Edward Markey actually said...

"Most Americans likely remember the date April 20th, 2010, as the day the Deepwater Horizon exploded and the BP oil spill began."

"Just a few weeks into the BP spill, I successfully called on BP to create a $500 million scientific research fund."

"The most important species impacted by the spill has been the resilient people of the Gulf of Mexico."

"You can't have it both ways. You can't kill the program that the Administration wants in order to expedite the handling of it, and then complain that it is not being handled fast enough."