On the recordMay 20, 2010
The answer to the first question is yes. I am not sure we have had the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That would suggest why BP was so reluctant to release the video. Each step, it was like pulling teeth to get the video released. Live video pictures don't lie. What they are showing at this moment, anyone who looks at the live video, is exactly what Senator Boxer said. There is this huge gusher of oil at the wellhead that is spewing into the gulf. There is a little pipe that one can see in the video that is coming in and is being inserted, and that was supposed to be sucking most of the oil out. But, in fact, the pictures don't lie. The live video is showing the gusher spewing black oil 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Again, I thank my colleague from California for her cooperation. As chairman of the Environment Committee, she has the access of snapping her fingers and making things happen. I hope other Senators don't have to suffer what it looks as if those of us on the gulf coast and now in the Florida Keys and the east coast, the Atlantic coast are going to have to suffer.
