Press Briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 8/3/2010

See below for an answer to a question(marked with an asterisk) posed in the briefing that required follow up.

*To date we have billed BP and other responsible parties $222 million for response and cleanup activities. The next bill should be delivered next week and we will continue billing them until all the costs are covered.

12:42 P.M. EDT

     MR. GIBBS:  Wow, look at this, Sunday best, everybody in their new seats.  Church is full today, that’s good to see.  Ms. Ryan, you’re going to ask that gentlemen in front of you to sit down a little bit because he’s — (laughter) — he’s a little on the tall side, Ms. Ryan.  I’m just saying that it’s –

     Q    I’m vertically challenged.

     Q    She’ll put a phone book in her seat.

     Q    Oh, come on now.

     MR. GIBBS:  There’s a gizmo up here if you want to use that.

     Q    A booster seat?

     Q    Seriously.

     MR. GIBBS:  But seriously?  Is that — are you trying to bring us down a little bit here? 

     Q    What’s the big deal about all this?

     MR. GIBBS:  Brother, you’re asking the wrong guy. 

Take us back to seriousness.

     Q    In the Gulf, obviously the static kill procedure, trying to move forward with that.  And I know you’ve said before that the President gets updated daily, I think