so i think the -- els bernd are trying to do. from my perspective, it is also important for us to look at the public finance piece. it was something that was alluded to earlier during public comment. we have a companion piece that could also go to voters that tries to address some of the concerns that have been raised about what happened in the last mayor's race. one of those concerns being the number of candidates who were in the race, and there has been talk about the so called zombie candidate. and one of the proposals that's imbedded in what we have put forward and something that we have worked with supervisor kim and supervisor avalos on is the idea of moving up the deadlines by which candidates have to decide whether or not to file as candidates and to remain in the race. that allows candidates more time to know what the field of candidates actually looks like. so that they can have more information and decide early on whether or not they will remain candidates in a campaign. and i think that that's something that could go

so i think the -- els bernd are trying to do. from my perspective, it is also important for us to look at the public finance piece. it was something that was alluded to earlier during public comment. we have a companion piece that could also go to voters that tries to address some of the concerns that have been raised about what happened in the last mayor's race. about what happened in the last mayor's race.

>> to bernd. >> bill burns was the one who made the decision.n the know, he recommended to the president that this decision be taken and the president decided. >> did the white house exert any influence over the state department's recommendations? >> no, sir. >> mr. chairman, it seems to me there's an individual there that is missing then from this hearing today that perhaps we should ask if we should be able to submit some questions to the individual. you know, we all know state department ever taken us what's going on in the street or moves. -- the strait of hormuz. i was in iraq in august, and although our military presence now there has wound down, they're still a big state department footprint in iraq, isn't there? inbox or where i was, there isn't that what of the largest state department operations, and the reason, my understanding the reason is because that's where iraq kind of narrows down going to the gulf, and all of the oil flowing from southern part of the country will go through basra for pipelines to go through the. so the state d

you have a $700 fender bernd and your insurance covers the first $500. do you turn it in?rn in every single claim. that's the problem. >> right now, if you to have insurance and move from insurance to insurance, they can't deny you -- they have to cover my daughter who has a condition because the law says if you have insurance, we should exand if law to say if you have any insurance, not just group but individual insurance. that's one change we need to make. obama says if you don't have insurance, they have to cover you. we are waiting for the mandate to go into effect. the reason is if you have a policy that says a program that says you have to cover anybody whether they have insurance or not, whether it is pre-existing condition, what are people going to do? they are going wait until they get -- by insurance. every young person is going to say why am i buying insurance? you to create an incentive to go out and buy insurance so when you come off your parents policy, as long as you do that, they will never hit you with the pre-existing condition applause because you came o