i teach a course in southern california in leadership. one of the things we try to get across to our students is we tell them leadership is a team sport. the chief executives of both parties in the white house and statehouses around the country face is when they do try to lead, they are dealing with a political system that is so polarized. is impossible to get anything done. i'm not defending president obama but he faced the challenges of this ongoing knee- jerk hyper-partisanship. we cannot invent leaders. we cannot pass a bill and introduce a bill that will create an effective leader. we can create an environment where men and women who truly want to lead and bring their strong principals to washington and want to work with together with other people, we want to make it easier rather than harder for them to do it and create the kind of leaders that we're talking about in both parties. host: why haven't you mentioned other parties like the green party? >> the writer is exactly right because we tend to talk about the democratic and republican party

the leadership i talked about takes different forms. d the deputy administrator talk about the map 21, reauthorization, so important to the transportation funding in this country. it would not have been possible without of leadership from the executive branch, president obama, and secretary lahood, and also support from the legislative branch. we are so lucky to have here in the bay area strong and committed leadership there, folks that understand the needs of the bay area, the importance of transportation and transit to the bay area. we are pleased to have representatives from two of our congressional leaders that represent the bay area here today. first let me ask patti to come up on behalf of leader pelosi. [applause] >> congresswoman pelosi was honored to receive today's invitation to the announcement and regrets her duties in washington will not allow her to join us today, but she asked that i read this statement on as a transit first city, san francisco knows investing in transit is an investment in jobs, people, and community. g0z

we are very fortunate here in the bay area to have that kind of leadership. sident obama, all the g state, to our local and regional leaders, we have had the leadership we need to make that investment in transit and transportation in the bay area. we are very lucky for that and that is the reason we are here today. without further ado, i want to introduce our local leader here, san francisco mayor ed lee. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. we can do, besides what at redskin and the mta board, and all the staff have been doing, investing in our system and making it better and better, it is to realize that our municipal system is connected to a whole regional system. this morning you see a backdrop here a lot of our partners in the region. from caltrans, sam trans, everyone that works together here locally. that is not only important to us as a city, but clearly, coming from the u.s. conference of

leadership. what encourage and gave me great optimism was the strength of the afghan security force leadership. they have always had very good technical leaders. what is emerging now is the effectiveness of the brigade in core level leadership. and frankly the most complex assistance teams that we have are working with the court and brigade staff so that we can show them how to synchronize and unify operational focus which is not something they have historically approached the fight with. they have a tactical focus and there is an operational mission at the core level in afghanistan. hope that answers your question. >> go ahead. >> general allyn, mcclatchy newspaper. i want to go to your point about the inability of the haqqani network to disrupt kabul. i covered what happened and it was quite obvious that by taking over three buildings and not just in kabul but in three other provincial capitals at the very same time it was obvious their objective was not a military objective but a propaganda/morales objective which they accomplished. they held out in a building in the most secure area of kabul

the leadership was withdrawn in the vatican appointed leadership for that organization. have been in conversation with those leaders who were present at that time and they've given some very helpful direction. most of the similar to what we came out with ourselves stay very calm, stay very centered and keep the dialogue open and that is where the understanding grows. >> back to plan b. if dialect fails, but does that mean for lcwr becoming independent? >> i think it is too premature to answer something like that. first of all, we are hopeful dialogue will continue. and if it doesn't, the members have to come back. one of the things we've been very concerned about giving our love for the church is that we don't do anything that will split the conference and have some good some ways, some another way. i mean come you cannot belong to any conference. there is another conference in the country. the conference of major superiors of women religious. they follow a more traditional life. i would have to look different to join that comes rims. so they would be coming in now, ther

there is security force partners and the afghan leadership. i think what grave me -- what gave me great optimism is the strength of afghan security force leadership. they have always had good tactical leaders. what is emerging now is the effectiveness of the core level leadership and frankly, the most complex assistance teams we have our working with the core and brigade staff so that we can show them how to synchronize and unify operational focus. they have very much a tactical focus and there is absolutely an operational mission there at the core level in afghanistan. i hope that answers your question. >> i want to go to your point about the inability of the hakani network to take the fight -- it was quite obvious that by taking over three buildings and not just in kabul but three other provincial capitals that the same time, it was obvious their objective was i military objective but was actually a propaganda/morale objective which they seem to have accomplished pretty well. for 18 hours, they held out in a building in the most secure area o

i teach politics and communications and 90 k class in leadership. one of the things we try to get across to our -- i teach politics and communications and i teach a class in leadership. chief executives of both parties face the problem of, even when they tried to leave, they are dealing with a system that is so polarized that members of the legislative body make it impossible to get anything done. oh, unlike clinton and bush, faced challenges -- obama, like bush and clinton face challenges. we can create an environment where leaders can flourish, where men and women who actually wants to lead can bring their ideological principles to washington and want to work together with people to get something done. we want to make easier for them to do it. host: and e-mail says, why haven't you mentioned the other parties like the green party? guest: they represent the overwhelming majority -- the democrats and the republicans. no labels does not have a specific plan for the encouragement or disbursement of party participation. for the encouragement or discouragement of

i am very excited about the leadership that presides over san francisco today. r lee, supervisor chiu, mar, chu, and we had the treasurer. this ought to be a moment in which we celebrate the aspirations and the fact that we have risen to the governance of this country. the fact that we have changed the opportunity. last night, i have the opportunity to listen to an 86- year-old honoree at the gathering last night. she's had spoken about how her life was different and the opportunities that were denied because she was jewish. because of the efforts of norm and mike and your leade in, asiy are not denied opportunities because of where they come from. we are aspiring and we are leaving california and america in a new generation. -- leading california and america in a new generation. we have an obligation to lead in the 21st century. we are providing leadership in all areas that govern this country. technology, health, academia, commerce, art, entertainment, and government. today, we must come together, not only in celebration, but an acknowledgment of the work that

whether it is a new international terminal that, under the leadership of john martin, was done, the new terminal two, the new traffic control towers about to be constructed, to a facility that is an extremely important collaboration, not only with the fire department, but also in strong collaboration with our cost card. this is essential -- with our coast guard. this is essential. this is why we have the infrastructure commitment that i have been talking about ever since i started working for the city. i have had the pleasure of working with john. his expertise and his team out here, retired as well as current, have made a strong commitment to make sure we have the modern facilities to take care of us. guess what? on the eve of america's cup, there is renewed use of our waterways for recreation, but also increase ferry services going on because of all the alternative traffic use we have to have. it is part of our airport operation, because our airport is on the water. we are having a record number of airplanes landing. we must modernize our facilities for the future use. that is why i l

ho wanted to be here today to really congratulate all those that have provided the leadership for this. it contributes $1.30 trillion in total economic activity and accounts for 5.3% of the total of the supports over 10 million jobs. that is what these kinds of construction projects really create. the president signed a transportation bill last friday at the white house. the two-year bill, and in large measure, thanks to the leadership of people from your congressional delegation. i want to single out senator boxer. she was the chair of the committee, the environmental committee, the e. p. w. committee that led the way in making sure that our country had a big blue print, a plan for transportation. without senator boxer's leadership, this bill would never have been silent. we are grateful to senator boxer for her leadership and getting us a two-year bill, a blueprint on the big picture ahead that really allows us to put our friends and neighbors to work in construction jobs. but the celebration today about this announcement is important because it really does take us to the next genera

we presented to the leadership team and the data caught committee. i will look forward to coming before you. this is a handout that we gave to the committee and the leadership team. we brought copies for the board members that haven't received it yet. >> we are going to move on to item k. that ended public comments. supporting advisory committees by board members. seeing done, item zero. special order of business. a public hearing and adoption of annual budget and annual service plan for special education. we are getting there. public hearing adoption for the annual budget. a motion and a second. on the annual service plan. a reading of recommendations by superintendent. >> i would like to call dr. elisabeth. she is coming. she is the assistant superintendent for special education services. and lisa miller is the supervisor. >> i do have our budget person, and our coordinator was here to help answer any questions that you may have with regards to the annual service and budget plan. the surface of the annual surfaced budget plan is stated in the hando

the leadership is unethical. so she was taking definitely a page out of newt gingrich's book, i believe, in that respect. and so far this year i don't see that becoming an issue with the democrats. at least i don't think any particular republican's ethics -- i mean, several have resigned in order to, under pressure from the leadership to avoid these becoming campaign issues. but pelosi not only said there's an ethical problem, but we're going to be more open on the amendment process. we're going to be much fairer to the minority. when we're in the majority. and then, of course, they ratcheted up the use of the rules committee even further than the republicans had to shut off the minority in many amendment situations which certainly did not end dear her to -- endear her to the republican leadership. not only she appeared to have made some political headway, but she was not particularly being truthful to her earlier campaign pledge of openness. i mentioned the press coverage of congress and how, i mean, so many comp

many conservative catholics say the leadership conference group should be reined in. the vatican said the conference should focus more on opposing abortion and gay marriage. many members supported president obama + health care bill. the leadership conference said this year they opposed congressman bryant's budget before it -- because it hurts the poor. you may recall a group of sisters allied with the conference began a tour in june. it went around the country protesting the budget. the dispute has been portrayed in many ways. another temporary rift with the church which will eventually subside. with us is sister mary hughes. see received her degree in elementary education. she began her work as a teacher in brooklyn and by the mid- 1990s, she was a chair person of the education department of iona college in new york. in 1995, for congregational elected her and she later returned to iona by was reelected in 2007. she has served as the north american representative of the dominican sisters international and was invited member of the university of saint thomas aquinas in

williams on behalf of the black leadership forum under the able leadership of gary flowers and national coalition of black civic participation led by melanie campbell. i rise to request a motion for reconsideration with regard to two amendments that i put forward that were in fact adopted. i would like to amend them slightly and i would like to recognize my first amendment, number 28, is being offered and reflects the input of mr. matt haney from california. relative to amendment 28, i would like to amend my amendment to read to make college affordable for students of all backgrounds and confront the loan burden our students shoulder. these are friendly amendments designed to emphasize the extremely courageous and remarkable work of president obama and this administration in expanding access to education for all students at a time when the congress and particularly the united states house of representatives decided not to invest in human capital and invest in education. president obama fought and succeeded in getting greater opportunities for all students who are prepared and aspire to

looks to be the case of the current leadership. there's a new leader of north korea who spent part of his life in switzerland, a secondary school, that people are hopeful that he may be deng xiaoping. but then again given the recent crisis and the missile test coming to know that the obama administration try to reach of north korea adult think there's a lot of hope right now that he shows signs of being a future deng xiaoping. maybe there's a military general somewhere in north korea that is unhappy with the current situation, that is unhappy with the young leadership that is making the bad decisions, as a different different view on things. maybe there is a pop junkie in north korea, but we don't know. and so right now, the prospects don't look very good for that reform that leadership. >> host: some people point to kim jong il's uncle as one former. certainly he's had some international experience. it's hard to judge whether he missed the direction of earth warmed. let's say that somebody or somebody else emerge to place in a pox

so it may make the leadership of the new, or may make interactions among the new leadership is your than it actually would have been, because he was a bit of a wild card. >> thank you. >> i'm just wondering what impact of china-united states and taiwan election resolve on the three governments handling the dispute in the south china sea and the island dispute, will they have any new impact on this solution? and also my question for mr. bush, would you please comment on the taiwanese government handling the south china sea issue and the island dispute? thank you. >> the question is how does the south china sea situation affect the election, or the election affect the south china sea situation. >> let me take a stab at it. obviously, leaders in china and in taiwan are under pressure from parts of the public that care very much about south china sea and the claims of their governments over those territories. president obama could come under pressure from governor romney if it appeared that he was being too weak in responding to the difficulties. but that hasn't happened yet but it could. we

and it was to assess the orthodoxy of the leadership conference of women religious. or, filed a report in rome and we didn't hear anything about it. the leadership conference didn't hear anything about it until this april. >> they didn't tell you what was in that report? >> no. no. these are secret documents. >> okay. >> so in april, then they issued the censure, saying that there were some talks given at the leadership conference, the women religious assembly that's held every creek like the one coming up that they quoted one talk from, i think it was 2007 where a paragraph could be seen as suspect. they also said while we did lovely work as catholic sisters that w poor. we didn't work enough on the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage. the part that seems to be missed by the vatican is that the role of the leadership conference of women religious is to nurture the leadership of women religious in the united states within their own congregation. so it's for the leaders of the congregation to improve their skills, help their sisters figure out how to help communit

ok bruce you want to jump in there which is the leadership here number we are still interested share what i'm going to let me let me get in there you know people talk about the republicans and the democrats you know i live far away from that it looks like a lot of nonsense to me because it all looks like it's finger pointing no one's taking responsibility. well i thought they were thinking there was no tomorrow you said that it's going to bruce go ahead yes i mean it was once said that you know the difference between a communist and capitalist is one believes in the exploitation of man by man and the other is the opposite and here we have the republicans and democrats you know they they one believes that the government shouldn't be used to help one side against the other and the other believes the opposite i think with regard to these issues of global is you know projection of military force everywhere in the world there's not an inch of difference between the democrats and republicans when i go back to challenge jeffrey i do not believe at the outset we're involved in foreign entangl

the right things. working with a juvenile justice. thank you for your great leadership working with richard and the former superintendent for keeping me focused on the education of the future of our city. your great work on our youth and the families, again, thank you so much for that. to emily, her work on the status of women, thank you for keeping us focused on the most important issues. our board of permit appeals this year, the small business commission, who m i forgetting? i remember the fire chief. i also want to give a very special shot out to someone on my staff that has spent not only hours, but i think her demeanor and calmness has brought us through another successful collaborative effort. kay howard and the wonderful budget staff. if i can also do something that probably isn't mentioned a lot, i mention the work that we are doing directly with each of the members of the supervisors, but i think they would likely -- like me to mention that their aides are working very hard. how to think they aides of the supervisors. when they come in and they are meeting wit

and now the leadership doesn't want to bring it up. i don't understand it. the farm economy is the one part of the economy that's actually working, doing well, it's been solid for the last few years. this is due in part i believe to the strong farm bill that we passed in 2008. natural disaster without the certainty of a five-year bill could jeopardize one of the bright spots we have in this economy. so with all that said i do recognize the effects the drought is having on our farmers and i will vote in favor of h.r. 6233. however this bill is a sad substitute for what is really needed, a long-term farm policy. so i'll tip to urge my colleagues to bring up the house agriculture five-year farm bill and to assure that all producers will have necessary assistance during these times of disaster. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. lucas: mr. speaker, i would like to yield to the gentlelady from south dakota, mrs. noem, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the g