Mary Landrieu actually said...

"I share the Administration's goal of a safer oil and gas industry, not their method to achieve that."

"I would say to the Administration, listen to your own experts. Listen to the facts, as the Chair of this Committee has so articulately pronounced them today, and let us have our jobs back."

"My question to President Obama and to his Administration after they scrambled to put an economic analysis together that they should have put together before they made this decision is: Who is going to..."

"unnecessary, ill-conceived, and a second economic disaster for the Gulf Coast. The BP oil spill was the exception rather than the rule."