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The supply is steady and consistent. is there any indication as to when people might expect a less patchy supply, people might expect a less patchy supply, has the industry been given a heads up about that? that supply, has the industry been given a heads up about that?— a heads up about that? that is the roblem, a heads up about that? that is the problem. we _ a heads up about that? that is the problem, we dont _ a heads up about that? that is the problem, we dont know— a heads up about tha...

Said now the games need to stop. this is such a rank, indefensible rule that nobody really defends it. senator claire mccaskill of missouri has been one of the senators who has been working to try to get rid of secret holds. heres how she explained the situation yesterday. >> we have different kinds of senators here. some are feeling theyre being marched to the gallows as they grudgingly support cleaning up secret holds. we have others that want to pound their chests and shout from the rooftops ...

But after noaa warned them that continued drilling in the gulf was harming endangered marine mammals. last week in the midst of the crisis in the gulf and the growing questions about the safety of offshore drilling in general, the interior secretary, ken salazar, made an announcement about those apparently all too easy to get offshore drilling permits. >> as part of our ongoing efforts to deal with this situation, we also have assigned a team of people that are working hard to develop the recomm...

Is the head -- was the head of that agency as well. its unbelievably bad. >> is the situation any different under the obama administration than it was under the bush administration? has any progress been made? >> absolutely. i think this may be one of the most important things president obama has done. early in his administration he changed the rules on revolving door. so the head of mms can no longer balm the chief lobbyist for the industry theyre overseeing. were not going to see that problem ...

But now for the first time in our countrys history, everything takes 60 votes to pass. everything. everything takes a supermajority of 60 votes. it is outrageous. it is unpress tented. but the time it took to explain that and to show our filibuster graph means that even though this 60 votes on everything situation is unprecedented and a small democratic disaster, a huge change in our constitutional system in government that no one debated, that none of us signed up for, that is strangling our ab...