Bill Nelson actually said...

It is because of the opportunity created by the RESTORE Act that Florida has taken the unique approach of forming the Gulf Consortium.

The meeting will come to order. And it looks like it is very much in order.

We need to ensure that we are doing everything we can to protect our coastal ecosystems.

Three years ago, we were in the middle of the worst man-made environmental disaster in our Nation's history--the explosion of the Deepwater ...