he said, earmarks. people feel invested. if they feel invested in legislation because it brings some things their constituencies, they are more willing. i want that piece to be included. two other quick examples. one of the reforms that occurred in that 1960's and 1970's was caucuses. lyndon johnson had one caucus a year. he had in january. people say, we want to have more caucuses. now we have several of week. now it is a pep rally. do you know what they just did? now we will do this. and it is a back and forth. everyone is charged and energized and ready to take on each other hunger games style. that is one. i love transparency, but it has a downside. all of the media scrutiny, even today, it makes people climb -- clam up. they do not want to say anything in front of the camera that they can possibly get in trouble with. everyone is very reserved. you cannot really be honest with your colleagues in you have all of this -- i remember we had to go through a terrible chapter of impeachment. we have the cameras on during the d

so i don't believe that he didn't want earmarks.earmarks that got obamacare passed. >> he threaten to veto any attempt. november 21st, 2011 i will veto any attempt to reduce the spending cuts. this is what they wanted. they got what they wanted. and republicans were even going to get the white house and congressional democrats the opportunity to decide what they wanted to cut and what they wanted to save and sean, even then they refused. >> sean: this is a good point, dana, i -- i don't know the barber shops, we've got to subsidize the senate getting their hair cut and do we have to know about the duck again taila? >> no, this is what we want to get rid of. >> sean: there are so many billions that are poured down the sewer just like the 787 billion dollar stimulus debacle. >> it's at the margins until we deal with entitlement reforms, let's be honest. >> sean: how about we get a new president and a new senate. that would be a start. dana lash, i got it down pat. >> thank you, sean. >> sean: and coming up next, president obama took t

arts commission and we earmark money and send it to them. a lot of times you'll find the board of supervisors members have support for various programs also. we've gotten that after the budget was done in order to fund some of the programs. >> great. do you have another question? >> i have three more. >> you have three more up there, and anybody else going to be wanting to ask a question? okay, we'll get you lined up, then. >> let's see. this is to sharon. your capital city clean up program offers $1500 to private property owners to abate on heritage properties. what are the technical requirements to abate graffiti from heritage properties? >> i actually am not an expert in terms of the types of chemicals. so, i really captain answer that question. basically like i said before, we have our contractor on staff who is fully qualified, who is responsible for getting a letter approval through heritage for his chemical. they have to do a test with them to ensure that the products are safe for use on all heritage buildings. and so that's how we've

earmarking.low the american public paying the taxes to earmark bulk of their taxes to things they want. if they want the white house press tours. if they want enhanced military. if they want the social programs. you know what will happen? all the things that matt her get supported. the military, police, roads. all the little fluffy stuff will disappear. >> dana: no more solyndra. >> bob: sorry, go ahead. >> eric: one question. "washington post," editorial page, reopen the white house doors, calling it bureaucratic hostage-taking. that is a week later. >> dana: yeah. that is why they could have stopped this from the beginning. i had a good point earlier i said in green room. if you throw the secret service under the bus, why not do it two weeks ago on the night when they announce that the white house tours would be closed? if you throw them under the bus you could have said whoa, secret service. you can't close the white house tours. we will figure this out. the white house will save the day. blam

and now we want to go into ali baba's cave of tax earmarks. and out of at least $11.5 trillion -- probably more like $14 trillion -- and if you throw in the offshoring, that takes you up to $17 trillion, $18 trillion -- we want to take less than $1 trillion out over 10 years to help reduce our budget deficit. so the republicans are getting anxious. the alarms are ringing in the special interests and the republicans are rushing to the trenches to defend their special interests and their cherished tax earmarks. and the best defense being a good offense, that is how a balanced deficit-reduction plan that in sum has a trillion dollars more in spending cuts than in revenues suddenly becomes a leftist manifesto. if you listen -- we just had the hearings in the budget committee on the budget. if you listened in that committee, the republicans said it plainly. they didn't mince words. not a penny of tax loopholes. not a penny from ali baba's cave of tax treasures can go for deficit reduction. not a penny. that's their rule. they will say that they're

, caucuses -- earmarks, caucuses. year howard baker said marks was away i got things done, if there was a new leader and they said, give me one piece of advice, what would you say? >> i would say communicate. we do not do that anymore. if i could go back and be leader again, i would insist that we have one joint caucus at least every other week. i would prefer them every week. we'll then have them disasters. right after 9/11. we bonded. there was a chemistry. people would go to the floor and say i'm not a republican or democrat. i'm an american. .here was a sense of unity after the anthrax attack at my office, we had joint caucuses. then they dissipated. i do not know when the last one was. we do not have these joint caucuses anymore. it is a small thing. there has got to be a vehicle, a venue of communication. we do not have that. >> senator snowe? >> it happened so long ago. [laughter] every two years there'd be departing members of the senate. traditionally there would be a bipartisan dinner in the rotunda. even di

we listed $1 trillion worth of tax earmarks. that's what they are. they're earmarks. did that in the conjunction of $8 billion in spending cuts. 8 -- i mean, $8 trillion in spending cuts. so, you know, will i agree? i would love to reform the tax code to get us growing. but if the president and the democrats will agree to $8 trillion in spending cuts, i'll happily agree to $1 trillion in earmarks -- >> jared has made a great point, but he has only given us half a loaf when it comes to tax reform. just given us half a loaf. can you help me on this? >> listen. if you go with this plan and you use all this tax expenditure reform, to pay down deficit, forget it. those tax rates are going to be locked -- at those top levels. that tax reform should be used for lowering some of those tax rates, which have been raised way too much. and never going to get -- answer bob's question. where is the entitlement reform? here's a big secret. democrats don't think we need entitlement -- not very much. >> at all. >> they think the health care problem has been solved basically, and also

with a ban on earmarks, they brought up a bill and then they turned it down. host: barbara on our line for republicans -- caller: what is the purpose behind sequestered because it does not help the people being sequestered. we are also tax payers. if you take 20% of your budget and cut it, these are the people paying it your taxes and the next thing you tell them is next year at tax time, you have lowered their budget, how does that make up for all the money that gets lost to the government that they need right now to fix these situations? guest: sequester was an idea o

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with a ben earmarks, they brought up a bill and then they turned it down. host: barbara on our line for republicans -- caller: what is the purpose behind sequestered because it does not help the people being sequestered. we are also tax payers. if you take 20% of your budget and cut it, these are the people paying it your taxes and the next thing you tell them is next year at tax time, you have lowered their budget, how does that make up for all the money that gets lost to the government that they need right now to fix these situations? guest: sequester was an idea of both sides thought was so bad it would never happen and then it did. it was meant to be a threat at the end of report in process. the super committee did not happen and they never struck a deal. now a sequester is here on both sides want it for different reasons. republicans want cuts and with a can and democrats want to show how bad cuts hurt. and show that cutting government so quickly is -- has repercussions. dated from texas, go ahead. i'm not familiar with a whole lot of politics in washi

now we are presented with a more complicated system that has the earmarks of an expensive boondoggle. please excuse us if luxor is not the first to comply when experienced has taught is that this thing is likely to be kicked down the road indefinitely and the early adopters will again be the dummies. would suggest you take it down the road now and save as a headache of duplicating the excellent taxi magic ehail system that we already have. if you want apps in all the cabs why don't you just require apps? off-the-shelf technologies. if you want more reliable data the one thing you can do is to get uber out of our taxis. the whole system is opaque from start to finish and nothing in the recorded data even hints that uber has discussed the order, process the payment, added extra charges and then allow discriminatory reading system between drivers and customers. get better legal system out of san francisco taxis and you will have improved data right away. (applause) thank you. >> marcela fonseca. you'll pass. christopher // -- >> i am christopher fulkerson. i agree with director reiskin,

this is no better than last year's set of earmarks for a cultural artifacts repository. it should be very clear by now these expenditures push through in direct contravention of the bipartisan, bicameral decisions of the armed services committee are a shameful waste of taxpayers' money, and in my view a clear example of political abuse of the appropriations process. so i could go on for a long time. in fact, we should be as we speak instead of doing a continuing resolution, we should be doing everything we can to avoid the sequester which is -- has such a disastrous effect on our military. i am sure that my colleagues are aware that in tehran, the centrifuges are spinning. north korea has just had another nuclear test. they have threatened to cancel the cease-fire of 1953. they are making very aggressive nerves towards south korea and our, i believe, 30,000 men and women who are stationed there. tension between japan and china is very high. and by the way, for my colleagues' information, i'm sure they know that the chinese have increased and doubled and redoubled their s

japan will earmark over $210 million to improve port facilities and electricity grids outside myanmar's largest city. nearly $150 million will also be allocated to repair thermal,000er plants and transformer substations. the rest of the aid or roughly $180 million will be spent on improving roads and drinking water systems. myanmar's economy is expected to continue to grow but the country needs to improve its inf infrastructure. that's the latest in business for this hour. here is a check on markets. >>> former south african president nelson mandela is back in the hospital to get treatment for a recurring lung infection. mandela is respected at home and abroad for his leadership in the fight against apartheid. he became the country's first black president in 1994. >> the doctors are attending to him and ensuring that he receives the best possible expert treatment and is kept comfortable. >> this is the third time in four months mandela has been hospitalized. he's being treated at a medical facility in the capital, pretoria. the presidential spokesperson gave no further detail. mandela w

they are earmarked for reconstruction. >>> the president of iran and pakistan celebrated the law fun of a new stage of construction of a natural gas pipeline connecting the two countries. pakistani president attended a ceremony marking construction in southeast iran near the border. the pipeline is expected to total 1900 kilometers. engineers have almost completed their part of it. the united states block pakistani fund raising centraling construction on that side. u.s. leaders oppose the project because they suspect money raised would fund tehran's nuclear program. they responded by offering to finance the pakistani side of construction. they said the pipeline is essential for resolving severe energy resources. i will have more headlines for you next hour. i'll leave you with a check on reonal rket : north korean leaders appear to be following through with the threat. they put their entire country on high alert. they are responding to joints u.s. south korea and started at the beginning of the month. state run media reporting the country has been on stand by since last week to take

japan will earmark 2 $12 million to improve port facilities. japan can participate in the large industrial complex under a bilateral memorandum exchanged late last year. $148 million will also be allocated to repair thermal power plants and transformer sub stations. the rest of the aid or roughly $180 million will be spent on improving roads and drinking water systems. myanmar's economy is expected to continue to grow, but the company still needs to improve its infrastructure. japanese businesses are eager to participate in myanmar's development. >>> the violence in the south of the buddhist majority country has killed more than 5,000 people. representatives gathered for closed door negotiations at a police straining center in the malaysian capital. they and members of the national revolution front, the brn, discussed disarming groups and improving security. they had a reminder of how volatile the situation is. mililtants carried out attacks in two provinces. one only two hours ahead of the talks. in that case the bombing killed three military

with respect to the $2 million, are we learning that the additional $2 million is earmarked for cca customers only? >> no. the reallocation is available to all go solarsf customers. there is a separate $2 million in the authorization of the program by the board of supervisors, that $2 million you see on slide 27 showing up under the clean power sf row as $1 million in fiscal year 2014, 2015, the reallocation shows up as a separate $2 million and can go for any go solar sf customer. >> thank you, i would like to thank you for bring thg -- bringing this up and it's important that these funds are allocated to cca customers. that is an exclusive we offer and that ought to be retained for people who put their faith in this center. >> so if there are no more questions on the part of the presentation we can move to the not to exceed rate portion of the presentation and kristin hollings will make that presentation to you. thank you. >> thus thank you for your presentation. >> good afternoon, my name is crisp in hollings, rates will require additional approval and maybe lower t the rates you have seen

he will headline fundraisers in san francisco on april 3 and 4 with the money earmarked for next year's midterm congressional elections. he was last here on a fundraising trip in october for his re-election campaign. democrats are focused on retaining control of the senate and trying to regain control of the house of representatives. >> this could be the first quiet day of pope francis since becoming the leader of the catholic church immediating -- meeting with the cardinals today. they include the cardinal whose took part in the conclave that elected him and those over 80 who were not eligible to take part. we are learning more of the new leader, a simple man. he plans to stay that way. marci gonzalez is in rome with more. >> after the holy tradition of first mass celebrated in the sistine chapel pope francis will take some of the messages discussed in year's simple mass about building a solid foundation for the church and lay the first brick, the first official meeting with the cardinals. >> he will be a simple person. he will not speak in grand terms but will try to say things and do

short-term budget deal to avert a government shut down a week away funding every cabinet agency and earmark another $87 billion for overseas military operations. the senate approved the bill which includes $85 billion in spending cuts that could cost thousands of federal workers their jobs. >> a respected pediatrician group is weighing in on the well-being of children raised by gay parents saying a stable, parental relationship can produce healthy well adjusted children regardless of the parents' sexual orientation with the outcomes share with gay or straight parents if they are nurturing and financially and emotionally stable. they wanted to release the report before the supreme court considers two gay marriage cases next week. >> a local boy scout council that expel add gay team last year is now adopting new guidelines ahead of an expected change on the national winter. the boy scout counsel released results of a survey that show 81 percent want lgpt's in scouting and 55 percent want to change the ban on gays, the same troop that expelled a boy after he came out while working toward eagle

. >> and while we're earmarking money i would totally support that and i feel that we should train teachers in digital media. you can't teach cooking out a kitchen, so we need to bring digital media into the classroom so people can practice in the environments they're in all the time outside of school. >> and i would say that having listened to the word "media literacy" as far as back when i was carrying 3-inch quarter cassettes years ago and it was a great job. it really was. to teach media and digital literacy out of context is a fool's error and we have the boring curriculums in the world and teaching it out of the context. >> we have to stop blocking. >> yeah. i don't know. >> somebody -- okay. >> teachable moment. >> i hear everybody talk about -- >> thank you. >> yeah. so i have learned the phrase "teachable moment" since becoming a resource officer and i try to incorp rat that with a discipline situation and i try to use the teachable moment with the parents as well so you can move forward all together instead of just making everybody upset. >> i have some comments actually respondin