mr. alexander dave. commissioner fung: but according to your records, you stand by those numbers. >> correct. >> thank you. is there public comment on this item? seeing none, the matter is submitted. vice president garcia: i personally find it reasonable to apply the current transportation code to this particular case. there were interesting things presented to us in the papers having to do with the original intention of proper k, written by then-supervisor copp. moseley had to do with trying to eliminate medallions from passing to the hands of people who were not drivers. i think the account has demonstrated he is an actual driver. he is making his living as a taxicab driver and has tried to meet the requirements. were we to apply it to our transportation code, he certainly has met it. that is in terms of the driving requirement. i would personally want the mta to grant it. commissioner fung: it is interesting because this case has dragged on for a while. there was some incentive in order to be able to

mr. alexander: madam president, finally washington is taking some responsibility for spending money that we don't have. at a time when the federal government is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends, this is a welcome change in behavior, and i gladly support it. make no mistake, this is a change in behavior from spend, spend, spend to cut, cut, cut. let me give you one example. on christmas eve in 2010, congress raised the debt ceiling and attached to it $1 trillion in new spending over ten years in the new health care law. this time for every dollar we're raising the debt ceiling, we're reducing spending by $1, not adding to it. this reduction in spending over ten years is about $2.4 trillion. here's another example. according to senator portman, who used to be the nation's budget director, the congressional budget office would say that if congress did this kind of dollar-for-dollar reduction for spending every time a president asked to us raise the debt ceiling, we'd balance the budget in ten years. and here's another one: the "wall street journal" reported yesterday that becaus

mr. alexander? miss ayott? >> there you have it. the majority leader, minority leader, they both wrapped up the debate. now the voting has started. we expect it will continue for about 15 minutes, sometimes it drags on a little bit longer, maybe 20 minutes. after it passes, we assume that they have the necessary 60 votes to pass this legislation within a few moments, the president of the united states will walk into the rose garden over at the white house. he will not sign this legislation into law because the paperwork, the bureaucracy that requires some time to do, so he has to sign it before midnight tonight in order to get the process going, but he will make a statement, we expect about a 10 or 15-minute statement from the president as well. kate bolduan is up on the hill watching. i assume a lot of people have been looking closely at the numbers. they have well over 60 votes that will support what mitch mcconnell and harry reid have now proposed. >> reporter: i have been talking to leadership aides this morning and on all sides

in district 1 -- in district two, alexander ong, district three, mr.ng, district four, the store manager of the sunset district good will, martin lamb, in district 5, rodney chen, district 6, steven lee, the leader of aspire, district 7, a longtime democratic activist, district 8, the founding executive director of the chinatown community development center gordon chen, strychnine shirley chen, district 10, a community leader and visitation valley, and last but not least, the business woman and president of an iron works co., florence kong. could you join me in thanking all of their leadership? [applause] the last thing i want to say is we have been celebrating our heritage for 163 years, and i look forward to another 163 years of celebration. thank you very much for being here. >> supervisor chiu, thank you very much. this is the seventh year that san francisco has held an official celebration for asian americans. the plans are the culminated efforts of the members of the mayor's asian-pacific american heritage celebration committee. please welcome me

mr. mcconnell and general alexander speak highly a few and other people, very credible people including senator conrad have spoken about your character, your family and the kind of person you are and i think it is a high recommendation. from my colleague as well as a number of other people. as you know we discussed in my office concerned with senator saxby discussed with you. i don't want to repeat all of that. i do want to state that it is disturbing that listening these news sources are credible about secretive plans, a stealth plan, it is disturbing if those are true. these are reputable news organizations. ism "the washington post," which i don't always agree with everything they do, but they usually check very carefully before they make this type of allegation, this serious of an allegation, this kind of can't talk good stealthy secret plan. you have discussed and for the record explained your position relative to this, where you were and your relationship with mr. wolf and so forth. but the larger question is, given the politics of the issue at the time, the fact that a decision was made

mr. olsen's nomination written by general keith alexander, that richter of the national security agency. this is a quote. "i am writing to wholeheartedly endorse the nomination of matthew olsen to be the next director of the nctc. matt has served as a national security agency general counsel for the past year and has shown true leadership outstanding judgment and decision making ability. he's been a key part of the agency's effort to provide intelligence that allows our government to counter terrorist threats. in my opinion, matt is superbly qualified to hold this critical intelligence community position, end of quote. before his current position at the nsa, mr. olsen served in the department of justice for 18 years including 12 years as a federal prosecutor. in a letter of support for mr. olsen's nomination, former attorney general michael mukasey wrote of mr. olsen, and i quote, he was not only an excellent lawyer and manager, but also an exemplary person in dealing with his colleagues. matt has an abundance, every personal and professional quality and skill you could hope to find any

least one more week and i alexander tonight's we're going to have a crucial fed meeting what do you expect to come out of it. not only me but a lot of people are expecting that mr bernanke you will find for the possible one party feeling. free but the most probable scenario that they will announce the program of. u.s. treasuries buyback are on the lam longer end of the curve this is the basics of their market is expected by the if they will provide some more markets will be more happy well it seems before these fed meetings the traders did not pay so much attention as they do now is that true. to walk to gold and then to to the fed meetings to bank statements. well actually it seems to me that especially today these attention is really high and actually better than kids didn't supposed to tell anything from these meeting. or here right now have to write all joining the way we have seen precious metals which shading mixed gold was up silver was down why is that. i think that the gold is just sort of on all time cries. before these meeting people or want to have some profits because if there will be some positive comments from bernanke and the market will reverse