it increases transparency. and all in all, it closes up the holes that have allowed for some of the skirting of the law to take place. >> where would the political resistance to a raft of legislation? who would resist this? who is resisting this and how do we in the media better expose them so we better understand maybe the rational components of that resist tense if it's there? >> i don't really know that there's some kind of rational resistan resistance. several of the pieces have been passed through a committee in the past or even past other forms in the house, but never quite made it all the way to the finish line. i think inertia is stand iing i our way. if you can help to raise the issue, if we can get speaker boehner to put it on the house floor, i can't imagine people voting against biamerican laws. i can't imagine people voting against holding them to the same standards that our workers undergo. we just need to raise consciousness. this doesn't add some significant cost. it's common sense and can make

it's not just that there's a lack of transparency.ut it also means if i'm a candidate, i can be nicy nice and have somebody else really go after the other candidate. i personally believe, given what we saw with president obama and the president likening him to monkeys, we're going to see a level of racist, ugly stuff this cycle coming from super pacs, which give a level of plausible deny blt. that's our concern. where's that accountability? and even with social media -- >> but i think the key thing about it is it only works and stick if the attacks are actually true and genuine. people are not naive. people understand that the lines are quite blurred as to the extent to which these things have nothing to do with the candidates. we have seen in the campaign already. romney had a week when gingrich's wife was coming out and talking about the allegations. in fact, because he hid and ran away from the question about his tax and dodged it, it ended up being a week where he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. we saw from the other sid

and this requires a state government that's innovative, efficient and transparent. governments that are open and transparent are more likely to manage taxpayer resources responsibly, and that's why we launched the i found a cheaper website to make it easy for state employees to report when our contracts don't offer the best value to taxpayers. that's why we are making it easier for all delawareans to access information about their government. when citizens want information, they should get answers, not bureaucratic barriers. and thanks to the legislation passed by this general assembly, and an executive order that i signed a few months ago, quote, you have come to the wrong place will no longer be an acceptable answer to request for public records from the executive branch of government. i urge our counties and our towns and school districts to join us in this commitment to transparency. now, thanks to the leadership of all four caucuses, the general assembly has made significant progress over the last three years in making the legislative branch more transparent. l

this transparency includes the plan and that is open, making the information understandable. we continue to be the only utility i am aware of that shows customers -- the next 10-year's worth of projected rate changes. i would like to congratulate you as a commission for doing this. the oversight includes the mayor's office and the board, the vice chair -- with the revenue bond oversight, and the citizens' advisory committees are just a few of the important oversight bodies. >> when we talk about the rate increases, -- we can use this as an example of what the rate policy really means, is this affordable and transparent, and we look at how the various offers stack up. are there any thoughts or comments, about any of this? >> what happens with the rate policy? it just seems that there is a laundry list here, do we need to find some way to prioritize, or will we be adopting the old policy -- i don't even remember the old policy, with the directives in there. what kind of policy adoption process? >> the current policy that you governed under -- that we are responsible to present

there was never a notion of us not being transparent, mr. chairman, we were doing our jobs. >> i hear you, i don't believe you. the fact is, today, coming to this hearing, why weren't these pictures released? i'm sorry, that's an embarrassment. but what part of transparency gives you an obligation to be forward-looking? it's great that everyone still promoting the volt. i go to every c.e.s. show and every show and i see all kinds of special cup holder battery chargers in the volt. i see all kinds of nice things. the fact is that the american public wasn't interested in buying the car in large quantity even with incentives. now we have a safety question, and it's not a safety question about the volt. it's about trust of your agency. can we trust you in this and every other area, to not be selective and, basically, overly cautious? this was a new automobile, something catastrophic happened. and you're telling me it took months to get to where you had a confidence level that, quote, you had a problem? it sounds to me like you had to make sure t

three antennas would be placed within a new radio frequency transparent brick material to resemble achimney with bent pipe hat, and in the surrounding neighborhood. the subject building is considered a historic resourced and is the contributory building to the uptown tenderloin historic district, however, the project has no potential effect on the building or any potential historic district as the proposed antennas are set back and screen. the department received a letter from a neighbor objecting to the project because the owner of the building has not provided tenants with individual mailboxes. staff has contacted the rent board regarding this, and they have no active enforcement case relating to this property. the department recommends approval of the project with conditions, as the project is consistent with the 1976 wts facilities siting guidelines. the antennas will be minimally visible and will not affect the architectural integrity of the building. it is consistent with objectives and policies of the general plan. the recommended conditions do not at this time include the new

i think, for our city, innovating ourselves into more transparency to be more customer friendly and transparent, to be more efficient as a government, bringing more services, and meeting the economic challenges that i think are continuing to plague us, is going to be the way we succeed. today, i have two basic announcements. the first is we are forming a strategic partnership. code for america is a nonprofit that has been presenting innovative ideas to city governments, and particularly, for san francisco. i want to expose them to everything we have in terms of direct customer services, challenges we have had for many years, and to ask them to work with the strategically to create, in a competitive nature and a strategic partnership, a relationship where we can have companies and individuals and the entrepreneurs come through code of america and get the kind of information for the challenges we are having in government, and to work with us to create the most innovative ideas possible. some of you may ask, what are we really talking about? for example, last january -- the best example i can give

it's not required and he's chosen not to. >> transparency, he won't be transparent about sarah palin said he should, and she said he should be more transparent about bain. isn'theroine over there? >> what she says is fine, she's entitled to it. if you look at the companies we're talking about, the record is public. even obama's own adviser said there's no question he created jobs. that's something the president of the united states has not been able to do. >> he refuses to be transparent about that. just as he refuses to be transparent on the tax returns. don't attack president obama for not being transparent. >> i think the key here is who can really come into the white house, turn this country around, create the kind of jobs, have the knowledge, the expertise and leadership to really turn the country around? obama has failed miserably, and the record of mitt romney is enormously -- an enormous success. >> james, how much joy does it give you to use sarah palin's argument in your favor? >> honestly, a lot. >> i can tell. >> i couldn't wait for you to bring it up. >> james carville,

as with most transparency, full transparency means the public has the right and the ability to see our records. in the 21st century, there is no reason we can't do it right away. letting those disclosures sit in a filing cabinet somewhere in the capitol complex is not transparency. putting the files online in a searchable format is. in a time of hyperpartisanship, this is an opportunity for both sides to work together on a bill that we sorely need. there is not a democratic or a republican angle to this. every elected official should want to make sure that the rules we are held to are consistent and transparent and in line with the rest of the nation. in fact, this is a nonpartisan bill as it can be with ideas from senator gillibrand and senator brown, carried by senator lieberman. this bill covers each section of the political spectrum. it's a straightforward bill that's long overdue and the stock act will be a step toward ensuring that when people run for congress or come to work for congress, they are doing so because they want to work on behalf of the american people and not for th

transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. ok so how's that transparency thing working out for us despite the fact the president actually receive the transparency award in private closed to the press mind you we only have to look to the administration's treatment bradley manning to their continuous fight against weekly leaks to see that they don't give a damn about transparency the president wants to keep government embarrassments secret don't forget he's also invoked the state secrets privilege many times in court after criticizing president president bush for doing just that then how about the rule of law. well if you consider drone strikes and under clear shadow wars getting the us involved in a war in libya without ever asking for congressional approval but i'd say that promises broken long ago most notably though when this administration chose to kill an american citizen without any due process. really or this morning while a lucky leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was killed in yemen. the. death of all aki is a

those are two factors and lack of transparency. if i had to say with the three factors are and depending on which country, they vary, but those would be the three that would be the most prominent. page do you want to comment on that? >> yeah, let me briefly feel there could final question first. in terms of countries that agreed to meet with us, actually 28 of the 32 did including some that were ranked quite near the bottom so we were innocent pleas to see so many were willing to meet with us but i will just second what senator nunn said. there are a number of crosscutting themes, certainly low transparency, not participating in a full range of what we call global norms be they legal agreements or political agreements and that has been coupled with sometimes very challenging levels of corruption and low political stability. so those things came together where those countries, and resulted in being ranked at the bottom of the index. >> yes. >> thank you. looking at all the data that you have collected, there've been scattered for to

the great day for transparency because tomorrow voters in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and florida will finally have the vital information that would have been useful before they voted. (laughter) >> stephen: now we, we at colbert superpac have properly filled out all the actual paperwork which we will file at midnight tonight. and post on the colbert superpac web site and which will tell you exactly how much we have raised. i think some people are going to be pleasantly dropping a load in their pants. (laughter) >> stephen: now folks, the filing, this filings also contains the names of every donor who gave us more than $200. great americans like ibin yerkinnoff. larry ballsagna. pat magroin and frumunda maballz. and i just want to take a second here to thank all of you donors frumunda my heart. nation, you know i'm always looking out for you. and the news that affects your life. remember that story about brain eating am evenas in louisiana tap watter? i really vud should is have reported on that. this is the threatdown. folks, i meant to report on this next story earlier but i was

because it means there's a greater degree of transparency and accountability. this white house by and large has shut down the revolving door because people who leave the white house cannot lobby this administration on issues that they worked on while they were inside the administration. this white house and this campaign don't take money in registered lobbyists. now, these are not rules that congress applies to itself. as we move forward in our political process, i think one thing you will see is that voters will continue to demand greater transparency from everybody. if you look right now at governor romney's kind of flailing around on whether he's going to release his tax returns, the reality is that politicians aren't going to have a choice about transparency much longer in this country because voters expect it of them. >> okay. >> let me just say for future questions. i'd like to start with the mayors. >> we've got the lights on now. right there, yes. we'll get you a microphone. go ahead and start. >> who are you? >> timothy herbst, mayor of trumbull, conne

in this are essentially shell who have entered transparently into a relationship with e.t.f. securities to essentially lease their oil. and give price exposure the old price exposure to the customer but most people are not doing this transparently so what's happening max is there is oil which the entire industry thinks is only by the producer but it's not been sold already to somebody else and what that means is when they see the price going a certain way in the physical market or the forward market they think are well we'll sell this. and then what happens is what they don't realize is that the person who bought it from them actually already has control of the oil and they get what's called squeeze what we're talking about max is a market that has become entirely corrupted entirely corrupted might musters. a well known commodity expert he gave evidence to congress in june two thousand and nine and he brought the world down on his head the entire financial world down on his head because he was saying exactly what i'm saying he was talking that he was saying that passive inves

please don't attack president obama for not being transparent when he's not transparent unlike any other president in modern times. >> who can really come into the white house, turn this country around, create the jobs, has the knowledge and expertise and leadership to turn this country around? clearly obama has failed miserably, and the record of mitt romney is an enormous success. >> how much joy does it give you to use sarah palin's argument in your favor? obviously a lot. i can tell. >> i couldn't wait for you to bring it up. >> james carville, bay buchanan, thank you. >> thank you. >> he did seem to be glowing. let us know what you think, we're on facebook, google, follow me on twitt twittetwitter twitter @andersoncooper. >>> up next, another iranian nuclear scientist killed. there have been others. so who is killing these guys off? iran is blaming the united states and israel. we'll talk with fran townsend and bob bair. >>> four released before a judge stopped it, now four are missing could soon be the subject of a nationwide man hunt. we have the latest on a real mess. >>> and lat

transparency. now, thanks to the leadership of all four caucuses, the general assembly has made significant progress over the last three years in making the legislative branch more transparent. legislative committees are now subject to open meeting requirements. last year, our budget was completed and posted online, well before june 30. now, transparency needs to extend to the way the lobbyists do business here at legislative hall. which is why my administration will team up with president pro tem deluca and speaker gilligan and blevins and schwarzkopf to provide some common sense measures we hope you'll support. citizens deserve to know who is lobbying and what they're lobbying for. we will make it soon with the new online reporting tool, where citizens can see by piece of legislation which lobbyists are advocating for their clients. and we have been successful in pulling together in tough times in no small part because of faith and the responsiveness of delaware government. the trust of people an

also, the legal intervention when it is fair and transparent. illegal intervention is morally wrong. >> i think that the other thing that is pushing this, -- >> it doesn't matter about how big or small this was, we were misled about it. public claims were made that there were not british soldiers there and there were. >> they were talking about large occupation forces. britain has intelligence agencies. we have special forces. we did it as we know in afghanistan. we did it on a small scale in libya. we did it in a cautious way. i'm not people, no arming of guerrillas. >> no garmin of levels? -- no arming of rebels? they are responsible for breaching the u.n. resolution. you are absolutely irresponsible. the u.n. resolutions are designed for a specific purpose, to intervene when there is a specific threat in real time. that was the case in benghazi. what it does not authorize is to settle scores. >> what is this talk about settling scores? >> britain -- one day, britain was serving gaddafi's enemies on a plate for torture. >> we will be talking a

particularly with reference to transparency, i would add a reference to the popular annual transparency report. this is not a great document. not all the apartments do an annual report, not all departments doing good annual report. this commission does a great annual report. that is part of the public accountability. i would reference it there in transparency. some of the other points that you talked about, i would add compliance. each department probably has to do one now. probably another thing that we are compliant with. maybe the mayor's executive directive as it relates to things like fleet topics. another thing that i would add, maybe it is affordability, it is a little bit of discussion about nexis and proportionality as it relates to prop 218. seven different classes of customers are not cross- subsidizing other classes of customers and they are in fact earning their fair share. we do that anyways, but it is a good place to have reference to that. i will continue to share them with my budget finder on thursday. i do have some homework to read between now and then. thank you. >>

about us at transparency caucus.org. i'd also like to thank darrell issa and mike quigley who helped us hold the event today. i'd also like to thank c-span for coming and broadcasting us live, and if you'd like to join in the conversation if you're watching on tv, go to twitter hash tag super pac act. and just before we move on to the panelists, i should disclose that the sunlight foundation has released a draft bill called the super pac act which is unrelated to the twitter hash tag, but it happens to be the same, which would tighten disclosure requirements. the public has been invited to comment by visiting public markup.org, and along the same lines you can see the sunlight foundation reporting on super pacs at sunlight foundation.com/super pacs. so moving on to our panel of experts, the first one all the way to my right who has been stuck in today's horrible traffic but will be here shortly is mimi. she's from the brenton center for justice at the university -- new york university school of law. she covers the issues

transparent. (pipkin) "when it did this last toll increase did not disclose wwat the final packagg was going to be and so actually the board members voted on a package that was not disseminated o the public and the public couldn't comment on it." so senator e-j pipkin as introduced a bill which would require the make full disclosures on upcoming votes... and allow the public to comment before a final vote. and you thought your co- workers were beaas to work with. theemaryland zoo is seeking volunteers to help phe animals in a number of ways,,and help the zoo's bottom line as well. joel d. smith is liver there now to show us what you could beedoing later this year. good morning joel d. good morning pattice.