April 20, 2011 – U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio today issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, in addition to calling for the Senate’s Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship to have a field hearing in Pensacola regarding the recovery effort:
“Last year’s tragedy was an extraordinary disaster that continues to hurt the Gulf Coast economy and livelihoods of its residents. Over the past year, some Floridians have been able to bounce back, but many business owners and employees throughout the region have struggled to regain their footing, particularly in the tourism and fishing industries. Many small businesses have had to lay off workers, while others have sadly had to close their operations entirely. To add insult to injury, far too many of these entrepreneurial, hard-working Floridians are still waiting for the financial restitution promised to them. They deserve better.
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