Mary L. Landrieu submitted a prepared statement for the record.
09/30/2009
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I led the effort to secure the only known or identifiable source of revenue that could come back to the state to help us...
It is both an environmental priority and an economic priority, and it is absolutely essential that we are successful.
I contacted Senator Mary Landrieu who sent a letter to Acting Secretary Sloan Gibson.
I felt like it was the most fair thing to direct 80 percent of that penalty back to the Gulf where the accident happened...