these kalman women are singing one of the world's most famous put just mantras in the shade of a tree the oldest even symbol. the words are in the historical indian language of sanskrit. it can mix of kept up show manic beliefs in the spirits of nature since ancient times. i am sisters learned about buddhism all roaming mongolian steps. i first saw the ritual of making offering still our homeland and our home when i was a child my parents informed the ritual and so did their parents. it is a heathen right but it has parallels with buddhism. it is performed each year in the spring and in autumn. in also make offerings to the fire we ask for a mild winter so that nobody suffers not even the animals. and of course we say buddhist prayers to avert war and natural calamities across the world. one sacred personality of cow made history is a gun. he is known by many cycles the white old man the master and protector of the step and the patron saint of nomads. even though his teachings are rooted in sherman is a statue of him stands outside europe's largest buddhist temple called the golden ab

gary kalman directs u.s. public research groups in washington, d.c., and in 2009, he was a founding member of americans for financial reform. steve ellis is vice-president of taxpayers for common sense, where research is a legislative liaison and media spokesperson. steve formerly served as the united states coast guard officer. finally, david kendall, a senior fellow solve -- senior fellow for health and fiscal policy at third way. i note that mr. kendall served on president clinton pall's healthcare task force in 1993. with that, phil, i turn this over to you. >> thank you, brian. i like to begin by thanking in congratulating you and your chairman. stephen and you're very involved as well in the fight against earmarks. it is remarkable to have all washington organization actually accomplish your goal as thoroughly as you did yours. i can only hope that the new name of your organization will have the success on this crucial effort to set -- to end excessive government spending here in washington. i was just

kalman was a founding member of americans for financial reform. steve ellis is the vice president of tax payers for common sense where he serves as a legislative liaison and media spokesperson. steve formerly served as an officer in the united states coast guard. finally, david kendall is a fellow for fiscal policy at third away and among several interesting stops i know that mr. kendall served on president clinton's health care task force in 1993. thank you very much and with that i will turn this over to you. >> thank you very much, brian coming and i would like to begin by thanking and congratulating you and the chairman, joe rickett. the thing that is pretty remarkable to have a washington organization actually accomplish its goal as thoroughly as you did yours and gives a very important goal coming and i can only hope that the new name of your organization is also made out by success on this crucial effort to end excess of government spending here in washington, and i would suggest that based on pretty much any budgetary look the budget probl

i am gary kalman, and i direct the office when u.s. public interest research group.e were very pleased to renew our partnership with the national taxpayers union appeared we of work with them with transparency issues -- the national taxpayers union. we have worked with them on transparency issues. we got into it because we think that how the government spends its money is probably the most critical decision that legislators may, and i did a fine public priorities and make sure that we can afford those is something we obviously spent a lot of our time working on, are higher read program, food safety issues, etc.. we need to solve the deficit as a real problem. we felt that it was important to start having a voice in making our voice heard about the good cops and the dangerous cuts we think they're not helpful -- a good cuts and the dangers cuts we think are not helpful. we were happy to go after what we thought was some of the waste. the second thing which is important about the report, you hear a lot about folks today talking about we need to cut waste, fraud, and ab