did a coolowan the ifthere dj bartenders through an ipod into edp eft, they wouldthe be in compliance and -- ended the day -- and e dj packed up and left, they would be in compliance? >> i do not see how that makes a difference. >> what is does is at 1:30, the music stops, and they turn on the front lights or whatever. they start drinking water. they can still drink, but some people will start leaving on their own, and it will not be such an intensity. unfortunately, it has to be this way, but this is an easier cool down, so i think it is a good compromise. >> i did not understand how that works. >> any other discussion? iraq's call the roll. -- >> call the roll. [calling votes] >> next item on the agenda is a consent calendar. all the items on the consent as one item unless one of you wants to sever one of them from the consent calendar. is there anybody in the audience wholiccommen or objects to permits for polk street, cafe maria,lt liv performance, interfot for a i there public comment?ar? can you tell me which item? e coencalendar.o severitoff to >> i was here to speak on item a.

that we propose a little more than $1.5 trillion in revenue increases which is roughly 1 percentage edp. the combination of those would reduce the deficit over the next five to seven years to below 3% of gdp which again is a level that you need to achieve once people call primary balance, the place where revenues cover your expenditures minus interest, and for an economy like ours that normally grows at 2.5%, it is a level that would stabilize our debt burden at a manageable level. again, that only buys us ten years or so. ten years is a long time, though, pretty substantial contribution. we'll have to go beyond that and build on the affordable care reforms and the medicare reforms to do other things to get our healthcare commitments to a more sustainable level. >> you know, as i listen to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, especially in the early questions, there were several questions that came up around tax reform and entitlement reform. i am here as a freshman member, so it is just my second year, but i want to know if historically you can give a couple examples where a p

look at jobless claims, look at household jobs, the payroll jobs, the edp survey.ll of the jobs are pointing in the same direction. too many people are spending time talk iing about the unemployment rate and what it's doing and participation. the jobs numbers per se, things related to jobs. >> what about the fed, the ph philly fed index. >> i thought february would be wad. >> well, that number went down but the hours part went up. it was strong. month to month i don't know that you want to make a lot about those things. i like the philly index. i think it's a good index. it has good cyclical properties. it's a good indicator. >> the suggestion from some people is that if you see things drop off, employers have hired everyone they need at this point and they're not going to hire anybody else until they see demand pick up. that's why you may have seen that with the philly fed. what do you make of that? >> if you look at inventory behavior you see inventories continue to be built at a rate slower than sales are going up. so the ratios are still going down. and if you