mr. coleman's reaction that tofertse make things right to mr. gordon's family would lead to impairment of the contract that b.p. has with the united states government and we should not address it for that reason? >> well, like i said, i anticipate that all the companies involved and responsible for gordon's death are more than happy. i heard they made a grant of $500,000 to l.s.u. to mitigation efforts. i'm sure there are' more than willing to pay what they're obligated to pay under the law to the families. as far as everything else i don't really have much to comment. i have personal thoughts, but, you know, that's generally how i look at it that they want to pay what they're obligated to pay under the law. it's almost like they're strained from doing any more and hiding behind that. >> well, i appreciate that. senator feingold. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for holding this hearing. i want to thank the witnesses for joining us. mr. jones, i want to express my most sincere condolences to you and familiarityly on the tragic loss of your brother. t

mr. coleman said they couldn't make the liability. help but think, sometime ifs you have the a smaller company, nay have a different role to play. maybe they're doing things less risky. in the end it seems inconsistent to allow companies to extern tliz risk of an oil spill and pass it off to society. do you want to comment on the size issue? >> i think you're right. i think the key issue is not size but safety. whether large or small, the entity is unable to adequately and efficiently invest in safety, we want to deter those operations. because we want to have a sufficient safe world. we have expectations about risk. and we want those expectations to be consistent with fairness. i think the size issue goes hand in hand with the safety issue. >> mr. coleman, do you want to respond? >> yes, i would, senator. thank you. you know, with all due respect, all these things, the world is filled with risk. if we just stop doing things that have risk to them, then we won't do much. there are many industries and many activities in the commercial

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