Mary Landrieu actually said...

the only company drilling in the Gulf of Mexico today in deep water is the company that caused the spill--British Petroleum.

We cannot close down the offshore oil and gas sector without devastating economic impacts to our region.

And that is assuming the best-case scenario, and we are not on a glide path to that right now, in my view.

This decision to halt all new energy production in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have been made in an uninformed manner and, in my view, bor...