Senator Durbin and others have decided to pour millions, if not billions, of taxpayers' dollars into the coffers of the people directly responsible for the Gulf Coast oil disaster
“We will remain focused on providing every resource we can to support the massive response effort underway at the Deepwater Horizon, but we are also aggressively and quickly investigating what happened and what can be done to prevent this type of incident in the future,” said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.