Phan, house leaders peterson and fernandez fernandez, Senate Leaders gray and bradley, chief justice, members of the legislature and judiciary, my fellow arizonans, thank you so much for the warm welcome. Its great to be back. applause allow me to start with a question. Show of hands. Who here today in this chamber was born somewhere other than the state of arizona . As you can see, theres a lot of us. Ill always be a kid from toledo, and we have folks here from all over the country and all over the world. Its uniquely arizona. We choose to move here, live here, make this home, and were not alone. As we stand here today, more than 70 of our adult citizens were born somewhere else. So were some of our greatest state icons. Leaders like secretary of the air force, barbara barrett. Trail blazers like raul castro. Legends like jerry colangelo. Quiet saints like bill bidwell. Giants like sandra day oconnor. And heroes like john mccain and pat tillman. And the new comers keep coming. Last ye
Washington, d. C. March 21, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable mary e. Miller to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the use of the speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recoition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties, and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman, for five minutes. Mr. Westerman thank you, madam speaker. I rise tote a significant milestone. The 50th anniversary of western energy alliance. Oil and natu and reliable sourcs of energy that drive progress, power industries, and fuel innovation. The alliance is a leader among the oil and gasdk■ ons in understanding th
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Pennsylvania governors debate. Here is a look at that race. Lets try the philadelphia debate. Mr. Fitzgerald, good morning. Good morning, pedro, how are you . Looks good. Could you not only set up this debate but where the two candidates stand as far as this race is concerned . First debate tomorrow finds the incumbent, a really need to have something happen to reset this race. He has been the underdog almost from the beginning, which has been a huge surprise in a state that historically has reelected its incumbent governors overwhelmingly. It has been a staple race. Wolfe is up by 17 percentage points. There was a new poll out this. Orning 52 among 31 of likely voters. Half of the respondents who are voting for wolf say they were motivated by dissatisfaction with corbett. It is somewhat of a mystery but substantively it comes back to education. When he took over in 2011 after , because the were cutsan out there to Education Funding from the state. The governor cut some state money and
Add. The e. P. A. Has also finalized similar regulations for Industrial Boilers and cmac kilns. Together those regulations are having an impact of more than 63 billion on the economy. By the way, no ones refuted these figures. 63 billion on the economy and they have destroyed 800,000 jobs and may result in the shutdown of 18 cement plants around the country. In another section of the law, the e. P. A. Put a rule together knowing it would increase the cost of gasoline. The rule is known as the tier 3 rule. And it regulates the amount of sulfur that can be in gasoline when it leaves the refinery. Tier 2 standards were put into place back in the early 2000s and that resulted in a 90 decline in the sulfur content of gasoline by 2010. Thats already behind us. Thats been done. And it had a measurable impact on the environment. The need for a tier 3 standard is not articulated very well. In fact, e. P. A. Did not have any unique Scientific Data to support the key benefits of this rule and the