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Is meanwhile we're coming up against the deadline with the continued resolution and we've got other things with waste. i know those bills you're talking about next week, those, you know, probably people like to see some action on them. >> absolutely. and we're going to call on the senate to do so. that, as you know, is part of the problem. this year we've seen passage of the skills act, we've seen the student loan issue, we've seen the bill that helps working parents have flexibility so they can spend more time with their children. wii seen more bills on the energy issue trying to bring down g...

Is at an all-time high, but what we see is the issuance of permits and the policy of allowing for the proceeding of deep ocean drilling is not matching his rhetoric. so it's very clear. he's hostile to fossil fuels and coal and oil, and he is hostile to gas. we need a definitive statement by this president that we will have a national energy policy, because it's critical to a growing economy that we do that. >> do you blav mitt romney has the nomination locked up after tuesday? >> it will be a hard-fought race to the end. >> it goes to the convention, in other words? >> that's a pundits' answe...

For alternative sources, but at this point we got to and should rely on all the energy sources here at home. >> he expanded drilling leases -- >> the reality is, and he will claim the production of energy is at an all-time high, but what we see is the issuance of permits and the policy of allowing for the proceeding of deep ocean drilling is not matching his rhetoric. so it's very clear. he's hostile to fossil fuels and coal and oil, and he is hostile to gas. we need a definitive statement by this president that we will have a national energy policy, because it's critical to a growing economy ...

Where that huge explosion in the gulf of mexico last year killed 11 workers and caused an environmental disaster. that was in april of 2010. but now transocean has declared 10 the best year for safety in the company's history. financial papers filed with the u.s. government revealed the company's top executive got a pay raise of more than $1 million. transocean did not respond to an e-mail from cnn seeking comment about this. bp leased that oil rig in the gulf of mexico and now 15 months after the spill, the oil company may soon have permission from the u.s. government to return to deep-ocea...

Consideration, we must remember those lives and the lives of their families as we just saw that were forever changed on that fateful april day and we must continue to keep them in our thoughts and prayers, and further we have an obligation not only to the families but to everyone affected by the aftermath to get to the bottom of the cause of this accident and the failure to secure the situation and stop the devastation upon the gulf coast. we have an opportunity in this oversight hearing to ask questions that get to the facts of what happened. however, today's hearing is incomplete. we can onl...