we initially had coming out of the house. obviously the bill ended up the way it did look. the years we've had recently in agriculture. and that's why you saw several of us vote against the final package. >> the policy we need to pursue is one that changes the character of public assistance so that it offered a hand up, not a handout. and that's what the food stamp policy in congressman jordan's bill is trying to do. and that's to be distinguished from what happened in the farm bill context because it changes around the edges some suggestions that hopefully a few states will do some requirements but it's not changing the character of public assistance in a way that will promote self sufficiency. >> there's no reason we can't come back to this again next year. >> right. >> it is possible that next year you have more conservatives in the senate. you can take up the nutrition ti [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] en t

two bills back together. but we made a very strong, powerful point throughout the entire debate about ending that unholy alliance between rural republicans and democrats. >> just the decoupling is something that i think is a strategic goal of the policy. >> absolutely. >> that was big time with that -- first time it had been in 50 years where they had been split for at least going through one body of the congress. >> this lady. >> yeah. >> part of the bill, is there any incentive in there for companies to work with companies who would hire welfare recipients to work so that that be a way of keeping track of the people who are looking for work?

years ago when welfare reform had first taken place, i was an office manager at law firm, and we brought in a young lady who had -- who was on welfare. she had to go to work. and part of it was that, i don't know. we had received a letter or something that encouraged small businesses to hire these young people. and then the welfare social worker had to send the individual to a company, and then we in turn had to provide proof that they were working. and this young lady had three children. and is now the manager at the company where i work. >> yeah. >> and put her three kids through college. >> you know, the policy is a requirement on the administrators at the state level, but the smart administrators are going to be reaching out with creative strategies just like that. and i know you have stories about this kind of thing, bob, the creative partnerships with businesses to help people work.

>> it really does. it's how we overcome this vilification of wealthy people. we need to look at them as partners. but the example you gave is just perfect. and it's been echoed throughout. we did this for the whole state of ohio. if we went around the country throughout. we went around the country introducing tanif to local grass roots leaders and inspire a change in attitudes. we need to have a whole conference of just celebrating solutio solutions. so i think that we need to do that more. just have conferences where we just bring people together and exchange strategies of redemption. >> you want to encourage flexibility. in our legislation, the states doing it well, then they get block granted dollars. that's flexibility, and that is all good. that's how you meet the needs in these communities that bob is talking about. >> we have time for one more

question. right here. >> thank you, perhaps all of you could respond to this. i'm deeply concerned about, since the president made the comment a few weeks ago about marijuana and minimizing it's seriousness. and also talking about the states of washington and colorado and the experiment going on there which is against federal law. i wonder what do you -- how do you incorporate in the kinds of public assistance programs disincentives for using programs like marijuana and other mind altering drugs. >> some states have experimented with having drug testing be part of their assistance programs and that is shown to be quite

effective. >> like you, i was disappointed in the president's cavalier statements regarding the use of marijuana. i just think that's not the kind of message you want the president of the united states making. i was disappointed as well. and we're certainly open to what jennifer suggested which is a drug testing requirement. >> and fact based, if one goes to the website for the national institute of abuse, she recently had a two-hour conversation with the dalai llama in india. and they show an extraordinary number of brain scans, and it's been determined now that individuals under 25 years old will have permanent brain damage

and lose as many as ten points in their iq. these are facts that the president should have known about, didn't, and i think it will affect the whole country as a result. >> not with standing, it's interesting that the president talks about job generation. walmart, or a company comes to a city like this and they drug test 200 people, and only 10% pass the drug test. and you have city council members cavalierly saying we need to eliminate, make it legal, more access. at the same time they're saying young people need to work. that's the kind of moral confusion that is spread

throughout the society. we're just confusing young people. >> thank you, a quick programming note, next we will move to the health care panel, senator cruz will be after the health care panel, and we're going to take a brief break of four or five minutes, please join me in thanking this panel and this speaker for doi needhak to the stage to introduce your next speaker. this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you all very much. over the last several years we've seen crystal clear examples of what works and what doesn't work in america's energy sector. on the one hand the private sector has offered inspiring

examples of creativity with fracking and drilling, expanded energy, putting downward prices on prices and creating jobs and growth. on the other hand unnecessary federal regulations have artificially driven up the cost of energy, slowed development on federal lands, and impacted the private sector's ability to innovate and meet new challenges to provide americans with affordable energy. the start of today's event i mentioned the only way to win conservative policy victories would be to win elections inspiring millions of americans with bold policy ideas aimed at changing the broken status quo in washington. washington, d.c. is not broken. it is a finally tuned machine aimed at expanding federal power and using those to reward those politically well connected. only way to change that status quo is to inspire americans across the country to get involved and demand control of their government. nobody has done more sooner to advance this agenda than our next speaker. three words summarize his first

year in office, make d.c. listen. whether fighting a bipartisan gun control agenda the imperial presidency of barack obama or doing everything possible to stop obama care before it disrupted our nation's health care system ted cruz had been the leading conservative reform movement for the last year. ladies and gentlemen here to talk about the american energy renaissance act join me in welcoming a great american senator, ted cruz. >> thank you very much, mike. good afternoon. it's great to join you. i just got off a plane coming in from texas. exactly. you know, i got to tell you, yesterday it was 70 degrees back

in houston. i took my girls out to the park. i get out here and it is freezing. i mean it is really cold. i have to admit i was surprised. al gore told us this wouldn't happen. look, it is so cold, i actually saw a democrat with his hands in his own pockets. now that's cold. you know, mike mentioned the disconnect there is in washington. the disconnect between career politicians in both parties and the american people. the most common frustration you hear all across the state of texas and all across the country, is that politicians in washington they aren't listening to us. and this cuts across party lines. this is true of republicans, democrat, independents, libertarians, americans are frustrated because their priorities are not the

priorities of washington. if you get outside the beltway, the number one priority of americans is jobs and economic growth. state of texas doesn't matter where you are, you can be in east texas, up in the pan handle oreo grand valley, over and over again when you ask americans what their top priority, the answer over and over again is restoring jobs, restoring economic growth. i've got to tell you in the 13 months i've served in the senate, we have spent virtually zero time even talking about growth. in harry reid's senate, jobs and economic growth don't even make it on to the agenda. we spent six weeks talking about guns and the president's agenda to restrict the second amendment right and no time talking about fundamental tax reform, regulatory reform, reducing the

barriers coming from washington that are making it harder and harder for people who are struggling to achieve the american dream. today what i want to talk to you about is one specific avenue. we can pursue to restore growth. it is truly, i believe, a providenceal blessing that at a time where we had five years of stagnant growth, at a time when we've got the lowest labor force participation in this country since 1978, we are also seeing the beginning of a revolution in energy. we are seeing extraordinary developments in energy that are opening up resources that five or ten years ago, would have been unimaginable. that as i said is a providenceal blessing. we are seeing the beginning of an american energy renaissance.

and if the federal government doesn't get in the way and mess it up, that has the potential to transform the situation for so many people who are struggling. take a look at a state like north dakota. the president has tolds us he wants to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. now what he doesn't confront is that the real obama minimum wage is zero dollars because that's what everyone who has lost their jobs under the crushing taxes and crushing regulations is getting right now, is zero dollars with the obama minimum wage. if you look at north dakota, the average hourly wage in the oil and gas industry in north dakota is $45.90 an hour. i'm a lot more interested in generating lots of jobs at those

wage levels where people can provide for their family than continuing the path where more and more people who are struggling lose their jobs. in north dakota which is experiencing a boom because of shale gas and oil, the unemployment rate is 2.6%. in north dakota, does anyone know the hourly pay for a cashier at walmart? $1.50. -- $17.50. in north dakota, mcdonald's is offering a $300 signing bonus because people can make so much in the oil fields it's hard to get people to flip burgers. that's the potential of growth. and i got to tell you it's happening in my home state of texas as well. "the dallas morning news" reported last year that, quote, in west texas, the flood of money and workers into the region is im possible to miss.

increased oil revenue is turning around poorer school districts. a high school graduate can earn more than $80,000 driving trucks. from 2001 to 2012, the number of texas upper middle-income jobs grew 24.2%. think about that for a second. a high school graduate making $80,000 a year driving trucks those are the sorts of jobs that we want to see expanded. bringing back working-class jobs, blue collar jobs where people can earn a living, provide for their family, that was the backbone of the american middle class. those are the jobs that have been decimated under the obama economy. and you know we're seeing that as well in pennsylvania and

parts of ohio, as they're taking advantage of the marcellus shale. even so it is striking if you look at the marcellus shale, the shale doesn't end at the border between pennsylvania and new york. but the jobs do. the jobs end because in new york they don't allow fracking. new yorkers apparently, according to their political leadership, don't want jobs. because they prohibited the ability of development. if you go south to pennsylvania you're seeing this kind of economic opportunity and the arbitrary line carved in the ground shows the impact of misguided government policies. now there is one thing and only one thing that can stop us from achieving the full potential of this energy renaissance and that is the government.

let me tell you a story. it's a story about a modern pioneer, some might call him a modern day hank reardon. fellow named george mitchell. now if you listen to the president's state of the union address a couple years ago, you might think president obama invented fracking. but let me suggest that credit for the technological developments far more properly belongs with george mitchell. here's what the economist magazine described george mitchell as. mitchell was the embodiment of the american dream. his father was a poor greek immigrant. a goat herd who later ran a shoe shine shop in galveston, texas. mr. mitchell had to work his way through the university and graduated at the top of his class. he was also the embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit.

he did not discover shale oil and gas, geological surveys revealed them decades before he started, he did not even invent fracking. it had been in use since the 1940s. but few great entrepreneurs invent something entirely new. his greatness lay at a combination of vision and grit. he was convinced that technology could unlock the vast reserves of energy in the barnett shale beneath dallas and ft. worth and he kept grappling with the unforgetting rock until it eventually surrendered its ridges. the point i want to make, economic growth, the energy revoluti revolution, didn't come from the u.s. department of energy. it didn't come from any government agency. it didn't come from a grant program picking this is how

we're going to transform energy. it didn't even come, with all due respect to our wonderful host, from a think tank in washington. it came from entrepreneurs putting capital at risk and meeting a need. and let me note that where it occurred was not accidental. it occurred in my home state of texas. there are very few state s in te union that would have allowed the experimentation, would have allowed mitchell to go. the barnett shale is not some distant formation out in the countryside. it is right underneath dallas and ft. worth, major cities. you know, california, is blessed to have significant shale formations. they're not developing them.

had mitchell been in california, had california's regulatory system been the only regulatory system we have, there's no way mitchell would have succeeded. because there's no way he would have been allowed to try and develop the technology. think for a moment what we are able to do now, to drill down, miles into the ground, turn and drill miles horizontally, and extract resources -- you want to talk about technology, you want to talk about unbelievably you imagine trying to do the same thing under san francisco? couldn't have happened. that is the story of america.

this government is fond of picking winners and losers or to be more fair, is fond of picking losers. it seems this administration would like to see a whole lot more solyndras and a lot fewer george mitchells. what an incredible opportunity we have right now. but we can't fall victim to what hyatt called the fatal conceit. we cannot believe that government invents, creates or produces. it doesn't. what it often does it stifles creativity, invention, production. the only thing that can stop this great energy renaissance is the government getting in the way. and i will note, particularly

with this administration, it's been doing that more and more. right now, federal lands contain 43% of the nation's oil reserves and 28% of the nation's natural gas reserves. but significant portions of that land are not available for development. the number of new leases has fallen by 42%. from 9,661 to 5,568 between the bush and obama administrations. now, you may be confused because if you saw the president's state of the union address, he proudly took credit for expanding oil and gas production. what he didn't mention is that it's expanding on private lands. not on government lands, on private lands. the u.s. has approved 37% fewer

new drilling permits under the obama administration than under the bush administration. now presidents going back to richard nixon have given speeches calling for energy independence. it doesn't take a geopolitical expert, it doesn't take the renowned insight of a henry kissinger to realize that our nation being dependent on foreign nations for energy, many of whose interests are very different than our own, is profoundly dangerous. as a result of the innovation, as a result of the technological advances we have right now, we're seeing jobs, we are seeing incomes rising, we are seeing less and less dependence on foreign oil, we are seeing the environment improve in

unprecedented levels based on the expansion of natural gas that is reducing admissions. you know, it's interesting, our office put together a map of counties across america, color coded as to whether median income has gone up or down. that map looks like it could be a geological map of shale formations in this country. because you can see median income going up in and around the bakken, down around the barnett, the marcellus, and the eagle ford shale and one other notable exception. washington, d.c. the rest of the country sadly has seen median incomes go down. we should be lessening the

barriers for incomes to go up everywhere. for every american. you know,s just recently, president obama's former secretary of energy -- and i would note under prior administrations it was the u.s. secretary of energy, but the president is fond of saying it's my secretary of energy, to his secretary of energy recently observed that the delay with the keystone pipeline is not scientific. it's political. there have been five environmental review, each of which has concluded the keystone pipeline does not raise significant environmental concerns and yet, it has not gone forward because this administration continues to block it. tens of thousands of high-paying jobs with the stroke of a pen the private sector could be allowed to create, but this administration is not stroking that pen. but here's the point, as much as

we need to approve the keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that. we need to do far more. in coming weeks, i will be introducing a bill, the american energy renaissance act, that is designed to do two significant things. number one, to prevent the federal government from stopping the energy renaissance that is blossoming across the country. and number two, to expand the lands, the resources that are available for the private sector to develop so that we can answer what the american people are asking for which is jobs and economic growth. this opportunity is right in front of us. if the federal government will simply listen to the american

people. now what are the elements of this bill? i'll give you the elements at broad level that i'll tell you in coming weeks we are continuing to receive input from multiple players as we design the exact pieces. here are the broad strokes. number one, preventing federal regulation of hydraulic fracture. fracking a technology that has been in use for over 60 years, is what in combination with horizontal drilling has opened up resources that are unimaginable. there is no reason for the federal government to get if the way of fracking and if the federal government did so, the harm to the economy, the harm to the number of people who could eyes ha otherwise have good jobs would be staggering. the states care every bit as much about having clean water

and clean air, but we are seeing states that are able to ensure clean water and clean air with responsible fracking and at the same time not impede the development of our resources. number two, improve domestic refining capacity. streamline the process for upgrading and building new refineries. you know, we haven't built a new large refinery in the united states since 197 7. that's got to change. number three, allow and approve the keystone pipeline and remove the barriers for approving additional pipelines. there is no reason for this bureaucratic mess in washington.

no reason whatsoever. and i would note a pipeline building the keystone pipeline ought to be a no-brainer. in the senate there's a large bipartisan majority. republicans and democrats who agree we should build this pipeline. it's a no-brainer from the perspective of jobs, a no-brainer from the perspective of national security, no-brainer from the perspective of tax revenues and it is even a no-brainer from the perspective of the environment. indeed, i will suggest if you are a birkenstock wearing, tree hugging, greenpeace activist, you should love the keystone pipeline. you should love the keystone pipeline because number one, the keystone pipeline is not built, it means we will continue to rely more and more on overseas oil, and as long as there are oil on tankers, there will be

spills. by any measures transporting oil in a pipeline is far safer for the environment, far more controllable than overs seas tankers. and number two, if the pipeline is not built north/south it will be built, it will go east/west. the canadians will not leave the tar sapped sands -- if it goes east/west it will go to china to be refined there in a much dirtier way. if your concern is the environment the last thing you want to do is send the oil to china to be refined there which will do far more damage to the environment than refining it in the u.s. where it would generate good high-paying jobs and benefit the environment number four, stop epa overreach and the

war on coal. you know, we are blessed to have enormous coal resources in this country. and yet, the last five years we have seen an all-out war on coal. when i visit with those working in the oil and gas industry i tell them quite frequently, you guys are the second most despised industry in the country in this administration. only coal exceeds. in 2008 president obama was cand candid, he said you can open a new coal plant and it will bankrupt. and we have seen hundreds of coal units across this country shut down. i have to tell you, some time ago i was in southern illinois, visiting coal workers and one

after the other came up and shook my hand and the look on their faces as they realized their government has declared a war on their lifestyle. the look of just hopelessness and despair, generations of families who provided for their families, for their kids, working in coal up and down the appalachian. now, these are not the favored classes this administration likes. these are not titans of wall street. these are not ceos flying on corporate jets. they do very well under the obama administration. the top 1% of our economy, the millionaires and billionaires the president loves to demagog right now earn a higher share of our national income right now than since 1928. the people who have been hurt by the obama economy and people struggling, young people, hispanics, african-americans,

they're single moms. they're people working in coal country who for generations have been able to provide for their families and they're seeing their jobs go away as the administration tries to shut it down. that doesn't make any sense. number five, we need to force congress and the president to vote on epa regulations that kill jobs. the epa is issuing a new regulation that's going to take away jobs, let members of congress sign it. let members of congress go home to their districts and say, i voted to eliminate your job. part of the reason we see this out of control regulatory state is that congress has outsourced its responsibilities. has handed it to unaccountable regulators who don't actually have to see the american people. our constitutional system is based on accountability. if congress has to cast a vote,

before putting in place legislation that kill jobs i suspect we'll see a little more focus on what the american people care about which is a focus on economic growth and jobs. number six, proactive. the first five that i laid out were preventing the federal government from stopping the american energy renaissance. the next are proactively expanding it. broaden energy development on federal land. provide states the option of leasing, permitting or regulating resources on federal lands. there are states eager to see the kind of job production we're seeing in north dakota, we're seeing in texas. i suspect there are other states that would be very happy to see high-paying jobs come to their states, would be very happy to see welfare rolls dropping down

because people are getting jobs and providing for their families. would be happy to see local school districts tax revenues going up because people are providing jobs, getting jobs and providing for their families and yet the federal government is not opening up those lands for development. the states can do a far better job of that. among other things expand energy development on indian lands. there are considerable natural resources on indian lands, many native americans tragically live in crushing poverty. and the resources are right there to improve their standard of living and it is only the federal government that is keeping them in that condition of poverty. we ought to allow native american tribes to develop the resources on their own lands.

number seven, we need to open up offshore exploration. expand the offshore areas of the outer continental shelf that are available for development and streamlining the permitting. we have enormous resources we're simply not accessing and actually sitting by and let other nations develop those resources instead. doesn't make any sense. number eight, we need to expand u.s. energy exports. we need to expand liquid natural gas exports. we're producing natural gas at incredible levels and yet the bureaucratic paperwork to export lng has been mind numbingly slow. we ought to open it up which also gives incentives for developing more resources here, but also gives the ability to expand trade and commerce across

the globe. we need to end the crude oil export ban. right now, exporting crude oil is prohibited and that is a relic from ages where our supply of crude oil was viewed as quite limited. we are now developing crude at an extraordinary level and unfortunately, there's a mismatch because most of our refineries in the u.s. are designed to refine heavy crude from nations like saudi arabia. and so the sweet light crude being developed here, our own refineries have limited capacity to refine them. and we also should reduce the regulatory barriers to exporting coal. with all of those, with producing our natural resource, if we expand the markets, expand the markets they can go, that

generates more and more high-paying jobs. let me note something. the jobs that we're seeing in the energy renaissance, are not just oil and gas jobs. they wouldn't just be coal jobs if we ended the war on coal from this administration. they are jobs across a host of industries. like heavy manufacturing where we're seeing more and more heavy manufacturing come back to the united states. industries like the steel industry that have been beleaguered for generations, we had hard-working americans, union members, going to work in heavy manufacturing, providing for their kids and we've seen their jobs drying up as the working class in this country has been left out of federal government priorities. we're seeing those heavy manufacturing jobs come back and

we're able to compete with nations like china, not based on low-cost labor, none of us want to xweets with china based on low cost labor, but competing instead based on low-cost energy, based on the abundant natural resources that god has given this country that are here and available if the federal government simply will allow private initiative to develop those resources. and finally, i would note, preventing washington, from stopping the american energy renaissance has enormous benefits, will produce millions of high-paying jobs across this country. and also will generate significant additional revenues to washington and the final element in this bill, is the

additional revenues coming in, will be dedicated to a trust fund to pay down our crushing national debt. five years ago our national debt was $10 trillion. today it is over $17 trillion. it has grown some 60% in five years. it took 43 president s and one president in five years to grow it over 60%. what we're doing to our kids and grandkids is wrong and having a trust fund dedicated these national revenues will go to paying down debt we can start exercising some basic responsibility. our parents didn't do that to us. they didn't give us a crushing debt we couldn't escape from. how can we be content do it to our kids and their kids.

i will note, money in washington, trust funds in washington, have a way of being, but the advantage of dedicating this revenue is it increases the political price of politicians raiding the kitty. doesn't mean they won't have the instinct to raid the kitty but it does mean any politician who tries, will face accountability of his or her constituents saying why are you spending money in the trust fund to free us from your debt on your own spending project. this is a combination that makes enormous sense for our country. i want to close with this. i've said many times, that where we are today, is early similar to the late -- eerily similar to the late 1970s.

the same failed economic policies that we saw under the jimmy carter administration, out of control spending and taxes and regulation and the same economic stagnation and malaise as a result. just this afternoon i re-read president carter's speech on energy. because i am a gluten for punishment. it really is striking. he compared the energy crisis of the '70s to, quote, the moral equivalent of war and he told the country, we are running out of oil and gas. by the mid 1980s it will be gone. it's really worth re-reading. it is a speech where he tells the american people, i am calling on all of you to

sacrifice. and listen, any time a politician calls on you to sacrifice, grab your wallet. for some reason, the sacrifice never seems to fit -- hit the rarefied air in washington and sacrifice just thickens the government while the rest of the american people hurt. it's worth re-reading carter's speech because i'm pretty sure every single word in the entire speech is wrong including and the. but what's striking is how much of our energy policy is still stuck back in the 1970s. like that tv show with ashton kutcher "that 0s show" that is the current federal government's approach to energy. we still have antiquated bans on exporting, crude, restrictions on lng.

antiquated rules on building pipelines that enable a president who's being irresponsible to arbitrarily stand in the way, to behave as the energy secretary said, politically, to stop those tens of thousands of i might note union jobs that are not being created because the president doesn't want them. the rules and restrictions we have are for a different time, for a different era. we can, by simply allowing entrepreneurs, allowing the private sector to do what it does best, we can continue this

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panel is. o see all of you, to see an extended audience through all of the social media to take the show them y and across the globe. scheduled panelists are not here. obviously they're not here their trains were cancelled. desouza ant mark directs the important wilson join the conversation later in the program. there he is. yes, he is here. substitute for them. mark, but you, roger also we're sad they can't be here. o it's a great pleasure to welcome back to the wilson center, usaid rob shaw is a good of ours, aid has facilities in the tiny little center building.

and he hasn't spoken here in two month, 2012, not 2013. no, in 14 months, he spoke on clinton calmed the rep, something that's a crucial part of the ool box we use to project a u.s. narrative in the world. ingraj put it, quote, harneness expand the process and strengthen our own nation's economy is something we should be doing. the numbers tell the story, 2001 we have formed partnerships with an estimated a b of illion with public and private funds. but the work doesn't just provide a bounce to our economy. and to the picture, it also security.ur at a time when too many cr

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earthquakeevastating and to today. let's talk about syria. catastrophe. secretary kerry's announcement million inional $380 humanitarian assistance in january brings the total $1.7 billion. that's good news. should do more. aid can help thwart terrorist groups. security innovation through the health initiative and environmental change and which roger ram mark heads. harvestingsp report, peace, food, security, conflict nd cooperation examines the relationships between food insecurity and conflict, humanitarian hat and development partners work

closely together. roj, our friend roj is here to chart out where we're going in 2014. take part eaks he'll in an all-star panel featuring blumenhaur, my good friend who was elected to congress in i served for for many, many years. brains behind the one of uasid's water strategy in 2013. our moderator is jason -- onderful name, we've discussed this. npr's correspondent. i would like to recognize many supporters in the audience. but particularly the ambassador philippines who is -- there he is, sitting in the row, jose cuisia. earl and i think that's it. shaw will now speak and right after his remarks, the

panel begins. of you, and, again, happy valentine's day. [ applause ] >> thank you, jane. thank you for your leadership and in the wilson center certainly in congress. the conversation was about in the america's role world and you've been doing that or quite some time very effectively. earl blumenhaur, thank you for being here. roger to thank jason and mark and the ambassador and so many friends and colleagues. glad folks are here. if you're walking through our offices which are right next building, most of our folks are teleworking or got stuck in the snow. people is great to see out today. that the discussion should be about what america

in the world and what it stands for. always be what our mail tear is doing. it's got to be more in a manner that aptures concernly our diplomatic and development efforts in government, but also aptures the full range of american institutional partnerships around the world in innovation, ence, and technology. nd it is true that when you look across sectors and around he world, whether it's in bringing here we're and others d together where people can be war d after a guerrilla situation. or syria where the 4.5 million relief, nside syria get 3.5 million get relief because

of american support. r whether it's in afghanistan, where the 8 million kids and 3.5 million girls who are now in not talked about much of whatvery much a part regardlessy succeeds of the long term. these efforts make a huge difference in shaping and the world in front of us. so i look forward to a on how to best way.ute that in a modern i would like to pose a question to you. how can we put the power of science, and innovation into the hands of this mission e whether it's serving on an humanitarian basis or working on term partnerships designed to end extreme poverty build resilient democratic societies around the world. now it might be thought of as an

especially in n government leading an agency tasked with doing these things. learned and ow seened that the world is different than it used to be a few decades ago. few decades ago, energy, investment, and resources that of the o these parts world were in fact largely efined by public resource flows, development aid, world bank loans accounted for 60%, of flows of capital into the countries we're talking about. today we're a small fraction of that. despite having maintained our ommitments and the level of commitments and even increased those commitments, we are far outstretched by private investment and business elationships in nearly every country in which we work. about the future f engaging the world in activity, they're not thinking

of infrastructure and services activitiest as those are. instead, we're now thinking blumenhaur and others have suggested in other build the w do we kinds of partnerships that results-oriented way can reshape the vulnerability in the world in which we live. cannot pay our way out of extreme poverty, but if we companies,nesses and f we motivate scientists and te technology gists, if we use innovation, whatever pocket it comes from including it to ernment and apply live out the founding premise on j.f.k. said we talk tackle poverty abroad, we can end the extreme poverty in the two decades. that means for the 1.1 billion

on $1.25 a day. it means ending wide spread 60 million people going to bed hungry tonight. and it means virtually reality of high levels of preventable child 6.6 million kids that will die this year before ever reaching their fifth birthday. now it's easy to step back and it sounds great, those tasks are not achievable. case, we've made huge progress. hild survival as the economist recently noted is probably the single greatest developmental yearsement in the last 20 in terms of what all this work has actually done. 44% of the global economy f the world's population lived on the rough equivalent of $1, $1.25 a day. it's 22%.

only going to get here, we do things a little differently. i want to describe to you some of the efforts i put in place in he last few years to reshape how we do our work and to motivate a greater degree of artnership to achieve those goals. first we restructured how we in order to have local institutions of all kinds all around the world. last few years, we supported more than 1200 local countries, in 73 50% increase over 2010. what that means is we have irect partnerships in local banks in small scale businesses, t means you're funding and partnering with local civil societies that help women leadership r capacity and role of villages in africa. means is we fund and work with women's groups in new

when tragic things happen they're able to have a blumenauer we also made a pivot to focus on artnerships with private organizations and companies in particul particular. global have relationship managers for our partners.vate sector we are working with wal-mart in a dozen countries to reach thousands of small scale farmers providing and supportsistance and connecting them to a real for t that will be there the long haul and sustain their gains. tackle a famine reach out to our partners and they can redirect a $7 million shipment of rice and somali uickly in the economy to get to famine

affected areas. it means we partner with our at google to do verything from mapping vaccinate iing kids and make a living for themselves using private means. cadre of w sent a field investment officers to our missions. these are folks who i think it is the only time in the foreign that clone ave had of officer. it allows us to identify private investment opportunities and connect those investment and tunities to partners investors in the united states and around the world. our e bolstering traditional aids programs by in using our ar alone capacity to provide loan

partners to 26 new mobilize i and for g 26 million every $28 of private investment mobilize we spend about $1 when a loan fails and we have to of the loss. so it is an extraordinary deal these budget environments we are always looking for good deals to advance our mission. new ll this approach a model of development, a model that relies on asking overnments to reform the policies and programs they have put in place, to fight .orruption and prioritize but it also requires us to do differently, to be more nimble and flexible, reach out o private sector partners at home and abroad and to bring ore engagement to tackle the problems we want to solve.

i started at us aid about 8 programs, did% of our programs were like this. 40%.y we think it is about we hope to increase that over time. what that effectively means is are disasters, instead of simply providing aid assistance we are laying the rehabilitation. i'm thrilled our ambassador of the philippines is here because that is a great example. the two most important things that happened in the u.s. response to the philippines were cameras.the the first, as the ambassador nows, was a sharing of climate data and predictive data that allowed the philippines 700,000 t to evacuate people before the typhoon hit. we all saw the early estimates far higher l being than what people ultimately found was the consequence and it

large part because in partnership we were able to get that done. not seen anart also tv was how we stood up energy anded if systems and got health clinics back in operation. our wonderful military and developmental humanitarian partners doing but it was pulling together a consortium of that got mostly local the systems back up and running quickly. i think that is telling. it is those kinds partnerships that give us the confidence to think we can extraordinary things. i mentioned the possibility of child death table around the world. how are you going to do that? is we partnered just a month ago with g.e. in east bring power and energy to hundreds of health clinics africa.ut east that project is going to be

outstanding and it is supported of the loan guarantees i was talking about earlier. loss e an estimated related to that that we have to account for in terms of public funds. but in this case g.e. said this for us we ood deal will pay for any loss you suffer guarantees.credit so at virtually no cost to the american taxpayer through reative partnership we are going to essentially bring power, lights and capacity to of health clinics in east africa which will help save lives. opportunities to do this are to syria from colombia to afghanistan to africa. panel eager to join the because i believe that america has much greater capacity to do work in this manner than i re tapping into today and look forward to your ideas as to

how we get there going forward. thank you. >> thanks you. feel free to jump in on even we will get the questions from the audience toward the end as well. what is he question of the role of the private sector n the united states' image abroad and its development abroad, what is the proper role? can did some amazing things but i think there is the bly some concern that interests of the private sector not be always aligned with the best interests of the people in some of the and there countries might be cynicism from people in those places. at the same time you are dealing budgets in congress which are shrinking.

what do you see as the proper and constraints of the private sector? what administrator described as being very encouraging. i think the legitimate long-term of american business is very much like this. misguidedsome sort of altruism. coke, tory of g.e., wal-mart, is not one of not worrying about the bottom line. hese next are surrenders about making a profit. >> absolutely. >> but they have been able to identify, i think, areas where .t just makes sense f coke has a keen interest in sustainable supply of water around the globe, the extent to to partner re able other n.g.o.'s it

helps meet this objective which eals with their ability to actually function in these countries. with o helps them deal market. because if they are identified solution as e opposed to part of the problem, who are making their own economic choices will graph state toward them. -- will gravitate toward them. been regardedways -- i think of central america, united food. are a host of things where e've not measured up to our standards and short-term profit has sometimes moved in that have tphnot shown necessarily a favorable light, in the best interests of the company in the long term. turned a k we have corner and people are realizing

it is in their best interests country are going to be well served if we can particular out how to identify, promote promote. the last thing i would say is some of the technologies that utilized internationally, being on the after the diately earthquake in haiti and hrelittle oregon n.g.o. had done partnering with banking, whoa, this is may pread dramatically and have applications here in our country. o, simple common sepnse technological advancement, bicycles or ation, mobile bank iing help a ernationally to make difference here at home. > your research and work you do, do you see an increasing

in for the private sector the fields you are studying? -- i think it is a very listening when i was to both of you what struck me is private rsation around and public sector collaboration changed. this is something we have been wilson at at the woodrow center and have found there have been three driving trends that change the dialogue new erspective on this development approach, this new model of development. i think of it somewhat as a pep at and that is looking populati population, what is new about population variables. does it mean? ow do demographic trends have an impact. what does it main in terms of

consumption levels and vulnerability. talked about the philippines and east africa. we second is looking at what call event speed-up. catastrophe d of happens we have seen that the quickly verberate more and more widely than they have previously. role of technology in responding? what is the corporate sector's interest in looking at the bottom line? what does it mean for world development? and the last part of the pep alk is partnership and realizing there is a changing development ecosystem that we more at the corporate sector as a role having a key role in this ecosystem.t so, these three are very person changing the t in dialogue of the corporate engagement and its role in development. >> when you are going out to

do you hear es, concern from people in those countries that the interest of g. part of this project might not be aligned directly for the people in india instance? and how do you respond we you are in a country trying to pitch like this? >> i do hear that. hear itately, i think i more often than it is appropriate. a history in inly development of some pretty having a companies very poor track record of impact.y and that, i think, has lingered for decades. you actually look at what is going on, it is pretty easy to a conclusion that this approach works. ethiopia with dupont. e asked the government it will seed e reforms to its

sector to get tests to be work with a well host of seed companies to commercial i maize and ze hybrid get it to farmers. 35,000 pont is reaching additional farms and we are in dialogue about how to get to through lion partnerships with us and local partners there. the most important part of that to do with price. are all with farmers who usually barely subsistent producers. sell a little extra food on the market if they produced it. two to en have a three-month period that everyone refers to as the hungry season kids and mothers and or ers go without food transmission. for these 35,000 households they

producing more food and selling it and improving fad production. is the path it end widespread food without giving up but relying on the industry and businessmenof small and women. so, this approach works in my it is a reason to do more, not an excuse to cut back or cut ublic budgets back on other necessary and ritical complementary commitments. >> congressman do you think there might be an interest in budget given constraints to have almost everything get outsourced to terms of aid in and development? >> there is some perhaps. fact is that these partnerships actually do require a significant investment. managers of your 35 who are working with these

relationshi relationships. people understand that transformative. sitting in the coffee exchange ethiopia just watching these the capacity to be able to market their own product, building skills if the -- in the just marketing coffee but other economic nfrastructure and it is good for american businesses. i don't think we should look at as a shortcut that is necessarily any easier or requires less investments. it is embarrassing how little we invest now. we just had a budget that gave me heartburn with an 8% reduction. but part of that budget, which and the esting reference was made to our work

international water, we have developed an understanding in congress that by investing in water, focusing getting tion better, more out of it and building partnerships with the community groups, environmental other n.g.o.'s, that is money extraordinarily well spent. so, that budget line increased in this tough clima climate. and i think the partnerships being described with the private sector, with we manage them right i think congress will go along with more. couldn't resist today, i thought it might come up, you not any time jane -- i'm surprised anybody is here. empty prised there is an seat. of theht the latest copy national journal which talks about the most polarized

congress ever. then i pulled the special from two years ago that polarized t the most congress ever. you saved. >> i did. i subtext is the most polar polarized congress ever until next year. here e are talking about has the potential of bringing people together. resources.s jane fought for years in terms national security space. in a weekend than you spend in a month. this is the best minute that we something that brings people together. talking what you are about, and it is wal-mart, and it isg.e. and it is coke,

nike the we have a little shoe store in my neighborhood that is a lot of of work in terms of trying to protect labor and standards.tal and i don't mean to single out four or five companies. lots of them that are there. congress needs to get on board, do,erstand it, and when they i think the evidence is that it makes a difference and we can fund this. >> you do a lot of work with maternal health and security.ntal are there some places where the really sector deoesn't fit properly? i'm wondering whether certainly in terms of infrastructure, plants, wheretric the private sector is doing that, but maternal health which a government function and clinics. are there places where the isn't really the appropriate way to go? > i think that is a very good question. i want to go to the point you

made about this being an bring us together and bring the communities together. often describes candy shoptellectual where you don't get fat on spin. what is important about that is we bring analysis to the table. we have been just recognized as one of the top lobal think tanks in the world and number one u.s. think tank to watch. his is very important for corporations and congress. they need the analysis that we the table to answer you are he question asking, adjacent -- jason. innovative ost things is we bring the models nd analysis that the corporate sector ordinarily could not find on its own. yes, there are areas where typically the corporate sector

nd corporate private partnership with miss. but that is where you have a non profprofit sector role. in it bridge that that is what is exciting about bridge that role. that is what is exciting about thi bridge that role. that is what is exciting about this.t bridge that role. that is what is exciting about this.o bridge that role. that is what is exciting about this. >> i think what will make the difference, whether child health one of those 99% of the scientists who think we've a , what is going to save the world is where we so that se interests the billions of decisions that have the very day ight environmental, economic, moveitarian interests that it so people do things that will make a difference. being described is a way to align those

individual decisions, whether or are government programs they are private sector decisions about where we shop or li live, that is what will be ransformational and they are doing it on a scale that is unprecedented and extraordinarily excited. >> do you think there are areas where the private sector houldn't be involved in this part of the development panckag as the u.s. g out government? >> no. i just don't. child k at maternal and health as a good example. you need a lot of public work and to make it deliver results but our uganda hip with j&j in and zambia has brought down close to 50% in eight months because of measurement capability, of logistics partnerships that make that work. phmassive global hiv/aids

underpinnedogram is by a logistics system that is in with u.p.s. and partners that know logistics. element of lly no any of this that i think you can there's no fidence role for the private sector. to discount the fact this is a reason to do more in erms of public investment and engagement, not less. you were talking about bringing people together. have seen myself how these partnerships have brought ogether conservative republicans, liberal democrats and everybody else in the mix. because when you show you can achieve these results at such a leveraged and clearly measured manner it is very compelling. i think people at all walks of ife got in this business of public service to deliver results in some form and this is

vision.lling the last thing i would say if ou ask most americans how much e spends on foreign aid and assistance the answer is 20%. yesterday i was reading a to $100 billion of aid, development aid we have afghanistan. that couldn't be farther from the truth. spentality is the we have 1%, not 20% on developmental assistance. less than 1%. in afghanistan we spend about of weeks of the total cost our civilian military enterpr e nterprise, two weeks of one year's cost on developmental 1800 ments that led to miles of new road and fastest maternal and child eath and 300% in local revenue collection so they can stand on their own two feet.

o i think it is important to keep it in perspective and see not as a rationale to do less but gives us an opportunity it do more. what is being done to make sure -- all of these are large -- are not coming in and big-footing a local company asia?ica or southeast what is being done it make sure allowing this american commercial power to monopo move across the world? >> first the bulk of private are with local companies. i think that jane in her opening 1,600 public-private partnerships. 1,200 are with local companies and they are thrilled to work with us because believe we can surface issues, help fate corruption and motivate reforms that improve business environment for everybody. second, i would point out that

our current world the places we are talking about are the astest growing economies anywhere on the planet. companies from all over the inld with seeking a foothold the six or 10 fastest growing economies in the world which are sub-saharan africa. a chance for r american companies to engage i'm proud to offer that platform, shy about engaging. >> we should do more in a fashion. one of the things i like with of our n.g.o. partners, their assistance is putting cash the hands of people who, for example, have suffered from an a tsunami.or from we give you that more cash and less surplus food, for instance. i mean, it is an embarrassment

that too often it takes food to arrive has the it arrives it perverse effect of discouraging production, local markets. the administration requested a money to be able o balance that out and demonstrate the power of direct investment. i'm hopeful we are able to do of that. >> for example, the president's budget last year called for a 45% of our food reach gram so away could 4,000 additional children ithout spending an additional penny. it seems like an uphill battle got n the farm bill away the flexibility to reach about 800,000 additional children. but it is remental real progress. 800,ki000 kids it will

make a kids. we will open it up to questions and be thinking about questions. illustrates it this new development of cosystem and there is a new initiative called family planning 2020 which is a global meet the needs for 120 million women globally to reproductive health services. this is a partnership with the with h government, corporations, with local usaid to work ith to meet an ely urgent priority right now. just going back to the framing question, it is not only about the u.s. corporate interests but global interests. is a shift in that artnership model that is more global and inclusive and

bringing in both governments and corporations. >> i know this is being taped nd filmed so there are some mikes out there. o we've questions from the audien audience? someone in the back. wait for the microphone. >> mike mcdonald health inc.ative foundation i have done a fair amount of public-private partnerships on a large scale reflect on haiti the last 20 years, i get more and the kinds ofd that public partnerships that have been described so far really set up a before where em in haiti, that haiti is failing is at the very .ase level of the communities with big data and social away approach getting some -- wasn't we

approach getting resources in the communities to let them emerge with their own ideas of how they want to live for example in africa where large corporations are driving people off their the cities into places that have no infrastructure. >> dr. shah, do you want to try that one? sure. let me set the context a little a very use haiti is important partnering country for us. important to recognize that there's been tremendous progress in haiti since the in particular. if you look at the three years rior to the earthquake and compared to the last three private investment is up 300% if you compare the two time frames. 4.3%.conomy is growing at .5 million additional kids are in school. the 1.7 million displaced during

the earthquake all but about 150,000 are back in some kind of improvement housing units and they are mostly built back it a higher earthquake standard than before. i think that is an person context. context.ortant whether the model works in haiti ne our partnerships was with mobile phone companies and gates foundation to use that as a platform to get obile money to rural women throughout haiti. that made a huge difference and reached lots of families that been ise wouldn't have connected to a modern cash effective and transparent manner. similarly, i do think that the business investment in the otels going up textile industry and coupling that with public investment

bringing down the rate of child malnutrition and making sure kids who get to take get meals and can home food packages, those things see to work with concert it progress. but i think the model works there as well. talking odel we are about is not just giving land ies broad access to and title in a way that is not transparent. is engaging in specific partnerships where you outcomes,sults, track report on them and hopefully enterprise and public ve developmental gains. and make no mistake, i don't mean it suggest we have all of a benign lot of relationships with all business. large watching nvestments being made in developing countries, big up farmland for large commercial

export ions so they can their water. here are often times international multiple lateral invest in o infrastructure projects on a cale that poses risks for the environment and don't have much trickle down benefit. am concerned that in most of these situations we need to evelop an infrastructure that includes the political infrastructu infrastructure. dysfunctionality in haiti, for a host of reasons, is numbing and frustrating. and the progress that has been hard nced has been really fought. it shouldn't be this hard but it is. places where there isn't that political infrastructure

where there are people who will cuts.hort we've been fighting against , legal logging, for instance which you take poor people, you circumvent the law, you put cash on the table for others profit down the li destabilizing civil society and eroding the ecosystem that they face. so, these are hard to un wiwind. is, i think, our esponsibility to put in place structures, infrastructure to elp people enforce their own local laws or create them in the first place and countries lake -- like thetates to united states to respect them so when 't turn a blind eye people are importing illegally arvested timber or endangered species or whatever. there is more we all can do to

provide that structure have nables people not to to choose between feeding their amily and killing some rare animal. it is hard work but i think we are moving. > and clearly that is what there is all about. aid by itself is not going to be transformative and can't control everything but it about setting a framework that is hopefully moving in that optimizing the u.s. dollars that we are investing into it. we have about five or six minutes left. maybe in the front here. the microphone, please. it is coming. >> good afternoon. i want to thank the wilson center. there is a very important topic. work for a management systems international and i had the privilege of working for aid 25 years. american ned innovation. there is a lot of innovation in

there country. that is something we can share. but my experience overseas llustrated that there is a lot of innovation overseas as well. i think of the i.t. sector in bank which was my lasts inning. in is the agency doing terms of venture capital and other means to take advantage leverage and support that? >> thanks for that and for your service. we have had -- we have done a really interesting set of things maturing including partnering with private equity and venture funds in pakistan, middle east, parts of africa and amerihrat hratden -- latin mark. that has created the capacity to support those business starts. i was in the west bank and saw a competition with all of these young programmers having pitching to venture capitalists in the region their

business ideas. they were good ideas. half of them were services away use as online services tailored to the local context completely novel. it was great to see. 400 in e must have been in a big at any time young entrepreneurs pitching heir business idea and trying to raise funds. you see that dynamic all over the world. i think our aid and ssistance should be used to encourage that. those guys and women have so value. we brought over a vice president from google and somebody from intel. brands speak volumes in these communities. not to imply all innovation comes from here but successful think of innovation and entrepreneurship

american usually of entrepreneurship and the more we can represent that abroad i we are.e better off >> i think we will have time for one more question so maybe the red there.the there.an in the red >> i will defer my spot to his -- excellency from he philippines because he raised his hand first. >> thank you. first of all i want to thank shah for the presentation job cknowledge the great usaid and u.s. military did in the typhoon. of i express my appreciation to the american of the people for the overwhelming generosity in terms of got.tance we my question is to the congressman if i may.

foreign aid considering the kind of great job that wouldn't the u.s. congress consider providing a budget for arger institutions like usaid that only humanitarian assistance but are able to very attractive business ?pportunities for u.s. firms wal-mart ienced g.e., and so on. concerned about the reduction in terms of fortune -- but it deprives stukeses institutions to do moror u.s. business. thank you. right. are, of course, the reference that was made not the united d but states military. watching in the aftermath of the

tsunami, watching our military and providing on there was morenk , not one in that region just for the hundreds of of people whose lives were turned up side down, but perception people had about the united states. over the ng to spend $700 ecade approximately illion on a nuclear arsenal that we have not used in 69 yea that has 1,000 times more any we need to destroy country on the globe. being s is about discovered cheating in the

missile silos. 450 missiles on alert fingers on the button. they discovered that when they ere investigating alleged drug abuse -- it is insane. we are able to have policem dive, look at ep ust that one area, we could reprogram conservatively a half .rillion dollars give you 1%. america would be safer. better off.uld be and we would save the tax parse a lot of money -- taxpayers a money. but i come back to the power of these concepts where people come and they see the practical stuff on the ground and these partnerships. what is going to, i think, make a difference and, moreded congress

important, for a divided country to have the support that we need forward. >> unfortunately we have run out of time. been a fascinating discussion and important question about how does the u.s. this form of its power out in the world. i thank all of you for coming. maybe a quick round of applause for our panel. applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014]

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growing cantaloupes but almonds, cherries and all kinds stuff.r good there are three things that make farming work in california according to joe. and people. and in the little free time they joe and maria worked to improve the health and safety of works. there are a lot of people who re dependent on him year round and people who work seasonally ith joe and maria and their livelihoods depend on the functions of these farms. to talk about re the resources keeping more farmers up at night and that is water or lack of it. can ybody in this state tell you california is living through some of its driest years in a century. right now almost 99% of

california is drier than normal. pack that snow rovides much of your water far in the summer is much smaller than normal. e could see that flying in >> jim and barbara and diane nd i were flying over the mountain ranges and could see even though there was a little the last couple of days, that it is nothing like it is normally. drought in regions outside less st is expected to be severe, california is our iggest economy and our biggest agricultural producer. so what happens here matters it working american right down to the cost of food that table. your that is why last month governor brown declared a state of mergency directing state officials to prepare for drought conditions. ogether our administrations launched a coordinated

responsibilities. he secretary vilsack declared 27 counties as primary natural isaster areas making farmers and ranchers eligible for emergency loans. over the past two weeks his team usda and the interior released new e funds for conservation and irrigati investment atpupbsed to updried infrastructure and partner with california to as muchthe water supply as opiniopossible. to announce new actions to help these folks. irst we are accelerating $100 million of funds from the farm ill i signed last week it help ranch erl ranchers. this will help them feed livestock. seconds, last week away announced $20 million to help hit communities and today we announce up to $15 million campbelifornia and other

drought.n extreme third i'm directing the interior to give water contractors flexibility to meet obligations. direct all federal facilities in kale -- california steps to curb water use chug a more storm for new n landscaping projects. by partisan bill written your outstanding senators as as your own outstanding epresentative and all machined -- almond farmer includes similar ideas. -- hope congress considers the legislation and some of the concerns that have been expressed and make sure we are to ing short-term relief folks but long-term certainty for people who are going to be by this doubt. these action also help but they

step.st the first we have to be clear. change in climate means weather related disasters like roughts, wildfires, storms, floods, are potentially going to harsher.er and droughts have been a part of life out in the west since any of us were around and water politics in california complicated.een but scientific evidence shows that a change in climate is them more intense. scientists will debate with a doubt lar storm or reflects patterns of climate change but one thing that is that changing temperatures influence drought in at least three ways. one, more rain falls in more water pours so is last to run after. precipitation e in the mountains falls as rain

run r than snow so rivers dry earlier in the year. umber three, soil and reservoirs lose more water it evaporation year round. does this mean? unless and until away do more to we do more to combat car been -- carbon his will pollution there will get worse take action c pollution has built up and the planet will slowly keep up.ming to stop looking as something to wait for but to repare for and anticipate and build new infrastructure and having new plans to recalibrate baseline we are working off of. to everybody from farmers areas, to residential

to the north of california and of california and the region are going to have to rethinking how we decades to er for come. i was meeting e with the town hall group we zero sum k of it as a game. it can't just be a matter of there will be less water so i more and more of a shrinking share of water. to do is come together and particular out how are we all going to make sure needs, urban needs, environmental s, and conservation concerns are addressed. hat is going to be a big project but it is one i'm confident we can did. part of the climate action plan forward last summer is

designed to protect critical sectors of our economy and united states for the effects of climate change -- aware not going to be that we are not going to be able to avoid. announced new claimant inebackers to help farmers and ranchers adopt. one at u.c. davis focused on for california's specialty crops. , e budget i sent to congress the budget i send next month in include $1 billion funding for new technologies to help prepare for a changing claima climate, set up investment to resilient infrastructure and my administration will work with ech innovators and launch new challenges in our initiative focused on rising sea levels and ultimately focused on how all of these changes in weather are going to have an

the united d down states, not just on the coast do we start nd how preparing for that. that has to be work that we do together. his cannot be a partisan endeavor. one of the great things about not town hall i came out of everybody agreed on anything. except people did agree that we an't keep on doing business as usual. that is what people did understand. sense of has to be a urgency about this. federal ke the government helping states to build infrastructure to adapt ensure economic development and families and workers are prosper, there is nothing new about that. presidenthotograph of kennedy and current governor

of the dad building some aquifers that have been so important to the economy of the for decades. f we were able to do that then we should automobile to do it now. it is just making sure we are not putting politics ahead of to get things working. our work with governor brown and is administration is going to continue. californians have all had to ome together and make sacrifices big and small to help your neighbors and state get through there. is california is always on the cutting edge. you already use water more you did decades ago. you do it smarter. how this dripning irrigation that you see in this region has made many of these much more efficient when it comes to water use. we can innovate but we this challenge have to start now. we can't wait.

o, i want to make sure that every californian knows whether norcal, socal, central valley, your country will be here for you but we have to work together in the years to come to sure we address the challenge and leave this area to our nd and children and grandchildren in as as we found it. thank you for the work you do nd i have already told the governor as well as all your out standing representatives that stay on istration will this and we are prepared to kaoptd with local -- cooperate and state officials throughout and not just in california because we will see problems in places like the ado, nevada, some of neighboring western states. so, part of the conversation ill have to be a regional conversation. but there is something that i'm

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