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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 of our culture, staff stating due to a lot of speculation and gentrification that this all goes upon...

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 have as investors. Thank you. [ applause ] good afternoon, commissioners. I have prepared a stateme...

Just want to one more time thank the admiral for coming out and making himself available. Excellent remarks and the q a was wonderful, thank our sponsor Lockheed Martin one more time and our partner csis. We think this is a wonderful partnership, between us, the Naval Institute and csis. Thank you very much, sir. Give the commandant a hand. All this week, cspan2 has been showing washington journals recent tour of historically black colleges and universities. Today it is a look at Tuskegee University in alabama at 6 30. At 7 15 well show you our tour of Xavier University in louisiana. And while...

Im bill griffeth. Tyler and sue are off tonight. Ibm with better than expected earnings with a fast growing Cloud Computing business and Security Software and despite decreasing demand for its servers and storage products, here are the numbers that came out. Adjusted earnings 5. 70 a share, topping analysts forecast by 7 cents and fell from a year ago to 24 billion. That just missed wall street forecast. Shares initially higher in late trade on the news but then turned negative on weaker than expected forecast guidance for the full year. Bertha coombs joins us from the nasdaq with one big take...

Host have you talked to law makers met with them and what are you hearing from them . Guest the proposal is one that actually enjoys bipartisan support in many ways. If you remember about a year ago the chair of the house ways and Means Committee at that time dave camp put a white paper if you will that used this very same framework. And we think its a framework that can actually work. At the hearing in the house earlier this week there was some members of your party and the other party that were a little skeptical about this plan . That it enjoys as much bipartisan support as you are suggesti...