and mary howard from the department of human resource. you have a prose pod ordinance to amend the administrative code to provide for a paid administrative leave to allow the city to remove the employees from the work place in certain circumstances. right now no such creature exists in our legislation, so this would give the city and the department flex tobflexibility remove employees when there are concerns and drug and alcohol testing and brimming the gap between when the employee puts the employer out for a duty exam and the completion of the exam. supervisor kim: okay. thank you very much. are there any questions? at this time we will open up for public comment. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. all right. so we will -- we have a motion to move this item forward to the full board with recommendation and we can do that without opposition. at this time i am going to call a two-minute break because we only have two members out of three and if one of us leaves we lose quorum and there is a need for a bathroom break.

. >> ifill: mary howard, who lost her job at the university of iowa and is in danger of losing her home the type of republican voter the candidates hope to attract. so for you right now, the economy trumps social issues? >> right now, yes. right now, we need results and sometimes you have to compromise to get results. and obama has done some of that. but jobs aren't coming back and we have to deal with that. >> ifill: bachmann gears her appeal to social conservatives, but is also emphasizing her position on economic issues like the debt ceiling compromise, which she opposed. >> they want someone who means what they say and say what they mean. and that's what i've been doing in washington. i've been at the tip of the spear on issue after issue. whether it was the tarp bailout, the $750 billion bailout. and i was at the tip of the spear on obamacare. fighting to make sure it wouldn't come into effect. >> ifill: perry, too, says he can do a better job of turning the economy around. >> i happen to think the two most important issues of our time are jobs and debt. from 2009 until currently,