Edward Markey actually said...

"Even the simple and common-sense requirement that oil companies pay for the inspections of their own rigs has been rejected by the Republican Majority."

"Rather than legislatively repeating the mistakes that led to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster we should pass the broad reforms called for by the BP Commission so that our offshore drilling industry c..."

"The majority has chosen to politicize this program and it is attempting to discredit clean energy the same way they have tried to do to climate science."

"It is truly mystifying that a nation suffering a prolonged recession... would adopt a willful and deliberate policy of obstructing construction of these inexpensive and innocuous generators."