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Provides a very disturbing view of a trend that is getting worse. >> john, explain to all of us, there's a difference many people might not know in the kind of help that's available to reservists and then to the national guard troops compared to that of active duty troops. >> if you're in active duty. you're assigned to a unit. it's like you're in a family. there are a lot more regular contacts. for example, there are about 123,000 people members of what's called the individual ready reserve beacon call. there was a man named coleman bean from new jersey who took his own life in 2008 after he ...

Raised the liability cap. even if it's per incident per company. how many players do we have in there? folks, this is a $500 billion mistake accident, mishap, whatever you want to call it. i just don't think $10 billion does it, even if you've got ten companies. the bottom line here is, is this -- why do i sense that americans haven't grabbed the ripple effect that we're going to be looking at in all of this? now, we have this fight breaking out over offshore drilling. congressman rush holt on the ed show. congressman, where do you stand? >> good to be with you. >> you bet, sir, thank you. i'm...

Have big oil and bp, you have transocean the driller here. you may have others involved. as far as i'm concerned, you add all the liabilities together, you have the type of money that can actually make people whole at the end of the day. as it relates to -- i'll simply say -- i have a -- you know, respect for mary landrieu, but simply to say after hurricane katrina, i was in the house of representatives then, i led the effort to have a commission on katrina to find out what the bush administration failed the people of louisiana and i led efforts with the congressional black caucus and continue...

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