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gaafi has not bn seen in blic since apri 30,hen an air rike killed h youer son. where dohe opposition's efforto tple t libyan leader stand? anta reports now on th rebels struggle to train fighng forc omeme mss -weapons for e d revolution. frusated the rebels are trying to arm theelve so, a rocket launche welded to a pickup truck. some hav been smgled in from abroad, t not enough to unseat lonel gaddafi >> can say thathat we have now, it is enou t ma us resist, ju resist, the tacks. now we are wting for the other weapons to starto b delivered tour country. >> at implie a unita rebel movement. the training emasiz a sense toring rival tris, litaries, and aew army under one central commd. it is nt happeningast at all. as y get closerohe front lines, a sense of chaos grows. the oblem for theebelere, reforcg the front line, is that theare mply noteady ye ttake advantage of nato's air stris. theyeed better organization, more weapons, and traing. witht that, this war could drag on very slow, ined. no one he like to use t wo "steelmaker ""we must be patit," say the rebels

apri is another one. i'll have to get the other three. supervisor kim: also. out of curiosity, do we look at s.r.o. buildings

apri is another one. i'll have to get the other three. supervisor kim: also. out of curiosity, do we look at s.r.o. buildings as well? >> we have looked at them. we have basically what we've done is given a couple different grants to organizations that work in s.r.o.'s to hire folks that live in the s.r.o.'s to do work. mostly on recycling. we haven't done as much on energy efficiency but that's something we can definitely build out. supervisor kim: yeah, i'd love to talk to you about that in the future. >> great. supervisor kim: thank you. supervisor chu: thank you very much. so we do have the recommendations before us. i'm wondering if there's any other discussions before we take that mokes on the department of environment. no. i'm wondering if we can take the budget analysts' recommendations for the department of environment. we'll do that, without objection. and now there are some questions that is still outstanding and then of course the recommendation to dispense with. why don't we go to questions first. supervisor mirkairmi. supervisor mirkarimi: mr. ha

under the budget that house republicans passed in apri and that the senate is set to consider this week the medicare program that seniors have relied on for more than 50 years to meet their medical needs and expenses would be eliminated. in its place would be a voucher system that pays a small lump sum to private insurers to cover seniors. any cost not covered by that payment would fall to seniors to pay or forego coverage. my colleagues on the other side of the aisle argue that elimination of medicare is needed to help reduce the deficit and that the same benefits that seniors now enjoy under medicare will be recommend cated in the private insurance -- replicated in the private insurance market. not so in reality their plan will result in a far -- not so. in reality their plan will result in a far lower care for seniors while trillions of dollars will be added to the national debt. rather than taking steps to reduce the underlying increases in health care costs which in turn drive up the cost of medicare, their plan simply shifts those costs to seniors. thvalue of the vouchers that wou