Thank you so very much for this opportunity. I've been here for the better part of this last hour and I've heard some astounding, astounding accusations and things that are purported to be fact. And I'm just going, What in the world is…

If I recall correctly, it's not only the extraordinary economic damage, 11 people were killed in this blowout. Eleven men who were working on that, who had families, who were trying to earn a living were killed as a result of it. Now, for…

I played football for the University of California in a bygone era, and of course we would never engage in such a thing if the referees weren't there. But that's the analogy of exactly what happened in Wall Street. The regulators were…

The final point is this: In the 8 years of the George W. Bush administration, about a million net jobs were created. In the last 8 months to 9 months, more jobs have been created than in the entire George W. Bush administration. Now…

But remember, in an NFL football game, you need a referee, and on Wall Street, you need a referee also.

It's time for America to end its addiction to oil. Our national security is at stake. We spend $1 billion a day sending our money overseas to the oil companies, many of them owned by foreign nations, some of whom are not at all friendly to…

We call it the West Coast Ocean Protection Act. And it would prohibit new leases off the West Coast of the United States. This is a $32 billion a year industry along the West Coast--California, Oregon, and Washington--that is dependent…

If I might interrupt you for a second, well, maybe more than a second. We prepared a little diagram here, and let's consider this a quiz for the American public. Which of these energy sources gets the most Federal subsidies? Would it be…

The answer is oil. If you take a look, 2002 to 2008, where did the subsidies go? Well, the oil industry got over $70 billion of taxpayer money in direct tax subsidies, $72 billion. The green renewable energy got $12.2 billion over that…

You know, that's really, really interesting. And if I recall the vote, when that was on the floor, the Republicans voted against that. They didn't vote for one of the most important conservation programs we have that not only would save…

When you talk about the nature of the spill, this map is a recent one from the US Geological Survey and NOAA--actually, NOAA. And if you look at the size of that spill, it looks like it's getting about the same size as Louisiana itself…

Let's see, that fellow Murphy was right. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. And BP didn't plan for what could go wrong. In fact, they ignored it. They put together an application that just ignored the possibility of the worst…