mr. bell, you have conducted a seventh month investigation. did you find that the chairman of the nrc acted illegally? >> no. >> you have a concern that chairman jaczko controls and restricts the information to his fellow commissioners. some of this appears to be due to a change in management style. he has taken a more hands-on role with the budget process. your report describes his duty as providing direction and the east division formulates a budget document and submits it to the chairman and the chairman sees the budget that's his responsibility and says he is entitled to develop a budget has he sees fit. although some staff may not like this approach, doesn't mean it was illegal? >> it is not illegal. it is the prerogative of the chairman, the direction of the budget. this chairman has elected to have the budget filtered through him and his office. he disseminates a back to the chairman. >> jaczko made the decision there should be a shutdown of yucca mountain. he did not think that the nrc

bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. >> welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation -- competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they're great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka and malcolm hideke here today. i'd like to thank our judges. we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. >> matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have professionals competing for a number of prizes in the coveted title of world champion bell ringer. for the amateur portion we have executives from some of our local media outlets competin

mr. bell, is it your experience under former chairman staff could bring policy measures to the full commission? >> under the previous chairman? >> yeah. your experience, under previous chairen it was the standard staff could bring policymakers directly to the full commission. i don't know firsthand but it's never come to us in a manner that was disputed like this. >> fair enough. yet in your report under chairman jasco, the staff was not able to bring policy matters directly to commission, could they. >> could i help clarify that to some degree? the staff has periodic meetings. and during the course of those meetings, a variety of issues surface which is coming from the staff in and of itself. it's just that the manner by which the current chairman handles the agenda, if you would, is whether there has been disconnects with the previous chairman in the commission itself. >> do you think it's fair to say that the staff were constrained from communicating policy matters to the full condition or

i want to thank you, mr. bell, for the report. president reagan signed the policy waste back to 1982. in reading the commercial nuclear waste report from this last april, i want to read to you one long paragraph. "prolonging on-site storage would add to the burden by increasing the liabilities that have barred been incurred due to on-site storage at commercial nuclear reactors. for them to open yucca as planned, it would still have taken decades to take custody of the inventory." assuming the opening -- the total liabilities for the backlog as of 2020 would be about $15.4 billion. it would increase each year thereafter. it is important to recognize these liabilities are outside of the $15 billion already spent. the estimated $41 billion still to be spent if yucca mountain were to be considered and become operational. for nearly $100 billion at the end of the day. in reading the report, i want to read a couple of comments on three commissioners. the first is commissioner magwood. "he told the chairman he would not support a precipi

. >> we just added l bells and whistles and mr. and more programs and more and more complexity and tweaked it and it sort of ends up as pretty much a flat grant. >>reporter: s many he says things have got to change. he says districts need to extend plastic and invest in technology. to do that, they need money. >> we are losing a generation of children each year that aren't getting the quality education that they need because of funding. >>reporter: this is nuss abc 7 news. >>> now for more on the california watch investigation order la how much your school district gets, check out our web site or sunday san francisco chronicle. >> the national spelling bee stretched past the bed time of some of the participants until only one word stood between the yung one young woman and the title. >>reporter: pl c-y-m-oshtion if t-r-i-c-h-oshtion u-s. [applause] fichlt 14-year-old if girl from pennsylvania spelled it correctly and will take home more than 40,000 dollars in cash and prizes. the championship comes after she tied for 20th last year

which pokes holes in the commonly held assertion here in washington but iran is the bell of being a nuclear weapons program mr hurst that's down with r.t. to discuss his latest story in the new yorker magazine and here he says the obama administration allowing fear not facts dictate a potentially disastrous foreign policy towards iran mr hersh thank you so much for sitting down with us based on your investigation is the united states wrong to assume the worst when it comes to iran if the fear is based on the notion that you know that some our iran has the bomb or is going to get a bomb so that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community. but the people who are part of the birdsville but you know there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years there for years and years we supported sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is. aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something you know we know they're not doing for me and i think i wrote me earlier for the analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing wit

mr. clemens is sitting on the bells. [laughter] perhaps you can see it down here, payne is busy penciling, he's going to cross out what i'm about to read you. he doesn't like the explicitness of it. this is what mark twain says, we could pull it out of ts iv, you see, because of the way payne publishes it. what he actually says is there was a cluster of 16 bell buttons on the corner of the table. my proportions at that end of me were just right to enable me to cover the whole of that, and that is how i came to hatch out those 16 clerks. [laughter] so you're going to get to see what he actually wrote for the first time. one more passage. i'm going to try to squeeze this in. if it rings, i'll stop. that's francis clara folsom cleveland. she got married in the white house to president cleveland in 1884. she was the first person to be married in the white house. she, as you can see, is beautiful and young, and she was a great asset to the cleveland administration because she was very willing to go out and be a sort of jackie

welcome back across the computor of the bell to remind you we're discussing you know it's possible futures. can still. ok mr ambassador and we've been talking about yemen specifically but let's broaden it out and see what the international community possibly can do i'd like to add the caveat we have a intervention going on in libya right now because it's at the very very least it's very very messy. and then make people go much further and say this is a stalemate or there's. taishan and that we have really nothing good has come of this intervention so with that in mind what can the international community do i mean are interventions off the table now or is it going to be turning into the flavor of every single month as we go forward in the in the arab awakening. well an armed intervention in yemen would be a terrible mistake. it would be even more problematic than libya so that is not the way to go in my opinion however i think what you need to do is construct some positive exit from the current impasse and it can't be all negative it can't be all sanctions and it certainly can't be passivity watching the co

bell or call it in there and. this and that back and i am a. nobody yet mr siri can say with any certainty when cognac from this barrel will be bottles but it has every chance of becoming a vintage brand adding to the distilleries rich collection. adds an ascent to a treasure three hundred bottles and branded me each here in the frame equality granted. the british prime minister was not alone in appreciating this brandy in soviet times a million cognac was the main symbol of the republican. many agreed that the strong beverage produced in a trans caucuses could easily compete with french cognac manufacturer is. trying to instill in the going to flavor is intense you can sense a whole bouquet of flavors vs all but it is a unique beverage has different stories here i can detect the flavor of our brands the sunshine of our add value and the beauty of our landscapes are good in. the production process in armenia and france is totally identical the spirits of distilled in the same way and the oak barrels look very much alike the armenians are just proud of their

mr. rose? >> madam chair, members of the committee -- we recommend a reduction that is 100% of the ongoing general fund and reductions that will allow an increase of 5.3% in the budget. we also recommend closing bell general fund incumbrances. together these reductions result in general fund sailing -- savings and we will work with the department to get that to the committee. supervisor chu: thank you. seen we do not have questions from the committee, we will see you -- seeing that we do not have questions from the committee, we will see you next week after you get that worked through. all right, colleagues, why don't we take our recess? supervisor chu: welcome back to the budget and finance committee. this is the second day of budget hearings. we are coming back with the second half of today's hearing. i know that there are a number of representatives from department here, but also members of the public. just want to make an announcement, we will but having -- we will be having public comment day at 10:00 on friday. if there are members of the public who wish to comment on the budget, any aspect of it, we will be holding public comment all day on friday. why don't we start with the police departm

mr. revere. he was a patriot and good horseback rider. roll the tape. >> he who warned the british that they weren't going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bellsaking sure as he rides his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free. >> as she said that was -- as we said that already has people talking sarah palin touring the freedom trail in boston. of course the real life version vorns lanterns. >> >> one if by land and two by sea the old church lanterns there. so anyway, they made -- what do you think? >> well, brian williams, how just played there, brian williams said that he didn't cover the anthony weiner story because he had more compelling things to cover. this was one of the more compelling things he had to cover. >> bill: the bells and stuff. >> sarah palin mangled the paul revere story. i don't think if she says she didn't. she did. but why did nbc and the others make a bill deal out of it, because it's fun for them to bash sarah palin because it's sport. >> exactly it's sport. >> bill: i'm going to stick up for the governor he did tell the british you better k

mr. speaker, it did shake the world. for all of post-soviet russia's anti-democratic crackdowns, its aggressive and bell coast actions toward former soviet state, it was still a shock to see russian tanks roll across the border of a sovereign democratic country. the military conflict lasted five days and a shaken world moved on soon forgetting the shock and outrage of what happened. for the people of the republic of georgia this conflict goes on nearly three years later. they live with the tragic consequences that follow any armed conflict, including thousands of displaced persons and significant economic hartships. beyond the human cost, they faced the long-term strategic challenge of an occupying force in the regions where russia continues to violate the terms of the cease-fire to which it agreed. as occupiers, they violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of an independent democratic state, one that's chosen a path toward integration with institutions and one that's chosen integration of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. russia's recalcitrants has left the area with a bitter stalemate. within the cont

mr. graves for that. >> senator, that's the an issue. everything we were interviewing back in may to some of the consultants and other experts, many were conflict without, either by pre-bell contracts are certainly a big rush by the responsible parties to pick those folks up in it is absolutely been an issue. thankfully one of the major areas where it will to recount an agreement with the federal government. but i think it is an issue. >> again, let me thank all of you for your testimony and work in this area. this is a continuing interest to this committee and its oversight responsibility. you see we've got to get this right. the stakes are very, very high for all of us. it affects our entire country, not just that directly impacted regions. so we've got to get this right. we need to learn from how we handled previous environmental damage areas and we need to make sure that we can justify the process at the end of the day has been in the best interests. one of the encouraging signs, let me just point out the point that you raise, dr. boesch doublet than the long-term issues looks like it is moving forward their sensitivity that the final assessments include monitoring to

mr. chairman, i yield back my time. >> thank you. the gentleman yields back. the two votes have start on the floor. i didn't hear the bells go off. but we can probably get through the introductions at least before we go over for a vote. >> two votes? >> two bells. ok. and we'll begin with the ambassador. ambassador patricia heslock -- i've been told it rhymes with a very popular insurance company commercial but i'm not going to do my imitation but that is the correct pronunciation? excellent. and he's currently serve as the state department coordinator for the office of the management resources in this capacity. she's responsible for coordinating the u.s. transition from military to civilian operations in iraq, working closely with our ambassador to iraq, james jeffrey whom we spent considerable time with when we were there. the u.s. military and other u.s. government departments and agencies. ambassador haslach has served as coordinator for food security initiative. emission for assistance transition at the u.s. embassy baghdad and director of the office of afghanistan ambassador to the asian cooperative foreign. she received he

mr. graves for that. >> senator, that's the an issue. everything we were interviewing back in may to some of the consultants and other experts, many were conflict without, either by pre-bellcontracts are certainly a big rush by the responsible parties to pick those folks up in it is absolutely been an issue. thankfully one of the major areas where it will to recount an agreement with the federal government. but i think it is an issue. >> again, let me thank all of you for your testimony and work in this area. this is a continuing interest to this committee and its oversight responsibility. you see we've got to get this right. the stakes are very, very high for all of us. it affects our entire country, not just that directly impacted regions. so we've got to get this right. we need to learn from how we handled previous environmental damage areas and we need to make sure that we can justify the process at the end of the day has been in the best interests. one of the encouraging signs, let me just point out the point that you raise, dr. boesch doublet than the long-term issues looks like it is moving forward their sensitivity that the final assessments include monitoring to

mr. chairman, i would yield back my time. >> thank you. the gentleman yield to back. i think the two boats have started on the floor. i didn't hear bells -- they haven't, but we can probably get to the introductions at least before we go over for votes. >> two boats? >> to bells. okay. we will begin with the ambassador. ambassador patricia haslach. i've been told that rhymes with a very popular insurance company commercial but i'm not going to do my imitation but that is the correct pronunciation? excellent. she currently serves as the state department corny for iraq and transition of the office of the deputy secretary for management and resources, in this capacity she is responsible for courting all state department washington aspects of u.s. transition from military to civilian operations in iraq, working close with our ambassador in iraq james jeffrey, who was -- the u.s. military and the u.s. government departments and agencies. ambassador has previously served as deputy coordinator for diplomacy for the u.s. global hunger and food security initiative. assistant chief of mission for assistance transition at u.s. embassy baghdad, di

mr. leonard oates. >> this is what i do every day. [ringing bells] >> leonard oates, ladies and gentlemen, reigning two-time champion mr. leonard oates. that completes the entire competition, ladies and gentlemen. let's hear it for everybody you heard today. the votes from the judges will now be tallied. that means up guys actually have to go to work now. we're going to name the tom three winners in the amateur and professional categories. the first place winner of the professional competition will take home a beautiful cable car bell with -- made by gilberto at the frens of the cable car museum. every year this man makes a beautiful cable car bell for this competition the mr. gad oy is pretty shy, he won't talk about his work but the craftsmanship speaks for itself the every bell every year is individually made by this man. it's a craft. you will see him a little later. while we're waiting for the votes to be tallied though, you're not going anywhere. i'd like to introduce some of the city's top choreographers from the epiphany production, the san

mr. rose? >> madam chair, members of the committee -- we recommend a reduction that is 100% of the ongoing general fund and reductions that will allow an increase of 5.3% in the budget. we also recommend closing bell general fund incumbrances. together these reductions result in general fund sailing -- savings and we will work with the department to get that to the committee. supervisor chu: thank you. seen we do not have questions from the committee, we will see you -- seeing that we do not have questions from the committee, we will see you next week after you get that worked through. all right, colleagues, why don't we take our recess? maybe we can come back at 1:40? thank you.