A worker on the drilling floor is seen from the window of the drilling cage as the drilling pipe is removed on the Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Workers remove the drill pipe on the drilling floor of Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
St. Bernard Fire Chief Tommy Stone places a firefighter helmet in a "Katrina casket " during an Ecumenical funeral service for Hurricane Katrina at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Chalmette, La., one day before the fifth anniversary of the storm, which took over 1,000 lives and devastated the region, Saturday,Aug. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
FILE - In a Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 photo, shrimpers haul in their catch in Bastian Bay, near Empire, La., on the first day of shrimping season since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Scientists released a report Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 that says an invisible plume of oil lies more than a half mile beneath the sea's surface off the coast of Louisiana, within 20 miles of the BP well. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
A bird is seen flying along the empty shoreline after a storm in Grand Isle, La., Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The beach in Grand Isle reopened to the public today for the first time since they were closed in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Photo by Gerald Herbert for The Washington Times
FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 file photo, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, arrive at a State Dinner hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
NFL football commissioner Roger Goodell speaks at a media conference at the New Orleans Saints training facility in Metairie, La., Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
