Edward Markey actually said...

"We should end the Cuban embargo so that American companies and American workers can reap the benefits of drilling so near our shores."

"The Majority has been so focused on a make-believe moratorium on drilling in the Gulf, that they've apparently missed the actual decades-long moratorium on American companies drilling off of Cuba that..."

"Because of a relic of the cold war, the Cuban embargo, American oil companies cannot drill in this area that could contain as much as 5 billion barrels of oil."

"I would think that my Republican colleagues would rather have this drilling done by Chevron than by Chavez."