In an OpEd published in the Washington Examiner, Rep. Bill Cassidy asks why his amendment to create a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the BP oil spill, which passed unanimously in the Natural Resources Committee, was stripped from the bill by Speaker Pelosi. Read more...

In an OpEd published in The Hill, Rep. Bill Cassidy explains that the CLEAR Act, which is billed as a response to the oil spill, "has much less to do with preventing another spill than it does preventing domestic energy production and destroying jobs." Read more...

The Deepwater Horizon spill was not an act of God; it was the product of human and mechanical error. These errors are identifiable and preventable. Read more...