we need to deal with if we have one cochair present, to keep that cochair continuing to chair. if there is no cochair present, another member of the council can chair, and stay within the bylaws. >> i choose to amend the motion, to include a limit of two months for a cochair-appointed replacement. >> should we say, not to exceed two consecutive meetings? m d c meetings. c>> chair: do you approve of that friendly amendment? councilmember wilson seconds the friendly amendment. everyone is clear? public comment? all in favor of the amendment proposal please raise your right hand and say aye. any opposed? abstained? that was not very painful. (laughter) we have a few more items. we are running short on time. is there any potential for extended time today? five minutes. thank you. the next item is a report from the disability disaster preparedness committee. >> thank you cochair parsons. >> chair: delivered by councilmember senhaux. >> disability disaster preparedness committee met on friday. there was a follow-up discussion on the shakeout activities that took place in october 18 a

we need to deal with if we have one cochair present, to keep that cochair continuing to chair. if there is no cochair present, another member of the council can chair, and stay within the bylaws.

one cochair cannot attend one or more meetings, i think he would be okay for the other cochair to appoint someone for a month but beyond that, i would like to see fuller council involvement, say someone is to take a leave of absence, so the whole council can provide input, and unnecessarily have a person chosen for a long-term. if you give me a second, i will try to come up with wording. >> chair: that makes sense to me. it would ensure the value of the council's vote and who the leader is, not just one person. for more than one month. >> should we change the wording to one month? or the current month? would that be easier? instead of one or more meetings. >> chair: tag a line that says, not to exceed one month duration. >> what about, not to exceed two consecutive meetings. >> i would be happy with that. >> that would be a regular meeting and an executive meeting. >> >> chair: could you repeat that mr. stein? >> if no cochair is present at a meeting, the meeting can be chaired by another member of the council and that is a loosey-goosey term.

do we have - this is a familiar face, our next public speaker is my former cochair -- welcome back. >> thank you very much. i am honored to be here today. it's bittersweet. i do know that you are going on to why as well. i work with you for over five years. you you have been a mentor and a friend. we won't go into those too much. >> i do! (laughter) >> being a blind person, i have a different approach, a different need in a way to get to know people. i cannot see faces at all. i got to make up what i want people to look like. i usually make them like greek gods and goddesses. which was also the case with jewels. except with jewels i made her out to be a swimsuit model, which will be handy in hawaii. seriously, when i got to look into the insight of her to get to know her i saw a person with extreme passion for the work she has done in the disability community. she has always excelled. she make sure it is not done halfway decently, but done well. she has been such an influence on me. i have learned so much from her. and i know that she has also taught many of us in this room a lot abou

will be manning the phone lines and e-mail address. >> cochair james? >> was there any incentive to take on this by the project. >> that is an excellent question. there is a civic incentive, we are trying to gather feedback and get input on how we should prioritize needs. personal incentive, we are raffling off three $50 clipper cards. i apologize for not mentioning that earlier. >> that is a wonderful idea. we need to promote that more. maybe more people would be more active in trying to solve the budget problems. >> we have been going out to street fairs and things; i neglected to mention that today. >> thank you. do we have any further comments or questions from the council? do we have any public comment? by anyone here in the chamber? we have your contact information, an e-mail address, hotline, and we look forward working together with you in the future prioritizing those needs. >> thank you. >> thank you for appearing today. we would like to move onto our next item. this is community perspectives on support of housing. let's ask our director, ms.

cochair the national commission on fiscal responsibility and reform. thanks a million, old pal. i will talk with you later. [laughter] great friends here. let me tell you a little bit about my pal. when he came into the senate, i had heard of him. my law partner, bob ranck, was a heavyweight champion from wisconsin university. i said this guy was the light heavyweight champion from syracuse, which he was. anyway, he came in and i said, remember bob? heavyweight champion from wisconsin when you were on the team in syracuse? he said, what a left hook. that is what he said. he could knock people out with that thing. people thought he was right- handed and then he would plow them with that. many news in and outside of the senate. public interest groups and campaign reform -- it was always about friendship and trust. trust is what is missing in this place. the point of trust is the coin of the realm, and the point of trust is severely tarnished. it is easy to see and it is very sad to those of us who are here. he was a remarkable kind of a guy. loved to to fight, especially -- rememb

force but what we have now is an earthquake safety working group which president mccarthy is going to cochair with me. now we can get into the meat of the implementation. the policy work done to create this ordinance was due to a lot of efforts by community leaders, and world leaders in earthquake safety. we have a very good product moving forward and my goal as director is to make sure the legislation city hall passes is given to the building inspection in a form they can implement it. often in the past what was waisted without their input it's a piece of legislation they can't use. i want to be sure this is useful and it runs smoothly through its implementation process and sets the stage for our 30 year work plan. last month we sent out a notice to every private school in san francisco, not accusing them of anything, not saying you are in an unsafe building, saying you are not required to meet safety standards, let's have a conversation. i'm pleased to inform you we have had several come forward and we continue to outreach them and we look forward to working with them. again, those are just

and it was a joy to -- to participate in -- in that with senator lieberman and to cochair that. we've remained friends. his contributions to our count country, not just representing his state but representing america around the world, will long be remembered and will have great impact and effect. and so we are losing a real talent, we're losing a real gentleman. we're losing someone whose example of how he conducts himself is an example for all of us of how we ought to conduct ourselves, and we don't always do that. joe lieberman has left a lasting impression on me and i know a number of other of our colleagues on both sides of this aisle and he'll be sorely missed. one thing i'm happy about is that we will continue a lifelong friendship, and i'm looking forward to many, many more opportunities with senator lieberman to work on matters of interest but in order to enjoy a continued sharing of the commonnalities of our judeo-christian faiths. mr. president, i came to the floor before i heard the announcement that apparently we have -- we're closing in, thankfully, on something as

former boss, former speaker mar, i would not have developed the relationships to be the national cochair of the philipinos for justice. she helped me fight for my passion no matter how uncomfortable it may be. marily has the ability to organize the community. i highly recommend marila mondejar to the commission because of her experience with marginalized communities and the ability to organize and develop and because she will help the community fight for what they want and deserve and strengthening the physical, social and economic infrastructure of san francisco while doing so. >> thank you for being here. i see there is only two more speakers left, so i want to encourage anyone else that did not fill out a speaker card to at this point line up on the right-hand side, your left-hand side of the room. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is ingrid merryweather, i am the president of a company doing business with the city for 15 years. in particular i've been fortunate to know mara rosales for close to 15 years. it would be difficult for the city to find anyone better who be

my guest tonight, former senator from wyoming, also the cochair of the national commission on fiscalsibility and reform, also known as the simpson/bowles plan, please welcome, senator allan simpson. sir. >> yuck man. young man. >> how are you? >> jon: nice to see you, senator, how are you? >> good, i saw that last segment. i thought maybe that would liven everything up for me. ( laughter ). i don't want to get into that. that wouldn't be a thing to do. >> jon: next time i'll make sure it's in the gift bag for everybody. ( laughter ). >> maybe just the cookies. >> jon: just the cookies. ( laughter ). so let me-- let me start with you. two years ago, two and a half years ago, you are aproasmed to chaiapproached tochair a commits to set up a deficit reduction plan for the country. you study it. you're very diligent. everybody hates it within 24 hours. the democrats say it's too austere. the republicans say you're raising tax too much. two years later as we stand on the precipiceave cliff, suddenly this plan as seen as the mosterably thing in town and people are coming to you to find out

cochair james, and program administrator -- >> i have a two-part question. one part is about the desk clerks and having someone who listen to you if you have a complaint. the complaint goes to management? they know they are trained to de escalate situation? i don't know about the training that desk clerks would have at sros. >> i think that the short answer is, that depends. a lot of nonprofit housing providers have their own training and standards to what desk clerks are trained in. yes, there are nonprofit-run sros, who have well-trained desk clerks. the vast majority are private buildings. they're not huge buildings that are very apparent. that could be 3-4 floors abouve a restaurant. that's just the person hired by the property manager, or have some sort of agreement for trade for work. and the function of that person is often to buzz people in or call 911. we are looking at raising the bar to where some of the training levels are at some of the nonprofit buildings. we have technical problems with that. in chinatown for example the norm is not to have a

he's the guidancing with the cochair of the president's deficit commission alan simpson. the group is working to get young people involved in fixing the debt crisis. >> we're trying to connect with our generation in a different way. we're using humor to hook them in and get them to learn about this issue and understand how it effects their lives. >> they want to sign up more than 2 million people to put pressure on both sides. in washington danielle noting ham wjz eyewitness news. >> former senator allen simple -- simpson said the deal must include new revenue and spending cuts. he called it stupidity to speculate on which party has more to lose. >>> across the pond in london the duchess of cambridge was discharged from the hospital this morning. she is pregnant and was hospitalized because she's been experiencing acute morning sickness. she was smiling this morning. kate is now back home in the palace for some more rest and said she's feeling much better. she said to not be yet 12 weeks pregnant and no due date has been announced. >>> cooler temperatures are making their

houseman.caucus cochairs -- >> we are joined by the cochairs of republican congressmen, and tim murphyand congresswoman grace napolitano. commerce and murphy come as a man who spent decades, were congress to be neat to be asking about her mental health system in the wake of the newton tragedy? >> well, there's several. first of all, we have to get focused. for too long we've ignored it. we pretend that it's not an important issue. but we've talked about the boss education, understanding the issues of mental illness today are not what they were 20, 30 years ago. we understand about the biology of, treatment of and medication do we need to be addressing them. another aspect is when it comes to federal government, we need to review what we do. we have enough funding in the areas that can help get treatment? and is it being used effectively not only the truth and aspect, residential care, community care, outpatient care, the research as well. there's still a great deal we need to about understanding the mind of a fat person. we have a long way to go as well. several aspects of regard to me

but here's our parent÷ezc committee cochair, michelle an tone that would like tol few words. >> goodon which tucson arizona. and i am born and raised here in san francisco, and on the parents of the indian education program, we are very thankful/k44k(.Ñ grateful for this acknowledgement. we have a strong group of dedicated parents that have been working really hard to keep this program going. for a period of time we didn't have a program coordinator. and now we have one of our own parents who is the coordinator. and so it's been a lot of work from a lot of dedicated parents that have been keeping the program going. we have been very instrumental in trying to get a location for our program. we have been kind of floating around here and there and now we are at cesar chavez,naj we're grateful that we have a room so that we can really get our program running full strength. and it's good to have a location so families can have somewhere to go when they need to. there's no other program in c<6Ñczshp &c"p% school district that supports the american indian students, and so this program is ve

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the ball's cochair joins us to talk about the event, plus a new campaign out today. >>> whatever. >> like. >> you know. >> i'm just sayin'. >> we all know these terms. they're overused and the most annoying terms out there. >> whatever has topped the list the past four years, followed by like, you know, and just sayin'. runners up included twitterverse and got i can't. >> a well placed whatever is okay. >> i'm not annoyed by that. we have other words in washington we're annoyed by. >> fiscal cliff. check them out. this band is really great. you heard them playing music for the redskins cheerleaders. listen a little bit. ♪ shake, shake, shake, shake your booty, shake your booty ♪ >> right on ban, 10 piece band, full morning section. they'll be playing for us. >> and how about we have a band that brings its own dancers in here? this is the real deal. they are great. they played at dave ross' brother's wedding? >> and also for the last few u.s. presidents. >> how about that? >> maybe the biggest band we've had here. >> i think so. heard them all morning long and

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♪ [ music ] ♪ so much so, that he's the guy in the can suit, dancing gang thisnam style with the cochairrmer senator, allen simpson. his group, the can kicks back, is working to get young people involved in fixing the debt crisis. >> we're trying to get our generation involved in a different way. we're using humor to get them to understand how this issue affects their lives. >> reporter: the grass roots want to sign up more than 2 million people to put pressure on both sides. in washington, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. >> now, former senator simpson said in know an interview this morning, that the deal must include new revenue and spending cuts. >>> time for a quick look at some of the stories you'll find in the baltimore sun. get information on do it yourself spaces for artists around baltimore. >>> the significance behind patches some of the navy players will be wearing saturday in their game against army. >>> and how the ravens plan to slow down rookie quarterback standout robert griffin iii in the beltway battle. for these stories and more, remember to look for the forec

simpson bowles and another where she was a cochair. >> we hammered out a report. out to be similar to the simpson-bowles report, because the arithmetic drives you there. you have to slow growth of healthcare entitlement, put social security back on firm foundation and raise revenue through reformed tax code. everybody who looks at it comes out that way. now i think a very substantial substantial member of congress of both parties understand that. but they are caught in a political game of blaming each other. >> economist author of the book "classical economic principles and wealth of nations." >> if you want to get the economy growing at a healthy rapid rate in order to do it, you will have to cut the government cost. public programs. either direct government spending or regulatory compliance expenditures or total. unfortunately, at least in the regulatory compliance area, we're moving in the opposite direction. >> arthur brooks is optimistic. >> now is a better time than ever. a golden opportunity to do what we should have done a long time ago. we have an opportu

so much so that he's the guy in the can suit, dancing gangnam style with the cochair of the deficit commission, former senator allen simpson. senecki's group, the can kicks back, is working to get young people involved in fixing the debt crisis. >> we're trying to connect with our generation in a different way. we're using humor to get them to learn about this situation and how it affects their life. >> reporter: the grass roots campaign wants to sign up more than 2 million people to put pressure on both sides. in washington, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. >> reporter: former senator allen simpson said in an interview today, that a fiscal cliff compromise must include new revenue and spending cuts. >>> the sun makes a return and that helped fight off the chill a little bit. taking a live look outside. the sun has set. and there is the washington monument. it will be lit momentarily. so is winter really back after our near record warm weather? bob is in the first warning weather center, updating temperatures for us. bob? >> well, we've got clouds and milder temps. but no record-makin

at the hoover institution, where he chairs the hoover taskforce on national security and law and cochairs the hoover task force on the virtues of a free society. in the past he served as an associate professor at george mason university school of law and an assistant and associate professor at harvard university. he is the author of virtue and the making of modern liberalism and the ethics seven moralist. he holds that j.d. and a ph.d. in political science from this institution, a master's in philosophy from the hebrew university of jerusalem and a d.a. in english literature from swarthmore college. i feel sort of silly introducing these people because everyone knows who they are, but still, i have to. serve as the editor in chief of commentary magazine from 1960- 1995, and is their current editor at large. he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by george w. bush. he served as a senior fellow at the hudson's -- hudson institute and was a senior fellow and is the author of many books and articles, including the bush doctrine, what the president said, and what it means, world war

cochairs of the mental health caucus, tim murphy of pennsylvania and grace napolitano of california. developing and implementing emergency plans and we will hear from scott stossel to talk about his two recent pieces about the rise of manufacturing in the u.s. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> prefers experience was to come in at a different way than every other family appear. it will probably never happen again in history. it is interesting because after dad was sworn in, we went and took a picture, a photo of the family. and that night we didn't get to move them into the white house. because nixon had left so quickly and so unexpectedly. they love their daughter and son in law to tackle their clothes and belongings. it literally took seven or eight days. we had to go back to our little house in alexandria, virginia, it was surrounded by secret service in the neighborhood. we lived there when dad was vice president. and i remember mom was cooking dinner. we are sitting on the dinner table and mom was cooking dinner and she said, jerry, som

bruce reid, executive director of the commission cochaired by erskine and i from idaho. i don't know how he got into that. i'm not going to go any further. i see corey logan took it over there, one of my students as however. now anne has cleared her throat three times. and if you have heard it, but i've heard it. stick around because the test of an event like this, i go up and say how's the wind? better than anything you ever bought. [laughter] said now that i'm finished i'll be having one. but there's something, if you have a book, i don't just want to scribble my name. you can get this out there. if you want me to do some personalization, just put a slip of paper in their and eventually i will get them back or they will be here in washington with mike, me dear pal, chief of staff. where is the? anyway, mike lately, you are the finest i've ever known. you wear your crown and have been, certainly here. [laughter] becky -- all right, this is like the picture of dorian gray. [laughter] i am falling apart in this picture is eternal. dorian gray was a picture aged and he nev