the plans and programs committee recommends and the board appoints and committee members. on page 18 of your packet, you can see a list of folks who have sent in applications to be on the citizens' advisory committee. on page 17, there is a listing with information on the existing members. to qualify for appointment to the cac, you have to be a san francisco resident, and you have to a pier once before this committee to speak to your qualifications. we currently have one vacancy, which is the result of mr. switzer, and he is interested of being reappointed. obviously, he is here today. supervisor campos: have we heard from the district supervisor, the district 7 a supervisor, on this appointment? >> i am the chief deputy. i believe the district 7 supervisor is still recruiting and discussing with mr. switzer. i should note, the list is rather short, because we do put a time limit on applications. supervisor campos: great, thank you very much. let's hear now from mr. switzer and any other applicant. mr. switzer, please come forward. again, we want to thank you for your serv

this committee has done a lot of work. we have that two major commissions doing work for over one year on this issue. the simpson-bowles commission, the gang of six in the senate have done -- has done a lot of work on this. i do not accept the premise that they cannot get a substantive proposal made by the termination of their mandate of november 23. i am hopeful that they can. if they cannot, i want to see this committee succeed. as i said in a letter signed by 100 members of the house, i want to see a conclusion reached. i want to see a big deal. i want to see us get to a point where the deficit -- the debt to gdp ratio is sustainable and confidence building. i am supportive of this committee reaching a conclusion successfully. in the events duality that they cannot do that and they ask for an extension, -- eventuality that they cannot do that and they ask for an extension, i am respectful of that decision. there are republicans and democrats that would want to see work come to a close if they cannot reach a conclusion.

the chair of a committee group discussing this committee, this super committee, was a gentleman fromton, and senator simpson and others. all of them predicted the success of this particular committee, super committee, would be anywhere from 10% to less than 50%. if i was a betting man in this race, i would not bet on anything like that. guest: conventional wisdom right now is pretty split on whether or not the super committee is able to get a majority and votes anything out that goes to congress. so then we have to start thinking about what the deadlines are and what happens if, because that leaves unpopular cuts as the next. as soon as the super committee process fails, anything that is more popular than those cuts becomes a viable option compared to a cutting defense and cutting medicare benefits. if the super committee process fails, all eyes will turn to changing the trigger and other statutory fixes so the automatic cuts don't actually happen. host: thank you for yourim

the organizing committee is set up to ratify or men committee recommendations. so each of the committees, when they have a recommendation, but the organizing committee seeking their ratification of that or modification. when it came to planning staff technical assistance, i do not know what it is about me or the department -- i know the department has a very high standing in the minds of many young people going through school, studying these programs. but i seem particularly blessed with the sort of interns that my projects seem to attract. for doing things like updating retail sales information since 2008, which 2007 was the last date in which the japantown neighborhoods plan, was fortunate enough to have an intern that was finishing up her master's at pratt, come in and update the sales information at the request of the community. i was also fortunate enough to find and in turn by the name of jonathan yee. this was through a round of golf was playing monday. i met his father, and he said his son was interested in an internship. and jonathan, who graduated from

over that and any other pending items looms the super committee defining committee; namely, how will it all be paid for? >> bret: a big question, james. thank you. senior political analyst brit hume is here with thoughts on why the super committee was a super bust. good evening. >> hi, bret. the failure of the super committee has been widely attributed to the partisan stalemate. the problem is less partisan than ideological. the battle over spending and debt is fought along the deepest fault line in american politics. republicans believe deeply that raising income tax rates for anybody including the wealthy is economically dangerous and politically suicidal. the sides wouldn't raise enough money. democrats with equal furlough, cutting the entitlement benefit to attack the crowning achievement of their party's driver for social justice. nancy pelosi is opposing any cut. super committee was only supposed to develop a plan to lop off an eighth of the projected deficit in the next ten years. surely you think they could split the difference. get a deal. you can get the politicians to buck

>> dana: like the super committee, they would haven't had cover of joint committee but congress can get together to decide where the cuts will be. defense cuts are serious. you have to plan for that. >> bob: to clarify this. the cuts are -- by the way, they are law. they can't -- it takes two-third of them. you can't get them to agree on anything. >> kimberly: this is tabled until after the election on purpose >> bob: no way to undo the triggers. they have to be split equally between domestic and defense. move it around within the domestic spending and military but you can't change the formula. >> eric: this is a big gain. watching now going they never were going to get this thing. >> dana: i am thankful they pulled the plug on it today so we don't have to talk about it all week. >> greg: i was talking to macaroni steve and we came to the idea this is bigger idea, class wa warfare. republicans are evil protectors of the rich and democrats try to help the poor people. this is class warfare. >> dana: will there be macaroni warfare. >> bob: the people up for raising taxes on the wealthy pe

i am a member of the organizing committee and co-chair of the committee of economic development in the japan center subcommittee. i am here to brief you on a couple of elements, the cultural heritage and community ownership aspects. but first, a couple of general comments. first, i want to recognize the other committee chairs that have worked on it on the other chapters. in the transportation public realm area, greg johnson, diane onizuka, paul, and rose. in the land use build forum, you already met karen, and her sidekick is not here today, could not make it. the committee heritage, paul, in, and brian, who is filling in for paul, who is on medical leave. number two, paul mentioned it earlier, but i want to echo this. thank you to the friends of city planning for the grant. the reviews and ratings by the attendees clearly show that it was a very beneficial, particularly well-received and productive. also, you know, we know that japantown is a very desirable and active real-estate market. we know there will be change. and we know that this plan is important to the community that wants

if you look at the special committee, six of those who are on the committee are actually penn state boardf trustee members. and so by bringing someone from the outside, it becomes apparent that some of those -- penn state might be able to deflect that criticism that it's too inside. so bringing in louis freeh, who is an outsider, is coming in and bringing his own investigators to look at this, and what they're stressing is total independence as to how this investigation will take place. >> appreciate it. >>> newt gingrich is surging in the polls and the seasoned politician is doing all he can to shoot down potential lines of attack on his past way new web site. we'll take a look in the cnn political ticker. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour

committee. in the days of reductions in defense spending, it is absolutely vital that the appropriations committee follow the guidance and authorization of the authorizing committee. and i intend to do everything in my power to make sure that that happens. now, an example of what i would have liked to have seen more is the joint strike fighter or the f-35 program. i offered an amendment during the committee's markup that would have put the program on a one-year probation if the costs under the fixed price contract for the fourth lot of early production aircraft grew by more than 10% over their target cost by the end of the year. my goal was to send a strong, simple, and powerful messenger to the pentagon and lockheed martin, a message we will no longer continue down the road of excessive cost growth and schedule slips on this program just because other alternatives are hard to come by. we now are faced with the prospect of the first trillion-dollar weapon system in history which was certainly no

>> or how about going to see the super committee in action. would you love that? boys, i have a question for you. don't you think that all the problems would be solved if there were more women on the super committee? say yes. i think that would actually fix everything. willie, if it is way too early -- >> it is "morning joe." see you back here tomorrow. stick around for "the daily rundown" hosted today by -- luke russert. >> get out! whoa. >>> it turns out failure is an option. after ten weeks, the congressional super committee is unable to cut a deficit deal. attention now turns to what comes next in the inevitable blame game. republican candidates get weepy at a family leader forum in iowa where talk turned to faith and morality. not attending? mitt romney who is busy picking up some key endorsements and jon huntsman who is busy poking a little fun at himself on "snl." >>> was he a lone wolf? a new york man is accused of plotting to bomb post offices, police officers and returning american troops. the latest on the investigation just ahead. >>> it's monday, nove

and the full committee. now, i've been told that the efforts have been made by the majority staff to do what i have described. and that is to work with the -- work with the democrats. and with the administration. we do not see it that way over here. and it appears that the republicans are having a hard time understanding what the meaning of the word "yes" is. and my question is, what part of it do you not understand? the getting of information in an investigation is a careful, thoughtful work that has to be done with exquisite care and with great attention to all manner of complications and complicated consideration. now, there's a question, why have we not spent more time on getting the documents from the department of energy? they voluntarily provided tens of thousands of pages of documents without being issued a subpoena. and they've refused to deliver nothing more to the request of this subcommittee. this subcommittee heard from omb and d.o.e. and they invited solyndra to exercise who exercised their pro

the super committee must not end. the president said if congress tries to get around the automatic cuts, called for in the law that created the super committee, he will veto it. >> my message to them is simple. no. i will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. there will be no easy off ramps on this one. we need to keep the pressure up to compromise. not turn off the pressure. >> the super committee's failure has important consequences. stocks fell sharply as investors added washington's gridlock over america's debt to an already long list of worries about economic growth at home and europe's financial crisis. plus, there are worries of a possible additional downgrade for the u.s. and the legislation that created that super committee calls for across the board spending cuts in the event of failure including deep pentagon saving that's military commanders say would dangerously undermine national security. one thing washington excels at is partisan finger pointing a

is that something this committee, a burden this committee is willing to take on if you don't reach an agreement? >> well, first, candy, i hope i'm never in washington to where i consider $250 billion the american people's money, a token. >> i'm sorry, as compared to the spending cuts, it's pretty token, you would have to admit. >> well, frankly, there are no real spending cuts on the table. let's make sure we are using the language like the american people do. all we are talking about here is slowing the rate of growth. all of these programs, by an large, are going to continue to grow, but at a pace that would become more sustainable. again as i said earlier, yes, we will fail unless we fundamentally do structural reform to what president obama himself has called the main drivers of our debt -- medicare, medicaid and health care. they cannot grow two, three, and four times the rate of the economy. so here's my point -- if at some point america doesn't take care of it, if we don't take care of it now, yes, we're on borrowed time. we're kicking the can down the road and that's why we sh

i'm sorry, ad hoc committee on student assignment. commissioner murase: on october 19, we addressed informational items. we heard from staff about the enrollment process for the 2012- 2013 school year. there is a proposal to move from unlimited choices in the august assignment system to the single highway pool. there is out of reach and recruitment -- november 5 is the enrollment affair. we received an annual report on student assignment. we're developing questions and getting the help from researchers on how to evaluate this new one. student assignment that includes a consideration for neighborhood assignment. there was an update on the redesign of transportation services. president mendoza: any other reports on any of the committees that may have met? commissioner norton: i'm not reporting on a committee, but i did go see a bilingual community council meeting. i did not know we were doing this, but we have begun translating the annual test reports that all parents get in the mail. parents are getting them in their native languages w

>>chris: this week you many cap the odds of outcomes of the super committee.mick deal like using war funding to cut the deficit 10 jeering, in deal, 30 percent, partial deal, not the pull deal, $40 percent. done deal, $1.2 trillion. and big deal, the so-called $3 trillion plus, 5 percent. after hearing our two congressman, mr. zandi, what do you think will happen? >>guest: well, to my ear it sounds like it is a "no," deal. hopefully my economic protests are better than what they decided early in the week but it sounds like this deal. >>chris: before we get to the impact in the markets, you heard two, republicans saying doing this through spending cuts especially with entitlement reform and democrats say they want to see size ability tax increases on the wealthy, from the economic point of view, which is the better way? >>guest: both. we came to terms around the debt crisis debate in august we need $4 trillion in ten year deficit reduction and the most logical approach is $3 trillion of the $4 trillion should be government spending cuts. and $1 trillion should

let me ask you then about the current committee, i mean the super committee was in part shaped by president obama and here it is now, at the 11th hour, and it is apparently going to fail, they're not going to meet what they promised what they would do, and people would say that president obama hasn't front and center enough in terms of doing that last-minute politicking -- >> no, no. back up. now, the super committee was set up by the leading congressional leaders because that's where they wanted it. number two, he put an insurance policy in there. that if you fail, if congress doesn't do its job, there's going to be an automatic cut and that was the insurance policy both to motivate them but to make sure that americans got the type of changes and cuts in reforms that were necessary. now, he hoped that congress would do it. but he had to buy an insurance policy. number two, as i said before, he plan, they have an ideology. he's offered to work on a grand bargain. they have refused to bargain. they will not move. he has said, as partisan overall plan i will make that part of it. that shows c

i would motion we sit as a committee as a whole. i think this is an important issue that we as an entire body need to sit as one family and address collectively. it would allow people from all sides on this issue an opportunity to speak to each and every one of us in the most fair and most transparent part of the process that we have. supervisor elsbernd: supervisor cohen has made a motion to continue to the 15th and sit as a committee, as a whole. supervisor campos: i would like to make a motion to send it back to committee, if that is the approach a supervisor wishes to take. supervisor elsbernd: city attorney, what do we take first? >> the motion to move to a date. supervisor kim: why do we have to call the committee as a whole based on the 15th instead of the 22nd? is there a scheduling constraint? we could have the second reading in december and still make it in time for the mayor to sign it. supervisor cohen: i thank you for your question. there are a couple of reasons. in the beginning part of this health care security ordina

crone, and i think also a matter for this committee. >> similar statements were made about our committee report in 2010. could i just very, very quickly deal with mr. crone and mr. myler who have taken issue with you, clearly mr. pike has already told us he knew that people from news were not telling principally mr. myler and mr. crone as soon as they open their mouth. can't i just add something else into the mix here? as far as what mr. crone and mr. myler told us. originally, mr. crone told us as far as neville thurlbeck. i questioned neville thurlbeck then and i questioned the same subject at his position is he is never seen the e-mail nor had any knowledge of it. .. >> i think that's -- with respect, i think that's a question for this committee to judge the evidence given to it. i have been very clear that i believe this committee was given evidence with executives either without full possession of until facts or that was not as complete as it should have been, and i'm sorry for that, and the company is. this is -- it's not good, and it's something that i'm determined to make sure do

particularly i'm proud of my committee, committee i have served on for 14 years, the rules committee, under the leadership of the gentleman from california, dave dreier, making sure he saw the bill, the power for investment, capital formation, jobs, but also included ideas. ideas from both sides of the aisle. equally if submitted, were given not only consideration but the agreement, the green light to come on the floor today to make sure that what we did we did together. to make sure that we speak for the voice that's very powerful about the need for us to ensure america's greatest days lie in our future through the free enterprise system. i am proud of what we have done here today. and i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to inform the gentleman from texas--one additional speaker emerged and i would be honored to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from washington. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. without

the super committee's a disgrace. let me repeat that. the super committee is a disgrace.o pay for their negligen negligence. their failure costs all of us and continues to spiral out of control. they did nothing. they knew the consequences of their actions, they chose to do nothing. they were charged with agreeing on $1.2 trillion in cuts to the national debt spread out over ten years. congress borrowed $1.3 trillion. this year alone. doesn't seem too much to ask. actions are supposed to have consequences and most of the time, they do, unless you're a member of congress. the super committee is just a latest group of politicians who lied to us about reducing government spending. simpson bowles commission put forth a program for cut iting t debt. it was discarded like trash. like wise the gang of six. even before the super committee failed, one poll showed congress's approval rating at a low of just 9%. it was the first time congress registered in the single digits in this poll since the question was first asked if the '70s. the same survey shows americans have less trust i

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the committee was designed to fail.consequences and there is not a trigger. 13 months until january 13 for the triggered cuts to be rescinded. they will be rescinded next december following the election and we'll not have the cuts that everyone talks about being in the pentagon. >> chris: you think they will beed or rescinded. >> they might be replaced. but congressman becerra starting to worry that is a slippery slope. you may move the number of 1.2. that is a slippery slope but we'll not see the cuts that everyone are scared of. the pentagon is not going to take the hit. it was supposed to be over the committee. no default or deadline or consequences. you will see over the next year how to replace those cuts with other cuts. this time 535 cooks in the kitchen and don't have a filibuster proof product and conservatives who cut little and voted to raise the debt ceiling and fight over the extension of the bush tax cuts. >> the house republicans passed a tough budget and what happened to it? it went to the senate and no

and create the budget committee. they spent weeks trying to figure out a way to assure the passage of bills that pertained to the budget and not destroy the filibuster rule. in the end, he quietly gave in. i decided it meant i could take the reconciliation bill to the floor of the senate and it cannot be filibustered. i defeated robert byrd. his own way said he had found a way to get around filibuster in without changing the rules of the senate. we gave a budget committee in the senate to act without filibuster. there's nothing as powerful as this committee. >> you have headed up the cbo and omb as well. what would be the implications of the united states not meeting the financial challenge facing us question must -- challenge facing us? given the fragility of the world and priests committed sector. >> i agree it could be devastating. i think we could face a long time of spending growth, another recession which would be worse in the one -- than the one we are slowly climbing out of. it is very hard to predict when th

first, with the super committee. we wish them well and it beyond that, we take this challenge and except it -- accept it as the challenge of our political generation. this is our chance to make a difference. there may not be another chance. there may not be an issue of such magnitude. this is our moment. let's seize that moment let's succeed for the good of this nation. >> this is about more than money, it is about whether the president in the congress can govern. about whether we can face up to the biggest problem facing our cup -- country. can we solve that problem? we can. we have a laid out for more. we have republicans who have put revenue on the table. we have democrats who have put entitlements on the table. both need to put more on the table to get a result. we support them. >> there is something in this for everybody. i am a progressive democrat. i believe in the importance of medicare. those who believe in medicare have to take the lead in making sure it is sustainable. this go big effort is the best way, w

host: support committee -- super committee success. ms. gingrich sitting down with all but -- newt gingrich, sitting down with "union leader ." >> as a pretty early on it was the dumbest idea i heard of. we take 535 people to represent us, shrink them to 12, and have the 12 handpicked by the political leaders, and think they are going to accomplish something? this was an act of desperation by people who could not fix anything. and i said up front, if i were in john boehner's shoes, i may not be able to do any better because the real difference is obama. bill clinton tried to build a moderate wing of the democratic party through the democratic leadership council, he spent 12 years as governor negotiating with a conservative legislature. we fought, but we could talk. we understood we had to get something done. which meant i had to schedule it and he had to sign it. host: former house speaker newt gingrich yesterday in new hampshire. available online anytime at c- span.org. "roll call" as this roll call. we will check in with humberto sanchez

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super committee is the dumbest idea he's seen in a lifetime.mmittee will prove newt gingrich wrong? >> well, he can characterize it as dumb as he wants. i don't thing a slew of bad things will happen, if the super committee fails to come up with a plan, people have said we could get downgraded or a slew of automatic cuts, none of those things may happen. here's why. markets had no expectations that could be considered positive for this committee. they won't be surprised. there may be some volatility in the near term. ratings agencies like moodies came out and said we're going to wait and see what you do by 2013 essentially. and in terms of the spending cuts, congress literally has 13 months to reverse its decision. >> they have a little back door. . it's interesting that on wall street's past performance, they know the past performance of washington that's giving them a hint of how things might go. gloria borger, the american public too, pessimistic about the super committee, 78% say it's unlikely the super committee will agree on a deficit pla

>> well, judy, i think everybody needs to understand that if the deficit committee, the joint committeeever existed, that at the end of next year the folks at the very top of the income scale would go back to paying the rates they were in the clinton administration. that would mean $800 billion in revenue coming in. what some of our republicans want to do is say, we're not going to allow that $800 billion to come in. in fact we'll lock in tax breaks of $550 billion for the folks at the top. by the way the price you have to pay for that is to bring down the top rate to 28% which will mean that middle class tax payers face a greater tax burden than the folks at the top. that's just not fair. >> woodruff: you're saying that's a non-starter. >> i'm saying that's not fair. i should point out that every other bipartisan group has assumed that this $800 billion from the termination of the bush tax cuts on the folks at the top as part of their starting point as part of their baseline. that $250 doesn't even get you into the starting gate in comparison to what the other bipartisan groupsçó have