12/09/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"This moratorium is not about big oil. It is rather about the Calais, the Sheramies, Depueys, the Roberts, the Boudreauxes, and the Thibodauxes."
"We cannot close down the Gulf offshore oil and gas sector without devastating economic impacts to our region, increased environmental risk to our ocean, and weakening our national security."
"Oil and gas is the lifeblood of our economy, from top to bottom, and that blood has stopped pumping due to nothing more than political posturing."
"I ask the Administration to please lift the moratorium, not in October or November or September, but today."