my name is cindy kaufman. if i put my glasses on i cannot see you and if i take them off i cannot see my notes. i will go back and forth. i have the honor of being the chair of the subcommittee. when i was first asked to sit, i thought, this is great. as we came together and i looked around the table at the people i was working with, i was struck by the expertise that sat around the table. that came together to work on what to services and systems look like in san francisco. i need to start off by thanking the committee i worked with for their diligence and the fact that day -- that they were in there even when it felt like herding cats. one of the challenges that we face in looking at the services is trying to get too far into details when you are planning for the future. we started trying to pick, where does this start in the process when it almost felt ill -- a little overwhelming at times. i felt fortunate to work in a city like san francisco that has some of the opportunities and has some of these service

and we have jim pope, we have kaufman campaign, we have the pollsters, going to talk about -- for those of you who are interested in the politics and the statewide campaign. that person is going to be available to talk a little bit about their thoughts about how the campaign -- the reasons for why it was successful. and there's some members of the press that wil that will be available as well, since there was a huge effort. i do want to say, on sf lafco, you will hear at this conference that one of the reasons why many people felt that the initiative did not pass had to do with the ballot arguments themselves, and you will recall that we were one of the first agencies to challenge pg&e's ballot argument, and their title and summary of the ballot measure, which originally, they had called it the taxpayers right to vote act, and so, the efforts that we took to challenge that with the secretary of state and attorney general's office snowballed with other agencies that then followed suit, so it is just a great story that will be told on august 5, and i hope you can all come. commissioner mi

up in what we now have as the crystal clear data in the last several years largely funded by the kaufman foundation out of kansas city and augmented by others. two important findings that i hope you take you that will augment the even more compelling stories about people and families and the appreciation of the human situation and that is, first, 91% of those u.s. born workers in the united states from the 1990's to 2005 were better off because of the immigrant, both documented and undocumented, presence in the united states. their earnings were enhanced by about 2.7%. why? it's complicated and i'll send a link to the commission so you can look at the exciting charts and graphs and do that to your heart's desire. it comes down to a simple idea which is intuitive and you know it. the economy is not a fixed pie. when you expand the labor curve, a simple economist will say the price of labor goes down and we're all hurt. the more people that work here, the more people that are chasing jobs and we're all doomed. wrong. the expansion of the available labor force creates opportunities that did

and back in russia spots at moscow coach by larry kaufman says he expects to sign celtic's aiden mcgeady next week the red and whites coach added the winger had made a very good impression on the club during his visit to the russian capital over the last two days but in the meantime spot talk have unveiled another new siding in time defending. his lead he misspoke nicolas baraka is given a map of moscow as a present for him some russian journalists the media didn't want their argentine defended to get lost in the big city and however by record certainly won't have a lot of time to explore russia skeptical at least not in its early days it's but there it in whites are struggling to break into the leading group in the premier league however hard work doesn't scare the former as when you all defend the. sport duck greeting i'm happy to be here what i've already noticed is that my new partner surveyor skillfull does encourage just me i can't wait to make my debut for the club the fee for the argentinian is said to be around ten million years and the defender will wear number nineteen at his

of building up to twenty nuclear power plants over the next few decades over the most thoughtful kaufman's a security expert from the most base institute of world economy and relations he says it's important to differentiate between blue share and iran's nuclear weapons ambitions. i think that there could be a difference between and the problem that could be military proposes a military already on the program and the program for peaceful transition the planet. regarding. managing i think directing any proliferation of nonproliferation concerns at the minimum but regarding the richmond program there could be some questions and concerns over the nature of iranian problem this is a major victory of course for iranians because iran is going to be practically has become a force that contrie in the near and middle east which has. acting existing atomic power block. for russia it's also a very great success because russia has proved that such a rush on abiding is abiding for a long liberation standouts hold on to patients bond boats and routes according to the i a e a. now official say suspected

. >> warner: lieutenant colonel kaufman oversees a string of these check points east of mozul. one team took him to a nearby bridge where they just carried out a joint mission to recover and destroy a hidden ied. >> as far as the tension between the kurds and arabs, i don't have a lot of concerns because there's conversation. because when people are talking whether it's the highest political levels or the lowest grass roots, as long as we have communication, particularly in this region in the world, they work out the problems. >> warner: in our own conversation with the arabs and kurds back at the check point, we heard some of the same optimism but a disquiting note as well. >> we are one group. iraqi army , iraqi police, all working together. we all belong to one country. >> warner: what is going to be the impact when the americans ultimately leave here. will you still work together? >> you want me to tell you the truth, when the americans leave, everything will collapse. because everybody wants to be in control. do you think if someone attacks you, we wouldn't support you. >>

the brown-kaufman and then it was a great example. they said if a company gets this big, it has to be broken up. they did not want to leave it up to regulator. they wanted to ride in to the law. almost every regulation of that type was excluded from this bill. basically created a lot of new regulators and offices that made or not do the job. it is very disappointing and not the way it should be. host: how much of the bill have you read? guest: i have read a lot of the derivatives portion. i have read the volcker rule portion of it. i have read a lot of the colloquies that have gone on about it. it would be impossible for anyone to beat an "expert" on this. it is so massive. the best and hope for is to know the major poet points. there is a wide sense of unease in congress. nobody really knows what the total effect of the bill will be. it is so far reaching. one person said to me that we have no idea what this will do when we let it loose on the public. it touches so many different parts of the economy. it is impossible to say what the

i had the opportunity to join senator casey and senator kaufman on their recent visit to iraq. i was impressed with the progress that has been made there. but i appreciate the fragility of the current situation. i understand that those who would promote instability in the country act without a government having been formed did. i understand that the current failure to form a government gives an opportunity for those extremist elements. can you talk a little bit about what you think forming a government could do and the difference that might make and how that should be done? >> certainly, senator byrd first we are hopeful that the government will be formed in the near future. unlike in the past, this time in that interregnum the government has done a good job of providing services, has pushed down security incidents, whereas in the last time it rocketed up, and it is dramatically, than either 2006 or 2005. the iraqis are learning to deal with the situation that we see from time to time in parliamentary democracies in europe as well. nonetheless, it is time to move on with this.

. >> stephen kaufman. i like to take you back to the military and ask you about something affecting the military. is my understanding that the conflict between russia and georgia was over with before it began because of cyber techniques the russians used to paralyze the georgian communications and their ability to act. was that a collapse -- did we learn anything about cyber work from that experience he the way people in the 1940's had a glimpse from the spanish civil war of what war was about to be like? our military as probably the most electronics in its fundamental means of delivering its force. are we the most vulnerable? >> we learned a great deal from that, and it was a very simple act on the part of the russians. they will deny having done that as a nation-state, but the facts of what happened -- some decision was made with regard to -- i will start with georgia. what was unleased was a denial of service attack, the simplest of all attacks. you just fill up the channels. it is easy to do. in fact,