governor dannel malloy took office as the 88th governor of connecticut 2011. prior to that, he worked as a prosecutor in brooklyn, new york, serving four years as assistant district attorney. in 1995 governor malloy served as mayor of stamford, connecticut. welcome to you both. before i recognize each of you to provide your testimony, let me once again briefly explain our lighting system. you will each have five minutes to present your testimony. if you go over, i will not be gaveling you down. if i start to get nervous up here you'll hear a gentle tapping. when you begin the light in front of you will turn green. when one minute is left the light will turn yellow. when your time is expired, the light will turn red. after everyone has testified, we here, members, will each have five minutes to have -- to ask questions and have them answered from the panel. so at this time we will start with governor snyder. governor, you're recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's an honor to be here. thank you for the invitation and i want to thank representative walberg

governor snyder, thanks for here, and same to governor malloy. the state legislator in indiana has recently -- and this is a state issue -- taken up right to, woulto work. governor snyder, are there any discussions in your state which neighbors mine, concerning this type of action at the state level? >> it is under discussion. there are a number of legislators that are promoting it. in my perspective, it's not on my agenda. right to work is an issue that's a very divisive issue, people feel strongly about, and i'm the relentless positive action person, so we have many problems in michigan that are much more pressing that i want to find common ground issues we can work together on before we get into divisive issues and we're showing great success. we balanced the budget, did tax reform, we went through a whole list. important items this year i would prioritize include the transportation package i mentioned about infrastructure and we have a package on public safety. we need to do a better job in that area in our state. right to work has its time a

what are your top -- this question is to governor malloy. what are your top three priorities that we in congress should look at to reform wea and improve the job training program for the next five years? >> well, let me say that i -- wea is an important program which i think connecticut has used quite effectively. and so i'm not here to criticize the program. what i'm saying is, is we've done the right thing. we have used the dollars to train and continue to train folks to take positions that they were formally unqualified for. we have an award winning program around the employment of veterans which is a special concern, given how many veterans are returning from the two wars that we've been engaged in. i'm sure that -- that this committee is capable of making that a stronger and better law. but i, again, will reiterate that it needs to be sustained. flexibility is okay as long as flexibility is not coupled with a reduction in the funds that are made available. i think both governor -- the governor of michigan and myself are capable of direc

he appeared in washington along with connecticut governor dan malloy to discuss opportunities for job creation and touch on a number of efforts during what he has faced in the first year in office as he tries to restructure the tax code in michigan, also to encourage more business development across the state. here's how some of it unfolded on capitol hill. again you're going to hear from governor rick snyder. he is a republican from michigan. and governor dan malloy in connecticut as he testified on capitol hill on taxes and job creation and the u.s. economy. >> thank you both for being here. i realize, we all realize, this is a difficult time for you. budget season coming up. you're going to be called upon to make very difficult decisions, as we are here in this committee and in this congress. i wanted to revisit a difficult decision that we had to make, governor snyder, which you've addressed a couple of times now. you mentioned in response about the need for best practices in deploying taxpayer dollars and how critically important it is, to make sure it's a wise use of taxpayer do

he was joined by connecticut's democratic governor dannel malloy. this is 2 1/2 hours. >>> a quorum being present, the committee will be in order. good morning. i'd like to thank governors snyder and malloy for pa participating in today's hearing. we appreciate having you here with us. and i just talked to both of you before the hearing and thank you, i want to thank you again. it's always very special for us when we have leaders here who can bring their experiences to us. a year ago the committee met to examine the state of the workforce. it was our first hearing of the 112th congress and reflected our commitment to make job creation in america competitiveness top priorities. much has happened since we met in january 2011. unemployment was 9.1%. nearly 14 million workers were unemployed. now 1 million fewer workers are unemployed. the number of long-term unemployed, out of work 27 weeks or more, has declined from 6.2 million to 5.6 million. these facts may demonstrate modest progress, but far too many americans continue to face significant hardship

governor malloy? >> chairman klein, representatives and members of the committee think you for inviting me to testify today to speak about what connecticut is doing to get our economy going. when i took office last january connecticut had the largest per-capita deficit of any state in the nation, and we have had no job growth for 22 years, a distinction that we shared only with michigan. this is an extension i might add. over the last 13 months we made to get our fiscal house in order we passed a budget that bridged deficit and implemented the accounting principles gap and negotiated the agreement with the public employees will save taxpayers $21.5 billion over the next 20 years and we cut spending by $1.7 billion raised revenue. just last week we announced the commitment to increase the size of the pension payments and move that would avoid the payment of the $4.5 billion in just 20 years and one that will save taxpayers nearly $6 billion over the next 20 years. we set our stand on the road to recove

>> governor malloy and governor snyder, thank you for being here. you're going to be called upon to make very difficult decisions as we are here in this committee and in this congress. i wanted to revisit a difficult decision that we had to make about the need for best practices to make sure that it's a wise use of taxpayer dollars and you emphasized your support for paying attention to the deficit, making sure that we're reducing the deficit. i supported the balanced budget. i voted for it on the house floor and i think that was the right decision. but we do occasionally have to make extraordinarily difficult decisions on allocating federal resources. one of which was the auto recovery program. you have talked about it a couple of times. i wanted to get your sense in thinking about whether or not was that an appropriate use of taxpayer resources? did this congress dot right thing in promoting the auto recovery part? >> yeah. as i mentioned, in many respects it wasn't about one individual company. it was the entire auto industry that was in jeopardy

i just wonder if, starting with you, governor snyder, do you support this act and governor malloy and, perhaps, why? >> thank you for that question. what i would say is a couple things. one is, there are infrastructure requirements where we do need to invest. our schools, our colleges. we have many other places with our communities where they need to invest. a couple things that are typically missing are the right metrics and, again, measures. you have to forgive me. i'm an old accountant. so i like to measure things in terms of knowing what we're doing. one of the challenges is, is we've had numerous cases in the past where people would build capital facilities without having the operating sources to actually use those facilities or apply them. so in many respects we need to be much more thoughtful about making sure what are the highest and best asset allocations as opposed to simply making sure we're doing projects? and that they're going to the jurisdictions that can need them most. we have certain school districts that would take part potentially in these programs that really don'

kenneth malloy said he was minding his business and speed limit when he was attacked. >> trucker tailgating me, gives me the finger and i go around him, as i do, i heard a shot, loud sound, window shatters. >> reporter: the california highway patrol believes the driver through a small metal object at the van. >> next thing i knew his window -- >> reporter: he called 911 and trailed the driver to the port of oakland. >> we asked him to not follow, we don't want them to get into anything else. that is when he flagged me down. >> reporter: they arrested the truck driver. jeffrey cardoza. he is being charged. >> he did cooperate with the investigation. answered all of our questions. >> reporter: they say he was found with a powdery substance they believe to be cocaine or methamphetamine. >> nobody was hurt. no weapons were found. very happy it turned out well. >> reporter: the chp is lead investigator on the case, even though the department of veterans affairs sent out three investigators to check out the damaged van. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> prosecutors say a man accused of sh

this is question as to governor malloy. what are your top three priorities that we and congress should look at to reform we and improve the job training program for the next five years? >> it's an important program that connecticut has used quite effectively so i'm not here to criticize the program. what i'm saying is we have done the right thing. we have used the dollars to train and continue to train folks to take positions that they were formerly unqualified for. we have an award-winning program around the employment of veterans which is a special concern again on how many veterans are returning from the two wars we have been engaged in. i am sure that this committee is capable of making that a stronger and better law but i again will reiterate that it needs to be sustained. flexibility is okay as long as flexibility is not coupled with a reduction in the funds that are made available. i think both governors, the governor of michigan and myself are capable of directing those funds to be properly spent at our states and w

joining us now dannel malloy of connecticut. nice to be here. >> what do you make of this controversy? the hhs decision and whether or not it's a good one. >> i've been watching this discussion this morning. i don't know whether you know this, but 28 states have the same rule. and i know you've been saying go to pennsylvania. the problem for governor romney, if he goes to pennsylvania to talk about this, he's going to have to explain why he had the same requirement in massachusetts. so, you know, more than half of the american population lives in states that currently require that. >> we keep having democrats that are actually coming out and just making the situation so much more for mitt romney. so much more difficult for mitt romney. >> well, listen, you can't have your cake and eat it too. >> so you're saying -- >> massachusetts -- >> when mitt romney was governor, they had the same requirement? >> yeah, and actually it's required by -- well, we'll use the term romney care. >> is it really? >> yeah. >> which may be why mitt r

which leads everyone to believe he'll pick maryland including the head coach of good council bob malloythe hall of famer said, quote, why would he go to college park to say he is going to florida? good question. but today diggs tweeted even my own city might be mad at me. diggs is ranked as the second best receiver in the country and sixth overall prospect in the nation. this season diggs led good council in receiving with more than 800 yards and nine touchdowns. from one decision to the guy that made the decision lebron james and company in town tonight to play the wizards and the numbers really do the talking. miami is second in the league in scoring. washington is 26th. the wizards are coming off a loss at home to the knicks on wednesday. might remember this guy. rookie sensation jeremy lynn scored 23 points earning favor from the majority of the verizon center crowd. the wizards have lost 5 of the last 6 games. meanwhile miami coming off a loss to orlando but before that the heat had won 8 of their last nine games. lebron james who is second in the nba in scoring with 28.5 points pe

in october, governor malloy hosted a summit in hartford, connecticut, and governor mark kelda joined us. i never, governor has long hosted a summit in nashville, tennessee and governor barbara and governor allen joined us. last month, we were hosted in seattle. in april, i will be hosting a meeting in omaha, and i encourage as many of you that can to attend. finally, i want to take a moment to think several organizations that have made important contributions to this initiative. bank of the west, generali motors, ntel, the national venture cover coalition, and sanofi-aventis. this cross-section a private sector support illustrates just how important our work in growing state economies is. we have support from companies engaged in advanced manufacturing to cutting it information technology to those who can finance entrepreneurs. i also want to thank the kauffman foundation for their financial and intellectual support. we're pleased to have this a broad support, because it is indicative of our work that we need a partnership with the business community and others who are committed to j

in october, governor malloy hosted a summit in hartford, connecticut and governor markell joined us. in november, governor haslam posted a summit in nashville, tennessee. last month, governor gregoire posted one in seattle. in april, will host a meeting and omaha and i encourage as many of you who can to attend. i want to take a moment to thank several organizations that have made important contributions to this initiative. bank of the west, general motors, intel, the national venture-capital coalition, and santa fe of venice. this cross section of private sector support illustrates just how important our work in growing state economies is. we have support from companies engaged in advanced manufacturing to cutting edge information technology to those who can finance of entrepreneurs. i also want to thank the kaufmann foundation for their financial and intellectual support. we're pleased to have as broad support because it is indicative of our work that we need a partnership with the business community and others who are committed to job creation, prosperity, and economic competitive

we will now move to the chair of the natural resources committee, governor malloy. >> i will try to makethis as quick as possible. we have three policy, environmental protection policy focusing on water resources, our energy policy outlined some of the activities governors have undertaken energy clean up, and called for congress to encourage environmental, environmentally responsible secure admission and affordable production and use of energy. and, finally, a policy, natural resources policy that lays out our priorities for the bill, land and water conversation, to secure rural schools and community self-determination act, tax program and the clinic of federal facilities that all of these issues may be acted upon by congress, and we now have position, we'll have a policy that will allow us to take position in support of what governors have previously outlined. >> second? >> second. >> any discussion on natural resources committee? seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. all oppose, no? the policy is adopted. we are now going to move to the co-chairs of the special

we will now move to the chair of the natural resources committee, governor malloy. >> we have a threeolicies, environmental protection policy, energy policy, outlining activities in the energy arena, calls on congress to enact environmentally responsible, efficient, affordable production and use of energy, and finally, at a policy that lays out our governor's priorities for the farm bill, let water conservation fund, the community self-determination act, the cleanup of federal facilities. all of these issues may be acted upon by congress and we will now have a policy to take positions and support of what governors have previously allied. >> second? >> second. >> any discussion on the natural resources committee. all those in favor, signify by saying aye. opposed, no. policy is adopted. we move to the committee on public safety and homeland security to gov. o'malley, governor meade. >> yesterday we had a very good discussion. we discuss three items, hhs-3i, hhs-4i, hhs-5i, and we had nearly if not all the tax on the country with great representation. we had most of the governors who se

governor malloy? >> chairman klein, representatives and members of the committee think you for inviting me to testify today to speak about what connecticut is doing to get our economy going. when i took office last january connecticut had the largest per-capita deficit of any state in the nation, and we have had no job growth for 22 years, a distinction that we shared only with michigan. this is an extension i might add. over the last 13 months we made to get our fiscal house in order we passed a budget that bridged deficit and implemented the accounting principles gap and negotiated the agreement with the public employees will save taxpayers $21.5 billion over the next 20 years and we cut spending by $1.7 billion raised revenue. just last week we announced the commitment to increase the size of the pension payments and move that would avoid the payment of the $4.5 billion in just 20 years and one that will save taxpayers nearly $6 billion over the next 20 years. we set our stand on the road to recove

i would like to speak to the governor's snyder and malloy for participating. your experience that's the state level offers important insight to the congress and we appreciate having you here with us and i talked to both of you before the hearing and i want to thank you again. it's always a very special for us when we have leaders here who can bring their experiences to us. a year ago committee met to examine the state of the work force. it was our first hearing of the 112 congress and reflected our commitment to make job creation in american competitiveness top priorities. much has happened since we met in january of 2011. unemployment was 9.1%. today it stands at 8.5% nearly 14 million workers were unemployed, now 1 million fewer. the number of long-term unemployed, those out of work for 27 weeks or more has declined from 6.2 million to 5.6 million. these facts may demonstrate modest progress, but far too many americans continue to face significant hardship in this tough economy. the number of americans participating in the labour force is at its lowest level