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When we visit the memory of 9 11, we thread on sacred ground. 13 years ago the world watched on a clear Tuesday Morning as we suffered loss we could not possibly have imagined and witnessed heroism we will never forget. Today, we come together once more in reverence to those sacred memories, to help consecrate those Sacred Places where so many lives were lost and so many were saved. Were honored to have the secretary of the interior here, representative hoyer, president of the firefighters, my fire chief from california, so many distinguished guests who have sacrificed so much for our country, including max cleeland. Its so nice to be here with senator casey and representative shuster, the representatives of one of the areas so affected and with our speaker, mr. Boehner. Thank you for making this occasion possible, mr. Speaker, and with leader reid. Leader mcconnell. I think we will all agree that as many ceremonies that we may participate in, this is singular in terms of how deeply ro
Whether its a special interest loophole in the tax code, to special interests, many of those tax expenditures do not create growth and they increase the deficit. And they are just like spending. Theyre called an expenditure because theyre giving a tax break to certain special interests. How does that fit in here . We want to go to the table, put everything on the table subject it toing a notic s a toing a noes tick scrutiny to to agnostic scrutiny that has fairness, simplicity and transparency. What the republicans are proposing this week is totally in opposition to our being able to do that effectively. What they are saying is let us take 800 billion permanently unpaid for out of the mix and then we have less to negotiate on. And then in terms of what we can do on the other side of the budget, which are investments into the future. I have always said, and i think that most economists would agree that the best nothing brings more money to the treasury or reduces the deficit more than i
Electrical generation back, those are done in conjunction with our gas and electric together. Most of the power plants in california are fed natural gas, you need to get the gas back up before you get the power plant back up if you have damage to both. We do have standards for all that activity in terms of our engineering design. The trick is for us to sit out there and talk with all the different regional areas including San Francisco and make sure we understand how were going to Work Together in the event we have an event that takes our services out or is greater than what were actually expecting and thats the challenge for all of us, all the service providers, is working together to figure out how to make that happen. Mr. Boland. This is where we fit into that link. We represent the utilities that protect and build the resill yepbs into the infrastructure. We fill a gap in attitude which is the relationships, distant and local relationships, cross boundaries between the multi discip
12, 15, its our obligation to put that together and get it to them. They are worried about the incident in their jurisdiction which they have to correct. Its our responsibility to reach bond those borders as their extension to bring in the reserves that they need to maintain that kaupblt newt of operation and then where we function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, were going to need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yepbs, absolutely, we have done that. Again as i mentioned earlier, to get our customers to fund all these Capital Projects we did up a contract with them. This is what youre get