Patrick Leahy actually said...

Can you tell me any logical reason why it should be any different whether it was on the open sea or on land?

No one's life should become an asterisk in somebody's cost/benefit analysis. It is immoral.

It has now been 50 days since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

I am particularly concerned by the close relationships that have developed between powerful oil interests and Government agencies such as th...