more on the oil spill with louisiana congressman bill cassidy. >> live on c-span "book tv." two days of interviews and call ins. get the entire schedule at booktv.org. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> 23 years ago president reagan spoke those words in berlin. watch the entire speech saturday on american history tv. now coast guard admiral latest update on the gulf oil spill. he gives a summary of the personnel involved in response, including national guard and volunteers and how the coast guard plans to bring additional resources into the area. this is about 25 minutes. >> good morning. welcome to today's briefing. admiral allen will give the daily update and we will take 10 minutes of questions from the floor. >> good morning. i thought i would review some of the basic numbers of the response and talk about some strategic issues regarding stemmers -- skimmers. i would be glad to answer any questions you have for me. just to summarize where we are, 25,000 are on the ground. this has become the largest oil spill response in history. we have over 1200 national guardsm

bill cassidy, psychologist, the specialty of tim murphy, ob-gyn, again the specialty of mike burgess and phil roe, orthopedic surgery, the specialty of my colleague from georgia, tom price, family practice, indeed house call medicine, the specialty of my colleague, again, from georgia, dr. paul broun. i could go on and on. these are members on our side of the aisle who are just begging, calling, writing letters to the white house, let us participate. let us -- we know, we know about that sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship. we know what rationing will do and the fear that our seniors have of being rationed because they're too old to have taxpayer dollars spent on their hip replacement. so you just say, no, take a couple ofed a vill and we'll buy you a -- of advil, we'll buy you a walker, maybe even a wheelchair, although that's debatable as well. and, mr. speaker, you know, to compound this problem, obamacare, now our president has named the new director of medicare, c.m.s., committee on medicare and medicaid services, there's now a new director, dr. donald bearwick. he may b

after that, more on the oil spill with representative bill cassidy. now, admiral allen gives an update on the oil spill. he gives a summary of the personnel involved, including contractors, coast guard, national guard and volunteers, and how the coast guard plans to bring additional resources to that area. this issabout 25 minutes. >> good morning. we will follow the standard format. admiral mullen will give the update and then we will take questions. len will give the update and then we will take questions. >> i am going to talk a little bit about the response and some of the skipper's, which have become increasingly important in that the response. just to summarize where we are at on this friday, about 25,000 people are on the ground down there. this has become the largest oil spill response in our nation's history. with over 1200 coastguardsman, 1400 national guardsmen, 3700 contractors, and hundreds of volunteers. -pan enormous amount of equipmet is in the area, most notably a 400 skimmer's oo duty around the gulf, 500 barges, 2500 government cont

cassidy. that is live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time on c-span. . . >> the house and senate have now both pass the house financial regulations bill. the house and senate met today to begin reconciling the two bills. is there is a vooing on the floorrof the house so we want to get under way and the acknowleddement and the recognition that the house side. we will begin the opening senate's on the house side -- opening statements on the house side and i will nominate chairman frank as the chairman of this conference and perceived the order we laid out for opening statements to be made pot of our colleagues, those of you who are interested in making statements. if the mistake at the outset that this is not a terribly common occurrence to have conference committees like this this conference committee is on -pc-span. this may be the first time we ever actually had a census -- a committee conference on c-span. the text of the base deborah will be considering over the coming weeks is on the website banking.sentate.gov. there is a side-by-side comparison of the two bills posted. you can certainly have a look at the bill and a side-by-side