Taske bipartisan heroin force for the 115th congress. , want to thank my cochair annie custer. We are proud of the work that we have done. I think we are proud this is the most rigorously Bipartisan Group in the u. S. House of representatives and we are looking forward to a year of joined a make more progress on an issue that is of great concern to all of us. Just a recap of last year briefly. Year, the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and the senate and passed into law. And it provided stakeholders resources to combat the heroine epidemic. We passed an act at the end of 100 14th congress that added an additional 100 billion of to combat this epidemic. In both of these were college in no small measure because of the bipartisan work done by this task force. Out in theolled 18 bills thatweek really became the foundation and much of the detail of what was ultimately passed into law. There is still a lot of work to be done. Americans over 52,000 died of a dr
[ applause ] in 2016, wyoming is ranked first in Mountain Region for Work Force Development and was rated third for new business startup activity and sixthbest state for business. So despite being the most difficult budget year in my time in office,wayway stayed proactive and forwardlooking with the Capital Construction project, with the whether or not work of renovating and modernizing our state facilities like the wyoming state hospital, the wyoming Life Resource Center and the wyoming veterans home. We had Ground Breaking at the university of wyoming for the mcmurray High Altitude Performance Center and the Engineering Education Research Building last fall and the Ground Breaking for the integrated test center last spring, in addition to new facility starts we opened the enzi stem facility in 2016 and the High Bay Research facility is opening soon. We have had incredible opportunities with wealth created by our many businesses and great citizens. Were grateful for so many partnershi