07/07/2014
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"We do want to encourage you and your colleagues up there to take a strong look to enforce accountability."
"the purpose of the fine bill is not to advance any ideological view, but rather to deal with the fact that a bunch of people have been hurt really bad by the negligence of an individual company."
"In an ideal world, this bill would be written the way the Gulf state Senators want it and spent that way."
"The first is kind of a philosophical/ideological argument by some that this money should not be assigned but rather should be absorbed into the General Treasury of the United States."