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mr. speaker, this will help improve the lives of canadians. this as we more than delivered on education, water, housing. economic development and human rights. for long periods while the -- vote on all important investments. we're the party that delivers for -- [inaudible] >> member for -- order. >> mr. speaker, phillippe know canadians worked hard to build this country. we know nannies have substandard working conditions and have their passports confiscated so they couldn't flee. one of the nannies was forced into a gag order, preenting her from talking to media and law enforcement. it's all about -- a member. mr. speaker, can the secretary tell what the government's position is on immigration abuse. >> mr. speaker, let me declare, would we enjoy the same rights as canadian workers. if they are being abused. they should report that abuse to the relevant agency. we ensure they know their rights. immigrant women have the right to speak out. the real question is would the liberal leader not take a stabbed on this issue and state treatment like this is wrong and

more? >> i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. mr. duncan: mr. buckley said, a point is reached when tenacity is not steadfastness of purpose but misapplication of pride. president karzai told abc news he wanted us to stay there another 15 or 20 more years. that's because he wants our money this war is more about money and power. every gigantic bureaucracy always wants more money but this war has gone too far and too long and i support this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman reserves the plans of his time. the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on house cohn resolution 28. -- house con resolution 28. with that i yield two minutes to mr. chabot. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. chabot: thank you, madam chair. thank you for your steadfast commitment to the men and women

mrs. laford has more on the efleet project. >> anna laford with the transportation authority. this is the result of an action the board took in november. adopting a resolution of local support. this project recieved a grant of federal congestion managment funds. city car share had to partner with a public agency. the scope of this project is outlined on page 20 of the packet. city car share will deply and purchase 12 full-battery vehicles, 12 hybrid, and 12 neighborhood with 12 chargers. the cost is $2.4 million. theose above and beyond will be provided by city car share. we will make sure it follows all the guidelines from the state department of transportation to administer federal grants. and an agency for these funds. the entire contract, 1.7 million, would be funded by the grant. the award is based on the funds flowing. >> the city car share gives the local match funds. >> correct. and they will be used by 2012. i can answer any questions. >> can you give us teh numbers -- the numbers and the chargers? >> a total of 29 electric vehicles. 24 chargers installed at 12 locati

. >> one more comment, mr. chairman, and i'll be done. we have voted on a bill to repeal obama care. we did that. we have voted to take out all the funding for obama care that's in discretionary funding. >> that legally we can do. >> right. >> we have a plan to move money that's in mandatory category into discretionary category so we can cut that next year. so basically under the rules with which we operate here in the congress, we have done everything we know to do up until this point and we're planning to do more in the future to defund that program. >> the gentle lady has said it better than i have. >> well, i want to thank you -- >> if i could just make a comment. >> certainly. >> you know, there's still the senate that has to pass these things and the president has to sign them into law. so i appreciate all the self-congratulations here, but the chances of this becoming law are de minimis at best and i think it's time to focus on trying to work this thing out, get an agreement on '11, and lets start working on '12 and let's do our jo

mr. zahndy has any more credibility. we have already spent $800 billion on his advice that the stimulus program would work. mr. rogers: is the gentleman aware, the ben bernanke, the chairman of the federal reserve, that h.r. 1 would have no harmful effect on the economy? mr. kingston: i have heard that. i understand there are 150 other economists who signed a letter to that effect led by a john taylor an economist as well. mr. rogers: and cutting spending and reducing the deficit will give confidence to the business community to hire people and put people to work? mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from texas, sheila jackson lee, one of our distinguished members. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized for three minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank the speaker. let me thank the ranking member of the appropriations committee. let me thank the chairperson, som

mr for more on the economic side effects of the massive disaster let's cross to our business desk now this is the first business day since the earthquake of the tsunami took place on markets usually in these cases are very reactionary and just how bad is the situation right now. japan's economy is set to start a significantly after being here by one of the biggest or of quakes in the last one hundred years and the country's economic outlook already problematic is now even more uncertain because. it's not clear now in which dimensions that is that will unfold and especially at the damaged nuclear plant according to preliminary as to meets the economic losses from the earthquake may be up to three hundred billion dollars while the country's infrastructure is seriously damaged the nation's industrial clusters in the solve and western seem to be even more affected than the areas affected by freighters disaster including eight proof of accounts of forty percent of the country's g.d.p. and local authorities. are saying. local. electronics forums and makers and world refineries have shut the

mr. president, i could not agree more. the solution to deficit reduction cannot come from huge cuts from a small portion of the federal budget, but that is what the house is proposing. what hr1 will do instead is jeopardize the economic recovery we are beginning to see. mr. president, this democratic alternative attempts to make the best of the very bad situation. the top numbers call the story. in this amendment, we are $23 billion below the president's request for nondiscretionary spending and below the spending requested for the nation's security. all the department of defense alone, we reduced spending by $19.4 billion including a reduction of $2.1 billion for military construction, and $17.3 billion for the rest of the defense department. at this level, the bill is nearly $3 billion below the amounts proposed by the house for these activities. the recommended amounts will cover our defense requirements in this constrained fiscal environment, however, my colleagues should all understand that with our troops still servi

number seven, possible direction to make recommendations for the board of supervisors, the offer fell more mr.. nouri -- the philmore district to allow a new full service restaurant, small self-service restaurant not defined as retail use and has a specific provision to allow a fabar and require daytime issues commissioners, we had scheduled a speaker. i a of a letter from her, apologizing for not being able to make it. she was not able to find anyone to pick up person from school to to an emergency trip by her husband. i direct a copy of a letter, and a copy of the letter also includes details on the ordinance calm and i will leave it at your discretion if you want me to read it into the record. president o'brien: i think it needs to be read, does it not? clerk: ok. they were looking to lift the ban in the upper fillmore residential district, and it would allow all non formula restaurants to apply for conditional use. there would be no caps or sunset clause. rather, the uses would be approved by the planning commission on the case-by-case basis. when considering the conditional use permit, t

that's one more point for mrs. cross. hard candy without... her choppers. newbie, you never promise a patient that they're gonna be fine. mr. milligan? his blood pressure's a little low. he just has mono. oh, for god's sakes, newbie, take a look around, would you, please? what's the difference between your mr. milligan and every other patient in this icu? and if the answer to that question is that he's the only one young enough to have never made a phone call like this: brriiing! [new york accent] hello? operatah, gimme stuyvesant 45-45-45, then you would be right. but since i'm not in the mood to make some big, dramatic, sweeping statement, i'll just tell you this: god hates doctors. he truly does. you see all these old people in here? well, any of them would give just about anything to be able to sashay off this planet. but most of them are gonna stay and live forever and ever and ever. and your mr. milligan... well, it turns out he's just young enough to die. i mean, think about it. it's the holidays. there's a sweet l

i couldn't agree with him more. when mr. dicks came before the committee last night with an amendment that would put even more -- cut even more, as someone who believes we need to cut more, i was incredibly enthusiastic about that. my understanding was c.b.o. hadn't had a chance to score that amendment. there was no scoring to be had. so we couldn't tell whether or not this was going to cut or whether this was going to add or how the spend rates were going to sort themselves out because it came at the last minute. but what didn't come at the last minute was the opportunity for the minority to offer a substitute. the speaker reached out to the minority to say if you are interested in offering the same continuing resolution that you offered before that was going to freeze funding, we have heard that word a lot, mr. speaker, let's just freeze things. we don't want to cut anything. we don't want to be draconian, but if you want to offer that as a substitute, the majority would have absolutely made that in order. absolutely made t

mr. speaker the more he brings my relatives into the argument the more you know he is losing the argument. >> let me just say i have got a second cousin in belgium that he will be going after next i am sure. now, on the question of crime, he says he wants to improve front line policing. we are losing officers and now we hear the companies who are being burgled are going to be sent finger print kits in the post. noy he believes in the big society but solving your own crimes is a bit ridiculous even by his own standards. you have to ask pleerk does the prime minister actually have a clue what is going on out there? >> i think the leader of the labor party getting a little bit touchy about this issue. the point i make, if you listen to what chief constables are saying about what they want to do, well, here is the chief constable. what i haven't done at all is reduce the number of officers who redo the patrol functions so the afsers you see out in vehicles, on foot, in bicycles we haven't cut those numbers at all. if you listen to the chief superintendent in surry, he said we are determined t

but we have the rest of the world angry at us a price some believe is too high for america to pay more in mr r.t. new york. and find more coverage of the libyan crisis online and read porousness blog i told him to. stop but it's a wake up call for stocks that are. also looking towards trying something that makes its. way into something new in operation nuclear emergency. well japan has resumed its efforts to solve the atomic crisis at the completion of a nuclear plant or the emissions of smoke workers at the facility are trying to restore that trust it's a cool down the troubled reactors. that is thought of the. engineers have been able to resume their efforts to connect power to older reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant yesterday these efforts have to be stopped after smoke started billowing out of two of the reactors of course the engineers are not able to see inside the reactors as a result of the explosions which happened last week and therefore they have to only guess what's happening now why is it important to reconnect the power to the reactors as soon as the power is reconn

mr. chairman, do i have time for one more question? thank you. the iru.want to ask a question about how that differs from the inspector general. and i know you're requesting 5.8 million and 20 full-time equivalents for the iru, so i'm trying to understand what the iru will do that is different as you know and as the chairman knows, there has been a history of allegations of corruption and misconduct within the agency as well as mismanagement of certain issues. lot of to handle certain kinds of allegations and investigations yourself. the inspector general and interior, the inspector general in any department doesn't have adequate resources to do all of that. when i was at the justice department and i was the inspector general, all of the different components of the justice department -- bureau of prisons, immigration service, dea, fbi -- all had their own internal affair units. so the inspector general would get allegations, and then those that it didn't have the resources or for some other reason didn't want to handle would be flipped back to internal af

mr. speaker, the more he brings my relatives into this argument the more you know he's losing the argument. let me just say i have a second cousin in belgium he'll be going after next, i'm sure. now, on the question of crime, he says he wants to improve front line policing, but the west midlands are losing thousands of officers. bedford shire has scaled back gun license checks and those companies burgled they will be sent fingerprint that kits but solving your own crimes is a bit ridiculous even by his own standards. you have to ask, mr. speaker, does the prime minister have a clue what's going on there? >> i think everybody is getting a little bit touchy about this issue. the point i make, if you listen to what chief constables are saying about what they want to do -- well, let me -- right. here is the chief constable of the thames valley. what i haven't done is reduce the number of officers who do patrol options on when you see them we haven't cut those numbers at all. if you look to the chief superintendent in surrey, he says we are determined to increase our front line capability by re

jurisdiction, we will still win this, it will just cost the taxpayers more money and people like you more time. mr. garcia, you need to wake up and don't be so ashamed. >> next speaker please. >> i don't know why they says yet to be passed. every community needs a place like this that they can go and have urged to use to take care of themselves, which is where they are ad. -- have herbs to use to take care of themselves. i like to use marijuana as opposed to taking pills for what i need. this is extremely discriminating towards a certain group of people, those that like to take care of themselves and a safe and healthy way. >> next speaker, please. are there any other speakers? >> i am part of the -- you should review all of the claims and complaints that has been produced by the health department and law enforcement department and really consider what you are doing here. they're people that are being affected that our medical patients, people that have needs, real needs. well the board is taking its time to clear this issue up, the real people that are suffering are not the patients -- are the pa

mr. speaker, to make canada's government more accountable but we believe in those reform. when these allegations were brought to our attention we informed the authorities. that was the right thing to do, mr. speaker. another right thing to do would be for this leader of the opposition to put aside his call for the government to raise taxes by 6 million get behind our job creating economic plan contained in the budget. >> the honorable leader of the opposition. >> mr. speaker, the problem here is the conservative government is on the edge of being found in contempt of parliament. they are investigating what the prime minister's former chief of staff, four of the closest clapboards of the prime minister face accusations of election fraud. after the content that this pattern reveals for canadians and for the institutions, is it any wonder that this government will be rewarded with content in return? [applause] >> the audible government. -- the honorable government house leader inspect the leader party who showed content, tragedy doesn't accept the fundamental democratic princi

that's absolutely outrageous. >> more seats than the liberal and the leader of the mvd can end up as prime minister and risky, unstable, and priority government. >> mr. speaker, the democrats, i feel a draft coming on from the other side. new democrats understand that getting result for people is job one. that's why more and more people are putting their trust in the mdp. even paul martin, the liberals incorporate tax cutter in cheap also with scandals handing over his head was willing to work with others. new democratted negotiated an amendment for canadians priorities like transit, housing, and education, but it can be done. but the conservatived refuse to do it. why are they refusing to amend their -- >> the honorable government post leaders. >> mr. speaker, if we wanted to take advice on how to run the economy and federal government, we wouldn't take it from paul martin, mr. speaker. less than four months -- less than four months after meeting in a hotel room with the leader of the mdp, he voted to turf the liberal government out of power. the real scandal here, mr. speaker, is the liberals want to work with the mdp to force the coalition govern

there will be hundreds of more awards in the coming months. >> thank you, mr. speaker. given the appetite of the even more civic societies to consider valuable work such as home senator cambridge to consider to cooperate and will he consider including smaller organizations in such a new fund? >> well, i understand the question, unfortunately, we have no money to consider. we had to take some tough decisions on eligibility for the first round. we're looking for ways to top that out but we have no current plans for the second round. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to private gene hutchinson and private robert wood from 17 port maritime regiment. they were killed in a fire at camp bastian on monday the 14th of february. their service for the safety of the british people will not be forgotten and we send our deepest condolences to their families, their friends and their colleagues. mr. speaker, i'm sure the whole house would wish to send to the people in new zealand and those sadly at least four british citizens in t

mr. cameron beach. on behalf of supervisor mirkarimi, for the late brian connolly. >> madame clerk, is there any more business in front of this body? colleagues, we are adjourn for today. >> a good afternoon. i would like to call the meeting to order. mr. secretary, first item please. >> roll call. [roll-call] president vietor: next item please. >> approval of the meeting for the march 8th regular meeting. due to an editorial oversight, some of the printer -- some of the printed copies have the template date between the footer. it has been fixed but i apologize for the oversight. president vietor: is there a motion to approve a the minutes without the template? all those in favor? suppose? next item. >> public comment. members of the public may speak before the commission for any item not on today's agenda. president vietor: public comment? >> there is none. the commission, having received at electronic -- if you have a comment on those -- and request regarding the calendar or staffer written reports submitted to the commissioners? vice president moran: i notice the next update is july 26th. i was wondering w

mr. smith was still advancing, officer suguitan discharged more rounds, mortally wounding him. mr.lapsed in the doorway of his residence. officer suguitan and his partner quickly responded to a residence in response to a citizen needing assistance in meeting with your roommate. officer suguitan was in the of the confronted with a life- threatening soup -- a circumstance and his attempt to offer the suspect assistance in dealing with his mental issues. with practically no time to react to the threat to his life, that does his partner, and a citizen requesting assistance, officer suguitan reacted under tremendous circumstances by discharging his department's firearms and ending on stopping the threat posed by the suspect. officer suguitan, in a split- second, had to act on the threat posed by a his environment and realize that he and his partner and the reporting party were in grave danger of serious bodily harm or death. officer suguitan's actions saved his life, that does it of his partner, and that of mr. smith's roommate, and should be considered heroic. mr. smith considered kill

and just to clarify one more time, mr. kumar rented both the mobile home and he leased the land that it was on. the other homeowners who had their mobile holmes red tagged they owned those but are also las vegas the land. it costs them about $30,000 if they want to move this mobile home out of this danger area. the water district tells me there are other concerns along stevens creek, concerns of erosion so this problem might not be over yet. and as raj mentioned at the top, we got this tip vittia a viewer. if you have any tips, please send them to news tips at nbc bay area.com. we're live in mountain view. i'm damian trujillo. >> nice job there on the edge of those cliffs. tonight now the probts in san pablo. they're getting ready for a meeting between city leaders and residents about the landslide there which ripped back yards and back porches away from several holmes. heavy raines from the recent storms made the soil unstable. and sent it slipping downhill. now, previously, a couple days ago on sunday, the city proclaime

mr. camp: i have several more speakers. mr. levin: then i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. west: at a time when business owners are trying to survive a see sea of economic turmoil, our government has thrown them an anchor instead of a life preserver. democrats have spent $1 trillion of the stimulus program and the unemployment rate is stuck at or above 9% for two years. our focus must be on helping american workers an allowing employers to focus on job creation. h.r. 4 will protect small businesses, their workers and american taxpayers. h.r. 4 repeals the onerous tax provisions democrats enacted last year to pay for both their health care law and the tarp 3 legislation. it also protects taxpayers by reducing waste, and abuse. finally it will reduce the deficit by $166 million in the first 10 years and by billions over the long run while reducing federal spending by $20 billion over the next 10 years. during the time when the unemployment rate is at or above 89%, additional mandates is fro

some of those forces back and protecting civilians, but this is early stages, and a lot more remains to be done. >> mr. ed miliband. >> we support u.n. resolution 1973 to protect the people of israel. can the prime minister reiterate what conversations he's had with arab leaders about their continued role in the enforcement of the resolution and the plan of action. >> first of all the arab league met again yesterday and reinforced their view that a no-fly zone is right and they support u.n. security council resolution 19 73. -- 1973. we will get lodgistic support. i think arab supporters would have been welcomed by everyone in the house. the clear support is from the secretary state. we want to thank arab people for savings lives in libya. >> we want to thank the contribution of arab nations but also i think there was going to be a more formal process and it is very very important that that process does take place. let me ask you one thing about our action. can the prime minister clarify the government's position regarding the target of -- targeting of colonel gaddafi. it is important we stick to the

let me read a few more names. mrs. chen, yushon banks, marisol bivac, theresa neighbor. >> [speaking spanish] >> good afternoon. my name is manuela, and i am a member of power. i ask that in honor of love and valentine's day you open authorize the test passes for youth. i ask that we think about -- if we really love our youth, make this free for youth. make transit free poor youth. it should not just be provided to the more low-income children. that creates a stigma for them. that is a type of racism. i wish for this day that the test passes be implemented not just for the next three months, but the we can have free transit for youth for the future. i understand at this hearing that the implementation of the fast pass it is expensive, but we need to make it free for youth between the ages of 5 and 18 who ride the buses every day. they should not have to show a fast pass. they should just be able to get on a bus, just being used. i think about my own children, who i give money to ride the buses sometimes. instead of buy

mr. deputy speaker, this is not a growth budget. it's not a jobs budget. it's a budget for more of the same. from a complacent arrogant chancellor and a complacent, arrogant government. it's working but it's not working. let's not forget, mr. deputy speaker. these are not just the chancellor's decisions. they are not just the prime minister's decisions. they're the deputy prime minister's decisions, too. he is an accomplice to the tory plan. when it comes to the economy, the man who coined the phrase has a snooze button really, truly on. nobody voted for this deficit plan. least of all -- nobody voted for this plan. least of all his liberal democrat voters who were told and promise after promise he would never encounter them. mr. deputy speaker, if i can put it this way, it's no wonder nobody wants to share a platform with him. on the measures in this budget, i welcome the support for the armed forces. i welcome the support for the armed forces. and on the measures he proposes to support growth, we will look at them. but there is little -- but there is little reason they will ma

mr. harper, and i would point out, more than 60% of the public in stable, stable terms have said they don't support mr. harper. the time has come to replace mr. harper with this incredible liberal team. thank you very much. >> surely, this coalition among key is going to stay on your back every day of the campaign because people will assume if you don't rule it out, that's because you got something to hide, and secretly, you will entertain it, you just don't want to admit it. isn't that the conclusion voters should draw? >> there's nothing to hide. i'm saying as clearly as i can to the canadian people looking them straight in the eye, if you want to replace the harper government, you got to vote lib liberal. it's not clearer than that. thank you very much. >> that's the leader of the liberal party bringing forward this motion of nonconfidence over the contempt issue and commented right after prime minister stephen harper commented saying that the prime minister didn't take questions and that proves he is in contempt, and he took a number of questioning say the the liberal party offers an al

mr. williams, you would think that this is a 45% sloat. he asks that your planning department stop and do more review them they have done so far. provide the expertise to give that structured engineer -- engineering drawings. if you could have the planning department do that sort of thing, when it comes to you in june, you should double their personnel. you have a department that does that, the building department. bank that -- they make mistakes, then it goes to the board of appeals, which has one of the best architects on into. -- on it. >> in my last minute, i would like to point out that there is an additional report that came in today from my client's soil engineer. i will leave that behind me so that you can put that in the record. the last thing i want to say is this. with all due respect to your board, the board of the -- board of appeals is the place to discuss this. the building department has the expertise to review those drawings. those drawings will be forthcoming as soon as we are about to go forward, should the court of appeals approved our site permit. before you today, that is

mr. varni, who are now well, he is someone with a citywide constituency, frankly more appropriate for the mayor to a point, and i would not want to let mr. ramirez become a mayoral appointee. i want him to be a board appointee. i'm very impressed novel -- very impressed with your presentation today, and i know that the mayor probably will appoint mr. varni before we even ratify the is. i am not too worried about any disruption at the commission, and i think mr. ramirez would be a great addition. supervisor kim: thank you. in addition, i also wanted to support mr. ramirez after hearing your presentation today. it is also great to get more members that are from san francisco. i am not one of them on this committee, but i sit next to two supervisors were born and raised here, and being a former board of education commissioner, i appreciate mission high school representing, and also that you have a son who is serving as well. i want to thank incumbents that came today, both for your service in our country and your service on the veterans affairs commission and your willingness to continue you

jurisdiction, we will still win this, it will just cost the taxpayers more money and people like you more time. mr. garcia, you need to wake up and don't be so ashamed. >> next speaker please.

mr. deputy speaker, this is not a growth budget, it's not a jobs budget. it's a budget for more of the same. from a complasent arrogant chancellor and a complacent arrogant government. it's hurting but it isn't working. and let's not forget, mr. deputy speaker, these are not just the chancellor's decisions. they are not just the prime minister's decisions. they're the deputy prime minister's decisions, too. he is an accomplice to the tory plan. when it comes to the economy, the man who coined the phrase, long live britain, has a snooze button truly on. nobody voted for this plan. least of all his liberal democrat voters who are told and promise after promise he would never confront them. mr. deputy speaker if i can put it this way to him, there's a reason nobody wants to share a platform with him. on the measures on this budget, on the measures in this budget, i welcome the support for the armed forces. i welcome the support for the armed forces. and on the measures he promotes growth, we will support him. but there is -- there is little -- if they listen. there is little reason

more subject. and that's stem education for girls and minorities, mr. secretary. and we know young girls and minorities are losing interest in science and math at a much, too young an age. they're not choosing to pursue more advanced classes in high school or careers in these fields. how do you plan and how do you propose effective teaching and learning for science technology, engineering and mathematics programs? how are we going to increase this interest? because that is the future of our country. >> yesterday the president and i and linda gates were at tech boston, an amazing high school in boston. the vast majority of children live below the poverty line, come from very tough community. 95%, huge graduation rates, vast majority of graduates going on to college. an amazing stem focus. so there's $206 million budget for effective teaching and learning to support the stem area. we have $80 million specifically to help prepare and retain stem teachers. there's $185 million request for new presidential teaching fellowship program, to help talented students who atten

mr. zahndy has any more credibility. we have already spent $800 billion on his advice that the stimulus program would work. mr. rogers: is the gentleman aware, the ben bernanke, the chairman of the federal reserve, that h.r. 1 would have no harmful effect on the economy? mr. kingston: i have heard that. i understand there are 150 other economists who signed a letter to that effect led by a john taylor an economist as well. mr. rogers: and cutting spending and reducing the deficit will give confidence to the business community to hire people and put people to work? mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from texas, sheila jackson lee, one of our distinguished members. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized for three minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank the speaker. let me thank the ranking member of the appropriations committee. let me thank the chairperson, som

mr. geithner was more tbrang frank. when asked, did you agree with the rogoff study, is it a sound study? wre, i believe it is. and then he said this, frankly, i think it understates the risk. understates the risk. when asked about that, he said, basically, there can be systemic immediate shocks that occur that are unple unpredictable like in7 when we went from a boon to a bust. these things happened in greece, ireland, iceland. these things can happen in this modern world of electronic financial transfer very, very quickly. now, i -- i believe we can prevent this. i believe we can prevent it. but we've got to take action or we're heading in the wrong direction. well, did you notice the news yesterday? bill gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at pacific investment management, a tota total -- the big bond fund -- announced that they had totally eliminated u.s.-government related debt from their flagship -- ship fund. "as the united states government projected record deficits." so that's a big development, frank

you still may these the flexibility in an emergency to provide more protection. >> with that, i'll yield back my time. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. relate me say this. the secretary has to leave in five minutes, so we'll have one more -- so mr. scott, unless you can stay a little later. the agreement you extended to 12-12:30. >> can i offer the following commitment which is i'll be happy to respond in be writing, and i know -- >> what i would do, i would ask unanimous consent be the hearing that starts at 2:00, the secretary donovan hearing, that those members in the room on both sides who did not get a chance to get a question will go first at that hearing. hearing no objections, mr. scott's recognized. he'll be the last -- >> thank you very much. >> and i apologize to the other members. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and i'm glad i got squeezed in. [laughter] because, mr. secretary, i'm very worried. i'm very worried about unintended consequences here. and, granted, there's a lot wrong with fannie and freddie. we certainly need to reform this situation. but there is a role for government here, an

. >> for more information about >> mr. president, all members are present. >> can you join me in the pledge of allegiance? >> are there any communications? >> i have no communications. >> if you can read the consent agenda. >> items one through six comprise the consent agenda. these will be acted upon by a single roll call vote. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items? if not, vote on the consent agenda. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> these resolutions are adopted and approved. >> item 7, ordinance appropriating approximately 1.3 million of general fund reserve for the ethics commission. >> i introduced this supplemental appropriation for the public campaign finance fund. we introduced the budget before the first vote. over the past several years, as part of the budget-balancing process, 7 million has been pulled from the fund. and makes it very doubtful if we have the right amount of money to meet our obligations for the campaign finance fund. this is sp

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mr. president, not much more. serious that's counterproductive. we need to be as serious as the challenge before us. i am much more concerned withnty actually keeping the country fnning and investing smartly in the future than i am in this political ga political game that we see.ke when i wake up in the morning the american people want to seno their children to be good schooo and then go to a good job. and, mr. president, now they are saying a job. they won their families to come to a safe neighborhood at night and they want to go to sleep tse knowing our country is safe from those who want to do less harm. they don't care about who gets o credit.o the health care who fought of i. how best to do it, they justeals want us to do it. the time really now for thetical political posturing should behob over. we have set up a procedure. seta it was a great honor in the vicd president's office to get this h.r. one out of the way. everyone knows it's not going ty pass. it's a very, very difficult, that piece of legislation. rid so get rid of that.we will re

more bills were looked at by mr. chin. mr. arvin, who is already a businessman on his own, has poor record-keeping, supposedly. we do not find that to be credible, and we look forward to the board's decision as to whether mr. arvin should maintain his medallion or not. vice president garcia: how many medallions have been revoked by the sfmta or drivers that have not fulfilled the requirements? >> there are several, but they are under litigation. under the secure -- superior court. so there is no final. there has not been a final determination on those revocations. vice president garcia: so the number would be zero? >> that would be correct, for driving alone, correct. right. vice president garcia: and then the other thing is, you may be arguments that mr. arvin has a poor record keeping, and that is not reasonable for someone who is an insurance agent. maybe i am confused. it seems to me that mr. arvin was depending on real -- royal to have his bills, and everything gets clouded by the fact that somebody from sfmta goes over a

more questions. vice president garcia: mr. duffy, if you would sir. one issue that has been raised by the request for jurisdiction has to do with seeping of water from one property to another property. that is against code, correct? or that the case, that would have to be corrected. >> that is correct. i would imagine that going through the review at dbi by structural engineers down there