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at theame time, it's extremely burdensome for small businesses who are trying to open. it can add a length of time that's distressing. i think that there are ways that this process could be improtched. and i would like to ask the department to maybe think about setting up a working group with some folks from the neighborhood associations, some folks from the small business world, the small business commission. and planning staff to look through the issues and the legal implications of various strategies to simplify that c.u. process. thank you. >> thank you. >> sue hester, i want to follow up on two of the prior comments. on the transportation studies, it's shocking how bad our data is, one. ways that the planning department should consider getting better data is when new housing is built, the owner should have an obligation at least on the first sale to collect information and feed it back to the planning department. this was done for years on officeages. it was a requirement. board of supervisors when the downtown plan was processed. we have really bad data on where pe

at theame time, i cannot imagine that we will not have a pretty good idea wiin the next few weeks. michelle obama, her first real campaign appearance at the hyatt hotel with democratic party activists. fund raiser for 2012. here is what the first lady had to say about the upcoming race. >> the simple truth is that today, four years later, we are here because of all of you. i am not just talking about winning an election. i am talking about what we have been doing every day in the white house since that time to keep on fighting for the folks that we've met and the values that we share. talking about what barack has been doing to help us all for the future. the future. host: the headlinerom "the washington post," "frustrated with democrats." guest: this has been the complaint of organized labor, saying that senate leaders and congressional democrats have not backed orgized labor in those tched battles when it comes to collective bargaining in states in the midwest. one thing that is always on in the presidential year, the face of the dilemma of organized labor. do you want a democrat

at theame time, we cannot keep business as usual. host: if the debt ceiling number is $2 trillion, if that's what congress comes up with, a then you have $2 trillion to go along with that, how you do that in two years? >> guest: first and foremost, go back to the 2008 level. that's when all the massive spending started with stimulus and bailouts tear get you have to take those numbers back to pre-2008 and that's wher we set the base. host: "politico" says without changes to medicare it may be hard to reach boehner's goal of trillions in spending cuts. should medicare be on the table as part of the debt ceiling vote? guest: the budget we came out with several weeks ago, first and foremost we said we have to save medicare. the projections are that by the end of the decade, medicare will be broke and we cannot have that happen. we said that first and foremost, we want to make sure that anybody 55 and older would -- we would protect everything they have right now under medicare and we have to make sure that the net generation can have so