that those documents indicate that statement that you signed that someone prepared for your signature were false? >> congressman, i am not prepared to say that at this time. everything that we say is true to the best of our knowledge at the time we say it. as more facts come out, obviously our understanding of the situation is enhanced. >> just for the record, we will be posting online the 20 some pages that were made available since out of the 20 some pages, the only thing that's not redacted other than internal use only statements is kevin simpson, acting division operations officer, u.s. department of justice, atf, 201, east washington street, suite 940, phoenix, arizona, and the zip. the phone numbers are redacted. that's 100% of what you call discovery. would the ranking member like a second round? >> i just have one question. >> this is following up on what you just were talking about. let me ask you this, mr. weich. i want to go back to being effective and efficient. again, we -- i am tired of when we are put in a position where we're wasting time. you know, we may be dead next

that is the pledge that i make to you. i will do everything i can to keep america secure so that it can be free. i will do that if i am confirmed as secretary of defense. thank you. >> thank you so much. thank you for a powerful, moving, and straightforward statement. we have standard questions which we ask of nominees. before we take turns asking our own questions, i will put those questions to you now. have you adhere to applicable laws and conflicts of interest? >> yes i have. >> when asked to give your personal use even of those views differ from the administration in power? >> yes i will. >> had assumed any duties are actions which would appear to present the outcome of the confirmation process? >> no, i have not. >> way we ensure that your staff composite deadlines established for requested communications including questions for the records in hearings. >> yes i will. >> will you providing cooperating with witnesses. >> yes i will. >> will these witnesses be protected from their reprisal? >> yes they will. >> when yo

that are that longer needed. we all understand that we need to move forward with a responsible plan to bring down government spending and to bring our budget closer to balance. nord that we can create jobs -- in order that we can create jobs. that's the most important thing for us to do. the ethanol subsidies should be an easy one for us to agree on. we already had the vote in the united states senate, we know the support's there. senator mcconnell appears to be saying that we can't even consider the repeal of ethanol. that will bring in at least $2 billion. this is a subsidy that's not needed, that is hurting our economy, it's hurting our economy directly and we represent maryland and we can tell you the impact it has on the poultry industry. eliminating the subsidy will help us preserve jobs in agriculture in this region. because of the cost of corn associated with corn ethanol. so not only will the repeal of this subsidy help us to bring forward a credible plan to deal with our deficit, and ethanol's just one

the reality is, and the very close study that we did of this item, is that that money that goes into these accounts and we're talking about $62 million, 80% of that money, in fact, is not spent on the employee. it is, in fact, reimbursed back to the employer. so we are here to close that loophole because as supervisor, now assembly member omiany will tell you, the whole intent of healthy san francisco was to provide that healthcare to the employees that were supposed to be covered by healthy san francisco. let me share with you text from the original legislation that talks about the original intent of that ordinance and i quote -- "all san francisco residents should have quality, affordable healthcare. currently approximately 82,000 adult san francisco residents are uninsured even though more than half of those individuals are employed. san francisco taxpayers bear the cost of paying for emergency room visits and other unnecessarily expensive healthcare for the uninsured. by establishing a health access program for uninsured san francisco residents with an emphasis on preventive care

is that correct or not? >> that is correct. if 100 people go into an academy and a lease 75 of them ultimately make it, where is the cost savings of that pit the $5,000? supervisor mirkarimi: that jumped out to me, too, when we receive this information. the second is that i know, by talking to san diego, that they needed to tweak their program because of lessons learned. they also looked at the question of age or length of service or was it the city's matching relationship is, so they have looked at those scenarios. if it appears that none of that has been entertained up here. whether that will work or not work, i have no idea, but the fact is we have not even advanced that discussion yet before we decide to let this program son said at all. >> there was an editorial page about a year ago saying that the san diego drop had been written and -- as the san francisco drop program, and it would not be talking about eliminating it. one of the things that just about broke san diego was promising a 9% interest return on the money for t

that to me that's something that is a win for him as well. he gets what he wants. the gets the phase-out mrs. you get $1 billion in debt reduction, which in this thing g's to the end of the year, we get zero, we get goose egged. this thing expires tend of the year. one thing we know with certainty is that i am putting a proposal on the table today that gets $1 billion in debt reduction, that provides some certainty at least in phasing out the vtec and also makes an insnrevment blender pumps, which is something that is very important to the future of this industry. soy think it is a reasonable way in which to deal with this issue. the senator oklahoma and i obviously have disagreement on this subject and that's not probably going to change. but i'm offering what i think is a reasonable that gets you where you want to end up and i think also is a by that which we can keep this industry from having the rug pulled out from under them after we made a commitment to them in december of last year. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. coburn: mr. pre

>> i prayed about that as well. that's really what that means.ans that i have a sense of assurance about the direction i think that god is speaking into my heart that i should go. >> schieffer: i want to ask you about something else. a lot of your critics say you have been very fast and loose with the truth. you know, the political-fact which is a website that won a pulitzer did an analysis of 23 statements that you made recently. of these 23 only one they said was completely true. seven they call pants on fire kind of falsehoods. four were barely true and two were half truths. how do you answer that criticism is. here's one of them. you said on the record there had been only one off-shore oil drilling permit during the obama administration. in fact at that time they had been 270. how do you explain that? >> well, you know, i think that what is clear more than anything is the fact that president obama has not been issuing the permits, that he should have been issuing on off-shore drilling. >> schieffer: it's more than 300 now. at that time there

that we should consider that and that we should also think a lot about the second recommendation that they made about clearly articulating a mechanism for assessing the progress toward the goals that we have. and do want to say that i have to say that i think that the goal of -- what is articulated isn't really a goal but what it says in the policy we passed last year that we sort of are supportive of the k-8 model and want to have virtual k-8's i actually am very conflicted about that. and as i said last night and as i said before, i think that we don't know very much yet about the -- we also made a lot of other prudgetses. predictability was the most important thing to parentsened that appears not to be true on the interim results we have on the process this year. i am -- totally understand and am supportive of not making any changes yet because we would need to give it a few years to work but preliminary evidence tells us that predictability was not really that important compared to other factors for parents using our choice system. therefore, and it is on that presumption, we pres

i assume that that is part of this $115 million. >> that is correct. i am the mayor's budget director. the reduction in the deficit that the comptroller is discussing, part of that would be from the reduction in the capital budget contemplated in the five-year financial plan. $35 million in the 2011-2012 budget. going for, it will decrease to $25 million in 2015. over five years, it will catch us back up with the original capital plan assumption. >> has there been analysis done about the long-term costs will be of these reductions in the capital budget? are we sort of borrowing money, in a way, because it causes deterioration of assets and it is more expensive to fix it in the future? >> it is a great question. there has been some analysis on an asset-by-asset bases, and i think the general thought is correct, that it would probably be more cost-effective over the long term to be adequately maintaining our facilities. the issue has been and continues to be that, even at the capital plan funded level, we're having to make decisions, because the actual n

that's the challenge. that's the path home. and we all know that. we see that through their eyes and look at it through the taliban's eyes. the taliban had a really bad year last year. they're having a really bad year this year. they're going to have another really bad year next year. it's for them to decide how long they want to just sit on the side and i certainly understand that. that's less, as far as i'm concerned -- that's more than just blink in the eye, even in their eyes and they've been fighting this for many years. they are also tired. and i see that routinely. so i guess -- i come at it from a different position than how you see it. i certainly understand what you're saying but we have just seen great progress and there's an opportunity here to succeed against the objectives we have, which have been limited and get to a point where afghanistan is in charge of their own destiny and we have a long-term relationship with that country that puts them in a position to be a lot more peaceful and stable than they'd been in the last three to four

if that tier existed at the time that our n.c.d.'s were created, we would have asked that those be included. really, to exclude them, and i know to wait to say we're going to do this down the road, is putting areas like westportal at a distinct economic disadvantage, waiting for two years or a year or two for these to come about while everyone else is having the limited performances makes it very, very difficult for our businesses to compete. i mean, you know, you can go to one place and have it and another area that's very, very close by not have it, it puts us at a real distinct disadvantage. we're sort of a sleepy area, you know, westportal basically now shuts down at 9:00 or 10:00 and this would give us an opportunity to get more people in, to get younger people in with disposable income and really help westportal stay on the map, so i'd like for you to consider that. president o'brien: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners, rob black from the golden globe restaurant association here to represent our nearly 1,00

that that car is owed on. and i think what bothers me more than anything else, we used borrowed money -- taxpayer money -- in order to pay off a loan. it wasn't cash that was paid down, and i don't know that i'm getting that across. and my point is, again, this is for the american people to understand. this truly was a very odd and very strange bankruptcy. and one that is so complicated that in 40 days it could rise from the dead and be on it feet again and be no problem. no problem. that, truly, is, that was a remarkable activity. i know myself that, and i declared bankruptcy. i don't think i'd be given that same opportunity. so the american people really do need to know that this was, in fact, and as the president described it an historic structuring of a loan. but the bottom line is, the bottom line is these are all taxpayer dollars, and i think that's the thing that's the most discouraging. and you made reference early that the new gm, i have absolutely no idea that the old gm is still in bankruptcy, the n

are even put together a nice list of everything that costs that that program costs more that and that includes air conditioning after iraq and afghanistan is more than nasa's budget it's more than b.p. has paid so far for damage during the gulf oil spill it's more than what the g. eight has pledged to help foster new democracies and egypt and tunisia those should make you pause for just a moment but if they don't let me give you the examples that we came up with on this show air conditioning in iraq and afghanistan is costing us more than domestic programs that are being cut or targeted by republican lawmakers domestic programs that could really be making a difference it's more than national school lunches it's more than heating assistance it's more than eight hiv and aids funding federally so i guess you could say that that's probably something we argue about too right just like we already knew the michele bachmann was going to run for president but the thing is that most americans don't know it because the mainstream media doesn't report it and that's what they missed. well today th

>> that's good, that's clever. i haven't asked him. >> jay. >> thank you, in your reaction to hearing the president today, and did the president learn anything from you that he hopes to still political reform? >> well, we have said and what i will say again today, what is required in syria is action. not words. not promises that reform will come in some period in the future. or that dialogue will happen after some review. there needs to be concrete action, there needs to be sensation of violence against syrians. there needs to be actual action towards political dialogue. so that this transition to a more democratic syria can take place. as we have said in the past, president assad needs to either lead that transition or get out of the way. which is not -- i am not saying the words are meaningless. but he needs to act on it. and to fulfill the sentiment expressed and the dialogue, that needs to happen but first stop the violence. >> thank you very much. . .

and chrysler that are up and running today that are profitable that are adding shifts that are adding workers and tom i'm telling you beyond a shadow of a doubt in my mind you would have been melting down that equipment they would have liquidated had there not been it was mitt romney. he said it was also president obama's decision and the reason i that comes to mind is as an accomplishment i was a member of the auto task force team by the way there's no there's no individual accomplishments very much teamwork in this kind of environment. that was not a slam dunk i mean the political winds were blowing one way and some advisors wanted to go one way some of the other and i thought the president made a great decision there and i think it's really it's really paying off not just for the companies in the workers but but for the communities and history has demonstrated that it worked i mean we still have those jobs we still have those businesses and why was that. very practical approach here we have not just a bank but a business that employs makes things that actually generates wealth in t

that is not that far away. president himself back in 2009, june, i think, he said that the two biggest driver of our debt and deficit are the medicare and medicaid programs. and they are not sustainable. and yet the president and the democratic majority, all they seem to want to do is criticize any ideas that the republican majority has come forward with a budget, with a reasonable, sensible budget. they do not even want to talk about it. they would rather use it as a political tool for 2012. that is totally irresponsible. host: some of your colleagues may have been burned by the political fallout. guest: obviously, the political fallout worries me. i feel that my republican party has the best ideas in regard to run in this country. i want us to keep the majority. i want us to get the white house in 2012, 2013. but i feel it is more important to worry about the next generation in the next election. each member of congress needs to have that mind set firmly in place. and i really believe, especially with this ne

and that if you do that, it's not just a crime against that person. it's a crime against a whole community. because gay people, or african americans, or latinos, or jewish people, you live in greater fear knowing that that person doing it for that reason might come after somebody else. so that the enhanced penalty, the additional crime, time tacked onto the sentence, is a result of it being not just against the person, but against a community. that's the idea of a hate crime. so what the law did, they federalized it and said, "well, if mississippi, say, doesn't want to prosecute it because they don't see prosecuting a murder of a gay person where there's ample evidence that it was because of their sexual orientation, then the federal government can step in." so the us attorney from mississippi, who reports to the us attorney general, can take that case on and prosecute it. and that was the real impact, saying that the united states isn't going to mess around with politics at the local level, which sometimes is what happens in these prosecutions. peopl

is that true? >> that is true. the fact is that we are making major adjustments in putting the entire ability for people to get health care. it is in the hands of people that do not want you as a client. i got a voucher. i got support. you cannot guarantee that i have enough to get it for my children. right? >> the time has expired. at witness can respond in a letter -- our witness can respond in a letter. the gentleman from florida is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for holding such an important hearing. really afford to working with you and the rest of the members of the said committee. i also like to thank our witnesses for being here today. wanted go over one point. the medics wear -- the medicare trustee would be insolvent. my district was in florida. it is a big issue all over the country. it is much bigger. one thing i do not believe is taking into account the reduction. when we project this out and look down the road, a lot of them will have to go out of business. we have another 30% cut that we a

to open up, is that correct but that is correct. commissioner yee -- is that correct? >> that is correct. commissioner yee: thank you. commissioner: commissioner norton? commissioner norton: to changing this a significant amount of time, and i ask that about having particular things in place, some of the special education planning, and then the other question i want to ask you, and then i understand you'll probably have to answer for yourselves, but do you feel let the district presentation this evening and answered some of the questions that you have had at the beginning of this process, since you completed the community engagement? >> so i think to answer your first question, we read the proposals that were read at the may 24 meeting, which is the same proposal here. the date change was on that one, right? the first reading is the one i am talking about, thank you. said that date, before we wrote these questions, to be submitted tonight, we did know about the date change affecting in coming kindergartners and the families, but i t

and they created a platform that would carry that out. and that included reduced down payments, changes in building quality, innovation of new mortgage products and all of these were stated goals, and they were implemented as part of policy, part of plan and part of the notion of wrapping ourselves in a culture of ownership. ownership society without ever having a discussion about what it was. and we forget that all of the benefits that historically have been conveyed by home ownership are real. there are greater ties to one's community. they are a better place to raise a family, more stable neighborhoods, typeically neighborhoods with more focus on educational attainment of the children in those neighborhoods. but we never stopped to ask what it was that really drove those as part of the social policy discussion. and history has shown that it's actually the down payment and the monthly payment of principal and interest in what has been a forced savings plan, a relatively illiquid investment where money is paid in and trapped and very dif

they're taught how to do that so that they have data. learn how... what to do with that data and prioritize your problem, go after an evidence-based practice that will mitigate the problem and at least address it. and then, the all-important thing that we didn't used to do on a regular universal level, which is to evaluate what you just did and then you start over again. and this is a process that has been going in our communities on several different types of coalitions, both in family communities, college campus communities, rural, urban, any possible community structure you can think of across the country for the last decade, and it is really showing good results that community change is happening around the topics that we've been talking about here tonight. what are some of those good results? reduction in underage drinking. between the ages of 8 and 16 we are reducing the use of alcohol among our young people. however, we are seeing an increase between the ages of 17 and 20, 21. so that's a problem area for us, and we are working wi

that means that we will have an expanding labor force. one of the things i am working on is tracing labor force growth with economic growth. in europe, you see some of the first signs of weakness with the southern european countries. apparently the pope does not have the emphasis he used have in italy and spain about having children. a 25% reduction in their work force after 2000. japan, 44%. this is unprecedented. you have to go back to the states of the black plague to see anything remotely like this. china has this problem of 30 million more boys than girls at mary jane -- at marriageable age. it is probably not a happy picture. do we have great opportunities in the world? i think that we do, in part, because as the world gets wealthier, we begin to become a great provider of all sorts of services. i think we tend to look down on agriculture and think it is something in the past. it may be our single greatest advantage over time. as people become wealthier, they start to want better quality products. weather is north american bison or

but that's why we're in the mess that we're in. i've always operated under a very simple standard, one that i got from my mom an dad and i taught to my kids -- if you do the right things for the right reasons, good things will usually happen. you know, things will usually take care of themselves. edmond burke credited this saying -- the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. our nation's elected leaders have been pretty good over the past few decades at doing nothing. john ashbrook was not the type to sit idly by and do nothing. i believe we're entering an era where the american people will no longer tolerate those who believe that doing nothing is the right thing. the people i talk to know that our nation is dealing with a crisis. they know that the future of our country is on the line and they want leaders who are serious about taking on those challenges. they want leaders who aren't afraid to speak the truth. we honor the legacy of john ashbrook by serving our country and taking a stand. this

don't do any of that because they knew that that might provoke the arrest and also the regime. and now that they are looking to or three months into the post revolutionary era the muslim brotherhood is the single most powerful tool in egypt and i was just there two weeks ago and met with the top three leaders of the brotherhood a political party. they are pretty confident about the strength. that said, they are not trying to win a majority because they are worried that might worry people too much but they could win a plurality of the vote. i think we ought not to be as worried about the brotherhood organization that has been long been part of the political process but overseeing that it's the islamist parties emerging really almost out of nowhere and you have a group that's trying to form political parties so they are going to enter the electoral ring so you add the muslim brotherhood through the parties and there's also one or two progress of islamist parties. altogether they could work 50% of the seats in parliament. again, i think a lot of the alarm that we have in washingto

citizens so in that context that may be an o. k. kind of a thing but but to keep guantanamo open with the notion that we're torturing people or endlessly detaining those people that's what needs to stop. we're running low on time now we're almost done i just want to ask you although i have a million more questions of my own i want to know if there's anything that you have never been asked that you because been dying to tell people that you've been dying barrel there is there are a lot for a lot of question that you wasted some point somebody would have asked you. if you just go to c.n.n. had you guided to allow you into the debate with all the other g.o.p. candidates all the other seven of them by the way why did they let you when there is no there is no explanation there's no explanation that. i would argue that i met their criteria i wasn't led in there was there was a couple of interesting polls that have come out just recently one is that of all the presidential candidates i'm the only presidential candidate that has a favorable

>> and that's one way to do that. she said that her work records said she was there.she didn't write them down. i think they definitely could go and try to find things that she e-mailed out, maybe things that are in files that are still there, times associated with the e-mails. because they can be on e-mails to show that she was at the office and not on the computer. >> sonny, another interesting moment today came when casey seemed to mouth the word "wow "while listening to her mom talk about her memory and using different medications. >> it was really interesting. i kept on thinking was the wow because she couldn't believe that her mother was lying for her? was the wow because she couldn't believe that her mother was telling the truth? what did she mean by "wow"? i will tell you statistically jurors watch everything that's happening in a courtroom. if one of those jurors saw that, what is the take away for the jury? i'm not so sure. >> so jean, does the prosecution now -- i mean, they'll obviously have a rebuttal chance again with cindy anthony. but i mean do they st

that grew. before now, the project has been funded by private developer contributions two developers in particular, in the amount of $610,000. so for this $110,000 gap, $55,000 has been provided by our counterparts in san mateo county, the san mateo county transportation authority that leaves $55,000, which is the subject of this request. the project itself for full construction has not been fully funded yet. in fact, that's a question that the authority is currently engaged in the stud dwroi try to answer -- study to try to answer. it's called the bycounty transportation study. ear wailing to build some interagency, cooperation and agreement, on a full list of by bicounty investments and provide a funding strategy for these investments. the candlestick interchange project is one of the projects on this list so there's interest in both sides of the county line in seeing this project move forward. in its april meeting, the c.a.c. made a recommendation on this appropriation, also asked staff to ex

at that time said to us, the head of moody's said to us at that time that the -- that they would probably not downgrade, so this ising interesting news today, but the fact is we cannot default. we all agree to that, and if the message that we have to send -- i think what was interesting in the meeting something how our members came together around the idea that not defaulting on the debt was a pivotal moment to enable us to do deficit reduction in a real way, in a balanced way, and in a way that will give confidence to the markets as we do not default on our loans. >> are they linked? >> they are not necessarily linked but i agree that is a pivotal moment. that is a pivotal moment. >> i think all of us agree, every republican leader and every democratic leader agrees that defaulting on our debt is not an american value. americans believe in paying their bills. americans believe that we make a promise, and we borrow money and we make a promise, we're going to pay it back. we're going to pay it back. holding hostage the credit worthiness of the united states of america is not a worthy barga

it seems that's an era that is now gone. it seems one can find more predictability in behavior of justices in terms of what you might have expected when they came to the bench. in part i think that's the fruits of the debate that went on going back to the reagan administration when the reagan justice department clearly had more of an agenda of the kind of people they would like to see on the supreme court. thirdly, i would assert that judicial activism is not dead. now, we could spend all morning defining judicial activism, whatever it means, we have a general sense afit, the warren court was activist in a liberal sense. it seems to be on the court's other wing. so judicial activism i would say is still with us. if the term that ended in 2009 was a term of incrementalism or minimalism, it seems to me that might have passed. the fourth comment is the role of the chief justice from whom we just heard this morning that it seems to me that hist will probably record that it is properly called the roberts court when they fairly de

that money remains available in that account. that was designed to achieve parity with that and to reach the same practice, in effect. the money was put into health reimbursement accounts as permitted by the irs and the tax code. it would remain available to workers. president o'brien: this brings a whole new dimension to the proposal, the logistic associated with it, the accounting of that going to a lifetime of someone's career. that scares me a little bit. i would also say that to me, i do not know what the supervisor's intentions were, but i think that he came to the realization one day that is -- that it is a tragedy that somebody can be medically infected with something, really need help, and cannot get it because they do not have insurance. i see that as a noble problem, a noble cause to tackle the problem like that. i think it is an ongoing risk control mechanism that we are talking about. i think it is a good idea for the purposes of managing risk that there is some sort of periodic reassessment when you get through the

and that's you know that's that's part of the reason why i think it's really a way to live an excuse is you know every politician it doesn't. and i'm. going to start putting it what it what i was going to say though is that there are more sources of more discussion of substantive issues going on and what's but that's really what has changed in the media said it was a house i want to hear you saying the fact that the issue here early on. and there's been a lot of discussion there's been a lot of discussion i may try to act on my show it's good you know you know about the patriot act until romney or rather he made a mistake and they forgot about it as well but they also voted fox business actually is covered a lot. to do and it's not always the primetime shows and things like that also online in various newspapers and magazines so this is you know what i'm saying again it's not to say ok you know we should have wiener gate all the time you know . twenty four seven but the fact is that these kinds of silly stories have always been with us you know. i guess it was. farcical running out o

that's true. i think the facts in a case are still quite murky there's been conflicting reports since the very beginning of your original report that stated that the soldiers had a tax bill injures in revenge actually came from a report it was a person produced three days after the incident and it was done by the polish counterintelligence service their assessment suggested that this was done in revenge and when i read as we should mention for the first i think polish soldier that was killed was killed either earlier that day or a couple days before here that same village is now you're talking about that's right there's also an american soldier that was killed at least particular soldiers knew quite well. and it suggested that in fact it was revenge for the dead american soldier either way. i believe it's still quite murky the case is still open to appeal as i understand poland. and it was dismissed or they were acquitted on grounds that the court said that they didn't have enough information for

so that thats giving you a low base. there is no momentum i the system that suggests to me that we're about to go into a double dip. >> is one of the things that we have failedand mean by that, economic leadership of the country in terms of creating policies that would have done somethin a to deal witthe housing stock that was outhere, and b, doing something about the idea of getting construction, creating a way that the housing market would not be where it is? >> were there policies that could have leato a better result? >> well, first let's understand what the problem was. througho the period in 2001 through 2004, 2005, therwas a more than a million new single family ownerccupied dwelling units. that when you adjust for demolitions and mergers and the like, comes out effectively to about a million and a half construction units. and that continued because of the fact that the rate of home ownership was rising very rapidly. and that was something which i approved of because i thought that a goodly part of that were minor

for eight years, that is all that we got. and after 9/11 -- i mean, after the election of president obama, people who had a patriotic bumper stickers, who basically turned treason and sedition into something hit and rolling stone-y, this group of people said let's return to our founding principles, the constitution and fiscal responsibility, values that everyone in this room, i hope, hold dear. and the bold, bold, bald people decided to go out there. and the first thing that the evil democrat media complex did was accused them of being racist, sexist, homophobic, and janet napolitano of -- no crotch shot, madam secretary -- she said that this was a potentially violent group. i said it now. i stood by them and the mainstream media has waged a jihad against the tea party. there would not have been a 2010 election without the -- without we the people standing up and saying enough is enough. [applause] that outside of the beltway spirit is what has helped save the republican party, it has saved the conservative movement, and i am

>> that is correct. supervisor mirkarimi: to the question of transit, i had made an amendment that had been honored by the project sponsors. is it possible for you or perhaps this other man to remind us what this looks like so we can be clear about what that amendment is >> sure. the office of economic development. so the amendment that was made in committee basically imposes the impact fee on future office development, which i believe was up to 100,000 square feet, so that would apply to future development. currently, it only applies to the downtown district. supervisor mirkarimi: and the trigger for that is what? >> the trigger is development. supervisor mirkarimi: ok, and in regard to -- back to planning, the certification in the eir, it is that potentially we would, if it is structured not the same but similar, we would find different results. if you could just -- i want to hear in your interpretation what that means in the minds of the planning department. >> right. i believe the assertion is that s

that the answer is structural reform that doesn't soe that problem. and in fact it can even make things worse, you know f we raise productivity without increasing demand we might even-- i don't want to push that too hard but this is not-- the immediate problem is we've got, you know, there are 6, 7 million people whohould beworking who aren't and structural reform is to the going to solve that. >> rose: they have no demand on corporations for hiring. >> i agree. and i think that the idea of kind of talking about structural reform and tax reform is just not nearly granular enough to meet the needs of the moment. what i've been trying to encourage, folks like us and anyone else who is interested to do is actually think about things that we might be able to do right now especially given the political mix. now there are things that we should do and paul writes about them twice a week. and we should continue to try to push those things. we also should think about the world of the could right now. and ken mentioned infrastrucre. we have a lot of infrastruct

that's not purity. as i said, that's principle. and that's prudence. one thing that republicans need to understand about catholics, you don't go to catholics the way you go to evangelicals. you don't use the same tone. you don't use the same approach. catholic goes to any parish on sundays, and you'll find catholics don't like to be preached to like this. you don't see that. coming from the priest in the pulpit. i used to be a baptist. i'm a convert. so i know both sides. catholics like to be spoken to in a different way. they don't like to be preached at. they don't like that high, moral tone. it puts them off. they have the same moral compass, just a different style. and so g.o.p. candidates who are so used to talking to religious conservatives in a certain way have got to calm down when they come to catholics. and they've got to understand what appeals to the catholic voter. finally, and this is the bottom line, that all republican candidates, if they want to attract catholic voters, they must include a catholic outreach as parted of their grassroot

that was our share. >> and what did we get for that? >> do you recall what that money specifically went to? >> if i could make pun point in response to the question. it's an important question and one of the things they wanted to get to and i hope you are watching my share of the clock. we are not a direct participant in the study. it's a regional study. we were participating through san francisco and paying san francisco representatives on this. we've been comfortable with that. we have sought at various times direct participation. the group was concerned about a number of things. we can'ted -- continued our participation through the p.u.c. i think the questions that you're asking, that the public is asking are just appropriate questions. i think doing any project in the delta is fraught with concerns about the impacts it will have on the environment, particularly this project, the greenhouse gases. all of those are relevant questions. the point i want to get to is if we're going to rely upon the p.u.c. to do work for us we would like

that movement that moment in history is not the kind of thing that these governments will ultimately be able to thwart and i just want to emphasize one thing when we say that this will ultimately be successful this does not mean that every last autocrat is going to be unseated i mean you're talking i think it was that the including that put it yesterday in a televised debate this way he said there is going to be as many of change but in some places like in egypt you saw the decapitation of the regime and you're seeing a more significant transformation from there and other places just going to be very substantive substantial reform that alters the way the country is run so i think the way to judge it generally speaking is that what you're seeing is a transition from people of the region being subject to becoming citizens of their states and i think that that transformation is going to that's again that sort of sounds like a fairy tale to me peter i'm going to it's going to be a very happy ending or a sort of happy ending and in fact in some places you're seeing very unhappy middles an

but that is the mechanism. you know getting the regional agencies to recognize the local jurisdictions are making on a policy level and investment level to have affordable housing and rewarding that with transportation infrastructure. >> thank you. >> colleagues, any more questions or comments? seeing none, public comment, please. public comment is closed. we will take this without objection. >> item 10 appropriate $55,000 in pop k funds with conditions for the us 101 candlestick interchange project study report subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule. >> i just wanted to bring to staff's attention that i took through a couple of minutes to go through the minutes and there was interest that was expressed for having a mechanism with a greater public involvement in the transportation projects and i would like to ask staff at this time to begin to explore, and i will help you with my office, cutting together a c.a.c. that would i would like to commit to bringing a different voice from t

know there were there was a huge poll that was recently done that showed that marriage is beginning to become obsolete a lot of people don't see marriage as something that you need to achieve in your lifetime to be successful and society is changing so i definitely think that it's not necessary to be perceived as successful anymore i think we're moving away from that and i think that's a good thing. i'm with you there i think i guess if there is one point from this book basically the conclusion that they came up with that actually does ring true is that probably it is harder for women out there that want to wait until they get married to have sex to actually sell that to guys because these days they have they have more options especially since so many people are waiting for marriage because they probably don't even plan on getting married but i want to switch over a little bit and look at another media outlet when it comes to the way that they view women in marriage these days and that is the mainstream media that's t.v. and that's n.b.c. specifically let's look at it cliff i just t

is there any accuracy to that? >> i know that the fbi is investigating that report. at this time, i do not have any other information about whether that is true or not. >> the only on-line entertainment and network entertainment, are they using the same security protections? >> we comply with the same types of industry practices and are subject to the same policies as far as being part of sony corp. the specific architecture of age are this is probably different because the types of services we provide are different. across the industry, must internet servers providers or building their services out of wars with the same basic components. >> i yield back the balance of my time. back at this point we are going to read -- recessed the committee and are indigenous to return as soon be as we can. it should be about 45 minutes is my guess, but things could change. the subcommittee stand recessed until after the last vote on the court. -- on the floor. the subcommittee will reconvene and come to order. i want to thank you very much for indulging us and i apologize that the

that's what i read. i want to know if that is true. is that to? >> we in the last two years provided about $127 billion in earnings to the treasury. yes, that's correct. >> but can you bring this down to main street? can you give the committee members and the general public some examples of how that lending help, not only stabilize the economy and keep our financial institutions in place, but literally helped main street and working men and women? >> so, i would like to return to the talf program which was one specifically designed to make sure that loans were made in the united states to help students obtain education loans for college, to help small businesses have sba loans, credit card loans to provide auto lending, to provide equipment leasing, and a variety of other kinds of loans that were not been made during the financial crisis because of liquidity shortages. that program was extraordinarily successful. it -- >> is it still operating? >> it has closed, but there are still about $14 billion in loans outstanding. there were $70 billion of

issue today and for that i applaud that but again the notion that i actually have to applaud them for paying attention to america's longest war well that's pretty pathetic but if all you care about that is hearing a number and moving on with your life then go watch that if you want to think about what that number actually means but thirty three thousand fewer troops means you can come here because i can begin to tell you right now that out of one hundred thousand doesn't sound all that much i mean there are people in this country who want to have a permanent presence in afghanistan and they don't care how much it costs in blood or money we've already seen reports that secret negotiations for basing are going on and if you thought the death of osama bin laden was a turning point in the war on terror then you were right this was a turning point for the worst and. it seems that both the obama administration and congress have all doubled down on expanding it be a drone strikes in yemen a drone base being built somewhere in the gulf or the reauthorization for four more years of the patriot

that is one thing that is great about it. when you are talking about a piece that runs on line -- online that people can immediately start commenting about, people can start talking immediately about whatever biases they have identified, and the writer can jump in and start defending the position. that is not possible in print. i think there's a sort of built in keeping-people-honest-ness about the medium. we want to report fairly at patch, but as we are asking people to share things about themselves, we want to share something about ourselves, so we ask our editors to actually talk about their beliefs. we encourage them to talk about their political and religious beliefs, as a nod to the fact that we think if you tell somebody your believes, you are forming them -- you them-- you are arming them to spot bias in your piece. if you pretend that your identity as possible, you can get in trouble potentially. >> the columbia journalism review wrote a piece in october called "not watching sacramento" and there was a quotation abou

makes no difference here ability to write so i think that that's that's the case that i make in primetime propaganda essentially but do you think there are any conservative examples out there if you look at movies if you look at t.v. shows if you look at the torture you know i know there are you get into any color and you look at the fact that i have the u.s. army partnering with movies like x.-men they're actually you know sponsoring them that basically is selling war to kids and telling them it's just like being a mutant you know i believe there are plenty examples on the island many x. men is hardly a person i really like the movie but it also happens to be not particularly right wing take on politics and you know the whole thing is a phobia. certainly many people in life through the messages of x. men but if you wouldn't talk about specific examples so it's easy to pick one counterexample the question is how many are there on the other side and you know you can pick maybe twenty four from modern day and maybe the cosby show from the eighty's but it's a once in a while there's a concer

that so that that sanctions that that's something that the u.s. has always opposed now it seems like there are some whispers like they might be into the idea there's also now with really you know the state making the distinction and the difference between the al qaeda and the taliban known do you think about the good idea do you think that we should take them off these lists and how do they get to be lumped into one by an organization like the u.n. to begin with but without question you should start making distinctions i mean i think if we go back to two thousand and one and i hate i hate to necessarily just playing on the bush administration but there are so many deep failures here when it comes to this. this is not left or right republican democrat conservative progressive what i'm talking about is looking at is that as a you're either with us or you guinness you're either good guys or you're bad guys it's black and white this is not a right world and there was a huge distinction between what the taliban is and what it is to see them as one of t

do you see that you can do that?can you divorce being a catholic with all that that means and all you stand for as a catholic? i'm a catholic. from running for high office. >> well, i think that you have to understand that we are not a religious democracy. that you know, we -- religion to me is a personal thing. and so you know, i have to make certain decisions. my decisions are going to be based -- made based on what i think is best for all the people of new jersey. now, my catholicism informs part of who i am. but it does not rule who i am. and so i -- >> i'll ask you what i asked him. and he refused to answer. >> okay. >> is homosexuality a sin? >> well, my religion says it's a sin. i mean, i think -- but for me i don't -- i've always believed that people are born with the predisposition to be homosexual. and so i think if someone is born that way it's very difficult to say then that that's a sin. but i understand that my church says that. but for me personally i don't look upon someone who's homosexual as a sinne

there is science out there that is not known to us that will prove that we have been wrong about many things. the death penalty is still final. this man is trying to struggle with the fact that he probably executed an innocent person. we should not ask this of anyone in our society. [applause] >> i want to say one other thing. how have your former colleagues handled your conversion on this issue? has this been greeted with support? >> i have received much support, and nothing that has been negative. having spent 30 years in criminal justice, it is interesting to me that within the members of the criminal- justice field, people who are involved in this, is there a difference with the views in many different issues. many people are against putting 17 year old kids inside of the state prisons, giving life without the possibility of parole. there is this public face that law enforcement puts on these issues and it appears that we all have to speak with the same voice. i hope that myself and the warden in the movie and other people across the country to talk about these issues are going to