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The capping of the broken oil well comes as welcome news for those along the Gulf Coast, but people there are far from celebrating. At the posh MiLa restaurant in downtown New Orleans, oil has already changed the menu.

“Lately, we’ve been buying black bass from North Carolina, Alaskan Halibut, and oysters from Connecticut,” said Slade Rushing, chef and owner of MiLa.

Creeping crude has marred the perception of Louisiana seafood, but even with BP saying it has now covered the broken oil well, the comfort that follows is not without worry.

“We’re all just kind of walking on egg shells and keeping our fingers crossed,” said Rushing. “We’ll see.”

Along parts of coastal Louisiana, the reality is the fear and frustration has not stopped even though the gushing oil has. The problems are still flowing.

“We might be out of business five, maybe 10 years,” said Belle Bundy, owner of a seafood loading dock in Lafitte.

At a meeting aimed at comforting residents about a new independent claims process, many filtered out of the Lafitte Convention Center with more concerns than when they arrived, Raymond Griffin among them.

“The oil is still out there, it hasn’t magically disappeared just because they put a cap on it,” said Griffin. “We wish it would, it hasn’t.”

We first met Griffin in early June. Oil turned his charter fishing business into a bust and his lodge a ghost town.

“We don’t know if we’re ever going to open back up,” said an emotional Griffin on June 3. “I mean how tough is that?”

Now he’s waging yet another battle: BP’s claims process. For two months of lost work, he says he showed BP piles of paperwork proving a shortfall of about $120,000. The oil company, he says, offered him $24,000.

“My health insurance is $3,000 a month, my wife’s chemo medicine is $900 month,” said Griffin. “My apartment complex…that we own, where our people stay is $3,000 month, our utilities is $2,000 for our fishing lodge, plus our taxes and flood insurance and other things, so it doesn’t add up.”

As residents head home from the claims meeting in Lafitte, cleanup crews down the road prepare for the night shift. Pristine white boom lay ready to be deployed, ready to soak up the crude. The scene is somber, but now routine.

“The oil is still going to move with winds, the tides, and the currents,” said Dr. LuAnn White, a toxicologist at Tulane University. “So it’s likely we’ll still see oil coming on shore for a period of time.”

Despite the cap in the Gulf, few things have changed along the Louisiana coast and likely won’t for awhile. From the docks of Lafitte to the kitchens of New Orleans, there is now a new normal, one that’s still hard to swallow.

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Congressman Brian Bilbray, representing the 50th Congressional District of California and Chair of the Immigration Reform Caucus, delivers a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives warning that the health care bill pushed by leadership in the House, as well as President Obama, will allow illegal immigrants to get health care at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.

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The morning after the House passed the health care reform bill 220-215, CNN interviews one of the Congressmen who voted for the bill, Anh “Joseph” Cao from Louisiana – the only Republican to vote “yes” for the bill. Cao claims it was “a decision of conscience… to support the health care reform bill… it was the right decision for the people of my district.”

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President Obama calls for the House and Senate to vote on health care reform and says he will do everything in his power to make the case for reform. March 3, 2010.

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Be sure to watch my other video:
Being The Change

This video is my reaction to the Healthcare “reform” bill. In particular, it represents a letter I sent to Democrat Betty Sutton.

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U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch is laying out his reasons for voting against the recently-passed U.S. health care reform bill and some of his constituents are questioning the money spent on a mailer to do it.

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Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-31) held a media briefing on the local impact of health care reform in Los Angeles on April 6, 2010 at Arroyo Vista Family Health Center in Lincoln Heights.

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more at foxnews.com

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Jackie & Dunlap’s health care summit analysis.

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