07/14/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"The impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill come, as I mentioned, on top of longer-term degradation of important habitats and resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico."
"Our citizens have already been victimized. Our economy has been victimized."
"The commission recommended that Congress dedicate for this purpose 80 percent of the Clean Water Act penalties, as Senator Vitter mentioned earlier in his discussion of legislation."
"The idea that investment in restoration could take upwards of a decade is really unacceptable."