director bromwich has agreed to take questions.we have a couple simple rule since we have a large cloud. wait for a microphone indemnify yourselves if you can pose your question from the question that that would be greatly appreciated. so why do we start. melissa, will start in the center and work her way across. >> genesee delay with the "houston chronicle." director can imagine to react to that industry to the postal rules. of course one of the reaction of challenging the pace of permitting because some of the permit of issue in that case had been issued at the point and i'm hoping you can give us an update on where that stands. >> that's a good question. litigation continues to be pursued and i will marginally violate the rules that i'm not supposed to, not litigation. and that's the enablers from the interior department so i'll talk for a minute. the litigation was designed to get courts intervention to process to issue permits rapidly. a troubling suggestion there be an incursion an executive with doherty when they are eligibl

it is my pleasure to have director bromwich here today.s, and we are taking bets on whether we would be in the first or second quarter before activity got started again. now permits are being let. the safety institute is being proposed. bsee is up and running. there is a lot more work to do and we think that this will be a work in progress. and that is a good thing. this is an evolution, a one time event that you need to react to, but hopefully if you get things better, they will not occur again or you can minimize the danger. director bromwich, for those of you who do not know, as a distinguished career in the public and private sector. it was on the litigation team, a former inspector general for the department of justice, and in june of last year he was sworn into his new job as director of the bureau of ocean energy management regulation and enforcement. i got the right this time. since we have a full agenda, which is in german, it is my pleasure to give you michael bromwich. [applause] >> thank you very much, frank. good morning. [ina

in hand at chelsea's title defense to take huge dent for the one one draw at stoke elsewhere west bromwich liverpool for the first time in thirty years to one of the stores burning and about the same scoreline elsewhere. with aston villa while newcastle thrash wolves for one on top of the champions league ambitions were blunted a bit the goldrush drop box and wigan managed to city's walky piled up all i'm fine with champions league start play sunderland later today i'm full of blackpool. another football use the amazing home record of manager josie marino has come to an end i joined his nine year coaching career this size have never lost in the stadium and that ran that spanned a hundred and fifty games at porto chelsea and current club but the spanish giants lost at the last night splitting the on inflicting rios first home defeat for nearly a decade with a one nil victory after which he said as if i had been lucky reale trail leaders pass a line by five points. twice talking about you live could reach the get go in cup final today if they beat metallurgical course in the last ball playof

and she stay in the fixtures today they probably eleven points behind the league leaders and west bromwich albion the other games taking place in the league today will have a bearing on who gets relegated sunderland travel to birmingham blackpool welcome wigan athletic and everton host back to our west aston villa second place arsenal in action against liverpool tomorrow with a chance of closing the gap on united to four points. distance from united and you can. be. sure of course it promises to be. as well new from fifteen. it promises to be. interesting. and funny things are heating up in spain still it is the el classico tonight but for me our great barcelona a male coach josie marie has added spice to be it by refusing to say anything at a press conference basso could go eleven points clear with six games left with the victory but renia refused to speak to the media head of the gang that prompted journalists to walk out of the press conference in protest instead wearing years assistant i thought i don't care spoke and said bahraini i did not want his words blown out of proportion at to

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michael bromwich has a distinguished career in the public and private sector. he has been a former inspector general at the department of justice and in june of last year, he was sworn into his new job as director of the bureau of the ocean energy management regulation and enforcement. since we have a full agenda, it is my pleasure to give you michael bromwich [applause] . >> thank you very much and good morning. thank you for inviting me back to speak about the future of offshore oil and gas development in the u.s.. when i was here three months ago to participate in this same series, the national commission on the deepwater horizon had just issued its final report. it was a time when no new permits had been approved since deepwater horizon. most of the questions here and elsewhere involved whether and when deepwater drilling would resume. much has happened since then. we have further a elaborated and implemented rules and regulations that enhance drilling and workplace safety. in addition, unlike one year ago, when we watched in agony as bp attempted to mainta

director bromwich has a distinguished career both in the public and private sector. he was on the litigation team at freed, frank and mayor brown and plat, a former inspector general of the department of justice and in june sworn in the director of the bureau of ocean energy management and regulation enforcement. i got that right this time. since we have a full agen it's my pleasure to give you michael bromwich. [ applause ] >> thanks very much, frank, and good morning. is that better? more. is that better? okay. okay. thanks for inviting me back to csis to speak about the future of offshore oil and gas development in the u.s. when i was here three months ago in mid-january to participate in the me gulf oil series, the national commission on the deepwater horizon oil spill in offshore drilling, the president's commission had just issued its final report. it was a time when no new deepwater exploratory or development drilling permits had been approved since deepwater horizon. most of the questions here and elsewhere a that time involved whether and when deepwater dril

. >-- bromwich. >> on "washington journal," we will be joined by john fund. the executive director of the center for community change, deepak bhargava will focus on president obama support from his democratic base. our series on the recommendation of the national commission on fiscal responsibility and reform continues with a look at health care savings. our guest is marilyn werber serafini a special correspondent with kaiser health news. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. a couple of live events to tell you about some more. president obama holds a town hall-style meeting on his deficit-reduction plans. he will be at the northern virginia community college at and then dealt at 10:15 a.m. eastern. then the press club debate on energy policy between ted turner and t. boone pickens, founder of easy capital. turner is expected to discuss his solar projects in new mexico and atlanta. pickens will outline his plan to promote alternate energy sources such as wind, solar power, and natural gas. the interior department advisory comm

with that, i'll turn it over to michael bromwich. >> thank you very much, secretary salazar, and thankou for joining us. it's great to be here at the inaugural meeting of this committee, and i want to join the secretary in again thanking you for serving on this committee and look forward to the terrific work i'm sure you're going to be doing in the future with us. with the anniversary of the deepwater horizon blowout just two days away, we're reminded how critically important it is for us to bring together the broad experience and the best minds to help us examine some of the problems that secretary salazar just mentioned, and to make progress on issues of drilling in workplace safety on containment and on spill response. as he suggested, we're in a much different and much better place than we were a year ago, but we want to be in an even better place still as we push forward three months in the future, six months in the future, a year in the future. i think in the aftermath of deepwater horizon, people have begun to realize the importance of bringing together a group such as this so w

as michael bromwich noted, i spent some years in the nuclear weapons regime, lawrence livermore national lab. the industry associations for the nuclear power industry formed after three mile island a separate safety-oriented organization called npo, the institute for nuclear power operated is, that only the safety and -- that only the safety and safety inspections of nuclear power plants, which is quite effective peer review. peer pressure, the industry is at the cutting edge of technology, and the industry needs to focus a lot more on safety. one of the things i was quite if you look at, the r and d that the industry has put into deepwater drilling , it is incredibly impressive. it is not that much different from going into space. however, if you look at the r and d that the industry has actually put into either safety or cleanup, it is less than 1% of the r and d that they have put into drilling. this needs to change. we do need to drill safely for both the people on the rigs, the people who are affected by ecological disasters, in our environment. we also need to cooperate internation

as michael bromwich noted, i spent some years in the nuclear weapons regime, lawrence livermore national lab. the industry associations for the nuclear power industry formed after three mile island a separate safety-oriented organization called npo, the institute for nuclear power operated is, that only the safety and -- that only the safety and safety inspections of nuclear power plants, which is quite effective peer review. peer pressure, the industry is at the cutting edge of technology, and the industry needs to focus a lot more on safety. one of the things i was quite if you look at, the r and d that the industry has put into deepwater drilling , it is incredibly impressive. it is not that much different from going into space. however, if you look at the r and d that the industry has actually put into either safety or cleanup, it is less than 1% of the r and d that they have put into drilling. this needs to change. we do need to drill safely for both the people on the rigs, the people who are affected by ecological disasters, in our environment. we also need to cooperate internation

they had a show with bromwich on theire. he talked about what they were doing.t sounded like lip service to me. and this is abysmal what is happening. like you said, no one has been brought to justice on this. it is the worst disaster that one can imagine and to add insult to injury, what is going on in libya right now, it is terrible. host: for our viewers who are now watching, this morning let me show you what michael bromwich, the director for the bureau of ocean energy management regulation and enforcement on future drilling procedures. he was at an event in washington yesterday. >> unlike year ago, when we watched in agony as bp tried to improvise a response to the macondo well, they must have the ability to shut down the blowout and capture oil flowing from a wild well. that is a huge advance. host: the gulf of oil -- the bulk of mexico oil spill one year later. gulf coast residents dial in the first number. all others, called the second number. we would really like to hear from you. gulf coast residents, what is a white today. as the oil on the speeches,

i'm going to introduce michael bromwich, and i just want to comment on that. for me, it was an enormous experience about the first week or two in may, and it went through the entire summer into september, and you get to know people, and you get to know people, how people think, and certainly like in the case of steve when you talk to people at midnight and wondering what's going to happen at six o'clock in the morning, you reach conclusions about what people really intend to do and what their competence and intents are, but mike represents an organization that really, in my view, had some enormously dedicated people. those people were dedicated at that time. we're going to hear from some today. they are dedicated now, and i think in the aftermath what i observed with my interaction with them they believe deeply the role of the federal government can be impactful in response to energy development, and one is for oversight from the government. in large part, this community will spend time trying to help them out and encourage and support them. i wanted to commen

. >> thank you very much, director bromwich, and chairman hunter, and brad, for your leadership of this committee and i am looking for to the results. the men make several points. the first is, last night i read each and every one of your bios in your resonates. -- and your resumes. i have to say it is one of the most outstanding groups of scientists and experts that have ever been assembled in the united states to deal with the issues of oil and gas drilling. for every one of you, i know what your responsibilities are within your companies in the ngo community is within government, and i want to say thank you for being very much a part of this effort. to dr. tom hunter, he and i and some of you in this room lived through the deepwater horizon natural crisis -- national crisis for our country. he reminded us the other day at the international containment forum, for 140 days, we're on the phone almost every single days. i remember on a plane trip, flying down to houston in those early days, for the deepwater horizon explosion, and he was drawing different diagrams for me on the plan on h