The uncontrolled, environmentally and politically toxic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now lapping at the White House. "I'm angry and the people back in my state are very angry," Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, fresh back from home, said in a speech on the House floor Monday afternoon, in which he waved a photo of a dead pelican and a copy of the Oil Pollution Act mandating the president to "ensure the effective and immediate removal of discharge." Rep. Steve Scalise was photographed May 14 during a news conference at Fort Pike.Instead, he said, "the finger-pointer in chief" had been "ceding power to BP."
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