And active and retired members of our armed forces, cabinet members, Senate President roth, majority leader fitzgerald, minority leader shilling, speaker voss, and minority leader hence, legislators, distinguished guests, and most importantly the people of wisconsin, welcome, and thank you for being here tonight. [ applause ] my partner many mischief kathy is up in the gallery tonight along with our daughter katie, our soninlaw collin, their daughter hannah, our sonic, and our daughterinlaw landa. Where are you folks . I cant see you. [ applause ] thank you so much for your love and support. Im with you, and i wont embarrass you tonight. Im tony evers and im incredibly proud to be here as the 46th governor of the state of wisconsin to deliver my second state of the state address. [ applause ] as i reflect on my first year in office, although there were setbacks and occasional political posturing, what i call huffing and puffing, we always had a lot of success, and im proud of everythin
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Associations, and health care experts. The committee chaired by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. Not only is this unfair to working class and lower income americans, who cannot access a medical home when they need it, and we are losing over 60,000 people a year because they do not get to on time. But in addition to that, from a financial and costeffective perspective, what we have now is basically insane. We have a situation where people get sick, they do not go to the doctor, you know what happens when you dont go to the doctor and you are sick . You get sick or. Maybe you end up in an emergency room where the cost of primary care is ten times, or eight times more than it is if you walked into a Community Health center. If you cant afford prescription drugs, you get sticker, and you may end up in the hospital, and that will cost 100,000. So what we are talking about today is to, things my own personal view, and health care is a human right, and that we should emulate what g
House chairman sam graves is hear and we will hear from you soon. Chairman graves along with my colleague Ranking Member larson have worked hard on a bipartisan bill to pass a longterm faa reauthorization, so we thank you for that and im hopeful that we will be able to do the same here in a bipartisan fashion and finalize the bill into law before the end of 2023. This is a reminder that the aviation safety and the job of running the faa are not partisan endeavors, they are ensuring strong leadership at the top of americas chief aviation regulator and this should be our common goal. Mr. Whitakers nomination has drafted broad support not only from across the aisle but across from the Aviation Community. Supported by the aviation workforce, pilots, attend answers and enjoys broad support in the private sector of aviation. The foundation of support will serve well because the faa administrator has a big job over 44,000 workers across multiple lines of business from airports to air Traffic
Sen. Cantwell each day they help keep americans moving safely. 25,000 u. S. Airline flights carrying 2. 5 million passengers across the country and around the world. Today, you will come before the committee with more than 30 years of diverse experience in aviation, including executive leadership in the private sector and three years serving as f. A. A. Deputy administrator. He led the f. A. A. s modernization of the National Air Space system known shorthand as nextgen, and i hope he will be able to illuminate today the progress that weve made, important milestones that weve achieved and what we need to do to get it finally implemented. Mr. Whitaker will bring a commitment to advancing aviation safety and appreciate his support by families who have lost loved ones and who have been very dedicated to improving aviation safety. But there are challenges that remain. Americas Aviation System is under stress, demonstrated by the number of near misses and close calls. We need to hear today a