mr. greene dropped $26 million. you cannot purchase a primary in florida especially when you have the grass-roots effort. tavis: why do you think that your campaign has been underestimated? you are in a tight race with marco rubio, charlie crist, who is running as an independent. why has your campaign been and remains underestimated? >> in this race in florida, it started earlier. i started in january of last year, so marco rubio and charlie crist started running last summer. it was about to them in the primary and then the governor went down to the supervisory elections office and he figured out he could not win in the republican primary and he is running as an independent. i am the only democrat in this race running against two conservative republicans. marco rubio is conservatives and so is's charlie crist. i am the only candidate who has been against the privatization of social security. when we look at these debates when we line up head-to-head with marco rubio, you will see the differences between his platform

mr. green for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. green: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for the consideration of the time. i would ask the gentlelady if she might allow me to speak longer than two minutes, unless we have other speakers. is this possible? ms. hirono: i will yield the gentleman four minutes. mr. green: the four minutes will be adequate, i believe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. green: i would like to thank the sponsor of this bill, and my colleague, mr. ted poe a former prosecutor in harris county, someone i have known for more than 20 years. he and i have worked on this effort, it's a collaborative effort, this is his year to sponsor and i co-sponsor with him. i'll p honored to sponsor next year and he will work with me as co-sponsor of this resolution. but i want to say this about mr. poe. this is something that he does, not because it happens to be legislation. i know

hall: i yield one minute to the the gentleman from from houston, texas, mr. green. mr. green: i thank the ranking member on the science committee for allowing me this one-minute of time. i thank the chairperson, mr. gordon for his outstanding years of commitment. this bill is about science. it is about technology. it's about education. but it's also about jobs. and it's about jobs at a time of high unemployment. it's about jobs and families that will benefit from having stability within the family unit. i concede there is more i would like to see in the bill, but i'm in a position where i must now stand for what is attainable and we need to go after the jobs in this bill. i'm begging my colleagues to please understand that in this time of high unemployment, let's keep americans working and let's make sure that every family has an opportunity to have a bread winner. let's vote for this bill and let's improve upon it with other legislation that may follow. i thank you, mr. hall. and i thank you, mr. gordon and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: t

mr. green of texas and enjoys strong bipartisan support. the bill would provide liability protections for health care workers who volunteer to work at community health centers. very similar protections are already provided for the employees and contractors of such centers. the bill introduced would provide such protection to only physicians and psychologists but the committee adopted an amendment to expand health coverage to all workers who are volunteering so long as they are working within the appropriate scope of practice and license and performing work that is appropriate to the center. the c.b.o. has estimated that the bill would not affect mandatory spending or revenue and not subject to the pay-go rules. versions of this has passed in the house in previous years. i hope this bill will become law. i thank mr. murphy and mr. green for their hard work on this legislation. i express my appreciation to our minority leaders on health legislation in the committee, mr. shimkus and mr. barton, fo

the gentleman from texas mr. green. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank the secretary for appearing. good afternoon. sorry that i arrived a little bit after your testimony. we have quite a busy day on the hill today, a number of hearings. let's talk about for just a moment the alternative. we have a proposal. can you explain to us what the alternative is? it seems as though there is the notion thats there something much, much better that we could be doing if we would but only do that something that's much better. what are the alternatives? if we don't increase capital requirements, what is the alternative? >> congressman, i believe there is no alternative. you can debate how much is too much, how much people should achieve. and we can debate and we will continue to work on ways to make the system more resilient. make these shock absorbers work in a way as congressman and others have suggested that makes the system less procyclical. and we have more to do on that but there is no credible alternative to let leverage, higher capital requirements, mor

we're shifting one of their previous witnesses forward to accommodate mr. green died. we will try to get mr. levenson as early as possible, but we need to move those witnesses out. >> are the bankruptcy would this is under subpoena? >> several of them are paid for experts. but like mr. greendyke, we were told to call him early, so we shifted all our witnesses and now our witnesses have reservation complaints and they have canceled -- we talked to them this morning and there is no cancellation of mr. levenson. >> why don't we get started and over the lunch break, we will have an opportunity to discuss this as a matter of housekeeping. i will gently point out with a smile on my face that perhaps this can move along more quickly and we will have a chance to get too bankruptcy lawyers and mr. levinson and the judge all before we finish work on thursday. >> in terms of our allotted times, just to give the senators a heads up, the main for witnesses, we have gone through two of them. we have two more with a big chunk of time and then the times become much shorter. we have two

bring back more people powered green economy urban agriculture. thanks. >> mr. lacey? >> thank you. dewitt lacey. there's a few things that i think we could do to alleviate so. the problems around fresh produce. one, i do believe we do need to promote a farmer's market within the bay view hunter's point area, as well as have local farms, and opportunities like farms that i helped restore out off of alameda boulevard. those are types of thing we could do within our public housing development. not only give people a resource to their own freshly grown products, but also give kids some knowledge about growing plants and our vegetation. things they so desperately need. as well, i think we should support community developments that have food marts within them as well. >> ms. morris? >> hi, in the bay view, we did have a farmer's market, but it didn't go so well and it wasn't really participated. but we have community-based organizations like hunter's point that are going to get a juice bar. so maybe working with our current non-profits like hunter's point family gardens and creating a ju

mr. bloomberg's endorsement will be announced today. >>> the maryland green party has nominated kenneth henry to replace her daughter on the ballot for the party in the race for state senator. pedigroo died after she was hit by a car in howard county. >>> well today after you eat dinner, head to the cold stone creamery for a free sunday. >> any time there's something free, we'll tell you about it. >> 11-year-old kate created a special sunday for make a wish foundation. three ounce samples are being given out today at cold stone creamery. runs from 5:00 tonight until 8:00. >> katie's creations consist of caramel apple ice cream mix with chocolate shavings, graham cracker crust and pie filling. we'll show you the list of participating locations near your home. all right, justin. >> all right, take your pick. we've got it. tornado watch until 1:00. wind advisory for gusts to 45 miles per hour and now we add to the mix, a flash flood warning as we will continue to watch all of central maryland, including now baltimore, harford county, we've seen over two inches of rain already, heavy rain still p

mr. johnson's high speed succeeded. the bill failed and the green bay diocese asked to have the nevada suit dismissed because it exceeded the statute of limitation. they said it can go forward. we are joined by one of the people abused by the priest and it was known to the diocese when they transferred him to las vegas. thank you for your courage and joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me on. >> if we erred in summarizing the facts, please let me know and otherwise ampify what you know about what mr. johnson would have known throughout the process. >> frankly, keith, i found out about everything last night near about 10:00. i have been a huge johnson supporter since he announced his candidacy and last night i was really taken aback at his position on this. >> what was your reaction when you saw it? you described it in a political sense and how it will affect you going forward, but on a personal level to whatever degree you want to answer, how did you feel when you heard this man saying these things. as remote from the equation as myself, it see

i look at future cast for to morning the green on your screen shows 70's and '60's. mr. shea, this one to be. a quick morning though the temperatures will dramatically should up by new and we'll stick to the '90s. also up in the orange. it is for to prevail the most of your temperatures and 80s. it is later in the afternoon with the temperatures in the '90s as well as parts of the south bay. 97 in santa rosa '90s again. in close to the bay. upper 80s along the bay shore an antiseptic little kid your kron4 news seven day around the bay where the trend continues of the authors said and there is a key adviser. the temperatures expected to inland and it could certainly award it the key adviser. but dramatically cool down the temperature. this would be below average for most of the bay area. >> hurricane earl is turning its way to the california coast and right now has reached an is on track to ruin the labor day weekend for a lot of people along the nation's east coast. this is what girl looks like in st. martin. it tore the roof off homes and knocked down power lines. this

the green bay diocese specifically just continues to shirk their duty to do the right thing. >> we asked mr. johnson's office today if he stands by that testimony from earlier in the year but he did not respond to that question. he did issue a statement today which as i said called on the diocese to show the utmost transparency. a, do you have any idea what he means by that and, b, what is your reaction to the nature of that statement? >> well, gee, the green bay diocese has been talking transparency for quite sometime now. there are 51 individuals out there that they refuse to release identities of that have had allegations against them. they may be active clergy members out in the community. somebody may being abused as we speak right now and we don't know. so for complete transparency to have happened, i don't -- i guess we need to have a definition of complete transparency. as far as mr. johnson making that statement, it seems a little light. if he did not know what had happened, what was being covered up in the diocese, if someone had told you that, and you felt, oh, my god, i didn't k

the napa valley we are seeing '90s the upper 80s through sonoma or surrey center rosa sonoma greenness '90s say mrfrancisco today keeping it nice along the coast temperatures in the '60s and '70s beach weather expected today but better beach weather for tomorrow. 83 for all meta 85 and hayward 92 is that, no. through the san ramon valley low 90s through india and pittsburgh the south bay temperatures into the 80s and 90s as well. even though this fall we will bring you a free beach forecast 84 for santa cruz taking an up the coast temperatures in the '70s. half moon bay 74 simpson beach expected around 70 this weekend '70s around the board the database 70 degrees. 7 day around the bay continues to high late so warming trend. 101 of monday. hot weather by next week. >> tracking a hot spot in vallejo off of interstate 80. i spoke with officer paul some she confirms they have wrapped up the work and the rams have been reopened. from westbound 82 eastbound. and from 37 that ramp wouldn't shut down aunt in the early morning hours when a truck spilled its load of sod. then the send barrels had to be rep

green depot. i was intending to speak on agenda item number five. it's always frightening when i agree with mr.brooks, but i'll just echo the sentiments of ms. jackson. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> aaron israel is here, a longtime member of the citizens advisory committee for power on issues of sfpuc. wanted to point out that the club thanks the good work that -- the staff of both the p.u.c. and lafco have been doing this year. focusing on the negotiations. finding the lessons learned from that process and being open. we don't have an opinion one way or the other about r.f.p. or splitting out the renewables work. we should point out that we are an advocate. we've long been involved in this process. mr. brooks does not speak for all the advocates. we're not all of one mind on this. we take great issue of him speaking for an all

>i want to have a commitment toa green collar and blue collar jobs so that the unemployment rate will have the jobs meeting the needs of the community here. >> mr. kelly was in the? >> about 80% of the district, more than 4,000 acres have been rezoned or are under redevelopment in the past few years. the genius of that is there is planning going on. the challenge is it will double the population of the district, more than 100,000 people. how you manage the growth becomes the challenge for the next supervisor, to build complete the roads and manage job growth in the diverse working-class economy. i do not believe we have a housing crisis. we have an affordable housing prices. there are measures that the board has taken with rezoning to maintain affordable housing and preserve jobs. we cannot get amnesia about that with a new supervisor. i know a lot of the measures because i worked on them. i will keep on them when i am in office for. -- when i am in office. >> next question is, how can you bring tourism dollars to district 10? ms. morris? >> it would be nice if the forty-niners stay. i think district 10 needs to reinvent itself. every community

mr. decoster, on my far left, if you want to start. your opening statement. please do. press the green light there on that microphone and pull it forward and we can hear you. go ahead. >> commissioner, mr. chairman, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. my name is austin decoster. i go by jack. my son peter and i are here to answer your questions. we -- >> egg industry must be -- >> can we ask the room be cleared. >> [ inaudible ]. decoster and your cohorts are a piece of the larger picture. salmonella poisoning is present in all egg farms as admitted by decoster and his lawyer. additionally, 230 million chickens are killed each year to the eglin industry. >> i would ask you crease and desist, please, sir. the hearing must continue. >> all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. . >> okay. >> we resume these hearings. it's not unusual for us to have a few outbursts whether it's on this orside or that side. go ahead, please. >> okay. we were horrified to learn that our eggs may have made people sick. we apol

mr. campbell? >> no, tau. chairperson mirkarimi: ok, appreciate it and thank you to power choice. >> well, good afternoon, commissionsers, eric brooks with san francisco green party, our city and representing the coalition that helped get us all the way to this point. this is indeed all the way to this point. this is indeed a profound moment in time that this is actually moving forward. i find it particularly excellent that there is basically a new company forming around our c.c.a. and going to locate itself in san francisco. that will be good, no doubt, for local hiring. but with that said, since this will be the beginning of a new millennium on energy here in san francisco, we need to make sure we get it right. it's hard to energy, we want to get it right. it is hard to tell what exactly the plan is but it looks like the plan is to do procurement in the beginning of the program. during the upcoming negotiations, i am certain once i go back and speak to the other applicants that for us to support this, we would insist that the actual construction and installation is substantially met in the contract. we have seeone to make sure that what was going to be bi

mr. reid: i say to my friend through the chair, is it not also true that under the terms of the "dream" act, no one becomes a citizen? they get a simple green card, is that true? mr. durbin: they reach legal status. they have to make applicationo go beyond that. in this situation, young people, undocumented in the united states whoant to volunteer to serve in our military cannot do it. they are willing to risk their lives for america, and we say no. the secretary of defense knows that's wrong. this morning in a conversation that i had with him in my office over the telephone, he reiterated what he had said to me before: these are the kind of young people we need in america's military, high school graduates from cultural traditions that respect the military, people who are going to make more diversity in our ranks. that's what we need. he knows from a national defense perspective these will be good recruits for our military and will distinguish themselves, serving our country and coming up through the ranks. that's what the "dream" act offered to the defense authorization bill. the republican leadership and every republican senator said no.

mr. dudley and offshore drilling in general? >> hopefully, bob dudley will look hard again at the case for renewals and alternatives. as i was director of beat the green energy, we made an investment in what was known as bp alternative energy under lord brown. that has been cut back, and the focus went back to petroleum under tony hayward. hopefully bob dudley will get the company back on the track, which is beyond petroleum. >> thank you very much indeed. let's take you around the globe for the other main news. president obama has been detailing his plans to boost the american economy. his speech in cleveland, ohio highlighted his administration's plans for tax cuts. the u.s. secretary of state has said mexico's struck cartels increasingly look like an -- mexico's drug cartels increasingly look like an insurgency. the army was deployed against the cartels in 2006. the father of britain's prime minister has died. david cameron is the difference on the news that his father had suffered a stroke on holiday. he reached the hospital just before his father died. a russian passenger plane carrying 81 has crash landed, but all on board are uninjured. the jet

mr. reid: i say to my fend through the chair, is it not also true that under the terms of the "dream" act, no one becomes a citizen? they get a simple green card, is that true? mr. durbin: they reach legal status. they have to make application to go beyond that. in this situation, young people, undocumented in the united states who want to volunteer to serve in our military cannot do it. they are willing to risk their lives for america, and we say no. the secretary of defense knows that's wrong. this morning in a conversation that i had with him in my office over the telephone, he reiterated what he had said to me before: these are the kind of young people we need in america's military, high school graduates from cultural traditions that respect the military, people who are going to make more diversity in our ranks. that's what we need. he knows from a national defense rspectiv these will be good recruits for our military and will distinguish themselves, serving our country and coming up through the ranks. that's what the "dream" act ofred to the defense authorization bill. the republican leadership and every republican senator said no. m

mr. campbell, and have a question for you. on our own rfo/rfp program for a potential bidder, we had mentioned some time ago that we would tear toward the green and lush green option as well when we were talking about what we would be able to provide potentially for residential/commercial customers, right? >> yes, the rfp, as you recall, has the additional bid item, but there is an opportunity for firms to provide their thoughts and ideas. in light green/dark green option. supervisor mirkarimi: share, emerald and chartreuse and forest green -- sure. even if the price point is a little bit green and on par with pg&e, but a lot more grain is that much more, with that not be sort of the same schematic that we would assign our pricing as well? >> could be. one thing to recall is that marin's programs specifically targeted the hawaii users in the higher tiers, the sort of thing they are struggling with has they have rejiggered some of the tears -- tiers. at launch, they were the same rates, but now, they are slightly higher. supervisor mirkarimi: those be in residential and commercial? >> that is residential only. we have been very clear in terms

mr. decoster, on my far left, if you want to start. your opening statement. please do. press the green light there on that microphone and pull it forward and we can hear you. go ahead. >> commissioner, mr. chairman, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. my name is austin decoster. i go by jack. my son peter and i are here to answer your questions. we -- >> egg industry must be -- >> can we ask the room be cleared. >> [ inaudible ]. decoster and your cohorts are a piece of the larger picture. salmonella poisoning is present in all egg farms as admitted by decoster and his lawyer. additionally, 230 million chickens are killed each year to the eglin industry. >> i would ask you crease and desist, please, sir. the hearing must continue. >> all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. all eggs kill. . >> okay. >> we resume these hearings. it's not unusual for us to have a few outbursts whether it's on this orside or that side. go ahead, please. >> okay. we were horrified to learn that our eggs may have made people sick. we apol

green message. >> i am isabell and from the department of public health and working on a child issue and including the children in the thinking and planning, and mr. albert, you said in comments about pedestrians, that we are adults and remember that some of us are not adults and we are going through different stages of development and have our own challenges and needs. >> when i said that, that's why we set an example, and we model the behavior. when we jump out in front of the car, and bridget reminds me and it's a red light and don't cross. and i am thinking, that's how i raised my chidz -- kids in the city and i told them you stop on red. and the pedestrians are the most vulnerable of the modes and who are more vulerinable are the children and seniors. >> and one element of this picture of creating a good environment for pedestrians and transits is bus stops. and that's it's vital part of the planning process. and from my old days at muni and we placed bus stops through the neighborhood arbitrarily based on criteria that no one understands but to get a bus stop to change or relocate, these are all challenges. and as hope as this process goes

green thing in mind. >> thank you for coming. see you next month for "building >> please call the roll. please answer "present" if you are here. >> officer dunn. dr. jones. mr. keyes. miss susan mcintyre. mr. tom purpose. mr. tho-biaz. miss williams. mr. errol wishom. ms. virginia wright. >> please speak and your microphones. we are being recorded and televised. we want to hear everything that you have to say. i would like to first acknowledge from the senator's office, miss erin keenan. we know that center -- senator yee is a strong advocate for mental health in san francisco and throughout the state of california. we appreciate him sending a representative here to witness the proceedings. thank you very much. i want to welcome you all to the public hearing on the impact of the mental health budget cuts. over the past 10 years, the severe reductions in inpatient psychiatric bed capacity has led to a crisis in san francisco. these cuts are a great threat to public safety. they expose the city to increasing costs in crime and homelessness while failing to provide humane treatment and the hope of recovery to residents with mental illness. when services are cu

mrs. whitman had already stated her position on prop 23, she joined brown in opposition. >> meg whitman believes you can be both smart and green. she believes her plan is better than prop 23. >> reporter: whitman differs from brown significantly. her plan is to suspend the proposition for one year. >> when you're trying to go that 3% you have to make sure you don't destroy the 97%. >> reporter: brown called on whitman to renege on her pledge to suspend california's warming bill for a year. whitman's campaign in return now that she has made her stance on the propositions, they have called on brown to do the same. in oakland, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> new unemployment figures out today suggest that companies are reducing their work forces. labor department says nationally the number of people who filed for unemployment for the first time was up by about 12,000 last week breaking two straight weeks of decline. the new figures also suggest california may be fairing a bit better claims were down in california by more than 10,700 two weeks ago due to fewer lay offs in the service industry. >>> at uc berkeley more job c

greens as she tries to build a minority government. the price will be concessions on climate change policy while securing the support of a key independent eases labor just ahead of opposition. >> i thank mr. wilke for the decency and diligence with which he has negotiated this agreement. i thank him for bearing in mind at all stages the national interest. >> he could still go horribly wrong for labor, should that group of three independent mp's decide to back the conservative. the way, it seems australia's wait for a new government is coming to an end, following the closest the election results in the country's history. >> the u.s. president, barack obama, has warned americans to prepare for the worst as hurricane earl approaches the east coast of the u.s. thousands of residents have been moved from their homes. despite the hurricane weakening slightly, forecasters say it's top winds are still close to 125 miles an hour. >> conditions here have changed pretty dramatically over the last few hours. you can see the certification behind me is really picking up power and ferocity as the storm gets ever closer. the winds are still around 145 miles an hour, but the latest forecasts say the stor

mr. reid: i say to my friend through the chair, is it not also true that under the terms of the "dream" act, no one becomes a citizen? they g a simple green card, is that true? mr. durbin: they reach legal status. they have to make application to go beyond that. in this situation, young people, undocumented in the united states who want to volunteer to serve in our military cannot do it. they are wling to risk their lives for america, and we say no. the secretary of defense knows that's wrong. this morning in a conversation that i had with him in my office over the telephone, he reiterated what he had said t me before: these are the kind of young people we need in america's military, high school graduates from cultural traditions that respect the military, people who are going to make more diversity in our ranks. that's what we need. he knows from a national defense perspective these will be good recrts for our military and will distinguish themselves, serving our country and coming up through the ranks. that's what the "dream" act offered to the defense authorization bill. the republican leadership and every republican senator said no. m

green revolution. it is not biotechnology. host: go ahead, mr. winger. guest: that is exactly the kind of person the country needs, who is well-informed about a particular problem, with ideas about solving it. they are not the sort of ideas the major parties are likely to pick up. before the 1890's the caller could have started a new party to promote his ideas, and he would not have had to worry about getting his candidates on the ballot. there were no ballot access laws or government-printed ballots. the voters could choose their own. i'm not suggesting that we go back to that system, but it makes me very sad that when people like that caller come up with the genesis for a new movement, the government in so many states and custom. let me explain the worst law -- georgia has not had an independent or a minor party candidate on the ballot for the u.s. house in a regularly- scheduled election since 1964. it is because their laws are so strict. yet the courts repeatedly opel them. in 1971 the u.s. supreme court upheld the georgia law. host: here is a phone

mr. alvarez. i am sure that you have been here before or in some room like this around the capital. i will indicate that one minute, there is a light and from the media goes from green to yellow. and then it will go to read when your time is up at 5 minutes. with that, mr. alvarez, if you begin your testimony. judy members of the commission, i am pleased to testify about the acquisition of wachovia corp. by wells fargo in the fall of 2008. as an initial matter, the federal reserve was not requested to nor did in fact provide any assistance using its emergency lending authority under section 13-3 of the federal reserve act in connection with the acquisition of wachovia. nor did the fbi say provide any. the agencies were prepared to invoke the systemic risk exception to allow the fdic to provide extraordinary assistance if needed to reduce the provincial efforts of a face for wachovia failure on the economy. that party was not and faq's, and mccaw violist is all planned acquisition by wells fargo without extraordinary government assistance. to understand is, it is a born to understand the context. at the end of the second quarter 2008, wachovia was the fourth largest