mr. goldberg i think in having that continuity is important. i share the concern that commissioner semioutlined. i do wish making sure with we have a diversity representative sample of the community and i do worry there are not more women on this body. i won thing i >> the clerk will read the journal from the previous day add to the applicants that, you know, you have to - you can this is a hard process because we have so many incredible applicants and that's hard to appoint people but i hope you take out of this process we want people who want to serve and the fact you're not appointed today doesn't mean you won't be. continue the involvement because that's how most people end up getting appointed to those seats >> so let me ask colleagues on those two at large seats i do strongly support what the commissioners are saying and one of the folks wants to be considered for the at large seat as well. commissioner breed >> i want to marry are we certain she wants to be considered. >> so far we have 8 men if we considered who we've made a motion to s

mr. goldberg i think in having that continuity is important. i share the concern that commissioner semioutlined. i do wish making sure with we have a diversity representative sample of the community and i do worry there are not more women on this body. i won thing i >> the clerk will read the journal from the previous day add to the applicants that, you know, you have to - you can this is a hard process because we have so many incredible applicants and that's hard to appoint people but i

mr. goldberg any other incumbents. if there are any other applicants i did see paul and other applicants please come forward >> morning i'm paul and i'm an applicant for to be a member for the brt citizens advisory committee i've lived in the district for 3 years, however, all of us know we could have more of an improvement and i have long been active in the richmond district. i also have a my educational background in urban studies and city planning. i have an approach of fighting compromises that would benefit all parties involved in this process and as you know it's a russian community and without 4 o 38 is used the most by the russian community and i'm hoping on this committee to represent them as well as other residents in the district to make sure that their voice is heard. i gntd to this country and what to make sure that people who can't afford a car are heard and take into account >> thank you. >> >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. thank you for hearing my testimony. i'm jason witnessing imply i live

mr. goldberg. here is what i don't get. he drags this up 18 months after the fact.has already done the huffington post thing. why is he doing this again? i mean, what's in it for him? attention? >> i think robert reich is trying to make bakinger point about the culture. i think he is trying to say that we have a hyperpartisan culture that honest civil debate has been replaced by name-calling and that we not only don't like the other side. we don't even want to hear what the other side has to say. and on those points, i completely agree with professor robert reich. his mcstake is that he used -- mistake is that he used your comi comment jumping off point it was clearly a joke. i call my liberal friends comis all the time and they know it's a joke. robert reich is a smart guy. i have interviewed him. he is a smart guy, yet as a progressive, like some other progressives he hasn't progressed like into the 21st century. he has said that this is a communist witch-hunt. these are not the 1950s, professor reich. bill o'reilly is not senator carte. it's a joke. >> bill: the

goldberg for another two year term. out objection. thank you >> thank you very much mr. fong for making that as painless as possible and for all the people presenting. so ms. chang call the next item >> 8 recommend 8 members to the advisory committee this is an action item. >> so my understanding is that oh, wow. we have a lady here - commissioner yee. >> i think this discussion in wanting to appoint more females on here i was a little lost in our discussion. i heard john a female and wants to be reappointed why did we skip over her. i will make a motion for her >> she's a south asian rep and i can't remember did they communicate an interest. >> she sent on e-mail saying she was an attorney and her work required her to be in sacramento today. >> i recall that supervisor kim discussion to hold-off but do you want a motion. >> i want to have a female and here's one who's been on the committee and expressed that she wants to continue. i don't know her personally and john i don't have any objection so i would feel comfortable to nominate her. so i guess to reopen >> let me j

. >> bill: bernie goldberg will analyze the presidential interviews a bit later on. finally, if congress denies mrama cover, the consequence for the u.s.a. will be intense. we now have a president who has lost a tremendous amount of power. even if congress does save him. after five years in office, most americans do not trust mr. obama to effectively punish an obvious human rights violator. they don't like the mission. they don't like the strategy. they don't like the leadership. the president has three years left in office. but if congress denies his request to move against assad, that will seem like forever. mr. obama will be embarrassed throughout the world. the bad guys overseas will see him as weak and his opponents within the u.s.a. will step up their attacks on him. and so ironically, a vicious attack in syria now has extreme global implications. russia, iran, al qaeda, and every other subversive group gain power. america, britain, france, nato and those who are supposed to be the keepers of civilization lose power. this happened once before, in the 1930s, and now it's happening again. syri

mr. harkin: i ask unanimous consent that daniel goldberg, samantha aster and whitney wait of my staff be granted floor privileges for the duration of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, we find ourselves in yet another alice in wonderland moment here in the senate. again we're on the brink of a government shutdown for no reason other than the house republicans' absolute obsession, absolute obsession with repealing the affordable care act. now, their strategy isn't anything new. they're running the same old plays out of the same old playbook that they've used for three years. mind you, none of these attempts have worked, but failure is no deterrent if all you care about is scoring political points with your political base. 42 times, mr. president, 42 times the house has voted to repeal or defund the affordable care act. you'd any after the first 41 they might get that it's the sense of it that it's just a waste of time, but no, the house is at it again risking the widespread economic damage a government shutdown would cause just so they can