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Member since 1972. I do not want hedge funds as part of the portfolio. Everyone who has spoken especially the last speaker has said what i wanted to say. This business of the risk taking and adding it to other risk. There are risks in some of the other investments as well like private equity. I dont think that a pension fund is a place for that level of risk taking. The thing that really gets to me is the lack of transparency in hedge funds, and a lot of us that live here and this is reflective ...

To look at the individual investments, but i just have to say there is a principal in the charter that its called the precautionary principal and it mandates that we have investments that environmentally safe and positive and also in terms of health. We dont know what happens with these investments and where are they going and what the ethics are and after reading that business about 16 million being lost because someone was behaving and i have to say it didnt look very ethical. I wonder who you...

Dont understand which is the disparate impact. In other words, is it the provision that causes more proposals to go to more proposals to go to the housing or is it the provision that causes more approval of more. Youve about got to know what youre shooting at. The disparity tied to the practice is just the first step in the appal sis. The second step is whats the justification justification. Ill ask it the last time and let you get on. Youre saying you need justification, but for what . Which is...

Buffet made big moves in the stock market a couple of months agatha we just found out about last night. Buffets move seemed to overshadow the whole session. S p back. 3 . Nasdaq advanced. I have long been a believer in doing your own homework and finding your own Comfort Level with individual stocks. If you cant do that if you cant do the research and make up your own mind its imperative that you do not follow someone, anyone blindly whether it be me or a money manager you saw on television, a c...

Discussion draft. I hope we can begin conversations about a truly bipartisan approach to help fix this broken law. I know the members on my side are anxious to begin work and to continue the long tradition of this committee tackling tough problems in a bipartisan fashion. Fixing no child left behind should not be a partisan issue. It should be one that we do work hand in hand not as democrats and republicans but as americans. This is an issue that is not about politics. It is about what is best ...

There now we say we will do some things and regulated without acceptable practice which i think is a terrible message. What are your thoughts . I agree with the commissioner play agree with the views five years ago when they represented we are concerned that Net Neutrality could be used as the justification into block unwanted information disseminated to citizens to think it is a bipartisan issue by hopewell was standing this doesnt apply to the future spent just for the sake of the record could...

A senator mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Daines i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its Business Today it adjourn until 9 30 a. M. Wednesday, march 18. Following the prayer and pledge, the journal be approved the morning business be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings approved to date and the time for the two leaders reserved for their use later in the day. Following leader remarks, the ...

Families. And we also know that as demand grows for each sale whether fire trucks or ice cream, the jobs either come to america or they go some place else. It is a zero sum gain. Thats the choice being made. And it is a fact some politicians seem to ignore. And who feels the impact most of all . Small businesses and they make up about 90 of the exim customer base. More and more Small Businesses are making exporting a part of their dna. They know the opportunity is out there. But many of them don...

The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 35563. The bill is passed. Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent that i may hearafter be considered as the first ponce juror of h. R. 637, a bill introduced by representative schock of illinois for purposes of adding cosponsor and requesting printing pursuant to clause 7 of rule 12. The speaker pro tempore without objection, ...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] [applause] are. [applause] good evening, everyone. I am the chief operating officer here at the National Constitution center and it is my great pleasure to welcome you all here tonight for our first Town Hall Program for 2014 with former u. S. Secretary of defense robert gates. [applause] i would like to take a moment to welcome the audience joining us from...