We are grateful for his leadership.

I thank all the leaders that are coming to Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama to our help and rescue. Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA -- and the Red Cross up and…

We cannot close down the Gulf offshore oil and gas sector without devastating economic impacts to our region, increased environmental risk to our ocean, and weakening our national security.

Our Federal Government has a responsibility, particularly in these difficult times, to make sure that these paychecks do not turn into pink slips.

I believe the action to impose this moratorium has actually increased environmental risk to our oceans and coastal wetlands.

I ask the Administration to please lift the moratorium, not in October or November or September, but today.

Oil and gas is the lifeblood of our economy, from top to bottom, and that blood has stopped pumping due to nothing more than political posturing.

This ill-conceived and heavy-handed action by the Federal Government does not meet our environmental needs, our national security needs, and it most certainly does not meet our economic needs.

if the moratorium lasts longer, some 25,000 jobs could be in jeopardy.

The issuance of a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling is an overreach, not necessary, and has been deemed arbitrary and capricious by the Federal courts.

This Administration's decision to halt drilling activity did more than threaten the livelihoods of rig workers and oil service crews.

This blanket moratorium will not help us achieve or advance that goal.

the moratorium's spillover effect could mean 12,000 jobs and nearly three billion nationwide.

I am going to put the full weight of this committee behind the lifting of this moratorium as soon as possible.

This moratorium is not about big oil. It is rather about the Calais, the Sheramies, Depueys, the Roberts, the Boudreauxes, and the Thibodauxes.

The decision to stop virtually all new energy exploration in the Gulf was uninformed, in my view, and it borders on reckless.

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