Ricketts called for property and income tax reformat his state of the state address in lincoln. The governor outlined his Budget Priorities for the state. This is 30 minutes. Thank you. President , speaker, member of the 105th legislature, tribal chairmen, distinguished guests, friends, fellow nebraskans, and of course our first lady my lovely wife, suzanne. Good morning. [ applause ] now, before we get started here today, i understand that we have somebody who has a birthday. Kitty, its your 70th birthday . Is that right . Woo woo give her a round of applause. [ applause ] i will spare you my rendition of happy birthday. Everybody is happy about that, too. Well, congratulations on the commencement of the 105th Nebraska Legislature. I want to thank each and every one of you for your willingness to serve our fellow citizens. I also want to highlight that you are beginning a historic year. The 150th of our statehood, which we will celebrate on march 1st. I am honored to be with you here
Members of the 105 legislature. Tribal chairman. Distinguished guests. Friends. Fellow nebraskans and of course, our first lady, my lovely wife, suzanne. Good morning. Now, before we get started here today, i understand that we have somebody whos got a birthday. Kitty, its her 75th birthday. Is that right . Give her a round after of applause. I will spare you my rendition of happy birthday. Congratulations ton commencement of the 105th Nebraska Legislature. I want to thank each and every one of you for your willingness to serve our fellow citizens. I also want to highlight that you are beginning a historic year. The 150th of our state hood, which we will celebrate on march 1st. I am honored to be with you here in the peoples house. We all appreciate the unique nature. Nebraska consistently passes a balanced budget on time. Not every state can say that. In our system every bill gets a hearing and every senator a priority bill. Senators can have an impact with legislation regardless of p
Income tax reform in lincoln. He outlined his budget priorities, including investments in k through 12 education. He spoke for about half an hour. Thank you. President poly, speaker scheer, members of the 105th legislature, tribal chairman, distinguished guests, friends, fellow nebraskans, and, of course, our first lady, my lovely wife suzanne. Good morning. [ applause ] now, before we get started here today, i understand that we have somebody whos got a birthday today. Kitty, today is your 70th birthday today, is that right . Give her a round of applause. [ applause ] i will spare you my rendition of happy birthday. Everybodys happy about that, too. Well, congratulations on the commencement of the 105th Nebraska Legislature. I want to thank each and every one of you for your willingness to serve our fellow citizens. I also want to highlight that you are beginning a historic year. The 150th of our statehood which we will celebrate on march 1st, our sesquicentennial. [ applause ] i am h
I received briefings on the Strategic Forces subcommittee on a weekly basis. We are told about the classified information we are getting and it is part of how i make my judgments on the floor and in the votes we take in the committee. Theres no excuse for secretary clintons use of a private server. I have said that over and over again. However, i do believe that secretary clinton does have the experience and certainly the relationships in the congress to move our country forward. She knows the world leaders. She knows the leaders in the congress, both in the house and the senate. Thats a critical part as we move forward to have those kinds of relationships. Thank you. You have 30 seconds. The emails she had were 2,000 classified emails. Some were top secret, some had information about agents that were serving our country abroad. It undermined the National Security of our country and then she lied to the American People for 16 months. Shes still lying that some of the information was no
To not support the executive order. I voted against my party on that because i would never vote to shut down homeland security. It was cynical. It was a gotcha vote. I would never vote to shut them down. I also, david young and i, as you know, had the sarah root bill. That bill david young from iowa, the republican, we have a bipartisan bill that says if you committed a violent crime, i must take custody of that person , so what happened to sarah root can never happen again. We are responding. We are responding. Go ahead. Mr. Bacon you initially voted against it, then for it. Its the standard brad ashford flipflop. Rep. Ashford come on, don. Mr. Bacon when an executive order comes out that breaks the law, congress has to take a hard line. The separation of powers demands it. Brad caved on this to the president , and we have been working in a dysfunctional immigration environment and brad is part of the problem. Lets continue the discussion on immigration. You each have 30 seconds on th