nga, state department, ut government, chinese foreign ministry, ministry of commerce have worked hard our heartfelt thanks to you all. >> now if i could i would like to call up to individuals for greetings for president obama and president hu jintao. i would like to call with joe louis of the united states state department and the ambassador yong. >> on behalf of the president of the united states breedings for all of those attending the national governors' association 2011 annual meeting. the cooperative relationship between the united states and china is essential to the success of both countries in the 21st century. a closer engagement at the national level will build strategic trust and create new opportunities for our companies and workers. forum like the nga annual meeting helps us achieve these important goals and strengthen our bilateral relationship. governors around the world share, and opportunities and challenges from job creation and people to people exchanges to the promotion of clean energy and environmental protection. working together, we can find areas of mutual coop

doesn't mean there aren't occasions where that falls through between a cia and an fbi or an nsa with an nga, so forth, that whole alphabet soup, and by and large we've been doing that for many, many years. the collaboration, moving toward that center. again i think the past decade we've shown a jointness at collaborating a whole lot better. that is, simply two parts coming together and saying, what's the task at hand, what's the challenge we're facing, let's work together toward it. i will put in my pieces, you put in your pieces. i'm talking about a different model at integration. not on every single subject, not on every effort but where it makes sense. you bring the human capabilities integrated against that same target set in terms of what the defense humint effort is with the national clandestine service is one example. where cyber is concerned, you integrate the focus on that problem set, rather than having it separate and still collaborating. so i think i've given you a bit of a sense where i think we're going while still giving you an idea where i think we've come from over the past

great united states, thank you all for all your participation and of course a big thank you to the nga staff, without whom this would not have been possible as usual. thank you very much for all you did. [applause] so let me just say we've got a lot of work to do. let's make with sunshine as the psychiatry put it, and those involved in the press conference, please go immediately to the grand ballroom because we are late. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> who will be addressing this told federal aviation administration authorization bill which has caused a partial shutdown of the agency leaving thousands without jobs. earlier this year congressman walter that joined by jerry costello, a democrat from illinois, sponsored an amendment and would have made permanent national mediation board decision from 2010 making it easier to unionize the decision allowed unions to be formed only on the votes of the voting workers prior to last year's change nonvoting workers were counted as no votes, and the amendment was voted down by house republicans. s