JOHN YOUNG: “It's just like a hostage crisis. We're on day 77, we've been hostage -- taken hostage by the oil, and we're also hostage…”

There needs to be a military chain of command. And BP needs to be told by the federal government told what to do, not be asked what to do.

We need the federal government to cut the red tape. We need the -- the President to exercise his executive authority and say, cut through the red tape. We don't have a minute to waste.

Vaccines are the single most lifesaving innovation in the history of medicine.

At this point in time, every day, every hour, every minute counts. This is just another example of the unmitigated failure that the federal government and the federal response has been to date.