her monthly payments by more than $1,000 allowing jacqueline to save both her business and her home. [ applause ] by investing in our one-stop centers you're helping marylanders move from unemployment to reemployment. dave took the initiative to visit our one stop center. while training through pathways in cyber community at carroll community college, he participated in study groups and with hard work and resilience he recently landed a cyber security job. linda gill liss was also able to find a new job with the help of our state's one-stop centers. i want to share with you some of her own words. linda writes "i lost my job in the middle of june. being able to use the computers was a real lifesaver for me as i do not have the internet at

home. the staff behind the desk at the one-stop center, state employees by the way, were always helpful. they read over my coverlet terse, thank you notes and applications, always giving good suggestions. what i feel helped me most was susan willy's coaching on interview technique. susan, a dlrr state employee, knowing when my interview was called me the day before to ask if it would be a help to me to practice some questions. i'm grateful to have had valuable resources and assistance. it's part of the reason i have my position that i call my dream job." get this, linda's dream job actually pays more than the job she lost. she and coach susan from our one-stop center are both with us today. would this dynamic duo please stand.

[ applause ] so while more marylanders are working this year than last, still too many of our people continue to search for work. you know that. better isn't good enough for the mom or dad who continues to search for a job. this is why the most important job we create is the next one. this is why everyone is needed. and this is why i'm asking everyone to do more. over the last six years, i've asked you to make the right decisions and admittedly oftentimes the very tough decisions, to create jobs and move maryland forward into better times. in a period of our nation's history when shortsighted choices have severely undercapitalized the job creating potential of america, you have made better and stronger choices for maryland. because of your wise and balanced decisions about where

to cut and your smart decisions about where to invest, maryland's businesses are creating jobs again. last year, in fact, maryland businesses created more new jobs than we had in any year since the recession hit and at twice the rate of our good neighbors in the commonwealth of virginia. together we have driven down unemployment to a three-year low. by restoring fiscal responsibility with a balanced approach, you've secured maryland's place as one of only a handful of states, nancy cop, which earns a aaa bond rating from all three bond rating agencies. because of your decisions and a lean are government that helps deliver results, college is more

affordable, health care is more available, mormons an dads in maryland are working this year than last. because you've had the courage to make the right investments, maryland schools have been number one in america for an unprecedented four years in a row. [ applause ] our high school student are now achieving the best ap test scores in the nation. our high schools are graduating a record percentage of our students, and our colleges are graduating 21% more students in science, technology, engineering and math. this has never happened before. it did not happen by accident. hard working teachers, hard working students, caring parents have all been supported by your

strong choices. with a balanced approach of cuts and revenues, you've wisely chosen to invest in education, even as you made record cuts in almost everything else. likewise, our state's innovation economy is not merely the product of geography. it's also the product of the important chases and the important investments that we have made together in initiatives like invest maryland, the biotechnology tax credit, the r&d tax credit, the healing power of stem cell research, the cyber maryland initiative and rural broadband. none of these things happened by themselves. progress is a choice. strengthening and growing our middle class is a choice. we can be the victims of circumstance or we can build a better future. as we discussed last year, there are costs and there are values. we cannot kid ourselves into

thinking that by failing to invest in our future we are somehow saving resources, that we're somehow being clever in saving money. for everything has a cost. failing to make decisions that are consistent with the best interests of the next generation, this, too, has a cost. so without any sugarcoating, let me plainly lay out the tough choices, the costs and the tradeoffs before us. this year's budget is a jobs budget. after cutting the growth rate to 1.9%, it does more for job creation annie budget in recent history. the capital budget alone is projected to support 52,000 jobs, building modern schools, modern roads, modern transit, modern clean water infrastructure. to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments. investments by all of us, for all of us. that's not a democratic or

republican idea. that's an economic and a historic truth. it was true for our parents. it was true for our grandparents and it is a truth that has built our state and built our country. to expand opportunity and to strengthen and grow maryland's middle class, this budget invests to create and save jobs, 78,000 teaching jobs at public schools across maryland. 11,650 jobs tearing down those temporary learning shacks and replacing them with modern classrooms. 25,000 crime fighting jobs as police officers and others make our neighborhoods safer. 19,000 jobs through record procurement at businesses led by women and minority owners in maryland. several thousand jobs thanks to the venture capital dollars that your vote supported for invest maryland that will infuse into maryland's innovation economy

even greater private venture fund dollars. 400 jobs building facilities like the new math and engineering building at cecil community college, the new nursing and allied health building at hartford community college, the new health sciences building at howard community college, 2,750 jobs building facilities like the new center for communications and information technology at frostberg state. the new school for business complex at morgan state university. 2500 jobs improving local drinking water systems and upgrading wastewater treatment plants at salisbury, frederick, lexington park, back river and baltimore city. 1100 jobs building affordable housing units in such high demand. 29 4,000 jobs in maryland's nation leading health sector that all of us support through our work to drive down costs, improve quality, expand access

and reduce health disparities for healthier and more productive workforce. beyond this budget, together we'll create 1500 jobs installing smart meters in homes all over maryland in the bge and pepco service area that will help families save on their electric bills, and when lieutenant governor anthony brown with his leadership and your vote, we can create thousands more jobs on top of the very successful public-private partnership at the port of baltimore that created 5700 jobs, we can leverage even more private dollars for public good through public-private partnerships. we balance these job investments with cuts, with revenues and with regulatory reform. with 800 million in spending cuts and reductions, this budget brings total cuts in reductions over the life of this administration to 7.5 billion. in fact, to achieve balance over

the last three years, we have relied almost entirely on cuts. but with 84 cents of every dollar that we invest allocated to public education, public safety and public health, and with one of the small estate government workforces in the nation, every passing year leaves fewer and fewer responsible choices for cutting. this budget, therefore, calls for new revenues in support of two important investments. one is the cost of education and retaining quality teachers in our classrooms. the second is clean water infrastructure. now, educating our children is a shared responsibility between states -- between the state and the counties. last year after rebalancing and saving our defined benefit pension system, we are now asking you in this session to bring maryland into closer

alignment with how most states share teacher retirement system costs. our proposal balances this responsibility 50/50 between the state and the counties. it also provides 244.5 million to the counties to cover additional costs in year one. no prior proposal on this issue has ever offered this much help to the counties. we will partially fund this education cost along with other priorities by capping income tax deductions and phasing out some exemptions for the 20% of us who earn more than others. asking our fell he citizens to do more will not be popular. but without anger, without fear, without any meanness, in the course of this discussion let's ask one another how much less education do you think would be good for our children's future? how much less education do we

want? how much less public safety? how many fewer jobs? there are costs and there are values. along these lines my republican predecessor called the flush tax one of his most important accomplishments while in office. by allowing us to make green updates to wastewater treatment plants, we have reduced the pollution floering into our bay. the fee was never sufficient to cover the work that has to be done. while others have suggested tripling the tax cut, i believe the fairest way for ward is to double the yield by switching households to a fee structure based on consumption. in other words, the less you use, the less you pay. this will double the amount of work we are able to do for the bay. in the next few days,ly be submitting a separate bill for your consideration on transportation funding. you do not have to be a traffic

engineer to know that maryland has some of the worst traffic in america. we pay a heavy price in terms of the time we spend idling in number to number traffic when we could be at home with our families. with the growing population and aging infrastructure, we might soon pay a steeper price. bridges are not like trees, they do not grow stronger or broader with age. today with gasoline at $3.50 per gallon, our primary source of revenue for transportation is the same flat 23 cents it was during governor schaffer's second term when the price of a gallon of gasoline was $1.08. meanwhile it now actually costs more to paint the bay bridge than it did to build the first span. as "the baltimore sun" editorialized yesterday, if maryland continues to embrace a 1992 tax rate, it will have to settle for crumbling 1992 era

infrastructure. through the years, and as you know, there have been many recommendations on funding options, but no one has wanted to ask people to do more. the best remaining option in my view is to repeal the current sales tax exemption on a gallon of gasoline, phasing it out by 2% a year with the breaking mechanism to protect consumers in the event that the price of gas spikes. we should also enhance protections in the law to better safeguard these new investments in the trust fund. an enhanced investment in this scale would allow us not only to start getting our way out of traffic congestion and all the time we waste in traffic, it would also allow us to create 705,000 new jobs building needed roads and needed bridges and public transit throughout our state. now look, i know that every

family is still feeling the effects of this recession. the people i serve are the people that you serve. i know this is a very, very difficult ask, but nobody else is going to do this for us except for us. beyond these issues are our work to eradicate childhood hunger continues, our work to reduce infant mortality continues, our work to expand drug treatment continues. there are other things we can do and should do to create jobs and expand opportunity this session. with your vote, we can forge a historic partnership between johns hopkins, morgan state university and the university of maryland's campuses and your state government with the goal of transferring 40 new technologies, new ideas out of the labs and into the economy to create jobs within a year. now, maryland is already number one, number one in research

among the 50 states. therefore, it is absolutely unacceptable that we should rank 37th when it comes to technology transfer, commercialization, taking those new ideas and getting them into the economic veins of our state where they can create jobs and employ our technology transfer and commercialization of new ideas. [ applause ] because too much paperwork means less time putting maryland back g th administrative burdens on business. we have already begun streamlining permit applications in this session. we are going to be submitting 750 pages of regulations for you to reform, reduce and remove from the books, and i welcome your ideas and support in finding even more pages to cut. in our pursuit of a cleaner and

more reliable energy future for maryland, this administration has entered into a settlement. with exelon energy with very positive results for maryland families. not only will ratepayers and families in need of energy assistance receive immediate benefits, exelon has agreed to build a new gas-fired power plant in maryland, the first plant to be built in maryland in more than a decade. under the settlement, exelon has agreed to create 6,000 maryland jobs with investments -- [ applause ] -- 6,000 new maryland jobs with investments in solar, onshore wind and in the first stages of atlantic offshore wind. over the interim, chairman davis and chairman middleton and their respective committees have done a lot of really good work developing a consensus approach for maryland offshore wind.

i greatly appreciate their hard work. i know it is not simple and i look forward to being able to sign legislation that their committees put forward this session. i also appreciate the tremendous amount of time and consideration that so many of you have given over the interim to curbing the growing problem of septic pollution from large scale housing developments. large scale housing developments that threaten the bay and also a that threaten the very future of maryland agriculture. a house on septic causes six to ten times the amount of pollution to the bay as a house on public sewer. in fact, of the four largest causes of nitrogen pollution into the bay, none is growing faster than septic pollution. the moderate, reasonable and tiered approach that the task force crafted is patterned on what several rural counties are already doing to protect farmland and protect the waters

of the bay. along with president miller's proposal to exempt working farms from the estate tax, this measure will much better protect the agricultural lands upon which family farming depends, and it will better protect the waters of the bay and it will save all of us a huge amount of money in remediation costs down the road. [ applause ] i'd like to talk with you now about a quality of civil marriage rights for all marylanders. the very reason our state was founded was for religious freedom. and at the heart of religious freedom is respect for the freedom of individual conscience. the way forward, the way to sustain and enhance our common life together is equal respect

for the freedom of all. we all want the same thing for our children. we want our children to live in a loving, caring, committed and stable home committed and stable home, protected equally under the law. and it is not right and it is not just that the children of gay couples should have lesser protections than the children of other families in our state. nor would it be right to force religious institutions to conduct marriages that conflict with their own religious beliefs and teachings. in maryland, we already recognize civil marriages performed in other states. and just over the border in the district of columbia. it is time to join with clergy,

faith-based organizations, civil rights organizations, community leaders and individuals across our state to a civil marriage law that protects religious freedom and civil marriage rights equally under the law. [ applause [ i leave you with these final thoughts. each of you here has responded to a noble calling in your hearts to serve others. and history has determined that you should serve neighbors, the people in our state in a

decision-making role. a decision-making role for all at a time of difficult tradeoffs and difficult choices for all. you are each an integral and an indispensable part of our people's progress in consciousness, our people's progress in caring, of our people's progress in freedom. of our people's progress in our shared sense of what is right and what is just under the law for all. where there are no easy solutions or simple answers, the greatest council that we have is the truth in our own hearts. for at a ternl level, far deeper than any party, there's something that stirs deeply in each of us when we talk with a mom or dad who because of our choices have found a job at long

last to provide for their family's future. there is something that stirs deep in our beings. when we speak with the home foreclosures. in the eyes we saw, gathered in the historic ro ten doo with their parents.

for the first time in 380 years. i am sure there are many who say why did it take them so long? if there is a common thread, it's the dignity of work, the dignity of a child's home, the dignity of every individual. a great man once wrote there is an absolute direction direction of growth. life advances in that direction. life is never mistaken, either about its road or its stes destination. it tells us towards what part of the horizon we must steer if we are to see the dawn light grow more intense. may the choices we make on behalf of the people of

maryland, the choices for job creation, the choices for human dignity, the choices for a better future be the right choices for the generations counting on ours. but very, very much. tonight on cspan a discussion on leadership roles for women, including archbishop desmond tutu, the prime minister of thailand and the chief operating officer of facebook, cheryl sandgerg. >> as a man gets more powerful and successful, he is better less. as a woman gets more powerful and successful, she is less liked. so early childhood through adolescence, all the way through, we reward men every step of the way for being leaders, being assertive, taking risks, and we teach women as young as 4 lay back, be communal. and until we change that at the

personal level, we can't change this. we really need to go out there and say there's an ambitious gap. we need our boys to be as ambitious to achieve at home and for women to achieve in the work force. >> we'll have more from the world economic forum this week. thursday, the heads of the world bank and international monetary fund to talk about the economic outlook for this year. and on friday, a discussion of the economic future of africa. plus the ceos of several major corporations talk about their role in the global recovery. in a few moments, an oral history interview with former nasa director, gene kranz. in an hour and a half, the

congressional medal ceremony. and later, a 1963 nasa film biography of john glenn, the first american to orbit the earth. >> we got started because there are a lot of conservative think tanks that work across issues. but there -- before c.a.p. there had been no conservative think tank on national security and policy. we think that there's often an ideology behind particular arguments that are made in washington with very little facts behind them. and part of our job is to, you know to, make the arguen'ts, and the factual arguments and the evidence-based arguen'ts behind our own views. and i do think that sometimes,

you know, when the facts don't argue for our position, we re-examine those positions. because, you know, we fundamentally believe the most important thing is to be right about what your views are. >> a look at the center for american progress, sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. john glenn piloted the mercury capsule friendship 7 into space 50 years ago this month. next, roy nae, a long-time nbc news reporter who covered the american manned space program interviewed nasa flight and missions operations director gene kranz. kranz worked on mercury, gemini and apoll jie space missions and was fight director when the apollo astronauts landed on the moon. he and his team played a significant role in guiding three astronauts back to earth after an explosion on the spacecra spacecraft. this is part two of an oral history interview conducted for

nasa's johnson space center. >> it is time to move on to apollo 12. i can remember pete conrad since you were talking about one great test pilot, another said to me, lord, those guys landed on the moon. what do i do for an encore. was there a similar feeling here at mission control? >> no, i think that they -- in fact it didn't take a second for the program office to ratchet up the complexity, objectives. once you land on the moon, what are you going to do to top it? i'm going to land next to a surveyor satellite on the moon that was put up there a couple of years ago. we're going to give them a verbal guidance update, they're going to enter into their computer which is going to alter their trajectory so they can land right there. and doggone, if they didn't do it! i think the entire apollo 12 mission had this -- now, for a change, i was sitting back. i