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On the recordMay 17, 2010
This catastrophe that claimed eleven lives and could devastate an entire ecosystem for decades has been characterized by an abundance of failure and an ineffectiveness of truly staggering proportions.
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Olympia Snowe
Republican · Maine

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Snowe describes the oil spill as a catastrophic failure with long-term ecological consequences.

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