Mary L. Landrieu made an opening statement during the session.
09/30/2009
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I felt like it was the most fair thing to direct 80 percent of that penalty back to the Gulf where the accident happened...
I led the effort to secure the only known or identifiable source of revenue that could come back to the state to help us...
We have legislation to deal with this. It's broader that would deal with BLM lands and other public lands, but also deal...
This would not have happened without her. It went through the EPW Committee, and without her leadership, the RESTORE Act...