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new york state supreme court judge diane kiesel. then at 10:00 p.m. on reel america, 30 years ago this week, "challenger" exploded killing all seven crew members. watch president reagan's address to the nation about the explosion and a 1986 havenasa rt detailing the causes. >> today say day for mourning and remembering. we are pained by the tragedy of "challenger." we share this pain with all of the people of our country. this is truly a national loss. >> sunday morning at 10:00, a look at the iowa caucuses including howard dean's speech featuring the dean scream. and the congress frens ference s caucuses whose speakers include tim craft who was the iowa caucus' campaign manager for jimmy carter. two panels with former campaign

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mississippi governor phil bryant delivered his state of the state address in jackson. his 2016 budget called for tax cuts and improving the state's troubled foster care system. this is governor bryant's second term. this is 30 minutes. [ applause ] >> thank you and good evening. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you. for that wonderful welcome. thank you, mr. lieutenant governor. as always, i appreciate your presiding over this, our fifth state of the state together. i'm confident this term of office will be as productive as

our first one. this state would not have enjoyed the success i have been able to report these past four years without the leadership of you and speaker gunn. no governor has ever had the benefit of any better partners along the path to mississippi's feature. i earnestly and sincerely thank you and your honorable membership. each year i have noted the most energetic applause has been reserved for the first lady. personally observing her heart work and dedication to the people we all represent, i can understand that reaction. i need only thank my first lady for 39 years in mississippi's first lady, deborah bryant. [ applause ]

i sincerely appreciate the officials here tonight. i'm grateful to have the members of the mississippi supreme court and mississippi court of appeals here with us. i have had the rare privilege of appointing such fine jurists as judge donald bean and judge james maxwell to the supreme court. i have appointed harvard law graduate jack wilson and former u.s. attorney jim greenlee to the court of appeals. tonight we are all honored by the court's presence. let me say congratulations to all of the members here tonight, particularly of those who have or will be selected as committee

chairman. i can assure you the leadership weighs every appointment with extreme deliberation and attention. and i'm certain you will do no less than the consideration of your important duties as committee chairmen and chairwomen. 25 years ago, i took the only of office as a member of the house of representatives. it was a wonderful day and has been a beautiful journey. but all along the way, i have remembered the pride and excitement i felt becoming a representative of this body and a humbled public servant. my goal then as it is today was to do the most good. i believe we have all had help accomplishing our goals and our personal and professional life. you see, i am confident god continues to rule over the affairs of man. and i believe he has blessed

mississippi's leadership and its people. we now face a new year where i am able to inform the people and the dearly elected members of the house and senate, the state of the state of mississippi is sound. [ applause ] disrupted only occasionally by some challenges of our own making. allow me to explain this. as you know, physical year 2016, revenue projections were somewhat optimistic. we are optimistic people. at the end of last year's session, we projected a growth of 2.2% or $124 million increase over fy-2015. as was prudent, the budget committee readjusted the revenue after collections failed to meet projections.

in november of 2016, revenue estimates were reduced by $65 million. necessitating future budget reductions. in order to balance the state budget, i instructed the department of finance and administration to transfer $35 million from the rainy day fund to the general fund and instituted cuts to some agencies of 1.5%. a number of critical agencies and some that have already have deficits were excluded from the cuts. this included public safety and veterans affairs. the mississippi adequate education program, student financial aid were also exempted. fortunately, our savings account, a rainy day fund, is available for just such proje projected shortfalls. if revenues continue to be under projections, i will transfer an additional amount of funds and

make similar cuts to state agencies. this is the governor's statutory responsibility, and i will not hesitate to carry out this duty. if i could add here a reminder that the executive budget recommendation for fy-2016 was $68 million less in spending than appropriated. the ebr as we call it at the governor's office -- that's that document we're going to start labeling, please read before discarding. for your convenience, a copy of the executive budget recommendation for fiscal year 2016 has been placed on your desk. i'm sure you will enjoy it. as you will see in that document, our projections keep most agencies budgets level funded for fy-2017. it is an easy guide for balancing the state's budget

without spending money for recurring expenses and it restores the balance of the rainy day fund to its statutory limit. it's full of tough decisions and sound business practices. and it will not make everyone happy. however, it may help prevent cuts in agencies next year by being physically conservative this year. i feel certain that is your desire as well. interestingly enough, the slow revenue growth is curious to most of us, including our state economist. the shortfalls seem to be the result of a reduction in sales and use tax collections. as we all expected, oil and gas severance tax was under the prior year. however, the individual income tax has increased by $17.6 million over last year reflecting the growth in jobs.

it appears taxpayers simply remain hesitant to spend on consumer goods in this fragile economy. now some portion of the decline in sales tax can also be a attributed to online purchases where the state receives little income. this decline in sales is clearly understandable with the stock market dropping and the petroleum industry in a free fall. mississippi is part of a global economy and not protected from its instabilities. there are some conditions well beyond our control here in the capitol. so let us concentrate on the improvements we can and should make here in mississippi, beginning with some good news. as you know, this year $150 million will be received from this restore act settlement for appropriations by the

legislature. i have a previously announced some $54 million in economic restoration projects on the coast and over $200 million of environmental restoration and conservation projects. beginning in 2019, $40 million a year will be forwarded to the legislature from the settlement until 2033. this revenue will add $600 million to mississippi's coffers during those 15 years. now, i will obviously defer the decision regarding the appropriations of these funds to the legislature as it should be. however, i do feel strongly about the restoration of the gulf coast. after all, it was the coast that felt the impact of the largest environmental disaster in this nation's history. only five years after suffering

our nation's worst natural disaster. i work to bring those funds totaling over $2 billion is all but complete. i can i can assure you this effort would not have been possible without the help of our congressional delegation. particularly congressman steven palasso and jim hood. it is also the hard work of the mississippi department of environmental quality and their executive director that had this to a beneficial conclusion. they should be commended all of them for a job well done. [ applause [ applause ]

>> thank you. unlike many of our neighboring states who have had financial and budget challenges, we do not have a large deficit but rather a savings of nearly $400 million. as stated earlier, income could be better and reductions in some budgets were necessary to meet the income of 2016, but these are expected budget adjustments when the economy slows and revenues decline. it is also the result of a 30% cumulative growth and budget expenditure. our general fund budget grew from $4.4 billion in fy 201 1 to 5.7 billion in 2016. a five-year increase of more than a billion dollars.

now these increases have included $400 million more spending on k-12 education. and overall increases in education to include $100 million teacher pay raise. and the last four years nearly every agency has seen more revenue, more spending on government services. in fact, the state personnel board estimates that over 11,000 state employees have received raises in the past four years alone. now, these raises do not include those in k-12, community colleges or our universities. perhaps, after reviewing state spending since 2011, it may be time to slow down the growth of government and give some relief to the hard-working taxpayer. [ applause ]

>> thank you. thank you. i am certain we will have a robust debate this session regarding tax reduction. as for me, i believe we must work towards the plan where the hard-working blue color families of mississippi get a tax dividend. may not be this year. but when we are having surpluses and a full savings account, let's pledge to give the people back a portion of their hard-earned tax dollars. more mississippiens are working today than any other time since november of 2008. over 40,000 more people have jobs and more than ever have begun to search for work. [ applause ] when companies begin to hire and plants open as they have in

mississippi, people come off the sidelines to find a career. this adds to the demand for more jobs. tonight according to the miss m -- mississippi works out, there are more than 31,000 careers available across the state. a little over 12,000 individuals are receiving unemployment benefits according to the mississippi department of employment security. it is this skills gap we must fill to reach our goal of full employment. last year i asked you to invest $50 million into work force training utilizing our community colleges and assisted by state work force development board. these funds would go to modernize equipment at community colleges and place students at work force training for the middle skills that we so desperately need. these additional workers will generate more tax revenue and help state needs or provide the

blue collar dividend i spoke about earlier. now there's no conflict with this administration in demanding accountability for these work force funds. i am proud to say we were the first state to submit a work force invasion and opportunity action plan to the u.s. department of labor. [ applause ] >> this is available for your review. oversight of this program rests at the miss missippi departmentf security where we constructed the state work force and submitted this reorganization plan to the state audit and legislative leadership for review. now time to make the investment in mississippi work force before it is too late. we have $50 million sitting

idling in the unemployment trust fund. let us please invest it now in work force training and i will show you mississippi's greatest potential. we can lead the nation in economic development if you will give us the tools to reach these goals. rush with me tonight through the entrance to the future. or stand behind as it closes on the careers of mississippi's next generation. the choice is yours. all of you who will move boldly into this new opportunity joined with me on the and moved together forward. [ applause ] >> mississippi's investments to incentivize industry paid dividends to the state. investment report indicates an

11-1 return for every dollar spent for this purpose. [ applause ] >> i have given you my assurance to the past and pledged to be vigilant with the hard-earned tax dollars. more than a decade a state auditor gave me a sense of caution. i will refuse any economic development project that will put your trust or the taxpayer's investment at risk. time does not permit me to list the accomplishments of the economic development effort this past year. for your benefit, i will summarize by providing the important outcomes. it includes addition of over 5,000 jobs and $787 million in private investment in 2015 alone. in four years, the mississippi development authority projects have brought the state over

21,000 jobs a$21,000 jobs and $. we do business on a global scale. in fact, according to the u.s. chamber foundation, we are the number three state in america for export growth. and the second best for overall cost of doing business. this is something we should be proud of, mississippi. as always, i promise to keep these remarks brief no matter how long it takes. [ laughter ] >> so let me move urgently to this administration's aggressive agenda. first i need your help in providing security and protection for the nearly 5,000 fostered children now under our care. [ applause ] as we all know, the olivia

lawsuit tossed the image of treatment of the foster children and foster parents many of whom serve from a sense of caring and christian compassion. as is required by the laws of this state and nation, we must acre cement our responsibility to adequately care for these children. i will ask you to help support family and children services currently housed at the department of human services to be fashioned as a separate agency that reports directly to the governor. now to reduce the cost, we can utilize that portion of the funding currently being spent at the department of human services for this division. plus, an additional amount that must be decided by this legislature. i am concerned if we cannot make some aggressive commitments to foster care in this state, then the courts will do so for us. many of us recently had some

opposition to a constitutional amendment that would have given the courts appropriation authority. we should be just as determined to accept the same principle in this decision. i ask you to make a decision that will protect our foster children and allow you to retain the appropriation authority in the legislature where it belongs. fortunately, i am not alone in this desire to improve our foster care system. i have a powerful ally and a man of honor and distinction. he is a noted educator and jurist who traded the prestige and the claim of the mississippi supreme court to serve a calling to help our children. please help me thank justice david chandler, the new director of family and children

improvement in reading and math. over 90% of our third graders passed their reading test last year and 95% of our at risk students and jobs for mississippi graduates stayed in school. with 82% going to a career, college of the united states military. [ applause ] we are making progress. two charter schools were opened

in jackson, special needs children received scholarships to get the help they deserve. and mississippi ranked fourth in the nation for the percentage of teachers nationally board certified. mississippi inched up the ladder of national ratings. we are not prepared to celebrate our state's overall rating, but we are moving forward and we intend to continue to do so.kqh] i will ask for more invasion but going about selecting our local superintendents of investigation. of the entire nation, mississippi has one of third of all elected to this important position. there is a reason most of the nation have elected school boards and appointed superintendents because it

works. i'm not critical of elected superintenden superintendents. many do a superb job but the very nature of a political office limits the pool of applicants for this important job to one district and sometimes only a few candidates. it would be similar to selecting the chancellor of ole miss from a a application of axford. we should not remove any elected superintendent from office but we can work through the issues and find a better path forward. we should elect our school boards and allow them to point the district superintendents. [ applause ] >> in my address i ask you to have a mississippi where classrooms were designed for the

students' success, where parents and students could choose the school they desired to attend. just imagine that parents could take their hard-earned tax dollars and send their child to a school of their choice. [ applause [ applause ] >> imagine the freedom of a parent and to send a child to the superior school nearby but outside of the district. why should only the affluent get the benefit of the schools. your zip code should not determine what school you go to in mississippi. let us make this bold decision and give these children hope. we should also remove the barriers to charter schools and extend their range across district lines so children can

pass through these ill mmage narcoticry walls to a better, brighter future. i'll ask you tonight to let them have this freedom and tear down these walls. we can make progress and hire education by working with the institution of higher learning and boards to craft an associates degree credential for those students who complete the necessary number hours at a four-year university. for attended a university for two years but required the course work but had to leave for a legitimate reason they could receive an associate's degree related to their major. in several states it's been successful and can be here, as well. of course, we would need to request the proper approval from the southern association of colleges and schools before moving forward but i believe we should allow these students who

leave college because of the unforeseen demands of life to receive some credentials that will help them begin their career. [ applause [ applause ] >> long ago i declared this state must add 1,000 new physicians. the college of medicine and the new medical school being constructed at the university of mississippi medical center, we are well on our way to our goal. this session you have before you, a physician's compact bill that will allow mississippi to join other states and accept a medical license from any of the compact states. a physician from alabama can move to mississippi. i don't blame him and his license to practice medicine would be acre cemented by tcept.

it will be physicians locating from mississippi to a number of states. this new and innovative movement is led by chairman of the mississippi state medical association and mississippi health care solutions institute. it is received the support of the mississippi board of medical licenses led by dr. virginia crawford. please join me in thanking these physicians to the contributions of the state's medical profession. thank you doctr. crawford, than you. [ applause ] >> a great deal of effort has gone into the economic counsel. our state's chamber of commerce. this independent analysis of highways and bridges was not

left to a government agency but a group of business leaders. the man steering this noble effort is not in the asphalt or cement or the construction business. he is one of our state's most respected industrialests and his company is a national leader in the poultry business. he's a sponsor of the sanderson farms championship, our pga tour golf tournament. he is with us tonight and we should all thank my friend joe sanderson. joe, thank you. [ applause ] >> so now we have a decision to make. how do we generate revenues to

ma maintain and not place an undue burden among the working people of this state? both joe and i have offered a recommendation. there's no reason we cannot balance and increase in fuel tax if there is one with an equal and sufficient tax reduction. this tax cut does not need to apply to large corporations, they are and have been receiving the reduction in fuel costs for sometime now. it is the working families of mississippi i am concerned about. now i have full confidence in your ability to find common ground. i will work with your leadership to help do so for this session's end. i would be remised if i did not mention the 11 people in north miss mississippi, the 11 mississippiens that lost their lives in the tornados of december 2013.

our prayers are with those affected by those terrible storms that struck just two days before christmas. i have directed the mississippi morning management agency to help those that are still in need. i am grateful to the federal management agency for quick action and declaring the affected counties of federal disaster area. i also sincerely am thankful to the churches and volunteer organizations that have provided aid and comfort and are doing so as we speak. we should be grateful to them all. [ applause ] >> thank you to all the working hard tonight. they help those who have suffered so much.

god bless you-all. in closing, i encourage us all to reflect upon the words of king solomon and his prayer. the wisest king of anticty wrote i am but a little child. i do not know how to come out or go in. give your servant an understanding mine to govern your people that i might discern between good and evil. may we all have such a prayer in our hearts as we move forward together. thank you and god bless you. god bless mississippi and god bless these united states of america.

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♪ ♪ >> this week during question time in the british house of commons, prime minister david cameron answered questions on the syrian refugee crisis, goggles corporate tax rate in the uk and recent ruling on the bedroom tax, a law that reduces the housing benefits received by individuals with spare rooms. in honor of holocaust memorial day, mr. cameron announced a new memorial will be placed near parliament. this isrime 35 minutes. >> questions to the prime know minister? >> number one, t heplease, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr.oin speaker. mr. speaker, i know the whole c house will want to join me in marking holocaust memorial day.he it is right the whole count