alexander reid. please make your way to the podium. >> good evening. i taught english and theatre at high school for 25 years. it was at the arts department for ten years. i came out of retirement to address the vital issue. there is offered a number of courses in extracurricular opportunity to enrich the lives of all students. it was awarded by the department of california education, the award for the arts based on the rich curriculum and the extracurricular activities. i am very thankful to listen to the students who spoke eloquently. i believe the president mentioned that fiscal income study. can you tell us when the study will be published is a question i had. the most important reason i came to speak tonight is to implore you to include the voices of our own san francisco unified school district teachers and cultures who lead and direct extracurricular activities. these teachers and coaches have the knowledge and expertise that you will need to develop policy and progress. for example, the theatre teacher knows to add scripts, costumes, et cetera,

and by the way, it was never from reid and mcconnell, it was always from schumer and alexander and levin and mccain. the combination of a leader-driven senator with two leaders who hated each other was not a good combination, but i think there are changes that can be made, but you have to enlist a lot of people in it and get broad support for it. >> citing generally one thing that the senate's current abberations don't do terribly well is provide ways for people to reveal the intensity of their preferences other than just the direction of their preferences, so, this is one example that because, you know, we-- because cloture has become a routine part of how the senate works, it's not the case that it works as a way to signal how intensely a senator feels about something. and so, i think more-- i'm not sure that i think making people talk all the way through a filibuster is the best way to do this, but i think more opportunities for individuals to be able to signal the intensity of their preference as opposed to the direction of their preference would be healthy for the current senate. >>