for us as policy makers, there may be ways that we legislatively or from a funding standpoint create that priority in terms of workforce programs that the city has. so i just want to really open up that discussion and say that not everyone -- elementary school students, yes, that would be my objective. my goal for elementary or mills will students would be that each and every one of them succeed in the school, the cup -- succeed and this will become the right place for them, but i think there will be a group of individuals who have been filled by the system, and we have to think things through. >> absolutely. >> i'm so glad you're with us at students support services, particularly given your background in working in alternative schools. i had a couple of questions, and this was also for liz. you had talked about some of the top issues that have come up the cause students to be truant, whether it is insomnia, being victims of violence, bullying, worrying about safety. can we start collecting that kind of data? >> i think that was in their capacity and they are going to document it. co

some things you would be able to do as policy-makers, and during that time, to help insure if your will was to keep it in the single digits, keep it lower, you could ask us to look at these options. these options are levers that we control, some that we do not. just to put that in perspective, in order to go from maintain -- and% increase down to a 9% increase, you could temporarily shave off the cash-funded program by $4 million. if you look by 2017, just going from a cash-funded program from $43 million a year down to $39 million. the other way that you could go is you could ask us with operating budgets as well to say, hold the budget flat. we have held the operating budget last because of our extreme success, water conservation efforts and lower usage. that would be another alternative. all the models, we have always assumed, grow at that inflation rate. so we are not going to do than one year and take a holiday on the increase. the other things we do not control would be the marketplace. while we have been successful in our borrowing as of late, that is a record in our generation's time. the market, when we issue debt, maybe it decides that we are g

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july 27, unless policymakers, that's us, unless policy makers restrain the growth of spending, which is what we are not doing today, increases revenue significantly as a share of g.d.p. or adopt some combination of those two aproaches -- approaches, growing budget deficits will cause debt to rise, to unsupportable levels. i would submit that we are already at unsportable levels and so that's why we -- unsupportable levels and so that's why we do support the bill but we always make sure spending and growth gets offset with pay fors. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois. mr. rush: i yield six minutes to the author of the legislation, my dear friend from california, ms. matsui. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for six minutes. ms. matsui: thank you. thank you, mr. chairman, for your leadership. mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of my legislation, h.r. 35156, the clean energy technology manufacturing and export assistance act of 2010. our nation is running a trade deficit in green technologies ranging in the billions. and the u.s. clean tech industry is lagging behind many of its