that includes $10 million for the career material science center at boise state university. that includes $10 million for the university of idaho to build a fund for agricultural food and environment for the cafe in magic valley. it includes $10 million for lewis and clark state college to construct a career technical education building adjacent to the proposed new lewiston high school cte facility and finally $5 million toward remodelling the gayle life sciences building at the idaho state university campus in poke tella. let me call your attention now and encourage your support for an effort to make postsecondary education in eastern idaho more affordable for students, more competitive for businesses, and more attractive and responsive to employers' needs. i'm speaking of course -- [ applause ] i'm speaking of the campaign to turn idaho falls into a full flenled community college. establishing a college in eastern idaho will spur economic growth and complete a comprehensive statewide system of affordable community colleges options along with the northern idaho community co

coming up next from boise, idaho, governor butch otter with his annual message to state lawmakers. you can watch more state of the state speeches at c-span.org by typing your state in the search bar. >> honored guests, friends, my family and, of course, our first lady, miss lori. before i begin, allow me to add my welcome and my best wishes for all the new members of the legislature joining us here today. thank each of you for bringing your life experiences and your unique perspectives to our important work here in the people's house. also, i have the privilege today of introducing newly elected supreme court justice robin brodin to this chamber and to the idaho judiciary. congratulations, madam justice. [ applause ] the new year also brings some key departures from our executive branch of government. i'm sure you will join me in wishing kevin kemp god speed in his new national responsibilities after two eventful and successful years as the director of the department of corrections. we are also losing sam hodge to a well deserved retirement from the office of aging. and kelly pierc

includes $10 million for the career material science center at boise state university. includes $10 million to the university of idaho to build a fund for agricultural food and environment. it includes $10 million for lewis and clark state college to construct technical education buildings. million toward rewarding the gale life science building. let me call your intention -- call your attention now and encourage your support to make post secondary education more affordable for students, more competitive for businesses, and more attractive and responsive. of theaking, of course, campaign to turn eastern idaho technical college into a full-fledged community college. establishing a college of eastern idaho will spur economic growth and place a comprehensive statewide system of affordable options, along with the northern idaho community college and the college of western idaho. this body has already set aside $5 million for startup costs. now the people must decide if the polls in may -- decide at the polls in may whether to invest in their own future by advancing plans to

. >> host: last question from rick in boise, idaho. >> caller: i am on social security disability. i got a $12 raise. am i locked out of the stock market gain? i don't make enough money to get involved? i actually have a little bit left over each month, and it sits in savings. >> take a little of the money you have left and pop it into an index fund. i would say first things first, you want an emergency fund in case something goes wrong, you need cash in case you have another health issue, in case you need money to repair your home. but after you have a decent two to three to four months worth of savings that you can put money in the index fund, that is less risky than buying an individual stock and with the entire market from a big mutual fund company like vanguard or fidelity and it is pretty simple to do. i think everybody should be invested in the stock market at some level, the older you are the less you should be invested in the stock market but it should be something everybody should feel comfortable playing in. >> thank you for your time, rich is not a four letter word is t

and we're on path to do that boise if we don't get her going. so we're looking hard at private yards to fix that problem. we have four additional, upwards of five additional submarines this year who will have to go for an extension to their dive certification. they are in similar situation. we think we get most of those extensions by nr, if we don't we have similar problem with some of them as we have with boise today. >> one thing to build and buy new, one thing take care of stuff you bought. we're talking about buying new, we're not giving resources to take care of equipment we got today necessary for your operations. >> we often trade readiness dollars, homing dollars to make current operations and make sure kids overseas on deployment have what they need. >> not just the ships themselves, not just the boats themselves, when you talk about manning them and equiping them, is it true right now there are cases which you had carriers moving back out of the area of forward operations into the back areas and trading them off and stop midway trading

i'm in boise. we moved big ben to boise a couple months ago.l qaeda in the arabian sloo, aqap, one of the leading elements of al qaeda and muslim extremism. aqap has been pun of the most active members of this extremist organizations in plotting to attack the west outside their areas of operation. kennedy: they are the most likely to plot something big against us, a 9/11-style attack the likes of which we have not seen because we are so used to these lone wolf attacks. but that could change if they gain momentum, power and money. >> people shouldn't be under the mistaken coincidence that it's a matter of luck that we haven't had attacks on our soil outside the lone wolf attacks. it's the result of a great number of people, including our liaison partners and the yemeni government and the military working to disrupt these operations. far be it from me to say that the "new york times" in their rush to find fault with the trump administration may have returned this support. the foreign minister accumulation out and confirmed and said no, they are n

we have the same concerns about boise. we are the same concerns about montpelier which we put in a public yard just to try to offload some work load. there are huge impacts to the place we are at on the maintenance front on the public yards we are trying to spread it with private as best we can. but it's just going to take time and resources as highlighted here. >> very quickly, what can you do to mitigate this back log? because the back log is only goegto grow. you can't gain back time and workforce experience able to accelerate that. you can hire up but you are hiring new people so proficiency will not be there. how do you gain that back? >> i can answer that for the record, quickly it is by sticking to the deployment links that we have so we don't wear out the commitment so much that when it gets back it has to go for longer periods of time. >>> thank you. you mentioned in your testimony about aviation readiness. i note that you 46 and now moved on to p 8s. they are relatively new. so what class of aviation in the navy

so boise is on -- was scheduled for a 24-month availability. they are now on 47 -- 40 -- >> may i just make the point. what you're telling me, you get a nuclear submarine, because it doesn't meet readiness standards, you can't take it out and utilize it. today. >> even while it's waiting for maintenance, it is not certified to dive because of the length of time it's been parked. yes, sir, that's true. and on the last piece of that that's important, that much like albany, another ssn, which also was extended for 48 months, that co started the avail and finished the avail, having never left the yards to operate that submarine. the xo and the chief engineer, i believe, neither one of them promoted. and the entire crew never deployed. and we're on path to do that with boise, if we don't get her going. so we're looking hard at the private yards to fix that problem. we have four additional -- upwards of five additional sub marines this year who are going to have to go for an extension to their dive certification that are in a similar situation. we th

may not be aware what one burglar found in boise, idaho. >> this is joey. friend. when police recovered property stolen from the home recently. the squirrel left his mark. the arresting officer was sure she had the right man in custody. >> she said, while she was -- questioning the individual, he had scratches on his hand. so she asked him -- so did you get that from the squirrel? he says, yeah, damn thing kept attacking me. wouldn't stop until i left. ha-ha. >> oh. >> i love that. >> the burglar might have taken more if not for the squirrel going nuts on the man. joey's owner says he rewarded his pet by giving him his favorite candies. >> such a can tras ontrast, the giving the dog treats. the dog is there wagging his tail. the guy is stealing all the bloggings from the home. the trick doesn't work on joey. >> attack joey. >> joey was like catch me outside. >> how about this. a lot of police departments are looking into hiring squirrels a >> no, they're not. >> yes. >> run-tin-tin, canine squirrel. >> exactly. >> coming up a test you will want to take. which is th

coming up next from boise, idaho, governor butch otter with his annual message to state lawmakers. you can watch more state of the state speeches at c-span.org by typing your state in the search bar. >> honored guests, friends, my family and, of course, our first lady, miss lori.

s, with boise being tied up at the dock, one of our active attack submarines, tied up at the dock for two years before maintenance will begin. that takes a while before she gets back to the fleet. and another five getting ready to be tied up at the dock awaiting maintenance. again for that two-year period before the first work gets done. you have that. you have carrier gaps now. in the persian gulf. you are seeing that back up with carriers going to the yards and then not just maintenance availability backups, but then that affects training schedules. i want to ask this. are you going to change deployment schedules, lengthen them from seven months? will training times predeployment workups, will they get shortened? how are you going to deal with this to make sure all these ships get to the yard, get maintained, back to the fleet if we're going to get to 355 ships, we have got to do all possible to maintain the ships that we have. admiral moran: congressman, thanks for the question. it's a very complex answer. we hit to keep -- when sequestration and furlough back in 2013, we saw sever

i first met logan when he was an elected official for boise state and i spent a day with him. he's is double majoring in physics and astron me omy at th university of wyoming. i didn't know that was possible. let alone legal. this is an amazing thing. he's taken advantage of almost all wyoming offers as an undergraduate. as a freshman, he went faculty to uw's infrared telescope learning to operate a major scientific facility and acquiring the skills to analyze digital images. as a sophomore, he led a study at the mount gem observatory site. he'll participate in next summer's total solar eclipse. for those of you not familiar, we're going to have wyoming is going to be the place for the total eclipse. this is, if you're not aware, a big deal. and i have -- i have here in my notes, in your own words, make sure everybody knows how viable this is to tourism. it is a big teal. august 21st, he also serves counselor to junior high youth at exxonmobil bernard harris summer science camp. he's done as a junior what many ph.d. students would long to do. he's a beneficiary of uw science i

du boise, john dewey, those that are thought of as the big questions in society and politics. john adams deserves to be thought of in that way and not just as a historical figure or statesman. adams really did. the major work of the political science is the sense of the american constitution and it was probably the most systematic treatment ever written by an american. we have other founding fathers like james madison and alexander hamilton that wrote the federalist papers that are also impressive but john adams worked more than any other figure in time and was a political scientist. that is what engaged my interest. >> host: you described john adams as most gripped by the past. we talk about john adams as a scientist. what about as a practical historian of sorts? just to go >> doethis began very early and actually goes out of interest in law. he begins of course as a lawyer and it is often said that a great many of our founding fathers were more years and that is technically true. some of them were lawyers and businessmen and something else. john adams in his career a was a v

. >> reporter: structural engineer glenn boise has been walking this tunnel inch by inch looking forevery thousand-foot interval, some of them have about 20 defects, which basically averages out about 1 every 50 feet. >> the san francisco public utilities committee has known since the late '80s that it needed prepares. in fact, they had to drain the entire reservoir to get to it. >> we would be under water by now. >> reporter: typically they get 20 years to inspect the tunnel. this time they get 90 days to make repairs. and they are enlarging repairs to prevent future repairs. this tunnel turned out much larger than expect. samples show that the builders used more concrete that was planned for. >> on the plan it said minimum of 6 inches. but on a core sample it says 18 inches. >> reporter: the system of pipes, dams and reservoirs carries water 167 miles from yosemite national park and into the south bay before going up the peninsula to san francisco. despite its age, it continues to impress. >> this is amazing the workmanship they put in place 90 years ago to have it stand up to the

. >> host: i understand.oo this last question is from rick in boise, idaho.pp >> caller: hello. i'm on social security disability. i get around $960, i think, i got a $12 raise. so am i locked out of the stock market gain? is that something that i just don't make enough money to get involved in? i mean, i actually make ends meet, i actually have a little bit left over each month, and, you know, my -- it sits in savings -- >> guest: the easiest way to do this, my friend, the easiest way to do this is to take a little bit of that money that you have left over and pop it into an index fund. but i would say first thing's first, you want an emergency fund in case something goes wrong. you need cash available in case you have another health issue, in case you need money for repair for your home, you need to set money aside for that. after you have a decent two to three to four months' worth of savings, then you could put money in an index fund. that's less risky than buying an individual stock, and you can buy the entire market from a big mutual fund company like vanguard or to fideli

the probate court told sally from boise, idaho the law of the state of idaho, which idaho had copied from california but california already changed its personsread, as between preferred tobe females. it was an obvious reason for that because in the days before the marriage women's property acts were passed, a woman cannot contract in her own name. she would be sued on her own property. if you had a choice between the able man and the disabled woman, it makes sense to choose the man. sally thought that was wrong. she was in everyday woman who made her living by caring for elderly or infirm people. thought it was wrong and we had a legal system that is considered right. on her own dime, she did that case to three levels of the became theaho and it turning point in the supreme court. after that there was a succession of cases, some brought by women and some by men. is stephenase watsonville whose wife was a math teacher in high school. she had a healthy pregnancy. the doctor came out to tell stephen that he had delivered a healthy baby boy but his wife had died of an invalid from -- emb

> and they know to look out for guard dogs but you might not be aware of what one burglar found in boisepolice recovered property stolen, the squirrel had had had left his mark. the arresting officer was sure she had had the right man in custody. >> she said while she was questioning the individual, he had had scratches on his hands. so she asked him did you get that from the squirrel? and he said yeah, dam thing kept attacking me and wouldn't. stop till i left. >> i love tat. >> so the burglar might have taken more if not for the squirrel going nuts on the man. joey's owner says he rewarded his pet by giving him his favorite candies. >> such a contrast to the guy giving the dog some treats and that's it. that trick doesn't work on joey. >> no. attack joey. >> joey was like cash me outside. >> how about that? >> and they're looking into hiring squirrels. >>> rin tin tin k9 squirrel. coming up a test you will want to take. which is the best chocolate? >> it's the ultimate taste test. could your buds pass the test? ♪ don't ask. >> what? >> no. ah! what's this sudden cooling thing happening

boise who can't deploy because their boat is no longer qualified to dive and can't receive required upkeep because of chronic maintenance backlogs, and the thousands of navy sailors who picked up the slack from an overworked navy by going on extended deployments and spending more and more time away from their families all because of the defense cuts. congressman mulvaney's beliefs as revealed by his poor record on defense spending are fundamentally at odds with president trump's commitment to rebuild our military. and this record can't be ignored in light of the significant authority exercised by the director of the o.m.b. over the federal budget. almost every one of my colleagues in this body, all but one voted for jim mattis to be scraiferred -- secretary of defense because they knew he was the right leader to help the department confront growing threats to our national security. i share that same confidence, but i also know that he can't do it alone. voting in favor of congressman mulvaney's nomination would be asking secretary mattis to spend less time fighting our enemies overseas and

it was boise, idaho, 10,000 people in salt lake city.he history of the state. i think those marches were about something bigger, not who is in congress and elected office, but women making their voice heard. one other thing, mika, that was fascinating is how many men were there. i saw grandfathers marching in support of their granddaughters and husbands marching for women's rights. to me, it is about women's rights, but bigger than simply women standing up. >> what do you make of the new administration, the new president and would you meet with him or ivanka who will be closely involved in women's issues? >> we arhoping the ining theyil at the women's health care, including planned parenthood. the president, himself, said favorable things about the millions of women helped by planned parenthood. i hope the administration is looking at this, for women, this is basic health care. this is not a police cal statement. if we want to do something to build on the progress of reducing unintended pregnancy, reducing the abortion rate in the united

montanans are frustrated by the fact that my friend, my colleague -- ryan zinke and i went to boise state. he will be the first cabinet appointee in the history of montana going back to statehood of 1889. the democrats are blocking us from getting that done today for no good reason. he passed with a bipartisan vote of 16-6 in the energy and resources committee. he's going to be an outstanding addition to president trump's ps cabinet. i don't understand in that's being blocked. we can gate that done here this afternoon. done. instead, ryan zinke is being stopped. we've got a long list of things to do at interior. i am the chairman of the national park subcommittee. we've got a backlog of maintenance. we've got to get zinke in place right now to start working to strengthen our national parks. he is going to be a great addition. i am asking why? give me a good reason, why are you objecting to moving congressman zinke's nomination forward now? why are you holding up this historic vote for montana? this will be the longest a president has waited for his team to be in place since george washing

governor butch otter delivered his annual state of the state address recently in the state capital of boise. the governor said the state is steadily improving and pointed to a number of investments in education in the recent years. he made positive iraqis on the new administration, saying he hoped the trump administration would work with western states on environmental regulation and conservation.