Lisa Murkowski

It's important to our business people, our restaurants, people who sell seafood, people who are the wholesale dealers.

The research that has been done prior to Deepwater Horizon, has the research been focused equally on the volumes used or are we just talking about the various products?

We're concerned about the use of dispersants or certainly the volume of the dispersants used

I must admit that when I see the types of visitor centers and facilities at most National Park properties, and knowing the budget stresses the Park Service has been under, I do worry about how much Park Service oversight of the Valles…

I appreciate the long standing tradition in this body of allowing the delegation from a state to take the lead on federal land designations within their state.

Are we seeing companies and operators in the Gulf looking at what is going on here in Washington, D.C.?

I think it is an important statement that needs to be made, and I think people need to understand that when we talk about a 6-month moratoria, what has happened as a consequence of that 6 months extends well beyond the 6 months.

I am going to encourage my colleagues to do so.

I remain hopeful that there will be that type of an assessment that will allow decisions to be made in the Gulf that, again, ensures the soundness and the safety of the operations, but doesn't encourage this investment flight that I am…

I would very much support the idea of not just having a blanket moratorium.

It is a model that we think has worked well.

I do think that they have worked well. I think that they have been a good guide.

I think we are starting to see what I am calling this flight of investment from the Gulf...

I think it is my understanding you have got at least 8. You are going to have a split within the current MMS.

The Oil Spill Prevention and Mitigation Improvement Act would require BP and other oil companies to do due diligence.

I strongly support giving the Secretary the tools of more people and more education to do their jobs, and I think that this bill advances that.

But from where you are sitting and looking at just this organizational structure within the new Bureau of Ocean Management, how do you integrate all of these players?

Americans are rightly furious that there was neither a viable nor urgent response plan in place.

This is the worst manmade environmental disaster in our nation's history.

I would hope, as we are figuring the direction from the regulatory perspective, we also keep in mind that it is important that we put in place processes that work...

I agree with you and understand the reluctance to think that creating yet more pieces is a cure-all.

I think this kind of legislation has been long in coming, and it should have come long ago.

We need a national investment to get ourselves off of oil and to eliminate carbon emissions.

We could add hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and infrastructure into the mix early on.

This legislation is set to authorize about $6 billion for the electric vehicle technologies.