until thetion is that ecosystem moves towards individualized choice, you are not going to seeing anyproliferation of these kinds of technologies that these people are talking about. a lot of these are empty, hyperbole arguments that people use. distinction.e a to answer your question on people going away from the broadcast situation, i think that that has a rational -- irrational and saber rattling from a set of people who aren't interested in innovation. the reality is that 50 million people are using an antenna in some way shape or form. if they are that bad for you, if the idea of consumers taking a video using an antenna, you should have already left the system. you should have been a cable company a long time ago. how is it that people can do that and there is no harm, and life is going great? i little company like us is going to be the death of you? the reality is that there's been an agenda behind this historically. this is been part of the issue. just be cable,er and have the dual revenue stream. the problem with that is that the intent in congress granting spectrum was the r

i hope he is, but certainly rooftop gardens was one aspect of the will thetion asian we were looking to explore with the city, part of the city administrator's study was to do an audit. and i would certainly be supportive of that possibility. i don't think the city just looked at city-owned buildings, but affordable housing developments the city has significantly invested in, that's a great idea. >> or public housing. >> or public housing. rec and park, if you could pass that along to the city administrator and add that to your mix? i know we have a couple representatives from the puc. i'm not sure who would like to speak to represent the department, but thank you for being here. >> good afternoon and thank you. chair wiener, president chiu, supervisor kim, and a special thanks to president chiu for introducing this inspiring legislation that brings us here today. my name is yolanda manzoni and i'm the [speaker not understood] for the san francisco public utilities commission. i'm here today on behalf of sfpuc to show our support for the recommendations of the city administrator rega

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i'm going to delay my thetioning and turned to senator from north dakota. >> thank you. i have to tell you -- >> can you hold for just a second? >> i need just reaper frederick questions. -- i need to ask three perfunctory questions. there anything in your background that might prevent a background -- a conflict of interest. >? >> no. >> is there anything that would prevent you from discharging the responsibilities for the office for which were nominated? >> no. is or anything that we keep you from appearing in testifying in a court if confirmed? >> no. >> thank you. as a preliminary matter, i want to express to determine how much i agree with his comments this morning. and with his concern about a process that seems to get short- circuited by rumors and innuendo and lack of credible evidence. i want to tell you that how much i enjoyed meeting you in my office as we relayed security concerns, understanding that your commitment to law your commitment and support by people you worked with, which means the world to me that cops like you. you are willing to do the tough work

as opposed to the sausage comment that your colleague may thetion my >> -- like sausage comment that your colleague made? the consumers carry great deal about that. there are lots of opportunities. laying out those options so people can understand. though theressions is a -- so there is a full understanding of what the trade- .ffs are sometimes people are not clear on exactly what the trade-offs are and what the considerations that an agency is giving. you can do that in a pretty transparent way. >> a few more questions. >> bryan alexander. i'm writing a dissertation. [laughter] i have been following these discussions for a long time. i have a question about sequestration. there are a lot of dire forecast and predictions. now that we have seen it in effect and we are going toward some ofround, where did work out the worst and better than what you thought? the state update on of sequestration and how bad it is or how bad it hasn't been. i thinkld say this -- sequestration as a policy really doesn't make a lot of sense. it is $1.2 trillion of cuts out of the domestic accounts that are