Ed Markey actually said...

"The four bills we are considering today would only generate one-fifteenth of the revenue that we would need to fund transportation projects for the next six years."

"These bills would once again place drill rigs off our beaches up and down the East and West Coasts."

"I oppose it and ask instead that you join the nearly 1 million people from every State in this union who just this past week expressed to our government that no oil drilling should take place in the A..."

"Unfortunately, we also take reckless actions as a government."