mr. chafee. >>> [speaker not understood] use your time during public comment to listen to public comment. thank you and stop the corporate rape of our public library. don't give money to the friend of the library. don't accept money from the friends of the public library. the public scandal of the privatization of our library is the indication of the central scam of city hall. the president of the library commission ~ gomez has been found guilty [speaker not understood] which was a willful violation of sunshine and found by the ethics commission to be found below the standard of decency. the city librarian luis herrera has been found guilty of three years of violations of the california political reform act and the california [speaker not understood] practices commission assessed a fine for violation of conflict of interest laws. there have been repeated violations of the sunshine ordinance, found by the sunshine task force to be found [speaker not understood]. we now know that in the 12 years that the funds have been raising fund for the branch library improvement program, the friends of

mrs. boxer: well, senator whitehouse, you know, you raise the name of john chafee and lincoln chafee.i was friendly with both of those chafees, john being my chairman, a real model for me. i literally learned from him. the anand not only was he a lean the environment, he was just a leader on so many other issues -- sensible gun laws, sensible gun laws. and something has happened to the grand ol' party. somebody once said, well, maybe they're the formerly grand ol' party. but i have hoped that they will return and be the grand ol' parity because partybecause i wd leadership. putting the price on carbon is the only way to go. you make the case, because there is a cost. and what is the cost? you see it. this is the cost. and yet those that are putting this dangerous pollution in the air don't pay anything for it. as a matter of fact, they get subsidies still. you and i sometimes talk, you know, off-line here and we say that we're very calm when we speak here because we know we have to have a sense of did he - decorum. but inside a lot of us are churning because we love our children and y