Jeanne Shaheen: “I find it unbelievable that after everything the people of the gulf region have endured, and that this entire country…”

“I find it unbelievable that after everything the people of the gulf region have endured, and that this entire country has witnessed for over 2 months now, that anyone is still standing with the oil company that caused this disaster instead of the victims who are suffering from it. We recently learned that while BP was publicly telling us that the Deepwater Horizon rig was leaking an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil a day, internal BP documents showed, in a worst-case scenario, up to 100,000 barrels of oil could actually leak into the Gulf of Mexico. What that says to me is that we need to make sure when we are investigating this oilspill, whether it be with employees of BP or anyone else, that they are being straight with the American people. That is what subpoena power would do.”