Ed Markey actually said...

"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."

"we are not seeing the same attention being paid to that as we saw to the sea lion issue with 3,000 salmon total on the West Coast."