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Urgency and that is what i have been fighting to try to get. >> geraldo: was barton's apology to bp in your personal opinion, congressman, out of line? >> i didn't agree with it. in fact, congressman barton apologized to me. that is something separate. if you want to talk about what we are fighting right now, our biggest problem is we don't have a sense of urgency. >> stays ranking member and the whole flap goes away. >> the real problems haven't gone away on the ground. what i want to do is get a real chain of command. the president continues to push off his responsibility. they are letting b...

But if you're going to take seriously the need to repair and protect coastal louisiana. if you want to take seriously that we need to bring back what's there and what's lost, you should not be taking dumb ideas like building these barrier islands out of sand off the coast. and i don't just say that as a jerk on tv, i say that because there isn't a single prominent coastal scientist who has endorsed this idea. and the list of prominent coastal scientists who have said this idea is dumb, that it's maybe worse than doing nothing is a list that is growing by the day. and they have not been quiet a...

Not just since the bp oil disaster started, but for a long time even before that. but if you're going to take seriously the need to repair and protect coastal louisiana. if you want to take seriously that we need to bring back what's there and what's lost, you should not be taking dumb ideas like building these barrier islands out of sand off the coast. and i don't just say that as a jerk on tv, i say that because there isn't a single prominent coastal scientist who has endorsed this idea. and the list of prominent coastal scientists who have said this idea is dumb, that it's maybe worse than ...

Into coastal areas potentially getting trapped in there behind these new berms. red flags about the sand barriers potentially channeling incoming oil-soaked water to go faster and therefore further into shore. not to mention the fact that this project will take months and months and months to complete. and yet after sustained political pressure from folks like louisiana's governor, the obama administration has given into the sand berm idea. despite the fact that even their own scientific experts, their own environmental experts say it's dumb as well. as "the wall street journal" put it, "epa s...

Red flags about the sand barriers potentially channeling incoming oil-soaked water to go faster and therefore further into shore. not to mention the fact that this project will take months and months and months to complete. and yet after sustained political pressure from folks like louisiana's governor, the obama administration has given into the sand berm idea. despite the fact that even their own scientific experts, their own environmental experts say it's dumb as well. as "the wall street journal" put it, "epa says the sand piles probably won't protect coast, but louisiana leaders want them...