mr. brooks, commissioner brooks, or president brooks, as he is now known, is the western region vice president of government affairs for cbs outdoor, a leading global media company and is responsible for government and public affairs from california to texas for that company. he is also a member of the california international relations foundation. he provides assistance to the california state senate in furthering economic, environment, educational and cultural exchanges with foreign governments and citizens. president brooks also served as director of administrative services for the city of san francisco where he was responsible for policy and planning for 14 city departments, managing over 300 employees, and a budget of $100 million. please join me in welcoming president brooks. . >> thank you, susan leyall, and good morning, welcome here. before i start i want to thank our general manager leyall who has done an extraordinary job here at the san francisco puc and also i want to recognize two people that just walked in, our vice president commissioner ann (inaudible) and commissioner dennis

mr. brooks. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. josh with brianline. how are you doing? i wanted to speak to the same issue which is just the commitment to the buildout of the local renewable generation and efficiency of community choice. i think it's a lot of what attracted many of us to this program to support it all of these years and i know we want to move forward with the program. i think we all do. but we also want to get to the buildout. we want to get to the local and it's something that marin has finally realized there talking about now getting to the local and i think as an advocate for the local renewable generation efficiency, job components that that brings, the ability of further environmental justice through this program, i think that's something we have to hear as a clear milestone in this program and i think it's not enough just to say let's go on the market and procure. i think we need to hear that commitment that we're going to commit to the 2007 ordinance that we all still support. i want to also mention with respect you heard from

mr. brooks who spoke at public comment and said there's been disruption at the station much earlier. yes, there has. but this latest layoffs of the morning show and cancellation of the morning show created even greater disruption especially the listener audience who come to rely on the morning show for their news. and information and is an innocuous resolution and had a original resolution much more strident in its urging and concern about what happened at the station. this to me is really expressing concern and calling on the parties related to the crisis and kpfa working things out and is something we should support here in the board chambers. thank you.

mr. eric brooks. eric, why don't you come on up? >> good afternoon, commissioners. derrick brooks representing san francisco green party in our city -- eric brooks. i was not here for the entire presentation, but in the previous meeting, i had mentioned something that is really crucial that we got nailed down on community benefits. first of all, want to commend ms. ellis and her staff. this is groundbreaking stuff, and it puts san francisco far ahead of any other city in the country. i wanted to make sure there was follow-up on what i commented on last time, which is that when nonprofit groups or even for- profit companies are out in the community advocating for community benefit, it is very important day our firewall from the actual community benefits money that is created, such that they have to bid for contracts just like everyone else -- it is very important that they are firewalled. that would be the first thing. they should also be barred from kind of serving in a godfather role of advocate for community benefits bonds. and then somehow end up sitting on a pan

mr. brooks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. brooks: thank you, mr. speaker. americans enjoy the best health care in the world. every year, profit motive and american entrepreneurs create better diagnose gnostic tools and treatment. there are ways to improve america's health care, but president obama's socialized medicine is not it. for example, we can cut health care costs by implementing tort reform, by forcing health care competition, by removing i will ell -- i will legal aliens who get free health care costs. this obstructs life saving medical advances. it is care rationed by bureaucrats with mind numbing regulations. socialized medicine pulls all health care down. livings and freedom are at stake. we must repeal this job-killing government takeover of america health care. today i will probably vote to do exactly that. i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: it's now my privilege to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from rhode

mr. todd brook. todd and his family have been generous and enthusiastic supporters of their community for decades and his award from the middletown community foundation is fitting. todd's business achievements alone have been impressive with his deeredship sustaining hundreds of jobs. his contributions to the community have gone beyond his leadership in the business community. the time allotted to this speech today is insufficient to list all todd's achievements and contributions in this regard. just a few recipients of todd's again rossity have been the high school choir, aloha bowl parade, bristol township, truman high school, united way, and countless others. mr. speaker, during the month we are honored to serve, we hopor the service of martin luther king, i'm reminded of the great civil right leader's quote that anyone can be great because anyone can serve. by this measure and countless others todd is truly great and i'm proud to honor him today. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker p

mrs. douglas were dead. brooks and leslie somehow survived. retrials at which again and again year after year, they relive the awful story. >> i screamed and then he shot me again and then i heard him run out the door. >> reporter: at 27, brooks was elected to the oklahoma state senate, made a name as a champion of victims rights. when stephen hatch was executed, he and leslie were there. >> leslie and i have again witnessed the taking of a life. >> reporter: brooks was still a senator when he found himself at the prison that housed murder glen ache. he had no idea when he went to meet ache that it was going to change his life. >> what i really wanted was for it to be over. >> i'm so, so sorry for what i did to you and your family. >> reporter: and now, brooks douglas has made a movie about his family and all that happened, a tribute to his parents called "heaven's rain" and the actor who plays his father. >> we have to get rid of the bad blood -- >> reporter: is him. >> brooks douglas is with us now. good morning to you, brooks. >> thank you.

mr. obama said china had come a long way on the issue but he would continue to be candid. they spoke about trade and currency. adam brooks reports. >> to presidents. together they preside over a quarter of the world's population, one-third of its economy. they differ profoundly in their philosophies but they covet each other's wealth and markets. >> we have an enormous stake in each other's success. in an interconnected world, in a global economy, nations, including our own will be more prosperous and more secure when we work together. >> they need each other, but do they trust each other? they spent the morning in talks. mr. obama told mr. hu that the ir market is too close. mr. hu said change would come on china schedule. they faced the camera. mr. obama calm and confident and mr. hu hard to read. >> can you explain how the united states can be so allied with the country that is known for treating its people so poorly? >> we have some core views as americans about the elaris all the of certain rights, of freedom of speech, assembly, and religion. they are important and trent said cultures. >> there were problems with t

mr. conductor holdren, dr. deutch, distinguished guests, let me start by congratulating brookings and the china institute for innovation and development strategy on this timely important process to be that brookings a special thanks to jon thornton, stir until it and can lead in fall. and to the entire team congratulations on your visit that brought all of us here today. i'm going to discuss three topics. first the u.s. and chinese energy economies, second, the reason it makes sense for us to cooperate and third, some of the programs we have under way to do exactly that the rate of what we start with some basic statistics. together china and the united states consume about 40% of the world's energy, a little bit less. it goes to 2008 and is trending upwards in 2009. together it accounts for more than 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. china is currently the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. the u.s. is the larger historical a matter if you get this dhaka for the last 20 years of the greenhouse gas emissions but in both of our country's. but there is still a big gap in the per-capita energy use as you can see he

mr. neil, welcome the response also to respond to the earlier exchange. the thing is that there's a well-developed literature including, you know, a fairly recent brookings paper, a paper by a germ economist who is not republican or democrat, but it shows that a lot of the lessons in mr. sullivan's testimony are apparent in the data that if you're a high tax praise place, it's easy for companies to move their profits to a low tax place. that's why you saw the lower average rates in the testimony for companies that are adapt of locating activity with lower tax places. reducing the tax here in the u.s., there's less of an incentive to locate activity ablood, and then it's an empirical question if the change is enough to reduce the rate and get more revenue. it's never the case with taxes in the near term reducing the rate you get more revenue, but in the complete tax space, there's academic papers that find that result. i would say a rough reading of the literature is the revenue maximizing tax rate in the corporate tax space is maybe around 30%, and so if we're above, that we're losing revenue in part because it's so easy to change price to lower jurisdict

brookings institution. joining us from austin, texas is doug brinkley. mr. brinkley, let me begin with you.gin with the role of the president. what is it? guest: the president has to become healer in chief. the whole country, after an event like tucson, is hurting. there are not any easy answers. were not sure if there will be a big congressional debate over the gun selling policy. we are not sure if there will be increased security on congressional candidates or the people in state houses or governors' mansions. what we do know is that the behavior we witnessed, and we're all feeling a disdain for this young man who would shoot innocent people -- somebody has got to move us beyond this mourning area and frame it for us. president obama is going to arizona today, very much like bill clinton in 1995 and ronald reagan with the challenger disaster in 1986, will have to say words to kill the family and soothe our national move, -- he al the family and sued our national -- sooth our national mood. at the end of the speech, has to give some hope. i recently reread bill clinton's oklahoma city spe

brookings institution. joining us from austin, texas is doug brinkley. mr. brinkley, let me begin with you. first, let's begin with the role of the president. what is it? guest: the president has to become healer in chief. the whole country, after an event like tucson, is hurting. there are not any easy answers. were not sure if there will be a big congressional debate over the gun selling policy. we are not sure if there will be increased security on congressional candidates or the people in state houses or governors' mansions. what we do know is that the behavior we witnessed, and we're all feeling a disdain for this young man who would shoot innocent people -- somebody has got to move us beyond this mourning area and frame it for us. president obama is going to arizona today, very much like bill clinton in 1995 and ronald reagan with the challenger disaster in 1986, will have to say words to kill the family and soothe our national move, -- he al the family and sued our national -- sooth our national mood. at the end of the speech, has to give some hope. i recently reread bill clinton's o

mr. neal, i welcome the response to respond to the earlier exchange. the thing is that there is a well-developed literature, including a recent brookings paper, a paper by a german economist who is definitely not republican or democrat that shows that really a lot of the lessons of mr. sullivan's testimony are apparent in the data, that if you're a high tax place, it's relatively easy for companies to move their prove toits a low tax place. that's why you saw the lower average rates in mr. sullivan's testimony for some companies is that they've within very adept at locating activity in lower tax places. if we reduce the tax here in the u.s., then they have less of an incentive to locate their profits and activity abroad and then it's just an empirical question, is the change in incentive enough so you can reduce the rate and get more revenue? it's almost never the case with taxes at least in the near term you reduce the rate you get more revenue. but in the corporate tax space there are academic papers that find that result. i would say a rough reading of the literature is the revenue maximizing tax rate and the corporate tax space is maybe around 30%.

brookings. jeff bewkes is chairman and president and ceo of tom warner. mr. bewkes oversees time warner corporate, hbo, t-bs and warner brothers among other parts of the country. previously he served as chairman of the entertainment and networks group and chairman and ceo of hbo. you see him regularly in the industry on the industry and the future of television. last fall he wrote a widely quoted column for the "wall street journal" with the very provocative title of the coming golden age of television. everybody thinks it's the internet. he thinks television. >> uh-huh. [laughter] >> and i hate to be upstaged by my panel members so early in the event but he's exactly right. but he does have tremendous insights into how innovation takes place. randall stevenson is chairman, president and ceo of at&t. and as all of you know, at&t is the world's largest telecommunications company. as chairman, he has strengthened at&t's position as a leader in mobile broadband and global i.p. data. at&t invests around $18 billion each year to upgrade broadband and bring wireles

mr. cardin: marylanders take pride in a their hall of famers, from cal ripken o'our iron man, to brooks robinson with the golden glove to johnny unitas with the golden arm to frank robinson who was an all star in both the american and national leagues. now we add to that list our own senator barbara mikulski, the longest serving woman senator in the u.s. senate history. marylanders are proud of senator barb, not because of her length of service but what she has done as a united states senator and as a united states senator and and is done throughout her entireyo career.mi u.s. jeni maryland or what they think about senator mikulski and they will start out by saying she is a fighter and then they will say we are glad she is on our side. she is an effective fighter for the people from protectingn neighborhoods from an unwanted highway to keeping jobs in maryland from being shipped overseas. there is no more effective playerht than senator barbara mikulski. she has protected herra strengthening of the u.s. this program and her position on the appropriations committee. she provided equity in health

mr. cardin: marylanders take pride in a their hall of famers, from cal ripken o'our iron man, to brooks robinson with the golden glove to johnny unitas with the golden arm to frank robinson who was an all star in both the american and national leagues. now we add to that list our own senator barbara mikulski, the longest serving woman senator in the u.s. senate history. marylanders are proud of senator barb, not because of her length of service but what she has done as a united states senator and as a united states senator and and is done throughout her entireyo career.mi u.s. jeni maryland or what they think about senator mikulski and they will start out by saying she is a fighter and then they will say we are glad she is on our side. she is an effective fighter for the people from protectingn neighborhoods from an unwanted highway to keeping jobs in maryland from being shipped overseas. there is no more effective playerht than senator barbara mikulski. she has protected herra strengthening of the u.s. this program and her position on the appropriations committee. she provided equity in health

mr. cardin: marylanders take pride in a their hall of famers, from cal ripken o'our iron man, to brooks robinson with the golden glove to johnny unitas with the golden arm to frank robinson who was an all star in both the american and national leagues. now we add to that list our own senator barbara mikulski, the longest serving woman senator in the u.s. senate history. marylanders are proud of senator barb, not because of her length of service but what she has done as a united states senator and has done throughout her entire career. you ask any marylander what do they think about senator mikulski, and they will start off by saying she is a fighter, and then they will say we're glad she is on our side. she is an effective fighter for the people, from protecting neighborhoods from an unwanted highway to keeping jobs in maryland from being shipped overseas, there is no more effective fighter than senator barbara mikulski. she has protected our national security from her position on the intelligence committee, she has strengthened the u.s. space program from her position on the appropriations comm

brooks institution. also joining us is doug brinkley from rice university. let me begin with you, the discussion about the u.s. in the aftermath of national tragedies, mr.rinkley. let's begin with the role of the president, what is it? >> the president has to become healer and chief in a sense. he's the agent of healing. the whole country after an event like tucson, we're hurting right now and there aren't easy answers. we're not sure there is going to be a big congressional debate over gun selling policy. we're not sure whether there's going to be increased security on congressional candidates or people in statehouses or governor's mansions. what we do know is that the behavior, the an harnte -- the abherrant behavior and the feelings for this young man killing dangerous people, somebody has to move us beyond the mourning behavior and frame it for us. president obama going to tucson like bill clinton going to oklahoma city in 1995 or ronald reagan with the challenger disaster in 1986. is going to have to say words about heal the family, kind of soothe our national mood but also talk about there being real evil in the modern world and that we have to co

mr. conductor holdren, dr. deutch, distinguished guests, let me start by congratulating brookings and the china institute for innovationand development strategy on this timely important process to be that brookings a special thanks to jon thornton, stir until it and can lead in fall. and to the entire team congratulations on your visit that brought all of us here today. i'm going to discuss three topics. first the u.s. and chinese energy economies, second, the reason it makes sense for us to cooperate and third, some of the programs we have under way to do exactly that the rate of what we start with some basic statistics. together china and the united states consume about 40% of the world's energy, a little bit less. it goes to 2008 and is trending upwards in 2009. together it accounts for more than 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. china is currently the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. the u.s. is the larger historical a matter if you get this dhaka for the last 20 years of the greenhouse gas emissions but in both of our country's. but there is still a big gap in the per-capita energy use as you can see her