station makes available its contact email, including the captain's e-mail to the public, the committee to relations unit, -- the committee relations unit, to be sure that people's needs are met and handled. officers provide full services to limited english-proficient speakers. we have a telephone based interpreter service, bilingual officers to handle that. we have forms translated into different languages, and we also have devices to assist the limited english proficient community. members of the public have three ways to anonymously give a tip to the police department. there is text, phone, and online forms. community policing plans to update on the community policing efforts and create -- we are currently creating a website some members of the public can log on to the website, download. information, and see what kind of things we're doing in the different communities. we will be doing out reached, once the website is out, to encourage use to participate. we have not actively recruited through the school district. -- we have actively recruited through the school district. the problem solving form is c

that is my job at the committee relations unit. we are staffed by liaison officers who are bilingual, by cultural. ingleside station is one of the only stations where officers have department e-mail addresses. there is currently a gap in our technological. capabilities -- in our technological capabilities. officers have been accretive working around that. once all of the officers have e- mail, it will be easier to contact members of the public. the department's email system has intermittent problems. you cannot do mass e-mail in credit for the capt. to send out the newsletter, it is a cumbersome process. it is something that really aggravates our community -- our ability to communicate with the public. one of the questions posed in the agenda was how does the san francisco police department proposed budgets affected initiatives. reduction in staff may force the reassignment of officers to other community policing efforts so that we can field cars in the defense stations to respond to calls for service. community policing trading. t

station makes available its contact email, including the captain's e-mail to the public, the committee to relations unit, -- the committee relations unit, to be sure that people's needs are met and handled. officers provide full services to limited english-proficient speakers. we have a telephone based interpreter service, bilingual officers to handle that. we have forms translated into different languages, and we also have devices to assist the limited english proficient community. members of the public have three ways to anonymously give a tip to the police department. there is text, phone, and online forms. community

president carter signed the document and send it to the senate foreign relations committee for a vote in 1980. to date, 31 years later, the united states is the only developed nation that has failed to ratify the treaty, putting us and the company of somalia, sudan, iran, and zimbabwe. this past month and the halls of congress, we have seen an attack on american women like never before. instead of a clear focus on the budget and job creation, there has been a concentrated effort to limit women's rights. we have had a major push in congress to redefine rape to only those women who could prove that they fought back. this would exclude many victims of date rape, children who were raped. we had a legislator from georgia who wants to change the legal term. he but the word to the accuser. victims of lesser crimes like burglaries would remain victims. in south dakota, the bill was proposed that would make it legal to murder a doctor who basically provided a portion care. it would make it legal to kill the doctor. we have another bill, the international violence against women act, a sister bill to that which is the domestic bill. it cre

united states get more involved? and if so, how? that's what we'll ask the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, democrat john kerry. we'll also ask senate republican leader mitch mcconnell about that, and about the impasse over government spending and reforming social security. we'll bring in "new york times" columnist tom friedman for analysis. and i'll have a final thought on the supreme court ruling that gave a church group the right to picket a combat soldier's funeral. it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now, from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. we begin today with senator kerry. thank you for joining us, senator. but before we talk, here's the latest from libya. there is heavy fighting along the libyan coast. qaddafi's forces retook the town as libyan planes launched air strikes against rebels on the ground. although the rebels captured the key oil port city of ras lanuf yesterday, they are under heavy attack there today as well as in the cities of zawiyah

2011, pursuant to the provisions of 40 united states code 307, the committee on transportation and infrastructure met in open session to consider a resolution relating to the general services administration's f.y. 2011 capital investment and leasing program. the resolution authorizes the consolidation of the operations of the national gallery of art and the federal trade commission that will result in savings to the federal government. the committee adopted the resolution by a voice vote with a quorum present. enclosed is a copy of the resolution adopted by the committee on february 16, 2011, signed, john l. mica, chairman. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on appropriations. the house will be in order. will members and staff take your conversations to the back of the chamber or off the house floor, please. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i'd like to call up house resolution 662 for its consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 9, 46r789 r. -- h.r. 662, a bill to provide an extension of federal aid, highwa

when did foreign relations or foreign policy with other countries go to the co- chair of committees and leave the white house? guest: the president is the diplomat in chief for the unitedtes. the state department works for him and directed. much of the foreign policy depends on federal appropriated dollars. the u.s. congress has to be involved. the u.s. constitution does not give exclusive power to the president. all the spending has to go through congress. in the foreign policy of the united states with regard to comprehensive theft of -- or the size and footprint of the state department in china, that comes before the congress. host: bud, a republican. caller: midmorning, senator. i am on my way to work. i want to ask you about the state budget deficits. we sent a lot of money to the banks, most of them in new york city, a hundred billion dollars worth -- $800 billion worth. i was listening to the news hour last night. the combined total deficit in the 50 states is $175 billion. why can the federal government return that much money back to the states and put them back in the black? guest: we should not bailout the states. that would threaten the credit of the united