Patrick Leahy actually said...

I insist that, in the future, oil companies do everything they can to prevent needless deaths and catastrophic environmental harm.

If criminal conduct occurred, it should be and it will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The Exxon Court believed that predictability for corporations was more important than deterring misconduct. I disagree.

I expressed my concern at that time that the Supreme Court's Exxon Valdez decision would encourage corporate misconduct.