Ken Salazar: “In fact, in Senator Menendez's State of New Jersey, there is an oil spill laboratory which looks at oil spills and how…”

We will do everything we can because it is highest priority for the President of the United States and for me to move forward.

I disagree very much with my friend Senator Landrieu in terms of the overhaul on the oil and gas industry in America's oceans.

We can do as much as we can to minimize the risk, and we certainly have done that, I believe, in the Gulf of Mexico.

It is not often that we can end the 67-year controversy with the stroke of a pen, but that is exactly what we are doing.