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Your state. if that wasn't an issue, purely on safety grounds, how can you argue that some sort of pause does not make sense? >> i've agreed a pause makes sense. i have no problem saying we're stopping for a period of time and while we do that, here are the specific things we're going to do. but listen to some of the suggestions our own delegation has made to them. allow them to drill but not up to the oil reservoir so you don't have a danger and still have people put to work. i have no problem with the pause. what i'm saying is listen to the experts. don't listen to me as the elected governor...

Underwhelming. but it turns out bp does not have a corner on the cut and paste, just fake it oil response spill market. it's not the only company that includes the mythical caribbean walrus in its gulf of mexico oil spill response plan. congressman ed markey, democrat of massachusetts, called on kpesks from the nation's top five oil companies to testify on capitol hill yesterday. before they arrived, congressman markey checked into each of their gulf of mexico oil spill response plans and found something truly remarkable. >> these five companies have response plans that are virtually identical...

The companies had to prove before they'd be allowed to risk all of us by drilling in deep waters off american shores, if there were high expectations, could they really raise the bar in terms of what's expected from these companies on safety? >> of course, they could. if the cop on the beat is, in fact, threatening to punish, severely, an oil company because they are running the risk of endangering the entire gulf coast, i think there's no question, that they would have seen a response. but after a while, this boosterism led to complacency, and the complacency always leads to disaster. and the...

Before they'd be allowed to risk all of us by drilling in deep waters off american shores, if there were high expectations, could they really raise the bar in terms of what's expected from these companies on safety? >> of course, they could. if the cop on the beat is, in fact, threatening to punish, severely, an oil company because they are running the risk of endangering the entire gulf coast, i think there's no question, that they would have seen a response. but after a while, this boosterism led to complacency, and the complacency always leads to disaster. and the complacency which was allo...

Plans, two of the companies list a phone number for an expert who has been dead for five years. five big oil executives sworn in for the cameras. >> the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> reporter: and skewered by lawmakers who called all five oil spill plans reviewed by the committee cookie cutter and inadequate. >> exxon-mobile, chevron, conocophillips and shell are as unprepared as bp was, and that's a serious problem. >> reporter: so though them as out of touch, the chairman berated the ceos for including the protection of walruses in their oil spill plans. >> there aren't any walru...