i see mr. haley is here. in my experience, the lrv service has been better in the last two weeks. i appreciated the explanation we have received. the public appreciated it. we have better understanding. we do not have another meeting in this calendar year. perhaps in one of the january meetings, it could be very brief. if you and roberta care to deem it a memo, ok. but i would like some public follow-ups on how john's fixes for those three issues have gone and how that affected service. at least in my personal view, i am -- we are not saying the same issues to work in october and november. i appreciate that. secondly, i will raise peak time taxes again. i realize we're not going to be meeting, but some put we can have a follow-up with deputy director hiashi to see where we are on that. recent evenings in the rain have reminded me that our citizens and tourists who want to spend money are looking for taxicabs on friday and saturday night. finally, on the rain, i had the pleasure of writing in a cable car for my kids for most of sunday afternoon in the rain. we do not say it often e

mr. alexander: i'm here tonight in the spirit of my late friend, the author of roots "roots," alex haley, who lived and died by these words, "find the good and praise it." i'm here to commend senator warner, senator chambliss, and the bipartisan group of senators who have focused their attention on this urgent crisis that our country faces, the national debt. this is the way our nation is supposed to work, to see an urgent need, to develop a bipartisan consensus to go to work on it, come up with a strategy to deal with it and get a result. not just make speeches but get a result. we've heard the evidence. we've had the good examples set by five members of our body, two democrats, three republicans, who took a courageous step in their action o on the fiscal commission the other day. we should follow that example. but i'm so encouraged by what i hear. this is the way the senate is supposed to work. let me conclude with just one example from history. i was -- picked up a book the other night called "the british overseas." it's a british historian's view of the american revolution. you can im

mr. alexander: i'm here tonight in the spirit of my late friend, the author of roots "roots," alex haley, who lived and died by these words, "find the good and praise it." i'm here to commend senator warner, senator chambliss, and the bipartisan group of senators who have focused their attention on this urgent crisis that our country faces, the national debt. this is the way our nation is supposed to work, to see an urgent need, to develop a bipartisan consensus to go to work on it, come up with a strategy to deal with it and get a result. not just make speeches but get a result. we've heard the evidence. we've had the good examples set by five members of our body, two democrats, three republicans, who took a courageous step in their action o on the fiscal commission the other day. we should follow that example. but i'm so encouraged by what i hear. this is the way the senate is supposed to work. let me conclude with just one example from history. i was -- picked up a book the other night called "the british overseas." it's a british historian's view of the american revolution. you can im