mr. mark watts. thank you mr. tham. >> good afternoon my name is mark watts. i have an alternate member of the board. i have served in this position for the last two years. i have heard -- whether a single-family residence or complicated commercial property the principles remain the same. this is also what i do for a living. i have more than 20 years experience as a commercial real estate appraiser in san francisco. i appraise complex commercial properties. thank you. >> i appreciate your willingness to continue serving as a full-time member of this committee. thank you. are third applicant is mr. scott spertzel. >> i am reapplying for alternate member for board 1, which is served for the past three years. i have 15 years of experience as a certified public accountant doing both public, accounting work and litigation matters as expert testimony. during the past three years i had the opportunity to work as a hearing officer. i am also a certified fraud examiner. any questions? >> seeing none, thank you very much. [indiscernible] and last but not least we do hav

seeing none, commissioner -- >> i have a question to mr. watts. you mentioned ab 8 and sb 11 extend the carl moyer program. would you recommending that we take a support position? >> the two bills 8 an d sb 11 they are identical measures. >> i move that amendment to support ab8 and sb 11. >> is there second to that motion? to forward this to the board authority? >> second. >> is there any discussion on that? we move this forward as proposed with a positive recommendation? that will be the order. (gavel) >> item number five. clarification. it is actually a 20 million piece of the high-speed rail; >> thank you. item number five. >> acceptance of the audit report for the fiscal year, june 30, 2012. >> good morning, cynthia fong deputy directorr for finance administration. you have a report for the fiscal year ending june - 2012. since there are more than 500,000 dollars of federal expenditures spent during the fiscal year. single audit included audit over the yerbabuena ramps, buildings and structures dynamic traffic assignment model development proj

most recent nuclear project in the south of france actually it's a great new nuclear power plant mr watt as you well we we talked about about the funding half the project that it's a joint project of the european union and a couple of other countries including your country russia united states according to european media some big names in physics including my satoshi cushy bat he's the japanese nobel prize winner in the basics yes they do they criticize the attack and they say that it's just a waste of money as the project is too costly and i'm stable well why do they call it unstable why they call it unusable how can you persuade these people to well to to change their mind god. is a famous scientist and. his speciality is you're turning off from the sun so i mean this year for i see men shown not sterile. before either one is a show was. created two thousand and seven more than ten years. i asked for then there was a sham of the project cost or size or the finery it is site selection therefore i guess i did not conform but that is a point to mention not to stare but already in color ru

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mr. president, i ask consent the following staff of the finance committee on floor privileges for the 113th congress -- ashton jenny, daniel west, eva hampel, gaven mathis, andrew fondel and brian watt the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. baucus: mr. president, i'd like to speak on two amendments. the first is offered by the senator from ohio. that is his first amendment. also i will speak on the amendment offered by the senator from pennsylvania. i think the senator from maryland, the chairman of the appropriations committee, will speak on the second portman amendment. mr. president, i chuckle this morning. i see two new members, very, very, very able members of the united states senate who are now members of the senate finance committee follow their urges to offer amendments immediately to bills before the senate. senator portman was doing that, senator toomey is doing that. i commend them, very much commend them for being so interested in the subject and their -- allowing their intellectual juices to flow to come up with something that's new and different and in their view might make some sense. i think part of this is because of the newly found efforts here

mr. meeks: i yield one minute to the ranking member of the financial services committee a fighter for the people, the honorable maxine watts of the state of california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. waters: thank you so much, congressman meeks. i am so proud of members of congress of both sides of the aisle who have been real adro cats, who have been on television, who have been fighting. members on the on site side of the aisle criticized their own leadership for the delay. i am from california, i have witnessed earthquake disaster. i have been involved with trying to help with katrina and making sure that the people who were the victims of katrina were compensated, were taken care of. this was unconscionable that this has had to take so long. i watched congressman meeks up in rockaway, i watched the people who cried, who begged for help, who begged for assistance. this is so late in coming. i support this bill today. i am one of the co-authors of the flood insurance re-authorization bill along with mrs. biggert who re-authorized flood insurance for another five years, let's put the money in