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June 14, 2010

Obama Heads to Gulf for 4th Time Since BP Spill
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President Obama is heading to the Gulf of Mexico today on his fourth
visit to the region since the BP oil spill began on April 20th. On
Tuesday night, the President will give a rare prime-time address from
the White House to discuss his administration’s response to the crisis.
On Wednesday Obama will meet with BP executives. President Obama is
expected to push for the creation of a BP-funded escrow account that
will pay for damage claims to Gulf residents who lost jobs or income due
to the spill. Obama’s senior adviser David Axelrod appeared Sunday on
Meet the Press.

David Axelrod: "We want to make sure that money is escrowed for the
legitimate claims that are going to be made, and are being made, by
businesses down in the Gulf, people who have been damaged by this. And
we want to make sure that that money is independently administered so
that they won’t be slow walked on these claims. There are people there
who live from week to week and whose livelihoods have been taken away
from them here, and we want to make sure that they can get through
this."



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