"What reforms are you putting in place to ensure that American taxpayers receive the billions of dollars which they are owed by the oil industry?"
"I hope will intensify your---- and telescope the timeframe that it will take for you to present a final plan to protect against a catastrophic event occurring because we know al-Qaeda is out there."
"Reclamation was established as an agency over a century ago."
"the money that is used for land acquisitions through the Land and Water Conservation Fund comes from funds paid to the United States by oil companies"
"it does not come from general tax revenues from our struggling families and small businesses, but from extremely profitable oil companies"
"One of the most powerful arguments made in the course of trying to get a fair settlement from Exxon after the Exxon Valdez spill was an economic study conducted by the State of Alaska."
"Is the Service carrying out similar or better studies today for the Deepwater Horizon disaster?"
"Can you report that back to the Committee, please?"
"We, on this side of the aisle, look forward to a productive working relationship with you and with the majority, occasionally punctuated by knockdown drag-out fights over issues that we all care about..."
"It is vital to our Nation's energy future that we examine the causes of this tragedy with clear eyes, assess the lessons to be learned with open minds, and commit ourselves to fundamental reform with ..."
"This is a time for bold reforms. The lives lost and the damage done as a result of this tragedy require nothing short of fundamental change in the way we conduct the business of offshore oil and gas d..."
"While my colleagues on the Republican side may not have liked all that was in that legislation, it is my hope that now the Commission has made many of the same recommendations, that we can work togeth..."