we also have no brussels, no belgium, but european towns, towns in europe, trying to find one another and to press, to put pressure on mayors and regional ministers to commit themselves to invest in bicycle policies. so those towns can learn from one another. as i told you, brussels, i have found several similarities with the two towns i have been getting to know now yesterday and today. we have about one million inhabitants. brussels is 10 to 10 miles on distance and i agree with what has been told here that that is in favor of promoting cycling because the distances are never too long, although we also have a difference of height. i mean, like amsterdam is plat as a pancake we would say. brussels does have some, well, ups and downs. an important issue politically is that we have -- we are, in fact, giving big gross national product to the country, 20%, although we're only 10% of the population, but yet most workforce is coming from abroad, from flounders, from outs. so they are coming in at 9:00 in the morning and the workers are again leaving to the north or the south of the countr

belgium or italy? that is the question. there is no doubt that there is this problem with youth and the aspirations and we have a problem here that you have an uprising which led to collapse of a strong political regime. that is what i tried to expand which is different than what is in europe. in terms of the players, all the political players, in tunisia, it is subject to debate. i can i give you an answer to that. my sense is that the broad consensus is there. there has been a decision that has to go to court and is of the old party, the major governing party. there is a broad consensus this is -- and i have moved to make. this structure would not be allowed in the future. this does not mean that the people are going to be completely pushed out, and we see them trying to create a new organization and new parties and that is likely to take place. this is pulling itself out and presumably, some of this will be integrated. subject to some of the illegal things in some people are implicated in corruption and violence, they have to be sub

oh, we have a wonderful bus built in belgium. i go, no, don't you understand in the -- in san francisco bay area, one of the very few bus manufacturers left in america, in your own area, people who commute on your buses, work in that factory, and you're buying a bus from belgium rather than buying a locally made bus that is just as good? he said, we like the size of the back window. there ought to be a law. there ought to be a law. that if it's our tax dollars that are being used to buy equipment, buses, trains, planes, whatever it must be made in america. after all, how can we create and re-establish the great manufacturing sector of america if we simply export our dollars and get a bus, good bus, no doubt about it, has a nice back window, but is not made in america. i'm very thankful that this congress in passing the american recovery and reinvestment act known as the stimulus bill, put in a provision concerning high-speed rail. now, for -- since 1988 when i was in the california legislature, together with my colleague here, jim costa,

collapse of a political regime in tunisia and egypt, and you do not have it in belgium or italy -- that is the question. there is no doubt that there is this aspiration with the youth. but you have an uprising that in a very short time frame lead to the collapse of a very strong and intense political regime. it is different from what is in europe and things like that. in terms of the players canno, f the political players, in tunisia, it is still subject to debate. i cannot give you an answer. but my sense is that the world consensus is this. you know that there has been a decision to go to court and ask for the courts to dissolve the old party, the major governing party. this -- there is broad consensus. in terms of structure, institutional structure, this structure would not be allowed to operate in future. now, this does not mean that the people that in general that are members of this party are going to be completely pushed out. out, and we see them trying to create a new organization and new parties and that is likely to take place. this is pulling itself out and presumably, some of this will be integrated. su

belgium or italy? that is the question. there is no doubt that there is this problem with youth and the aspirations and we have a problem here that you have an uprising which led to collapse of a strong political regime. that is what i tried to expand which is different than what is in europe. in terms of the players, all the political players, in tunisia, it is subject to debate. i can i give you an answer to that. my sense is that the broad consensus is there. there has been a decision that has to go to court and is of the old party, the major governing party. there is a broad consensus this is -- and i have moved to make. this structure would not be allowed in the future. this does not mean that the people are going to be completely pushed out, and we see them trying to create a new organization and new parties and that is likely to take place. this is pulling itself out and presumably, some of this will be integrated. subject to some of the illegal things in some people are implicated in corruption and violence, they have to be sub