we, the community, must be involved, mr. ross, mr.at affect our community, we must be at the table with you. last time you came in there, you stone rolled us and gave us what you wanted us to have. no longer will you come in my community and demand we got to set at the table with you. [bell] president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> mark dice dot com has uniquely anointed as best caller in talk shows. rush limbaugh calls him a nut and a kook, says that since one third of americans now believe audit was an inside -- 9/11 was an inside job, his job is to make them look like nuts. i guess there wasn't a third building that fell. but you know what, jesus mentioned a building that fell in his day that killed 18 people and he knew they all died damned because he said, you think they were worse than anybody else because they suffered such fate? unless you rebent, -- repent, you'll all like wise perish. i don't know how many people in the world trade center were saved, i'll find out on judgment day but the bible says that there sh

but it cannot return mr ross says bailing out countries is not something that should be done. we are living in a so-called capitalism but this is ridiculous because the competition isn't doesn't work anymore everything in every country is being bailed out so we have something like a bank socialism because as they're told us tell us i don't do it and there's no other choice if we let it go or greece bankrupt or portugal bankrupt and in a capitalistic system this is normally a normal procedure then the banks will suffer and the banks will go bankrupt and as a matter of fact here in germany you not only in germany this specially also in france of banks are full of greece there and some people already you say that maybe the politicians have been blackmailed by the financial community in order to give the money of the taxpayer to make the banks survive. well later max keiser delves into the shortcomings of the system but it was reported about fifty minutes on. they're all of thirty five dollars an hour fifteen hundred dollars an hour ago they want to pay nothing they want it free t

. >> thank you, mr. ross. pleased to be here especially as this particular subject matter is one i worked on the in the past and look forward to working with chairman smith. since becoming a member of congress, i favor easing state and local tax burdens and consumer access to the digital economy. i supported making permanent prohibition on local state and internet access taxes and backed a moratorium on local taxation of wireless communication services. hr1860 is a piece of with these other measures and similar. this legislation creates a single national framework to cover the taxation of commerce and with the confusion of consumers and business. importantly, the agent prohillaryhillary clintons jurisdiction of posing multiple taxes on sales and services making sure the services are not taxed differently than other forms of goods and services. this is helpful for the consumers particularly low-income consumers to have access to digital goods and services. under the framework established under hr-1860, state an

need to increase their retirement age to better germany's news one credit at the moment and mr author michael ross says bailing out countries shouldn't be done on any circumstances we are living in a so called capitalism but this is ridiculous because the capitalism doesn't work anymore everything everywhere every country is being bailed odds are all we have something. banks socialism because as they're told us tell us i don't do it and there's no other choice if we let it go greece or portugal bankrupt and in a capitalistic system this is normally a normal procedure then the banks will suffer and the banks will go bankrupt and as a matter of fact here in germany and not on in germany specially also in france the brains are full of it and some people all you say that maybe the politicians have been elect mailed by the financial community in order to give the money off the taxpayer to make the banks survive. max keiser delves into the sort comings of the capitalist system and you can watch the kaiser report later today on r.t. . little thirty five dollars an ounce or so fifteen hundred dollars an o

the for the leadership he has shown since the last congress and the subcommittee chairman mr. ross and committee chairman mr. coble for their co-sponsor ship of the bill. [talking over each other] >> the doors of the church are open. i yield back the remainder of my time. >> thank you. without objection, opening statements will be part of the record. i would like to invite our panel to be seated and i will introduce you after which we will allow five minutes to summarize your testimony before we go into questions. with us today is mr. robb and atkinson, founder of innovation technician -- innovation in washington d.c.. he is author of the global race for innovation and why the u.s. is falling behind. he has background in technology policy. before coming to itif he was director of the policy institute technology new economy project. he wrote numerous research memoranda on innovation technology including ecommerce and innovation economics. our next witness is mr. russ brubaker who is tax policy adviser to the washington state department of revenue where he served 25 years in various

i agreed to go to be interviewed by mr. ross sorkin and the book i did read called lords of finance about a different financial crisis, much worse. we did sit down and talk about the crisis, since looking forward and looking back but i haven't seen the movie yet. you have jet black hair in the movie. >> my hair is very great as easy. >> said he went to the panel but not to the movie. >> yes. >> a number of people said they want to know if you work out as often in real life as in the movie. you are very fit in the movie as well. >> i do -- [laughter] i do try to work out as much as i can. i'm sure he's a great actor by the way. people say he's a great actor but i have no interest in reliving the dark moments of 2008. >> let's relive those dark moments. [laughter] >> you talk and your colleagues talked about how close we have come to catastrophe like what was the moment that he became convinced that it could happen or maybe that it was more likely than not to happen? >> you have to look back further than that. this really began in

ross mirkarimi. malia cohen, of course. our city attorney. we have representatives from mrs. harris's office and city public safety officials. jose ses -- cesnaros our d.a. george gascon. jeff, the public defender, many conversationse conversationsen:the sheriff, juvenile probation chief. office of citizens complaints. joyce hicks. edit harringto harrington. edit harringto harrington interim chief, thank you for your wonderful service being interim chief. a number of members of our police command staff. certainly the police commission. mr. mazuko i want to thank you for a very thorough job in presenting to me the best candidates the commission could produce. it has been an amazing time to work with you and the commission, so, thank you, joe, and others on the commission. thank you very much. [applause] >> our police officer officer association president. gary, it is time to get quiet and go to work. thank you. our police public employee groups. i want to acknowledge greg's son neglect is here along with a very good friend wendy. thank you for joining us as well today. [applau

ross roads. i am a parent and community activist. mr. franklin is an eight year veteran as it currently is on here in the school district. he has done great things in this community in the bayview. for him to be unjustly put on administrative leave for things that it is not even explained to him why is injustice. i am coming here to ask the board to do a full investigation on why mr. franklin was put on administrative leave right here at the end of the school year. there is something wrong with the picture. we need you to investigate. not the people that are making the decisions, but you. what is the problem there. why is mr. franklin on administrative leave with all the work and hard times he has gone through try to develop the pilot program there at the academy? the only thing he is doing is empowering parents, butting them know what rights they have, letting them know the things they can ask for and can get by having unity. i am coming to you as a parent and as a community person, asking you to look into it, please. i can't just let t

ross mirkarimi. [applause] and supervisor malia cohen. [applause] where is supervisor scott wiener? [applause] thank you for being here. we have our district attorney mr. gascon. public defender jeff a adachi. and our fire chief, joanne as white. [applause] acting city administrator, amy brown. [applause] port director monique moyer is with us. [applause] and from senator mark lino's office, susan slim. [applause] from assemblyman tom ammiano's office. thank you for joining us in the celebration. we will have the final performance of the evening from the chinese american international school. they helped to start this celebration earlier this evening. i do not know if all of us were here but they are now returning. they will be performing for us and the beautiful traditions of the chinese new year, the alliance stance. please welcome students from the chinese american international school. -- the lion's dance. -- the lion's dance. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> [inaudible] [applause] this is really a unique performance. before we end tonight's program, i want to, on behalf of the city, thank at&t again for your generous sponsorship, making the ce

mr. chairman. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the public safety committee meeting. i am ross mirkarimi. to my left is supervisor david campos. we expect supervisor coehn will be joining us later. thank you, sfgtv, for your excellence in covering committee hearings. madam clerk, would you please read the first item? >> item 1. resolution authorizing the department of emergency management to retroactively accept and expend a homeland security grant program grant in the amount of $2,094,667 from the united states department of homeland security, through the california emergency management agency, for disaster planning. supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. >> good morning. i am with the department of emergency management. i'm joined by our emergency services manager, who i am very pleased to introduce to you. we are pleased to have him working in our department. the grant is a $2 million grant for department of homeland security. we have two pieces. there is the stay at home security grant program and medical response. this is basically the bread-and- butter grant for disaster pla

ross perot. they were also taking a fair amount of heat for mr. bush's appointment to the supreme court of clarence thomas. says she had a certain amount of concern. then came the clintons. things with the plans started out on kind of a strange footing the magazine concocted what became known as the great cookie controversy. some of you, i can see nodding your has remember this. the question was, who baked the better chocolate chip cookies. was it barbara bush or was it hillary clinton? hillary consort of dismissed this and said to live too busy to bake cookies. you know, let's forget about this. mrs. bush said she thought the whole thing was forgotten. then a few months later the same magazine ran a story saying that in a taste test people like hillary clinton's cookies better. barbara bush said, well, that is interesting because that's not my recipe. well, i mention it because even though it seems like a silly game, perhaps, it garnered of a sudden some very serious comments from reporters and columnists. this also gave mrs. bush a certain amoun

mr. obama say he is firing dennis ross and replacing him with charles freeman, replacing him. clinton with hillary -- leverit. i would like to see him close the holocaust museum in washington until israel stops killing peaceful protesters, palestinians. i would like him to the rest benjamin netanyahu when he enters american airspace for the murder of rachel corey, a peaceful activist in israel. host: those of your fear -- four points. thank you for calling in. john, another independent. caller: it has been a long time since i called in. america has got to stop watching the regular media and start going to -- hello? it is about the president. one other thing i found out by watching free-speech see me, democracy now, was that remember this last week when the guy came in -- from the arab emirates. this guy who owns black water and just moved in with them and they are setting up a small army to quell all of these prison camps they have over there, where they make the people work for almost nothing. this guy moved to the united arab emirates because we don't have where the united s

mr. obama say he is firing dennis ross and replacing him with charles freeman, replacing him. clinton with hillary -- leverit. i would like to see him close the holocaust museum in washington until israel stops killing peaceful protesters, palestinians. i would like him to the rest benjamin netanyahu when he enters american airspace for the murder of rachel corey, a peaceful activist in israel. host: those of your fear -- four points. thank you for calling in. john, another independent. caller: it has been a long time since i called in. america has got to stop watching the regular media and start going to -- hello? it is about the president. one other thing i found out by watching free-speech see me, democracy now, was that remember this last week when the guy came in -- from the ara emirates. this guy who owns black water and just moved in with them and they are setting up a small army to quell all of these prison camps they have over there, where they make the people work for almost nothing. this guy moved to the united arab emirates because we don't have where the united st

ross andrew mcgin s mcginnis. >> he was fighting. someone threw a grenade inside the humvee. he threw his body over the grenade and saved everyone else. >> reporter: in an e-mail, mrnked ricky for his wo work, showcasing the sacrifices of our nation's heroes. but there are still new sacrifices ricky will continue to capture. sandra endo, cnn, arlington national cemetery. >>> casey anthony on trial. her attorneys have laid out a startling defense. you'll want to hear what our legal guys have to say about this. but if you've been diagnosed with p.a.d., or have pain or heaviness in your legs, i want to talk to you. you may have heard of poor leg circulation, which could be peripheral artery disease, or p.a.d. with p.a.d., if you have poor circulation in your legs, you may also have poor circulation in your heart or in your brain, your risk for heart attack or stroke is more than doubled with p.a.d. now, ask yourself: am i at risk? if you're not sure, call for this free information kit to learn more. [ female announcer ] call the toll free number on the screen now to find out what the risks of p.a.d. really are. you'll find a 7-point checklist that helps you understan

mrs. roper. >> dicky: jesse tyler ferguson. >> jimmy: you're gay? why wasn't i informed of this? >> dicky: sara vowel. >> i like excellence. >> jimmy: who doesn't? >> dicky: and maybach music group features rick ross. >> jimmy: n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n

mr. wilson: i return from a meeting with the nato parliamentary assembly, chaired by mike turner accompanied by mike ross and others. we were welcomed by the current mayor who is a champion of freedom and democracy in a nation which has the involved from the -- evolved from the chains of communist totalitarian to being a vibrant democracy today. we were briefed on issues critical to promoting democracy in the world. andre rasmussen presented a clear report of their progress in iraq and afghanistan while encouraging civil society movements in africa. bulgaria is a valued partner of america. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11 and the global war on terrorism. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from tennessee rise? >> request unanimous consent to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. black: i've been doing town hall meeting, i've had about 12. people keep telling me, hands off my medicare. i tell them, there's a dirty little secret the democrats in congress and the president don't