[applause] [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ . >> place your hand and repeat after me. i jb pritzker do solemnly swear that i will support the constitution of the united states.. and the constitution of the state of illinois. i will faithfully exercise the

duties of office - - officer of governor of illinois to the best of my ability. [cheers and applause] [applause] . >> thank you all very much. thank you.

i want to begin today by thinking my family. first, my partner and my best friend and the love of my life and now the first lady of illinois. [cheers and applause] my wonderful children teddy and donnie i love you more than life itself. [applause]ch and my parents who departed this world too soon more than three decades ago but left behind a set of values around honor and decency that will and do her as long as they are good people in the world. please join me to give innovation and my partner and

your lieutenant governor stratton. [cheers and applause] also chief justice and president and michael madigan attorney general elect , secretary of state jesse white comptroller treasurer members of the general assembly members of the congressional delegationme national guard adjunct to general to all of you on behalf of the people of illinois thank you for your service. [applause]ha

ladies and gentlemen, for 200 years illinois has proudly stood as the beating heart of our republic. a place where people have high hope andoo clear vision where lincoln found the metal to take a warring nation in both hands and hold us together. where obama came to organize and witness the courage that runs deep in the community to launch his bid to make history. [applause] this is where the 13th and 19th amendments to the u.s. constitution were first ratified ending slavery and guaranteeing a woman's right to vote. [applause]

this is where the sunday morning after the great chicago fire reverend robert past of the first unitarian church in immigrant and abolitionist and the woman suffrage advocat advocate, admits to the broken ruins of the church to bring hope and vision to the devastated congregation. his parishioners gathered around him peeking through splintered beams and columns serving as the pulpit. his words that morning have survived the 148 years since. a testament to their power and truth. what is lost? first, our homes. secondary businesses. that these are temporary. we have not lost our geography. the lakes of the forest or the prairies long before we were

born and they decided a great city would be built we have not lost hope the fire makes no difference to me if you stay here i will and we will work together to help each other out of our troubles. [applause] since his time americans have often had to gather in broken cathedrals of stone and glas glass, aspirations and promises to reaffirm our faith to one another. we find ourselves at such a moment now. we contend every day with an economy that gives too little and takes too much allows passion and work ethic to be overwhelmed by unexpected health emergencies and the rising cost of living. we want strong families but have yet to embrace more

robust policies of paid parental leave and affordable childcare to sustain them. [applause] we watched 100 year storms that now come everyry year and yet we don't allow the science of climate change to guide decision-making. [applause] we failed to hold accountable leaders to sacrifice for personal gain the substantive pageantry for patriotism in the nation founded on fearless ideas but yet we move away from those drawn to that fiction. we want to better roads and wages and schools but we vilify anyone who dare suggest a workable path to those things. we allow schools and movie theaters and neighborhoods to

become battlefields. legally accessible by the weapons of war.we the abdication of responsibility must and. [applause] [cheers and applause] just a few weeks ago i went to murphy hospital to attend a vigil honoring the victims of the shootings there and honor the police officer who ran into gunfire and not away from i it, the university of illinois doctor who raised money for disadvantaged kids and led her church choir to honor a pharmacist who went into medicine because she struggled with health problemsdi herself. these are the very best of illinois as a public servant it's hard to bear witness to violence such as this but also exposes you to people who stick together timeth and again to remind us what amazing capacity we have for change at

the mercy hospital vigil sister barbara read a franciscan prayer that speaks to who we are in illinois and said may god bless us with tears to shed from those who suffer from pain and war and rejection so we can comfort them and turn their pain into joy. may god bless us with enough foolishness to believe we can make a difference in this world to do what others cannot be done and bring justice and kindness to all children and the poor. at 200 years old still a young promise, our time here is a blink in 2019 we begin a new century with a new maturity and enough foolishness to believe we can make a difference in this world. [applause]

that starts with leadership that abandons single-minded arrogant notions. [applause] no. no, everything is not broken. our history is a story of occasional stumbles backward better promise renewed with each generation we will try harder, we will do better that big breakthroughs are from self-sacrifice of heroes and big change rides on what we can do together not just one person attempted alone. [applause] neighbors working side-by-side lost their homes and worldly possessions of the recent tornado. they know what reverend colyer said right after the great

chicago fire wasas right. we work together to help each other out of our troubles. so today with all the challenges illinois faces democrats and republicans will work together and we must begin with our most basic responsibilitiesd . [applause] we will proposepl and debate and pass a balanced budget this year. [cheers and applause] it want to be easy but our obligation as a stay l match our resources the fiscal situation right now is challenging and then to embrace hard choices we need to bring efficiencies for

information technology systems are outdated cost more to maintain and replace. inexpensive health care prevention programs were decimated causing higher spending. balancing the budget means lowering the cost whilese delivering the high quality services illinoisans deserve. [applause] but be clear. i will balance one - - i will not balance the budget on the backs of the sick and the suffering. [cheers and applause] i will haul about those functions of government for that ideological agenda i won't make government the enemy and government employees the scapegoats. [cheers and applause]

responsible fiscal management is a marriage of numbers and values. which is why it's time to start the earnest work of creating a fair tax system here in illinois. [cheers and applause] our regressive tax system including property taxes and sales taxes currently has the middle class paying nearly double the rate of the wealthy. that's not fair and it doesn't pay our bills today the fiscal instability affect everyit single person if you earn millions or the minimum wage our government waste tens of millions of dollars of higher interest rates than any other state.

we scare businesses and families away because they fear our uncertain future. the current tax system is currently unsustainable others will lie to you about this. i want to. the future of illinois that will bring us into the future one - - into the 21st century and the vast majority of the united states i am not naïve what it will take to do this with the states budget and a fair tax system will be welcome to the table but if you lead with scare tactics you will be met with considerable political will. [applause] it's time for infrastructure

and on the verge of collapse to mean people's lives are in dangerer and they take longer to deliver and cost more. and we must be built like a. let's remember an aging highway system is missing those golden hours. so the dry acts of government to affect the richness and joyoy of our lives and with those two champion and the citizens

to reject those efforts to the pursuit of happiness. to bring that renaissance to the down state of illinois with basicwe resources with basic business building and to have high speed broadband internet coverage. [applause] every student is dependent upon connectivity and no state should be left out. our future depends upon our actions today to have a broad vision and then to be forced upon us in ways to offer little control and catastrophic outcomes for our

children. to that and as one of the first acts of governor to become a member of the us climate alliance upholding those ideals from the paris climate accord. working men and women deserve to have a department of labor to protectpr workers rights and then to deserve a 15-dollar minimum wage. it's good for the working families of illinois. i will be committed to help us become one of the fastest-growing big state economy in the nation to attract jobs and businesses to

illinois to raise caps on technical assistance to help illinoisans across our state to build new businesses and jobs our economic success depends upon it. in the interest of keeping the public safe from harm in the interest of expanding true justice and advancing economic inclusion i will work with the legislature to legalize tax to legalize the sale of cannabis in illinois i will approach education with a holistic mindset that students do their best and teachers are paid

well and where kids start learning and the economy grows with universities are strong. and we will do all of this at the most diverse set of perspectives i have built a cabinet of those experiences that i don't share with expertise that i don't have all of the illinois must be involved in the decision-making furthermore i want all of the children of illinois to see someone that looks like them in our government and with all that

turmoil illinoisans will build and innovate and create and dream. the most fertile soil in the world in every part of the state we have 13000 manufacturing firms in illinois that employee 580,000 people now proud union workers with the best training in the world. [applause] when out of ten computer science degrees in the nation come from illinois college and universities. our entrepreneurs are tireless dreamers whether galesburg and

to create custom jewelry still using his grandfather's original recipe to bake or sell candy in richmond that is the illinois that i see that's the illinois that i know they are fearlessss and audacious another century of boundless opportunitye when the faith to remember reverend colyer and his ruined church and he was the vessel for his parishioners to have the natural beauty of illinois and knew that nothing could steal that from them. i see the naturalalof beauty in our people and more than anything else in our capacity

so consider the story that casey moved last may and they proudly flew a rainbow flag behind their home that then somebody snuck into their backyard and stole it replacing it with an american flag ironic because the thief doesn't understand that you robbed the american flag of meaning when you steal their method of self-expression. that could have been the end of the story but they would not let it be she put a flag in her yard in solidarity then kept buying them because the neighbors kept asking for them. to. soon there were flags everywhere a place that was

filled with hate conquered with love instead. [applause] and frankly i have grown weary of all this hate and i have to say it just seem like there is one thing that i had control of. remember our ability to grow weary feels the enormous capacity to be kind not all by ambition or agreed but by kindness a willingness to be kind often overlooks life to be kind and politics can change the world. over a century ago public policy offered a penniless immigrant to illinois a public

school education and the opportunity to succeed and 130 years later his great-grandson just took his oath long took the oath of office to become the grand one - - the governor of this great state. [cheers and applause] spee12 thank you illinois for your faith in me i promise to live up to it every day together let's go into the new century to help each other out of troubles without foolishnessnt to believe we can make a difference in this world with enough kindness to find the courage to change thank you. god bless the state of illinois and god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] ♪

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middle names that he was an elite and a confederate colonel a respected calvary the men in the confederate calvary and at the time of the losses the fifth term in congress with the poor girl from kentucky who was very hungry for an education to run into breckenridge and she was desperate to leave a mark in the world and get an education. hile sitting on the dc

circuit court of appeals. this is an hour. your . >> the argument is next so chief justice if it may please the court they did not require cms to go through notice and comment rulemaking before it could fund its calculation of

one component of the hospital's reimbursement and with that additional determination of reimbursement. and could be challenged on administrative appeal. >> i know that you say that. that had you take us outside of policy? with every single provider uniformly. and the board word look at it and say to be required solicited to the agency's position if they tell you the

agency is wrong then is that politics? i'm lost to how this isn't an agency policy. >> several points justice soto mayor. the first is whether the issue is the requirement it only triggers the notice of rule and comment through the legal standard. >> that is what i have a problem with. for the policy and that defines what they will get.