WJTV – Sen. Wicker Looks Into Delays In Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup

Sen. Wicker Looks Into Delays In Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup

WASHINGTON, DC – In a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Gulf oil spill, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) discussed the bureaucratic obstacles to the cleanup efforts and heard testimony on safety and liability issues from widows of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.

“We continue to see a failure of the Obama administration to grasp the extent of this disaster,” said Wicker, a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. “We need to fight this oil in the open waters with a fleet of skimmers, but unfortunately bureaucratic hurdles allowed oil to make its way into the Mississippi Sound and onto some of our beaches.”

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7/1/10