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The white house. it allows them to shift the heat from the president on the oil spill and the recovery efforts to what's going on on the hill with the republicans. joe bonner, a republican, in the house is now calling on joe barton to step aside from the top spot on the energy committee. and robert gibbs has been pushing that along. he sent out some tweets last night saying the republicans need to think about whether they want barten in that top spot, whether or not he's the right person. if the republicans take control of the congress in november, come january 2011, the person who would be th...

Tony hayward promised to do everything in bp's power to address the economic and environmental consequence of the and to ensure that bp uses its lessons learned to make energy exploration and production safer and more reliable for everyone. yes, well, that is pretty much what hayward vowed three years ago after bp's fatal texas refinery explosion. the fact is, with deepwater horizon, congressional investigations show bp was still trying to penny-pinch to save millions. >> there were very serious shoshgts taken in the last hours, in the last days before the explosion that were made specifically...

Disaster. bp is capturing more oil from its ruptured well. the pointman in charge says just over 1 million gallons were sucked up yesterday. thad allen is coordinating efforts to use 2,000 private vessels to help in the clean-up. at least three people are dead from tornadoes that tore through minnesota. our meteorologist bonnie schneider says some of the tornadoes were half a mile wide. they stayed on the ground for about 20 minutes at a time. the midwest could be in for more storms today. help could be on the way for women a low sex drive. an fda committee is holding a hearing on whether ...

Reputation was in tatters over accidents, safety violations and employee deaths. bp's texas city refinery had just exploded, killing 15. investigators found bp had violated its own safety protocols. hayward promised to do away with what he called the more for less cost-cutting strategy that had become the norm at bp. >> he wasn't going to put them in danger. they were not going to be bp employees who died on his watch. >> reporter: fast-forward three years to the gulf of mexico and the deepwater horizon rig. what happened to hayward's promises? we asked foreign policy magazine's steve levine. ...

And so they believe the stimulus is working, just not fast enough to get those jobs back. other problem, of course, as the president tries to talk about jobs again, all everyone else seems to be talking about is oil. >> speaking about oil, the testimony yesterday, the congressional testimony where tony hayward from bp was there, these congressional hearings are weird. a lot of grandstanding. but one of the weirdest things i've heard in a long time was what texas representative joe barton says about apologies and about how bp was held up for a shakedown in the white house. he said that the pres...