john haley, transit director and john ruers, finance, is here to answer questions. to try to speak to issues that were raised in the two items, and in some questions we got, i'm going to walk through, if we could go to the slides, just a quick overview of capital funding, a discussion of muni performance, and then speak about the tpi program, which, as supervisor wiener said, one of the purposes of is to increase ridership. so looking at the big picture of our capital funding, and sorry that that's not showing up right on the screen, we have undertaken a comprehensive' quy capital planning process that starts with a 20 year unconstrained plan that lays out all of the needs for all of the assets that mta has. from that, we develop a five year capital improvement program, which is a fiscally constrained program and a a two year capital budget. the constrained budget is almost 24 billion to bring it into a state of good repair, calls for expansion and enhancement needs of the figure, nearly $6 billion, we would need every five years. when we bring that down to a five y

>> also just to note, we welcome john haley here who is not at risk and he is acting on behalf of at risk today. >> i'm happy to be here. >> lastly, there will be no closed session for today's meeting. that item has been canceled. >> okay. >> item 6, introduction of [inaudible]. >> i was reading up on the coverage from the recent nacto meeting which is the national association of city transportation officials. and i know that we were well represented there. mr. reiskin was there along with other members of the sustainable streets division. i thought it would be good for us to get an update on what was discussed there. i think there are a lot of things we can learn from other cities that are going through the same challenges that we are with our multi-modal shift and goals. i know they recently came out in an urban streets design guide. [speaker not understood] called out transportation planners as being so important to the future of america. so, i know that we have thankfully some of the best and the brightest in the nation. so, i think it would be really interesting to just get an u

thanks to john haley's leadership, to significantly streamline that process and get those buses much sooner than we would have otherwise. he also have -- you also have approved contract for rehab of a bunch of our existing buses in addition to the lrv fleet we have programmed which i'll speak about in a moment. in these overhaul projects we're identifying the components on the vehicles that are the most prone to failure, getting them replaced or rehabilitated. the results so far, the ones that come out of rehab for backup, for lack of a better term, perform much better than the rest of the group which has direct impact on the performance of the system. and the new buses you approved were hybrid buses. we have trolley bus procurement coming right on the heels of that. estate division as well as with the union on making sure we have adequate restroom facilities for operators. it may seem not very much related, but having decent, clean, safe rrmt restrooms for r operators is an essential part of our offering system because if we don't have them they have to defer off route to use the fa

. >> just to conclude that, i had meetings with john haley next week. he's going to help me with the service planning. he's going to know the full range of it. the trick of this assessment is that not all the impacts are going to happen in the next year or next few years. so, we do have to measure up with the milestones when a certain development opens. [speaker not understood] we're not just paying attention to the waterfront projects. we're looking at the transbay transit center. we're looking at all other a big demands. it would be wrong for us to be claiming for capacity improvements just on the waterfront when so much is happening one block inland. do share your confidence with the administration. i've worked with muni long enough to see the different responses that come out of these demands, the teams, input in command that report back to capital and say if you want to do this all the time, you need to think about this salient piece of infrastructure or this sorely needed upgrade over there. that is a conversation that is happening at mta. * i'm c

boehner former governor haley haley barbour who is still a kingmaker in the party senator jerry moran even sean hannity a major kingmaker in the party and call for a more moderate immigration stance within the republican party post-election including a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants currently living in the united states so you know bottom line is the republican party recognizing that ronald reagan was right well i think the are right in seeing that the american hispanic community there's a tremendous potential for a surge in popularity there for conservative policies popular i mean right. reagan did an amnesty for five or six million people plus reformed our immigration laws i would say the one big failure is that basically he he ordered the justice department stop enforcing employer sanctions and others don't get go after the fact cats anymore which created a magnet that brought us to where we are now you know i think that you know considering among the american hispanic community you know they start business is at a far higher rate than than the general populatio

boehner former governor haley haley barbour who's still a kingmaker in the party senator jerry moran even sean hannity a major kingmaker in the party and called for a more moderate immigration stance within the republican party post-election including a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants currently living in the united states so you know bottom line is the republican party recognizing that ronald reagan was right well i think the are right. seeing that in american hispanic community there's a tremendous potential for a surge in popularity there for conservative policies popular i mean ronald reagan did an amnesty for five or six million people plus reformed our immigration laws i would say the one big failure is that basically he he ordered the justice department stop enforcing employer sanctions and others don't get go after the fact cats anymore which created the magnet that brought us to where we are now you know i think that you know considering among the american hispanic community you know they start businesses at a far higher rate than than the general populatio

. >>> cnn's dana bash, former mississippi governor and republican party chairman haley barbour, john carry's campaign manager pete and gwynn i feel, deputy campaign manager, and also long of the gephardt group. thank you for coming. i want to talk about two of the things that happened this week. one of them was the endorsement, sort of, of mayor bloomberg for president obama. he said like so many other independents i have found the past four years to be disappointing. in 2008 obama ran as a pragmatic problem solver and consensus builder, but as president he devoted little time and effort to developing and sustaining a coalition of centrists which dooms hope for any real progress on illegal guns, immigration, tax reform, and deficit reduction. he engaged in partisan attacks and was debraced a pop list agenda focused more on redistributing income than creating it. that was the endorsement for president obama. why did he do it? why did he endorse president obama? >> you'll have to ask him. certainly what you read is no endorsement. one reason independents are favoring romney in this ele

. >>> cnn's dana bash, former mississippi governor and republican party chairman haley barbour, john kerry's campaign manager, and gwen ifill. deputy campaign manager, and also long of the gephardt group. thank you for coming. i want to talk about two of the things that happened this week. one of them was the endorsement, sort of, of mayor bloomberg for president obama. who said in his endorsement like so many other independents i have found the past four years to be in a word disappointing. in 2008 obama ran as a pragmatic problem solver and consensus builder, but as president he devoted little time and effort to developing and sustaining a coalition of centrists which dooms hope for any real progress on illegal guns, immigration, tax reform, and deficit reduction. he engaged in partisan attacks and was debraced a populist agenda focused more on redistributing income than creating it. that was the endorsement for president obama. why did he do it? why did he endorse president obama? >> you'll have to ask him. certainly what you read is no endorsement. one reason independents are fav

cantor. >> haley barbour on taxes, and this is from the republican governors association meeting in la las vegas. quote, if there's enough savings, if there's enough certainty about tax reform the next few years, i would, former governor haley barbour said when asked whether his party should consider softening its opposition to letting the bush tax cuts on the wealthiest expire. i mean, that's just an amazing, amazing, amazing switch from where we even were on the campaign trail last week. >> well, that's right, luke. and also governor bob mcdonnell said something else. elections have consequences and that, of course, was a line republicans used in 2011 during the debt ceiling negotiations as well as all of the other times they were actually trying to trim the budget deficit saying, look, this is why we were elected in 2010 to come and do this. now president obama has that same argument in 2012. look, the presidential contest was fought on the contours of raising taxes on the wealthy. i won. now it's time to negotiate. >> the romney campaign had its final autopsy call, if you will,

john kasich of ohio is doing it too? and nikki haley of south carolina. and rick perry of texas? folks, the list goes on and on. i think you get the idea. walker explained his reasoning for leaving it up to the feds earlier. >> it's like saying you're going to get a house, but the federal government is going to design the interior with all the amenities, the furniture, everything else and the only thing left is they ask you whether you want blinds or curtains, but bet you're getting the -- co-signing the mortgage. >> governor walker, you're not whining are you? folks, you know what this means? this means these republican governors who do not want obama care and they are going to turn it over to the feds, what they are doing is setting up an exchange and setting up the system for us to down the road go to universal health care. brilliant move by the obama care folks, don't you think? joining me now is john nichols, washington correspondent. author of the book "uprising." john, good to have you with us tonight. by rejecting the state-run exchanges, are these republicans paving the

john kasich of ohio is doing it too? and nikki haley of south carolina. and rick perry of texas? folks, the list goes on and on. i think you get the idea. walker explained his reasoning for leaving it up to the feds earlier. >> it's like saying you're going to get a house, but the federal government is going to design the interior with all the amenities, the furniture, everything else and the only thing left is they ask you whether you want blinds or surtains, but bet you're getting the -- co-signing the mortgage. >> governor walker, you're not whining are you? folks, you know what this means? this means these republican governors who do not want obama care and they are going to turn it over to the feds, what they are doing is setting up an exchange and setting up the system for us to down the road go to universal health care. brilliant move by the obama care folks, don't you think? joining me now is john nichols, washington correspondent. author of the book "uprising." john, good to have you with us tonight. by rejecting the state-run exchanges, are these republicans paving the

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to the folks who joined us most recently liek haley, cam savage, jason miller and john mclaughlin. cheryl johnson, idane, laura miller, cindy, and susie bar nhardt. those ladies have been all over the state and logged thousands and thousands of miles. began 634 days ago, i have to tell you it has been an experience i will never ever forget. as i told a reporter earlier today -- he asked what would be the overwhelming memory of this experience regardless of what would happen win or lose, and i told him that without question the thing that has given me the most satisfaction and, indeed, the most inspiration is having spoken to so many hoosiers over the last 6 months that i've talked to for only a moment and i hear a different accent in their voice. they're not the people who were born, as most of us were, in the united states of america. they were born in other places around the world. and they came to this country and they express their love of country in a way that exceeds what most of us do who are natural born americans. and what i kept hearing in their voices over the last few w

to digest what happened and trying to figure out exactly what went wrong and i love this quote from haley barber, says we've got to give our political organizations a very serious probablictology exam. >> it appears to me that 3 million fewer votes were cast for mitt romney than for john mccain, it tells the party is splintered, it doesn't know if it's down ride conservative or the middle establishment or we really, they really need to find this, and remember this, that the tea party was born april 15th, 2009 on the heels of taxed enough already. every time you would talk to a tea party representative or person, any one of the groups and ask them, taxes, i get. what about social issues, what about contraceptive. they didn't want it talk about it. they want toed to talk about the social issues and somehow the democrats attached the social issues to the tea party. >> and bob, you have familiarity with that. >> what the heck. >> not obviously republican and democrats have shared losses over time and it's normal, right, for a party to go through a little self-examination and figure out where

to digest what happened and trying to figure out exactly what went wrong and i love this quote from haley barber, says we've got to give our political organizations a very serious probablictology exam. >> it appears to me that 3 million fewer votes were cast for mitt romney than for john mccain, it tells the party is splintered, it doesn't know if it's down ride conservative or the middle establishment or we really, they really need to find this, and remember this, that the tea party was born april 15th, 2009 on the heels of taxed enough already. every time you would talk to a tea party representative or person, any one of the groups and ask them, taxes, i get. what about social issues, what about contraceptive. they didn't want it talk about it. they want toed to talk about the social issues and somehow the democrats attached the social issues to the tea party. >> and bob, you have familiarity with that. >> what the heck. >> not obviously republican and democrats have shared losses over time and it's normal, right, for a party to go through a little amination a out where they're doing. >

and senator john thune. and there is the one name out there that people say could win it in a walk but says he has no enthusiasm for it, former governor jeb bush of florida. there is the long short list. martha: it's so interesting. jeb bush's name comes up early in this process. you think of president george w. bush saying he thinks there is nobody better. he said that a while back, to run for office. we'll see. maybe he will. but, a lot of water will be under the bridge by the time we get to that decision. but one thing learned by this election is you can't start too early in terms of building that ground game. >> reporter: in terms of preparing for it and getting the apparatus in place. but what about those visits to the state. we said marco rubio will go out there next weekend. governor o'malley on the democratic side. but heed these words of caution from karl rove. >> candidates who spend a lot of time in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina in 2013 and 2014 are making a mistake. it's important to mak

leo haley, national commander, catholic war veterans of the u.s.a. william meeks, secretary, vietnam veterans of america. john hamilton, commander in chief, veterans of foreign wars of the united states. cleve gear, national commander amvets. samuel hunt, national president, blinded veterans association. john cahill, national commander, army and navy union of the u.s.a. h. gene overstreet, national commander, noncommissioned officers. james kutz, national commander, the american legion. bruce mckenty, national commander, military order of the purple heart of the u.s.a. mark kilgore, national president, fleet reserve association. james tuey, national commandant, marine corps league. edward brogan, national president military chaplin association. bill lawson, national president, paralyzed veterans of america. benny atkins, national commander, legion of valor of the u.s.a. gary angen, commander in chief, military order of the world wars. jack clemp, president, national association for uniform services. the associate members of the committee are located