For those of us along the Atlantic, we want to see much more than a pause button.

I opposed it from the very beginning. It puts the New Jersey shore directly at risk.

I appreciate the administration's decision to support moving toward unlimited liability as it relates to the responsibility of oil companies.

The reality is, is that when I look at BP's response plan, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know they couldn't have been very serious.

So I know that you are reforming MMS. The question is are we going to have the right regulatory oversight and vigorous oversight so that we don't relive this.

We cannot let the victims of the Gulf oil disaster suffer this same fate.

my opposition had nothing to do with being the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. It had everything to do with that proceeding with one incident and one company and saying, yes, you have unlimited liability and no…

If in fact we have unlimited liability across the board for the future, that is in essence what we are trying to accomplish.

We need to act quickly to make sure oil companies are held fully accountable for all damages related to an oil spill.

I will not stand for offshore drilling anywhere that can affect my State of New Jersey or my nearby States because the spillover is obvious.

I immediately got on that bill because I had seen what happened to the fishermen with the Exxon Valdez.