mr. haley, thank you for being here. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. mr. chairman, if i may, i prepared a brief overview of the issue on the 14 line, and i will address switchbacks. i will go through this for the quickly. it is not my intention to read this, but as all of you know, the 14 mission line is one of our busiest come the third busiest in our corridor. 110,000 trips a year on the line. long line in terms of length of service, about 8 miles long. the average speed is just below what the system averages, just under 70 miles an hour -- 7 miles per hour. despite the difference in service, it is operated with polboth trackless and motor. in is a line rich with ridership and service, and also, we manage it aggressively to stay on time. some of the characteristics for us, challenges to the mission line, congestion along the corridor, double parking, those sorts of things. the other thing affecting the time, because of the ridership, we use 60-foot motor coaches, trackless. those are the oldest part of our fleet, the least reliable. with the help of the

john haley will also present this award. >> thank you, mr. ford, mr. chairman, members of the board. he is a very familiar face around any of our facilities and around many of our terminals and operating facilities. think about what he does in terms of his area of expertise. he trains every type of rail vehicle, whether it be new or old, as well as every one of our trackless, and has introduced successfully a number of new made it -- a major training programs, including recently a blue light/blue flag training procedure. with that, he does a fine job in all of his endeavors. >> thank you. on behalf of the board and the entire sfmta, thank you for your outstanding work. >> thank you very much for this award. [applause] >> our next award is a group of war going to the mta taxi services team. will the following employees step up to the podium and bear with me as i tried to work through these pronunciations. we have some creative names here. [reading names] has you are well aware, in march 2009, the end he assumed a response ability for the regulation of t

hearing, there were three, governor duvall patrick of massachusetts was one and governor haley barbour of mississippi and mr. speaker was the other. governor bashor was saying a couple -- governor barbour instituted a program in the state of mississippi that would make sure people on the medicaid program were eligible, they deserve to be there. they weren't eating somebody else's lunch, as the expression would go, they weren't illegal immigrants, their income wasn't too high to make them eligible for this safety net program. and of course, mr. speaker, as we all know, thank goodness, income from year to year can get better. we're still waiting for that to happen. i think obamacare and some of this other policies that we're seeing over the last four years is preventing that from happening. but -- so governor barbour would make people come and face to face verify that they were still eligible from year to year. as i understand it, this rule, this maintenance of effort would prohibit -- he's already done it in mississippi, but any other state as an example, to make sure your rolls were clean and you were cover

. >> live saturday possible gop presidential candidates, haley barbour, newt gingrich, mr. santorum, mr. cain, and mrs. bachmann in des moines. >> once again live at the brookings institution. we're standing by for a discussion on the role of civil society in egypt as the country puts together a new government. a constitutional referendum was held last saturday and parliament elections set for june. live discussion getting june way -- getting underway at 1:30 at c-span. early today we got an update from a reporter in libya. >> host: joining us now ms. sly on the "washington post" in tripoli. what's happened in the last couple of hours in libya? >> guest: well, it's pretty quiet here this morning. we don't have much activity here until the night time. last night we had a lot of exposures. i've accounted more that we've had on any previous night. it seems that the strikes have intensified in the capitol last night. >> host: ms. sly, what's it like being in tripoli? where are you staying? are you able to get out of the hotel? do american forces know where the foreign correspon

haley barbour and mitch daniels. the obama administration's current ambassador to china who is leaving mr. huntsman is looking like he wants to run as well. >>> also in washington, john dickerson, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> we hear all the names but no one has officially declared anything. newt gingrich, tim pawlenty, rick santorum, why is this important for these potential candidates. >> this event in iowa is with social conservatives. we have heard about tea party backers. social conservatives play an important role in iowa, 60% identified as born again or evangelicals. these candidates will talk about same-sex marriage and abortion. the other key question is these voters want to know are these social issues something candidates talk about all over the country or only at events like this in states like iowa. >> mike huckabee will not be there tonight. last week after oscar winning actress natalie portman getting pret o pregnant out of wedlock. he backtracked saying it was a gaffe on his part. is it a gaffe or a point trying to be made? >> reporter: it is both. mike huckabee