I feel compelled to note that the Minority was not notified that these additional witnesses would testify until very late on Tuesday.

Considering what we know about what caused this disaster, BP should stand for 'bigger penalties'.

The Republican Majority has blocked all legislative action because they said they wanted to wait until all the facts were in before taking action to respond to the spill.

Please detail the capital investments made by BP in oil and gas exploration in each of the last three fiscal years?

As the Democratic spill response bill would do, we need to hold these companies responsible for their actions, and we need to ensure that the agencies here today are working to implement the safety reforms recommended by the Joint…

there was no consultative process on the second panel whatsoever.

Unfortunately, the monetary penalties associated with these violations, which led to the worst environmental disaster in American history, would amount to only $21 million for BP and $12 million for Halliburton and Transocean.

The facts are in and it is well past time for this Committee and this Congress to enact comprehensive legislation to ensure that we prevent a similar disaster in the future.

You think that Congress should consider raising them much higher in order to ensure that the oil companies pay a price when people die, when businesses are crushed, when the environment is destroyed, is that what you are saying?

The researchers found that there have been potentially dangerous changes in this one species that may indicate the presence of a much larger problem.

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.