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Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton said during today's hearing he was "ashamed" that BP had been the victim of a "shakedown" after the company agreed to set aside $20 billion for claims resulting from the spill. He then issued a retraction.

The grilling of BP's CEO before a House committee on Thursday is sure to be "very unpleasant," says Michigan's John Dingell. Hayward will express empathy for the victims, but no amount of "I feel your pain" rhetoric can shield him from lawmakers' wrath.

Paddy Power, the famous Irish bookie operation, predicts that BP (BP) CEO Tony Hayward will be the first executive to leave the company in light of the Deepwater Horizon spill. The bookmaker puts the odds against him at 6-to-4. The bookmaker puts that odds that BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg is...