"Even the simple and commonsense requirement that oil companies pay for the inspections of their own rigs has been rejected by the Republican majority."
"There is no longer any excuse for this Committee and this Congress to delay action on the broad reforms that are needed."
"The Minerals Management Service... had become dysfunctional. Relationships with industry had become too cozy."
"Now we are at a crossroads. We have a choice to make--when the reorganization is complete, will those three parts resemble the three wise men or the three stooges."
"Even the simple and common-sense requirement that oil companies pay for the inspections of their own rigs has been rejected by the Republican Majority."
"if you want to waste American taxpayers' dollars, let us talk about the oil industry at record high profits getting $41 billion worth of tax money from taxpayers."
"if we are going to reexamine whether or not that is a good investment after Fukushima, after the earthquake near the North Anna Plant, let us have that hearing, because I think that money is in jeopar..."
"We know we will never have a hearing on the oil industry or the nuclear industry in this committee."
"This 42 percent drop this year is as a result of the Chinese intervention in this marketplace."
"This was not knowable in 2009. This was not knowable in 2010. This was a market intervention."
"I have to compliment my Republican colleagues on their discipline, but after weighing these relentless and very serious allegations of lawbreaking and inappropriate politicization of the loan guarante..."
"The majority has chosen to politicize this program and it is attempting to discredit clean energy the same way they have tried to do to climate science."