ms. murray's concern she's concerned that there is an error in the budget and it may leave her with inadequate fund balance. we can validate that in the week ahead in the extent that it does become an issue. we can report to the committee on that. >> how confident are you that there is an error that led this recommendation by the budget analyst? >> i'm not 100 percent confident. i know that the error was supposed to be submitted by the mayor's office as a technical correction. the back filling or moving it out of the general fund as opposed out of fund balance is a new concept for me today. i have understood the correction is part of the correction and fund balance. >> can i ask the mayor's office to respond to that? department has indicated there is some technical adjustment by the mayor's office. i just want to make sure we know exactly what the ramifications might be. >> supervisor, kate howard, through the chair, as we know the mayor's office makes technical corrections to the budget during the board's phase. we have been working with the war memorial department to address this particular

ms. mikulski: madam president, i know that senator collins and murray are leaving the floor to go to the department of d.o.d. h secretary hagel, and we look forward to their return this afternoon, but i want to really acknowledge the great role that they play in -- played in putting together the appropriation on transportation funding for the entire united states of america, as well as the department of housing and urban development. we're going to talk more about transportation because it literally keeps america rolling, whether it's the kind of problems that we solve with the issues around safety, congestion , it's -- they are absolutely crucial. but often what's not talked about in their bill is housing and urban development and how it's also the famous h.u.d. bill does not only do urban development. i note that the presiding officer is from the state of north dakota, whose terrain and challenges are very different than my state, a coastal state. but the chairlady would be interested to know because she has been hit by some bad weather, that when hurricane sandy hit, my state was hit

ms. jones, you touched on this in your answer to questions from senator murray, is there that there are program like the income based repayment that is apparently have a very low uptake rate. isn't one of the things that we do, regardless what we do, is to take more information available to borrowers both at the beginning at at end of their schooling so they know what these options are? that would have helped you dramatically apparently. >> it definitely would have help in the beginning to know instead of -- well to know what i was getting into when i signed my promissory notes. i think at the beginning you were told this is what you need to get through college and if you use this, then you can deal with it afterward. but right now it's not going to incur -- you won't be incurring interest on your subsidized loans, thank those first, then your unsubsidized loans. we'll talk about that more when you take your exit exam and counseling upon graduation. what i realize is in doing that -- even in not knowing we're losing potentially great teachers. they're walking away from the profession because th