. >>> wyoming's republican governor matt mead spoke to state lawmakers during his annual state of the state address recently. he talked about the budget deficit for k-12 education. he also asked for a task force to address ways to increase funding. he also discussed a energy initiative involving new uses for carbon dioxide emissions and called for diversification -- this programming note, due to technical difficulties we are unable to bring you the first few minutes so we are joining the governor's remarks in progress. this is just under 40 minutes. >> in 2016, wyoming is ranked first in mountain region for work force development and was also rated third for new business start-up activity and sixth best state for business. despite being the most difficult budget year in my time in office, wyoming stayed proactive and forward looking. with the tap tal construction project w the important work of renovating and modernizing our state facilities like the wyoming state hospital, the wyoming life resource center, and the wyoming veterans home. we had ground breaking a of the the university

association of wyoming, a number of governors and local officials including my home state governor, matt meade. at this point i'd like to insert into the record a letter from governor meade in support of this bill and a number of other groups in support of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. cheney: mr. speaker, we know that government that's closest to the people is best, and what we've seen over the last eight years, unfortunately in washington, d.c., has been a massive expansion of the authority and the overreach of the federal government under the obama administration. we've seen a number of instances where agencies have acted outside of the law and some instances outside of the constitution. b.l.m. 2.0 is an example where this agency is acting completely outside of the law. there's absolutely no legal authority, no statutory language on which they can base this rulemaking, on which they can base the fundamental changes that they're making and the fundamental power grab that they're making. it's hugely important for us as we go forward here to make sure we've done ev

. >>> wyoming's republican governor matt mead spoke to state lawmakers during his annual state of the state address recently. he talked about the budget deficit for k-12 education. he also asked for a task force to address ways to increase funding. he also discussed a energy initiative involving new uses for carbon dioxide emissions and called for diversification -- this programming note, due to technical difficulties we are unable to bringou