Edward Markey actually said...

The oil and gas industry is swimming in profits while our country is swimming in debt.

Markey highlights the disparity between oil company profits and national debt.

09/20/2011

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We now know in retrospect that when BP in the first week was saying that the spill was only 1,000 per day that they had an internal document...

And that's why we have to stay on them every single day until the well is plugged and everyone, including the people in the Gulf and the oce...

I guess he must have felt that it was time for him to go and to go for a nice sail on an ocean that BP has yet to despoil.

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