07/26/2010
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"The time for action is now; we cannot afford to wait."
"If we had not passed the RESTORE Act, all of that money would have come, under previous law, to the Federal Treasury."
"I am proud to be able to say today that all three financing mechanisms established in the wake of the 2010 oil spill to help restore the coast now have funding in place."
"Yet we are struggling here for years trying to get a fair share of that money just to be kept at home along the coast that's producing these revenues."