I thank the gentleman. Reclaiming my time, the oil companies, let us stipulate, are not eleemosynary or charitable organizations. They make huge profits at the expense of the taxpayers. And they are making even more profit because the fact of the matter is we now have to monetize the cost of all the pollution that's coming out of the gulf. No matter what BP pays, we will be paying for generations to come. Support the Kucinich amendment.
Kucinich addresses the profits of oil companies and the long-term costs of pollution from the Gulf.
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