week as well? he will be in part of the speech. maria: in terms of overall growth, i was talking to a banker the other day, and he said to me i feel like the shoe has been taken off my throat because of the rollback in regulations. people feel like this could be a big deal in terms of growth. well, i think it is a big deal, and i think you ve seen the markets react to that positively in regards to the response and the expectation of growth from a trump administration. and let me just say, we believe in proper regulation, so this isn t about creating risk for the taxpayers, this isn t about letting banks do things that they shouldn t be doing, this is about sound regulation, and we ve just gone too far to the other extreme. maria: so talk to us about what you d like to see happen in terms of the tax code. you want to take corporate taxes lower, individual taxes lower. what else should we understand fully about what the tax package will look like? sure. well, first, we re working v
leading up to april the 20th. we need to answer those questions to determine if the rules or the agency oversight were insufficient or if this was purely an act of negligence or want and disregard for sound regulation. now, we can try to enact the perfect reform that ensures this never happens again, but it will not change the past or the toll upon the lives for other change. mr. hayward, the responsibility to make these families whole falls to you and your company, bp. you have an obligation to right this wrong and not only the public trust but also to believe in the free market and entrepreneurship demand it. mr. chairman, i await the opportunity to ask questions with the hope that we will soon discuss these same matters with our own administration. and i yield back. thank you mr. gingry. mr. chairman, as this is an investigative hearing i will submit my excellent opening statement for the record we want to get final thoughts here from our panel karen finny