i've been inundated those who are desperate with properties surrounded that are boarded up? i'm seeing them tomorrow at a residence meeting. what can i give them? >> i think there are schemes like the regional growth fund that his constituency will be able to apply for to help to deal with issues like improving the level of housing. and that is -- that one of the schemes that we have. we also have a huge program for upgrading and building new homes through the new rent scheme that we have. all of these can make a difference and he can talk to his constituents about these. >> james morris? >> thank you, mr. speaker. the borough that i represent, can the prime minister reassure the children and parents of schools that the government i believe it with pupil premium policy is on the side of children and families in sand dhooet well? >> i absolutely can do that

because we made some difficult choices in the spending review to say we're going to put more money into early years education for 2-year-old from deprived families. that wast previously available. we're going to fund extra hours for 3 and 4 years old in education. we're going to make sure there's a pupil premium. never dreamt bia labour government in 13 years in office that is over and above the per pupil funding in our schools and then we're going to carry that through university so children on preschool meals will have time at university for free and won't have to pay the student premiums. all those things will make a big difference and show that this actually is a government that's made some progressive choices in education even though we inherited a mess that we had to clear up. >> bridget philipson. >> thank you, mr. speaker. does the prime minister agree with his business secretary that the scrapping of regional development agencies has been maoist and chaotic? >> given that he is implementing the policy, that is not his view.

we all take a view that the rda's wasted a vast amount of money, many of them weren't popular with the businesses in the area and the local enterprise partnerships will do a much better job. and i would suggest instead of complaining about it, why not work with our local authorities to get a good local enterprise partnership in her area to start backing business and jobs in economic revival. >> on a day when employment is the top of people's minds can i ask the prime minister to join me in graduating the saga group on their wise decision to move into hastings with very high public sector -- with up to 800 new jobs for the town? >> i'm very happy to join my honorable friend congratulating saga and the very good work that they do and i'm sure in choosing hastings they made an excellent decision. there is good news in today's unemployment figures. we should celebrate that. there's a lot more to do to get this economic recovery underway. but it would help if we didn't have so many people determined to talk down the performance of the british economy.

>> mr. bradshaw. >> doesn't the devastation in cornwall illustrate the economy of his recent decision to slash investment and flo defenses? >> that's simply not the case. they will be spending over 2.1 billion on flood and coastal erosion over the next four years. that's roughly the same that's spent over the last four years. we made some difficult choices in the spending r >> each week the house of commons is in session, we erred prime minister's questions wednesday at 7:00 a.m. eastern and then again on sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific and at c-span.org you can find of video archive of past prime ministers questions.

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the c-span networks. now available in 100 million homes. created by cable, provided as a public service. >> several of the nation's incoming republican governors gathered at their party's annual conference in san diego. the talk about your purchase to governing and the fiscal challenges that will be facing once they are sworn in. you will hear from john kasich of ohio, nikki haley, and tom corbett of pennsylvania. we begin with comments from brian sandoval. >> thank all of you for the support you get me during the course of the campaign. it is interesting to bring of the fact that i get up my federal judgeship to run for governor of the state of nevada. that was probably the number-one question i got asked on the campaign trail. the first person to ask that question was my father. he said brian, i heard you made

your decision. a-you know what you are doing. i called him back and said that, that is not quite the endorsement of was hoping for from my father. i was blessed to be the first person in history of my state to defeat a sitting incumbent governor in a primary. i was very fortunate to defeat my democratic opponent by 11 points. it came because of all your support out here in the audience. my state faces significant challenges. we didn't leave the country in unemployment -- we do leave the country in unemployment, dropout rates, and foreclosures. the second question was, why would you run now? i think it is the greatest opportunity and the greatest moment in history of my state to have the privilege and honor of serving as governor. i made a very specific message when i announced my candidacy that we are going to balance our budget without raising taxes, because that would be the worst possible thing you could do in the teeth of the worst recession

in the history of my state. i talked about fact that i was going to reform education and changed the dynamic. i talked about the fact that we are going to diversify our economy and make our state even better for business to come to and work in. i want to leave a lot of time for the other governors elected speak pig is a privilege to be here. i cannot express my thanks and up for the credit to of 3 -- republican governors came to my aid during the course of the campaign. i look forward to listening to everyone else's remarks. thank you. [applause] >> the next presenter is susana martinez from the state of new mexico. she is a former prosecutor, which is a theme among our new governors. she will be the governor in a state that has been trending blue in recent years and recent election cycles, but she really captivated the imagination and

cast a more hopeful vision for her state after some difficult years under the previous administration. she is also somebody who i think will be incredibly influential for the party for years to come. susana martinez is someone -- whiteford your comments. >> first and foremost, and want to thank all of you for your support. i could never have been elected in the state of new mexico and got my message across without the financial support of those behind our g8 -- behind rga and governor haley barbour. it is a dream that has come true and has allowed me in going into a county where republicans are outnumbered 3to 1 to take that challenge statewide.

it has allowed me to win this race with eight points. the way we did that is we kept on the message and we want to make sure to close the deficit of the state of new mexico. at this point it is about a half billion dollar deficit. we also or 49 in the nation in education. we are at the bottom of every good list and the top of every bad list. we are not competitive, and we continue to have really challenge among each other that i intend to bring back all the jobs we lost to your state. the great hopes that will create an environment in new mexico that is competitive for small businesses, so small businesses have a level playing field, which they have not had in a very long time in the state of new mexico. our administration picks the

winners and losers, and the backbone of our economy, 80% of the jobs created in mexico have been strangled and are leaving by leaps and bounds. we have energy rich oil and gas. we have uranium, potash, copper, coal, we have many of the positive things in our state that can turn our state around. but are for most issue is certainly to close the deficit in a long-lasting way, and making sure that we are producing is that are graduating. right now 60% of our kids when they get out of high school go on to college, and they need remedial studies. that is unacceptable pre 40% of our kids do not graduate at all from high school. we are determined to produce results and make sure that the

fate of the republican party is the fate of those who deliver results, that those who elected them and earn the respect in the future of those who did not elect them this time, but will do so in the years to come. thank you. [applause] >> john kasich is no stranger to leadership or solving problems and challenges. he has been a great leader to our country when he served in the u.s. congress. there was a time in the late 1990's were the federal government's budget was actually balance. john kasich was one of the key leaders in making that happen in the congress. he was one of the driving -- he was one of the driving forces for that balance budget. he understands the importance of fiscal discipline and actually getting it done. one of the great stories of this election is the great lakes stakes in the midwest, most of them returning from blue back to read.

ec republican backed governors in places like iowa and wisconsin and michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, and so many places. john is coming out of a huge battle in ohio. it was a firewall for president obama. he was there 12 times. but president biden was there even more. rga sent to ohio about $11 million in late as it did get role in this election. regardless of the mechanics of all is going to benefit from the positive, strong, clear, discipline and leadership of john kasich. we are very grateful for you and look forward to your comments as well. [applause] >> it is important to note that i am the father of 10-year-old twin daughters. i think about nikki haley and susanna who just spoke to you,

and gen brewer is an mary fallon, the republican party has some women who are just awesome. [applause] >> yes, we do. >> as the father of 210-year- old, one wants to be a doctor and the other wants to be president. i wife and i are enthusiastically supporting the doctor. i received a phone call from valerie jarrett a couple of days after the election. she said, are you arrested? -- are you rested? i would like to have wrapped it up by 9:00 in the evening, but it took a couple more hours than that. it was a heck of a race, and i want to thank everybody that was able to jump in and participate.

rob obama. joe biden called me the other day and said we just threw everything at you. i said yes, and we won. that was all good news. [applause] i want to thank all of you. there are a lot of people in here that represents special interest groups. sometimes we can look at that from a negative point of view, and other times we can see moments in time where you have the experience and knowledge to help transform the government, taking private sector experience and the views of innovation to make things much better. i think we are going to look

back and say 2010 was an election about buyer's remorse. nothing personal against barack obama, but it is sort of a values issue. the value being that if you work hard and are successful that somehow you did something wrong, or that somehow we can take on massive amounts of debt and at times, reckless spending, and not realize that it really puts our children and our children's children at risk, that somehow letting the federal government micromanage your businesses, and then you take a look at that crazy provision in the health- care bill and you just shake your head and say where the heck are we going? i think for a moment in time, the business community, the ceo's that you represent, the boards of directors that you represent, they awakened a sleeping giant in america, people who believe in free enterprise and government as a

last resort, not as a first resort. i think you should all be proud of yourself that you were willing to stand-up and take the heat, maybe take the hits, let haley barbour become a leader here all along with tim and sonny perdue and so many of the other sitting governors, to say we need your help, we need to join the fight, and we need to stand for the basic principles that we believe then that not only gave us an opportunity to prosper in our country, which we inherited from our parents, but i think a lot of your motivation may go back to the fact that you want children and grandchildren -- to have the same kind of opportunities that we got from our parents. that was my motivation, and i believe a lot of your motivation. the state of ohio has not been open for business. we are open for business now. i want to encourage all of you to go on a website.

i don't know if it is live yet. fixohionow.com. if you have ways that you think the skills of our workers and our great universities can be of benefit to your companies, we want you to come see us. this is really going to be the message of every governor. every governor is struggling in fighting to create jobs in an economy that has just been devastating to our families. i guess john kennedy was right when he said a rising tide can lift all boats. i hope that this group of governors are going to have their voices heard in washington, to be set free to let our people go so we can design programs that meet our problems. i am not just interested in balancing the budget in ohio. i am going to cut taxes. ohio has to become more competitive. we have to take on the

regulatory barriers, but every state is trying to do this. that is good for our country. but we would like you to participate. if you have ways in which you think you can allow us to operate the government of ohio and serve the customer, the people of ohio better, we want your ideas. we want you to raise yourself out of that rice bowl that sometimes you find yourself in, where you are really concerned about taking care of what you have, and think bigger than that. there to be great. there to be different. dared to create a legacy. so many people here today feel exactly the same way. i don't look so much as a competition with rick perry. i think ohio state the last time. i don't look at this as a competition for any of these governors. i look at it as an opportunity for all of us to work together and write that tied -- ride that tide so that we can all be

successful and the families in our state can prosper. i want to leave you with one final thing. i am so thankful to be in this position and the good lord helped push me over the mound in this election. the bottom line for me is, is incredible. i don't owe anybody one single thing. the rga was great. i would not have been able to win without their help, but at the end of this day, i am in this job to do one thing, to restore the legacy of my great state and be a good role model for other people and for young people. that is what i am all about. we welcome you to the buckeye state could we hope you will help us, and thank you for your help. [applause] >> tom corbett has served as the attorney general in pennsylvania for good number of years. he has been the leading vote- getter for any candidate in most

of the recent elections. he is a strong leader with a strong record and just finished a strong campaign with themes including keeping a lid on taxes, reducing government spending, and holding government accountable for results. that message to install -- in strong contrast to his opponents. it is one the most important battleground states in the country. we are very fortunate he will be one of the next great governors in the united states of america. tom corbett, the governor elect from pennsylvania. [applause] >> thank you, governor. we use the term keystone state. we are the keystone state in the country from our colonial times. one of the things i talked about throughout the campaign was not only been a keystone but being competitive. governor casey, i am going to argue with you.

i think competition is good for us. the more we compete among ourselves, the greater we make this country. we have to understand that we can no longer just worry about competing among ourselves. we are competing with nations around world who would like to see us fail. we are going to change that as governors here in our states and as we change this country, i am convinced we will do that. last year when we were in austin, i sat on the same stage. three of us got to listen to governor general and governor perry talk about that competition. -- governor jindal and governor perry. that is what i talked about during the entire campaign. we cannot continue to increase our spending and increase the size of our budget of pennsylvania, which increased by 40% under my predecessor. we cannot continue to increase

the debt at a time when people are losing their houses, at a time when the economy is going further and further south. we cannot continue to balance our budget with using stimulus money, which i always refer to as long-term debt applied to a short-term asset. that was the message received by the people of pennsylvania. i would not have been able to deliver that message as well as we were able to deliver it without the help of the rga. thank you on behalf of myself and my family. i want to thank you for what you have done, and on behalf of the people of pennsylvania. we are going to make a difference. one of the most important things a governor can bring back into state government, and maybe they can take it to washington, too, is common sense. that we start governing and

taking a look at the effect of overregulation and the effect of not having lawsuit reform, as we do not have in pennsylvania, but i promised the people of pennsylvania, we are going to get it, and hopefully this year. how it will make pennsylvania open for business of the weekend compete with texas and with ohio. i believe that competition is going to make all of a stronger and made this country stronger, so thank you very much. [applause] >> the rga invest about $8 million in the pennsylvania governor's race. nikki haley is our next and last presenter. she has a compelling life story. she is somebody who was an

entrepreneur. she worked in her family business, and understands but these policies mean it from the standpoint of a family that ran a small business and provided jobs and economic activity in her state. she really has lived the american dream. she served with distinction as one of the most dynamic and effective state legislatures in south carolina. a lot of folks were in a tough competition for this governors race in south carolina. she rose to the top. she is going to be one of the most dynamic and effective leaders for our country and we are grateful for your service to south carolina. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am the daughter of indian parents who reminded us everyday held less work to live in this country. they le the fact that you could start something, build it

as much as you want, be as effective-you want to be, and no one will get away. i parents started a business out of the living room of their home and 30 years later it was a multimillion-dollar company. the one thing we knew was that there was never a day that was easy. i started doing the accounting and the books for them when i was 13. it was at that point when i learned the value of a dollar. it was at that point as i grew up that i saw how hard government was on businesses. i saw how hard it was for businesses to make a dollar and how easy it was for government to take it. instead of complaining about, i got involved in the legislature. what i saw as we came into this governor's race was yes, south carolina republican house, senate, and governor, but that was not good enough. we need to have a conservative house, senate, and governor.

what we saw was we had an arrogant state house legislator and federal government. what i did was i ran against the congressman and an attorney general and state governor. i had very little money, but what i did was go across the you thinksaid declareif elected officials need to remember who they work for, and if you think jobs in the economy should come first, then join our movement. i always said if you like what i have to say, go and tell 10 people prayed and they did. before we knew it, there was an amazing grass-roots movement that went across south carolina. i always said, don't let it be about a person or an election. make sure it is about what we need to do going forward and how

we will change the face of our country going forward. we are celebrating some wins, what does that really mean? we saw people get involved in government that had never been involved in elections before. this is about the fact that we have had enough. we are seeing an awakening across this country where i have never seen people more spirited about their government, an elecd official so scared. it is a beautiful thing, and we need to keep it this way. we have to fight back on this health care. we have to look at illegal immigration reforms. we have to make sure we are going back to smaller government, but we have to make sure we are strengthening our businesses. that is how we will prove to the people of this date that we are

fighting for them again. while i think we need to celebrate the fact that we have great republican governors, what we really need to celebrate is the fact that people found a power of their voice. i can tell you what happened in south carolina i believe happened across the country. instead of electing the person they thought could win, they elected the person they thought should win. we have a great responsibility with that, especially as we go into the elections of 2012. i think we are going to see people wake up and fight back. we are going to see a government that is stronger and better than we have ever seen before. as we are losing faith in congress, it will be up to our governors to fight the good fight. it will be up to our governors to show washington what good policy looks like. it is a pleasure to be here. i want to absolutely than the rga. instead of looking at who could win, they looked at who should win. my husband michael is here today. we just want to thank you for

everything you did. now we want you to know we are rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. thank you very much. [applause]

>> i made a commitment to visit 100 businesses throughout the state, and in nevada, we talked about the fact that things are

not working out well for us. we had to let some people go. in nevada, they have historically and traditionally build our budget. back on toat 6% that. i don't think it should be a novel concept that you spend what you have, not what you would like to spend. there is a very big difference. i think the state of nevada is calling -- that is what they expect. all the states are going to face

a terrible budget crisis. the government was intended to secure the right of the american people. we are boring to have to go back and scaled-back. we need to have a conversation with d c and let them know, rather than mandating health care for states, let us incentivize our small businesses to offer health care. let us reform medicaid. that would take 10% of our budget. let us do things like that rather than mandating health care of our citizens. what we need from the federal government is to allow insurance companies to cross state lines so it is competitive. that way we are actually giving

solutions on what we can do as states. but the federal government can do on their behalf and then stop all these mandates from going through. i think while we are all facing these challenges, there are incredible opportunities to go look at what the core missions of government were. >> there is nothing worse to a strong, robust economy than to have a big and corrupt government. in new mexico, our current administration of pro-government by 54%, handing out exempt positions to those who work owners and friends. eight years ago we had a republican governor and his exempt positions were approximately 180. this current administration grew to almost 600 exempt positions, many of them over $100,000 salaries. some of them did not have jobs to go to. one who was the director of a museum that did not even exist. turning around in recent months

, hiding exempt folks and placing them into classified positions, growing government beyond what anyone would ever expect under the current economy. we have a big and corrupt government, and what has happened to the state of new mexico has become extremely unpredictable. i've proposed to our state, to the citizens of the mexico that we will cut back on those exempt positions back down close to the number of 180, which will save us $10 million. i have proposed that with the 5% attrition rate, if we reduce that force by the attrition rate of 5%, we can save it $40 million.

instead of because they have enrolled, wait until they complete the course. we can also save another $52 million. that is just from looking from the outside in. of course this administration is not being forthcoming, not only with the legislature but with the transition team. it becomes challenging to know precisely what the numbers look like. from the outside looking in, we are at $100 million. the week after the election, the deficit went from $252 million to four hundred $52 million, in just one week's time. it is the unrealistic projections that growth will be at a 6% rate that has allowed the current administration not to make cuts, not to make the tough decisions, but to continue to grow because there is an expectation that it is unrealistic because we will have

6% growth. no one believes that. i think we can find that waste and fraud. any government that grew by 54% obviously is not in touch with population growth and inflation, and therefore there is waste within state government. to make it more predictable when you root out corruption, to bring back the ability for us to be competitive with our neighbors and bring back the revenue and jobs necessary for us to then grow the economy. i am committed to not raising taxes. that is not the way we get out of the mess we find ourselves in. we have to make sure we change the culture being experienced in new mexico. that is not the way we do business. we intend to have a very reputable environment. we have an intention to make sure it is a fair playing field across the board and we intend to educate our children in a way that the work force in mexico stays in new mexico, because we have great jobs to offer them.

>> i want to echo to points that have been made. number one, what governor haleigh said, and that is the unfunded mandates coming down from washington. they come down to the states and often, the states then passed down to the county or local government. if you are from pennsylvania and ohio, we have many local governments on top of what we have at the county level. we do to them with the federal government is doing to us. we have to get that under control. that is a great deal spending that no one has to pay attention to at the federal level. they just go ahead and do it and do not think about it, but somebody is going to pay for it. the complaint i heard throughout the entire campaign is new in government cost too much. you in government may be paid

too much in taxes. they do not differentiate. they cannot differentiate where they are paying the taxes to, whether the federal, state, county, local government or the school district. that is a tremendous problem in pennsylvania and probably many states, that we have to get that kind of spending, and you said be all things to all people. i would add, at all times. if you are trying to do that for everybody at all times, there is no way we will ever control the spending or these budgets. because of the economic challenges we have right now, we have the greatest opportunity since the 1980's to get this under control and say we have to stop acting this way. we have to be responsible for anything that we send down to the next level of government. we have to make sure that they have the ability to function. therefore, are we going to pay for this at the federal or the state level?

i agree with john, not just cutting for the sake of cutting. 5% across the board. you have to be smart about your cutting. i prioritized. the no. 1 role of all government, i don't care which level it is, is public safety. you have to make sure that the people are safe in the workplace is in schools and homes. we remind the federal government, the same thing happens at the federal government. we have to be safe from four nations that would do us harm. we will get that under control. then we take a look at where we are spending money. education is important, but how are we spending money there? if it is not making it to the classroom, more money is not going to give you better education. we have to be more responsible and assess how that spending is going on.

i take a look at pennsylvania. the average cost the classroom is $44,000. we have dropout rate that is somewhere around 50,000 -- 50%. across pennsylvania we have 30,000 students dropped out every year. that is unacceptable to mee. week should start off with what i call zero based budgeting. why do you exist? what does this agency exist for? what is its purpose, and what do you really need? we have to get away from that kind of thinking. it is not going to be the easiest thing. i hope i can convince my legislature to join me in that. i am pretty sure we can.

>> i will just customize the questions to one analyst and go through couple quickly and then open it up to the other governors. we have a country of just 300 million people. we are not going to be a successful nation if one-third of our children are dropping out of school. they are uneducated and unskilled and unable to access the economy of today and tomorrow. that is a formula that is not going to work if they are economically detached and become wards of the state or become frustrated in other ways. you are very bold in your campaign. share your vision for improving education in nevada. >> as i mentioned in my previous remarks, i visited 100 schools

throughout the state of nevada. i visited an elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, charter schools, private schools. i wanted to go into those classrooms myself and see what was going on, talk to teachers and parents. i came out with a very old education plan. one of the hallmarks of my education plan was choice in education, something that has never happened in the state of nevada. i believe that every parent, every child should have the ability to choose a school they want to attend. a parent should know how the school is performing, and if it is not performing, there will be a change with regard to the admistration. another thing in nevada is

teacher tenure. in nevada you can get tenure after one year. i knew that would draw a gasp. that is an issue that has to be taken head-on. that is something i talked about during the course of my campaign. at the same time, when i talk about all these things, i think there should be merit pay for teachers. i think we should reward the great teachers. they should be the ones that are given the benefit of showing those increases in test scores. i talked about the fact -- i heard these education statistics from these other states that we are not performing up to par when it comes to graduation rate for our students. that is one of the commitments i made during the course of our campaign, to improve systemically the delivery of education in our state so that we start to move those numbers up and provide children several different paths. not every child is meant to go to college. they should have agreed path and

an opportunity in that regard. i will be a champion of the charter schools and rear technical schools. those are all things that will change the dynamic in the state of nevada. in two years we'll talk about the fact we have improve graduation rates and every measure of education in the state. thank you. >> we look to the future and see states increasingly addressing the emigration issue. we saw that with the ads use -- with the actions in the debate in arizona. share with us your views on how the republican party and republican governors can best address the issue going forward. >> my county is the second largest county in the state of new mexico. we border mexico.

we border juarez, mexico, which is the murder capital of mexico. we try to make sure we are keeping the violence on the other side of the border and not allowing it to come across. however, it does. we are experiencing higher numbers of narcotics trafficking. we have a lot in the state of new mexico that was passed by the current administration that allows for the issuance of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. they are able to travel the country without detection. there is an executive order that provides sanctuary, which means that when an individual is arrested and placed in jail by the state police, they are not able to determine whether or not that individual is in this country illegally are not.

what happens is that person bonds out and you cannot find them to hold them responsible for the criminal activity. i have been a prosecutor since 1986 and the elected district attorney since 1986. -- 1996. i think what is important in our message will travel our state was, it is not about the mexican population, it is merely about the mexican border, which has been weak. it is weakened because people will be coming across that border because it is easier to do so. they are coming across that border from all over the world. we have arrested individuals in recent history from jamaica, china, poland. they are coming to new mexico because it is an attractive state where they can get a legal id that allows them to travel the country without detection.

they are also providing sanctuary. in our state we find out who you are. we punish whatever it may be and you end up being deported because you have now proven yourself to be unsafe to be in our country. in new mexico, 45% of the population is hispanic. it is amazing at how well the message is received. we have to secure our border. we cannot have country inns of immigration reform without first securing the border. -- we cannot have comprehensive immigration reform without securing the border. we have done many things to try to do so, from a fence in some places to barriers to prevent vehicles from crossing over bloats up narcotics. the arrests are of people from all over the world, and some of them are here to cause us direct

harm. we understand from a law enforcement point of view and we understand it is important to secure that border from texas, arizona, and california, to make sure we do that first before we take the second step and demand that the federal government do what they are supposed to do for good, positive immigration reform. >> america's competitiveness depends on a lot of things going forward including competitively priced energy. a lot of what we thought about the energy date -- energy debate has changed because of availability of natural gas in north america and within the territorial jurisdiction of the united states. is the game changer. many experts believe we have enough natural gas to supply hundreds of years to come. pennsylvania is one of those

states that have one of those large deposits. what can stakes in act to unlock that transformed a potential of the natural gas deposits? >> the potential for this country and for a state like pennsylvania, is almost difficult to get your head around, depending on who you talk to. i look at it from a number of different perspectives. it has already meant about 80,000 jobs for pennsylvania in this economy in the last four years. it will mean hundreds of thousands of jobs both direct and indirect. in building a gas supply and delivery system, and also building markets to use clear

technology. in addition to the technology and the resources we already have in pennsylvania with r cole and clean coal technology, it has made pennsylvania the second largest energy field in the world, in my opinion. we have to make ourselves independent from the mideast. as we take that technology and put into use with cleaner- burning fuel in various areas, including developing a vehicle fleet in pennsylvania, helping michigan. we would like to get some of the trucks built down there that are gas burning trucks. a whole new market is going to be distributed across not only the country, but we will become a net export. we have to start looking at

energy in this country. we do it in certain parts of the country and will have to do it in the northeast, as a commodity we are exporting, but we have to do it safely. one of the best thing that is going to happen in pennsylvania, this is an industry that is in its very beginning. i always compare it and i know john remembers what it used to be like growing up in western pennsylvania when the steel mills were operating. this is the beginning of the steel industry. what is going to mean for hundreds of thousands of jobs in pennsylvania. but we have to develop a properly and safely and keep the environment in mind. that is something that pennsylvania's and americans across the board will be able to arrive at that kind of energy. we have in texas, arkansas, louisiana. as americans we have to get in better control of our energy policy. we know we have been talking about having an energy policy

for the united states. i have told people in pennsylvania we will develop one for pennsylvania. >> john kasich, if you could tell a federal government one thing they have to get out of your life about, what would that be? >> let our people go. [laughter] >> nikki haley, with your entrepreneurial background and small business background, most of the job growth in the country will come from those early stage, start up stages. if you could highlight one or two things that would be most impact full for starting new ventures in your state, what would that be? >> we have to create -- we have

to understand that when you give businesses cash flow and profit margins, what is the first thing they do? they hire people. it is tax reform, understanding that when you give them profits, they will hire people. the smaller you can make government, the more you can strengthen your small business. >> last ask -- let's ask our other governors to join the discussion. unfortunately we are having microphone issues. let's see if our governors on the panel would like to jump in and ask questions or make are you awake? you look like you have something on your mind.

>> i am not sure why you are picking on me today. let me take this as an opportunity to thank everyone who is here today. i just want to say what everybody is thinking. [applause] i think for the first time in our memory, the focus is going to be on the governors as opposed to washington d.c. many other states will have the opportunity to get these issues dealt with and get these solutions implemented more quickly at the federal level. maybe i would pose the question, what is going to be the biggest challenge to each of you in getting these common-sense solutions implemented right

away. what is your biggest obstacle going to beat? >> we will try without the microphone, and jumping in. >> getting the mindset of many in media that this works. how are you going to be able to do this? nobody has been able to do this in the past. we have to understand as governors that we have a mandate from the people of the united states, the direction that they want this country to go. we need to have consensus building coalitions with the legislature. we cannot blank.

>> while we all have to face is tough budgets. we are going to struggle. we will come in two and three stronger than where we started. we have to be honest with the people and let them know what we're going into. we will actually bring this country back. >> i think the biggest challenge is to get everybody to reflect on the chilean miners. they were all down in the mine. who is going to get the last gasp of air attacks -- air?

this is not a time to do this in my state or anybody's date. i have no doubt we are going to be successful. >> he is somebody that took over puerto rico with a lot of challenge to the recent political tradition. he came in as a reform-minded governor and leader. he has been able to enact significant changes in the face of opposition. give us a couple of lessons learned that the governors might learn from. >> i congratulate everyone here for a tremendous success. we are going to be facing tremendous challenges. from my own experience, what you

are going to do, do it quickly. meet with all of the stakeholders. go as far as you need to go. do not space this out into a four-year term. once you are done, you reduce expenses. we have tremendous budget gaps. we will have taxes that will bring business leaders down. that is my own experience. the country is looking for leadership. >> i see you down lonely in the corner by yourself. you have perspective with your leadership in mind.

what do you see going ford for the state of nebraska? >> you have got to communicate what you believe in. frequently, often. we all know that. it is really true. when i took over, state spending was averaging about 77% per year. when i started as governor, we were in the top 10. we were 45 out of 50. we are down to 29.

the other challenge for me, despite how important taxes and spending are, what counts the most it is if the university of nebraska wins the football game. i want to thank him for beating texas a&m this year. next year, we are going to join the big 10. nebraska will continue to grow and i thank you in events for that. sandoval was essentially court -- coronated.

what was the one thing that surprise you during the campaign that you should have known that perhaps you did not appreciate when you first got there. >> probably the biggest surprise to me was the intensity of it from moment one. i announce my resignation from the federal bench. i did a sentencing at 3:00 p.m. at 5:00 p.m., there was a reporter at my doorstep ready to ask me questions. i met with different groups that you have to be on every moment. i learned about the trackers. just making sure that you are on your game at every moment. the importance of getting out in the community. going to those businesses, going to schools and learning things

firsthand so that you have your finger on the pulse of the state. you realize the degree of how people are hurting. you say what you are going to do. now it is time to do what i said i was going to do. i made statements during the course of my campaign. i put together my team. i am interviewing each of the respect of persons. i hit the ground running. there was never a day when there was not something going on. starting january 3, it is going to be the same. >> a surprise for you that you learn from? >> the biggest thing is that ignorance is bliss. you do not need to know and you go forward. there are certain things that you cannot know as you go for governor.

understanding that when you let people know that you are working for them. the fact that they are getting involved. we are seeing this groundswell has an amazing thing to watch. it is an amazing thing that is only going to grow. i am a huge fan of the tea party. we are ting our country back. that was such an inspirational message. that was such a great motivation. >> we will go to our panel. he has got a minute on the health care question. he could not hit a pheasant with a shotgun at close range.

>> i do not know that i have been hunting with you lately. i met a great group of new governors coming in. i think the country is in very good hands. there is a reality that we sometimes walk away from. we are one of the smaller states in terms of an overall budget. if you look of the general fund, about 49 cents out of every dollar goes into education. 35 cents goes into taking care of people that are on medicaid, people on the state hospitals and so forth. it leaves you with 11 cents for all of the protections and courts and protecting the public. you have 5 cents left out of the general fund that goes into what most of us like to beat up on, which is the bureaucracy.

at the same time, if you look at that in south dakota, the amount in the bureaucracy is about $58 million per year. this year, our federal medical matching rate, because our income average is up to number e 3 in the nation. our increase will be 37 million more dollars this year than last year. there is the reality that the federal government, her policies and mandates are going to be clearer in how all of us are going to be able to fix our budgets long term. the reason i bring it up, i think there has to be a

commitment among the governors that are here. they have to be actively involved in sharing policy and what the impacts are at the federal level. i do not think you can walk away from it. at the local level, you get in and you roll up your sleeves. i do not think this group of governors can walk away from the responsibility of telling it like it is to the federal government. and you do not, nobody else will. we need this new group of governors to step forward and play an active role at the federal level. >> rick scott is the new governor of the state of florida. he is probably one of the foremost policy leaders in the health care debate. if you look at state budgets, you see places like minnesota.

k-12 their growth is not anywhere close to health and human services. we have to slow the development of the costs at the local level, state level. give us 60 seconds on the best ways to continue that. >> most of the bureaucracy is caused by government. there is no reason it should cost some much. i agree we have to be very active and make sure that all the federal policy we are involved with -- we have to make sure everyone knows exactly how it is going to impact our citizens, our state budgets. it is when to bankrupt us. obamacare will be the biggest job killer ever in the history of our country. we have to stop the implementation. we have to repeal it. we have to educate everybody nationwide about the problems we have and then do everything we can to get government out of all

of our health care decisions. if government gets out of the way, health care costs will come down. the more we have government involvement -- that is what is causing health care inflation. >> this panel is just a representative sample of the quality, death, experience, character, and integrity of this great crop of republican governors. this is a transformative moment in the history of the country, when the country stars to get back on track, mostly because of the leadership of these men and women. you heard from five o them today. there are others who have not here -- not heard from yet, but in the coming days i think you'll see the work of the rga reflected in not just their personalities but the results they bring forward over the next four to eight years. thank you for the second -- for attending the rga annual meeting.

we hope you will do a lot of things during the next few days. now our mci will give us an update on what is to come. >> now, a look at some of the newly elected governors. democrat andrew cuomo won at new york's election. the former hud secretary and state attorney general 161% of the vote. the state was held by governor david patterson, who did not seek reelection. sandoval's race, brian 1 with 53% of the month vote, defeating the son of harry reid. the seat was held by republican jim gibbons, who lost in the primary. videos year's studentcam documentary contest is in full swing. the theme -- washington, d.c. through my lens. your documentary should include more than one point of view, along with c-span programming. upload by january 20 for a

chance at $25,000. there is $50,000 in total prices. it is open to middle and high school students' grades 6 through 12. for all of the rules, go online to studentcam.org. >> now more on the incoming republican-led congress with house speaker newt gingrich. this portion is about 15 minutes. host: how many people follow you on pritchard? guest: i think it is something like 400,000. host: a triggers says anyone who drives anti-american liberals nuts is a great american. mario joining us from florida on the republican line. caller: i am an american, a cuban. i have always been very interested in history between cuba and the united states.

i understand that the contribution of the navy's of covina -- the navy of havana was important and valley forge a in winning the american revolution. i have always been proud of that, but it is not something commonly studied. it is not a very well known fact. do you address that in your book? guest: we do not touch on that in this volume. we will probably have another volume in two years called "yorktown," we take on the end of valley forge through the final collapse of the british and their surrender at yorktown. i suspect it will be there. let me say if you are from miami that we have a conference here in washington called the americano. if anybody is interesting, we have a web site called theamericano.com, is a center- right hispanic website to talk about policies.

on december 3, the miami symphony is coming up to play the gala that night. we are honoring a congressman from new york city as well as others and the prime minister from spain is coming. we are honoring president uribe of columbia. -- colombia. caller: we have -- host: we have a link to that on c-span.org. we are joined from vermont on our line for independence. good morning, john. caller: good morning, newt. how are you? guest: how are you? caller: could you describe the mantra "starve the beast"? guest: reagan's theory was if you quit paying for the bureaucracy and refused to expand the government, it would

eventually start going away. i am not sure by itself that is good enough. i believe we have to replace the liberal welfare state, and we have to replace the radical centralizing bureaucracies, and we have to confront the judges who are out of touch with american history and american morality. i am for a much more direct approach. for example, one of the proposals i made to republican governors is to take -- we spent $134 billion last year on unemployment compensation, paying people to do nothing but sit and wait. i suggested we turn that into a training program. that is $134 billion without touching -- without increasing the deficit at all. actually tie it into training to get new job skills to be able to go to work. i have been talking with major employers. we've been talking about how to do an entire online assessment capability so people could

literally get the skills, get the ability, so you are not waiting for 99 weeks, but are improving dramatically your ability to compete in the world market. that would be the scale of change we need to think about. we need to go through the whole system and think about those kind of improvements to give us a more productive and more rapidly evolving america capable of competing with china, india, and germany. forge. heather is joinings from tennessee. >> good morning. hi mr. newt gingrich. i would like so say, in the 19's, my grand mother was a huge fan. however, i'm a democrat. i haven't heard you express anything about the war in iraq. there was no weapons in mass

destruction found. i have never heard you comment about matter before. i was wondering what your take is on this? host: vice president biden has a piece on that in the "new york times". guest: first of all. when you joint forces came into iraq after the war, they thought they should weapon of mass destruction. he said. we were right on the edge. the scientists didn't want to get killed. he wanted the iranians to be fearful of them. it was a very strange situation that history will unravel. obviously, the weapons were not there. when they interviewed the iraqis

th were surprised. they had all been told they have weapons of mass destruction. the biggest mistake we made was not turning the country over as rapidly as possible to the iraqs. i wrote the paper," operation switch". we want to hire the iraqi army. not the security police. not the enforcers but the regular iraqi army. we wanted to back out as far as we could. we made a decision that cost us years. we became close to a catastrophic defeat until general petraeus turned it around. there's a lot to learn from the iraq campaign and a significant number of mistaked de.

host: twitter saying, this is bary gold water. guest: i'm not sure what they mean. the first big step forward defining the modern movement. it's reagan's speech. you can you get by going to the reagan library online. in many ways, 25 years later, when we gives his farewell address. can you watch the original speech and his farewell address. reagan hasn't changed much. in that sense, i probably send on both goldwater and reagan's shoulders.

i i am trying to replace the left. most governors are in the same position host: john is joining us from san diego caller: good morning. i wanted to make an observation. the think the government, specifically our federal government. they try to be everything for everybody. it basally ends up being worthless to anyone. i think what we're missing here is in the form of our leadership, senior statesmanship and less political activity. i think the president, unfortunately, as used the office of presidency to forward

the agenda. i wanted to get your commes on the statesmanship part and also the juggling act of the president on his focus, and that should have been jobs, reuniting dc and making it work for the people. establishing a firm foreign policy. host: thank you. john. guest: there's a lot to that. when we want to the inaugural. i saw speeches in virginia before the election as the winner on election night at grant park, which i think is truly a great speech. and it s a very solid speech.

i said on the way out from the capitol. if we will governor from the center like eisenhower. he would split the republican party. force a substantial number of republicans to cooperate with him and be a very formidable president. i think he had that potential. within two weeks, he decided to allow speaker pelosi to write an entire left-winning budget. with no republican in the room. with the members of congress not thinking what was in the bill. i agree with yo i think second, there's no question in my mind that jobs and paychecks are the key. what we have gotten out the democrats is bureaucracy and food stamps.

we are going to send a certificate, what am i doing today to create jobs and paycheck america only works with americans are working. that will be the number one step we ought to take. number one approh to the public welfare isn't giving you unemployment or food stamps. finding a wayor you to find a job so you can be a contributing citizen and not a taker. host: let me conclude. please stop asking newt if we will run for president. i will ask you, i just want to ask you, what you're thinking of as a time line? guest: i think we have a tentative target to run.

if we decide. we will announce in april. i agree with mit romney who said, let's not rush into debates before september. let's not get a involved in tangled up in campaigning for campaigning sake. we have a lot to do as americans and lots of time between now and iowa caucus when really starts the dance in 2012. :

i can't be candidates, not the parties, should analyze -- not the news media, should organize the debates. we need a more positive way of talking to america rather than you need 30 seconds to describe your policies. that is an absurd way to run the country. host: can you tell nbc were not going to participate in the debate? guest: you can say to nbc, "how would you like to participate in our debate?" there is no way i would go to a debate and have alderman orr chris matthews ask questions. they are so relentlessly hostile. they are so west -- left-wing. every question they ask the republicans is designed to embarrass them. every question they ask the democrats is designed to make them look good. why would we participate? host: would you do it with a

moderator? guest: we would do it with a timekeeper. lincoln and douglas debated seven times. they did it with a timekeeper. that is all they had. i would feel very comfortable, if we got to that point. people like mitch daniels, michael kirby, governor romney -- i would feel very comfortable, and believe in them to behave like adults and observe the time, think about topics, and have a dialogue. how are we going to solve our country's problems and how are we going to move ahead? i would be happy to have that, without the kind of mickey mouse questions asked by hostile news media. host: the debate announced at the reagan library -- if you were a candidate, would you participate? >guest: i would see what the terms were. i would not participate if it was a hostile reporter asking absurd questions.

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