among those participating, colorado governor john hick hickenlooper and ohio senator ron portman. this runs about 50 minutes. >> it's my pleasure to introduce our panel moderator, bruce katt. bruce is vice president at the brookings institution and a founding director of the brooksings metropolitan policy program which provides people with policy ideas to preserve the health and pos terty of policy reforms. please join me in welcoming bruce and the panel. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. let's get started. i want to introduce the panel, but i just wanted to do this little preface. i think everything we've talked about this morning, whether it's technology, whether it's regulation, whether it's skilled workers, everything used to recharge american manufacturing is a federalist act. the federal government, obviously critical, states -- remember, we're a union of states -- broad towers of over mark market-shaping areas. networks a manufacturing firm and the ecosystem that supports them. we have a great panel here to have one of the few federalist companions. but critical to this panel, a