Barbara Boxer actually said...

"Don't you think it is cleaner to just say you caused the damage, you pay the damage, period, end of quote."

"she believes for the first time there's a cover-up here by BP and that the government could be complicit in that."

"We commend her for this work."

"Barbara Boxer wrote a letter to your company and said that you guys basically said that to their committee that it was up to the Unified Command, that it wasn't just your decision."