worst oil spill in our history. so what we have done is to put in place common sense standards that we have approved more than 35 new offshore drilling permits. >> reporter: again, that's true, but the obama administration has only issued one permit for deepwater drilling since lifting its moratorium on the activity and that permit granted two weeks ago was to resume existing project. the three dozen permits that mr. obama referred to are almost all for shallow water drilling which experts say will only account for 10% of the future oil discoveries. senate democrat from the gulf region voiced her frustration of the policy to interior secretary at a hearing last week. >> what are you specifically pointing to get the permits increase so our people can get back to work? >> the president repeatedly said the u.s. controls over 2% of the world's oil but the industry analyst pointed to a report by the congressional research center that sites recoverable oil in the u.s. to say we control 17% of the world's oil