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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 don't _ a heads up about that? that is the problem, we don't know— a heads up about that? that is the problem, we don't know when - a heads up about that? that is the | problem, we don'...

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. here's how she explained the situation yesterday. >> we have different kinds of senators here. some are feeling they're 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 about trying to get rid of secret holds, and we have others that are hiding in the creeks, the cre...

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 recommendations to president obama. until we have that review completed, the department of the interior an...

Is the head -- was the head of that agency as well. it's 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 they're overseeing. we're not going to see that problem in the future but we see what that can do. >> this is a situation that's been a long time coming ...

But now for the first time in our country's 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 ability as a nation to deal with the problems that face us as a nation, even though the 60 votes on a...