mr. hoppe, it in an era of fiscal i stared in constraints and budget tightness, how do you see working through some of the advances you talked about in your remarks. a question for each. >> banks. i'm actually going to say in response to your second question, one of thinks about this issue as this should not be -- this should not defined what happened here. what has encouraged me so much this so much to secede governors of both parties, plenty of democrats and republicans embrace this issue. embracing the issue doesn't always take a lot of money. it's really about a change in mind that within the government and within the private sector and certainly a change in mindset between in terms of how the government interacts with the private sector. i got at this a little bit earlier, but it's important to really emphasize. mr. hoppe started to talk about this in his own remarks. what has encouraged me the most is to see people starting to think differently about how to address the issue from a govern

if you don't know mr. hoppe, object value about his work. he brings a wealth of experience to his current role as the chief of staff to the speaker of the house. having dealt with legislative development and strategy at the highest level on capitol hill. he direct hit in both the house and the senate and that the senate majority leaders during the clinton and bush 43 administration. he oversaw and coordinated the flow of legislation through congress and required working with political personality and both sides of the aisle as well as the white house to achieve passage of many important bills. in a series in washington d.c., he has hurt.incredible range of issues including welfare reform, tax policies in education reform. the lawsuit sought to develop are too numerous to mention. however, one in particular deserves our attention today. that is the law called the individuals with disabilities education act and he worked on the amendments of 1997. that was 20 years ago. the gridlock and partisan shop. with david hoppe is how we strengthened th

[applause] mr. hoppe: thank you very much. am profoundly honored and deeply humbled by this award. if you are known by the company you keep, i am truly in high a long with you governor is truly an honor. thank you. one of the things i love about respectability which is not communitye about the is that you are so inclusive. you want to help everyone and everyone gets ahead because of that. thank you jennifer. the disability community is doing more things together than they have done in the past. let me talk a little bit about where we have been and where we are going in disability. have -- ak back, i friend of our family who has a daughter born 33 years ago with down syndrome and significant heart defects. and the doctor said -- you ought to think about institutionalizing her. 33 years ago. look at what has happened in the last two generations, the .orld has changed it has to change of a lot more but the world has changed for people with disabilities. early intervention. education. which passed in 1975. and then you had --. if you look at the people who worked so hard for their chil

for mr. hoppe, i'd be interested to know in an era of fiscal quest dairy and constraints and budget tightness, how do do you see working through some of the advances that you talked about in your remarks? the question for each. >> thank you. i'm actually going to say in response to your second question, one of of the great things about this issue, it should not define what happens here. they embrace this issue and that doesn't always take a lot of money. it's really about a change in mindset within the government and within the private sector and it's certainly a change in mindset between, in terms of how the government interacts with the private sector. i got up this a little bit earlier but i think it's important to really emphasize and i think he started to talk about this a little bit in his own remarks. what has encourage me the most is to see people starting to think differently about how to address this issue from a governmental perspective. instead of just saying okay, my job is to work wit