it sustained a neglect of duty finding. the chief found that the conduct of forgetting his equipment to be proper conduct. in the next case, another neglect of duty. an officer failed to log use of force even though the officer noted that the complaintant had an injury. the supervising sergeant failed to supervise the officer to ensure that the incident report was completed. the sergeant failed to enter the use of force logs. both officers were given a written reprimand. in this case, failure to block traffic stop data. the officer was suspended. in these failure to log data cases, the officer was a modest. the chief is looking at progressive discipline -- admonished. the chief is looking at progressive discipline. there were violations in the past. an officer failed to prepare an incident report when the complaintant stated he wanted to press charges against another driver for road rage. another officer received a written reprimand. the concludes my report. commissioner turman: director hicks, i want to back up to the inci

it's an important capability that we have to sustain. as the secretary said, we're doing an analysis of alternatives that will be done in '13. and once we do that, we'll have to make a decision whether we go to a new aircraft or do we continue then to keep the kiowa warrior and upgrade the kiowa warria that will be a decision that is made next year. right now we expect to have the kiowa warria through 2025. so this is an incredibly important program. we'll look at analysis and decide on how we want to move forward. >> i said chinook. obviously kiowa warrior. thank you. >> thank you, mr. secretary and general. thank you. general, can you tell us what you believe the status and readiness of the army's current inventory of prepositioned equipment is? >> i feel very confident with it. in fact we've just actually issued our predeployment -- our equipment in kuwait to the brigade that moved that air from iraq. and they've been exercising with it, and it's in very good condition. it's important for us to sustain our preposition flight in very g

so sustainment, again, is the key. but she has certainty and her team has certainly taken the steps to identify what she needs and hopefully bring those people on board. >> thank you. ms. condit, what do you think is a reasonable time frame to come back and make sure -- six months, is that reasonable? or three months? >> six months is fair. ma'am, we're currently in the process of hire that senior contracting professional to be personally on my staff. the reason why i'm very comfortable with the agreement we have now with the army contracting command with having them provide our contracting support because that means that we have trained acquisition professionals who are in the acquisition chain so that i will make sure that they have the right training, the right credentials, the right levels of certification and the right warrants because arlington really isn't that large of an organization to have a large contracting structure embedded in our tva. so if i have the one senior professional on the staff personally and

i think it's a combination of policies in that scenario that cannot be sustained together. one could sustain the medicare path while making other changes or the social security path in making other changes or the revenue path while making other changes and the set of changes that will be made will depend on you and your colleagues. that combination cannot be sustained over the next quarter century. >> so when we look at the extended baseline,my experience is that whenever we seek to control costs by cutting reimbursement rates to providers, what we learn is that the cuts are either not sustained, meaning they're given back, or they cause higher utilization rates that actually erode the anticipating savings. the president's health care law cut medicare payments to providers be i $500 billion over ten years to pay for the new entitlement. it also created the ipab. and under this proposed, it will hold the medicare rate to gdp by cutting reimbursements to providers. now last year you testified that cbo has a tool kift when it comes to analyzing the behavior of physicians and b

as i mentioned earlier, the new strategy to sustain global leadership was quite deliberate. we are retaining full capability to confront more than one aggressor anywhere in the world even if we are engaged. in large scale operations we will be quickly to identify the objectives of an opportunistic adversary and impose acceptable costs in another theatre of the world. even as we rebalance the posture toward asia pacific and continue to place a premium on the presence in the middle east, we will uphold the nato commitments, including through new rotational deployments of additional ground nato forces announced by secretary panetta a few weeks ago and in other areas of the world such as asia and africa, we will continue to develop a small footprint and innovative approaches to maintain the presence, an invest in our relaktionships with partner nations at relatively low cost. the use of an austere base in djibouti for the recent soft rescue of two aide workers held in somalia is how effective such presence can be. and even if we no longer size the army and the marine corps for l

it just is not possible to sustain that. i hope we'll use this occasion to reinforce the need to pursue in a bipartisan fashion the architecture reform that is needed. the last point i would make is, and i think this is consistent with what the chairman said, although we have different ways to get there. that is important in maximizing economic growth. it is important to maximize growth because this is how we create jobs and elevate the standard of living. of course, it is enormously important from a budgetary point of view. the cbo estimates on page 108, i think, of the report, that one-tenth of a percentage point increase in gdp growth over the ten-year period of time generates in their estimate over $300 billion of additional revenue. i know this is not purely lin r linear, but let's say 1% of economic growth sustained. stronger growth is worth about $3 trillion in deficit reduction. there is no better way to reduce the size of our deficits and help to contribute to a sustainable path than through stronger economic growth

>> of restoring our deficits to a more sustainable position for the next ten years. the tests there which is a test you embrace in your plan, too, is to make sure you get deficits down below 3% of gdp and hold them there. and if do you that, what happens is our overall debt burden is the economy stops growing at a level we can manage and starts to come down. so we meet that test. and then we help lower the trajectory of cost growth in the outer decades that comes from millions of americans retiring. but we still would face even with this framework more work to do in that long term demographic challenge. >> bring up slide 13. because i just don't see the rhetoric matching the results. and i'm looking at your budget. page 58 in analytical perspectives, you say that this is your budget, says that the government positioning gradually deteriorates. that our fiscal condition deteriorates. these are your numbers. >> it shows, mr. chairman, is -- >> your deficit. >> good chart. just exactly what i said. if you look at 2012 for the next ten years, it stabilize that's debt bur

. >> i think we agree that sustainable long-run economic growth derives from savings and investment, therefore increased productivity instead of borrowing and consumption. i know you well enough to know that we more or less agree with that. but do you measure the effects that these policies have on savers, on people living on fixed income, living on cds? are you concerned at all about the very, very low interest payments that these savers are getting from these kinds of fixed income assets which are hitting our savings and investment side of the economy in exchange for helping the borrowing and consumption side of the economy. >> we are quite aware of that issue. we hear a lot about it. we consider it. we think about it. and i recognize that for people on a fixed income or who are -- whose main income is interest on a cd, i recognize it imposes a hardship. the purpose of our policy, though, is to create a stronger economy and savers collectively hold all the assets, all the capital in the economy. if you don't have a strong economy, if you have a weak economy, you're not going to get

in the first case, it was neglect of duty sustained finding. the officer failed to enter an incident report for a complaint that was a salted and injured by a stranger -- assaulted and injured by a stranger. all six of these cases are neglect of duty sustained finding. a member forgot a service revolver, ammunition, and handcuffs and a hotel room. the housekeeping staff observed the locked room safe and called hotel security. an engineer unlocked a safe and discovered the officer's loaded service revolvers, ammunition clip and handcuffs. the hotel contacted the officer at the officer made arrangements to have the equipment retrieved by a superior officer. the complaint also complained about the conduct in retrieving the weapon, but the conduct in forgetting his weapon and equipment was neglect of duty equipment was neglect of duty because he lost control of them

andrew, can these gains in the euro be sustained? >> i'm not so sure that they can. i think what we're seeing now is actually a little bit of a conflict that a deal has been announced and that's why we are seeing the euro rallying some 50 points against u.s. dollar. it dim did seem did seem to peter out. how is this deal to be put together? as the deal where the numbers are relatively close to what has been talked about before. it boils down fact can greece deliver on the austerity measures that the troika are demanding? >> absolutely. that is a skepticism among investors in the market whether or not greece can deliver. going toward what does the market really want to hear about the eurozone debt crisis for the strength in the euro to be sustained? >> i think we need to have some kind of -- to avoid the contagion effect into the likes of portugal, stain and -- spain and italy. it hasn't been completely resolved. we still have got to go into into notions -- negotiations about the private sector. i'm sure there will be headlines about that in the future. >> these gains

therefore to put the government on the sustainable path, we need revenues to increase higher than gdp over the past 40 years or make large changes to social security or medicare. let me close by highlights the consequence al choices. if policymakers leave things unchanged, you will recede to the size of the economy. that will occur because of the large increase of revenues and sharp restraints on the programs i highlighted. those will have significant economic and social affects. the market will slow the recovery. changing current laws would boost the economy and allow people to pay less in taxes and benefit in the next few years, but would put the nation on an unsustainable fiscal course. if policymakers wanted to achieve a boost and long-term sustainability, they need to enact to leave wider than our current law baseline than the next few years, but significantly narrower than under our alternative scenario by later in the decade. in conclusion, how much and how quickly the budget deficit declines depends on how the economy does over the decade. probably more critical are the choice

i would like to emphasize that in estimating that sustainable long-run rate of unemployment, we in no way are saying this is a desirable state of events, state of circumstances. other policies affecting the labor market, fiscal policy, trade, all kinds of other policies could affect and bring back that sustainable rate of employment. i hope congress will consider ways to address that problem. >> we've started to see a revival of the manufacturing sector. 50,000 jobs added last month. is there anything that you would suggest to do to hasten the return of the manufacturing jobs? >> with, the recovery in the manufacturing sector is an encouraging development. it led this recovery very significantly. one reason that it's doing so is that american manufacturing have become increasingly competitive on the global stage. as emerging markets and other countries grow quickly, they represent a source of demand for our manufacturing goods and our services. so clearly maintaining open trade with other countries and maintaining those markets is an important step. i think another area that is import

federal agencies and congress to set the conditions for the continued improvement and ultimately sustained actions. thank you once again for the opportunity to testify today i look forward to answering your questions and working with the committee in the future. thank you. >> thank you very much. ms. martin. >> chairman willson and wittman, ranking members david and cooper, members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the gao workout arlington. our review found that arlington has taken significant actions to address its problems and that the path forward as you stated, chairman wilson, is for arlington to sustain progress through improved management and oversight. my colleague will discuss the work on management issues. on the contract inside, gao identified 56 active contract over $100,000 that supported cemetery operations and construction and facility maintenance and new efforts to enhance the systems for the automation of the operations. arlington doesn't have its own contracting authority but relies on relationships with kentucky offices 2

that is, first question what is sustainable. that depends on what the savings rate of the economy is. it makes a -- japan and italy are very different than the united states. they can support much higher debt levels because their private sector saves a much higher level of their income. that doesn't mean it's good. it's sustainable. you have lower growth and very bad. you divert resources from the private sector to the inefficient public sector but it's sustainable. what percentage of the debt is held by foreigners? in this country a large percent of the debt is held by foreigners. that means every day an increasing share of every american's life is spent working to pay the chinese. they're effectively working for the chinese. that is what we're doing. as our debt increases, as the interest expense goes up, that money is shifted out of the economy. if that debt was held by other americans you would transfer money from one group of americans it to another group of americans, but it would stay in the u.s. economy. when it's owed b

there's a revolves, almost self-sustaining point. >> i hope the congress will respond overall by giving a boost to these vital clean water and drinking water initiatives that are important partnerships for our local communities and the states and find savings elsewhere in the budget. next i would like to ask you about -- the good news out of the administration on more fuel-efficient cars. think this is great news for american families. and businesses. it appears that you al are building on the success that the congress in first increase in u automobile fuel economy in 32 years. we beasted mileage to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. i have to tell you. i have a member of the family who last year bought one of these fuel efficient cars. he's getting 50 miles per gallon. he really enjoys driving past these gas stations, no matter what the signs have posted. can you summarize for us what the next steps are? what is epa doing to work on even more fuel-efficient vehicles? >> the -- as you noted, and thank you, the final rules for 2012 to 2016 light duty vehicles were finalized in april 201037 we'

i am aware of other efforts to talk about the sustainability of caltrain and funding mechanisms for that, certainly making the downtown extension and electrification actually happened in our lifetimes would be good. i would be remiss if i did not mention norm rolfe and his long advocacy for this project. unfortunately, it did not happen during his lifetime. perhaps we can all see to it that it does happen. it is unfortunate that caltrain does not go downtown. there was long debate about whether that competed with the metro extension. i think the final answer was it did not. they serve different markets. they are both important transportation projects, and i hope we do all things necessary and possible to support caltrain and high-speed rail and make it useful, so i am supportive of this item. thank you. director brinkman: thank you. we need to have a motion for the amendment first? sari, one more public comment. >> good afternoon. i actually hold mr. rolfe's seat on the cac, and i do so with humility. so much of this is predicated on a witch and a prayer, and i think without any funding

this could result in reductions while sustaining combat capability. army unit readiness is measured by the level of manning, training and equipping. as components of readiness, we will continue to support our families and wounded wore wrors -- we are re enforcing the ethics around trust and respect. misconduct is inconsistent with the core values of our profession, the secretary is relooking at the role of women in combat as they make up a good percent of our workforce. they will be able to serve in their designated field regardless of their unit. it's about managing talent and putting our best people in critical and developmental positions. as we continue to take a bottom up approach, we must achieve the priorities of the network which is critical to our ability to manage information, and command our forces at all levels both home and abroad. the ground combat vehicle, it can accommodate a squad and provide unmatched lethality. the survival vehicle, which both myself and general amus agree is necessary given the last ten years of fighting in what fut

. >> transportation sustainability program proposal index steps information item. >> chair avalos, in commissioners, i am pleased to and ferment -- present the information on the sustainability program along with our partners of the planning department and the mayor's office of economic and workforce elements. in particular chief of staff. as you may recall, authority began this work to try to it explore alternatives to the sequeua implementation measure many years ago. -- ceqa implementation measurement years ago to try to better align the city kids petition with the city in merman to review policies. today we're pleased to bring you this update in proposal for a programmatic approach called the transportation sustainability program. it will have reflected a truly collaborative effort on the part of four agencies. we're extremely grateful to the planning department staff for their partnership to sfmta staff, including their leafbiad on this effort, who are here today. i would be remiss if i did not appreciate reach a heigachel hyd others. i will turn this presentation over to alicia,

going forward, sustained attention on the part of arlington and its partners will be important to ensure that contracts of all types and risk levels are managed effectively. third, with respect to dedicated contract staffing arrangements, three contracts specialists positions have been identified for arlington, but have not been filled. arlington is presently receiving support from fort belvoir, contracting office in the form of ten positions. five funded by arlington and five by fort belvoir. there's a need for more contracting specialists and developing plans to fill this new position in fy 13. in closing, the success of the army's efforts to improve contracting and management at the cemetery will depend on management sustained attention and efforts to institutionalize positive steps taken today. accordingly we made a number of recommendations in our december 2011 report to improve contract management and oversight in the three areas where we found shortcomings. for the most part d.o.d. agreed with our findings and that there is a need to take action and provide a time frame for doing

. -- the sustainability fee. we are not suggesting a number that it should be scaled down to, but we think it should be something nonzero, because there are obviously some commendable goals for having more housing that is not accompanied by parking. these do generate transit trips, and this is something that has to be paid for, so if we look at the fiscal sustainability of the agency, we think it is important to look at charging something for this, for these developments. also, i have an item pertaining, a recommendation pertaining to item 11 on the agenda today. we have a discussion about the america's cup, and we recommend that the board take measures to ensure that the sfmta budget is protected from unexpected losses related to the 34th america's cup and that the day-to-day service is not negatively affected after the conclusion of the event in 2013. there have been a number of cases where with large sporting events like this, they have generated some infrastructure and then a lot of debt and a lot of unpaid e

forces and the support of afghanistan's neighbors noticeably and particularly pakistan is essential to sustain the gains achieved. although there's broad international political support for the afghan government, there are doubts in my capitals, particularly in europe, about how to fund afghanistan initiatives after 2014. in iraq violence and sporadic high-profile attacks continue. prime minister maliki's recent aggressive moves against sunni leaders hooipten political tensions. for now we believe the sunnis view the political process as the best venue to pursue change. elsewhere across the middle east and north africa those pushing for change are confronting ruler elites, tribal divisions lashgs of experience with democracies, stalled economic development. military and security force resistance and regional power initiatives. these are fluid political environments that offer opening for extremists to participate more assertive manically in pol life. places like tunisia, egypt or libya have to reconstruct among complex negotiations among competing factions. nowhere is this transition i believe

organizers claim is the greenest most sustainable a limb pick games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this the bhopal gas leak nine hundred eighty four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time the left a toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsible zn our own by dow chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but has just quit in protest it's supposed to be an opportunity to showcase the best and the brightest whether that's the host city or the sports all of it is supposed to be about us and instead all of us are going to have the toxic legacy of dow chemicals that. fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaked from a factory in rural india the subsequent fall out killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area a ten times the norm in the rest of india for always ten of the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and. i can believe that it would open higher and the money's been taken and how dows just they would drive dollars trying

it's the transportation suss sustainability program. this is the effort of four agencies an interagency committee made up of office of economic and workforce development, mta, the transportation authority, and the san francisco planning department. and it's been a pretty extraordinary two-year effort at this point. the goals of this program are to, in general, better align city practices with citywide policy goals and more specifically, we have an opportunity for the first time ever to harmonize ceqa with our city's 40-year-old transit first policy. by transit first, that policy includes not only transit, but pedestrians, and bicycles, all modes, other than the single-occupant vehicles. this also presents an opportunity to integrate impact fees with the ceqa process. believe it or not in san francisco and most places in the state, when developers or a project sponsor pays an impact fee, there are no ceqa benefits associated with that impact fee. it's almost like the two things live in different universes. i'll explain more of that later

the department, the title of the guidance of the department recently released sustaining u.s. global leadership, and principles for the 21st century, and it was chosen very deliberately, and with with the emphasis throughout the review from president obama to secretary panetta on down has been at the size, structure and capabilities of the military must be driven by strategy, and not the other way around. to protect our country and maintain u.s. leaderership, we need to set smart sensible priorities for the future. at the outset of the review, secretary panetta laid out four main principles to guide us which in turn also guided our budget plan which was just rolled out last week. first he said we must maintain the world's finest military and one that supports and sustains the global leadership role of the united states. second, we must avoid hallowing out the force and a smaller and ready and well equipped military is preferable to a larger force without adequate investment or modernization, and third, savings must be achieved in a balanced manner and everything must be on the

is there a way of eating wild seafood sustainably? >> indeed. we believe that this is something we it turn around. and that by rebuilding the capital in the oceans, getting more fish in the oceans, we could be eating sustainably at current levels and even at higher levels than we're seeing right now. so we need -- we can take some steps to do that. we need to have scientific quotas, we need to protect nursery hand at that time and reduce bicatch. >> what about the average consumer like you and me? what can we do as individuals to personally contribute to the sustainability of the wildlife seafood? >> two things. learn about which fish are abundant and which are depleted so when you're ordering your delicious fish dinner with the chardonnay and everything on the side, that you're eating a fish that's in abundance and can you get that information online from a number of sources. and it's good for people to do that. but also you should let your policymakers know, the people who set the quotas, the people who protect the nursery habitat, that they n

when it comes come health care premiums, is it sustainable? is the mandatory spending part of the budget sustainable without reform? >> no. >> so the question for the country is, if i don't get court-martials and get to be a retired colonel and receive my tri-care benefits when i'm 60, it's okay to ask a guy like me to pay more. they haven't been adjusted since then 1990s. is that correct. >> that's correct. >> and general demsey, you're willing to pay more? >> i am, sir. >> i guess the point is that we're so far in debt, no one group is off the table. and it's hard to ask those who have done the most to secure our freedom to give more. but i'm willing to do it. to the retired community. i'm willing to grandfather the current system but also willing to look outside the box because if we don't do something in terms terms of healthcare growth and entitlement retiree benefits you're going to compete the retired force with operational needs and that's not where we want to go. so thank you both. i don't know if 487 is thing renumber but i'll work w

i would just ask you, is this projection sustainable? is this situation sustainable?rk i don't think it is. >> what -- what impact might continuing on this trajectory have in terms of interest rates? say, for a minute, that the bond vigilantes start to turn on us the way they did on europe based upon the projections? i mean what potential impact could that have on costs of borrowing? >> well, if market participant are not persuaded that the united states is on a sustainable fiscal course, eventually something will give, and that could be a financial crisis, something else. >> since this is a projected budget, what do we do? what responsibility do we have in order to elevate this issue and get americans and get the congress to realize the necessity of dealing with reform on this front? >> well, it's one of the most fundamental responsibilities as a congress, administration to manage our finances. but as i indicated earlier question, it's obviously politically very difficult and that's what you have to confront. part of the problem, i think, is that the public may not f

leaving claims of a sustainable legacy severely damaged other than it london. now look at some other stories around the world the south thousands have gathered in pakistan protesting against their government's ties with the u.s. calling for nato supply routes to afghanistan to be cut off around two dozen right wing parties down forces to organize the right which organizes accused india using kashmir as a weapon against pakistan. organizes is also wanted by the indian government in connection with the move by terror attacks in two thousand and eight. and operations to pump five hundred thousand gallons of fuel from the stricken costa concordia cruise line have begun a month off it capsized it's been repeatedly delayed because of bad weather but official saying it will now take a month to remove all the fuel on board seventeen people died in fifteen are still missing off the run aground in the northern coast of italy the captain was said to be among the first to float the ship and is now under house arrest. and this is news now with marina. hello and welcome to b

it is primarily for military operations and sustainment in support of operation "enduring freedom." the major cost driving has it's always been, operations of maintenance, taking up about 58%. we have the military personnel account, about 20%. we have pass through the. they really are the? >> o. accounts. afghan security forces and afghan infrastructure fund at 16% and resource development acquisition, about 6%. next we'll go ahead and the chart compares the fy-12 appropriation with the request. if i can draw your attention to column, the column on the far left. that is the army's fy-12 enacted budget. it's $203 billion for fy-12. that's $135 billion in the base program and another $68 billion in oco. we discussed earlier from the earlier brief, congress re-aligned significant, and i mean significant fy-12 funding from the base oco which really reverts the efforts they're working on a while to migrate enduring oco over to the base program. but it's okay, because it did help the army preserve its buying power for fy 12, even though it did exasperate the fy 12 and growth. we look at t

it's consistent with sustaining growth. but i would suggest that slightly lower yields of late have not been -- actually, they've done very little. monetary innovations or solutions to deal with fiscal mismanagement, it's the ecb providing cheap credit to the banks and the banks then buying the debt with a lot of arm twisting. because the government is running or pushing the banks very hard, the quit pro quo. it's not a solution, it's a -- the cliche is kicking the can down the road. as you know, if you let monetary policy become sub serve yant to fiscal policy and mismanagement, it will end in high inflation and many other problems that were -- that we've experienced in all these countries before. i don't think spain, italy and portugal are on a more stable path. >> the reason yields are down in the peripheral countries is because the ec fw has given unlimited three-year funding at a highly subsidized interest rate. that's why you're seeing the interest rates on the short term come down much more than the long term. they c

to work that over the next several years to sustain a readiness level there. with the paladin program and the testing, this is something we're looking at throughout all of our programs is the cost and amount of testing we were do, is it sometimes redundant? so we'll work to reduce the cost and length of some of our testing that is required. >> i know we're in good hands as you try to make this all fit and work to have the final product be what we need for our army and our nation's defense. we do plan to be back in theater at least once or twice more. i think it will be number nine to afghanistan and 12 to iraq if that works out. >> bring lunch. >> mr. chairman, with that, i yield back. >> thank you. mr. thompson? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, general, thank you for joining us today. the new defense strategy and budget requests reflect the hard work and forward thinking of president obama, our d.o.d. civilian leaders and our senior military commanders. i've been saying all week that ominous and exaggerated fears about the national security conseque

we cannot do that and meet the challenge of being the most sustainable and continue to be the most sustainableountry -- city in the country. we have to innovate ourselves out into these solutions. that is what this relationship is so important. it is a relationship that i know many of you who work in the businesses throughout san francisco are going to see as a very positive way to work with your local government. because in that relationship i expect a drop out, as you're doing today, the best ideas there are. we're going to disrupt, in my opinion, the way i have been doing work in government. as you know, i have been head of human rights commission. i have been -- my best job was the purchaser of the city. at that time, i got to buy $1 billion worth of stuff every year. how great of a job is that? what i did learn during those years was i can buy green products. i can start innovating government with my cohorts in all of the 60 different departments as to what grain products are other and how we can introduce different things like what companies like met it are doing in these new cleaning ap