I would again urge us and plead that we can act to address the ongoing crisis in the Gulf through a focused bill.
This bill is very simple. You have it before you. It does two things. First of all it removes any and all liability cap ...
It absolutely does that without equivocation to give certainty on that issue to the people of the Gulf Coast who are goi...
It establishes an expedited claims process because it is crucial that these folks not just be made whole eventually, but...
The point is that we need a permanent revision of the law, but there is clearly disagreement about how to do that.
I apologize to Senator Lautenberg. As a member of the Committee coming from the most affected State by this ongoing cris...
I have a bill directly on point that lifts all liability caps on BP for this event, but also sets up an expedited claim ...
I want to thank Senator Murkowski for her great work on this.
I want to thank our colleague Lisa for her enormous contribution on this expedited claims idea.
I would hope that really immediately, by UC hopefully, we could pass those two concepts put together.
I talked with her in the last few weeks about an aggressive SBA response to the current crisis in the Gulf.