madam clerk: ms. fan? delegate fan: yes. madam clerk: microsoft fewer? commissioner fewer: no [maufas, aye, commissioner mar: aye. madam clerk: six aye's. president mendoza: item j is requests to speak regarding general matters and i apologize to the public sitting here waiting for this for public speaking to -- public comment to come up. we've had, as you have heard, a very -- a lot of items on our agenda. we have quite a few speakers on a number of different topics, and i will call your name and have you come up. there are several of you that are coming from groupings and so if you hear

madam clerk: ms. fan? delegate fan: yes. madam clerk: microsoft fewer? commissioner fewer: no [maufas, aye, commissioner mar: aye. madam clerk: six aye's. president mendoza: item j is requests to speak regarding general matters and i apologize to the public sitting here waiting for this for public speaking to -- public comment to come up. we've had, as you have heard, a very -- a lot of items on our agenda. we have quite a few speakers on a number of different topics, and i will call your name and have you come up. there are several of you that are coming from groupings and so if you hear something already commented on, if you could just say something different or ditto and move on. we'll try to get as many of the folks through here as possible. do you have students? do you have students? yes. absolutely. so we'll have our students speak first. i'm going to call your name so you're prepared and have you start getting ready to come up and speak. so, did you -- do you have cards for them? did you give me cards? these are all brett hart? so, rakwan murray,

ms. on the field today, the giants wrapped up the bay bridge series nice pitching early on. braeden grew up a giants fannted to pitch at at&t park. five and two thirds strikes out five. balmgartner, six sings. one of six i got with the giants with the pickup two runs -- chris stewart the game winning base hit to left off of kramer. the giants sweep the three game-set from oakland. a 2-1 come from behind victory. >>> stanford on another trip to the final four capturing the west regional. a few days back before heading to indianapolis for the sunday showdown with texas a&m. this has been a tree p menads run. going to four consecutive final fours. is amazing in and of itself. the mission is to win one. freshman determined to capture the championship in his first season. >> now, that i have the opportunity i'm just -- i think the nerves are going away and it is just more like sorry, spirit within me. the senior are class only knows final fours and now having the opportunity i'm excited and want to make it memorable. >> warriors in memphis. i do remember it. we will take care of you down there. >> half court

ms. eshoo, referred to national public radio as a national treasure. now, mr. speaker, i happen to be a fan of national public radio. i think that the term national treasure may just be a little bit of a stretch. i have been proud to support three local stations. two in los angeles, kpcc and kcrw, here in washington d.c., wamu. i have been proud to participate in pledge drives for all these stations. i have done it for public television. i believe in voluntary contributions. yesterday, ms. eshoo said every american pays 77 cents for the benefit of national public radio. and while i'm proud listener of national public radio, i will say that i reckon that there are probably half the american people, that's just a wild guess on my part, maybe half the american people who have never even heard of, much less even listened to national public radio. and the notion of taking 77 cents from them for national public radio is to me an anathema to the whole concept of what it is that we are trying to do as a nation. now, my friend from rochester, the distinguished ranking member of the committee, the fo