me about a wonderful idea that one of our honor read cochairs that, former secretary of state george shultz. he said since we have all these military folks in san francisco, why don't we use the opportunity to do some training to better prepare ourselves for disaster response, so we took that mission very seriously. we talked about having a tabletop exercise in 2010. but if you know anything but tabletop exercise, and i think a lot of you people do, the back room planning is just an incredible process. hours and hours and hours are put in for every hour of the table top exercise. but what we did decide to do in 2010 is during fleet week, on uss macon island, we held a senior leadership program for disca and related a briefing on steroids. so we set the foundation for going forward for future fleet weeks, in which we have a common understanding of what the program means. but we promised that in 2011, we would visit the notion of a tabletop exercise. in september, this past september, we did in fact have the table top exercise. and i have to tell you, the folks who did the planning did an inc

club and 19 croupier despite the pattern of doubledealing -- the great quoted secretary of state george shultzbserved you can't pay noriega. you can only rent them. now, prior to the invasion noriega had been tracked by members of delta force you to pay experts national security council. the surveillance and intelligence code-named codes take -- excuse me centris paik reported directly to general thurman and was monitored telephone communications and directed a network of informants patrice dictator's movements. noriega's last known location on december 19 when the u.s. invaded 23,000 troops was at 6:00 p.m. shortly thereafter he left in a convoy of cars and buses south towards panama city. part of the convoy turned off the road was to reassert for his or the others tended towards the command if he had, pentagon. the joint operations command was confident that noriega had not returned to headquarters they could not definitely say where he actually was. at each our u.s. troops raided the beach house in his apartment near cologne and son both empty. this is a great puzzle. 13,000 troops statione

i was on a panel in palo alto with george shultz. his recommendation, which sounded eminently intelligent, maybe not politically feasible, was to end all the tax subsidies for all kinds of energy sources we have, whether oil, coal, nuclear, and ship a good portion of that funding into the advanced r&d that we need. simpson-bowles had been interesting recommendation that we cut and invest. the first thing that states and locals are focusing on, cuts. second is cuts and reform. i was chief of staff of the department of housing and urban development. last fiscal year, and the community block grant was cut $900 million. this fiscal year, the package approved the other day, hud, dot, commerce, public housing was cut $750 million. the cuts are our blood happening. what is not happening is the reforms that need to occur in these highly prescriptive, highly bureaucratic, highly top- down programs, so that you can do more with less. it is not enough to cut and just think it is all going to be fine, or presume that these programs are functioni

i was on a panel the other day with former secretary of state george shultz. his recommendation, which sounded eminently feasible or intelligent, maybe not politically feasible, would end all of the tax subsidies for every kind of energy source that we have. whether it is cold or more, we would shift a good portion of the funding to advanced r&d. we thought about cutting and investing, such as we begin to scale back the federal government, we still retain these core investments. those, the second is cut and reform. i was chief of staff of the department of housing and urban development, i spent time there at the beginning of the obama administration. it was cut by $900 million. this package, the commerce was cut, the home program was cut, the public housing program was cut $750 million. the cuts are already happening. what is not happening is the reforms that need to occur in these highly prescriptive and highly bureaucratic ramps so that you can do more with less. just think that it is all going to be fine. these are legacy programs that haven't been reformed

i was on this panel in palo alto the other day with former secretary of state george shultz took his recommendation, which sounded eminently feasible, or possible or intelligent, maybe not feasible, would end all the tax subsidies for every kind of energy source that we have. whether it is oil, coal, nuclear, wind, solar. and hit a good portion of that fun into the kind of events r&d that we need. simpson-bowles had an interesting recommendation. i thought about a cut and invest committee so that as we begin to scale back the federal government, we still retained these investment. so first thing, i think state and locals are focusing on, cut and perform. so you mentioned the cuts that have already happened. i was chief of staff chief of staff of department of housing and urban development, spent a great time there at the beginning of the obama administration. last fiscal year the communities on the block grant was cut $900 million. this fiscal year, just the package that was just approved the other day, head, d.o.t. and commerce, was cut another $200 million. the public housing progr