the previously emplace 12 furlough days have been eliminated. there are some modest welfare cost savings benefits. there were some incentive pay is that we eliminated. there were a number of language cleanup updates, such as eliminating committees and removing out dating or expiring language. those agreements were all reached over the past month. in accordance with the charter requirement, we did make those available to the public. as of yesterday, they are all up sfmta.com. we will bring them forward for your consideration along with the rebalancing. i guess i will just -- i do want to welcome our newest to the board. you missed a good one. i want to close on that note. commending the incredible work by the taxi service folks, by the staff, for the volume of things that came before you -- not that they were without controversy, i think you saw they were very well thought out, very deliberate, and a lot of due diligence when and to bringing these forward. i think we are at a good point and we will be bringing some things back, we will be bringin

porter gives him some information about union artillery emplacements. grant, as the porter begins to move out of his presence, says simply -- "sit still." the kind of guy that really makes you feel at home. porter recalls, quote, my attention was soon attracted to the manner in which he went to work at his correspondence. at this time, as through out his later career, he wrote nearly all of his documents in his own hand. he seldom dictated to anyone even the most unimportant dispatch. his work was performed as it always was performed, swiftly and uninterruptedly without any display of nervous energy. his thoughts seemed to flow as freely from his mind as the ink from his pen. he was never at a loss for an expression. he seldom interlined the word or made a correction. he sat with his head bent low over the table. and when he had occasion to step to another table or a desk to get another paper he wanted, he would glide rapidly and return to his seat with his body still bent at the angle he had been sitting when he left his chair. when he completed his wo

we've heard it anecdote today about firms that were not sure if the contracts will be emplace in january with independent contractors. financial markets to not like uncertainty certainly of this magnitude. that will be a negative. the most important is congress get their right. the three elements is to do no harm with the recovery and avoid the fiscal cliff. second, to maintain the effort to attain a fiscal path. third, of use fiscal policy effectively to have of better tax cut. if congress passes all those things the benefits are substantial. >> bloomberg television to follow-up on my colleague's question on the fiscal cliff, how beneficial did the given the talk got capitol hill talked with fiscal cliff issues kick the can down the road deal with it sooner? would it limit to the uncertainty in the short-term benefit the economy? >> i am not sure. clarity would be helpful since people are uncertain about what would have been. investors like to see congress take action to put this on a sustainable path than kicking the can down the road with the vote -- down the road with no indication c

the number of those things have not been emplacement need to be put in place right away. one of the things that i have a particular problem went is to be journalists. they are now allowed to break the lockup and go outside for the data is released to set up for cameras. i think that is a security concern. i think that ought to end right away. most important, i think that the bureau of labor statistics should be given full oversight authority for conducting all of its press lockups, developing and maintaining policy and procedures, and have the authority to establish and implement credentialing and confidentiality protocols for participating news organizations and employees. policy numbers three and four made it clear that the responsibility to determine whether or not there is a lockup and their responsibility to disseminate the data, they are the ones for confidentiality. >> thank you. >> thank you very much for inviting me to testify here today. i was asked to talk about green jobs. it is a very tough time to be discussing green jobs because we just got the employment n

and then attack and destroy the german coastal defense guns at the massive concrete clifftop gun emplacement at plant deho. but despite these obstacles, young men like frank hargett from akron, ohio, who participated in this -- in this invasion fought and persevered and began the liberation of europe with little else besides their training, their comrades, their courage and their refusal to quit. these men proved that the forces of freedom are strong. i would suggest the forces of freedom are still strong today. members of the allied forces showed us the strength of humanity over tyranny. franklin roosevelt knew that your d-day warriors "would not rest until the victory is won." we did win. today we salute the frank hargetts of the world. there are still thousands of world war ii veterans left. most have died. most that fought in d-day, who survived d-day are no longer with us, some still are. we salute them and we salute those who went before them for running towards danger in order to secure peace. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will ca