Mary Landrieu actually said...

"I hope and expect the chair of the council, which is at Department of Commerce, to ensure this congressionally crafted balance is not altered or amended too much."

"The Gulf of Mexico has suffered long enough. The revenues from the spill penalties offer a once-in-a-lifetime chance to begin reversing decades' worth of destruction. The country cannot allow this opp..."

"I could not be prouder of the effort that is under way in this committee now to implement an extraordinary, I think, and special piece of legislation."

"It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use these penalty monies to jumpstart some of these very needed restoration projects."