Perhaps we shouldn't be waiting for BP to be spending that money, because they don't want to know how big their liability is.

I demanded from Tony Hayward that he make accessible to the National Institutes of Occupational Health and Safety all of the information about all of the workers down there in the Gulf of Mexico.

Perhaps we shouldn't be waiting for BP to be spending that money, because they don't want to know how big their liability is.

Well, right now, people say, BP says, experts say that the flow could be 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day.

How did we get to a situation where the trailers are now being used to house people without notification to them that it could be dangerous to their health and to the health of their families?

I am concerned. And that's why I'm pressing the Coast Guard and the EPA to make public what their criteria is for use of dispersants, what the dispute may be between Coast Guard and EPA, and what information, if any, that the oil industry…

We know that, inside of the -- a preparedness plan that BP put together, that they did not mention hurricanes or tropical storms.

That's why Congressman Melancon from Louisiana and I wrote a letter today to the GSA, asking that there be a full disclosure of what has happened with these trailers in the past.

Unfortunately, during the Bush administration, they made a decision to sell these trailers, to sell these toxic trailers.

It is absolutely preposterous that workers who are asked to go out to clean up toxic materials are then going home to trailers, toxic trailers loaded with formaldehyde that are not fit for human habitation.

It's stunning on the one hand, but not surprising. This has been characteristic of everything that has occurred since day one.

I am concerned and that's why I'm pressing the Coast Guard and the EPA to make public what their criteria is for use of dispersants, what the dispute may be between Coast Guard and EPA and what information, if any, that the oil industry…