue to focus on this is every single thing we've done since the time I was elected... has gone up in costs.