"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 deeply."
"This is not a time for half measures or tinkering around the edges; this is a time for bold reforms."
"While I applaud the Chairman for holding this hearing today, I am also deeply saddened that this hearing is necessary."
"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..."
"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..."
"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 ..."
"We have to make sure that people don't, basically, allow themselves to be lulled to sleep by the ads by BP on every television station."
"We still may have an opportunity to measure the full flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We still have to monitor this cap in order to make sure it's working."
"If it was 60,000 barrels per day, that would be $18 billion. So, this is no small matter. And if it is possible to measure the containment, to measure the oil flow with precision, then absolutely, it ..."
"Well, again, this has to be monitored very closely."
"This has just been a continuing pattern of prevarication that has been engaged in by BP since the very beginning. It's completely unacceptable."