the other thing, ms. walsh, when i talk to people about running for office, they go, oh, i don't want to come up through the party, i don't want to put in time on the school board, you know. i would just like to run. well, that is not the way it works. or is that breaking down a little bit? >> well, it is breaking down. >> okay. >> and in fact in our most recent study of men and women who serve in state legislatures, we found that well over half of them, that was the very first office they had ever run for. and i think one of the things that we do, particularly to women, is we tell them, you have to work your way up through the pipeline. you have to start at the school board, then run for local council and then run for the state legislature. and i actually think what happens is we burn those women out. because being in the school board, i mean, that is the toughest job there is. you can't go to the supermarket because everybody knows you, and you're dealing with issues affecting their children, and they're craz

. >> i am from frederick community college, and my question is for ms. walsh. thanks for giving us the good news that about 70 more women candidates are running this time for the offices. my question is, as soon as the upset of these zero men are for women's rights such as equal rights -- >> yours dollars to go look at what these women and find out which of the one in because support and support the things you care about. but what we are seeing is that is you look at the party breakdown there are more democratic women and republican women, but that is pretty much historical truth. right now in the united states house of representatives democratic women make up 32% of the democratic caucus. republican women make up only 17 percent of the republican caucus. part of what has happened for republican women is that they tend to be a bit more moderate and they have a very tough time making it through primaries. i think, you know, from be watching, a real tragedy has happened this year in a losing his bolivia's down in the united states senate. the modern republican wo

the other thing, ms. walsh when i talk to people about running for office, they go, i don't want to come up through the party. i don't want to put in time on the school board. you know, i would just like to run. that isn't, not the way it works or is that breaking down a little -- >> it is break down. in fact in our most recent study of men and women who serve in state legislatures we found well over half of them, that was the very first office they had ever run for. i think one of the things we do particularly to women we tell them -- >> all of this program available in our video library at c-span.org. we're going to take you live now to the united nations in new york. u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice will be taking questions from reporters on a wide range of issues including upcoming priorities and syria. live coverage here on c-span2. >> good afternoon, everyone, we have a lot to cover so i will turn it over quickly to ambassador rice who will go through the program of work through the month and then

walsh. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. johnson, without getting bogged down into conduct reviews versus performance reviews, why did you give that $9,000 bonus? >> i gave that $9,000 bonus because i was focused on performance and because i -- the recommendation came from the building's commissioner, who was the direct budget and supervisor of mr. neely. >> let me ask it another way. if you could take that bonus back, if you could go back in time and not approve that bonus, would you do that? >> well, i would certainly like to avoid these questions, yes. >> would you. >> i think -- >> do you wish you had not approved that bonus? >> everything in retrospect is always hard to understand. at the time, i was expecting the inspector general's report. you know, it's -- >> i appreciate that. >> -- not a decision. >> but right now, if you could, do you wish you had not approved that bonus? >> i'm not sure how i can -- i'm not sure how i can answer that. knowing what i know about all of the rules and the -- >> let me -- appreciated.

walsh. >> thank you. ms. johnson, without getting bogged down in to conduct reviews vs. performance reviews, why did you give the $9,000 bonus? >> i gave that bonus because i was focused on performance. the recommendation came from the buildings commissioner, who was the direct budgeting supervisor. >> let me ask it another way. if you could take that bonus back, if you could go back in time and not approve that bonus, would you do that? >> i would certainly like to avoid these questions. yes. >> do you wish you had not approved it? >> everything in retrospect is hard to understand. at the time, i was expecting the inspector general's report. >> i appreciate that. right now, if you could, do you wish you had not approved that bonus? >> i am not sure how i can answer that, knowing what i know about all of the rules. >> let me move on. my colleagues on both sides have rightfully focused on how did this happen, who knew what, what procedures were in place that let this happen, when did it happen, all important questions in an investigation. what eats at me is the why. why d

ms. romney, but she seems like a wonderful woman, and i know that she's devoted her life to her family. >> joan walsh, among those who tweeted in opposition or in disagreement, perhaps i should say, with this whole controversy with david axelrod, and i guess it begs the question as to whether democrats have a right to be defensive. are they handling this correctly from a political standpoint? should axelrod have sent out the tweet that he did? >> i don't think axelrod needed to do that. i love what the president said. he did it very well. but hilary rosen herself said he didn't put it the right way. we're being dragged into a phoney debate. mitt romney, i have to give him credit, he's carrying the day. he had a ridiculous, i know you are but what am i strategy about the war on women. he pretended president obama is the one with the war on women when that is patently ridiculous, and unfortunately, hilary rosen's comments got us all talking about something else. but the real issue is life is tougher for women who have to work. that being able to stay home with your children right now is an issue, it's

ms. daniels be excused. as a lawyer practicing for many, many years, it was the appropriate thing. the -- i want to follow up on some of the questions that mr. walsh was asking. mr. miller, you just restated something you said yesterday before the a government oversight and reform committee about mr. neely saying to one witness that you interviewed that she would be squashed like a bug. let me read her entire -- where that -- the statement that she made. and i quote, this is a quote. she's been trying to bring this stuff up at the board of directors meeting and she promptly gets squashed like a bug when she brought up any kind of things concerning the conferences and the extravagances and the suites and the, you know, the hotel suites. because typically at a conference, i mean, the wrc was not a one-time thing where certain people got these very extravagant accommodations. does that sound familiar at all? >> yes, sir, it does. >> and the witness also said that, and i quote, the intimidation factor is pretty large, end of quote. mr. peck, let me return to you. were you aware that mr. neely intimidated employees who reported to him? >> mr. conductin