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Activated for all departments to assist until yesterday. >> i'm curious, who is responsible for all this financially? when you deploy the military for a clean-up operation like this? is it the taxpayers? >> you and i are going to pay for it. >> will british petroleum have to be responsible for it? >> they might in the end. they can get charged, they can get fined, they can get sued by the federal government. but if they pay, it's going to be years and years from now. no, you and i are going to pay for it. the governor of louisiana has asked for funding for his own national guard troops. the na...

Close them that way, but it hasn't worked yet. so plan b is a dome they're constructing to put over the escaping oil and bring that to the surface. that's been done before, but never in this depth, 5,000 feet. plan c is to drill a relief well, which they just started, but that will be a matter of a few months. >> senator, are you satisfied with british petroleum's response since this spill started? do you think everything that can be done right now is being done, or is there more we need to do? >> i think that's the effort on the part of everyone. i do think that when it comes to coastline pro...