[applause] [cheering] members of the joint convention, the governor of the great state of michigan. [applause] [cheering] thank you. Good evening, michigan. The home of the best football in the country. Am i right . The National Championship wolverines to the detroit lions. I am excited to be here tonight between two leaders that have gotten a lot done over the past year. My best friend and my good friend the Senate Majority leader. [applause] i want to acknowledge the minority leaders matt hall and aaron. Thank you for your leadership and a happy early birthday to you. We delivered a balanced budget focused on the Kitchen Table issues of 2023, and i know we are going to do that again this year in 2024 and i want to acknowledge so many incredible partners that i have. Lieutenant governor gilchrest. [applause] our attorney general. [applause] and i always want to make a point of acknowledging to incredible Public Servants who lead groups of Public Service and to show up on the front lin
Republic thrive. Get informed straight from the source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased word for word from the nations capitol to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own, this is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Now we head to the midwest for remarks by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who is in the middle of the second term. In the state of state address talks about Economic Development, reproductive rights before joint session of the legislature, the state house has been evenly split since november with 54 democrats and 54 republicans. Governor whitmers address runs just under an hour. [applause]. [applause] [cheering] members of the joint convention, the governor of the great state of michigan. [applause] [cheering] thank you. Good evening, michigan. The home of the best football in the country. Am i right . The National Championship wolverines to the detroit lions. I am excited to be here tonight between two leaders that have gotte
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, good morning pete the subcommittee will come to order the chair recognizes himself an Opening Statement. Good morning welcome back before the subcommittee. Assistant secretary davidson the National Telecommunication Information Administration has been very busy since the last time you appeared for us and may. In a june nci or allocated the money for the broadbent equity access to the states. This amounts to 42. 5 billion dollars. Since then states have submitted their fiveyear action plan the infrastructure at law strict requirements such as ensuring funding achieves universal connectivity and prohibiting great regulations. I am concerned some of the state plans are calls for more federal funding required by the law and blatant efforts by states to engage in rate regulation of broadband services. Thankfully and cia has rejectedt his and his attempt including for my home state of ohio. Though it overrode existing networks in opti
While we were on the august recess, it was projected that theyd reach trillion, doubling the estimate of we simply cannot continue down this path of spending large sums of money without regard to the fiscal future of our nation. This bill takes the same approach American Families take every day. They simply have to do more with less under the biden economy. American families decide every single day where to cut back spending to pay for whats most important for them. For them, those decisions are difficult. Likewise, we have to make tough, difficult decisions for the good of the nation. This represents 2. 7 billion across discretionary accounts throughout this bill except for the Supplemental Program for w. I. C. With this reduction the fiscal year 2024 agriculture appropriation bills discretionary allocation is 15. 1 billion. By redirecting nearly 7. 5 billion in unobligated funds from the inflation reduction act, this funds the food and agriculture and the Commodity Futures Trading Co
Dedicated staff here at George Washington university, to our media partners, cbs news and sirius xm, at our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in in a seriy the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agree to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two mccready is the genesis of the senate project came from to make u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but look for Common Ground. You will be hearing from store tom daschle in just a moment, with more on the relationship and what it meant for the senate as ann institution and for our country and all of us. I also had the privilege of calamity with senators kennedy and hats during my time as education secretary during the g