Thank you, jim. Thank you, christine. Christine, you have a good voice. Lets move on. [laughter] let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. I am pleased to see some any western governors here. We have a Great Program planned, and im delighted we can share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with Top Administration officials including the secretary of labor , the secretary of u. S. Foreston, service chief who will be visiting with us momentarily. And although he was not able to stay for todays activities, we visited with the secretary of agriculture. We will hear to other keynote speakers. The president of the arizona cardinals, and john ratzenberger. Most of you know john as the clavin from the tv show, cheers. Johnnk we will all enjoy speak about that. Johns comments will touch on one of the greatest challenges our nation faces which is vital to expanding our Economic Vitality in coming years. That is workforce of element. My initiative as chair is foc
Ladies and gentlemen, i am proud to present the 32nd governor of the state of south dakota accompanied here in phoenix by the first lady of south dakota. The chairman of the western governors association, the honorable dennis dugard. Thank you, jim. Thank you, christine. Christine, you have a good voice. Jim, well. Lets move on. [laughter] let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. I am pleased to see so many western governors here. We have a Great Program planned, and im delighted we can share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with Top Administration officials including the secretary of labor, the secretary of transportation, u. S. Forest service chief who will be visiting with us momentarily. And although he was not able to stay for todays activities, we visited with the secretary of agriculture. We will hear to other keynote speakers. The president of the arizona cardinals, and john ratzenberger. Most of you know john as the famous cliff clavin fro
Landrys, first owner of the houston rockets. One of the most exciting teams in thes in nba coanchoring along with melissa and me power lunch starts right now meantime, get a check on the markets at this hour stocks are mixed after a positive start with only the dow holding steadily in positive territory. The s p and nasdaq, really hovering near the break even as we sort of are saunter towards the ent of this trading year and visa, winners. Lagging ge hitting its lowest level in six years hotels and booze getting a bid hilton, marriott, wyndham, brown foreman, Constellation Brands hitting alltime highs netflix leading the nasdaq and s p 500 and agency could weathe spreads across the country, natural gas, you might expect, soaring today. We mentioned in the open a billion dollar buyer is here, Tillman Fertitta were talk taxes, restaurant business, houston rockets, Gaming Business and a lot more with him welcome. Good to have you. Good to be here. We begin in washington where everyone is
It is all yours. Thank you, jim. Thank you, christine. Christine, you have a good voice. Lets move on. [laughter] let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. I am pleased to see some any western governors here. We have a Great Program planned, and im delighted we can share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with Top Administration officials including the secretary of labor , the secretary of transportation, u. S. Forest service chief who will be visiting with us momentarily. Although he was not able to stay for todays activities, weve visited early this morning with the secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. We will hear from two other keynote speakers the president , of the arizona cardinals, and john ratzenberger. Most of you know john as the famous cliff clavin from the tv show, cheers. I think we will all enjoyed john speak about his everin every pixar movie made. He has a passion for American Workers and american industry. His comments will touch
Thank you, chris. Thank you, christine. You have a good voice. Lets move on. Let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. Im pleased to see so many governors here and we put a Great Program playing. Im delighted we could share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with top admin haitian officials including secretary of labor alexander acosta, secretary of transportation elaine chao, u. S. Forest service chief tony tooke and although he couldnt stay for todays activities we visited this one of the secretary of agriculture sonny perdue. We will hear two other keynote speakers, Michael Bidwell president of the Arizona Cardinals and also john ratzenberger. Most of you know john has the sandisk with cleveland for the Television Series cheers or you might know him as one of the voices of the characters in every pixar movie ever made. John also has a passion for American Workers and american industry on enjoy hearing him speak about that. We will touch on one of t