host: here is a question for you, byron dorgan. i watched the house of commons discussion -- guest: i have also indicated that bp is the responsible party. they have the least, were drilling the well, and contacted for it. there is a responsibility in other areas as well, but bp is the principal here. my understanding is that transition moved their headquarters to switzerland -- that transocean moved at headquarters to switzerland. the keep some people here, but the purpose of moving it overseas is to avoid paying u.s. taxes. in a meeting a week or so after the oil spill, the announced theeone to pay a substantial dividend. i do not think that transocean or bp ought to be paying a dividend. one should be available for what will be large costs necessary to be covered by both companies. host: here is a deadline. here is this question from the viewer -- what does the center feel about the continued blasting of bp by the president and democrats, and the effect on stock plans? guest: i do not think it is blasting to describe the respons

i have to then do something, nator dorgan will behe chairman, which he probably oughto be anyway, and we'll carry the hearing. th-- i want to just go on with what senator is saying. the tradeoff with the american people, we're going to put you to a certain amount of inconvience and that incoeniencis usually related tohe last incidentspposed to forward looking. but the tradeoff ise're going to do that, but in return we' going to ve you good service. and friendly service and fast service. especiallyast service. but thorou. e technology helps on that. i'een through a lot of been thumb prints and other things that simply aret being used. i wanteo go to what senator warner said aboutdulles airport. it's one of theost frustrating exences i've ever been through. when you walk a half a mile, then te a train for hal a mile to go up and down ove,ou know, various spaces and then you're reay confronted wi, like 15 or 20 different stations for people to go through and only two of them are manned, and it takes 45 minutes,hat's not the carrying out the bargain that youo for securitynd in fact it pro

coming up this hour, senator byron dorgan will discuss the bp involvement over the gulf oil spill. he serves on the energy and natural resources ommittee. after that, an update on the financial regulation bill. the house senate conference committee will try to work out differences today on the two versions of the bill. versions of the bill.

senator byron dorgan is retiring. what is the analysis for this race? guest: not a lot of attention paid to the north dakota raised because once senator byron dorgan announced he was stepping down and democrats did not put a strong candidate forward, it went almost into de facto republican column. the governor john hogan -- he is heavily favored to win the seat. democrats playing a lot of defense but this is not the place where they want to spend a whole lot of energy. instead, they are going -- wanting to be putting it into places that we talked about already. nevada, california, two of those states, as well as the many others that they have to defend. they've made the playing offense in place like kentucky or to ohio are missouri. but north dakota, not happening. host: anything surprise you? guest: arkansas was certainly everybody's biggest surprise. as i said, the iowa race, the fact that branstad cannot win in as large a margin was somewhat of a surprise -- did not win in as large a margin was so much a surprise. we got candidates out of the primary

. >> thank you, very much, senator dorgan for your kind comments. as i said at the outset of my opening remarks, there's a problem, we have to fix it, and we have to learn the lessons from it. the fact is, that when you think about over 40,000 wells drilled in the gulf of mexico, without this kind of a blowout, and some of those statistics senator alexander was mentioning earlier on. i think there was a sense of great safety and a complacency that needs tbe reexamined and that's exactly what we are doing ow. at the end of the day, looking ahead, my sense is,that we will have a new set of standards. standards will not do it alone. we secondly, nee to have enforcement. and with respect to both of those, you're going to have a beefed up agency, and you're going to need to have the right kind of leadership to make sure that those standards are the best standards achievable and thatten forcement actually occurs. >> it's very hard to gaze into the future. no one would have predicted what we are now facing. if you would transport yourself to december 1st,

to you and thank ambassador ryan crocker %+ >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," byron dorganl talk about the liability of bp over the oil spill. after that, we will talk to the head of the heritage foundation. and we will go over the new health-care law with neera tanden. "washington journal" is each morning at 7:00 on c-span. and general petraeus will talk about the security situation in afghanistan. the live coverage begins at 10:00 eastern. >> see what your member of congress has said. search the congressional chronicles. everywhere from every appearance on the house and senate floor since 1987. and for a snapshot of every member of the congress, the congressional directory, available at c-span.org/store. >> and now, david cameron on the military efforts in afghanistan. he broke he -- he spoke at the house of commons in london for about 5 minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i would like to

senator murray is next, senator dorgan, senator feinstein, senator specter and senator bennett. that is the list in order mr. chairman. >> mr. chairman, if we could have another engagement. i am happy to go after him on that list. >> i was going to recognize senator leahy. senator leahy. >> thank you. secretary, admiral mullen, always good to see you and incidentally i appreciate the fact that both of you have always been available for questions by myself and other members of the committee. let me ask you a little bit about afghanistan. we all want to see al qaeda and taliban defeated but i worry about our clear, achievable goals there. i supported 10 years ago now going into afghanistan. i did not support going into iraq because i saw it is no threat to the united states. secretary, you said last january we weren't trying to make afghanistan and central asia's ohio love that right now we have top officials in kabul did not have the confidence or respect to the afghan people and they seem to be making common cause of a lot of people we are fighting. we have committed so much, so

dorgan: madam president, i came today to the floor recognizing that we have white roses and a black drapeadorning the desk of the late senator robert c. byrd. i have told him personally in the past that when my service is done, i will have considered it a great privilege to have served in this body at the time when robert byrd served in this body. he was a lot of things. he was smart and tough and honest. because he legislated and because of his career here, this is a better country, i'm convinced, of that. all of us know that senator byrd grew old here and became someone with health problems in recent years. and yet, even last week, would come to this chamber and cast his vote. and in recent weeks i had several visits with him on the floor of the united states senate. all of us know as well that he loved his country. he, most of all, loved the united states senate. he wrote a two-volume book of history on this body, and i say to anybody listening, if they enjoy history and enjoy knowing anything about the wonderful history of this body, read what senator byrd has written. it is extraordi

senator murray is next, senator dorgan, senator feinstein, senator specter and senator bennett. that is the list in order mr. chairman. >> mr. chairman, if we could have another engagement. i am hpy to go after him on that list. >> i was going to recognize senator leahy. senator leahy. >> thank you. secretary, admiral mullen, always good to see you and incidentally i appreciate the fact that both of you have always been available for questions by myself and other members of the committee. let me ask you a little bit about afghanistan. we all want to see al qaeda and taliban defeated but i worry about our clear, achievable goals there. i supported 10 years agonow going into afghanistan. i did not support going into iraq because i saw it is no threat to the united states. secretary, you said last january we weren't trying to make afghanistan and central asia's ohio love that right now we have top officials in kal did not have the confidence or respect to thefghan people and they seem to be making common cause of a lot of people we are fighting. we have committed so much, so much m