James Inhofe actually said...

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that this spill has occasioned some fatally misguided legislation, which will make us more dependent on foreign oi...

We need to mitigate and contain the environmental impacts; provide assistance to the Gulf's commercial and recreational fishing industries; ...

I hope we will do both.

The most important order of business is to stop the leak . . . and we need to stop it as soon as possible.