JOHN CHAFEE
(John Lester Hubbard Chafee)
The Senator was announcing the introduction of a bill to ban all handguns.
When opposing the appropriations for the then new Hart Senate Office Building:
12 Years later, the BP Rig Deepwater Horizon failed and a huge amount of oil was released and polluted the Gulf of Mexico shores with the liability extending to many billions of dollars. Most of the members of Chafee’s own party wanted to seriously limit the liability of oil rig operators, but a few Republicans let by Chafee voting with the Democrats kept a high enough liability and BP and their subcontractors paid for most of the damage.
John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator.
