the massey $10.8 million in natural resources that required massey after the explosion paid the penalties in full. they conducted an internal review and released a report on march 6th and among the toughest in the nation and significant shortcomings in the roof control plans. the internal review also identified deficiencies in the adherence to answer policies and procedures, including deficiencies by previous internal reviews. the internal review revealed this was budget constraints and experienced staff which left district experienced deficits. this was particularly true with a roof control ventilation and other specialists. we should not lose sight of the challenges at ubb were created by an operator that intentionally enabled our ability to enforce it. the accident investigation team findings that massey caused the explosion. we have reviewed the internal review findings and implemented recommendations with reforms before ubd. we know more needs to be done. and a safe workplace for miners. our most effective enforcement tools are the inspections which began immediately after the disast

but the citations didn't change massey's conduct. in fact rather than fixing problems, montcoal's penalties for met with litigation, knott compliance. massey contested 92% of all penalties prior to the explosion. what is clear is that msha was no match for massey or any other operation where the corporate greed comes before the health and safety of the workers. today we recognized the entire system field of the miners at other big branch. passed congress shouldn't have slashed funding for the mine inspectors. msha needed to do a better job with the tools it had come and speak of the exploded msha's weaknesses and those in the law and hurt the workers. it should have been much stronger because that is what it takes when an operator has little or no regard for the workers. we are prepared to work with our colleagues to enact meaningful reform so that we can honor of a plea in the lives of the country's miners. the blood spilled by these miners must not be forgotten and we must protect all miners from the errors that led to the disaster

and this was an area into the parking lot of the massey upper big branch mine. the word used was hail storm when one inspector showed up. it took an hour and a half to get up to that spot and just before they got to that location, i think it was about 9:48 a.m., the company shut down and claimed that they had a problem. this is according to their records. it was so convenient for that to happen. the inspectors arrived at the area, hour and a half two hours after they showed up on the property and if mr. mace instructions that they used to get in the area that we're talking about it's not a large area. the question that everybody has to ask, did they spend three days or was there something done ahead of them? how these inspectors could have coal dust unless it was not to be seen. i don't know. when we get to the bottom of -- >> okay. let's talk about the internal review and it sounds like you're saying regardless of whether we had experienced or inexperienced inspectors, it might have been missed yet if they were there on the day of the explosion they would have

but these citations did not change massey's conduct. penalties were met with litigation, not compliance. at ubb, massey contested 92% of all penalties prior to the explosion. it is clear msha was no match for an operation where corporate greed came before the health and safety of their workers. today we recognize that the entire system failed the miners at the upper bay branch. past congresses should not have slashed funding for mine inspectors. inspectors needed to do a better job, and massey exploit the weaknesses in the law and hurt their workers. the law should have been much stronger. that is what it takes when there is little to no regard for workers. we are prepared to work with our colleagues to enact meaningful reform so we can honor of mr. long's please and the lives of our country's miners. the blood spilled must not be in vain, and it must not be forgotten. we must protect all miners from the errors that led to the ubb disaster. in closing, i want to welcome our witnesses that will be here today, as well as representative ra

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history is made barcelona's mean al massey becomes the first player ever to score five times in a single champion's league match as the spanish champions which double figures in knocking out by leverkusen up well nicosia come across cypriots to reach the quarter finals. ready to rumble fight night returns to moscow as we look ahead to a bleak night of kickboxing in the russian capital. and gold still or we recap only fifteen goals and this were exaction in the russian premier league as the season resumes after a winter break. but we start with an historic night in the u.a.e. the champions league where barcelona and up well they can see how booked their places in the quarterfinals their spanish side had double figures in their tie with but it is a good club by leverkusen but the night's as it so often does belong to les and el messi the argentine became the first player in champions league history to score five goals in a single game as the catalans pre-fire leverkusen seven one of the new camp to record a ten to aggregate victory it's the seventeenth patrick of his boss a career but his

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oil barons we can only imagine what our nation would be capable of if our coal and oil barons ed massey and exxon mobil and chevron were to put aside their thirst for more instant profits cut back on their lobbying for more and more subsidies and actually work with all of us to invest in the future of america since one of our national pride our desire to leave a better planet for our nation to arctic and nation city to our kids get replaced by the singular goal of maximizing profits for today's c e o's the really sad part of this is we had the jump on germany more than thirty years ago when president jimmy carter put solar panels on the white house and introduced a comprehensive energy plan to get america off its addiction to foreign oil and on to renewable energies here's what he told the nation in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. we simply missed. the move. but i reckon it's reaping resources. and i think the we can control the future instead of good in the future because we've always been proud of our leadership in the world and there we go which is again to give the world a

costs the costs of the global financial crisis as you correctly point out in the human sense he says massey in the financial sense we have central bank balance sheets which have gone from tripoli and i think about three trillion to fifteen trillion a five times about supply or in four years i mean basically we're running a soviet style economy in the west at the moment because i'm just hoping that the countries come up with five year plans because that's basically the idea of a kid they can run the economy and then they have the gall to say well actually you know it's still good but the point is they also never try to quantify one benefit and i actually with paul volcker here when focus at the. only financial innovation was the dam was the automatic teller machine and the way we going with currencies seen where you put your cut at the a.t.m. you were able to provide any money but you know i said that's a little blog i did to a few people who said to the economist one economist that if they had any decency to publish it in full do you think they're going to do that now but i mean if your poi

his team barcelona defeated them 7-1 and massey is a bad man. >> i'm sure he is. >> left, are right,e is that good. >> that is this edition of abc 7 news at 9:00. for larry beil and spencer christian i'm dan ashley.

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"the washington post" nfl writer mark massey was in studio earlier this afternoon to weigh in on thethey didn't over react in the sense that now if you're another team looking at this no one will ever do this again. and that was the intent here. the intent was to make sure this never happens again. and part of this also with the saints was not just what happened but the fact that the team was told, clean this up. fix it. take care of it. and that didn't happen. i think that certainly factored in greatly to the punishments of mickey loomis and sean payton the fact that when they were told fix this it wasn't fixed. >> here is the good news for the redskins. they are apparently in the clear right now although the nfl does have the option to come back and investigate it they choose to do so further. one thing we have learned is the nfl does not operate as a democracy. >> they are determined to protect their friend, the premiere family entertainment in the country and they are taking whatever measure is necessary don't you think? >> and they're protecting their product which is the player

look at a company like massey. the ceo was not able to hold onto his job. even mining companies ultimately care and -- about their reputations. if you put money into the electoral process, you had better expect it will be found out and you will pay. >> i am with hispanic link news service. i am fascinated on the green tie. in east l.a.ractice on to wear a green chile. we are interested in racial and ethnic diversity you have in this organization. >> the people behind represent the organizations i listed. we chose rep samples -- representative samples. we have local and state governments, grass-roots organizations. what is striking about the response is citizens united. in a country so divided in every way, this is something that unites us. it does not matter where your demographic background, people do not want money in politics. >> it would be helpful to me if we did see -- i would like to know any hispanic folks that are representing any groups and any persons of any color. >> we will give you an opportunity to meet everyone. we want to make sure we get t