Federal lawmakers returned to the Jersey Shore on Sunday to renew a pledge to fight offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.

Gathered on an unusually warm midwinter afternoon on the Asbury Park boardwalk and flanked by signs that read, "Kill the Drill Today" and "Marine Lives Matter," U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker and U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th) spoke out against the Obama Administration's plans to allow oil drilling off the coast of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.

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