down our throats. the sister of one dead kentucky miner responds presently. but mr. paul has a history of responding to deadly incidents by suggesting they were unavoidable and that stricter regulation would not have prevented nor mitigated them. after the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11, mr. rapid said he would deny rig workers the protection of additional safety rules, comparing the blast to the dotiki coal mine collapse that killed two kentucky miners in april. criticizing washington for trying to find out why both events happened. >> what i don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, you know, i'll put my boot heel on the throat of bp. i think that sounds really un-american in his criticism of business. i've heard nothing from bp about not paying for the spill. and i think it's part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault. instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen. i mean, we had a mining accident that was very tragic, and i've met a lot of these miners and their families. they're very brave people to do