No. Another thing that needs to happen is you need to have a real clear command structure on the ground where decisions are made quickly and decisively; and if things go wrong, there are people you can hold accountable to go fix them. Not…

I thank the gentleman for his kind comments. All I've been trying to do is not only represent the people of my district and my State, but also to make sure that the President is meeting his responsibility under the law. And of course under…

Just directly related to those rigs. Of course, you've got service industries, and you've got restaurants. You've got all of the secondary spending that goes along that you can't even calculate because it's so big. These are high-paying…

I wish that the President had that much interest in helping us in the day-to-day problems we're facing. Just the other day I was talking to one of the local fire chiefs who was there on the ground after Katrina, who is there on the ground…

I rise in support of the legislation to give subpoena powers to the commission. I would hope the commission would be an objective commission that actually looks into and helps us find out just what went wrong because I think we all need to…

You know, if you look at what the President said in his speech last week, I and many others were angered by the fact that he spent almost as much time trying to exploit this crisis to promote his cap-and-trade energy tax as he did in…

I mean, look, Anderson, one of the big frustrations is, our local leaders seem to be the only ones who were coming up with ideas to protect our marsh from the oil.

All they're being told from both BP and the federal government is no.

I want to ask you: who is in charge on the ground?

There's no excuse for that.

Our local leaders seem to be the only ones who are coming up with ideas to protect our marsh from the oil.

The spill is in his backyard, and he arrived armed with a powerful picture: a brown pelican.