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Live coverage… WASHINGTON (AP)- BP's humbled CEO told Congress on Thursday he was “deeply sorry” for the company's catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But a House panel chairman accused him of being oblivious to the risks of the company's deepwater operations. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., told a grim-faced BP executive Tony Hayward that in his committee's review of 30,000 items, there was “not a single e-mail or document that you paid even the slightest attention to the dangers at this well.” A day after agreeing to a $20 billion victims' compensation fund, Hayward told Congress in prepared testimony that he was “personally devastated” by the April explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that triggered the giant spill — and that he understands the anger that Americans feel toward him and his company. added by: JanforGore