James Inhofe actually said...

"I believe, enormously difficult, and it could go on, as some of the previous speakers mentioned, it could exceed Exxon Valdez."

"Of course, there is a storm season in the Gulf when the hurricanes generated across the Caribbean tend to sweep through."

"But once it starts rolling up on those beaches, in Panama City and those white beaches, in Alabama and Mississippi and New Orleans, then the outrage is going to go into political pressure to get somet..."

"This source is continuing to gush out at 5,000 barrels a day. And that impact, none of us will really know, can fully understand."