that need to be folded, and really, the federal government has a role to play in this. where were the federal regulators when they were supposed to be monitoring these rigs and monitoring the blowout predictor and monitoring the cement job and they just didn t do their job. jane: the chairman comiftie, bart stu hack stupak, said that tony hayward was going to be sliced and diced before members today. what is going to be gained in all the hours spent in this hearing today? wouldn t tony hayward s time arguablior were spent on working on how to cap that leak rather than sitting in congressional hearings all day? but people do need to hear, because it was bp executives that were in charge. they were the ones who could have called a halt to what was happening on the well that evening that it blew up. this was not an act of god. this was not something that happened in 20 seconds time. there were problems going on for months ahead of schedule, ahead of this thing s blowing, and it was