the fact of the matter is when one looks back at the exxon valdez the report that came out of to be part of the horizon that the national crisis and environmental catastrophe which caused so much damage is and one that created much change in the country. things continue much the same way without those lessons being learned. the president and his administration are committed to make sure that those same mistakes are not repeated in the way of the deepwater horizon spill and that's why there's been the robustness of the effort to move forward with the creation of the best standards and organizations to oversee in america and to help develop the same kind of calls around the world. in terms of the funding questions and what we are doing with respect to the oil spill response, we do need funding to be hilboldt to have an agency conduct responsibly the important missions that have been assigned to the bureau of ocean management so they did give additional resources to director bromwich's agency to move in that direction. they are not sufficient frankly. there are more resources needed for the

the fact of the matter i think is when one looks back at the exxon valdez report, the national crisis and environment a.m. catastrophe which caused so much dam was not one that caused much change in this country. much continued the same way without those lessons being learned. the president and his administration are committed to make sure those mistakes are not made again. that's why there has been the robustness of the effort to try to move forward with the best standards and organization to oversee drilling in america's oceans and actually to help develop same kinds of protocols around the world. in terms over the funding question and what we're doing with respect to oil spill response, we do need funding to be able to have an agency conduct responsibly the important missions that have been assigned to the bureau of energy management and regulation. additional resources so direct the agency to move forward in that direction. they are not sufficient. frankly, there are more resources that are needed for the director to be able to hire the kind of personnel that will have the experti

but it was found by some archaeologists who were working for the state of alaska following the exxon valdez oil spill, and there was great concern that some of these areas that were being impacted by the spill had archaeological sites on them that no one had looked for and that could be damaged by the oil directly or by clean-up activities, and one of the results of the spill was that almost 1,000 new archaeological sites were discovered. when alaska was purchased by the united states, they instituted the census every 10 years, and the first one in 1880 recorded a few people living in one village out on the coast, and by the next census in 1890, there were no native alaskan settlers out here. they had in the meantime resettled in english bay because of the effects of deprivation under the fur trade system, which was really one of forced labor, or probably a substantial impact from smallpox and other diseases. eir population had dwindled. they went to english bay, collected there, and there was a church there. the russian orthodox priest wanted them to come there and settle at one centralize

one of the great disappointments after the exxon valdez tragedy and a lot of lessons learned there. we haven't made much progress in terms of the technology and advancement from the cleanup in the water from the exxon valdez 20 years ago to what we saw. it's one of those wake-up calls who is doing the research who is doing all of this. we can't be in a situation where the technologies for the cleanup have just been at a standstill while the technologies that allow us to produce in different conditions under place placed, they're allowing to us leapfrog forward. good for us. also what has to leapfrog with that are the technologies and the advancements that give us that protection, if you l or that assurance that in the event of a disaster that we are prepared. i would like to think that when it comes to the use of dispersements or other spill contain measures, we are spending the same amount of time and energy to introduce them and to keep them current as we are facilitating the technologies to access the resource. >> in complete agreement, ma'am, i would support any legislation that

the fact of the matter is that when one must back at the exxon valdez, the report that came out of the presidential commission on the deepwater horizon, that national crisis and environmental catastrophe which cause so much damage was not one that really created much change in this country. things continued much the same way without those lessons being learned. the president and his administration are absolutely committed to make sure that those same mistakes are not repeated now in the wake of the deepwater horizon oil spill. and that is why there has been the robustness of the effort to move forward with the creation of the best bands and best organizations to oversee drilling in america's oceans and to help develop all kinds of protocols are around the world. in terms of the funding questions, what we're doing with respect to oil spill response, we do need funding to be able to have an agency conduct responsibly the important missions that had been assigned to the bureau ocean energy management and regulation. the continuing resolution gave additional resources to director bromwich'

capturing those photographs, one reason why was remember in the exxon valdez, it was the photographs of oil soaked birds that caught people's souls and people organized aggressively in their response and shutdown exxon stations and protested and demanded policies and they got out of the bush administration a critical piece of legislation. the oil pollution act. in 1969 off the coast of santa barbara when an oil well. they were galvanized and ready. they sought imagery that captured the hearts and souls and years later they got earth day, the clean air act and the environmental protection agency and 11 years of organizing later they got a moratorium on offshore drilling. the brown pelicans soaked in oil, state bird of louisiana captured people. captured our hearts and minds. pictures started to go away and what most people assumed was the pictures were going away because oil birds were going away. less birds, less images. as the number of oil birds increased the photographs were decrease in. the reason why was we started threatened to be thrown in jail if we went with and 40 miles, 40

the fact of the matter is that i think when one looks back at the exxon valdez report that came out of the presidential commission on the deepwater horizon, that national crisis and environmental catastrophe which cause so much damage was not one which really created much change in this country. things continue much the same way without those lessons being learned. the president and his administration are absolutely committed to making sure those same mistakes are not repeated in the wake of the deepwater horizon oil spill. that is why there has been the robustness of the effort to move forward with the best danders an organization to oversee drilling in america's oceans and to help develop those same kinds of protocol around the world. in terms of the funding questions and what we are doing with respect to oil spill response, we do need funding to be able to have an agency conduct responsibly the important missions that have been assigned the bureau of ocean management and regulation. the continued regulation to give additional resources to direct the agency to move forward in that di

competition to clean up the oil spill technology, and because the equipment is the same as used with the exxon "valdez and so we had the capital put up by wendy schmidt, and we nannam in her honor, and the top ten teams are going head-to-head this summer and the top three technologies that are demonstrated shell is taking them to the marketplace. so we go from complaining about a problem to actually bringing three technologies into the market in under 18 months which we are very proud of. >> great. great. great, i hope they work. to learn more about the x prize foundation, and -- i hope we don't need it -- and to learn more about the x prize foundation, head to the blog at cnn.com/ali, and we will link you up with the x prize facebook and twitter pages. great group of folks there. >>> how unsettled is the gop presidential field? two of the three people at the top of the national poll may not run. candy crowley breaks down the latest poll next. t 4.5 out of 5. it has a light touch of cucumber instead of a heavy synthetic. a smooth, silky, amazing feel. it covers flawlessly with a touch women can't get

i was the first senator on the scene at the exxon valdez had rammed into the alaskan shoreline in 1989. when instead of being forthcoming and doing what they should have done, exxon fought over every penny with the communities in alaska. the families and the fish #ermen whose descrieives it destroyed. -- whose lives it destroyed. instead of stepping up to pay the court-awarded damages of $5 million, exxon said, to health care with that verdict-- --to heck with that vempletd we'll fight it. we'll fight it all the way. and they did. for years knocked down the amount from $5 million t billio0 million. they paid a health care of a price to the lawyers. they'd rather give it to them than to the american people. in the end, took more than 20 years for exxon to pay for what it had done. some victims died while waiting for the company to make things right. we should not be giving big oil $4 billion in tax breaks each year. their profits exceeded for the year last year $100 billion, these companies. larger than lots of countries. we should be investing in ways to break our dangerous addiction t

as we did in exxon valdez. we will improve on that. to not let them drill, not let them produce that oil, not employ americans, that is dead wrong. so i urge my colleagues to pass this legislation, reject the amendments that are going to be offered. they are not the amendments they should be. at this time i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from alaska yields back his time. all time for general debate has expired. pursuant to the rule, the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. the amendment printed in the bill is adopted. the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. no further amendment to the bill, as amended, shall be in order except those printed in house report 112-74. each further amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject

brown: more than two years exxon valdez oil spill we have yet to clean up prince william sound in alaska and cleaning up sand from the bp oil spill. the frequent occurrence of extreme weather that the gulf coast experiences including hurricanes and severe storms could easily produce an oil spill including with the improvement in oil and natural gas. storms along the gulf coast caused 124 oil spills in the gulf of mexico. hurricane katrina, 233 gallons of oil spill and hurricane rita worsened the damage. if these rigs were in the gulf coast, there would be complete destruction. as we have seen, cleanup for these spills are incapable of removing a small fraction of the oil. in addition, from the bp oil spill, florida has over 284,000 claims with only 117,000 paid with a total of $1 billion for the gulf coast region, 10,000 fishing claims, 122,000 food and lodging claims, retail and sales claims and $1.6 billion paid on even more lost earnings and wages. we cannot afford another disaster in the magnitude with more drilling. we are still living on borrowed time. support the brown amendment.

madam president, it's been many years back that i was up in alaska when the exxon valdez ran aground in the prince william sound and dumped tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil into this beautiful, beautiful place in our world. i was up there, and we had workers out and they were literally swabbing up the oil off of the rocks as it washed-up on the shore. they wore these yellow slickers which in no time at all were covered with this black crude oil. and the cameras were running around taking photos of the workers. and i went over to an old fellow in one of these yellow slickers who had these big swad tkelg khrogts mopping up this -- cloths mopping up this crude oil that had been dumped into this beautiful, beautiful place in prince william sound. i said to him after the cameras left do you think this is helping? he said if we didn't do anything, god would take care of this in ten years. but by putting in extra effort it will take nine years and six months. the point is once the spill has taken place it takes time, time for nature to restore itself if it can. in prince william so

. >> reporter: he said lack of microbes helped make the exxon value keys spoil so -- valdez and i so devastating. >> the more that we try and engineer our way out of these problems, the more trouble we're going to get in. >> reporter: hazen's most controversial position, once the and i is contained? >> the best thing to do, quite often, is nothing at all. >> reporter: hazen and environmentalists do agree that the ocean's resilience is limited, and we need to views the damage we do. >> you'll find john fowlers story along with other ktvu special reports by going to ktvu.com, going to the news tab, and click on special reports from the menu. >> well, according to the lundberg survey, the new national average on a spruce for a gallon of gas fell to $3.91 a gallon. but the bay area, a gallon of gas costs an average of $4.21. >>> a suicide prevention hotline it was dedicated in straighten today as a location steeped in gay and lesbian history. the building which once held harvey milks camera store is now home to the trevor project. the screenwriter for milk, the movie that portrayed his l