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Who Voted to Limit the Liability of Oil Companies?

In 1990 Congress adopted the Oil Pollution Act. This act set liability limitations to $75 million for oil spills like the one we are witnessing in the Gulf Coast today. Setting a liability limit on damages created by oil drilling can only encourage the lowering and neglect of safety standards and procedures, ultimately causing more oil spills.

The congress-persons who voted for the Oil Pollution Act are directly responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf. They enabled British Petroleum to loosen their safety procedures, to operate without redundant oil spill prevention systems, to take risks, etc. This is the very reason the same oil spill clean up technologies used the in the late 70’s are still in place today. The Oil Pollution Act destroyed any motivation for improvement in oil spill safety, prevention and oil spill containment procedures by removing the penalties for neglect.

Here are their names (these congress-persons voted for the Oil Pollution Act of 1990): They are still in office...

United States Senators – [source]

Richard Shelby – Alabama
John McCain – Arizona
Barbara Boxer – California
Chris Dodd – Connecticut
Joe Lieberman – Connecticut
Joe Biden – Delaware (currently Vice President)
Tom Carper – Deleware
Daniel Inouye – Hawaii
Daniel Akaka – Hawaii
Dick Durbin – Illinois
Richard Lugar – Indiana
Chuck Grassley – Iowa
Tom Harkin – Iowa
Mitch McConnell – Kentucky
Barbara Mikulski – Maryland
John Kerry – Massachusettes
Carl Levin – Michigan
Thad Cochran – Mississippi
Kit Bond – Missouri
Max Baucus – Montana
Harry Reid – Nevada
Frank Lautenberg – New Jersey
Jeff Bingaman – New Mexico
Kent Conrad – North Dakota
Arlen Specter – Pennsylvania
Orrin Hatch – Utah
Patrick Leahy – Vermont
Robert Byrd – West Virgnia
Jay Rockefeller – West Virginia
Herb Kohl – Wisconsin

U.S. Congress
Don Young – Alaska
Jon Kyl – Arizona
Howard Berman – California
David Dreier – California
Elton Gallegly – California
Wally Herger – California
Jerry Lewis – California
George Miller – California
Nancy Pelosi – California
Dana Rohrabacher – California
Henry Waxman – California
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – Florida
Cliff Stearns – Florida
Bill Young – Florida
John Lewis – Georgia
Jerry Costello – Illinois
Barney Frank – Massachussets
Steny Hoyer – Maryland
John Dingell – Michigan
Dale Kildee – Michigan
Eliot Engel – New York
Charles Rangel – New York
Howard Coble – North Carolina
Marcy Kaptur – Ohio
Peter DeFazio – Oregon
Paul Kanjorski – Pennsylvania
John Duncan – Tennessee
Bart Gordon – Tennessee
Joe Barton – Texas
Ralph Hall – Texas
Jim Sensenbrenner – Wisconsin

I’m still adding names! Check back shortly for a cross checked list. The full original list is here.

Not in office but still active politically
Newt Gingrich

Link:
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