Mary Landrieu

I hope others will because this could mean a great deal to small businesses throughout America. This is for small business, it is for jobs, it is to get this recession over.

Yes. It will create many jobs, and maybe we can then have a recovery that has jobs associated with it. That is the effort. We have fashioned this so that it is going to make money for the Treasury. It is not related to TARP funding. It is…

It is an important one because the Senator did not vote for TARP. Yet she is here as a cosponsor of this amendment. So it gives us some idea that Members who did not vote for the Troubled Asset Relief Program understand this is completely…

We know you cannot go anywhere in this country, from Alaska to Florida-- and that is about as far as we can get, from Alaska to Florida--and not hear of the pain and the fear. It is not just pain, it is downright fear on the part of a…

Would the Senator say again how we are going to explain that we did send billions to Wall Street with virtually no terms whatsoever, and now we have an opportunity to send money to small businesses on Main Street and we can't get a…

I wish to say first that I appreciate all the work the members of the Small Business Committee have done, both Ranking Member Snowe and all the members of the committee, as well as the members of the Finance Committee who worked very hard…

I want to trust, but verify.

I don't want dispersants to be the Agent Orange of this oil spill.

I wish to say a few words about our extraordinary and great colleague who has left the Senate and left this world, but his spirit will be here for many years to come and his presence will be felt here for decades, if literally not…

I look forward to working with you as we reshape this important agency to find the right path forward for both the environment and our economy.

But respectfully, I want to take issue with what you said in your statement when you said the President and Secretary Salazar, I believe, can't seem to find a way to plug this well.

My point being if our Government drives our production off of our shores, all we do is increase misery in places that we have no control of.

I also believe that the risks--both environmental and geopolitical--are too high when we import oil from foreign sources.

I believe that if we are going to consume petroleum products, we must and can produce it safely at home.

I have always been a supporter of alternative, more-efficient and less carbon-intense vehicles, and I think this discussion comes at an important time.

I introduced the Rare Earths Supply Technology and Resources Transformation (RESTART) Act on June 22nd, 2010.

Instead of having a blanket ban, including, she says, just get all the inspectors together, send them out to each deepwater rig individually.

Mary Landrieu, the senator from Louisiana, for example, has seven or eight points she thinks the president should do.

Mary Landrieu, the Senator from Louisiana, for example, has seven or eight points she thinks the President should do instead of having a blanket ban.

Does the Coast Guard have the ability to issue a contract immediately if a silver bullet white paper comes across your desk?

I believe that indisputably it is the size of the spill that must dictate our response to this disaster and how we mitigate its horrific effects.

Do you know how many responses the Coast Guard can handle in a given day?

A dual-track system remains in place with BP vetting some ideas while the Federal Government examines others, and that is a recipe for inefficiency and inconsistency.

You may want to just consider opening up an avenue for some of these elected officials who are down there.

The Federal Government is the only entity, in stark contrast to BP, whose sole responsibility is to the public interest of the American people.