Edward Markey actually said...

"If a fine of $40,000 per day is not a sufficient financial deterrent, it is clear, and I agree with you, that a fine of $5,000 for a serious violation like not having a blowout preventer would not be ..."

"Yet, the Republican Majority is threatening to raise taxes on the wind industry this year, which would jeopardize those projects and many others, and could kill 37,000 clean energy jobs."

"oil companies currently hold 38 million acres of public land, onshore, but are not producing on 68 percent of that land."

"Do you believe, Mr. Secretary, that the authority of the President to deploy the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should depend on the permitting of the Keystone Pipeline?"