Take population mix, integration, changing of the economy is something that is impactful. Sometimes surprising and sometimes stunning what is taking place. The knowledge of those changes, the demographic shifts taking place will help us all become more effective governors as we in fact engaged and governorship with our local leaders and civic leaders. This is an important discussion talking about the demographic of the states. For that effort, we will turn the time over to scott and he can conduct this for the section. I will be back in just a minute. I think most of you know governor Brian Sandoval was going to oversee the session and he asked me to step in. They had an unfortunate event in with an emergency in nevada city had to return. Im delighted on behalf of governor sandoval to step in. Fortunately i was familiar with the session im able to talk a little bit about this particular session. It is called the next generation state. Of changing communities. The reason we put the sess
Savings, including a mandatory 7. 5 a year reduction in headquarter staff which we would be tolling show in detail and other reforms. And i look forward at looking at other reforms with you as we begin new hearings when we resolve this issue, and further, very necessary reforms we feel are called for. Im proud of the reforms frankly that on a bipartisan basis this committeen abilitied. Im proud of the fact that we have dramatically revised the retirement system. I am proud of the fact that we are finally trying to get a handle on the cost overruns characterized acquisition practices. So you may have some concerns. I cant tell you after being on this committee for nearly 30 years, how proud i am of the bipartisan product we produced. And i hope that maybe at some time you might recognize that, mr. Blumenthal. Im proud too. And i thank you. And i thank you personally. I dont mean to say there are not reforms enacted. There are additional ones we would like to have. I salute the committee
United states. I intend to win and i need your help. [applause] gov. Omalley as i was driving down here, to des moines, i could not help but to think about the first time i came to iowa and it was some 20 i was 20 years old, and there is a president ial campaign coming. Me and my buddies, about five of us, piled into a car and we wanted to come out here to work for our underdog, upstart candidate, because we knew that this is where it starts, here in iowa, and we wanted to change the world. They dropped me off at 6 00 a. M. At the Greyhound Bus terminal in davenport, iowa. [applause] gov. Omalley i had nothing but my parka, my guitar, and a duffel bag full of winter clothes. But it was over this next several months that i fell in love with iowa and the people of iowa, and i thank you all for what you do for our country every president ial election. [applause] gov. Omalley what i have found to be the most enjoyable part of running for president is this, that i get to meet young people w
If you want to see any of the eight and a half hours of testimony from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, we have it for you anytime online at our website, cspan. Org. The Benghazi Committee with a topic of discussion on the sunday morning talk shows. Andeard from the chair ranking member. They each gave their up in unions on the investigation moving forward. They each gave their opinions on the investigation moving forward. I do not send a subpoena to secretary clinton. She wanted it to be in public. I wrote a letter giving her an option and she chose public and that is well within her rights. I can tell you that of the 50 some odd interviews we have done this far, the vast majority of them have been private and you do not see the bickering among the members of congress in private interviews. You do not see any of that. The tv camera adds to the grandstanding on both sides of the aisle . Rep gowdy what do you think . You have been following congress for a long time. In the pri
The revolution starts now yeah, the revolution starts now which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] sanders thank you. Thank you, iowa. We just heard from president obama to remind us of something that i think we should think about. And that is to reach out to our republican friends and colleagues who are suffering from a very serious illness. They suffer from amnesia. Forgot what the world looks like seven years ago. Peoplergot that 800,000 each month were losing their jobs. They forgot that the worlds Financial System was on the verge of collapse. Forgot that we ran up the largest debt the largest deficit in the history of United States and in the last year of george bush. So we wish a republican friends recovery. E road to and we tell them what every american knows, yeah, we have problems today. But everyone knows that thanks to the president of the Vice President , we have made Real Progress in improving our economy. [cheers and applause] and we