>> obviously i agree with senator landrieu is saying. but the thing right now is, is that it is very important people remember this -- both the situation in katrina and new orleans and st. bernard parish and situation in the gulf not anything natural about them. they were engineering failures and massive engineering failures. there is nothing, a drilling rig operated properly with proper procedures can be a very safe thing. it had been done a lot. when you had a situation like you had here and you didn't have proper regulation and there wasn't a wall of separation, separation between the regulator and the regulated, this kind of thing happens. and i think we have got, we have got to tighten down on that. but we can tighten down and get it running up again. >> larry: senator, can you comment on the president's selection of michael bromwich served as justice department inspector general. he is going to revamp, minerals management and regulate offshore drilling. what do you think? >> we need somebody to clean up minerals management. ken sal

and perhaps even what we did, senator landrieu, during the war. we had local funds for the local commanders on the ground. perhaps we need to set up somethiig like that so that youu guys don't have to go to thad allen or to the president to get some of these things. it sounds like you have a lot of the solutions that could prevent a lot of this stuff from happening. >> thank you. senator landrieu? >> i will follow up oo that point because that is where i wanted to jump off. obviously i don't think any of us need any more derek testimony about the contracting process being absolutely broken. we saw this. we've seen it before. we saw it after the catastrophic katrina. we are operating under a different law, but some of the same principles. we are seeing them raise their ugly head again, which is the people that are on the ground either up to their chin in water or up to their knees in oil in this case, don't seem to have the resources or authority to gettthe job done. mr. chairman and ranking member, i can't tell you how who are this particular subc

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i agree with senator landrieu, even the temporary pause button will hurt the economy at a time we're dealing with 9.7% unemployment. >> lehrer : what is your view on the moratorium? >> first of all, distinguish between the deep-water drilling exploratory and the shallow. and the president has said keep doing the shallow, 500 feet or less. deep water, we sure better know what went wrong before we continue to do this because we sure don't want to have another one of these things go off and filt gulf up all the more. and so that's why there's this investigation. my former colleague from florida senator bob graham, is the cochairman of this. we need to know what went wrong and what we do about it so it won't happen again before we allow those exploratory wells to go deep. now, the production wells, they can keep going. we're talking about exploratory wells. >> lehrer: you're talking about the wells already in production, leave them alone, no pause, no stopping. >> there's not the drilling in those. those are already done. >> lehrer: all right, senator barrasso, where do you come down on

>> i don't think senator landrieu was there. i know that governor jindal and senator vitter were there. he is and have to wait six months for them to come to him. as they look to these issues, it is looking at them sequentially to figure out a regulatory structure that works for deepwater drilling. that does not have to wait six months. obviously, we are looking at a number of ways to ensure their economic livelihood. i would not be surprised if you had people in some of these parishes and have kids that work on rigs and ids that fish in the sameefamily. 37% of the gulf is closed to fishing because of an accident involving a deep water drilling operation. the president, while understanding of the economic cost of pausing those ongoing drilling permits, while understandinn of that, he believes we ought to have a sense of what happened and insurer the regulatory structure ww have in place going forward insurers their protection. as you said, you cannot tell me we can't trust bp on any of this, but we're going to ake their word for

we worked hard to get that done with senator landrieu, senator baucus, small business and finance. we'll have a vote on monday. again, it's being blocked by the republicans. blocking from us even going to it. so we'll need 60 votes monday to allow us to debate whether or not this country needs small businesses to create jobs. we should be on that bill today so people can start offering amendments and do something productive. no, what will happen on monday, they'll probably vote for it and then they will get the 30 hours to sit around and look at each other and do nothing, that's what the rules of the senate allow. so they accomplished more of their wasting time to prevent the obama administration and the rest of us from accomplishing something good for the country. but we're going to continue to try. we have to do that in spite of the obstructionism of the republicans. would the c is treated by amer'e company.e c is treated by amer'e on thursday, the house committee heard from several bank executives about what they're doing to lower the foreclosure rate. this to our 20 minute meet

host: senator mary landrieu was on our program last week defending oil drilling in general.he talked about the issue and whether or not we should continue drilling oil. if it should be in the shallow or water or the deeper water. we want to show you a little bit of that and then come back to talk about it. >> i hope to the american people understand the difference between deep water drilling and shallow water drilling. when you have drilling in 1,000 feet or less of water, the blowout preventer is on the surface. the structure that causes so much trouble is not beneath the surface, it is on top of the surface and it can be manually controlled. we are trying to control this one with robots. there is a great diiference. i hope that the president will help the american people understand the differences in drilling because we should not and cannot shut down drilling operations in shallow water of the gulf " -- gulf coast. it will put thousands of people out of work and it will start having a serious impact on the overall economy that depends on the oil and gas in many ways. host

more of that command and control needs to happen, perhaps even like what we did senator landrieu during the war. we had a local troops helping local commanders on the ground. perhaps we neee to set up something like that so that you guys do not have to go have the president come down to get some of these things done. it sounds like you have a lot of solutions that could prevent a lot of this stuff from happening. >> i will follow up on that point, because that is where i wanttd to jump off. i do not think we need any more testimony about the contract in process being absolutely broken. we saw this. we have seen it before. we saw it after the catastrophic katrina. we are operating under a different law with some of the same principles raising their ugly head again. the people that are on the ground either up to their chin in the water, or up to their knees in oil in this case, do not seem to have the resources or authority to get the job done. mr. chairman, ranking member, i cannot tell you how important this partiiular subcommittee is, which is hy i argued to form it, to staff it, becau

the guest on "meet the press" include the mississippi republican governor, mary landrieu, massachusetts democratic governor ed markey, kenneth feinberg, the independent administrator of the bp escrow fund and a former shell oil president. on abc's "this week," jake tapper will talk with rahm emanuel. on "face the nation, got you will hear a louisiana congressman and senator richard shelby. you'll hear the florida democratic senator and the california democrat barbara boxer. on cnn's they will have dianne feinstein and the alaska and senator and a connecticut independent joseph lieberman. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk show starting at noon eastern on cspan radio on90.1 fm. we are on the web at cspan radio.org and you can follows on facebook or twitter. >> he was a volatile, emotional, very complicated kind of the press of young man. he was very adventuress. when he was in america, he was 25. >> take a new look at alexis de top fell and his 1831 tour of america. abroad -- alexis de tocqueville and his 1831 tour america. fcc commissioner robert mcdowell talks about

more of that command and control happen perhaps even like what we did senator landrieu during the war. we had a local troops helping local commanders on the ground. perhaps we neee to set up something li that so that you go have theve to president come down to get some things done. it sounds like you have a lot of solutions that could prevent a lot of this stuff from happening. >> i will follow up on that because tt is wheri o jump off. i do not think weeed any more testimony about the contract in process being absolutely broken. w this. seen it before. weaw it aer the catastrophic kaina. we are operating under a law with some of the same principle raising their again.ad the people that are on the ground either up to their chin in the water, or up to their knees in oil in this case, do not seem to have the resources authority to get the job done. mr. chairman,ranking member, i tell you how important this partiiular bcomttee is, hy i argued to form it, to staff it, because i fired so time we might need again. well, we ne it now. this subcommittee of homeland is focused on givg governme

senator mary landrieu has pushed the federal government to give us 40% of those revenues now.oing forward is in louisiana, what we have done, as soon as there was an opportunity for us to be able to get our portion of offshore revenues, immediately we dedicated coast to coast a restoration, to the restoration of the barrier islands and the wetlands. this was immediately after katrina. any money derived from minerals and royalties from the federal government on the drilling of a federal lands, offshore, immediately goes into rebuilding what has been lost because of salt water intrusion and the offshore drilling, the pipelines that have been cut for our marshes and wetlands and barrier islands and of course, the army corps of engineers is trying to harness the mississippi river in terms of navigation that would stop nutrients that each spring would feed the wetlands so they can be viable again. we put our money where our mouth is. any money derived from offshore royalties from drilling in federal waters originally would go into rebuilding our wetlands and the barrier islands. ri

we worked hard to get that done with senator landrieu, senator baucus, small busines and finance. we'll have a vote on monday. again, it's being blocked by the republicans. blocking from us even going to it. so we'll need 60 votes monday to allow us to debate whether or not this country needs small businesses to create jobs. we should be on that bill today so people can start offering amendments and do something productive. no, what will happen on monday, they'll probably vote for it and then they will get the 30 hours to sit around and look at each other and do nothing, that's what the rules of the senate allow. so they accomplished more of their wasting time to prevent the obama administration and the rest of us from accomplishing something good for the country. but we're going to continue to try. we have to do that in spite of the obstructionism of the republicans. would the chair annou >> this weekend, alex heard retells of the 1945 death penalty trial of willie mcgee. afterward, he spent 25 days in a dark cell after being captured by taliban fighters. sarah allison within ins

c-span recently spent an afternoon with senator mary landrieu as she assessed response to the gulf coast oil spill. over the next half-hour we will take you through the area of jefferson parish, louisiana, where she observed the operations taking place to deal with the ongoing oil leak. >> what are they paying? [inaudible] different for different amounts. but is it adequate for you? are you getting any negative effects from the fumes? are you putting down booms or transporting things? it is a big job ahead of us. [inaudible] we told bp today that they're going to pay people one year in advance. so, they have to show last year that they had operation growth. bp is going to have to do it on their own reputation because of they do not do as well they will not work anywhere else in the world. no other country will have them. >> these people cannot wait for litigation. >> exactly. we need to streamline the claims process. they are going to do an automatic send out of separate checks. $3,100 is the average. ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. they are overpaying some people and under-paying others