Those corporate entities responsible will be held liable for the actions.

I am proud to cosponsor the legislation you are introducing today.

They are liable for the damages up to the extent of their very financial existence, and they are not too big to fail.

Our Nation faces an environmental catastrophe. Americans are angry.

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

We cannot let big oil companies play roulette with our economic and environmental resources.

I appreciate everybody being here. I know this may be an emotional meeting.

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

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

BP is the one that under the law and under the procedures of our drilling is the responsible party.

The American people want to know how and why this happened.

your proposed Survivors Equality Act of 2010 would remedy that inequity.

The impact on the lives and livelihoods of Americans is enormous.

If you thought, Boy, you are really going to have to pay for any screw-up you cause, are you going to be a lot more careful?

Mr. President, I want to speak briefly about a heinous crime that occurred in El Salvador that has yet to be solved. On June 18, 2009, Gustavo Marcelo Rivera, an activist and community leader from the city of San Isidro, Cabaas, was…

as the Senate recesses for Memorial Day, I wish the Republican leadership had worked with us to clear the nominations that have been pending on the calendar for far too long. There is now a backlog of 26 judicial nominees awaiting final…

I am pleased that the Senate today will extend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004, ACPERA, for an additional 10 years. This legislation ensures that the Justice Department will have the tools it needs to…

I note that on page 16 of the supplemental appropriations bill, H.R. 4899, under the heading ``Afghanistan Security Forces Fund'' and on page 17 under the heading ``Iraq Security Forces Fund,'' which appropriate funds for training…

H.R. 4899, the fiscal year 2010 supplemental appropriations bill, provides the funds requested by the President for emergency assistance for Haiti related to the January 12 earthquake. In fact it provides approximately $25 million more…

I rise today to congratulate Katy Lesser of Underhill, VT, for being named Vermont's 2010 Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Lesser is the owner of Healthy Living, a natural and organic food store…

It must be a priority to mitigate the impacts of the spill on both the delicate and vital gulf ecosystem, and on coastal communities where fisheries and tourism provide jobs for millions of Americans.

I wish to speak about the Sessions amendment to the supplemental appropriations bill. This is the amendment that would cap discretionary spending this year and for future years, irrespective of the needs of the government and the American…

I support congressional action to move past the policies that discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation against men and women serving and wanting to serve in our Nation's military. I commend Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint…

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I am encouraged by President Obama's directive to restructure the MMS in order 'to build an organization that acts as the oil industry's watchdog--not its partner.'