Thad Cochran: “Well, I'm a little skeptical that we may be--if we do nothing and don't say anything in our report about monitoring this…”

“Well, I'm a little skeptical that we may be--if we do nothing and don't say anything in our report about monitoring this program, that we are really writing a blank check, not just for $6.6 million, which is a lot of money to me, to deal with a problem that obviously existed before, and will exist after, the calamity of the BP oil well that was way out in the Gulf of Mexico and was not affected at all by what comes down the Mississippi River.”