David Vitter: “I am afraid perhaps OPA 90 had this assessment-restoration model set up, but no prevention model.”

We need to get out of this cycle of slashing State funding and replacing it with tuition increases because that can't go on without limit. It really risks affordability.

Thank you, Senator Inhofe, for those important clarifications to preemption and for another question that is very important to clarify in order to capture the full conngressional intent of the bills preemption section. This Act is intended…

We need tough new laws to hold corporate executives personally accountable, and we need tough prosecutors who have the courage to go after people at the top.

I thank the Senator from Louisiana for his very kind remarks. More importantly, I want to thank him for years of great partnership, great work on behalf of Louisiana. I know he will make an outstanding senior Senator. Thank you. I yield…