Richard Shelby actually said...

"We need to ensure that techniques utilized in recovery efforts are safe and that we protect our environmentally sensitive areas."

"As long as this oil continues to pour into the Gulf, we have a real--and an unprecedented--disaster."

"Simply halting all offshore development, I believe, will not address our energy needs and would immediately increase our dependence on foreign oil."

"This oil spill could become our Nation's worst environmental disaster in decades."