Max Baucus actually said...

We want to prevent the American taxpayer from subsidizing private enterprise by absorbing environmental risk.

We cannot close down the Gulf without putting ourselves at hostage even further to the Venezuelans, the Chinese, Russia, and the other group...

We want to encourage the use of robust spill prevention and safety measures in offshore oil and gas development.

The circumstances in which we find ourselves are clearly unacceptable, and the news regrettably keeps getting worse.