[ applause ] in 2016, wyoming is ranked first in Mountain Region for Work Force Development and was rated third for new business startup activity and sixthbest state for business. So despite being the most difficult budget year in my time in office,wayway stayed proactive and forwardlooking with the Capital Construction project, with the whether or not 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 at the university of wyoming for the mcmurray High Altitude Performance Center and the Engineering Education Research Building last fall and the Ground Breaking for the integrated test center last spring, in addition to new facility starts we opened the enzi stem facility in 2016 and the High Bay Research facility is opening soon. We have had incredible opportunities with wealth created by our many businesses and great citizens. Were grateful for so many partnershi
Lost their lives, were seeing where the latest deadly gunfire erupted overnight. More turbulence for United Airlines, just a week after a doctor was violently dragged off a flight in chicago, a couple says that they were kicked off a flight on their way to their own wedding, what they say happened moments before they were removed from the plane. Get ready to roll, thousands gathered right now for an easter egg roll role what to expect as President Trump hosts the event for the first time. That would be interesting, trump administrations first roll. Yes, easter egg roll role. All of the grand kid and everything. Weather will be nice. For a roll. We have some showers coming through but is there a cold front. It is not perfect today. I dent need perfect. I dont need to get it perfect, i just need for to you love me. Were working on it. Were a work in progress. It is not the destination, it is the journey. Cloudy, it is bus stop buddy and his umbrella because , at some point today you will
Terror threats. We plan for the ability to handle two dozen sites simultaneously. So what can we expect Going Forward . Take, for example, this weeks thanksgiving day parade. We ask our security consultant, former nypd detective and counterterrorism expert nick casale. And good morning, everyone. Im bill ritter in diana williams. The humanitarian crisis affecting millions of syrians has, like so much of our political discourse these days, turned into something about vitriolic discussion. This morning we search for calm and rational thinking. We start off with republican congressman peter king, a member of the Homeland Security committee and chairman of the subcommittee on counterterrorism. Mr. King is in his office in Massapequa Park on long island. Congressman, good morning. Thank you for joining us. Bill, thank you very much. I should say were taping this on friday, so there might be some new developments, but we hope that it will be generic enough but specific enough so that it does
During this event. Is 90 minutes. Good afternoon. Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this panel, the long shadow of war, veterans experiences on the home front. Our host and moderator will be joining us momentarily and we thought we would go ahead and get started in the meantime. I think we will go ahead and introduce ourselves one by one as we go along. My name is Kenneth Macleish and i teach at and the university. My research and is a subject of my book making war at fort hood, military uncertainty making war at fort hood life and uncertainty in a military community is about how people experience war and military institutions in their daily lives. Im interested in the way people experience war as something that is normal and routine and highly organized even as it is also incredibly intense, overwhelming and traumatic. My research and writing a mostly based on time that i spent at fort hood, an army base in central texas. It is one of the largest and busiest military installatio
Good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our lewis letterman auditorium. We, of course, welcome those for joining us on cspan. We would ask a going here in house if youll be so kind to check that cell phones are turned off as we prepare to begin. And, of course, the program will be hosted on the heritage homepage following todays presentation for your future reference as well, and our internet yours are always welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion today on behalf of heritage is diem nguyen salmon, our senior policy analyst for defense budgeting. She is in or douglas and Sarah Allison center for arent a national steve ells riches my with both u. S. Defense platforms, Government Contracting practices, and brings her expertise to matters of defense hardware investment. Before joining heritage she worked at the washington, d. C. Headquarters, and later became the manager of analytics, Global Defense spending data s