Maurice Hinchey: “I have been supporting that for I think roughly about 16, 17 years here.”

Thank you very much. I deeply appreciate it. The situation that we're dealing with here is critically important. It's harming huge numbers of people. What the Senate has done is an adequate solution to this problem. They've provided the…

I just want to thank you for what you are doing, and what you said is so true.

I can't give you an exact time when we will be able to move forward with the policies, but we are working on it very hard.

At a time when our country is facing record deficits and the oil industry can't count their money fast enough, oil drillers in the Gulf of Mexico are getting away with highway robbery because of mistakes that were made many years ago. Oil…