Mary Landrieu actually said...

Economically, the Gulf Coast continues to be hit hard by all of this, and it is not the spill directly, it is the de facto moratorium which ...

Each State should have the ability to use these funds how they see fit to restore the economic and ecological damage caused by the spill.

In the 5 months that BP managed this claims process... they only distributed $359 million Gulf-wide.

This is a real problem.