On the recordMay 25, 2010
We have to do more and we have to be more focused. We have to hold BP's feet to the fire to get this well shut off. The best scientists in the world need to be working on this. I have assurances from Secretary Salazar that they are. New technologies need to be deployed quickly, and the cleaning process needs to be expedited and streamlined so that not one person, one boat owner, or one business goes out of business, or one fisherman goes broke because of this situation. Across the ocean, in Haiti, a great disaster occurred not that long ago, as you will remember. So many things have happened since then, and sometimes the world's attention gets turned. I wish to turn it back for a minute. The people of Haiti live in one of the poorest countries in the world and the Western Hemisphere. It is a country that is close culturally to many of us in the United States--particularly people I represent in Louisiana.
