ms. harrison supports students in language acquisition. then we have the interim vice president. ms. hall was the organization director of k-12 development and was an analyst to the texas legislative counsel and the office of herb coal. quite a bit of geographically movement there. and david is in the blue ribbon district in arlington heights, illinois. he was the athletic director, principle and superintendent before this. he is the president of the schools superintendent association. i ask our witnesses to raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect the witnesses answered in the affirmative. when you start your testimony you have a green light and down after four minutes a yellow light comes on and think about wrapping up. when the red light comes on please wrap up as fast as you can. when you finish, members will have five minutes to ask questions and we will begin now. >> i am the officer for the commonwealth of kentucky. i am excited about the futur

ms. harrison stands for. i haven't really gotten an indication of that yet.e i stand on issues. i've got 20 years of votes. i've taken the very tough votes against wall street on the bailout, against the iraq war. against the so-called patriot act. so i know i stood up under pressure for those folks. >> reporter: it will be very interesting because we haven't seen either women in the bay area campaigning but now it's all going on, they are going to hit the ground running and interesting thing there, julie and frank, this will be the first time in more than 100 years that a republican will not be a candidate for the united states senate seat if the results end up with sanchez and harris moving on. >> all right. paul chambers in san francisco, thank you, paul. >>> there were a few problems with voting machines in san mateo county. 10% of the 1400 electronic voting machines didn't function properly. election officials say the machines were not coded correctly and were not producing ballots so voters were asked to use paper ballots instead. they say the problem w