You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
Spring. Live coverage on cspan2. This is expected to get started in just a couple of moments. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we are live at the Hudson Institute for discussion on effective preparedness, response and recovery from biological and chemical threats. At a long discussion includes the Blue Ribbon Study Panel Blue Ribbon Study Panel on biodefense but among those you will hear from former connecticut senator Joe Lieberman secretary tom ridge, former senator tom daschle and former hhs secretary Donna Shalala. This is expected to start momentarily. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] again we are live at the Hudson Institute this morning waiting for the start of the discussion on biodefense but it should get unde
Partners and how their actions decisions, capabilities might play in our assistance of their defense or how it may limit our ability, depending on what choices they have to make. Nato, for instance has a very detailed bmd plan for the intercept of missiles for nato territory and europe. What are other elements that the Nato Alliance can bring to bear fence an antagonist. They are a military alliance after all. They are not the eu. What sort of connections and relations with the eu, the economic deciders of europe need to be engendered in order to come up with an effective response. In the interleaving of these capabilities do they fall under the nato command structure or some other entity. The eu council of governments, unclear. Earlier we were talking about exchanging information. Frank mentioned that. How do you coordinate this with owe allies and partners. Some of us can be very sensitive. But some of it needs to be planned and thought of ahead of time. Do we need to extend the conc
Institute for International Economic economics. Its an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our previously schedule programming. It is my pleasure to continue from our Economics Panel according to our practical world. We have as a special treat today, Mark Bertolini the chairman and ceo of aetna who is going to talk about the role of Corporate America in reestablishing the american middle class. Thats about as targeted and blunt a title as you can have, which i find very typical of mark. Many of you have become familiar with him recently he got him mens coverage in the New York Times and elsewhere for his leadership. I think it is fair to say the word leadership and taking aetna forward and then amongst other companies in vool tearvoluntary raiseing the wages of its vast share of low wageworkers within its company, something that so far at least none of the other Major Health Insurers in the u. S. Have announced. We have gotten to know mark over the last few years. Hes been a me