mr. brooks that the onslaught of opposition that this campaign probably has to deal with will be very severe and i think certainly -- there is the ledgeally ballot in the bay and prop eight and there were ballots in the bay never counted and all of that and who knows? it could be true obviously. there is a website "change.org" and misinformed about shell oil and it's connection to this program and maybe it's not completely misinformed but certainly under lying there is no mention of clean power and how we have no currently and relying completely i will say hard energy sources and fossil fuels and that sort of thing, and even in my own personal campaign there was a hit piece that came out about how i was in bed with shell oil and nigeria and active vifts there and we know that is true and disappearing and what not and i don't think we should under estimate the type of political quagmire that this program will find itself in and the attacks are unwarranted and misinforming and certainly i'm not suggesting they're all coming from pg&e, but certainly there is a motivation to maintain the monopol

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mr. brooks. >> this is the last one, eric brooks representing san francisco green party. i want to pick up where commissioner vietor left off, on october 9 when you give the preliminary okay for this. i got up and gave tentative support for it. but commissioner caen rightly insisted that davis & associates be appropriated $100,000 for a detailed plan for what it would do for the remaining $1.3 million. we do not have that yet, that money has been spent. the framework from the meeting. there are difficulties with the framework, and i understand that you okay with that, but now we are approiating the money for this. if you start the process and do the full funding now, the survey that is done will be based on a $10 premium on one year and $20 for two-year. it will be similar to those done. that survey will not be incorporating the possibility of what i spoke to after the general manager's report. that there might not be a premium. we may be able to offer people 100% green without any extra costs. and if we jump the gun and do a survey before we know the answer of that quest

mr. brooks. >> i did want to speak to had item, eric brooks for the san francisco green party. i would reiterate what the other speakers said and dovetail off of commissioner. that the utilities commission has in its possession, real estate, but not just real estate but something that is part of the watershed ecosystem in the bay area. that's how this property should be treated. just like all parts of hetch hetchy in the mountains. we need to treat it the same way. and along those lines i would reiterate what others said. that the sfpuc should aggressively assert its authorities and rights to oversee the funds and activities. we are hearing that we don't even know if the rod and gun club has enough money to do the clean-up through insurance. when it's the responsibility of that club to do the clean-up. so sfpuc needs to be in charge. so do everything in your power to be in charge. i will reiterate what i said last year, when tim colin and i get up and we agree on something, that's serious business. because we usually don't. this ought to tell you that environmentalists and peop

mr. brooks' amendment on assistance so many of our constituents think that a foreign assistance programs budgets are less than 1% and i believe strongly that so many of these programs are for national security and we can't protect the nation alone and we need our allies to work together to ensure that the nation is safe and its u.s. national security that has benefited by assistance. .. until we're in a position we do not need to transit over their soil, it appears to me the best supply route is to continue to pay this transit fee as we go over pakistan, and i have an exception for afghanistan because that's a war zone, and then israel i have an exception for, under my proposal, because of the heightened risk of conflict. should be weakened financially because we cut them off, or if cutting them off would appear to be a move to distance ourself and might embolden israel's foes, and my amendment would fully fund the proposal of chairman hall rogers. >> mr. burgess. >> thank you for the recognition, i want to thank all of you for your work on the eliminating offset amendments. there was a

mr. brooks said lots of jobs for san francisco residents, so i would like the commission to send a strong message that for puc staff to work with the local power to develop the best cca that is possible. thank you. >> thank you very much. and next speaker please. >> good afternoon folks. alwine from the clean energy alliance and i have the great opportunity to be chairing those stakeholder meetings that take place, fairly contentious of recent time. i wanted to address two questions quickly. one is a question of the rates and the high rates that i think everybody concerned about it at roll out time which according to the proposals that have been put before the rate fairness board are roughly somewhere depending on your tier between 18 and 30% above current bills, and it's really important that we feel, the advocates, and the commission itself feels to really lower those rates and i wanted to say we encourage every effort to do that. that the proposal you're putting forward supervisor campos would not make a huge difference in those rates. i mean looking at the numbers is that the rate rec

mr. brooks of alabama. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and secretary clinton. it's an honor to be here today and i want to thank you for the time you've spent with us and with the senate for that matter, i'm sure it's been a long day. my experience is truth without credibility is meaningless and credibility once lost is difficult to reacquire. my concern is the degree to which stault statements about benghazi have danieled america's credibility not only here but abroad. i don't focus on your statements in that regard, rather i focus on others. on september 16, 2012, on "meet the press," ambassador susan rice stated, and i quote, what happened in benghazi was initially a ton tain -- spontaneous reaction to what had transpyred in cairo, almost a copy cat of the demonstrations against our facilities in cairo which were prompted by the video, end quote. let me broke the state -- break parts, if i might. i'd like you to confirm whether her comments were true or false. secretary clinton, is ambassador rice's statement that benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to the c

mr. brooks of alabama. >> thank you mr. chairman. secretary clinton, i want to thank you for time you've spent with us and the senate for that matter. i'm sure it's been a long day. it's been any experience that truth without credibility is meaningless and credibility once lost is difficult to acquire. have damaged america's credibility here and also abroad. i don't focus on any of your statements in that regard. rather i focus on some others. on september 16th, 2012, on "meet the press" ambassador susan rice stated and i quote, what happened in benghazi was initially a spontaneous reaction to what had transpired before in cairo. almost a copy cat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo which were prompted, of course, by the video. end quote. let me break this statement down into three parts, if i might. i'd ask you to confirm based on the data we now have whether her comments were true or false. secretary clinton, is ambassador's statement that benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to the cairo protest factually accurate?

mr. brooks of alabama. >> thank you for the time you spent with us and the senate. i'm sure it's been a long day. it's my experience that truth without creditability is meaningless. credibility once lost is difficult to reacquire. my concern is the degree to which false statements about benghazi have damaged america's credibility, not only here but also abroad. i don't focus on your statements in that regard. rather, i focus on some others. september 16, 2012, "meet the press" ambassador susan rice stated, "what happened in benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo." almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video." let me break the statement down to three parts if i might. it ask you to confirm based on the data we now have. whether her comments were true or false. is ambassador rice's statement that benghazi was a spontaneous response to cairo protest factually accurate? >> well, i think if you look at our finding, congressman, there is

mr. brooks, for five minutes. mr. brooks: mr. speaker, then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral michael mullen, testified before the house armed services committee that america, quote, is maintaining nearly historic fiscal deficits and national debt. indeed, i believe that our debt is the greatest threat to our national security. if we as a country do not address our fiscal imbalances in the near term, our national power will erode and the cost to our ability to maintain and sustain influence could be great, end quote. admiral mullen is right. debt caused sequestration. debt and sequestration will slash our uniformed personnel to the lowest levels since before world war ii, reduce our navy to the smallest number of operational vessels since world war i, and cut our air force to the smallest number of operational aircraft in its history. in sum, debt is putting america's national security at risk. last week on january 17 the comptroller general of the united states delivered to president obama a general accountability o

goodlatte: i yield to the gentlewoman from indiana, mrs. brooks. mrs. brooks: section 4, the congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the house of representatives may choose a president whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the senate may choose a vice president whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. section 5, sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of october following the ratification of this article. section 6, this article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the constitution by the legislatures of 3/4 of several states within seven years from the date of its submission. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from alabama, mr. bonner. mr. bonner: amendment 21, section 1, the 18th article of the amendment of the constitution of the united states is hereby repealed. section 2, the transportation or importation into any state, territory or possession of th

goodlatte: yield to the gentlewoman from indiana, mrs. brooks. mrs. brooks: section 4, the congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the house of representatives may choose a president whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the senate may choose a vice president whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. section 5, sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of october following the ratification of this article. section 6, this article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the constitution by the legislatures of 3/4 of several states within seven years from the date of its submission. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from alabama, mr. bonner. mr. bonner: amendment 21, section 1, the 18th article of the amendment of the constitution of the united states is hereby repealed. section 2, the transportation or importation into any state, territory or possession of th

mr. brooks? >> thank you mr. chairman. amendment 78 offered in new jersey and brooks 79 which is an amendment. basically both of them are paid for and provide a source for funding for the money that would be spent for disaster relief caused by hurricane sandy. what it does is cut into foreign aid with the exception of israel, afghanistan or pakistan and shift those moneys being spent on foreign aid to instead be spent on american aid to the victims of hurricane sandy so it is paid for, it is a substantive pay for the amounts are unknown because it is the key to how much money is spent or has already been spent on foreign aid, and that can fluctuate depending on when this legislation should pass. the reason i am submitting the pay for is because the precarious condition the united states government sees itself to the financially we're on a path to nowhere. financially, we are looking at instead of a fiscal clough, a fourth consecutive deficit we have $16 trillion in total debt to increase that beyond $16 trillion to put that

mr. brooks of alabama. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and secretary clinton. it's an honor to be here today and i want to thank you for the time you've spent with us and with the senate for that matter, i'm sure it's been a long day. my experience is truth without credibility is meaningless and credibility once lost is difficult to reacquire. my concern is the degree to which stault statements about benghazi have danieled america's credibility not only here but abroad. i don't focus on your statements in that regard, rather i focus on others. on september 16, 2012, on "meet the press," ambassador susan rice stated, and i quote, what happened in benghazi was initially a ton tain -- spontaneous reaction to what had transpyred in cairo, almost a copy cat of the demonstrations against our facilities in cairo which were prompted by the video, end quote. let me broke the state -- break the statement down into three parts, if i might. i'd like you to confirm whether her comments were true or false. secretary clinton, is ambassador rice's statement that benghazi was a

mr. brooks of alabama. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and secretary clinton, it's an honor to be today and i want to thank you for the time that you've spent with us and with the senate for that matter. i'm sure it's been a long day. it's been my experience that truth without credibility is meaningless. credibility once lost is difficult to reacquire. my concern is the degree to which false statements about benghazi had damaged america's credibility, not only here but also abroad. i don't focus on any of your statements in that regard. rather, i focus on some others. on september 16, 2012, on "meet the press," ambassador susan rice stated and i quote, what happened in benghazi was, in fact, initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. almost a copycat of, of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which were prompted, of course, why the video, end quote. let me break the statement down into three parts if i might come as i would ask you to confirm based on the data we now have wh

mr. brookings mission quite well. the first panel explored a business and government can work together at the local level on advanced manufacturing to address our unemployment crisis and restored middle-class jobs in the country. the second panel look at the fiscal situation, talked about how a nonpartisan group of business people has come together, to put pressure on our politicians to do the right thing, restore confidence, create conditions under which our economy can grow. and this most recent panel has focused i think quite accurately on how one quote unquote manages or brings business management type of practices and business to cover. so as i said goodbye to you all today, i will assure you about robert brookings will rest in peace tonight. with the knowledge that 100 usually, nearly 100 later, this institution is navigating the course. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudi

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, eric brooks, san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization in our city. i want to spin on mrs. hale's update on cleanpowersf. talking about the briefing that local power will give on january 22 about their work on the local build down. i think you have heard in the past hearings that i and others have said what they have developed in a financial model to get the entire power that advocates are asking for. and putting out in the same price by pg & e and by the locals in the first years of the program. but however the exciting new news in the latest stakeholder meeting between local power and sfsgu and advocates. local power after heard from a lot of us, and after saying, listen, what you are putting together is good. but we have an issue that commissioner caen raised, pg & e is going to roll out their green program at a $6 premium. and it's lower than the 10-20. and hearing the comments from us and staff, local power developed a new model based on its previous models. that model will use renewable energy credits at the same level they are used in morion county. and something th

mrs. schulz for sending the video of bill as an infant. >> the kids got excited. >> brooke, you were saying in the green room you hated children and anything that keeps them away from you during the summer months is a good thing. can you elaborate on that? >> i built a career off of hating children. look, it is quality and not quantity. i think frankly the whole education system in the united states is completely screwed up. making kids sit in their desks and subjecting them to more of this type of education is not the way to go. the smartest thing would be to take the money and take the time and reeducate teachers how to make their lessons more effective. it is important not to minimize that there is many lessons to be learned. i am a huge advocate of summer camp. you learn survival skills. you learn social skills. you spend time at your desk. it is a horrible policy. >> i learned a lot not going to camp. i was picked on all summer, put you learn. >> you learn to be bitter. >> that's why i am the man i am today. >> do you think they should have the summers off? i am both sides on this issu

mr. fried, ms. miller do you want to add anything to that? okay. why don't we open it up to public comment. >> good afternoon again commissioners. eric brook representing san francisco green party and the local organization our city. first a technical point on all of this. i was under the impression and check with dhr on this that the executive position still exists but filled on an interim basis. maybe i am wrong on that but good to make sure you're correct on that from the staff's perspective. i agree bringing it back in house because the next year is going to be really big for clean power sf and some other things and we need somebody that can be available five days a week, 50 weeks a year. i mean that's really going to be important, but the main thing i want to focus on is that the advocates for clean power sf have had some concerns with the way that lafco -- when we originally set set up lafco to work on clean power sf and especially get at the beginning of 2007 and what we needed from lafco and i believe the intention we needed somebody on task for clean power sf itself that could approach the sf puc on many occasions the sf puc wasn'

mr. chair. >> gentlelady yields back her time. congressman brooks, alabama. five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. zurbuchen and also miss blakey, your testimony, in particular dr. zurbuchen highlights the importance of maintaining pipeline ever engineers and scientists to insure we continue to innovate in the future with respect to both of you. what are your recommendations for a program that provides opportunities to our graduate and post-doctoral students to the benefit of future leadership in space? >> thanks so much, congressman. my personal feeling such a program will be hugely advantageous for this nation and could in many ways in fact enable ideas that were talked about on this panel. i think in general we have tremendous interests in our talent, some of our talent to really engage in this. and such a program that you mentioned i think will be very postively reacted upon. >> i must also tell you because i've had the opportunity to go to almost all of nasa's centers around the country as a member of the nasa advisory council, i have been very, very impressed to the degree whic

mr. president. the first time he has ever been called that. what was lyndon johnson like during those 40 minutes when he is standing against the back wall? quite striking, congressman brooks came in, his aides who were there carter was -- they all used the same words as youngblood. he was absolutely calm. they remembered what ladybird was always saying about johnson, given to almost hysterical fits when he had a cold, always thought he was dying of pneumonia. but ladybird said in a tough spot he is a good man and watching his face in that 40 minutes was like seeing the face of a bronze statue. very tough face, let's compressed, we know lyndon johnson looked -- his eyes piercing but absolutely calm. the minute he is addressed mr. president he starts to act like one. the secret service agents coming and crowd around him and no one knows this isn't a conspiracy. you remember it was only a year past the cuban missile crisis. it just wasn't just the president was hit by a shot but the governor of texas. if youngblood hadn't thrown himself on top of lyndon johnson they didn't know if the shot was intended for him. they didn't know if this was a conspiracy and international cons

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brooks. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: president obama chose his long-time foreign policy advisor denis mcdonough to be the new white house chief of staff. mr. obama made the announcement this afternoon. he lauded mcdonough, and told him, "i know you'll always give it to me straight, as only a friend can." mcdonough will take over from jack lew, who's been nominated to replace timothy geithner as the next treasury secretary. today was geithner's last day, after four years on the job. in a final interview, he said he's hopeful the economy will strengthen this year. the defense department has begun eliminating the jobs of all 46,000 temporary civilian employees at the pentagon. the announcement today said it's a response to mandatory, across- the-board spending cuts. they're scheduled to take effect march 1, unless congress comes up with alternative cuts. without changes, hundreds of thousands of full-time civilian employees will face furloughs and reduced paychecks by april. the government of syria called today for thousands of refugees to come home, including those opposed to the regime. nearly 600,000 syrians have fled the civil war and go

brooks. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: president obama chose his long-time foreign policy advisor denis mcdonough to be the new white house chief of staff. mr. obama made the announcement this afternoon. he lauded mcdonough, and told him, "i know you'll always give it to me straight, as only a friend can." mcdonough will take over from jack lew, who's been nominated to replace timothy geithner as the next treasury secretary. today was geithner's last day after four years on the job. in a final interview, he said he's hopeful the economy will strengthen this year. the defense department has begun eliminating the jobs of all 46,000 temporary civilian employees at the pentagon. the announcement today said it's a response to mandatory, across- the-board spending cuts. they're scheduled to take effect march 1, unless congress comes up with alternative cuts. without changes, hundreds of thousands of full-time civilian employees will face furloughs and reduced paychecks by april. the government of syria called today for thousands of refugees to come home, including those opposed to the regime. nearly 600,000 syrians have fled the civil war and gon

mr. president. he's going to have a hard time getting some democratic votes, however. then comes the republican controlled house and, brookethe statements out from the republicans in the house, conservative republicans in the senate, the president doesn't have the votes. is he going to say i tried and then walkway or is he going to travel the country? you heard him in that remark, he said he needs help. he wants parents, members of congress come home, he wants people to call them, write them letters. will he sustain that for two months, three months, four months and more if need be when he wants to do big things on debt and deficit, big things on medicare, comprehensive immigration reform, and will be in a fight with republicans over that? this is going to be a test of how long the president is prepared to wage what -- to get hard stuff done to get an assault weapons ban, to get the magazine clips, universal background check is easier, but the president has to dig in and fight and it will be fascinating to watch. >> this is a statement we have gotten from the nra, national rifle association, part of the statement. we look

>> good morning, i'm brooke baldwin, a special fiscal cliff addiction, we're over it, "starting point," roll it, starts right now. here we go, full table, our panel today we have mrrichard saccharides, former adviser to president clinton, chrystia freeland, thompson reuters and welcome will cain with a tie, we've all been talking about it at the commercial. >> new year. >> court date. >> christine romans joining us here at the table as well. welcome, everyone. >> welcome. our "starting point," back from the fiscal abyss, in detox from our fiscal cliff addiction as the case may be. tens of millions of taxpayers and small business owners exhaling. the house passed the senate bill that temporarily brings us back from the depth of that cliff. the final vote 257 for, 167 against and you might be interested to know this, house speaker john boehner voted yes, so did paul ryan. here's what the deal means for you and your family, couples earning less than $450,000 a year are spared an income tax hike, itemized deductions are capped for couples making more than $300 a year, unemployment benefits are extended for a year for 2 million americans and the thorny alternative min

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