The Hill:

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) on Monday returned political fire at a trio of senior Democrats who don’t want coastal states to receive a guaranteed share of the revenues from oil-and-gas production in federal waters off their shores.
Opponents of linking expanded offshore drilling to state revenue sharing fear depriving federal coffers of billions of dollars in lease bids and royalties.
But Landrieu said that unless coastal states can share the money from expanded development to address the impacts, drilling in new areas won’t happen anyway. “If there’s no drilling, the interior states get no money,” she told reporters in the Capitol. “And there is not going to be any drilling unless there is revenue sharing.”
“They [interior states] can have 100 percent of zero, or they can have 65 to 75 percent of something huge. Now let them go figure it out,” she added.