"You don't have to be Dick Tracey to see the speed-over-safety pattern running through the offshore drilling bills."
"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 lessons of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy still ring loud and clear."
"The agency regulating offshore was known, had become dysfunctional."
"The Minerals Management Service... had become dysfunctional. Relationships with industry had become too cozy."
"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."
"Rather than legislatively repeating the mistakes that led to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster we should pass the broad reforms called for by the BP Commission so that our offshore drilling industry c..."
"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."
"It is truly mystifying that a nation suffering a prolonged recession... would adopt a willful and deliberate policy of obstructing construction of these inexpensive and innocuous generators."
"This simple and commonsense solution means vast quantities of hydroelectricity, without a single new dam, and at a cost to the government of precisely nothing."