A protester wields a bottle filled with brown liquid during Tuesday's oil spill hearing on Capitol Hill. Protesters disrupt oil hearing

Capitol Police physically escorted two protestors from a hearing room after they appeared to be approaching a group oil executives who had just finished testifying.

It was unclear whether the protesters belonged to a particular organization, but one woman was wielding a bottle with dark liquid as she approached the oil executives who had spent the morning testifying about offshore drilling.


It was the only protest incident during an otherwise calm, 5-hour hearing. There was a heavy presence of police officers surrounding the room.