there will be a review of a number of issues relating to oil and gas production, and the issue of oil spill response will be one of those key issues

the kinds of statesmen who I believe will transcend partisan politics and ideology.

This is a complicated issue, and we are looking at a number of different factors related to the moratorium.

It is clear that the industry was totally unprepared to respond to the BP disaster once it happened.

In my view, it is insufficient. Today, there are authorized some 62 inspectors to essentially provide the inspection capacity for nearly 4,000 production facilities.

Our mission is simple. It is to protect the Gulf and its people and the ecological resources which are so important to our country and to the Gulf Coast.

The President has made it very clear that our end goal here is to have a better Gulf.

This tragedy is a wakeup call that proves that we need to begin changing the way we generate and consume energy.

He's going to rework the order and perhaps get approval the next time around.

I think the great disservice that National Public Radio did to everyone was to try to isolate TBI from PTSD.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar struck back in a statement tonight, saying that he will issue another order in the next few days that -- quote -- 'eliminates any doubt that a moratorium is needed, appropriate and within our…

Mr. President, today I am joined by Senator Shaheen and Chairman Bingaman in introducing a bill to help prevent future disasters like the one we are seeing unfold in the Gulf of Mexico. Our bill focuses Federal oil and gas research and…

The investigations of claims about Atlantis should be done by mid-September.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 1448 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 1448 Resolved, That during further consideration of the bill…

I would remind my friend, at the height of the Iraq war we spend $141 billion, as we draw troops down to $65 billion, a savings of $76 billion a year. That is money. These things we can find other places to save where there is wasteful…

I, again, remind everyone that the rule and the bill are about small business lending. Again, I would refer to the letter from the independent community bankers. ICBA believes the proposed Small Business Lending Fund Act supports their…

I remind my friend from Kansas that when you cut taxes for the wealthiest people in America, you prosecute two wars without paying for them, and you fail to police Wall Street so that it becomes a big casino and results in a crash leaving…

I would remind the Speaker and others that we're here on the small business lending bill, not on Mr. Chaffetz's proposal or any proposal like that. It may have merit at another time when that bill, itself, is brought forward, but we're…