These are Federal resources. There's no doubt. This oil was 50 miles off the shore of Louisiana.
I also want to compliment you and the President for not running and hiding, for not retreating, and for restating the importance of this cou...
I want to start the way I've started every time you've appeared before this committee, to tell you how proud I am of you, how pleased I am t...
You have taken the measured and right approach, in my opinion, to stop all permitting until a significant investigation can take place, and ...
I support the President's 30-day look. I most certainly support tighter controls over deep-water wells.
It is important that we get this right because it has a major impact on how these wells are drilled around the world.
I think, for us to try to be as clear as we can be about how people might actually receive assistance.
I am assuming that BP is going to step up, as they have said, and cover all of these costs.
I hold the Federal Government responsible for continuing to issue permits for deep-water drilling without demanding that the companies who r...
We are prepared, they say, to pay above $75 million on these claims, and we will not seek reimbursement from the U.S. Government or the Oil ...
I hope that we will get answers to the questions that you asked in your opening statement, and I thought that they were excellent and right ...