Edward Markey actually said...

"I don't really understand how you can say that... when we do the same thing off the Atlantic Coast and say we shouldn't have drilling."

"The United States' economic competitiveness is at risk if we don't act now to expand production of our resources."

"The Spill Commission recently gave this Congress a grade of D on its legislative response to the worst environmental disaster in American history."

"the bipartisan BP Spill Commission led by William Reilly, who was the EPA Administrator under George Bush I, has given the Congress a D for its legislative response to the BP spill."