[ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] it is my pleasure to be able to introduce to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth, charles d. Baker. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for all being with us tonight. Thank you. Tom, nice to have you with us. Thanks for being here. Mr. Speaker, madam president , members of the house and senate, congressman neal, thank you for joining us. Fellow constitutional officers, members of the governors counsel, mr. Chief justice, welcome. Members of the judiciary, members of the cabinet and my administration, sheriff, district attorney, mayors, local officials, reverend, clergy, distinguished guests. Members of my family that are here this evening. [ applause ] angie, kristen, and william, our children, charlie excuse me, hes the naughty one. A. J. And caroline, and my wife, lauren. The love of my life for the past 30 years. And an outstanding and committed first lady. [ applause ] and to my fello
Gives hirs state of the Union Address to congress and the nation. Join cspan for a preview of the evening starting at 8 eastern. And then the state of the union speech live at 9 00 p. M. And following the speech, the democratic response, also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. President trumps state of the Union Address tuesday night live on cspan. Listen live with the radio app and on demand on your desk phone or tablet at cspan. Org. Education senator betsy devos took part in the rethink School Summit here in washington. Over the next hour 15 minutes, stakeholders from across the country discuss ideas for educating and training americas future workforce. So we are going to go into our third group of presenters. Under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely pal el owe followed by Michael Roark and wrap up by jeff. If we could have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk ab
Let me have your attention. I asked the mayors that are in the room to please be seated at the table, and others please feel free to sit along the wall. We are going to go ahead and get started, so that we may make an attempt to get ahead of schedule. I wish you good morning to this special climate section special climate session. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. I will talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Carmel, mayor of indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence in Climate Protection Task force. Colleague,oduce my san jose mayor sam mcardle. Let me ask all of the mayors present here to introduce yourselves, so that speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im the mayor of phoenix, and chairman of the Energy Committee. Good morning. I am hobbie r gonzales, mayor of the city of santa fe. Javier gonzalez, mayor of the city of santa fe. Good morning. I am david miller. I am former mayor of the city of toro
Blakley, and michael and wrap up by jeff. We can have blakley. Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about university of marylanded and University College which is a public Online University designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible skbalt career relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947 at the university of maryland as a department that was charged with serving adult students particularly returning gis from world war ii t. In 1949 we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our troops stationed in germany and this was the beginning of umucs global reach. By 1956 we had establishes divisioneds to deliver Higher Education in europe and asia and in 1963 we became the first u. S. University to send faculty into a war zone in vietnam. In 1970 we became an independent fully acredited
Baker talked about opioid abuse, renewable energy, transportation infrastructure and Affordable Housing. From the massachusetts statehouse in boston, this is 40 minutes. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] it is my pleasure to be able to introduce to you his excellency the governor of the commonwealth charles baker. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you very much, thank you. Thank you for all being with us tonight. Thank you. Tom, its nice to have you with us. Thanks for being here. Mr. Speaker, madam president members of the house and senate, congressman neal thank you for joining us, fellow constitutional officers, members of the governors counsel mr. Chief justice, welcome. Members of the judiciary, members of the cabinet, my administration, sheriff, district attorney, mayors, local officials reverend and clergy, distinguished guests, members of my family that are here this evening.