Salazar: MMS 'is no more'

[derby378]

Source: NECN/Comcast

The Mineral Management Service "is no more," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a Congressional subcommittee on Wednesday.

The hearing on the reorganization of the MMS involves a new configuration titled the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which will be headed by Michael Bromwich and Wilma Lewis, both former prosecutors. Their involvement is aimed at "attacking" the corruption issues of the former MMS.

"I am confident that with their leadership and with the support of this committee that we will be able see the day where the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management can have the standards and can have the enforcement to be able to do job that it needs to do," Secretary Salazar said.

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[JuniperLea]

1. Sounds like a good move to me...

Boy howdy! Obama has sure been busy!

[derby378]

2. Any prostitutes hired by MMS will be welcome at Sen. Vitter's office

P.S. - Bring a "Diaper Genie."

[JuniperLea]

4. BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

:rofl:

Oh, that is going to make me giggle all day!

[derby378]

5. You are so welcome!

:hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Excellent!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[gdebs]

16. J Donne

I love that quote.

[Soylent Brice]

13. i didn't laugh until i saw the "P.S.".

:rofl:

[Dappleganger]

22. That's a DUzy!

:evilgrin:

[xchrom]

3. Awesome! Nt

[juajen]

6. It's a shame this wasn't done much earlier, isn't it? NT

[saracat]

7. Funny how quick that Salazar was able to do this NOW but it was "impossible " earlier.

because these things take time. Hmmm.

[cascadiance]

21. Hmm... I wonder how "impossible" it would have been if RFK, Jr. were Secretary instead!

Though this is less his area, I have a feeling that perhaps at least the Massey mining disaster might have been avoided if he'd done some overhaul earlier on. He certainly has worked a lot on trying to clean up the coal mining industry over the years.

We're paying for having too many corporatists in the cabinet now I think...

[IOKIYAL]

23. Who said it was "impossible"?

[pscot]

25. This sounds like the Whitehouse is finally doing

what should have been done 18 months ago. There's no way Salazar selected a pair of prosecutors to run the agency. He was obviously told who to appoint.

[Mr. Sparkle]

8. Did they fire the MMS staff or did they come over to the new service.

For whatever reason I am under the impression that there was a lot of bush people still left in the mms. I hope they haven't been brought over.

[Gecko6400]

14. Doubtful as

many of them are probably Civil Service employees.

[jwirr]

17. That is my question also. We do not fix this mess with the booooosh

hires.

[IOKIYAL]

24. These are gov't workers - you can't fire them on the spot

there must be investigations and procedures followed so they won't claim discrimination, wrongful termination and all that.

[jwirr]

27. Even if the department is eliminated?

[cloudbase]

9. It would be nice if at least one

of the new heads had some knowledge of the industry. Have an attorney as inspector general to root out the corruption. That's about as bad as having a geologist run an oil company. Oh, wait. . .

[damntexdem]

11. Will policies change?

Will drillers still get free rides without real environmental studies?

[quakerboy]

19. I know where I would put my money, if I had any

[earcandle]

12. COOOLAAAAAAAABRAAA! Yea! Minerals management is really important to the health of all things!

[Dr.Phool]

15. Changed the name from "Chicken Ranch" to "Moonlight Bunny Ranch"

Now if we could change Salazar's name to "Former Secretary Kenny-boy".

[guitar man]

18. dammit

how the hell are we supposed to send pictures in texts now?

:silly:

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Good decision

[joe black]

26. so the wolf killer stays.

Very nice.