these are those that have to be approved or issued by a supermajority in order to change and fix thesewer system. we are simply fixing and repairing our existing infrastructure. however, i think we do need to scrutinize its because we do need to understand these are not items that went before the board before. these are not large components of future bond issuances. they're having a significant impact. it looks like the rate repairs will double in current -- in terms of the current charges. that is not insignificant to households. that is why i want to not gloss over these items. they are huge. if you look at some of them, they are half a billion dollars worth of infrastructure work. this is not something that we should just skip. i wonder if the puc could address those items, four through nine in particular for the bond issuances, and then we can talk a little bit more separately about that. item four is connected to item 9, 6 is connected to item eight, and five is connected to item seven. but they are not necessarily the end -- same amounts. my inclination is perhaps we take a loo

that is supermajority and further. it does have to further the purposes of the act. an easy way to handle that is to require that findings be demonstrated for each amended -- amendment being proposed to the code. i think that would be a good examination for us, to be sure that there is a legal justification for proceeding. otherwise, you might find ourselves in court. this came up when bob stern came up with the mechanism. it was his intent that there be findings to show how the purposes of the acts are furthered. the main response to the arizona decision by the u.s. supreme court is very instructive. we immediately proposed a repeal, but they threw it to a public toin maine and came up with remedies, two of which they forwarded to the legislature. we did not do that. our committee voted to repeal the act. thank you very much. >> first and foremost, i was the proponent for proposition f. i encountered a it rogue developer that spent $10 million. we, the people, spend $5,000. you need to think about this, referencing all the amendments that are made in this legislatio

it automatically sends the top two to the november runoff, and unless someone gets a supermajority, so it avoids a situation where someone avoids sneaking -- squeaking in, they have to have a percentage in order to avoid a runoff entirely, and in terms of the department of elections having the ability to handle this additional election, frankly, we did this for many years when we had run off, so i think the department is quite capable of handling an additional election, so for those reasons and others, i will be supporting this charter amendment today. supervisor farrell: : k ? -- supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i am glad we are talking about this, such a frank discussion. i did not supported before because when we look at the data, it is a limited amount of data. when we look at the data for the runoff, what we find is that in every election for office, the turnout has always decreased from november to december, and that has always been my primary concern. what i did mention is that the one exception to that was the 1999 and 2003 mayoral race, where voter turnout actually increased. t

that is supermajority and further. it does have to further the purposes of the act. an easy way to handle that is to require that findings be demonstrated for each amended -- amendment being proposed to the code. i think that would be a good examination for us, to be sure that there is a legal justification for proceeding. otherwise, mi

number one, if mitt romney gets elected, keeps the majority of the house and gets supermajority in the senate, he will repeal. 60 votes in the senate is unlike my. he can gives states the ability to opt out of option. delay imply mentation of the mandate and also refuse to fund the subsidies. slow it down if he gets in, hard to fully repeal. >> almost impossible to repeal even if he's elected. let's talk about the campaign until november. what difference is this going to make? >> it will gal ve niez mitt romney ice supporterses who are opposed. no question about that. it will energize president obama's base as well, give him that second chance that jake was talking about to sell the popular provisions notice bill which he wasn't able to do. my gut tells me that over the next five months this will not matter all this much in the election. both campaigns know that the economy is far higher on people's concerns than health care and that's what they want to talk about. >> well, it's not often we say it's a big day, historic decision. this truly was. we thank you, george, and the entire tea

you needed supermajority to get anything done. what party you're in, whoever is in power gets stuck. term limits, he used to say that their natural term limbs when you come up for re-election. >> eh had a lot of turf he covered. he signed this bill that the fair employment practices piece of legislation which had to do with discrimination in hiring. >> i think one of the things that made him unique, he is incredibly candid and he really felt strongly he needed to do what was right. when he grew up, his mother taught him to treat people equally and fairness was always a quality that he valued. and i think that there's a lot of people today that have that quality but they're a bit afraid to speak out. i will say, though, that he was unpopular sometimes when he stood up for fair housing and fair employment. theically mat was thafsz not a popular thing. he got advised to not do it. he did it any way. there was a backlash and he fought for it. >> why did it become to important nor his life that he would look out for minority groups to

defense secretary of announced that his country's navy man supermajorities warships over six carries to the asia pacific region in the coming years and that are stressed that the plan is not directed at china beijing has had repeated disagreements with the u.s. regarding chinese claims over marine areas the americans consider international waters letters comments came at the start of his weeklong visit to the region to explain the practical meaning of the new american military strategy. the leader of greece's syriza party says he'll cancel the country's bailout deal if his radical left wing movement wins the election greek voters will go to the polls on june seventeenth after elections in early may produce new. coalition government formed greece is under strict terms to cut spending in order to continue receiving. funds to avoid going bankrupt cancelling the bailout austerity program may force the country out of the eurozone we don't know global economic consequences. and an israeli soldier in the palestinian militants have been killed during a border gun battle in gaza army officers

that this isn't different from what we've seen and i would also suggest that while they had a supermajority they could have done a lot more to accomplish their agenda they chose not to get more more from monday's politics panel after the break. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on our. blog about the money politics panel joining me tonight are sam sacks progressive commentator and or is cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research let's get back to mitt romney claims that under president obama federal spending this was a statement he made yesterday afternoon earlier today federal spending has accelerated faster than at any other time in recent history and i mean looking at recent history all with the eisenhower administration according to independent fact checkers as you can see from this graph that's on the screen right now federal. bening growth has been slower under president ob

their mission is to get a supermajority in the senate. keep the majority in the house. win the white house and change this country to their ideology, no matter what any poll says. so what is the message to americans tonight if this is a template on how the rest of the country is going to go? >> i believe it's a pretty damn scary stuff. >> i think the message to americans is a very, very simple one. money can take a dysfunctional and not credible governor and repurpose that person as an electable candidate. if we understand that and recognize that that's what we're up against -- and every progressive in america should -- >> let's go to tom barrett, mayor of milwaukee. >> i couldn't be prouder. i just got off the phone with governor walker and congratulated him on his victory tonight. we agreed that it is important for us to work together. i want to thank all of you for the work that you have done. this has been the most amazing experience of our lives. and what we have seen over the last 16 months is we have seen this democracy come alive. to those of you -- to those of

what happened, obama and a supermajority of democrats in the house of representatives and senate which do not exist because the people threw them out last time, they decided they were going to grab as were power as they could. the problem is they did not confer with the constitution or did not care what it said. you cannot impose on individuals in this country, american citizens, a requirement that they participate in commerce if they choose not to. this is an attack. they are seeking to penalize individuals who do not buy private insurance and penalize insurance companies that do not write polls the way the government dictates. this has never been done in american history before. so, when you hear all the loser lawyers come on your show and other places, saying, the court has never stricken down anything like this, congress has never passed anything like this. >>neil: by the way, loser lawyers might appear on other shows, mark, but you might --. >>guest: well, now and then they slip through. >>neil: you know, mack,ry was -- i was talking to a lost c.e.o.'s and they have been telling m

if this was the right thing to do, why didn't we do this when there was a supermajority in the senatege majorities for the democrats in 2009 and 2010? because they were distracted with pushing through another piece of legislation that the american people, by a majority, did not want, but democrats were determined to do by way of an executive order that was given at the very last minute to please bluedog democrats, including former congressman bart stupak. let's not forget about this. that's the unfortunate thing about this is it's right thing to do as far as getting comprehensive reform, yes. is it right to do that by going around constitutional and congressional means of doing it? absolutely not. this is a sign of desperation interest this president that he needs to do everything he possibly can in order to squeak out a victory in november, and i don't think it's going to work overall. >> maria, let me ask you about the timing. we have sb-1070, the controversial anti-immigration law in arizona. we're going to get a ruling on that in the coming days from the supreme court. >> right. r

and as they pushed on cap and tax from that election, we saw, then, also that supermajority of the house democrats, senate democrats, and the most liberal president america has ever seen -- by wait, mr. speaker, i'm not making that number up. that is the data that shows that when they measured the votes of the united states senators, certainly the entire tenure of barack obama as a united states senator, which i recognize wasn't long, he voted to the left of every senator in the united states senate. including bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermont, who, i served with in the house of representatives, personally liked the gentleman, he's a self-professed socialist, yet barack obama voted to the left of the self-professed socialist bernie sanders and to the left of every united states senator while he was a senator, advancing cap and tax, cap and trade. he said that if -- under his proposal of cap and tax, cap and trade that the costs of electricity generated by coal would, quote, necessarily skyrocket, close quote. well, that's happening. they have written regulations throug

he goes after congress but we remember that the president's own party had a supermajority in both housesrst two years. so you can hardly blame congress for the faults that he has put in place himself. and so he is casting about looking for someone to blame and just hasn't been able to find anybody that, whether atm machines or tsunami or europe. i'm convinced this man is out of ideas. i know he is out of excuses. in 2012 you're going to make sure we vote him out of office. [cheers and applause] martha: that of course mitt romney on the campaign trail and that has been one of his big points that he has been making all across the country. joined by former presidential candidate herman cain. the former ceo of godfathers pizza. mr. cain, good morning. good to have you here today. >> good morning, martha. thank you. martha: seems like for many people though when you look at the polls this is a very tight race and there are a lot of folks who do agree with president obama, that a lot of the economic problems that we're suffering from were inherited and that, you know, it has been a tough ditch

lieberman who was our nominee for vice president in -- with al gore and he blocked all of the supermajoritiesg bonbons for three years. >> they lied. >> stephanie: mike in atlanta you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi mike. >> caller: hello there. >> stephanie: hi. >> caller: i tend to agree with john fuglesang, rude pundit and nancy pelosi. i think it will be 6-3. i don't think roberts wants his court 50 years from now 60 years from now to be viewed as a clown court. they're going to look just like they're in the corporation's pockets. i don't think he wants to have his court viewed that way. >> stephanie: yeah. it would be, once again, mike in this administration, unprecedented to strike down -- and let me just say again, not playing the race card but somebody was commenting on that, the first black president's this historic achievement that has taken however long to achieve this, to strike this down. that is judicial activism. thank you. >> i think they're going to strike down the individual mandate because of what ruth bader ginsberg has been saying. she seems to be really, really pis

choice but to file cloture and to go ahead and get a vote on this bill, recognizing it takes a supermajority when you file cloture. i would do that. i have a lot of things, i guess, i didn't think we would get into this. one is the -- give me the article from the aopa. that's by john youtis. i have an article which i will find here in a minute and we'll submit this for the record. i think it's very important. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: it goes into details documentary cases where they have been unable to get fairness through this system. how many cases would ultimately go to the district court? i think very few: idea that that's going to be an opportunity for a pilot to take what he's accused of to the district court to see it in a sense of fairness, it has nothing to do with how many pilots are sitting on that district court. it's a sense of fairness. that's what they deal with. in the district court system these people don't have expertise in all these areas. but in my case, if they looked at that and said if the f.a.a. looked at that, there's nothing wrong. he d