governor john hickenlooper, governor of colorado, former mayor of denver, also former founder of a small manufacturing firm. okay, now, it was a microbrew, but over the weekend i actually looked at the american. so glegfisher, mayor of also. they've lived there and can talk about that experience as well as the government experience. last but not least, jay tim mons the master.

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

governor john hickenlooper, governor of colorado. former mayor of denver.er founder of a small manufacturing firm. [laughter] okay? now, it was a microbrew, but over the weekend i actually lookedded at the north american industrial classification system, and micro brews are there as part of food production. [laughter] so greg fisher, mayor of louisville. sixteenth largest city in the united states. obviously, large manufacturing presence. and mayor fisher also was the owner of a small manufacturing firm earlier in his career. so both of these folks have lived this and can talk from that experience as well as from their governmental experience. last but not least, jay, national association of manufacturers. this is really the critical constituency group representing manufacturers large and small in the united states. on a wide range of issues. so i'm going to start and go with the hierarchy of the system here. i usually start from the bottom up with the mayors, but i'm going to start with senator portman. >> that would be the bottom of. [laughter] >> and ohi

governor john hickenlooper, governor of colorado. former mayor of denver.lso former founder of a small manufacturing firm. okay, now it was a micro brew but over the weekend i actually looked at the north american industrial classification system. and microbrews are there as part of food production. so, -- greg fisher, mayor of louisville. the 16th largest city in the united states. obviously large manufacturing presence. and mayor fischer also was the owner of a small manufacturing firm earlier in his career. both of these folks lived this and can talk from that experience as well as from their governmental experience. last but not least, jay timmons, national association of manufacturers. this is really the critical constituency group representing manufacturers large and small in the united states on a wide range of issues. so i'm going to start and, go with the hierarchy of the system here. i usually start from the bottom up with the mayors but i will start with senator portman. >> that would be the bottom. [laughter] and ohio obviously, when you think a

this is south of the downtown area here in denver, and i have to tell you, jon, governor john hickenlooperle and urged people to stay home. don't go anywhere unless you are a vital member of keeping this city going. you've got government offices closed. the colorado legislature is not working today. schools are closed all over the place. they are telling people stay off the roads. but you know what is open? starbucks. that starbucks has been open since early this morning and the parking lot has been full. apparently everybody here knows how important starbucks is. additionally on a more serious note if you're traveling, denver international airport right now isn't doing much. they have canceled at least 300 flights so far, and they are anticipating more. what is aepl aepld for people whrecommended for people flying into denver, through denver or out of denver check with your airlines first. the airlines waived their travel frees when you change you're flight, they waived that to get people out of here early. they wanted to get a lot of the planes out of this area so they didn't lock things

the union," candy crowley talks with republican senators john mccain and lindsay graeme, then john hickenlooper republican governor scott walker. also former shell oil president john hofmeister on the price of gasoline. finally, at 4:00 p.m., on cbs "face the nation," bob schieffer talks with republican governor chris christie of new jersey and martin o'malley of maryland. re-airs begin at noon with nbc's "meet the press." finally, at 4:00 p.m., it is "face the nation." listen on your iphone or blackberry. or go online to c-spanradio.org. host: we are back for about 10 more minutes before we take you live to the energy winter meeting. we want to use this opportunity to hear from you. it is open phones. tell us what's on your mind. send us a tweet, @cspanwj. this is the front page of "the los angeles times." "afghan up or be allies -- that is the front page story of the "l.a. times." we had a reporter for "the washington post." the pittsburgh paper reprinted his story. two u.s. officers were slain yesterday. polls show mitt romney is ahead in the arizona and michigan. the primary for those state

john hickenlooper, governor of colorado, former mayor of denver also founder of the small manufacturingirm. it was a micro-brew. over the weekend, i looked at the classification system. micro-brews are there as part of food production. the mayor of the 16th largest city in the united states. obviously, a large manufacturing presence. mayor fisher was also the owner of a small manufacturing firm early in his career. both of these folks have lived this and can talk of that experience as well as from their governmental experience. last but not least, jay timmons from that association of manufacturers. this is the critical constituency group representing manufacturers large and small on a wide range of issues. i will start. i will go with the hierarchy of the system. i usually start from the bottom up with the mayors. but i will start with the senator. >> that would be the bottom. [laughter] when you think about the united states and our manufacturing platform it is a substantial platform not generally recognized. 11% of gdp 9% of all jobs. ohio is more manufacturing. 16% of your gdp 12% of

let you know earlier we heard from ohio senator robb portman and colorado governor john hickenlooper and the mayor of louisville, kentucky talking about local and state action to improve manufacturing. we also heard from the heads of several corporations including dow and boeing. and you can find all of those discussions and sessions online. just go to the c-span video library. a little bit of news today. a number of budget proposals for 2013 coming out. president obama announced the main points of his budget proposal for 2013. and there are more to be unveiled later today. the state department announces details of its proposal at 1:30 eastern time. we're going to have that live on c-span3. the defense department's budget with speakers from the army, the navy and air force. they will take reporters questions and that defense budget announcement will start at 2:00 eastern and that is going to be on our companion network, c-span. looks like folks are starting to take the podium here at the manufacture you ares discussion. >> i want to give you a couple ground rules for the lunch. we're

governor john hickenlooper, governor of colorado. former mayor of denver. also former founder of a small manufacturing firm. okay, now it was a micro brew but over the weekend i actually looked at the north american industrial classification system. and microbrews are there as part of food production. so, -- greg fisher, mayor of louisville. the 16th largest city in the united states. obviously large manufacturing presence. and mayor fischer also was the owner of a small manufacturing firm earlier in his career. both of these folks lived this and can talk from that experience as well as from their governmental experience. last but not least, jay timmons, national association of manufacturers. this is really the critical constituency group representing manufacturers large and small in the united states on a wide range of issues. so i'm going to start and, go with the hierarchy of the system here. i usually start from the bottom up with the mayors but i will start with senator portman. >> that would be the bottom. [laughter] and ohio obviously, when you think