Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 1 minute. I do so just to say that Democrats see high unemployment and we look forward. We recognize that American ingenuity, innovation, and hard work can dig us out of this hole by creating high-paying…

I yield myself 1 additional minute. Because the real agenda here is to create as many red herrings as they can about the real agenda. As a matter of fact, we can put an aquarium out here there are so many red herrings. As a matter of fact…

I yield myself 5 minutes. This is a very important debate because it goes right to the very heart of what is needed in order to ensure that we provide the proper protections for families across our country, from the despoliation of the…

I yield myself 1 additional minute. How do you create jobs? We haven't heard that yet. We haven't heard that yet. Well, they say drilling. Well, last year there were 4,700 new leases that were granted by the Bureau of Land Management, but…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 3 minutes. Mr. Speaker, the independent bipartisan commission on the BP oil spill issued its final report last month. And what did it conclude? Well, that the Deepwater Horizon that went to the bottom of the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi).

I believe very strongly that the farther you go out and the deeper you are, the more dangerous it becomes.

Now that we have it, it is time to take action to prevent big oil from wreaking havoc on our environment, and that is why I introduced the No New Drilling Act to prevent the expansion of offshore drilling.

the disaster as a whole was due to a rather staggering series of errors by the three companies

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 development and production.

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 together in a bipartisan effort to craft new…