i ask that it be placed in the record. that request was never responded to. the presiding officer: without objection. and the senator's time has expired. mr. kerry: i thank the chair. i'd simply say that, you know, fair is fair around here, and i don't think that this nominee should be the victim of a long delay process. she has done the job well. she deserves to be sent back. and i hope colleagues will not filibuster her nomination today. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of norman l. eisen of the district of columbia to be ambassador to the czech republic, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of norman l. eisen of the district of columbia to be ambassa

one thing i have to ask you -- yesterday we became aware -- mr. attorney general -- i did not ask a question, i said i would like you to be aware -- >> the gentleman from california is granted an additional minute to allow the ag to respond. >> we were aware of an e-mail between lanny breuer and his deputy, jason weinstein, about fast and furious. will you agree to turn over those communications in the march timeframe between lanny breuer and his deputy? >> march of what year? >> 2011. and as i have indicated, we will not be turning over -- >> as i have indicated, we will not be turning over materials after february -- >> are you aware that you are standing in contempt of congress unless you have a valid reason, that you expressed it, that you provide blogs, which you refuse to provide for the other information? otherwise you leave the committee no choice but to seek contempt. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> we will respond in a way that is consistent with the way the justice department has always responded -- >> that is not the question, m

i asked her five times. i then asked her to tell me why she overate. "i don't know," she said. "sometimes i just feel so nervous, and food makes me feel better, at least for a while." one of the most effective tools i use with my patients is something i call disconnecting the bridges from the past. whenever you feel upset, write down how you feel in the moment, such as, "i feel really anxious." and then go back in your mind to the first time in your life that you can remember having that feeling. in sharon's case, whenever she felt anxious, she had trouble breathing. when i asked her what she felt, she said she felt like she was suffocating. i asked her to go back in her mind to the first time in her life that she could remember having trouble breathing. her mind immediately went back to a time when she was four years old and had a piece of steak stuck in her throat. she turned blue and thought she was going to die. she remembered someone from behind her squeezing her really hard and dislodged the piece of meat. she was so upset that she couldn't stop crying. her parents gave h

i ask you, which marketing materials do you believe? the marketing to the planning commission or the marketing to the consumer? i do not think you can make a conclusion because there is no data. in fact, we have commissioned two independent studies at our own expense to look at the entire at&t filing and planning commission decision. let me read you what these experts have concluded. "there is no data supporting significant gap conclusion. the before and after maps are not helpful to recheck conclusion. there is insufficient data to reach a conclusion about the coverage gap the day -- about the coverage gap." there is no analysis in the filing in upgrading existing microseisms to cover the area in question. and there is no data for independent technical review, one of the least interesting alternatives. honorable supervisors, i ask that you vote to support the neighborhood. i asked the vote to raise the bar by which these applications will be considered for the entire city. i asked you reject this conditional planning application. thank

can i ask you for your comment. were you being a trifle optimistic or do you really believe we will be able to project power abroad like we have in the past because i find that quite difficult. >> well i clearly believe we will be able to project power abroad. we are organizing our armed forces specifically to be able to project power abroad. to be able to deal with contingencies up to a bring grade level deployment on a sustained basis. when you look around the world at countries with that kind of military capability not just the nominal force numbers but the capability, effectively to deploy them with equipment that will work on a sustainable basis and to supply them on a sustained basis, i suspect you may be better placed to comment on this than me but i suspect there are very, very few countries other than the united states that can realistically aspire to do that. we have in our equipment program some of the most formidable weapon systems in the world. i've been -- you won't be surprised to know that part of my

. >> i asked that question. when i was contemplating is the idea that he brings up, which is, if you frame this from the point of view, under what conditions would you want to stay to be able to kill you, a supporter of the death penalty may form an answer that says, if i were found guilty of a heinous murder, and i was done -- as was done in a certain mental state, and i created a certain amount of harm, you may go down the spaces. this was the spirit in which i presented this, asking it this way does cause a certain amount of recoil away from the question. none of us would want to be in this position. harris has come up as somebody -- and jerry brown was also the governor of the state of california, he was the attorney general and they have at times in the history when they were personally against the death penalty. when they ran for attorney general they both said that they would not interfere with the state law, and they would allow the death penalty to be carried out on their watch. this is correct? in fairn

i do not recall ever asking my publishers to tell the newspaper i was angry. this as you know, you told me i would be asked this question shortly before we came into court. and i have been racking my brains as to what this refers to. i have no memory effort of complaining through my publishers to any newspaper. that's not the way i would complain to a newspaper. i would go to the pcc or i would go to a lawyer i suppose. .. and i just felt that giving more press felt like overkill. so i said to them, can they not just stay. and they've are very understanding of god. in fact, it did run into the radio but james -- gymnast to. i think what seems to happen as the males who published this article when i hadn't given interview at that time. however, i made no complaints about that. it may be that -- it may be that cemented my publisher said she is not to impress, but i never gave instruction for a complaint to be made. so i'm slightly mystified. >> actually when one reads of its information does guide your content to recognize in the public domain except that it mea

i asked shawn joyce, the deputy, talked to ray kelly. i had talked to ray kelly, he gave me a call, and we have discussed this. it does not interfere. we understand it should not have happened. in our perspective it should not have happened. we still have a very good relationship with nypd, particularly when it comes to addressing terrorism. we recognize, i recognize that ray kelly has done a remarkable job in terms of protecting new york city from terrorist attacks. new york city being a principal target. and as i say, these things are unfortunate. i wish they didn't happen but our relationship remains solid. secondly, with regard to what is happening in the border in terms of the handling of public corruption cases within the d.h.s. agencies, we seek to work with those partners that want to work with us in developing these cases, and we leave it up to the department of homeland security to sort out the counterparts with whom we should work understanding that public corruption on the border is a substantial issue and those cases have to

i asked the questions of the guys. they have been asked to death.so much scrutiny, the democrats get a pass. then the fear begins. they're too flawed. but the most flawed person in this case is barack obama. it gets frustrated to me to see the in-fighting and the nitpicking on the guys. >> i understand your frustration but i don't think it's nitpicking to look at each and ercandidate -- >> sean: you are misunderstanding me. >> no, i'm not. >> sean: there comes a point. >> i think you're frustrated, sean. it understand that. >> sean: they all have strength and weaknesses is what i'm saying. >> i am saying i think it's important toddling up mitt romney statements when he describes himself as a progressive several years ago. justs important to talk about newt gingrich actions to talk about progressivism and in some cases uncontrolled sense of narcissism. look, the seahawks, wh tea parta party? national review and washington republicans don't like newt gingrich, a lot of tea party don't either. they have not forgiven him for the new york 23 misjudgment.

i asked about a school and i know thisd the kids disappeared and i asked about school and they were very embarrassed and finally took me behind the village and i saw 84 children sitting in the dirt during school lessons. five girls and 79 boys and writing with sticks in the sand. i've seen a lot of poverty in africa but when i saw those kids and a young girl came up to me and - it was a cold autumn day and he or she said will you help us build a school and i made a very rash promise and promised to build a school. i was very broke and had to raise 12 thousand dollars and i didn't have a clue how to raise money like that. so i went to the local library. any librarians here. there's one. let's all give them a big and. [applause] so i went to the library, the resource librarian and talked to her and we looked up the name of 580 celebrities and movie stars and i didn't know how to use a computer so i and typed 580 letters. dear michael jordan, dear sylvester stallone. guess what happened? nothing. then at christmas time i got one check for $100 from tom brokaw and then i saw my climbing ger

landrieu: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the roll call. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. landrieu: thank you, mr. president. i'm here to put in a few remarks regarding the homeland security budget. before i do, i just want to commend the minority leader for that beautiful tribute. i've been privileged to be on the floor several times when he's offered tributes to his constituents in kentucky and others and i always find them to be so beautifully written and delivered. and i understand he writes them himself. so i was very touched by his memories of a special constituent and i wish him and all the people of kentucky a great holiday season. mr. president, i wanted to say just a few words about the homeland security appropriations bills, one of the nine that we just approved this morning. i was proud to work with my ranking member, the senator from indiana, senator dan coats, as my ranking member and very fraud work with the senator from new jersey, frank lautenberg, who serves in a very honorary sort of vice chair of the committe

i ask us to defeat this time. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. smith: mr. chairman, i yield two minutes to mr. poe, a member of the judiciary committee. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 10 minutes -- two minutes. mr. poe: thank you. the mere phrase, the regulators, brings fear and trendation down in the hearts and souls of small business owners throughout the fruited plain. mr. chairman, the code of federal regulations is 150,000 pages long. that's a lot of pages. that's a lot of regulation. according to the small business administration, the annual cost of our federal regulations in this country is almost $2 trillion in 2008. mr. chairman, do we really need all of those expensive regulations? good thing the federal regulators weren't around when the 10 commandents were written. no telling what kind of regulations they would have added to those simple 10 phrases. it's common sense congress should have a say on a regulation that would have a drastic, expensive effect on ou

i would ask myself if i would get caught. in california, half of the people who commit murder are not caught. we need to catch the people committing murder. this is what she means when punishment must be firm, if people get away with murder, they learn that they can and the community learns that they can. this is really the fundamental problem. we can do much better job if we were actually to replace the death penalty to life without parole and invest the money saved in solving homicides. every victim's family should have some justice. >> i wanted to ask you to perhaps tell the audience about the controversy related to the death qualified jury. many people did not realize that when we select a jury for the death penalty case, this is comprised of different members of the city. >> people look to california as we continue to send a lot of people to death row every year, with the highest number of new death sentences. people look at the state and they see how many people in california are moving away from the death penalty, who

asking. maybe the parliamentarian whether or not i would be in order if i ask that. i certainly think the chairman is in order. but we all have received so many letters from our constituents. i just want some equality in terms of how the record will look years from now as to how we treated those people who are the most vulnerable. and i know we all are concerned about that. even though the two months may be inconvenient for the electronic way they do these things but i think the pain will be far more severe for those people who would have a tax increase. oh, yes, of course. the speaker pro tempore: regular order has been demanded. does the gentleman from new york object to the request? rank reigning i said i reserved it. maybe -- mr. rangel: i said i reserved it. i was reserving the right to object. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman must -- the gentleman will suspend. regular order has been demanded. the gentleman from new york must either reject or withdraw his reservation. mr. rangel: with all respect to my chairman, i withdraw. with all respect to my chairman,

and the thanks will be specified in a statement that i would ask now -- i would ask now be inserted in the record. and to end my thanks -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: to end my thanks, i don't see senator mccain here. i think he to leave for a few minutes. he is here. let me just personally -- senator mccain i thought had to leave and i know he does. i put some thank yous here on behalf of the committee, senator mccain, and i just want to tell you how -- how tremendous it is to work with you and how this tradition of bipartisanship of our committee's been maintained and you are a very major part of the reason for that happening. and i want to thank you. mr. mccain: i thank the chairman. one of the -- one of the things i look back on with great nostalgia and appreciation is the relationship that we have developed over many years, and i must say we've had spirited discussions from time to time but they've been educational, enlightening and entertaining, and i thank the senator for his leadership. mr. reid: mr. president? mr. president? the presiding officer: the

president chiu: can i ask a question to the city attorney about that? part of the wonders why such a clause will be necessary. legally, there are certain obligations that you have when you enter into a contract. i don't even know why the need for something like that would be, so i am trying to understand how typical this kind of clause is in a development agreement? is this something with any other project that has come before us for the typical project that we allow for the inclusion of something like this? >> i do not think that a clause like this is legally necessary. one of the things, it is a business and the negotiation. i also did not think that having a clause that requires me to maintain an operation for 20 years is normal either. in most of the development of payments, we care about getting in bill. there are no longer any ongoing operations. you have to build its, maintain and operate it. when we do reach agreement on that clause, we approve of what we are doing is reasonable. without any more specifics, i don't have any more to say about that

i ask them if i could ask them a few questions about what it would doing. it were willing to have an interview. >> what was your reaction? >> i thought it was hypocritical. if you believe in something, it does not matter if of the people are not doing it. you do it. i thought it was hypocritical. >> that series of interviews. >> i have the credit department's website where you can donate money. i am not part of the 1%. >> you can donate the money as well as i can. >> i'm not here asking for higher taxes. right here, i have the the nation paid. all you need to do is put in new credit card number. >> that is not going to help anybody. >> you do not want to donate? >> i want a tax -- you have heard me. you are being silly. >> you do not want to donate right now? i have the department of tree's donations page. would you be willing to donate $80,000? -- a few thousand dollars. >> if rates are raised. this is not charity. we are not doing charity to the taxes are not charity. they are not voluntary. they are something society commits to do. i think that is what we

fitzpatrick: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. fitzpatrick: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor one of the bucks county bar association's most ardent supporters, my dear friend, tom mellon. tom is known by many around the country for his passion and commitment to the law, but is equally known in the bucks county area as a dedicated civil servant who has spent his entire life giving back to the community. i have known tom for many years. although we come from different party backgrounds, it has never gotten in the way of our friendship. our shared val have always trumped politics. -- values have always trumped politics. first and foremost tom is a family man. he's a loyal husband and dedicated father to four sons. tom is also one of the friendliest people you will ever meet. he has a genuine personality and warm welcoming demeanor which served him well throughout his career. tom always seems to carry with him an inner irish spirit. from day one he has championed the underdog

i wonder if she bakes i never asked her but. this is a buddhist heart. each time i burned my body for you my heart remanipulained in . i watched the saffron flames engulf me seer my skin, flesh of a plum stripped of it's peel. tender and glowing like mars, i would rise to the sky for you to see me. in those moments i was your torch and we were united. united by the scents the heat the shutter. for love of another i'd say to myself, faithful in muted pain. my hope, my heart extinguishing as you stood there paralyzed each time like a still camera unable to look away. infraction. if my love were smooth and lustrous would you spit me open and fill me up again. would you kiss the scar you made of me name it and claim me like a mountain. bear witness to holiness where 2 rocks collide. if my was unpenetrable and clear would you search your whole life destroying me just to hold me to the light? i am listening you like rain that slips through fingers missing you like childhood dreams and mother's mill ik. like an earing under a bed. links of moon that pass. with y

president, i ask unanimous consent to be added as a cosponsor to this measure. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, i further ask that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table with no intervening action or debate and any statements relating to the measure be printed in the record at the appropriate place in the record as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, i understand there is a bill at the desk. i ask for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 3094, an act to amend the national labor relations act with respect to representation hearings and the timing of elections of labor organizations under that act. mr. durbin: mr. president, i now ask for a second reading and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule 14, i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bill will be read the second time on the next legislative day. mr. durbin: i

so i ask, mr. president, why is it that we sit here stalled, unclear on when we can proceed to a vote, to a consideration of a clean payroll tax cut? well, there have been a whole series of efforts to get us to the floor to a vote to an extension of the payroll tax cut. this is a simple enough matter. working americans all over this country, i believe 160 million of them, will be hit with an increase in their payroll tax rate at the end of this month. just a few days now away unless we act. my good friend, senator casey, of pennsylvania, suggested several versions of a payroll tax cut extension that would build upon and strengthen the payroll tax cut that the president proposed and this body passed last year. a casey compromise that has most recently been considered and debated in this body would put up the $1,500 in the pockets of hardworking americans across this country and contribute as much as 1.5% in g.d.p. growth in the coming year. but in the last two weeks we've seen our colleagues here on

i will ask them to practice gratitude. we will go to, and i am going to modify this, too hellman hollow, and i will bring the banjo and fix some bluegrass tune that warren e. there sang or road, because the best i can hope for them is that they will be just like warren when they grow up. as for me, i am never going to grow up, just like warren. i mention these things because the best thing campus -- encapsulates, from my view, the warren hellman i know, want to encourage the adoption of this resolution, and i want to ask the general manager to weigh in. >> delight, mr. president. commissioners, it is a great honor to support the resolution to rename speedway meadow after warren hellman. i want to thank supervisor elsbernd for his leadership and initiative in partnership with the department and the family and with this commission in making this moment happen. it has been said that golden gate park is in many ways the heart and lungs of this great city. the canopy, landscapes, legs, gardens offer an oasis from the urban world

i ask for -- i yield myself an additional minute. in fact, the bill that you passed and you knew it was designed to fail, and because you knew it was going to fail, your republican leadership in the senate objected to it being considered on the floor of the united states senate. just as you have refused to consider the senate's compromise on this floor. it did so in the senate, that bill that was designed to pass according to senator mcconnell. it did so in the senate with an overwhelming support with 83% of republicans and almost every democrat, including the entire senate republican leadership and the entire democratic leadership. democrats, mr. speaker, are fighting to prevent a painful tax increase for the middle class. the way to do that is to pass the senate compromise while we continue to work on a year-long extension. that's what senator reid said it will do, mr. speaker. that's what we're prepared to do, mr. speaker, but we don't want to put at risk january 1 coming and that tax cut disappearing. if they fail to pass the com

i've been in perhaps 120 cities over the past 14 months talking to maybe 50,000 people and i ask this question most places i go and i'll ask you today. how many of you are aware of the fact in afghanistan today, there's 5 point 2 million children going to school and 1 point 8 million of those are female and in 2000 there was only 8 hundred 6,000 kids in school. how many of you know that fact? one, two, you? so that makes my total now - i've counted 21 people in america. to me that's single most incredible inspiring news to come out of that country. that alone is justification for the sacrifice and cost and the investment in that country and nobody in america is aware of that. the media, government, the people. to me that news should be broadcast from every mountain top in this publication called hope we write about that. go and tell people there's some really good things happening and it's related to employ kabs and the number of kids in afghanistan it's gone up six fold since 2000. unfortunately there's other forces at work. in the last year the taliban have bombed more than 400 most

book the passion of bradley manning he joined me earlier tonight from our studio in new york and i asked him as whistleblowing being criminalized in the us. yes it is once again as we see in the case of bradley manning but i think the case of bradley manning will set a familiar historical pattern where whistleblowers are first. criminalized but then later seen as heroes this happened with dead ellsberg the sap that was karen silkwood that happened to a great many other patriotic whistleblowers in our history and what is happening now we mentioned a little earlier that the obama administration has been the most aggressive in prosecuting whistleblowers why are we seeing this this crackdown more so today. well it's certainly a cruel betrayal of barack obama's campaign promises he did campaign as the whistleblower his best friend and instead he has launched more prosecutions under the espionage act of one nine hundred seventeen against whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined. what does he have to gain from this. i think very little i think our country has a great deal to gain by

i ask that because, i can remember songs that i sang in second grade but i cannot remember my teacher's name, my friends. >> a lot of that have that experience. women go to old age homes, some of the last member is preserved in the elderly, even with alzheimer's, other decay, they remember songs from their childhood when they cannot even remember their spouse's name, what year it is. music has thiese musically reinforcing views. in a good piece of music, you have the elements of rhythm, pitch, harmony, meter, articulation, timbre, all working together, so that you may not remember every note, but the ones you do remember inform the missing ones. it becomes a pattern of multiple queues. that is one thing. the other thing we found interesting from girl imaging studies -- narrow imaging studies is when you are remembering a piece of music, it activates almost identical circuits as when you are hearing it. so much so when you compare the bring activation of someone in imagining music, remembering, to someone listening, it is virtually indistinguishable by looking at the brain scan. i wonder

i ask to make sure the consent i just asked doesn't change that at all. e will be a little less time to debate that, but i think that would be sufficient. at noon there will be a cloture vote on halligan. following that, the senate will recess until 2:15 this afternoon to allow for our weekly caucus meetings. i understand that s. 1944 is at the desk and due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for a second time. the clerk: s. 1944, a bill to create jobs by providing payroll tax relief for middle-class families and businesses, and for other purposes. mr. reid: madam president, i would object to any further proceedings with respect to this legislation. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar under rule 14. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: yesterday, my friend, the majority leader, unveiled what he rather misleadingly referred to as a compromise on the payroll tax. i say it was mislead because we had

can i ask you 2008, another two years. why did you not dismiss news of the world chief report following the mosley case. >> i had never heard of it. >> okay. despite the judge making clear that phil set out to -- [inaudible] >> i didn't hear that. >> a church made it clear that they sent out blackmail to two of the women involved in the case. >> that's the first i heard of that. >> none of your u.k. staff through the serious wrong doing even though the case received widespread media attention. >> maybe he can answer that in more detail. >> i'll come to your son in a minute. despite the blackmail resulting 234 a 40 year prison sentence, nobody in your u.k. company brought this fact to your attention? >> the blackmail charge, no. >> do you think that might be because they knew you would think nothing of it? >> no. i can't answer. i don't know. >> do you agree with mr. justice eddy saying the lack of action discloses a remarkable state of affairs at news international? >> no. >> mr. murdoch, a judge found a chief reporter guil

i asked him about it.he long and short and the message from here is, number one, he says he's going to make some adjustments. he's going to -- going forward on ads -- draw an even sharper contrast to some of these other candidates. he calls the ads that have been coming out particularly the ones from the super pac that supports mitt romney as dishonest. here's an example of one of his remarks here when he was talking about the ads at this event in atlantic just a little while ago. >> the level of dishonesty in these ads -- if somebody wants to run an ad and say, gingrich reformed welfare and that was the wrong thing to do, they couldn't do that in a republican primary, but they could take parts of my record and they could attack me in an honest way. and that's fine. that's what this is about. but the level of just sheer dishonesty in these ads, to me -- it's taken me two weeks to get reoriented and to realize -- and i'm now kind of sad that we didn't have money or two more debates. because i would have bee

i have asked the department of defense and i wrote secretary panetta and asked him that question. give me your projections of how many more young men and women will have to die and lose their legs? i hope that i get that response soon. that brings me to the point of a young marine i saw at walter reed/bethesda about three weeks ago. there were four marines from the third district of north carolina , three had lost both legs, and the one that had lost only one leg, a corporal, mom's sitting in the room, said to me, sir, may i ask you a question? i said, certainly, you may. why are we still in afghanistan? and i looked at him and i said, i don't know why we are still there. mr. speaker, it makes no sense. the american people and the people of the third district of north carolina are saying we have won. bin laden is dead. al qaeda has been dispersed all over the world. mr. speaker, it is time as we debate these very difficult complex issues for our nation that we get smart with our foreign policy, and smart means let's don't try to police the world. history has proven you will never c

i was wondering if i could ask ms. bovogh to come back. i want to thank the members of the public that have come out to speak here. there are many things that muni needs money for. there are very important public that are badly needed where money can be spent. we heard from so many young people who talked about the need for young people in san francisco to have free access to public transit, and it is hard when an agency says where do we find the money when you see they're spending $62 million, and we know something as simple as having the performance standard contracts are not being done. we see from what we know from the comptroller -- comptroller that there are six and zero us't had not been even signed. that changes are sometimes made to the contracts without any written statement. that we even have a standard that guides when an action or expenditure is appropriate, that it is an ad hoc decision, and when you look at this, i think that one has to conclude that when it comes to certainly work orders, at the management has been sleeping

kucinich: may i ask how much time i have left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio has 4 3/4 minutes. and the gentlewoman from florida, now from florida, has 2 1/2 minutes. mr. kucinich: does the gentlelady wish to close? ms. ros-lehtinen: yes, as i have stated before and will continue to state, i will reserve my time to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: it's time for the united states as a nation to change its direction. to begin to see ourselves as a nation among nations, not a nation above nations. to begin to set aside war as an instrument of policy, to be sensitive to the power that we have so that we're not attempting to use our force in a way that would punish someone militarily who doesn't agree with us. the underlying premise that my friends here have of nonproliferation is something i agree with. but where we depart from agreement is where we're focusing on nonproliferation among only a few countries. i will say it again. we need a new direction in america. it's a directi

why don't i ask if there are -- is public comment. seeing none, why don't we call the appellant for a bottle of up to three minutes. >> excuse me one moment, if you would. hello again. i would like to address first specific issues raised by president jurchui and i would le to present our perspective. president chiu as the question that planning was told the police had no problems, there were no violations. i would give you a report which is in front of you now. which in fact is the direction by the department of buildings that indicates that this project as of november 29 was i and code enforcement. further, as of november 29, you will see that there were violations on the building. i do not know what the checklist -- i can tell you that our checking indicates that information is fallacious. let me turn to the heart of the problem that we have as residents of this area. that problem is much of the information that you have been told by mr. hammett and at&t was not subject to review. the planning commission cannot. at&t does not reveale

that i wouldn't ask him. the question that i think i'd like to pose to representative cuellar, maybe introduce the bill, is the way the compensation schemes are set up on wall street. it encourages this kind of gambling. i live in las vegas. i can see gambling any time. when they take a leverage of twice that collapsed lehman brothers and corzine was quoted as saying we are going to ratchet up the risk in this company because they wanted to make a bigger profit. bigger profit meant more boneses and more salary for corzine than the top executives. so they roll the dice and gamble. if they win they get the big profits and boneses. if they lose, then they lose the stockholder's money and bondholder's money. they weren't supposed to go into the customer's money, that's a crime. and the question is, if we have these ongoing schemes, these compensation schemes, which reward risk taking, in other words they get the win and then the stockholders, bondholders, maybe customers get the loss, isn't there something that we