mr. herrera testified publicly to the same priorities even as the book budget has a zero increase and the overall budget for the library is increasing $3.30 million for the next fiscal year. president chiu: next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors. arnold townsend. people have spoken about deshawn marmon adequately and well. i would like to make a recommendation to all of you. there is a series of books written by [unintelligible] you can get them at marcus books. i hope that is not a plug. i guess it is. i would recommend them highly, this series of books. it is called "countering the conspiracy to destroy black boys." there is something going on in america now, and it was going on with any group of people we would be outraged. but because society has been so successful at demonizing young black boys, we accept it and actually live in fear. i am not afraid of my own children. i don't care how dangerous they become. i will give you one statistic that this book contains. it is in 1995 statistic. this book was written in the 70's and started as one volume. you can see some much of what it pr

mrs. ellmers: thank you so much. i yield now to era butler. ms. herrera beutler: thank you. it's a pleasure to be here. this is one of the most monl mental times we face as a nation. we are right now making decisions that are not just going to impact those of us here today but our children and our children's children. i am so proud to be a part of this body that passed a bipartisan solution to our budgeting problems just yesterday. we passed, like the gentlelady spoke about, a balanced budget amendment. you know, i know there's a lot of controversy happening right now and it's frustrating to watch people posture here in washington, d.c., folks back home are sending emails and they're calling me saying, you can just get some solutions done in washington? and my response is, i completely agree. it is frustrating to watch partisan bickering taking place and i kind of smile to myself and i think, just put more women in charge because we're going to fight for solutions and that's what we're here doing today. promoting the solutions that we were able to pass on the floor just yesterday. solutions that requir