we're talking half a million sea birds, five selzer verso sea otters, whales, seals, billions of fishaid there were only be short-term harm. on the fourth day of this bill, a storm came out and blew the oil out of prince william sound. it's distant as far as 12 miles from plight and pact about 3200 miles of coast guard and in between. if this bill had been opposed on the west coast of the united states it would have gone from the top of washington state all the way down to san diego were. this was huge. and what i have to say about the $2.5 billion cleanup, the tax write-off is that it didn't work and in the initial days that it mattered to get the oil off the water the fishermen picked up more oil in the bucket than exxon did. and because of the failed initial cleanup, half of the oil that spilled from the beaches of prince william sound, and a lot of it is still there. this is with the beaches look like today and this is from 2006. i take high school students out now to the beaches and maybe 6 inches, a foot and focus on the lower right-hand corner, this is what happens. they get up