Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100414:22:08:00
I'm glad you have time for us tonight. we've been trying to get you on. i know you had other things going on. you, i think at this point, are a real important part of this story to keep it alive. can you tell us, tonight, if the senate had passed your bill would this have been averted? would these 29 people still be alive today? what do you think? >> well, i know that when -- in the reaction to the last series of mining accidents that we had with the sago mine and darby mine and others, we passed legislation. i voted against that legislation because i thought it was -- it had been too watered ...