Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for yielding to me, and I rise in strong support of H.R. 5851. A couple of speakers before me, the gentleman from Georgia on the other side of the aisle kept repeating the mantra of ``never let a crisis go to waste,'' and he was deriding this side because apparently he thinks that we should always forget a crisis and we should not take into account what we've learned because of the crisis. You know, it is because of this crisis that we really need to redouble our efforts to protect people who live all around the Gulf of Mexico, to protect the workers, to protect the public from companies that really couldn't care less about them; and this Whistleblower Protection Act is going to do exactly that. Now I'm on the Energy and Commerce Committee. I sat through every hearing that we had with oil officials and with the BP officials. And I'll tell you the truth; it was insulting the way Mr. Hayward came and wouldn't tell us anything because he was obviously told by his lawyers not to tell us, and the arrogance dripping from his mouth where he just seemed to not care at all about the havoc that BP had put forward in the gulf and even with the people who were killed. =========================== NOTE =========================== July 30, 2010 on Page H6490 the following appeared: Mr. Heyward came and wouldn't tell us . . . Heyward. We asked him serious questions The online version should be corrected to read: Mr. Hayward came and wouldn't tell us . . . Hayward.…”