Olympia Snowe actually said...

Relegating them to the back bench is an egregious mistake that could have helped avert this devastation.

Snowe criticizes the lack of a mandatory role for NOAA and the Coast Guard in offshore drilling permits.

05/17/2010

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There's a whole area here that needs to be--opened up for discussion, a whole area of possible government action that's really not being add...

We have a lot of people out there who would do the right thing, but we shouldn't be penalizing them for doing so.

What accounts for that? Is there any reason for that, or does it just happen to be the way it is?

The problem is so pervasive, so overwhelming.