ryan white funded initiatives are saving lives. declines in aids deaths are a direct result of the '30s and services that have been made more widely available through the ryan white act to large numbers of uninsured and underinsured people here that is why it was disappointing when the bush administration first proposed severe cuts, and that is why i have fought continued republican efforts to sustain these cuts. for several years, i worked successfully in a bipartisan way to roll back these destabilizing cuts and their potentially devastating impact. since 2007, we have restored nearly $21 million to san francisco systems of care. every step of the way in fighting these cuts, i have found a partner in the san francisco mayor's office, beginning with mayor newsom and continued by mayor lee. today's announcement by mayor lee of $1.8 million in supplemental city funding will result in save lives. i look also like to a knowledge supervisors wiener, campos, and olague and members of the san francisco hiv/aids planning council for their

the ryan white care act is a critical piece of that. leader policy has done an extraordinary work in protecting land -- ryan white. we also have members of public -- of congress who have targeted the funding year in and year out. we are now experiencing a serious cut. next fiscal year, it will be over $4 million. i know we will go through quite a budget process to figure out how to address that. but we know san francisco has a firm commitment to those living with and at risk for the disease. i for one and many others are not going to allow that safety net and those services to deteriorate. the cut we are experiencing for the march 1-june 30 time. -- timeperiod is approximately $1.80 million. this would appropriate $1.80 million from a reserve we established for state and federal cuts. i want to thank mayor lee for immediately supporting and cheerleading this appropriation, and supervisors campos and olague for working with me and the mayor to move this forward. that is my introduction. the rest i submit. supervisor cohen: colleagues, on

one of the most import sources of funding for hiv aids services is the ryan white care act. things two-hour ravenna's and hero nancy pelosi, our funding remained intact for two years. leader policy carried unending wanted to maintain the funding long past when any other normal official would have been able to do so. but funding cuts have now come and we have to respond to it. in the current fiscal year through june 30, we will lose approximately $1.8 million in ryan white funding. the appropriation before you would bechtel that amount from our state federal reserve accounts and would allow us to continue funding lifesaving services. next fiscal year we anticipate a cut of 4.2 $5 million. yesterday, i called for a hearing to discuss how to approach this devastating reduction in federal funding. i know we will all work are to address it and to fulfill our obligation to those living with and at risk for hiv aids. thank you, and i ask for your support. >supervisor chu: thank you for your statement. why don't go to the department. >> thank you. greg white appeared department of p

going to be really struggling next year with the $4 $25 million -- $4.25 million it cut to the ryan white budget process. we have to fight to make our commitment. before i start bringing up some of our speakers, i want to give supervisor olague an opportunity to make some comments. supervisor olague: thank you to supervisor wiener and campos for giving me the opportunity speak tonight. i'm used to being on the side. members of the shack collaborative, which is the senior housing action collaborative. one of the issues we have raised is the time centered around the condition of seniors who are aging in place, particularly those who live in single room occupancy hotels. what i was funny when i was working as a senior advocate network advocate, it was impossible to find immediately available housing for people who were trying to transition from homelessness into housing or or in homes that were may be rent- controlled places 20, 30 years, had been here since the 1970's, 1980's. we have a lot of that that kind of prohibits what we can do sometimes locally, but we have lost a lot of folks to e

i paid a visit to ryan white, the nine-year old boy who was hit by a truck driver.e is recovering. the family asked that i come by here and say a word and give a little personal attention, and i felt really good about the staff here at sf general. we need their services to be housed in the most modern facility we can possibly build. we need to build the new hospital, compliant, modern, safe, that takes this into the future for the next 100 years. i am here today to review all the develop on on, and my thanks go to the team for every aspect of the project. we will carry out exactly what i have in my former capacity and now as mayor, to make sure these projects are done on time, that we honor all the commitments that we do, especially with the largest general obligation bond project we have in our history. 84% of the voters. we want to make sure that practice is done. that is what i have been about for all these years. i want to make sure things get done in the city, get done right. so, this wonderful example of what we do to lead the city, and when you look at it, we

>> the fact is that the ryan white and bill introduced yden bill-- ryan-w an introduced recently is is essential improvement. allows for transition to make sense. i find it fascinating that very highly paid washington commentators and washington analysts love the idea of pain. who is going to be in pain? the duty of the president is to find a way to manage the federal government so that primary pain is on changing the bureaucracy, and on theft alone, we could save $100 billion alone in medicare and medicaid if the federal government were confident. the only people that would be in pain are crooks. i think a sound approach to improve the government, not punish the american people, because of the failure of the political class. >> from facebook, a lot of questions have been submitted. we do have a spending crisis but also a lot of people are hurting. with more americans on government assistance than ever before, it is it on american for americans to feel relieved when the government helps them? >> let me answer the question you asked earlier, the three areas that you would make some redu

working with mayor lee, just did an introduction restoring or at least proposing the restoration of ryan white to provide basic services to -- around h.i.v. and aids. so that's my introduction and beyond that i say thank you. >> thank you. supervisor olague: i'll give a brief introduction. i'll try not to be too long. i think people heard me yesterday and, you know, heard me over the years. i'll try to keep it short. but i do feel like i need to say something and give background for my values. for those who aren't family with them. many of you know me for my work at mission agenda and the miggets collaborative where i worked with a community to improve the quality of life for tenants including families who live in single room occupancy hotels. as part of the mission antidisplacement coalition, we work to preserve ethnic and economic diversity in san francisco. most recently a senior action -- at senior action network i learned about the challenges that seniors and persons living with disabilities face. i learned about issues regarding aging and remaining in place. as a member of the planning c

especially knowing we would have to attempt to fill the $4 $25 million -- $4.25 million in the ryan white cut. i am glad we are having the discussion. what i would like to request is this committee put this forward with positive recommendations, and in the next coming week or two, have discussions. i welcome feedback on the issue of whether we would have the 2013 election and 2015 for the city treasurer, or save the $4.2 million for the 2013 election. with that, madam chair, i'm done. supervisor kim: thank you, supervisor wiener. any comments or discussion for college? supervisor farrell: i recommend this moving forward with positive recommendations. supervisor kim: and we have a second to that. i do want to thank supervisor wiener for bringing this forward. this would help us save at least $1 million every year, $4.2 million every four years, and i appreciate the work and consolidating. i think this will also help increase the turnout for each of these positions as well. i will be supporting this item and we will pass this positive recommendations unopposed. thank you, supervisor wiener.

going to be really struggling next year with the $4 $25 million -- $4.25 million it cut to the ryan whiteudget process. we have to fight to make our commitment. before i start bringing up some of our speakers, i want to give supervisor olague an opportunity to make some comments. supervisor olague: thank you to supervisor wiener and campos for giving me the opportunity speak gh

. >>> i suggest google ryan white, the 13, 14-year-old who contracted the virus that causes aids and then ended up dying because of it. because of a blood transfusion. it's horribly irresponsible. not how you feel about gay rights, issues. it's extraordinarily irresponsible. >> one of the things he said, you can only get it through blood transfusions. >> i thought he was saying you couldn't. >> he was saying you could he did say blood trans fug. >> i stand corrected. frustrating to think that so many people could have taken a lot of information away from that. >> the transcript will be out there. it's remarkable. >>> ahead on early start, the fight for florida. it's today, folks. 90 minutes from now polls are opening. there are some signs of chings in gingrich's armor. at least in florida. what about elsewhere in we'll talk about it in a moment. [ female announcer ] if whole grain isn't the first ingredient in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first. get more whol

aids brings suffering and fear into so many lies i ask you to reauthorize the ryan white act, to encourage prevention and provide care and treatment to the victims of that disease. [applause] and as we update this important law, we must focus our efforts on fellow citizens with the highest rates of new cases. african-american men and women. [applause] because one of the main soreses of our national unity is our belief in equal justice, we need to make sure americans of all races and backgrounds have confidence in the system that provides justice. in america we must make doubly should no person is held to account for a crime he or she did not commit, so we're dramatically expanding the use of dna evidence to prevent wrongful conviction. [applause] soon i will send to congress a funding of cap calwayss because people on trial for their lives must competent lawyers by their sides. [applause] our third responsibility to future generations is to leave them an america that is safe from danger and protected by peace. we will pass along to our children all the freedoms we enjoy, and chief among th

greg ryberg who is banging the drum as well as key lettermen and thomas alexander, representative ryan whiteand jim merrill and return the correct her, bill blume. the seriousness of focus of which you have been reforming our retirement system is comme the seriousness of focus of which you have been reforming our retirement system is commendable. let's be clear. the size of our pension system, the size of the unfunded liability has ballooned from $199 million in 1999 to $17 billion this year. if we are to honor our commitment to those who have fired a dedicated their careers to public service, then no one can dispute that this is an issue we must resolve into it today. fortunately, some steps of argument taken. the recent decision to lower the assumed rate of return was an important one. not just because ms will finally be mum on on us about how much we can expect retirement systems aaron, but it forced us to confront the fact our current policy of automatically awarding cost-of-living increases is irresponsible and unsustainable. to protect our pension funds, we must have 19 cost-of-living

greg ryberg who is banging the drum as well as key lettermen and thomas alexander, representative ryan whiteand jim merrill and return the correct her, bill blume. the seriousness of focus of which you have been reforming our retirement system is comme the seriousness of focus of which you have been reforming our retirement system is commendable. let's be clear. the size of our pension system, the size of the unfunded liability has ballooned from $199 million in 1999 to $17 billion this year. if we are to honor our commitment to those who have fired a dedicated their careers to public service, then no one can dispute that this is an issue we must resolve into it today. fortunately, some steps of argument taken. the recent decision to lower the assumed rate of return was an important one. not just because ms will finally be mum on on us about how much we can expect retirement systems aaron, but it forced us to confront the fact our current policy of automatically awarding cost-of-living increases is irresponsible and unsustainable. to protect our pension funds, we must have 19 cost-of-living

ryan lizza. internal white house memos that said that obama wanted a moon shot, to go back to find something to getpandering tonight on energy once again. >> andrea: yeah. i think he has had a chance to explore alternative energy. we talked about natural gas last week and said he was in favor of the bill. giving us lip service and hot air for the last year or two. this buffett stuff looks bad. it looks like he is against the rich, unless you are a rich person to give him campaign money or a supporter. look, warren buffett good billionaire, mitt romney bad billionaire. >> dana: not even a billionaire. >> andrea: it look like he is creating two classes, politically connected. not politically connected. >> dana: do you worry about that, bob? >> bob: i am really worried about buffett's financial situation. i know he desperately needs the railroad to make himself more money because he is barely hanging on. everybody used to like buffet. this man has given all of his money, will give it to charity. >> dana: after he made it all and lived like a king for -- >> bob: he lives fairly simply. >> dana: based o

white's drive. maryland falls 73-60. >>> ryan pearson and george mason hosting towson losing a recorow.ots on the break, edwards to sherrod wright for the exclaiming dunk. george mason over towson 72-60. tigers are now 0-20 this season. >>> american hosting army. the eagles 12-0 all time at bender arena against the black knight. second half, danny munoz inside to tony roblici, the tallest player. au beats army 67-55. they are 9-0 at home. >>> hey, boos are supposed to be directed at the opposing team, not to players on the team that you root for. but if you are at a wizards game, you are hearing more boos and a lot of those boos are directed to one of those players, in particular and andray blatche. >> it became noticeable against oklahoma city. blatche has been hurt. he is fourth on the team averaging four points per game. after yesterday's loss, flip saunders had his back. >> it's not going to help somebody play better. it's showing displeasure. by booing, he is not going to go out and get 20 points and 20 rebounds because we are booing him. if that was the day, everybody would be doi

opinion on how much the white house itself has changed in response to not only the mid-term election results but that kind of republican attitude chris was describing there. >> ryan liza has a great piece in the new yorker talking about that using white house memos, decision memos and he traces the president's evolution in understanding just how locked in the republicans were and ultimately how impossible bipartisanship became and one of the simple measures of that is the simple political fact that the most conservative democrat in the senate is more liberal than the most liberal republican fifth in the senate. and once you have that, you have completely divided parties. it was in the 90s during bill clinton's time you had at least half a dozen republicans in the senate who were always available for discussion of democratic ideas, and by the way, at least half a dozen democrats from the south. we had a democratic senators from alabama then, georgia, texas, oklahoma who were available to the republicans, and so that stuff i bipartisanship actually did not even exist when the president took office. >> i think part of that and i read that new yorker piece, is that i

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ryan to get around. >>> 95 northbound no problems but southbound slows down towards white marsh boulevard. 95 at 395 notad. 295 past 32 not bad. this traffic report is brought to you by toyota. >>> back over to you. >> thank you. we have a couple of school advisories for you, st. bernadeans head start is closed because of no water. the staff is asked to report. the national academy foundation school is closed because it has no heat. the staff is asked to report to dop bar high school. >>> here is what people are talking about news wise this morning. the heartford county teen will appear in court today charged with killing his father and dumping the body in a pond. wjz and monique griego are live with the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. robert richardson will be in court later for a bail hearing. he admitted to shooting and killing his father but not before leading them on a chase. he confessed to killing his father then dumping his body in this pond. police called to the home monday night found blood but nobody inside. >> what they found indicated that someone had more than likely been s

white house. >> listen. speaker boehner and ryan will hopefully listen to the ideas tonight. they're ideas that have been embraced by both parties, commonsense ideas. having the wealthy pay their fair share is something we're paying more attention to. last year it was a tough year, a lot of gridlock and a lot of we were able to cut taxes, pa cut a tax deal and self fords and chevies in south korea. we've made progress. there's no question they don't want a repeat of last year. and so even though this is an election year, we have to find every opportunity to make progress not just on the economy as a whole, which is so important, but also specifically how do we strengthen the middle class. and i think there are some areas we can work together. >> one issue will be tax reform, and as you know, fairness is a theme the president has articulated in kansas. is effective voting a 15% tax rate that mitt romney has said he paid your judgment of what is fair? >> well, listen. there's 47 more republican primaries and caucuses, so those voters are going to have their ability in weigh in

. >> ryan didn't get the card but she does have these. recordings of a man calling himself mr. white outlining the scam. >> i'm mr. white. if you do this pay $400 to $500 you'll be the winner. >> on one recording he claims to be headed to her house. >> i'm mr. white. >> i wonder where my safety lies and how far this will go. >> numbers have a jamaica air code. one law official there the lottery scams will bring $300 million into the country by end of the year. she says something has to be done before there are more victims. >> i think the government ought to step in and find out what is going on in jamaica that they are taking so many people's money over here. >> it's fraud perpetrated against u.s. citizen. >> agent in charge says the lottery scams are hard to bust outside the united states. >> when you are dealing with a foreign government potentially or pursuing a foreign citizen in a case like this it's particularly difficult because you don't have as much control as you would in the united states. >> many times it's up to the foreign governments to crack down. like a recent raid

but things what's done especially on immigration an on the ryan budget will be long-term problems for him. when i left the whitee, nobody was taking anything for granted over there. if you look at just from news reports the mechanics they're putting together in iowa and field offices all over the country, it's an impressive machine, but the overall context in a tough economy, where unemployment is at a very high rate, we're moving in the right direction, but not as fast as the president would like to. it's still going to be very tough. there's very stiff head winds against him. >> i dare say there was a little bit of swagger last night, and i want to read the axelrod tweet. the sound that they're hearing is the sound of romney's super pac preparing to carpet bomb him. >> and he has access to tens of millions of dollars and they have the where with all to put it on the tv. it destroyed newt gingrich. he took out rick perry. and if you look at what they're doing right now, compared to what they're going to do in the general election against president obama, this is just like playing board games with folks. and th

use that election to take the white house, congress, and the senate and try to enact as much as they can along the lines of the paul ryan budget. get that in place and then if things fall apart they will have the law in place and it becomes much harder for a more liberal ma majority to block things. >> woodruff: sounds like a long and protracted battle. >> but great for reporting. >> woodruff: tom edsall "the age of austerity." great to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> warner: again, the major developments of the day: pentagon leaders outlined almost half a trillion dollars in budget cuts, eliminating ground forces and deling some new weapons. and the republican presidential contest in florida got rougher, with newt gingrich firing back at a wave of attack ads by mitt romney. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: we have more reporting by judy in florida. she filed a blog post on how space exploration and the tea party may have an effect on next weeks primary. that's on the rundown blog. a team of scientists hope to capture the first image of a black hole. we spok