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Saying that. now, the president said today in his statement from the white house that they are going to obviously make sure that there's restitution, they're also looking at liability caps and changing all of that. let's get the straight talk. i need the president of the united states and this administration and every committee member to step up and say, this is not going to be a situation of corporate welfare. this is not going to be a bailout to big oil. this is not going to be all of a sudden we get nailed with $4.50 a gallon gas at the pump to make sure bp can make record profits again. it...

Regulator in place, secretary solis, for not doing what they were supposed to do in the ensuing five years. we know their game. it's important that the administration come down, that congress does the right thing and says no more on this. no liability limits. you're going to pay, you're going to pay for the cleaning up the spill. and you're going to pay those businesses that lost, lost their businesses or lost the big parts of their revenue because of this oil spill. >> the public seems to agree with you, senator. here's the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll just out it finds that the gulf oi...

Damage? i mean, there are a lot of experts that are said that we are going to, you know, deal with this for the next decade. maybe even beyond. and which brings me to the point of question of no liability limits. $75 million is chump change. $10 billion is chump change. some in the congress have said that's an arbitrary number. why not have, and why not advocate for, unlimited liability and they're just going to have to pay whatever the cost is? >> well, i think we have that in most areas of human activity. you -- if you're -- if you're negligent and you cause damage, you're responsible for wh...