i serve currently at the parliamentarian for the alice b. toke lis democratic club and i have advised many entities in the past in best practices in finding ways to follow the procedures which -- i always advocate are never there to hinder or create pure -- bureaucracy and make progress not happen but are tools to make it happen in a fair way. do you have any questions? thank you. chairperson kim: thank you. next we have trevor mcneil and then hanley chan. >> hello, supervisors. my name is trevor mcneil. i'm a 30-year resident of san francisco and happen to be 30 years old. i applied for the sunshine ordinance task force in 2006 and am interested in serving again. i've worked abroad. i've worked for transparency international, an international organization that advocates for transparency around the world and helped set up experiments in lebanon. since then, i've been back here and would like to add my perspective to the task force. i have a lot of academic experience including in library science. i am a teacher and have taught this to san fr

also, i just wanted to say that the alice b. toklas club and the hard enough club will be joining us for a clear night life program at the women's center. -- queer nightlife program at the women's center. we are very excited about it. >> on thursday -- i think you have a fire in your books. -- flier in your books. this is asia pacific heritage month. 5:30 is a celebration hosted by mary lee, honoring the secretary of transportation who grounded all the airlines during 9/11. it is a free event. there is food. i am producing all the entertainment for the evening. we are going live. it is all live performers. we are going with one of the bands that has played in the japan town area for many years. it will be our backup band. the singers are not all professional. it is going to be kind of like an american idol in city hall. the live performance goes from 5:32 6:00 for the speakers. 7:00 to 8:30 is the live performances. it is in the rotunda. we are taking over the space. president newlin: all the permits in order? [laughter] i would

also, i just wanted to say that the alice b. toklas club and the hard enough club will be joining us for a clear night life program at the women's center. -- queer nightlife program at the women's center. we are very excited about it. >> on thursday -- i think you have a fire in your books. -- flier in your books. this is asia pacific heritage month. 5:30 is a celebration hosted by mary lee,

also, i just wanted to say that the alice b. toklas club and the hard enough club will be joining us for a clear night life program at the women's center. -- queer

i am the current co-chair of finance co-chair of the alice b. toke lis lgbt democratic club, i'm involved with the organizational center, more focused on fund-raising for senior citizen programs and also community organizing. i'm also a team lead for project homeless connect. i was just there two weeks ago. done a lot of work with client services and food bank and this year they assigned me to the barbershop and i'm proud to say we got 101 people through there with new haircuts and while it may not be as important as dental and vision, it's a big thing to give homeless people a free haircut. my other side of my life, i have well over 25 years of experience? technology, specifically technology industry, networking, wireless. i've seen and done everything. the majority of the work i do in my professional life is very coordinating collaborative and that will come into play momentarily. i was a graduate of the emerge california class of 2009, an organization dedicated to training women, either to run for public office or in my case to go into public

i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concerns are. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part of the left on the national standard. i am a good liberal democrat. in the san francisco spectrum, and probably considered more middle of the road. -- i am probably considered more middle-of-the-road. i am very independently comes to the issues. i do not vote the party line. a judge each issue on its merits. tha

b. davis, the housekeeper alice on "the brady bunch" turns 86. >>> all day long, stay atop the latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. tonight watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> coming up later this morning on "the today show" the effects of excessive tanning and the update of the mom accused of tanning her 6-year-old daughter. >>> matt is live from london touring kensington palace and preparations for the olympic games. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more, i'm lynn berry, thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one.

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b. johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas at austin. dr. alice rivlin is a senior fellow in economic studies at the brookings institution and former vice chair of the federal reserve board of governors. without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. you will now be recognized for a five minute summary of your testimony and we'll begin with dr. herbener. >> chairman paul, ranking member clay -- >> keep the mike up close. >> and distinguished members of the committee, it is an honor to appear before you. left to the market the the production of all goods, including money, passes the profit and loss test as socially beneficial production. like all private enterprises, a gold mining company produces the revenue from the sale ever its output exceeds the cost of buying its inputs it's p production is beneficial. in the market money production is regulated by profit and loss. changes in demands bring forth more production. if the demand for money increases making the value of gold coins rise, minting companies would increase