Edward Markey actually said...

The Majority has claimed that the economic impacts of the 6-month moratorium were worse than the economic impacts of the spill itself.

These rigs did not leave. These rigs kept their employees.

The Gulf had to be protected. That is what President Obama did to minimize the economic harm to the region from the spill.

Today I am releasing a report that torches the myth that citizens engaging in democracy are turning our forests into tinder boxes.