I can't believe you just said a bright spot is that the unemployment rate fell. Do you realize that is because 652,000 Americans gave up looking for work?

They hold the super-majority in the House, the Senate, and they hold the White House.

What is frustrating I think is that this Congress, Democrat Congress, has had control over MMS that oversees the Gulf for three years and done nothing to reform it.

The Obama Administration themselves approved British Petroleum's operational waivers on the wells.

There are almost 50,000 jobs directly related to those rigs in the Gulf Coast in the deep-water area.

Today's report is more disappointing news for American workers and their families.

this recovery certainly is not consistent with the recovery of 1981 and 1982, where job growth and unemployment were again three times better than the Obama recovery.

I do think it is the policies of Washington that is holding this recovery back.

So if next month another 600,000 people give up looking for work, should we organize some parade to cheer it?

They have failed to support our Gulf Coast governors and local communities in protecting the marshes and beaches.

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