. >> thankou >> brown: next, an "election 2010" story. it comes from pennsylvania, where, next tuesday, democrats will choose a nominee to run for the u.s. senate in november. judy woodruff has our report. >> woodruff: in the city of brotherly love, it's the time of year when loyal phillies fans head to the parkad on-- or have their hearts broken by but a suddenly competitive political contest in this state has stirred up strong views about more than baseball this spring. >> specter, i think, is a liberal republican, but very far away from what i believe in, and i haven't liked him since the anita hill hearings. >> he's done a lot for pennsylvania; i think he can do a lot more. >> woodruff: those very different opinions are about one man, arlen specter. for going on 30 years, he has represented pennsylvania in the united states senate, all but one of them as a republican. >> we've got our game plan. >> woodruff: now, he's in an unexpected race for his political life in a democratic primary. >> nice to see you guys. >> woodruff: unlike mos

. >> thankou, madam chairman. normally, america bounces back quickly. it is not happening this time. we do not have a v-shaped recovery. it is a very gradual recovery. it is a third as low as that 1981 and 1982 recovery. i'm convinced it is partly because businesses do not have the confidence to make investments. there are anxious to get back onheir feet. -- they are anxious to get back on their feet. i know wlike to be our chests and proclaim our programs that have spurred the economy. when i run our programs passed a small businesses in southeast texas, they say the gimmicks to not work, the smallnducements -- i will not bring on workers until i see the customers and clients. retail is moving a little, but not much. it added 12,000 jobs last month. there are 15 million people unemployed. is just a bit to eat. -- it is just a blip on the screen. people are ccerned about their own jobs and by the financial crisis here in america. with our budget, there are very concerned. everll shows that americans are increasingly concerned that this runawaypending, t

. >> thankou. mr. perrelli, walk throh the statute that provis liability coverage. it has some good things in it. i believe that it can be improved, and i have offered legislation to do that. with regard to the damages on cleanup, the cost of all of the cleanup, is there any question that the responsible party, in this case b.p. is responsible, are the cleanup costs, the marshes, the beaches, and that kind of thing? >> there is no doubt, senator, that they are responsible for all of the cleanup costs. >> the 7 $5 million category -- $75 million category, is this aulos that fishermen or shrimpers' may have -- is this a loss that fishermen or shrimpers may have? what is capped under this bill? >> the $75 million cap applies to, if it applies, as we talked before, there are many situations where it would not, but it applies to a wide range of damages, and that includes the kind of economic damages that you're discussing, the cost of public services that may be required in response to disasters such as this, as well as damage to natural resources, the impact once oil is

. >> thankou mr. chairman. mr. bolden, as you know a lot of our concerns are about the capability ofhe commerci sector to do what we are asking them to do on-time, on budget but essentially all our eggs in that basket. it was reported to me that in the conference call with . armstrong, and captain cernan last week i think he referred to the call itself, for a couple of hours. you told them that you would quote, do whatever it would take ," mack to make commercial work including quote, bailing them out, even if that would mean a bigger bailout ben chrysler and gm blasco what did you mean by that? >> i'm not sure i said that senator. i'm not sure what-- who was in the room but as i have always said i will do everything in my power to facilitate the success of the commercial entities in access to orbit. i have to have that. the defense has to have it and our intelligence community has to have it work of the budget today does not allow me to continue to build and operate in lower orbit if i want to go explore. the cont

. >> well, thankou. there are other issues that we want to talk about as well with you, particurly in the area of the detention of prisoners. and you very rightfully brought forward that when we have the responsibility of holding people in incarcerated situation, the issue of violence against prisoners and then concurrently also violence against prison officers, are deey troubling. we're going to ask my staff to talk with you in more detail about that tn today. but you know, i want to ask a question where it sounds like senator mikulski meets senator coburn. onof the areas where we absolutely agree is where the federal government provides funds, but we end up in conferences where it's 66 bucks per person to provide bagels and i was at a community fair and there was something that someone gave me a little plastic shopping bag with the name of a agency, not a federal agency head, and said here, enjoy it, you paid for it. well, that's not what i go to my taxpayers to ask them to do. there are aot of -- and

caller: thankou for taking my call. why did you give up so easily when you have the international community behind you? why did you give him the opportunity? my next question is, why are you waiting for the international community to solve your differences? we are spending lots of american dollars and soldiers. when are you going to say enough is enough and this is our problem? host: you can take those points in either order. guest: on the first part of the question, i could have taken it to any step that you would have wished, but that would have led to further instability and csis, perhaps beyond recovery. that was not my undertaking at the time. there was no point in risking the lives of the people who were providing security for the elections, so that was the basis of my decision at that time. in terms of the country, of course, yes it sounds like the are asking the international community to take all the problems in the country. that is not the case. it is international terrorism. afghanistan was turned into the ca