dysfunctional, but over the intervening years we didn't fix it and ultimately bp is not about the failure in the gulf but mms's -- >> the bureaucrats working there, career civil servants, if you will. there are plenty of obama administration officials who are very worried right now that if you become the chairman of this committee they can expect they're going to have to start hiring personal lawyers because you'll be subpoenaing them for records and for tapes and for everything else. sort of going back to the days of the clinton administration when dan burton and other republican members of congress were leveling, were issuing subpoenas left and right. >> well, the era of dan burton and era of people taking the fifth, leaving the country and some cases going to jail is an era i hope none of us repeat. in other words, the crimes that went on shouldn't repeat and neither should the subpoenas. dan burton had a special time in which subpoena after subpoena was required because nobody would answer questions without