Senate Proceeding 05-20-10 on May 20th, 2010 :: 2:11:35 to 2:15:50
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Bill Nelson: quorum call: mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida is recognized. mr. nelson: mr. president, i ask consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: there is a quorum call senato mr. nelson: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection.

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Speech By: Bill Nelson

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Bill Nelson: mr. nelson: i ask to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. nelson: mr. president, british petroleum has just announced that it has conceded that the amount of oil gushing from the floor of the gulf of mexico is much more than what

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Bill Nelson: they admitted several weeks ago. you'll recall that they first said that it was gushing about 1,000 barrels a day. they then revised that up to 5,000 barrels a day.

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Bill Nelson: and all along refused the entreaties of senator boxer and me. the broken pipe is partially

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Bill Nelson: broken at the well hea 5,000 feet below the surface. at the other end of that pipe that used to go up to the surface with the rig that sank but is now lying on the floor of the ocean. and at the end of that pipe

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Bill Nelson: called the ricer is where additional oil is coming out. i'm happy to tell you that senator boxer and i just announced that we now have gotten b.p.

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Bill Nelson: feed of those remote submerseables -- submersibles, and you should be able to go up on any number of sites and see this live, those two places -- at the wellhead and at the end of the ricer pi riser pipe. when you look at it, what you

2:14:02 to 2:14:23( Edit History Discussion )

Bill Nelson: should note -- and why b.p. has now publicly amitted and a.p. just moved the story -- that they concede that the amount gushing out is much more than 5,000 barrels a day, and that is obvious when you see the live feed. in

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Bill Nelson: addition, they released to senator boxer and me -- and i want to hear from her in just a second -- what they released was nine hours of archival tape of this video, and what we found in there is the part of where they

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Bill Nelson: are injecting the dispersant into the gushing oil there is a picture of that that we have put on my web site. and what is astounding is that that dispersant in this photograph is so much, is it any

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Bill Nelson: wonder that at midnight last night the environmental protection agency ordered the stop of the use of this dispersant, as it being harmful to the environment. and so what we have is a gusher that's out of control.

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Bill Nelson: and needless to say, if that gusher keeps gushing -- and remember, this has been gushing now for a month, and they say it's going to be at least another two months before the relief well gets there, of which they can stop it. if it does gush another two