Jeff Bingaman actually said...

"These matters are urgent. I am hopeful that we can proceed quickly to consider legislation on these issues in the committee next week."

"We must learn from this accident and aggressively develop better technology to stop these spills from happening."

"This moratoria will affect as many as 46,200 jobs may be idled."

"If we don't get this right, we are going to eliminate every job that we are trying to create..."