that would have been some direction that we would have been providing in this case. lastly, and regards to commissioner honda's question, i want to clarify in terms of the project not really relevant to this project because the environmental application was filed so long ago in 2004 that it was under previous code requirements for affordable housing. that's why the 17 percent would be for current project for lufey. it was filed. so with that, i'm available for any questions that the board may have. >> i have a question. the impact of these variances is sort of on the units and ultimately of the people dwelling on the units as opposed to something visual from the street? >> absolutely. you wouldn't see those from the street. the only thing you would see from the street, the appellant has stated they support and that is to have against the building wall is on clay and larkin. most impacted obviously the impacted by the unit and those which immediately abut and they are supportive of the project. >> so arguably the variances to cut an interest to the developer that say

would still collect taxes but no money would go out. there would be no services or programs to benefit our constituents. they'd be shut down. if you all remember how angry the country was during the republican shutdown of our government when military death benefits were not paid? that would only be magnified under a default led by the republican side of the aisle. not only would there be no death benefits, there would be no veterans' benefits at all, no money for hospitals, doctors and nurses and the default wouldn't just affect our military and veterans. there would be no funds for food inspectors, no pell grants, no air traffic controllers, or any other government service because of default. let's be clear. if you like the republican-engineered shutdown of our government, you'll love the default the republicans who would vote no today would perpetuate on the american public. this is a debt that the republican caucus helped create. you own a portion of this debt. the american people are watching this vote. they're confounded once again

public health can use that and they would all be in one system. i think that would be great. right now it's being developed for our two agencies. i think we are going live in march, march 30th. i think we are rolling out earlier than the department. >>supervisor scott weiner: great. seems to me whatever the violation might be and you go into system if it is a more unified system and you see they also had building code issues, health code issues and this and that. i don't know, i do think if you have folks that are repeatedly violating codes that it becomes a blatant disregard of the system and there should be a way of coming down a little stronger with some of these egregious repeat cross code violations. i think it would be helpful that you don't have to look at a bunch of different databases or make phone calls. >> definitely. right now it's manual. you are having to query a department but if you access at your finger tips, that would be helpful. i know that management is discussing having a management division which would be helpful but would have to be somewhat limited in

would we want to put a time limit on the interrogation? >> we would not. obviously we would not. every interrogation is different . some take longer and obviously in that case it would be an important one. >> no longer the better. >> the longer the better. so we don't know yet what the plan is if we capture in tomorrow where we would put him and -- i see that as a huge problem and an important one unless either of you're able to tell me what the planned be. i guess the answer is no. [inaudible question] >> the answer is no. >> again, i cannot speculate on a hypothetical issue like that. as important as it is common and is also would be. >> i would also like to ask both of you -- i saw a new york times report january 29, 2014, then said the u.s. said brush it tested a missile. it goes on to say that the american officials believe that russia began tests and they have concerns that russia has tested cruise missiles that meet violated the accord between our two countries. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. director clapper, says the u.s. have intelligence about this poten

hours of labor would be less, would be offered and job losses would be 2.3 million to not be 2.3 million. not to sit 2.3 when jobs would be lost. have you looked at the demand side of the equation? the affordable care act, or obamacare, has a huge impact on employers. and they're making economic decisions to determine how many employees they hire and what sort of hours that they ask these opposed to work. can you tell me in a short amount of time what impact that would have? >> yes. we looked in report and outlook on the effects of the affordable care act on the demand for labor. we highlighted two channels, one was defective the overall demand for goods and services and unemployment. the other is the effects of the employer penalty, the demand for labor. in the very short run, requiring employers to pay something the amount for each of the employees in some circumstances amounts to raising the cost of those employees and would lead employers to reduce their number of people they hire. but we expect as other analysts believe that over time, costs that employers bear for their employees i

how would that be perceived would that be still be labeled as as a peaceful protest that would be labeled as disorderly behavior but let's all just stand something something which i haven't heard you acknowledge and that is that the policies of misty are no coverts were authoritarian they were repressive and it's natural that people will respond forcefully against authoritarian repressive policies people who are finally fed up with those restrictions as well as of course with the massive corruption. so on i am not justifying the seizure of buildings are just explain to the circumstances which has happened well you seem to be condoning some of the tactics employed by the protestors and i would even agree with you that their young a call which wasn't the most efficient ukrainian president ever even though of that country is yet to see a very effective leadership let's put it that way but i wonder what's the point of in danger in ukraine's nascent democratic system by siding with the protesters so on equivocal as the united states has been doing because you know you can blame all things on t

i would say the following. think that there is potential, you know, there is potential for bipartisan agreement. it's always difficult to reach. i do think that most of the parties involved understand that they want to move with some speed because they don't want to lose the window or something this serious to get done. so i think everybody involved feels a certain pressure to move with some force and speed, but i think trying to handicap the odds, which day, which week, is probably not helpful but i think everybody understands that if it drags up too long that the political calendar could start working against you. you. >> so not tomorrow is what you are saying? or later today. we'll move on from the geodesic. spent the problem is were giving all that the competitor of yours. yours. >> i'll read the international journal later. >> just kidding. kidding. spent i want to talk about the gene sperling experience to lighten it up from gses although there. we're talking backstage about the sort of pollyanna view of

that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overw

mobilize -- would mobilize. they perform well in afghanistan and iraq and we cannot have achieved what we did without them. express shows the specialties require greater collective training to combat. issue reside -- it should reside in a full-time force where the capabilities will be more ready and available to commanders. what best serves our national security is when the guard and reserve units complement the active forceful stop that is why we recommend apache be given to active duty. the active army will transfer black hawk helicopters to the national guard. they will bolster the needed capabilities in areas like disaster relief and emergency response. these changes to the guard helicopter fleet are part of a broader realignment of aviation designed to modernize the fleet and make it highly capable and affordable. the fourth will retire its jet ranger used. the active army overall fleet would decrease by 25%. it would be significantly modernize under the president's budget plan. the fleet of helicopters wou

i would hope that we would vote on your second-degree. >> mr. chairman? i have a couple of remaining comments. i do not want to belabor because i think numbers are concluding where the votes are on this. one is on the issue of governance. i do have a question that i would like to pose to the general counsel for the prc? thank you. >> i am the acting general counsel for the postal regulatory commission. >> thank you. i also want to thank you. i know you responded to an inquiry from senator levin after our last markup. he was kind enough to share that with our entire committee and i appreciate that. i wanted to know whether the postal regulatory commission has a position on the new carper-coburn second-degree amendment that we have been discussing right now concerning governance. >> yes, we had a brief opportunity this morning to consider it. the commission. we didn't have time to prepare something in writing but -- >> how many folks are on the commission today? >> three. >> are there any vacancies? >> there are two. the postal regulatory commission has a h

that timeline would be shortened very substantially if iran would continue its program. but it's unable to do that. it's true, the interim deal doesn't dismantle a single centrifuge. it permits some continuation of research and development activities. that's absolutely the case, but these are objective. these are items towards the comprehensive view. on the sanctions relief, i think it's the wide precipitation that significant sanctions which are, in fact, quite modest. i think the concern is that there will be a kind of psychological shift, shift in expectations, and this will open the floodgates to new business activity with iran, and unraveling of the sanctions regime. now, this concern is that by a number of development. the rouhani government has been quite skillful at pursuing a public diplomacy campaign. you saw it at the dog goes world economic forum. iran is open for business, inviting businessmen to come to iran and cat new deals -- davos. you see it in succession of trade delegations, the french delegation. a turkish delegation led by prime minister erdogan. r

i would really like to let you guys know that working with him has been great and i would really recommend him for this task force. thank you for your time supervisors. >> thank you, very much. hold on. is this a question for him? >> no. >> okay. thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisors, comments? supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you, mr. chair. anytime you have more applicants than you have seats, it's always hard to choose. i do want to thank everyone for their interest and each one of you had something to offer and the fact that people are willing to serve is really appreciated. let me share my thoughts and see where others are. with respect to seat one which has to be held by someone who is a resident of a sro. i certainly was very impressed with the presentation and support for dan jordan. and mr. jordan, you are very popular. i'm glad that i don't have to run against you because you have a lot of fans out there. but i think the fact that your fellow residents are coming to speak on your behalf as a tes

i would have to say someone who did that would have to have been pretty fit, and in pretty good shapedon't think it would be an easy thing to do necessarily, but it could be done. >> but when investigators looked at the dirt below the balcony, they couldn't find any evidence of a ladder or foot impression, despite three days of constant rain. >> how did this person get up here? how did this person climb up here and get up to the second floor of this wooden deck and gain entrance to this residence? >> if the ground had been disturbed by heavy footprints or ladder or some sort of equipment, it should have shown up in its soil. >> and investigators felt it would have been impossible to throw the rock from the yard. it weighed close to 10 pounds. >> that person had to be very strong to be able to throw that rock from the bottom floor and make it go through that glass. >> we found no evidence there was any activity or anybody walking around back there, no evidence of it. >> and investigators found another inconsistency. there was broken glass all over the bedroom floor and all over leslie

so that would be really great. at the february 12th meeting since the last time i spoke before you i attended the retirement board meeting and despite spending 3 hours there, the items i was most interested in were at the end and i came back and found out that post 5:00 the receptionist is gone and you cannot reenter the meeting. i'm not sure if that's even okay. it's fine for me to go home and check the archive later if there is an archive, if there is not an archive then it's a genuine problem because it's impossible to know what happened at the meeting. i would love to echo kathy's statements if this is agreeable to the budget and i would like to thank you for including that in the budget for the retirement system. i'm not sure of the best locus to include the televising issue, but i think at this point especially with this kind of issue of public concern in front of them, it would be this time to make this happen. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, budget and finance. oh w

they would be more forthcoming than our friends would be, who would just say, that is great, whatever've got. that was fun, really. we would spread it out over a number of nights to do tastings and talk about what we would have. of course, we would try to get entertainment that represented the united states in a wonderful way, like the new orleans jazz

it would have to register. she would be the one that would register because he was pretending to be heard attendant car servant. he appears as an indigent white man and got away with it. he actually got away being called her slave. so that was very important. a time when the war in northern cities, halifax where they went to a hotel. here is where north anti black sentiments can. there are going to check into a hotel. the proprietor said you can't check in here. looking and william, you can't chicken here. don't allow black people. she can. your master can. and so william did not fight it. he said, well, okay. she is the room and i'll go somewhere else. she checked in. the room was upstairs. when she checked and of course people who worked there and all that. she ordered dinner, but she ordered dinner for two instead of one. and the hotel staff including the black people who were in the tell had a conversation wondering it was going to show up to have dinner with her. the black guy was a slave. even more amazed

would that be correct? >> if that's correct, they are not officially aligned with the appellant. >> he mentioned in his brief that it was complying with 12 people and he mentioned today there is 25 and who are those 12 people. they effectively wrote the brief with him. >> okay. i can't answer your question. >> sure. i just asked. >> got it. thank you. not right now. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. i believe the project sponsor has compelling arguments, in our decision letter. i would like to go back to the subject property 272 upper terrace in our zoning district. at this rear property we have mount olympus and there is a public sidewalk at the rear property line essentially of the subject property. in june 2013, they did seek a building permit to build a fence that is taller than is there now. it was approved by the staff. we received complaints from the neighbors regarding this and we received the plans and found inconsistencies where the property line. that had rear property line been a

no one would have known.there are other people who believe that this was a conspiracy manufactured in britain and boris bear soft sea sea -- boris berezovsky who fled to england that he was somehow involved in all of this although it's never been clear how he was. what makes it even more difficult is the british government which was conducting an inquest was deciding it did want to publish the evidence it has about this particular murder for national security reasons, unspecified -- a unspecified. the assumption is that is because it was somehow implicates some part of the russian government. who knows what? one will know -- never know the truth and when mr. berezovsky apparently hanged himself last year there are also those that leave he didn't hang himself so with a lot of these issues its cloak to and obscurity and i think one will never know the truth. post go i am very interested in this case not because of the case itself because as you said it's a perfect example of how often we make assumptions. but w

i would look over and she would be dozing off, going off. i talked to her one day and asked what she was taking. painkillers,was on they give them at the pain center. it was oxycontin. hall, ir wandering the took her to her apartment. she used to work at a center. i said, you don't go to work, it's nighttime. she became ok and talk to her family over the phone. i came back to my apartment. unfortunately, i was very close to her, and it hit me very deeply. i am terribly sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. it is a common problem. one of the things the dea and local police departments were concentrating very much on for the last decade is shutting down rogue pain clinton's at pain clinics -- pain clinics. there are plenty of legitimate pain clinics that some doctors should set them up to make money. cursorye you a examination and prescribe lots and lots of pain pills. there is money to be made there. when you know of a dr., the da -- the dea has a hotline you can call. it is a very common problem. survey onnational drug use and health

that is definitely an option and one i would assume would not depending on how much would need to be cut back would not result in the reduction of dwelling units. it has been noted under the planning code if you have more than 5 dwelling units you need to provide a mix of dwelling units. in this case they saw the to provide two bedrooms and they are providing more two bedrooms than are required under the code so they could reduce the size of some of the units on the top floor and still be code compliant with terms of unit mix. it's dependent on how much of a setback would be proposed. >> thank you. mr. duffy, anything? the matter is submitted. >> public comment? can i see a show of hands of people that would like to speak on this item. if you can lineup on the far wall. if you haven't filled out a speaker card, that would help us in the preparation of minutes. the president lazarus you indicated the number of minutes you would like? two 2 minutes and the basis for that is the size of the crowd and what is before the board this evening? >> yes. >> okay. you have 2 minutes. >> i'm cho

compare live with the view it would naturally to think you would be. yes there is a several orse there is and it's the same thing as saying you know when people say well it's similar a spy for men but the situation is this like saying is there is there rivalry between leno and letterman and kamal and this only shows all the same yeah but there's room for you if you're good there's room for everyone that's good have any of you ever you have a guest on the view i went once years ago when we had the osborne's and i found i know barbara outside of the view and it was cautious must have been ten years ago and i found the women doing there were different women there then they were very cold cold you yeah very cold especially joy really. weird you know it's but it's like could've been a bad day could have been a bad day so you never know how important is julie chen to the whole mix she's the captain she's the captain of the ship and she was the one that and the experience in live t.v. had the experience to to run that ship and that's what she does she's a gre

>> i think that would as well. >> we have these things that you know would work. if we would just do them, we could both deal with the spending side of the growth side. on obamacare, you have looked at mulligan and others. people are leaving the workforce because of this sharp cliff. sideld say to my economist -- this is all about people starting new businesses and working in family businesses. if you're working, you're working. mostly demographics that are likely to drop out -- what do you know about them? >> the biggest effect is lowly -- on people with lower incomes. they're receiving subsidies. they withdrawal as the income rises. penaltyout 50% tax or because of this cliff? tell us who these folks are? are they people who retire early or want to stay home with their kids? when i asked, it is because you look at the labor participation rate -- it is a record low for men right now. participationking rates even lower. that is bad for the economy and bad for growth and prosperity. when you look at this data that we know, the early indications are that this must b

where would the money go? these kinds of problems but yeah we look over the same time horizon and realize that regardless of what we do especially in the discretionary spending side we are going to come back to exactly these kinds of issues and those markets would return. >> we have one here from the senator. >> just like my former colleague senator conrad there is no question that the budget process is dysfunctional and even though it could be reformed the question does get back to the fact that people don't implement in congress can ignore the deadlines and all of the other prerequisites in the current budget act and we have gone around it. i have never seen the process so as it has been in the last few years. it's not even addressing the budget resolution so you can't even have that kind of debate. i know inside the beltway everyone says the debt ceiling will be taking care of and congress will ultimately approve it. but i would be interested paul in hearing your views and larry's in anybody else's with res

i would be interested -- enabler. i would be interested to hear your thoughts on that. >> we are interested in achieving the objectives that congress has assigned to the federal reserve. maximum sustainable employment and price stability. had unemployment well above normal levels, and inflation running well below our two percent objective. the federal reserve is focused on putting in place a monetary policy that is designed to achieve those very important objectives that congress has assigned to us. because we have a week economy with savings relative to investment, the fundamentals calls for interest rates to be low. we are allowing them to be low and fostering a low interest rate environment to achieve those important goals that congress has assigned to us. i don't think it would be helpful, either in terms of achieving the objectives that congress has assigned to us, or deficit of congress's reduction efforts, for us to purposely raise interest rates to weaken the economy. the likely impact of that would be -- >> a

i would like to to set the scene. seven you're more familiar but even though it comes from the end of the story of the pope's last. the pope is they don't in his office, elderly, a leading, he begs god to give him a few more days to live. he has something he needs to say and realizes he has very little time left on the earth. for years the pope had been in good health the road as the robust mountaineer pope clyde v. many alpine peak. he was known as impervious, demanding and about it insisted on knowing every detail of everything going on in the vatican to make all the decisions. but now every day was the challenge and every step caused paid. he was unable to sleep at night and had terrible varicose veins period he had asthma that made breathing difficult. as he lay awake, he was troubled not so much his paid but by the thought something had gone terribly wrong. in the daytime light would come in and through the three large windows overlooking st. peter's square but now as he sat at his desk with the lamp from the lig

government, would that be a crime? >> it would be. it would be an interest -- it would be obligated, but in gentry -- but in general, it is a crime. so if i'm a news paper reporter for fill-in the blank, and i felt all in missouri, is that -- >> so if i'm a newspaper reporter for fill-in the blank, and i am hawking stolen classified material that i'm not legally in the possession of four personal gain and profit, is that not a crime? >> i think that is a harder crime -- question. it is something that probably would be better answered by the department of justice. >> so entering into a commercial enterprise to sell stolen material is acceptable to a legitimate news organization? >> i am not sure i will be able to answer that question in the abstract. >> it is something we ought to think about. >> certainly. >> if there are a couple, should we be concerned about that? >> we should be concerned about all the facts. interesting, again in the conference where we had individuals tell us that in fact there are individuals who are saying to b

>> another thing that we would ask you about i would ask the waste haulers and it is illegal to sell water in cans and glass, correct? >> so p perriri and those who bottle the brands are bottled in glass and metal and buying in the metal cans as well, all of a sudden we are going to convert, lightweight plastic waste to heavy wait glass waste. and all of those waste bins are going to be filled with glass. some or many of those bottles are going to get broken in public venues where we are having event and so we have the safety issue as well as a waste hauling issue that the glass is going to weigh ten times more than the plastic waste and not as compressable as the plastic waste as it is being hauled off. and so i just see a lot of challenges here for a piece of legislation that is, you know, rallied around one point. and environmental point and not a trivial point, but i actually think that the environmental point is specious and i think that the unintended consequences are significant and bear some scrutiny before we sign-off on a piece of legislation. >> commissioner ortiz? >> kind

i would come home at night and ask what she was reading and she would tell me that the book and she would say we think about and she would tell me a good book and he had something to say. and anyway she let me know and he wrote back and they became penpals and it was so very nice. someone asked me last week were my mother would've thought of all this. she would have been incredibly excited and fascinated with this adventure ahead. i miss her every day and i talked to her every day at 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon and night time goes by when i always have her in my mind. as with my father. during europe in world war ii and a product of the great depression, hard work and humility and good faith, working hard on the ranch and he did it for the right reasons and i didn't complain because i knew that he was trying to do is to hope to help me later in life. he was also such a decent person. no one ever spoken ill word of my father. such rocksolid character in the republican party asked us to run for governor and as a college student at stanford, i decided to take a year off for my studies duri

would have won? nobody knows to the answer to that in their different views to that in russia but you are correct in saying that from the point of view of a lot of russians this created a degree of cynicism about the u.s. commitment to free and fair elections. in fact that was something that in the election campaign in the u.s. in the year 2000 the republicans criticized the clinton administration for. >> host: talking about being fair one thing that is very impressive about your book, in my view you are very fair. one reason you are so informed us that you were not just a scholar, a practitioner but you know a lot of russian. you mentioned in your book. [inaudible] i also know from my personal experience with you that you know quite well many members of the russian position. one problem with american scholarship is we have two kinds of people. we have scholars who know the russian government and we have scholars who know the russian tradition. you are one of few people who know both. let me start wi

i would say less of a penalty would be okay. >> what do you think the estimated cost of putting it up and taking it down? >> well they have $5,000 on their permit application. that's fair. >> to put it up? >> yeah. >> what about to take it down? >> the $5,000 would probable include that. taking the job down is not that much of a job. what do they do with the material? they can come in and apply for a permit and rebuild it again. there should be some penalty on it. nine times out of 10 there should be a penalty of $1373 that the dbi impose d on the $10,000. the total permit fee was $1810 with a penalty being $1372. >> isn't there a threshold below which we could not go with? >> they have the option. which is 1810? >> no. $260. >> on the contrary, we believe the department, before they pay for the permit, if they speak to some of the staff where pay for the permit, sometimes the staff will bring them back to the chief building inspectors and we have a conversation. instead of going nine times on the $10,000. sometimes we go 9 times on 5 or $3,000. we would take into account that they ar

that truly would be an that would honor brian kelly. until then, i hope the men and services hose understand how much we value what they do. thank you. applause] >> questions. in response the guy who had a back in?d came are there any questions? nothing? ok, yes, sir. i wouldn't bring this up if j.f.k. butt mentioned oliver stone offered a ounterweight to the warren commission and there is a such cal public on issues as the named names on the c.i.a. [inaudible]. it really wasn't disclosed he a group that interacted with oswald in new orleans. there are apparently 1,100 in full and main here is just a disconnect and it is impossible to understand why there would be 1,100 files withheld. >> i could go beyond j.f.k. horrible is a director. if there are 1,100 files from and period still classified we know we classify too much and keep it too long, this goes back concern we after you public dispute of this sort and you are sitting on records that resolve that dispute, i think that you do great harm the public record. i don't know that they a

>> they would be reprimanded.re is a system whereby, if journalists do something regarded as in contempt of the house, they can be summoned to the house of commons to be severely reprimanded by the speaker. indeed, i can remember some years since it happened, but the idea of one of our distinguished news anchors was in contempt of the house, where she accused, at the time, in 1956, a crisis which i will not elaborate right now, but as a result of that, a rationing of gasoline in the united kingdom. he accused members of parliament of fiddling with their gasoline allowance. he was called in to be severely reprimanded and to apologize. >> here is another clip, this one with prime minister john major. >> will the prime minister join me in condemning the salary increase of 58% which has been awarded to the chief executive national power? >> yes, sir. [laughter] >> order. >> in this matter and in so many others, the prime minister said one thing but is not prepared to act to back it up. >> what are both sides trying to

we would work with the building department because the firefighter would need to access it. it gets the building owner to abate the situation much faster. >>supervisor scott weiner: i don't understand why state law would draw distinction between one and 2 units. if it's a fire hazard, it seems to me it shouldn't matter how many units are in a building. has there been any discussion as to eliminating that? >> not that i know about? >> could we have local jurisdiction on that? >> you would have to talk to the fire marshall. kimberly luis: kim -- >>supervisor jane kim: i have a question. i was curious if you can give me your interpretation of the residential? >> residential means a bed or cot where a person is able to lie down and fall sleep. sleeping in a chair is not considered residential. >>supervisor jane kim: okay, what about sleeping in a floor? >> in a horizontal position, that maybe, but again, you would have to talk to the building official to get their clarification on residential also. the building code and the fire code tend to share the same definition. >> when yo

i hope it would be the case they would support it as well. asking the impossible conundrum. , i wroteof years ago an op-ed in the wall street journal. was about the birth of -- it was about the book of jonas. who the story of a profit say if you dond not repent, you will be destroyed. he realizes this is a no-win situation. if he tells them to repent and they do repent, three years later, they will say, why do we have to repent? nothing happened. or if he goes and they do not repent, then he is a false prophet. that is the paradox of prophecy. it is a no-win situation. you can house the same question about the maintenance of american hegemony in the middle east. if america had not maintained hegemony over 50 years, it may be nothing would've happened to the u.s. if america had let its guard something worse than 9/11 happened, and the paradox would have been there. why didn't america maintain its hegemony? there's no conclusive answer to your question. the decision-makers in real-time and something i've learned to that they have to confront th

>> madam chair, i would think that we as a commission would have the inherent right and power to publicize what we do and to write to other agency and to other governmental entities that might have an interest in what we do and tell them what we have found, and tell them what has occurred as a result of our actions. and i think that in that situation, if i were on the receiving end of that, that would be enough. and i don't think that we have to go any further than that. >> yeah. >> and we actually have been faced with a situation like that. and although, not an actual employee. but, a fellow commissioner on another commissioner, where we have recommended that some action be taken but we don't have the power to enforce that in any event. >> and maybe, i can ask the city attorney, this question. if we were to find, and i decided if not with this, the agregious conflict of interest by a city official, don't we have the power to determine if there is official misconduct justifying determination? >> i would have to check the specific language in the code and i am happy to do that and provide y

that would be the only way. if we keep putting people together because now about 17,000 people died. [inaudible] the militia men -- [inaudible] said this is a good way will forgive and would love to tell the community that the only way this for a president to step aside and our president to come in. the bill for two years, three years for the president. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. we appreciate your personal sharing. and i appreciate you moving us forward, thinking about was passed to have been here in this medium-term future. to the extent possible, that to avoid focusing on what is happening in the past and is the time we have too look where things need to go and focus on some of the priorities. we will go here. >> hi, i am alan rat -- [inaudible] how do you get to the people if you go to the markets come the usaid materials from the european union saw for sale. how'd you get the aid to the people right now? >> thank you very much for the clarity. >> i am interested in the palace that. >> or m

i would do my best to tell you exactly where the funds would go, what you would buy for it and i will come back a year later and be held accountable, did you get what you paid for? >> we look forward to that. thank you. >> mr. paulson? >> it goes without saying you're taking the raeins of the troubld agency at a troubled time. as you clarified i think in your opening statement, hard-working taxpayers deserve this at the very, very least. i want to touch on several topics, if i can in my limited time. 501 c-4 groups, premature, released in the middle of an ongoing investigation, they also do upend long established, as chairman camp mentioned earlier, rules governing 501 c-4s. for 501 c-3 charitable organizations, they would still be able to conduct nonpartisan voter registration. is that correct? >> that's my understanding. >> but if a c-4 organization conducts nonpartisan voter registration, it would jeopardize its exempt status and count against that entity's social welfare activities. is that correct? >> that's a proposal out there for discussion and comment. >> under the proposed r

the coup d'État would be a problem and they would not have a future.dvice to the egyptians is to go back to dialogue and consideration and to that exclusion is not a solution but would be an essential problem. >> it looks like it is going the other way, not in dialogue but in terms of military control. is like all d'État other who do not provide a solution but would deepen the .risis sooner or later, the egyptian people will go back to a democracy because fear of the autocrats, dictators, would be eliminated. the ruler has done away from the hearts of people. people have restored confidence in themselves. what has been achieved in two tanisha shows that people are schlanger than rulers and people have the means and the tools to .hape themselves therefore, the egyptian people will not go backward and they will continue to struggle until freedom and their liberty. >> what does the tunisian economy need? what is necessary for >> itizing the economy? is necessary for the tunisian , first and foremost, democracy. stability, the natural resources of tunisia

shea's response would be. from my point it would be very impractical. the scope of the duties determines how much work the person will be able to do. if you have a situation where the process requires lafco to come back every year and we have seen this happen. there are delays and maybe when committees meet, when something gets scheduled. i think what this does in the best way to do it is that to not do a five or 10-year term but actually for a 3-year period so lafco doesn't have to come back every year to make sure that the definition of the responsibilities of the individual are broad enough that the person is busy. so i think that 1 year in my experience having been chair of lafco, doesn't make sense. it doesn't mean that lafco will indeed use the 3 years, but having that possibility is important and to the extent that lafco needs to shorten the period, i think it's more appropriate for lafco to make that decision given that we have members of the board of supervisors that are on lafco. if someone feels very strongly, i think there might be a vacancy

i would say the following. i think there is a potential, you know there is a potential for bipartisan agreement. it's always difficult to reach. i do think most of the parties involved understand they want to move with some speed because they don't want to lose the window for something this serious to get it done, so i think everybody involved feels a certain pressure to move with some force and speed, but i think trying to handicap the odds or which day in which week is probably not helpful that i think everybody understands that if it tracks out to long but the political calendar can start working again. >> sonata tomorrow is what you're saying. moving on -- >> the problem is we are getting all of that to the competitors. >> very good. we will read that in the national journal leader. [laughter] >> just kidding. i want to talk a little bit about the james burling experience with lighted up the gst is a little bit and we were talking backstage about the pollyanna view of what washington was like in the clinton

it would not have been a stimulus spirit that economy would have kept going down. republicans would have said it was his fault they get it both ways. they stop them, yeah. >> i want to thank you for coming year. >> thank you. >> i wanted thank you. over the years i have been watching. >> thank you. it's a long time. >> a long time. >> twenty years next year. >> i wrote a book called sabotage. i think writing the book would be the hardest thing, but it's not. is to promote the book. as the artist. people think just writing is the hardest. the hardest is to promote the book, to get the book out there. next question -- >> more about book writing. >> to you think the two-party, if they work with the president and the economy with come back a long time ago. >> well, i think these government shut downs i know are hurting the economy. state and a system underlying consumer confidence. i think it undermines it. you assume that the government will pay its debts. use in the government will operate confidently and reasonably. it is not ben. we pick up a newspaper. you thinkin

that would also be something that would show immeasurable benefit. with that i'd yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. hanna: i urge my colleagues to support this amendment, to qualify and quantity fight the economic impact of the share act, and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amendment is agreed to. it's now time to consider amendment number 3 printed in house report 113-339. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. castro: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 3 printed in house report 113-339 offered by mr. castro of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 470, the gentleman from texas, mr. castro, and a mem

the code would allow up to 10 feat -- foot. we are talking about the perspective of the street, we are talking about the code requirement of the rear yard would be one 1 foot taller than that. lastly, there were alternatives that were shown by the appellant and we did consider those. however, this lot itself is already shorter, substantially shorter than typical lots in the district. it's varying between 64-68 feet deep. one of the proposals, alternatives is to move the fence further into their rear yard reducing the amount of usable open space on the property. i did not feel it was reasonable in terms of the depth of the lot. i'm available for any questions. >> mr. sanchez, let's do a little bit of history. >> okay. >> i can't recall under your tenure or any za tenure a fence variance? >> i have got one on the calendar for next month. >> previously? historic. >> i think it's true. >> i remember a number that were an appealed here, denials of variance where the primary issue was privacy between neighbors, slightly different sit

they would be more forthcoming than our friends would be, who would just say, that is great, whatever you've got. that was fun, really. we would spread it out over a number of nights to do tastings and talk about what we would have. of course, we would try to get entertainment that represented the united states in a wonderful way, like the new orleans jazz band that we invited to one of them. that was to show the heads of what supported us and what american music was important to us. we would usually travel the day after the state visit with the head of state. our very first state dinner was september 6, 2001. it was right before september 11 and it was with mexico, president fox and martin fox. relationship we expected to spend the most time on. we had a long border with mexico and it was of particular interest to us, all of the border issues. ie next day, marta fox and traveled to chicago. andent to a show mexican-american art that was at the museum. we invited all of the artists to a luncheon afterwards. which was interesting, this chance to be able to show both art, but thatcan or

you would expect that what i would hear would be a lot of mumbling are complaining. but as i heard continually across those ten cities have been to already, the employees primary concern is they don't have enough people. for them in the offices to help taxpayers. i have sat in call centers and baltimore, st. louis. their concern is not that they are overworked concerned that there are not as many people as they used to be answering phone calls. therefore they don't feel they are delivering taxpayers the services they deserve. people at the taxpayer assistance centers are also concerned about the people standing in line. to me it is a refreshing indication of the dedication of the 90,000 employees working for the irs. the mission of the agency to provide taxpayers the services they deserve and expect them to comply with the tax code. >> in general you feel that the feelings of the staff is one of let's get the job done. notwithstanding the bad publicity and the shortage in personnel. >> that is -- it has been my experience. i thought i would hear even more rumbling ab

it is our hope that this would continue to evolve and would cease to become a transient event but wouldscribe the future of the entire region as a whole. >> do believe it is possible, not what has happened in egypt but one of the most powerful countries in the region to regain what you have discovered and created, notwithstanding what looks like the corset is on? -- course it is on? >> i am fully convinced that the future of democracy in tunisia, egypt, and across the globe, there is no reason that could make us believe that the egyptian people or arabs in general are not qualified for democracy. it is not a solution. it is a problem. we think that democracy is the solution for egypt and not a military coup d'État. the egyptian groups and factions are the solution. the coup d'État would be a problem and they would not have a future. my advice to the egyptians is to go back to dialogue and reconciliation and to consider that exclusion is not a solution but would be an essential problem. >> it looks like it is going the other way, not in dialogue but in terms of military control. >> this