i guess i equate it to chestnut street on a plac, a place like delaney's. the noise spills out of there. it's part of the life on chestnut street. it is lacking there for a while. it needs to be taken into consideration. thank you. >> i am supportive of the patio as well. for me, having a place i can come for lunch during the summertime, bring my customers out and have a nice, enjoyable evening. i feel if managed properly, they have said they are going to do that, it will not make it so that it is so noisy that it will be a disturbance. i think that having more restaurants like this is making it hard for them how to eat -- hard for them to eat. we should support businesses in the eara. -- area. >> i am a resident and a business owner directly across the street from the patio in question. being in the heart of chestnut street, and of the most noise comes from the buses or at the end of the night when people are coming out of bars or restaurants. this patio in question i don't believe would cause the issues. having an outdoor patio is something that would be

just a couple of hours after the shooting took placefuls -- plac and we've been seeing this memorial has been growing. this community is really banding together in support of these families and victims. >>> in washington today, people pause to mark the tragedy in tucson. president obama and first lady michelle obama led the nation in a moment of silence. the president told reporters today the nation is still in shock and grieving. >> as president of the united states, but also as a father obviously i'm spending a lot of time just thinking about the families and reaching out to them. >> the event prompted members of congress to take a look at their own security. bay area congressman the gerrimendi has been part of his political life for 30 years now. especially at town meetings. >> there's been shouting especially from tea party members. >>> the shootings in tucson have prompted a nationwide debate over the polarization of u.s. politics. >> we have to have a level of discourse where you can disagree on a policy issue but it doesn't become an advocacy for violence or hatred. >> reporte

. >> continuing some of the current taxes that are in plac place, the taxpayers have gotten used to payingthat were put in place to protect schools in education we need to do tha that. that has to be a priority. >>reporter: he says 18 billion dollars in cuts in the past three years have left deep scars in the class room. 174 districts on the brink of financial ruin. >> there is though district in california that is walking away unscathed. >>reporter: fred is the superintendent of lafayette school district. thanks to generous parent support lafayette relatively bet off than many districts. still cut 10% from the 27 million dollar budget in two years. and facing more cuts this year. >> we didn't come into education to say fine we'll just cut. we'll cut programs and take away our signs, counseling services, reduce instruction year. these are things we are lacking at not good for kid. >> this is an emergency for the last 3 or 4 years. >>reporter: gary is on the board of the mount diablo school district on the edge of insolvent sent they are now looking at closing at least 3 schools. >> communi

>> as is accustomo this committee, we would ask that your full written statements be plac in the record and that you limit your opening statements as close as possible to five minutes. as was the custom of my predecessor, you will see three lights. green means continue to go. yellow is the warning that you should not run through our intersection and red in all 50 states means stop. thank you, mr. chairman. the normal rule of committee is that we go in order of rank. mr. massed, i believe you would, by protocol, be first. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman issa, ranking member cummings, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the troubled asset relief program or t.a.r.p., it is commonly nope. i am the acting assistant secretary for financial stability at the treasury, which means i am responsible for overseeing the program on a day-to-day basis. i recognize that t.a.r.p. has not been popular. there is good reason for that. no one likes yood using taxpayer dollars to rescue financial institutions. flun the less, sitting here today, more than two ye

>> i think for that to take plac we have to define ourselves with our action. we have to draft and pass legislation in the house to frame that choice, accomplishments we want to have by then? it is difficult to have that question because we did not know what the president will want to sign into law or not. the way that i hope this goes is the president -i thinkhe triangulation, whatever you want to college, is a foregone conclusion. he has to come to the middle to t some things done to work with house republicans. hopefully he will say on a, b, c, let's do these things. hopefully some spending cuts, trade, spending reforms, and we do those things. but on x, y, z, repeal of the health care law -- so we will still advance legislation doing these x, y, z things. at the end of two years, the people of this country have a have a clear choice. >> but you have to take care of th budget, fiscal 2011, and then pass the budget legislation. you are taking over it to committee with spending of gdp is about 25%. the deficit is about 10%, roughly, and the deficit is about on

but i certainly have seen that practice in plac and in fact, some of the most creative and i think beneficial work going on around the country is health care -- health community health centers working in collaboration with community hospitals. and appropriately sort of reassigning folks to care that -- >> other than utilizing an emergency -- >> you bet. you bet. >> let me switch gear and pick up on a point that senator mccain a moment ago and i'm sorry he's not here. as you may know, the state of vermont is giving serious thought to moving forward to a medicare for all singer payer program. our approach and our request for waver may be different than arizona's. we do not want to throw people off of health insurance, we want to makeure every person in our state is covered. we believe that that approach, and it was a study that just came out by dr. shout, who you may know as an economist at harvard, developed the health care prom in taiwan, we believe we can save many, many hundreds of millions of dollars through medicare for all single payer program. and i know that we have to work on that wav