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President Obama speaks to military personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola's Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, after his visit to the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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A vessel skims for oil near Queen Bess Island off the coast of Louisiana on Monday, June 14, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to affect areas across the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Derick E. Hingle)

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Rescuer workers find a body covered in mud at the site of a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in Pengta Town, Kangding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan province on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. The landslide occurred at a construction site of a hydroelectric dam early Tuesday morning after heavy rains, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It said 23 workers were killed and seven wounded when part of a mountain gave way and buried the site. Four workers managed to escape unharmed. (AP Photo)

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Rescuers work at the site of a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in Pengta Town, Kangding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan province on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. The landslide occurred at a construction site of a hydroelectric dam early Tuesday morning after heavy rains, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It said workers were killed and wounded when part of a mountain gave way and buried the site. Four workers managed to escape unharmed. (AP Photo)

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Chinese rescuers work to pull up a bus devoured by the flash floods in Nanping, in eastern China's Fujian province, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. At least 24 people are missing after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains engulfed two vehicles, according to state media. (AP Photo)

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A Chinese woman mourns a family member killed by flash floods in Nanping, in eastern China's Fujian Province, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Dozens of people are missing after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains engulfed two vehicles in Fujian, according to state media. (AP Photo)

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President Obama (center) steps off a ferry from Dauphin Island, Ala., to Fort Morgan, Ala., as he visits the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday, June 14, 2010. With the president are (from left) Gulf Shores, Ala., Mayor Robert Craft; Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier; Alabama Gov. Bob Riley; and U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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** FILE ** This June 6, 2010, file photo shows beachgoers as a tugboat works to lay boom in the Gulf of Mexico near Perdido Pass at Orange Beach, Ala. Thousands of tourists will be changing vacation plans this summer because of the Gulf oil spill. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, FILE)

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Bangladeshi army personnel clear the area after landslides struck in the southern coastal area of Cox's Bazar, 185 miles south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. The powerful landslides, triggered by heavy rains from a depression in the Bay of Bengal, killed at least 47 people. (AP Photo/Tofayel Ahmed)

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President Obama meets with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour regarding the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday, June 14, 2010, at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Gulfport, Miss. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama talks about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday, June 14, 2010, at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Gulfport, Miss. At the far end of the table are (from left) Carol M. Browner, White House climate and energy adviser; U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander; Mr. Obama; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour; Mr. Barbour's wife, Marsha; and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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An elderly survivor holds a poster of Warren Anderson, the head of Union Carbide Corp. at the time of the gas leak, as she waits for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India, on June 7, 2010. The court convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy that left an estimated 15,000 people dead more than a quarter century ago in the world's worst industrial disaster. (Associated Press)

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Mother Teresa comforts a young victim of the Bhopal, India, gas-leak disaster on Dec. 11, 1984. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

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At a Washington press conference Tuesday, former Beatle Paul McCartney declined to opine on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "I'm not a politician," he noted.

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From left, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division Ignacia Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division Tony West and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Don Burkhalter announce that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)

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Christopher Pulaski with the National Wildlife Federation examines oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. (AP)

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Associated Press photographs Workers shovel oil Monday from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., as the finger pointing continues over the continuing spillage.

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Coast Guard chief Adm. Thad W. Allen said he is "satisfied" with the coordination that's taking place between the government and BP.

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In this Dec. 11, 2008, file photo, Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Commission Chair, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, left, listens as Vice Chair, former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. President Barack Obama announced Saturday, May 22, 2010, that Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)