[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7122]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          DISASTER IN THE GULF

  (Mr. HASTINGS of Florida asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the very first thing I want to 
do is to express my condolences to the 11 persons who were killed on 
the oil rig in the gulf.
  We are faced in this Nation, certainly in the gulf and along the 
Atlantic coast region, with the potential for a disaster of epic 
proportions, but the time now is not for us to get involved in blaming 
someone but, rather, in doing the things that are necessary to cap this 
gusher and to accelerate attention to clean energy.
  Yesterday, Commandant Thad Allen, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, 
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson, and persons 
from NOAA gave me the assurance, which I hope to convey to my 
constituents and to those of us who are concerned, that they are doing 
everything humanly possible to stop this disaster and that they will, 
assuredly, continue to do the same.

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