US Congress Bitterly Divided Over Obama Response to BP Spill

摘要

Partisan divisions about US President Barack Obama's administration's response to the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster were very much apparent Wednesday during the latest hearing on offshore drilling since Republicans took control of the House Natural Resources Committee. Democratic members of the committee - now in the political minority for the first time in six years - criticized Republican leaders for insisting that there is still a "de facto" moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.