[laughing] i watched three governors give the state of the state address. and back then it never dawned on me for a second that i would stand it one day and delivered this speech. i am eager to work with each of you to get things done for the people of our state. congratulations to all of you. [applause] and we must work together because we've got a lot to do. as i said before, michigan's problems are not partisan problems. potholes are not political, and there is no such thing as republican or democratic schoolkids for drinking water. our challenges affect us all. [applause] our challenges affect us all and they were require us all, working together, to solve. despite our challenges, michigan's greatest strength is and always has been our people. it is no accident that michiganders are a diverse, persevering, innovative group. i mean, just think about the people who built this date. dutch immigrants who settled in west michigan to work the land. finns who came to mind in the upper peninsula. african americans became north for jobs in the auto industry. peo

of our great state.'m joined by my wife kristin, my partner in life and in public service, who for the past two years has traveled to every corner of north carolina. i thank kristin and our wonderful daughters, hilary and natalie, and claire, who is away at school, for their unwavering love and support. thank you, guys. [applause] >> in recent months, north carolinians have been put to the test. and we've learned we're made of strong stuff. in september, our state was slammed by hurricane florence. homes, businesses, schools, and crops were washed away. dozens of lives were lost. then tropical storm michael blew through, bringing more damage. but adversity only defines us if we refuse to rise and conquer it. days after florence made landfall, i met an elderly woman in a wilmington shelter who was rescued from floodwaters by first responders. all she had left were the few belongings she had carried in her arms, but she didn't dwell on her loss. when i told her how sorry i was, she said to me, "i thank god

additioe states. we've developed a sound plan for protecting both lakes in the conditions and we have done so in a matter that continues to respect it strikes a balance between flexibility and certainty that results in a more sustainable need. it's an overlay to the existing operational criteria set out in the 2007 interim guidelines that include water shortages to protect the critical obligations. it recognizes the 2007 guidelines are covered by existing environmental compliance with. it was expressly designed to fall within the parameters of that environmental compliance and benefits. there are consequences for the water in arizona and douglas stakeholders irrigation districts, agriculture, ngos and members of the legislature came together to create an implementation plan for the site of action january 302001, 2019 with nearly unanimous approval by the state legislature authorizing me to sign the documents. the management act was signed and symbolized the importance to the state of reclamation over

. >> utah governor gary herbert delivered the state of the state address from the state capital of salt lake city. the governor talked about some of his legislative priorities for the new year including cutting tax rates while broadening the tax base. this is 25 minutes. [applause] >> we will not hear the state of the state address delivered by our governor, gary herbert. >> thank you. president adams, speaker wilson, members of the legislature, justices of the supreme court, utah's first lady, lieutenant governor and mrs. cox, other constitutional officers, and my fellow utahns: it is an honor to address you tonight. president adams and speaker wilson, congratulations for being elected to your significant leadership roles. i have appreciated working with you to prepare for this session and i look forward to continued collaboration as we address this year's challenges. i extend a special welcome to the 19 new representatives and the seven new senators here this evening. [applause] i thank you for stepping into the political arena to serve the citizens of the great state of utah. our sep

and therefore the united states does not need to have this ridiculously large budget and. are not in control of american politics i'm afraid but always try to with this book what are the chances of this book being. received well in the current amount american political environment what are your chances of discussing this book of on any of the american networks be it or and to trump very low. base they gets the the the perspective not only of trump but also the whole american political establishment and democrats as well as republicans so it's it's it's an outlier but you know for as you know for years i've been saying that al qaeda does not present very much of a threat to the united states they've been listened to they've been talked with and nothing changes now the americans have rather unique security expectations when you compare them to other countries even western countries i mean you guys insist on absolute security not only domestically but also on their ability to influence security pretty much around the world when you have such a it's an expansive security. auct

democratic jewish state of israel, we -- the jewish state that was envisioned, the jewish state that was proclaimed is the same jewish state whose future i'm working to secure. i hope the people of israel allow me to lead them for many years to come. i'm as confident as ever that as israel takes its rightful place among the nations you will be there by our side. you've always been there by our side. thank you all for standing with israel. may god bless you. may god bless america. and may god bless -- thank you all. >> please welcome senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> pretty tough act to follow. good morning, everyone. thank you so much for the opportunity to be here once again. every time i have the privilege to address this conference, i look forward to the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, and you all never, never disappoint. that's a testament to dedicated leadership, i want to thank president mort pinkman, lillian pinkus and your entire team. since we were last together i heard a lot of negative talk about people like us who attend a conference like this. i heard it that

it reminded me we have a state lobbyist in the state capitol, paul yoder, who is here today. it started an interesting conversation at the board around how we as the policy body participate in lobbying the state, particularly in a period of time where there are all sorts of state bills that preempt local authority that are of interest to us, and so given that, we have a new mayor and almost entirely new board of supervisors and new state legislation committee which present yee serves on, he asked that i bring this hearing back to committee for refresher for all of us. he wanted to be here in person but he had a conflict but could not be here. what i want to do is start with deputy city attorney john givner to present be what the charter holds, what role the mayor plays, what role the board plays, what is in the administrative code as it relates to the state legislative committee. with that, mr. givner. >> thank you, deputy city attorney john givner. the charter provides the mayor coordinates all inter governmental affairs for the city. generally, when the city is lobbying the

do the legislatures of the state typically control what is in the state constitution? >> they don't, and that's why die think it is important to figure out. think justice kennedy may have framed that question in a particular way. i don't want to go too far down the road of re-litigating the arizona independent redistricting case here but i do think there is a certainly respectable argument that state legislature means state legislature and not in the other parts of the state government and i think there -- it well could, justice ginsburg and at least four people that agreed with you on that proposition and i don't want to re-litigate that here because i don't the result in that case -- i think that case can be taken as a given -- you ick still say the claims here no justicable and be as response to justice kagan's question, there's not a constitutional problem when a moment state legislature makes expressive with respect to the redistricting their undertaking at that moment if they make explicit what was explicit after the record wafers built up in vander mere which is

i know that one of the big issues between the united states and the go states is the united states is. desired to have the gulf states supportive of the upcoming peace plan that they will unveil on israel's side like to ask what is your take on the status of jerusalem right now and on the united states' position on that and what would you like to see in the upcoming peace plan on israel mr secretary i'd like to ask what does the united states policy in position on the west bank in the golan heights is are these territories occupied by israel or are they not occupied by israel thank you. jurors. sure i'll go first to answer of course there's been no change in u.s. policy with respect to the question that you asked. i do we did not a big the benefit of or you would consider. well into the has been long awaited fold. and we believe that our friends in the united states of america have got. to continue with the peace process and to lay down at peace and that will take into account the situation and the region. you have you and the parties to this period this particular issue has been the

i'll defer to my state friends here to say what it would mean in their states. certainly it would be beneficial to the consumer to have an assurance that whenever they go to a facility they are not going to have an out of network experience. hands down, i think everyone agrees to that. i do think there is a question of the political pallett ability and whether or not they get the stakeholder buy in to make something like that happen. i think there is also a question of are we -- could there be some sort of cost shifting that ultimately does happen? and we need to think about that. i think just from an operational standpoint there -- and in isn't necessarily something that couldn't be overcome but there is a jurisdictional issue. most of the laws that exist right now are out of the departments that oversee health plans as opposed to those overseeing facilities or the boards of medicine who oversee providers. that would be a new role and a new level of coordination that might need to across the doi along with the facility oversight and the provider oversight so --

what brings them together, the goal of a state in place of -- what dothat state find that state is some sort of authoritarian or theocratic type model we see plenty of in the middle east. that is the unity of this movement even if the justifications for overtime arab nationalism, palestinian nationalism and now more framed in islamist terms. but that is the unifying thread through time. i have not made the case and i'm sorry if you're been led to believe this. i have not made the case that israel is blameless or somehow a saint. that is not the view i opened with and it is not the view you will find in my book i castigate israel for many flaws and there are more that we can talk about i think it's a mistake to present the major obstacle being israel. even if it is not being entirely fair and has committed wrongs. , the pattern is that israel is responding to aggression that is significant reason to believe it is seeking to do significant damage to life and property. in response to that i think it is been justified in retaliating against them. if it's going beyond that it is wrong and th

states. if you were to turn everything to full capacity which would be difficult and expensive but if you did we would not be able to meet the demand that producers need. putting constraints on downstream aluminum producers would be a problematic future for those who made big investments and are looking to grow even more. we think quotas that would lead to all kinds of shenanigans, lots of products, specialty alloys and if you're look at buckets of hd of code it will be hard for customers to get what they need if you are under a quota system. we been clear with the administration and others the what we need are quota free exemptions from canada and mexico and all our market-based trading partners are focused on the problem in china. >> we agree wholeheartedly with lauren's statement, the same for aluminum. >> another question you will have to explain. how is the product exclusion process is working for your members? what is the product exclusion process? >> 232 in steel and aluminum if you ar

in the state of kentucky. yes.e sent me a letter, saying, "thank you very much for your assistance. you did a lot. your diplomats are trying to do your best. but you'll see that my condition in this jail is very poor. i lost many teeth. i cannot eat. i have a problem with my stomach. please, could you help me? could you persuade the administration to provide me medicine, to give me opportunity to survive in this jail? i don't know what i should do. yesterday i was very much upset. i would like to apply to journalists. i would like to apply to call on human rights organizations of the united states to look at this issue." and to help men who is in jail just only to provide him medical assistance. i don't want to increase the quantity or quality of food. i am talking about medicine. moreover, of course, we would like to take him back to the russian federation to give him opportunity to survive, to survive. his family just only recently visited the united states. and now they have some problems on visa. and today i wo

the problematic states are those states that are trying to suppress the vote. trying to keep people from voting. we need to do something about hat. while we're here i do want to say something about not your comments about the prior comments from the ranking member about the cost of the bill. we have a score from c.b.o., almost all the money that c.b.o. has scored goes to grants to the states to upgrade their computer systems. $1.5 billion from 2019 to 2024. $750 for other computer assistance. and the other big amount is for making polling places accessible to disabled voters. it's not about the other provisions in the bill. i would also like to note, i put this into the record yesterday, the joint committee on taxation has estimated that the fine and forfeiture fund that will go into the freedom from influence fund is estimated to raise $1.948 billion between 2019 and 2029. they also estimate that it will he reduce the deficit by $83 million, which is interesting because it will deter people from cheating on their taxes. the comments made about the money were s

that this is working in some states, come up with an idea that is unique to your state, and if you dot in a certain way the federal government will incentivize you. i think that is the best way, at least initially, to solve this problem. i want to thank senator blumenthal. senator cornyn has been very helpful in putting the panel together. we live in contentious times. maybe this is something we can find common ground on. and i think it will be good for the country. with that, i will turn it over to senator feinstein. feinstein: thank you, mr. chairman. topic is extreme risk laws, sometimes referred to as red -flag laws. these are important tools that can empower family members and courts toement to ask keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. they should include universal background checks, closing the charlston loophole, which would give law enforcement more time to complete checks and hopefully, banning assault weapons. extreme risk laws are a vital part of that effort. statesoday we have 14 and the district of columbia passing extreme risk laws. the states are connecticut,

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the state department and usaid budget request will support u.s. border security by strengthening visa vetting, illicit pathways that transnational criminal organizations are using to traffic drugs, money, weapons, and even human beings from the western hemisphere and enhancing governance and boosting local economies to discourage illegal immigration. our budget request for fiscal 2020 also protects against infectious disease threats by bolstering country capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to any future outbreak and prevent epidemics. these efforts mean retaining our place as a global leader and help assistance. with this budget, the united states will remain the single largest donor the global hiv-aids relief efforts. several other important additions to the fiscal 2020 budget request will increase private sector involvement in global development, optimize our humanitarian assistance, and advance partner countries in their journey towards self-reliance. my colleague, usaid administrator ambassador mark green will introduce the budget request

of states were one party controls the state legislatures by huge margins, the other party can win surprising governorships. look at massachusetts and maryland. even oklahoma, wyoming, alaska have recently had democratic governors. it is not out of the realm of possibilities. it is not out of the realm of possibility that republicans win all three. >> democrats are most excited about louisiana and john bel edwards. that state has a more recent history of housing statewide elected democrats. this is the best field of candidates that democrats can field. andy bashir, who is the presumptive front runner, a three-way race right now, and the possibility this could turn into a serious primary fight. he himself is the son of a governor that the democratic party hailed as the model for a governor in the south. he implemented the obama state run health care system that democrats are very happy with. these are three republican leaning races, and they will be states where donald trump and the white house will be happy to send him because they know he will rally large crowds, which is what the president

that in is working in some states. come up with an idea that's unique to your state. and if you do it in a certain way the federal government will incentivize you. i think that's the best way at least initially to solve this problem. i think to thank senator blumenthal. senator cornyn has been helpful in trying to put the pannell together. we live in contentious times. maybe this is something we can find common ground on. i think it would be good for the country. i'll turn it over to senator feinstein. >> thanks very much mr. chairman. thanks for holding the hearing. we have a number of members here. i think that that is really excellent. the topic is extreme risk laws. sometimes referred to as red flag laws. i strongly believe that these are important tools that can empower family members and law enforcement to ask courts to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. they should at least include requiring universal background checks, closing the charleston loophole, giving law enforcement more time to complete ch

state territorial intertribal local public health agencies are on the frontline and washington state we provide all of our recommended vaccines without charge to children under the age of 19. we provide an electronic immunization information system for healthcare providers to track the vaccine schedules. we help parent parents be confid suspicions by sending them the information they need to keep children healthy and publish the talk about childhood immunization and assists school nurses by giving access to the electronic immunization records. as of yesterday washington state's measles outbreak of 71 cases plus those associated with the outbreak in oregon and one in georgia led by the governmental public health. the moment of the suspected cases reported to the investigators interviewed the person to determine when they were infectious, who they were in close contact with and what's public spaces they visited. it's still infectious to health officer orders them to isolate themselves so they don't infect others and notify the public about the community about the public places they wer

solution or it risks slipping into a one state reality and defacto opera save state is this where israel is heading right now. look again if you ask me. what what he told you is exactly what i see around me. we. we we have to choose whether we want to see israel. a jewish democratic state based based on the ideas of our declaration of independence . we can achieve this kind of future only within the context of two states. because the precondition in order to see israel a jewish democratic state is jews being majority in our state if we are not majority in our state we do not have the power and we do not have the right to dictate the public space to dictate the language the calendar or the stories a narrative that we tell our story our children its schools so. our only choice is two states agreement or solution but can i ask you something admiral batiste can ask isn't a two state solution though has been. more or less accepted sanabria for a long time now but the israeli settlements in the west bank continue to grow in number and crisscrossing the palestinian territory how can palestine h

reports, workings with the state department, more importantly in the state of the world you see thismoney, and you see that relatively little change has been achieved. we are going to try in a program that you are referring to, the global women's empowerment program, i and my team trying to get every program we have, whether it is foreign assistance or the military assistance that we are providing, to ensure that when we do that, we have an objective. there are criteria and outcomes that are measurable, even if not always quantifiable, but measurable, in the way that we can determine whether we achieve the goals that we set out to. there is nothing sadder than to look at the history of the program, that you have asked the taxpayer for hundreds of millions of dollars over years and years and years, and the situation is neither better nor worse along key criteria. >> i appreciate that very much. and i thank you again for being here today. madam chairman, i yield back. >> thank you. before i turned to my colleagues , i just want to make a very simple statement. reference to this mysteri

congressmen in the united states. complaining expressing concern related to labor but i really think this is a misunderstanding because the labor chapter is extremely powerful the little chapter is very strong very best practice what they want is not. provisions but trade provisions to enforce the labor commitments so it's a question of believing that mexico will do what mexico has committed but they don't understand that in mexico the top priority of the new center left government is to work for the workers so i think good communication will go a long way to clarify that our objective in their objective are very much in line i think communication would be part of this we have to understand what they want to say and agree respectfully deal with it reopening that the treaty is very complicated it will be upon the moanin for everybody but i don't think it is necessary we need to understand each other and to see what they want and we want the same simply more of this bilateral deal between united states and mexico was fo

it's about states that are committed to the rule of law, states that are committed to human rights and equal rights for its citizens. its states who recognize that while there is this thing called sovereignty, the interaction of people is very important for the furtherance of the good of all human kind. authoritarian states don't come down on those kinds of issues in the way that we would want our democracies too. the rule of law is in fact a threat to authoritarians. human rights in fact is an obstacle to their capacity to rule their societies. we need to remember that in democracies, our societies are governed by the consent of the masses. in authoritarian states they are ruled by the consent of the few at the top who have seized the kinds of authority and power necessary to dominate the society. wherever there is an advance of authoritarianism anywhere, there's a retreat of liberal democracy somewhere and the united states needs to be committed ultimately to preserving as much of the world order that we fostered as we can with our allies we were they were partners with us in this pr

international crises in pristine be for the united states. will the united states take the risk of a rule a grand aggression against them as well there is a danger of violence it should be the function of the united nations to prevent that nicolas maduro says washington has its sights firmly set on that as well as oil reserves the world's largest u.s. sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state on assets and in a proactive move that as well ordered the state oil companies european h.q. to relocate to moscow vice president. told us more about the decision if it was in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's asses and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country violates all existing international investment groups aswell europe where venezuela's accounts were frozen we have already begun to take specific legal steps we hired lawyers to protect our interests primarily with regard to our gold which is now illegally withheld by the bank of england we also began to take me

to defeat and the islamic state. general would you commit to providing that information on a monthly basis to this committee? >> thank you senator. as a citizen of the great state of nevada i have nothing to say about that. if you confirm me i become a member of the administration i can't commit to assisting the administration in answering those questions. >> i thought you would answer it somewhere along those lines. let me just note before yielding back to the good chairman that if the administration is not already tracking each of the different things i have requested of you it would be a matter of sort of diplomatic malpractice, security malpractice from my perspective and it is my hope that the administration will follow the law and finally provide a credible certification as required under the law. thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman. gentlemen thank you both for your service and congratulations on the nominations you have received and thank you also for being willing to serve the countries in which you have be

the clerk: to the congress of the united states. section 202-d of the national emergency act, 50 u.s.c. 1622-d provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless within 90 case before anniversary of its declaration the president publishes in the federal register and transmits to the congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. in accordance with this provision, i have sent to the federal register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency declared in executive order 13692 of march 8, 2015, with respect to the situation in venezuela, is to continue in effect beyond march 8, 2019. the situation in venezuela continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the united states. for this reason i have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in executive order 13692 with respect to the situation in venezuela. signed, donald trump, the white house. march

secretary of state mike pompeo told reporters at the state department that the trump administration went withhold funding from many nongovernmental organization that provides funding for lobbies in favor of abortions. he said it was a policy designed, quote, "to protect human beings." this is 10 minutes. [overlapping chatter] sec. pompeo: good morning, everyone. today i am making two announcements about the state department's ongoing efforts to ensure that u.s. taxpayer dollars are not used to subsidize or promote abortions. the first announcement concerns the so-called mexico city policy. this reagan-era directive ensures u.s. taxpayer dollars aren't used to support foreign, nongovernmental organizations that perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning. president trump boldly expanded the mexico city policy in 2017. it now protects every human life impacted by the nearly $9 billion of foreign aid we spend on global health programs each year and in turn protects more unborn babies around the world than ever before. this is decent. this is right. and i'm proud to s

international prize for steve be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a lay grown aggression against. there is a danger of while and it should be the functional the united nations to prevent that. nicolas maduro says washington has its sights on venice well as all of the largest in the world you're sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state owned assets to protect itself from this well ordered the state told companies european h.q. to move to moscow vice president rodriguez told us more about the decision. if at all they don't they will in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's assets and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country violates all existing international investment rooms aswell you are aware of them as well as accounts were frozen and we have already begun to take specific legal steps we hired lawyers to protect our interests primarily with regard to our gold which is now illegally withheld by the bank of england we also began to take measures for when these wells lega

also nato member states.ill make nato even more important, because then nato will be an even more important platform for european allies to work together. and i really believe that if brexit happens, or even though brexit will happen, we just need to strengthen nato as both a political and military alliance, bringing together european allies and also north american allies. how worried are you that a no deal brexit could potentially poison relations between britain and other key european members of your alliance? when i speak to european leaders, and leaders in the united kingdom, they all convey the same message to me, that brexit will not weaken their security cooperation within nato, if anything, the opposite. it will strengthen the importance of nato in working together on security and defence. you, when we talked about donald trump's attitude to nato, you pointed out that the us is making new commitments on the ground in the european theatre. we heard just the other day in washington the us top military c

he talks about 30 states, 20 states. what are the stats? you want to talk about brutalizing the victims. it istime it comes up, brutalizing the victim because they did not get death because their family can never see another individual again? they deserve to live? this is ridiculous, crazy. againstwsom is going the will of the people. this is not constitutional. that is in the california constitution. my correct? host: thank you. guest: you are not correct. the governor has the power to issue reprise. that is the constitutional power afforded to him. far from being dictatorial, he was elected with more than 7 million votes, one million more votes than proposition 76 received. history changes over time. public views change over time. the public support of the death penalty, while a majority of americans if you ask the abstract question do you support the death penalty was say they support the death penalty, if you ask the policy question, what is the appropriate punishment for first-degree murder, more californians say life without parole is

seven-point lead, utah state. on cbs. ass back onto the lawn. he knows that instead of going into a bag, it can act as a fertilizer and strengthen his yard. he's not green, but his lawn is going to be for a long time. yardsmanship is not dead folks. not by a long shot. >> kevin: northern utah is where the aggies call home. that is where the campus is. freshman and a junior have led the way, this championship game against the pesky aztecs of san diego state. >> dan: and merrill has done this against every freshman the entire game, and it was his ability to score inside and the first half to help relieve some of the pressure on merrill in the second half. what you are doing here, kevin, is defending the three, period anrying to get the rebound >> kevin: porter, brito, fouled. hemsley, he's gone. >> dan: to put this in perspective, hemsley is the senior, he is leaving the game. san diego needed to win this game to make it to the ncaa tournament. >> kevin: they went last year. and he has just fouled out. from cucamonga california, 1,000 points score

-- born in the united states?hat class of people who are born here would not be born here? and you can review the literature, and they say that there are a couple of things, and of course by this point we are way past the era of -- a lot of that language was put in to cover the language of india law, we are now way past that. so they say the only two groups here,re, you know, not even when they are here, are covered by diplomatic immunity. their children are not citizens. they can be born at g.w. hospital and they don't -- the dim mants don't want their children given citizenship, and an invading army coming in and have children while they're occupying u.s. soil. otherwise, you know, there is no racial characteristic to birthright citizenship. wong kim arc is very important case in that regard and very much under assault. when i write about birthright citizenship, what i write about is what happened at the framing of the 14th amendment. and whenever i publish anything on this subject, which is regrettably often, b

the united states. has a budget that's about five and a half times larger than china it needs conflicts all the time in order to justify that kind of spending china as it improves on its economy and grows stronger and bigger and and seeks to branch out they need a military that can. project power so i envision that conflicts will continue china sees that inevitably it will have. it will have run ins with the united states. in areas in different areas of the world and it wants to improve on its military i think certainly the united states is watching china's economic and military rise it regards it as one of the along with russia as the other main adversary they regard china as the emerging power that to be concerned about a women's weightlifting record has been broken by a male intent on highlighting what he calls the absurdity of certain claims about junk to his story in a moment. thank. you it would be all. about that thank you all. are really. solid leads. to all this is all the thanks. if. you fold.

cities and states? >> if you just looked at it from a pure economic perspective or economic theory perspective, you'd probably say, this is a bad idea. it's a bad policy. but we're competing for these jobs and we're also trying to retain those and so we need to have those economic incentives both to smooth out infrastructure needs. it might be that they'll go to another state because our -- we don't have a rail line, you know, a link to the facility that they want to install and so we will put some money to help overcome that facility obstacle. so those incentives i believe are important. you have to carefully use those and look at the return to the state. when we give an incentive, we measure it. what's the return to the state? it's an investment. what is the roi? what's the return on the investment? is it 2-1, 3-1 or 4-1? we always have a positive ratio there but it is also about that person that is working for this company that doesn't want to lose the job, wants to be able to provide for their famil

every governor -- if you see the state of the states, i joke our staff reads every state of the state and state of the commonwealth. what you will find is they are focused on the economy and jobs. the biggest concern is how long this recovery will go. not only whether there will be a downturn, but more importantly, going forward there will be so many changes technologically and otherwise. you have more autonomous type of manufacturing. there's a big concern about what kind of displacement job-wise will there be. that's a big focus. the second one is health care. that's always a big issue. on the one hand, they are concerned about the immediate crisis such as opioids. they are focused very much on doing whatever they can to solve that. they are concerned about managing costs, both the government costs for programs like medicaid, but they are concerned about just making sure that health care costs are managed. they hear a lot from their residents about concerns about health care costs, whether they are privately insured or receiving government assistance. i would say healthcare is a hug

what are the lessons from your state and from other states trying to attract high-tech companies to their locations? well, when we talk to companies, one of the biggest challenges they have is making sure they have the right workforce. wethat one of the things focus on? absolutely, to make sure we are developing our people and connecting them to those well-paid jobs. when it comes to technology, a lot of those jobs to not have to have a four-year degree. we want our young people to know that there are opportunities to go into i.t. if they want to go down that two-year route. we want to make sure the public is exposed to that. in seventh grade and eighth grade, and we have great programs to encourage that. taxes andn incentives, those sort of things, play into the decisions. one of the biggest things they're looking for is, am i going to be able to hire the people i need to go my complete? steve: what were the mistakes in new york? gov. ricketts: to be frank, i did not really follow what was going on in new york. but you also have to show that you have support for it. we were able to attra

they note the states. people stop vaccinating the safety net of community immunity will dissolve and their children will be among the first casualties. of course this does not only affect children but adults as well. the newborn screening for skid most members of the community go years or decades with serious and recurring infections without knowing they have the compromised immune system. i am particularly concerned with the health of this segment of the community, the undiagnosed. if immunity fails they don't know they have to take precautions. those of us that no we have pi do what we can to avoid exposure to infections but the undiagnosed and lack of basic knowledge are more at risk. the reason that all of us are so dependent on the community and pi immunity is that vaccines don't work with most of us that have forms of pi. our systems don't remember the pathogens or cannot create the anybody's. the further complication is that some vaccines are actually dangerous to us. as a result those in the field

in those red states to stick around and be in the united states if they kept losing to new york, new jersey, california and illinois? i tend to think not. democrats don't share the values of our framers. they want power for themselves, and they wanted at all cost. that is why every major proposal is now pushing begins and ends with their power and a centralized federal government that they control. government run health care and complete takeover of the health care industry, yes, run by the state. kamala harris and others, they want to end all private health care. that impacts 200 million americans. i thought they were pro-choice. government run education. now they have to add pre-k and college education. they haven't done a better enough job with kindergarten through 12th grade. and they will have government consolidation of all guns and gun laws. government run clean energy through the government takeover of the energy sector. in other words, they will take it over. no more willing cast proposal for ten years or we will die. government run in -- universal government paid retirement

in some states they had to pay out-of-state tuition three times in-state tuition and a handful of states they were barred even if they paid. mr. chairman like every member of this committee i love this country. like many of you i served in the armed forces of the united states, although in my case it was a of a long time ago. also like many of you but much more briefly i had time in law enforcement. i was a patrolman in the police department in washington for a year and a half. i am as proud of this country as i ever was but i fear while i wait for a broader reform of our immigration laws which several members have already commented on, we are unintentionally being cool cruel two generations of undocumented people. among our 3400 students with daca and tps the average student came to the united states at the age of four . when they are here there is no line they can get in condo form they can fill out condo fee they can pay condo service they can perform to change their status. that is up to the remarkable people of this congress and this committee. our scholarships are small, a scholars

and i mean friendly states and united states why are these all these states cannot continue attacking syria. in this way because syria now is fighting the terrorism. when when the british when the british state supported the nato countries like we are being union countries or the united states deny they support isis and al-qaeda you say yes the sanctions mean their fact of lee support isis and al qaida i think we need to see the british state and the european states and general more independent not. following then following the united states because there is no interest to support this terrorist and to support them by weapons by money by anything and by sanctions against the syrian state when the european states put sanctions on the syrian state i think in direct way they support the terrorist groups because this. will make syria will make syrian state weak towards terrorist groups so i think all the european states that shared this war against syria i should say thirty first of all and i think to facilitate the rebuilding syria and to push the political process towards not to stop th

for instead of being strengthened it's being weakened you're seeing a number of latin american states getting cold feet saying ok we want to change we want regime change a lot of latin american neighbors brazil colombia chile and others one reason regime change but they don't want to military intervention that's for your first point on the second point i just think it is unbelievably clumsy and just so telling of the kind of unilateralism and sort of imperial arrogance we're getting from this administration i mean from for a number of years and for for a number of issues strange things you've had that kind of arrogance towards latin america but it hasn't been spelt out in so many ways to talk of the mono doctrine for latin americans is a really insult and it's really going back to this quote sort of backyard approach to latin america's a region you know michel i mean if we if we go back to bolton's words you know replaced the whole corrupt regime i mean i thought it was about democracy now it's about corruption i bet if it's about corruption then why don't the united states have force

we can do it right here in the united states. at the same time you look at some of the benefits not preventing accident but also folks out there that are visually impaired like my mother. she gave up her drivers license the day i turned 16 when i got her driver's license. she was dependent on a family member to get her some place. that would help the folks out there with a disability. also, you look at the senior citizens. they might not have mobile access like from anything from a cab to a bus in their community. give them the benefit to remain mobile. we have got close to the end. we got a bill passed out of committee 54-0. it passed on the floor. by a voice vote. something this technical pier 1 over to the senate. we worked with them up to the 12 hour of the less congress. but we just could not get it over the line. what were the concerns? >> there were multiple things from multiple individuals. th senate operates different way than the housee. we only need a vote to pass something for a majority. i'm going to start working on

>> the united states. >> united states. >> we are all going to wait for at least -- i don't know if we will wait for the u.s. to push the buttons and vote but i think certainly if i can speak for mexico i think the feeling in mexico city, though there may be different views, is that we need to wait and see how congress tees us up and once there is a road map that this will happen then you start seeing movement in mexico. >> and the tariffs are gone. >> yeah, the 32. >> our mission here was to put this in a goingal context so we have to talk about china. does the white house, does the president get real credit for shaking things up? we have heard about china's intellectual property and trade practices for decades and he called their bluff. does he gets points for that? >> it was not a bluff and the answer is yes he does get points for that. >> howard just gave the president credit. >> even -- well, that's such a bad quote. i won't say it. >> go ahead. >> no, no. but sure. look, the chinese trade agreement has been valuable because the truth is the stronger economic china is the more sta