Expensive programs can be difficult to offer and maintain, especially for Smaller School districts. I cannot overstate the importance of these programs. C t e programs are closely aligned with our states Workforce Needs from welding and machining to health care and Information Technology to engineering in biosciences. These programs give Students Experience so that they understand these are not dirty jobs but opportunities to work with the latest Technology Hands on an even Higher Education opportunities are available after high school right here in south dakota and our universities and Technical Institutes. After the recession ended last year i asked staff from my office and from the department of education to reach out to those who are engaged in ct programs. Over the spring, summer, and fall of visit and all for technical restitute as well as High School Prayer rooms. They held a series of meetings to listen to over 40 haskell of ministers and educators, large and Small Schools and
0 the contract i m not authorized to make a statement. since then nobody has given a clear answer to the basic question, why was hgi fired? during a phone call with marc ferzan, yesterday reporters pressed him about hgi and got nothing. so you re saying hgi services were no longer needed? hey, marion, that s a question for dca. but you re not answering it. that s the problem. yes, the answer is services for hgi specifically for not needed. we reached out to hgi a few times. they haven t gotten back to us so we re left with no clear explanation for why hgi, the biggest single sandy contractor was fired. why it got $10.5 million and why its firing wasn t publicized for six weeks. on top of that, the state unveiled its plan yesterday for spending the next $1.4 billion in federal aid and had indicated it has no replacement for hgi. we re not the only one asking these simple questions. two members of the new jersey are you going to add more staff for this? they haven t told me an
0 questions, but if you want to come see me afterwards, i m more than happy to do that. well, if i ask you to come see me, that would imply i would actually be there. so, so i m sure you would, and we re going to have some time afterwards. talk to me or members of my staff. christie spent a full hour last night in a radio q&a and answered questions about the traffic jam engineered by some or someone in his administration. in the 2 1/2 weeks since dawn zimmer accused the governor s administration as using sandy aid funding as pressure to expedite a politically connected development in hoboken, chris christie has yet to take any questions from the press about the other major scandal his administration faces. the accusations piling up, the state has used sandy recovery money to reward political allies and punish political foes. in fact, there s a bunch of really straightforward questions about that money that nobody, not reporters or congressmen or our hardworking producers can seem to
0 yeah. who assemble this data. just look at the numbers. there s a report that exists. no. because the week was cut short and it was never complete. okay. so they did a two-day compilation of data. it was three because, but monday s data was so skewed by a accident on the okay. we d like you to make that data available to the committee. mr. chairman, i will have my counsel talk to your counsel as we have done before and discuss documents. no question. is there a reason why those documents couldn t be provided? no, because there are a lot smarter people. i want to make sure my lawyers talk to your lawyers. there are people smarter than you? yes. like you, mr. chairman. hardly. hardly. so you re not willing to say whether you could provide us data? whatever the lawyers tell me your lawyer s here. can he come up and testify about that? no, he s not going to come up and testify. chairman, that s cute. no, it s not. maybe he could come up and give