Our opener, 43 loss but im proud of the boys. We were down and they fought back and scrapped and crawled back in. The opposing team had a pitching machine, 20 Miles Per Hour faster than practice. The poor children thought it was like madison bum garner up there. They turned it around. Im excited for baseball season. Not excited about this front page though are you guying will be to pay 2,500 more in vehicle fees . More taxes on gas to fix the roads. If they could prove to me its going to fill the potholes and widen the important freeways if they can prove to me every penny i pay goes there im down. Dont you pay pennies now though . But theres not been a gas tax increase. Ive got a ten year old that doesnt even have 100,000 miles on et. The biggest complaint is potholes. We have been doing this poll. People stop me and say potholes. Governor brown is addressing the issue in an hour. Allie rasmus is covering this story for us with more on this proposed billion dollars 52 52 billion, al l
Communicate to the president the needs of american agriculture in a very sincere way and he was very sincere as his response regarding hosting them here today and signing an executive order regarding agriculture and rural prosperity. Hes charged us with inner Agency Cooperation that will enable us to work cross agencies in this task force to report back to him in no less than 180 days all the barriers to rural prosperity and agriculturial productivity. So im looking forward to that. We had a big charge today in many ways and im excited about the opportunity, ready to go to work, roll up our sleeves and make sure that we make american agriculture as great as it can be in the future for a rural prosperity and for jobs. So ill be happy to answer any questions and but your experts are behind me and well probably call on them to answer some of your questions as well. So thank you very much. Mr. Secretary, what did you say to farmers who are concerned about trade prospects and perhaps some u
Of rain. To move through the area. And that will really be your indication that your cold front is moving through. Behind that your winds will shift to northwest and drag in some drier air go back to upper 70s for today and tomorrow. Much drier. Beautiful. Highs back to the mid 70s. All right. Good to hear, dave. Thank you. Westbound i4 drivers heads up we have major delays approaching homosassa road. We still have crash with lane blocks here. Most of lanes are actually going to b direction. You can see just a single lane is passing and it is the right lane. The delays were seeing right now as we take look at our map, basically, from that point all way back towards county line road. So fur agoing to avoid westbound i 4 direction which i highly suggest that is your area of concern. So do those work arounds there. Well keep you posted when the lanes clear. Meantime were still waiting for clear lanes here after headon collision serious injuries 301 bloomingdale going to be south lane pass
Theres another extremely important point that the senator from virginia made, and that is that this rule which has been criticized by some is in direct response to a g. A. O. Report, a direct response to g. A. O. Criticizing h. U. D. For not doing a good job in carrying out this part of the 1968 fair housing act. That is so important. How many of us in this chamber have repeatedly looked to g. A. O. For advice on how we can improve how federal programs work . Well, look to g. A. O. , look to its 2010 report which was very critical of h. U. D. , and surely it is significant that when h. U. D. Last year issued the new regulations, the g. A. O. Said fine and closed out its recommendations as being completed. Thats significant. This wasnt some wild scheme that was dreamed up by bureaucrats at h. U. D. As some have claimed. This was in response to a report from the Government Accountability act. We talk about how we want more efficiency, better accountability. Thats why we have the g. A. O.
We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is