U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe criticized the Obama administration's role in the cleanup of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during a visit to an Auburn manufacturing plant on Wednesday.
Snowe said government officials should be overseeing British Petroleum's cleanup efforts and working to expedite the process.
“It's ridiculous that we're relying on BP to make these decisions,” she said. “It's a gap in leadership. Here we have a national catastrophe on our hands and nobody from government is interacting with (BP) on these key decisions to make sure they can hasten the disposition of these booms and make sure that they're deployed as soon as possible.”
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