Bill Nelson actually said...

"You are the manufacturer of the blowout preventer that did not work?"

"How is it that BP is going to be able to afford all of this economic loss?"

"this Senator wants to know what happened, as well, so it'll never happen again, because the consequences of this failure could be betting the store for my state"

"you're going to see lawsuits like you've never seen before between the various entities, because this economic loss is going to skyrocket higher than our space program."