We will be forced to austerity. It will be pledged upon us. We ought to be doing that now before that happens rather than when somebody else is telling us what we are going to do. Thank you. Coming up next, attorney general holder releases the details of the 4. 5 billion in the bp oil sediment. Ed markey reacted to the settlement with bp. That is followed up by president obama touring a Hurricane Sandy damage in new york. In 2010, the deep water rights and rid explosion was the worst oil spill. Rig explosion was the worst oil spill. There was a 4. 5 billion settlement case. This briefing is half an hour. Good afternoon. Im here with the assistant attorney general from the Justice Department and the security and Exchange Commission of enforce. And head of deep water verizon task force and announcing the latest step forward in our ongoing efforts to achieve justice for those whose lives and livelihoods were impacted by the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United State
By the Justice Department. We have not yet recovered from this disaster. The families of those who lost their loved ones will never recover. But this is an important step in making sure that bp is held the responsible held responsible for its action. I want to commend the work of the chairman. He aggressively pursued the statements that were made. When he heard that the amount that they were talking about discharging into the gulf was as slow as it was being presented, he knew right away that it was not accurate. He was able to give the Justice Department documents that led them to the same conclusion. We need to hold wrongdoers accountable. I am pleased that the Justice Department and i commend the attorney general are taking the action to hold dp criminally accountable. They are yet to be held hold bp criminally accountable. They are yet to be held civilly accountable. And the individuals who gave ms. Information to congress or were on board the ship on the night gave mis information
Place. The first rounds of finger pointing over the federal website took place. They say full tests of the website should have been carried out months i have not advance but began two weeks before the rollout. They blame government officials for making last minute changes just prior to launching the site. Finally, they say the administration did not allow window shopping on the site, increasing the volume of traffic that caused registration glitches. The experts often took a back seat to the republicans and democrats asking the questions. So you didnt test it prior to october 1 . No,ness. When House Committee members grilled the contractors about the sites technical problems they heard the problems start at the front door. Consumers must pass through this front door. Unfortunately, the eidm created a bottleneck keeping the vast majority of consumers from entering. The contractors were not prepared for the bottleneck that occurred when thousands tried to log on. Since then. Cms, cgi and
Is. That framed the 20062007 discussion. So just to cause right there again. During the debate less than a decade ago the real substantive discussion in the house of representatives was not whether they should be deported, and would assume they would all be deported from is also that they would all be found to be felons and criminals as we deported them. Now you advance the debate over the summer and one, the debate was being led enemies coordinated by leadership and the house of representatives. Thats a significant shift in ownership of the issue. You saw that in the first package of bills passed a bill to do with the Agricultural Workers come inside build to do with high skilled workers. And though we never got sort of, they never lifted the curtain on their final bill to deal with the children and undocumented, there was a complete absence from leadership and most of that party about deporting all 11 million. So to go from everyone being felons to just a question of everyone being a
This, 95 to 100 , with great reason. Mr. Cooper. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I admire you, gentlemen, for your service to the nation and your work particularly since you are having to operate an irrational budget environment. Almost none of your predecessors have ever had to do that. When we have a house of representatives that refuses to even open discussions with the senate on a budget for america. Our media environment, many folks back home are unaware of this. Theyre mad at congress in general. They dont understand that one house of congress is unwilling to talk to another house of congress about having a budget for america. Somehow we have gotten in our heads especially the younger members its okay for the house to have a budget and senate to have a separate budget. Never the two shall meet. Were supposed to have a budget for america. This committee and markup of it my amendment voted overwhelmingly by voice to give the pentagon flexibility to address the mo defensing need. When a re