Mary Landrieu actually said...

"It used to be, basically, you submitted your permit and within 30 or 60 days, you got a yes or a no."

"We may be at high levels today, but we are not going up. We are going down."

"It is quite alarming that, to date, not one single new deepwater well permit for drilling in the Gulf has been issued."

"But the bottom line is we need to step it up, or these numbers are going to get worse, not better."