Continues. Host Fiscal Health of states is the topic for the next 45 minutes and we are joined by two state treasuries. Jim mcintyre, Washington State treasurer. Along with david miller, who was the Tennessee State treasurer. Mr. Lillard, i want to begin with what do state treasurer is due . Guest theyre usually the chief Financial Officers of their state and they managed hundreds of billions of dollars for State Governments and local governments entities throughout the United States, including Pension Funds. They play a very Important Role in Fiscal Health. Host how do you go about doing your job . Guest a sickly investing monday investing money and offering programs to citizens of that they can use in their state like that. Host jim mcintyre, who do you report to in your job . I elected, pointed, how does it work . Guest im elected by the voters every four years and we have nine statewide elected officials in Washington State. Other states have fewer, but we are very active and i rep
House. Lets begin with the decision to retain troop levels in afghanistan. Democratyou can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or journal cspan. Org. Lets show you a friend pages of the pages. Obama the slow troop withdrawal from afghanistan. The u. S. Will maintain current levels. Two will be out by 2000 troops will be out by 2017. What are your thoughts on this . The phone lines are open. Lets hear a little bit more from the president yesterday. [video clip] president obama you cannot minimize the sacrifices that our military families make. Some folks will be rotating that for a few extra months. We are moving the drawdown pays over to the bright for several in part to compensate for the linkengthy time it took for government formation. We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to help Afghan Security forces succeed. So we do not have to go back. So we do not have to respond in an emergency because terrorist activities are being launched out of afghanistan. We