branstad was around back then.f you believe any of that -- seriously, i think we lose sight of the human elements, the face-to-face element of governance, which is what the best practices of governor herbert and this panel is really all about. i am a product of a state initiative. when i had my car accident that resulted in spinal cord injury that was permanent back in the 1970's, the federal options were you get on social security or s.s.i. and i was just in college at the time, and the fed said here, and that was it. and i would say, well, i would like to get a job. my federal case worker would say, don't do that. you'll leeze the check. -- you'll lose the check. i want to get a job. then you'll lose the check. and that was sort of it. my vocational rehabilitation rehab counselor on the other hand had a whole set of ideas. some of them were really stupid. i studied math in college and they thought maybe it was a good idea for me to screw nuts on to olts and count them. it was still developing at the time. but ult

i don't know, governor branstad, what do you say? i coming here from omaha it was so beautiful, sadly beautiful to see signs of reverence and the flag flying at half staff along the way and coming by the iowa veterans cemetery and i feel grateful for how fortunate we are for those who served to make us the land of the free. thank you for your hospitality and your leadership. thank you for your introduction, i accept your compliments and your words, they were complements to me on behalf of all of our colleagues in congress with the courage to go forth on this legislation and of course the great leadership of president barack obama. i can congratulate you for your new leadership stepping into the chairmanship. again, thank you for your tremendous leadership. i remember when you came in to my office and talked about how we could work together, federal and state, state and federal, bipartisan and nine partisan cooperation. i. i think all of you for the leadership on the legislation for education on fast track. those were two things menti

other than governor branstad we are here for a limited period of time. you have to concentrate and focus on whatever the issues that are here today. you campaign and say if i am elected i will do this and this so there is pressure to get it in in four, eight maybe 12 years. that is unique with governments. the fact in our 50 states and five territoryies governors are getting things done. they bring people together and get it done. the states are in fact producing great results in this country today at a time when washington, d.c. seems to be dysfunctional and that is because of the work of the government and legislatures and whether that is opposite parties or divided inside their own party. we have a unique circumstances but governors and states are getting it done today as well as any time in our country's history. >> i just came from a bipartisan press conference to support ttp. democrats and republicans, unfortunately this has been a horrible partisan issue in the presidential election. unfortunately, a lot of rhetoric has been out there. but for the

let's give terry branstad and christine branstad around the applause. >> this would not have happenedr branstad will tell you, without the cosponsors who literally stepped up to the plate. these are hard deals to put together. most of our cosponsors are out there. give them a round of applause if we could. and thank our corporate fellows on behalf of all of you, we couldn't do what we do, give them a round of applause as well. [applause] >> i encourage everyone to stop by so they can package a few neil, the service event will run from 8:30 to 10:30, that will be greatly appreciated. i am calling the meeting to close but you are next to the gavel. >> a contribution to this effort, the nga doing good stuff and terry's leadership will do better. there have been people asking about the booklet we passed out on highlighting the success of the states. contact scott and his people. there will be a continuation so things you are doing on cyberspace and other innovative things taking place states will have online in perpetuity to see the great things taking place that you can access. contact s

governor branstad? to thank you for the role you played in honoring -- >> thank you. >> it was one of the highlights for me to be there when that statue was unveiled in statuary hall, and also your support for renewable energy, so we appreciate that. to some degree, you have already touched on this, but tax reform, comprehensive federal tax reform is an important issue, and it obviously of effects us because, and you talk about this a little bit, that tax deductibility of state and local bonds. we are concerned that the congress and doing comprehensive tax reform recognize the important role of governors and the states have in terms of controlling our own state tax authority and not being preempted, so i would just ask you to see what you can do to make sure that, first of all, that we do see comprehensive tax reform and that we do it in such a way that it does not curtail the state's ability to meet our obligations. >> thank you, governor. i look forward to working with you on that. one of the things i

thank you, governors. >> governor branstad?the role you played in honoring -- >> thank you. >> it was one of the highlights for me to be there when that statue was unveiled in such a hall,all, and -- statuary and also your support for renewable energy, so we appreciate that. to some degree, you have already touched on this, but tax reform, comprehensive federal tax reform is an important issue, and it obviously of effects us because, and you talk about this a little bit, that tax deductibility of state and local lawns. .- bonds we are concerned that the congress and doing comprehensive tax reform recognize the andrtant role of governors the states have in terms of controlling our own state tax authority and not being preempted, so i would just ask you to see what you can do to make sure that, first of all, that we do see comprehensive tax reform and that we do it in such a way that it does not curtail the state's ability to meet our obligations. >> thank you, governor. i look forward to working with you on that. one of the thin

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top republican officials spoke in support of him, including governor terry branstad and senator joni ernst and trump aired his deliberations over whether to attack speakers at the democratic convention with thinly and not at all veiled swipes at some. >> the things that were said about me. i mean, should i go through some of the names? i -- you know what? i wanted to. i wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard. i was all set. and then i got a call from a highly respected governor, how's it going, donald? i said, well it's going good but they're really saying bad things about me. i'm going to hit them so hard. i was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. i was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin, he wouldn't know what the hell happened. and he came out of nowhere! he came out of nowhere. they made december with me, would you help me with this? would you make this deal? and solve the problem? i solved the problem, i'd do a great job. i was going to hit a number of those speakers so hard their heads would spin, they'd never recover. i said i'm going

governor branstad. >> well i wanted to mention that i've been to japan 16 times.first time i came to japan, mike mansfield was the ambassador and he did a great job of convincing me that we need to really build a strong relationship, even before i became governor we have a sister state with japan going back to 1960. we have, i found a the midwest, u.s. japan association which represents japanese prefectures in america states in the midwest, and also companies from both countries. that has been a great vehicle and it is going to be in missouri this year. lasher was in last year was in tokyo and it's in japan one year in the midwest the next year. that has been a great opportunity for us to exchange ideas and to work together. we are very appreciative. we have a number of japanese companies have invested in iowa and we obviously do a lot of business in japan as well. i want to welcome our japanese guess and say how much we appreciate the relationship over these very many years. thank you very much. >> i gather you folks have to go. thank you so much for your time an

thank you, governor. >> governor branstad?> first of all, i want to thank you for the role you played in honoring dr. borlog. >> thank you. >> and that was one of the highlights for me to be there when that statue of dr. borlog was unveiled in statuary hall. also your support for renewable energy, which is very near and dear to my heart and the people of way. so we appreciate that. to some degree you've already touched on this, but tax reform, comprehensive federal tax reform is an important issue, and it obviously affects us because -- and you talked about this a little bit, that tax deductibility of state and local bonds. we are concerned that the congress in doing comprehensive tax reform recognize the important role the governors and the states have in terms of controlling our own state tax authority and not being preempted. so i would just ask you to see what you can do to make sure that -- first of all that we do see comprehensive tax reform, and that we do it in such a way that doesn't curtail the state's ability to mee

grassley and senator joni ernst, and the longest serving governor in american history, governor terry branstad. the state of iowa proudly casts its 30 votes for the next president of the united states of america, donald j. trump. >> pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules of this convention, iowa, 30 votes trump. >> kansas. 40 delegates with the following bound delegates, nine trump, 24 cruz, six rubio, one kasich. >> madam secretary, kansas, home of the greatest fans of the reigning world series champions, the kansas city royals, proud home of the iconic bob dole, casts nine votes for the next president of the united states, donald j. trump. 24 votes for senator ted cruz, six votes for senator marco rubio, and one vote for governor john kasich. >> pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules of this convention, kansas, nine votes trump, 24 votes cruz, six votes rubio and one vote kasich. >> kentucky, 46 delegates with the following bound delegates. 17 trump. >> mr. chairman, from the bluegrass state, the commonwealth of kentucky, the home of churchill down

[laughter] we appreciate governor branstad, thank you again.een a great opportunity for us to be here in iowa. as we get started here today, let me mention we are going to be joined by some distinguished guests so we have here with us, were grateful to have them here. we are going to talk about agriculture and food and the growing economies in the journey from field to plane is the title of our agenda. there's no better place to talk about that right here in the great state of iowa. the good news is we have to i will governors with us, 11 former and one current governor that are both called terry branstad. [laughter] >> we also have a former governor that's the secretary of agriculture, tom bill sack. >> i'm going to get that. you're stepping on my lines buddy. [laughter] anyway were honored to have with us tom bill sack the former governor of iowa who's done a great job as the secretary of agriculture. were honored to have him here today. we welcome one and all. with that, terry let me turn some time over to get us started on this program and

that mitch mcconnell didn't expect an endorsement, they wanted an endorsement, i talked to governor branstad in iowa and some of the others. in the texas delegation there were so many trump supporters, trump delegates saying this was wrong. you were there. >> i was in the texas delegation. let me take a moment to say donald trump, jr., is up in the nbc box talking with our colleague lester holt right now so that's happening as we speak. i was in that texas delegation talking with delegates who have been supportive of ted cruz, were proud of him as their home state senator, but were frustrated. as i stood next to them, right next to this sign, they were on their own without any prompting from me sort of talking outloud to themselves like "come on, do it, do it." and i leaned in and said "what is it you're asking for?" "he's got to endorse, he's got to endorse." that's what i was hearing on the floor. talking to senators, senior office holders in the republican party, a number of them have said this is what makes ted cruz unpopular among his colleagues in the party. what they view as an unwill

huck grassley and joni ernst and the longest-serving governor in american history, governor terry branstadrules, the state iowa casts its 30 votes for the next president of the united states of america, donald j. trump. [applause] mr. kent: pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules of this convention, iowa, 30 votes trump. ms. hudson: kansas. 40 delegates with the following bound delegates. rubio,ump, 24 cruz, six one kasich. secretary, kansas, home of the greatest fans of the reigning world series champions, -- kansas city royals [cheering] proud home of the iconic bob dole. casts nine votes for the next president of the united states, donald j. trump. [applause] cruz,es for senator ted six votes for senator marco rubio, and one vote for governor john kasich. [applause] mr. kent: pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules of this convention, kansas, nine votes trump, 24 votes cruz, six votes rubio, one vote kasich. ms. hudson: kentucky 46 delegates with the following bound delegates. 17 trump. >> mr. chairman, from the bluegrass state, the commonwealth

joni ernst -- [ applause ] and the longest-serving governor in american history, governor terry branstaddly casts its 30 votes for the next president of the united states of america donald j. trump. [ cheers and applause ] pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules of this convention, iowa 30 votes trum trump. >> kansas, 40 delegates with the following bound delegates. nine trump, 24 cruz, six rubio, one kasich. >> madam secretary, kansas, home of the great est fans of the reigning world series champions, the kansas city royals. [ cheers and applause ] proud home of the iconic bob dole. [ cheers and applause ] cast nine votes for the next president of the united states donald j. trump. 24 votes for senator ted cruz, six votes for senator marco rubio and one vote for governor john kasich. [ cheers and applause ] >> pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules of this convention, kansas, nine votes trump, 24 votes cruz, six votes rubio and one vote kasich. [ applause ] kentucky, 46 delegates with the following bound delegates. 17 trump. >> mr. chairman, fr

governor malloy of connecticut, governor bullock of montana, governor nixon of missouri, governor branstad of ohio -- i mean iowa. what a big blunder that was, huh? post your today. governor mccrory of north carolina, the governor of tennessee, have herbert of utah, and as the vice chair, governor brian sandoval, and for our next nga chair, my good friend and neighbor to the south, governor terry mcauliffe of virginia. chairman herbert, on behalf of the nominations committee, i moved to have this outstanding slate adopted. well, thankbert: you. we have a motion on the floor. is there a second? second. any discussion? hearing on, all those in favor say aye. motion carries. thank you, larry. appreciate your good work. before we turn the gavel over to our new chair, i ought to make some recognitions of those leaving their service with us here. am just trying to check to see who is here. those who are not with us -- this is their last meeting as they exit office -- we have governor jack markell, peter shumlin, jay nixon -- i see maggie hassan. she is leaving, 20. i think she is running for the

i have been honored to works as part of the branstad and reynolds commission in iowa as well as the commissionf ageing. across iowa and the nation and our many ageing networks including aarp that is here with us today. and it's something that we work on every day. i provided some testimony of three different scenarios that we have in the state of iowa. the first is an older woman who was actually acquainted, a guardian conservative or ship a took advantage of that and ended up in a long-term care facility and was going to be discharged because of lack of payment. we stepped in and legal steps were taken to end that conser conservator guardianship. she already lost a lot of her assets and had a long-term impact. number two, is part of that sweet heart scam. an individual who was widowed that developed a relationship online and ended up that there was a cost involved with that of many thousand dollars. as she continued through that relationship. what i would like to share with you today is a case that i actually was very involved in. the insurance commission actually has been holding some fraud