the majority's discussion draft doesn't provide any dedicated funding stream for the Bureau of Ocean Energy.

the safety of the workers is preserved, and that the economic needs of the country are met.

Approximately 70% of the Undiscovered Technically Recoverable Resources currently under lease in all areas of the Federal Gulf of Mexico are not producing or not subject to approved or pending exploration or development plans.

the discussion draft could obscure the safety and resource management between the new agencies.

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 can be the safest in the world.

You don't have to be Dick Tracey to see the speed-over-safety pattern running through the offshore drilling bills.

the majority has refused to take action on the broader legislation that Ranking Member Markey and I have introduced