and be fair and clal the p -- call the planning name ♪ supervisor kim: thank you, walter.blic comment is closed. we have three applicants for seat 1. there is a motion to move all three to those respective seats. i know that they have been active participants already, so i felt comfortable moving forward with this recommendation without her having come to committee. thank you, very much. can you please call item no. 4? >> to be appointed for the citizens of central market, there are five seats in the five applicants. >> we didn't get a letter from someone who have withdrawn her application. i believe all of them are here today. if we can call her up first for seat number four. it is the same format, thank you for your interest in serving. >> i am the current representative for the outlying area. i have been there for almost 30 years. right now, i am the current treasurer of the council. sfgov.or[unintelligible] right now, i am here to represent the seniors. being an active member, every day, i serve lunch and i am an active member of the senior center. supervisor kim: any

. >> congressman steve king, we apologize, because of a tech any clal glitch right there, and thank you for the time, sir, and we will let you get back to work. >> thank you very much. >> i want to bring in nationally syndicated talk show radio host michael smerconish. >> hello, thomas. >> and coming off of the heelings off what congressman king just said, and there are strong conservative voices saying there could be a backlash of the tea party. >> well, at what angle is the backlash coming. and what you just asked the congressman, call me naive, but i would like to think that there is a significant segment of americans who are displeased with the polar opposites and uprising finally from the middle. you know, thomas, i answer telephones for a living and i hear from the callers across the country, and i'm hearing o ing of frustration expressed for both directions and might this be a wake-up call? we will find out. >> and one of the possibilities if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, president obama invoking the 14th amendment which is the clause that says that the validity of th

and it allows us to continue working to reduce the debt and deficit without the threat of economic clal amity hanging over our heads again. mr. president, democrats have compromised and compromised again and again, and this bill that is before us now is the fruit of those compromises. it's also the last and best hope of preventing us from defaulting in a few short days on the full faith and credit of our nation for the first time in our history. there's no other choice. the markets are waiting and watching, credit rating agencies are waiting and watching, countries around the world are waiting and watching, but most importantly, mr. president, the american people are waiting and watching. i hope we pass this bill. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, thank you very much. i rise to address this issue of the debt limit and how we are going to go forward, and i think it's important, given the conversation that i have been hearing this morning, to understand some of the key features

balanced, bipartisan agreement to reduce our deficit, create jobs and protect ouseniors and our middle clals. i say to my republican friends, america is not -- class. i say to my republican friends, america is not short on work ethic, we're short ojobs. it's time to get to the business of america and create those jobs. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. mr. camp: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: it is now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman who is a member of our committee and the chair of our caucus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut for two minutes. mr. larson: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. levin. at this very moment the whole world is watching in on the united states congress. it is a sad day for the united states congress. we in america, the preeminent military, economic and cultural leaders in the world are governing like we're a thirled world country --

balanced, bipartisan agreement to reduce our deficit, create jobs and protect our seniors and our middle clals. i say to my republican friends, america is not -- class. i say to my republican friends, america is not short on work ethic, we're short on jobs. it's time to get to the business of america and create those jobs. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. mr. camp: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: it is now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman who is a member of our committee and the chair of our caucus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut for two minutes. mr. larson: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. levin. at this very moment the whole world is watching in on the united states congress. it is a sad day for the united states congress. we in america, the preeminent military, economic and cultural leaders in the world are governing like we're a thirled world country -

balanced, bipartisan agreement to reduce our deficit, create jobs and protect our seniors and our middle clals. i say to my republican friends, america is not -- class. i say to my republican friends, america is not short on work ethic, we're short on jobs. it's time to get to the business of america and create those jobs. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. mr. camp: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: it is now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman who is a member of our committee and the chair of our caucus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut for two minutes. mr. larson: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. levin. at this very moment the whole world is watching in on the united states congress. it is a sad day for the united states congress. we in america, the preeminent military, economic and cultural leaders in the world are governing like we're a thirled world country -

that you are making one smaller step in the right direction, and i think in order to avoid a fiscal clal amity, we do need to make the strongest step that we can make, which is cutting spending and doing it without increasing taxes. the idea that we could tax our way out of debt has been totally discounted. neither of these plans includes tax hikes to offset the deficit reduction and that is a strong strong -- that's a strong endorsement. both proposals also include budget enforcement of discretionary caps by requiring automatic, across-the-board cuts if the caps are not met. that will put a governor on future spending to keep the promise that we are making to cut spending. both proposals establish a bipartisan committee to identify further deficit reduction that would include tax reform and fixing the broken entitlement programs. i hope that we will not throw that out the window. having a commission -- i know people roll their eyes and say oh, another commission, really? well, if we have a finite end date and have the opportunity to make more real cuts, it's worth another chance. we do

balanced, bipartisan agreement to reduce our deficit, create jobs and protect our seniors and our middle clals. i say to my republican friends, america is not -- class. i say to my republican friends, america is not short on work ethic, we're short on jobs. it's time to get to the business of america and create those jobs. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. mr. camp: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: it is now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman who is a member of our committee and the chair of our caucus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut for two minutes. mr. larson: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. levin. at this very moment the whole world is watching in on the united states congress. it is a sad day for the united states congress. we in america, the preeminent military, economic and cultural leaders in the world are governing like we're a thirled world country -