Guestsies and gentlemen, the governor of oklahoma, mary fallin. [applause] governor fallin thank you. Lieutenant governor, statewide elected officials, speaker mccall, president pro tem shelves, members of the court, honorable senators and representatives, cabinet members, tribal leaders, guests and citizens of the state of oklahoma, it is my pleasure to be with you today as we discussed the state of our state. Im joined by my husband, wade christiansen, our wonderful children, christina, adam and elizabeth. Welcome, guys. [applause] i look forward to working with our new legislative leaders and continue to work with leader sparks and the House Minority leader. I want to thank our legislators for their dedication and leadership. I especially appreciate the second bond issue an active to renovate this irreplaceable building in which we now gather. You might have heard a little construction noise. Its 100thlebrate birthday on june 30 and we have found a great celebration planned. This is
Nearly 870 million. Her comments were about half hour. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, guests, fellow oklahomians, the governor of the great state of oklahoma, governor mary fallin. [ applause ]ans, the governor of the great state of oklahoma, governor mary fallin. [ applause ] thank you. Lieutenant governor lamb, state elected officials, speaker mccall, president pro tem schultz, members of the court, honorable senators, representatives, cabinet members, our tribal leaders, guests and citizens of the state of oklahoma, it is my pleasure to be here with you today as we discuss the state of our state. Im joined today by my husband, wade christiansen, and our wonderful children, christina and adam and our daughter in law, elizabeth. And other family members. Welcome, guys. [ applause ] i look forward to working with our new legislative leaders, ro testimony schultz and speaker mccall and continue to work with our Senate Minority leader sparks and House Minority heard inman. And thank
Paint intimate portraits of all 451st ladies. Their lives and visions, and unique partnerships with their president ial spouses. The series in the book provide an up close, historical look at these fascinating women who provide the scrutiny of the white house, sometimes at great personal cost while supporting the families and famous husband. Sometimes, changing history. Our program tonight will feature lively discussion with some of these contributing historians who will hear more about shortly. To moderate tonights program, we are pleased to welcome susan slang, the moderator of cspans first later influence an image. Susan slane is president and coceo of cspan, should sharing responsibility for all operations of the Public Affairs cable network. She oversees programming, marketing for cspan Television Channels and cspan radio. She helped launch the washington journal, book tv, American History to be, she has also been involved in the creation of numerous cspan history series such as a
2. 6 million federal grant to pursue Health Care Delivery innovations that would result in better care at lower costs for virginians. Just this past week the governors access plan begin processing applications ensuring that up to 20,000 virginians with serious Mental Illness could get medical and behavioral care that they need to lead healthy and Productive Lives that they deserve. Mr. Speaker the men and women of this General Assembly a healthy virginia is no substitute for Medicaid Expansion but it is creating real opportunities for thousands of virginians who desperately need it. I will be honest i cannot think of a better investment than that. [applause] as we strengthen our Human Capital by improving workforce training and access to health care we must also enhance the infrastructure upon which our economy is built. Transportation Energy Generation and transmission, ports, airports. These are the Building Blocks of our system and a new virginia economy they would be the envy of th
And you will hear more about shortly. To moderate tonights program we are pleased to welcome susan swain, the moderator for cspan first ladies influence and image. Susan swain is president and coceo cspan sharing responsibility for all operations of the Public Affairs cablenet work. She oversees programming and marketing for cspan3 Television Channels and cspan radio. She helped launch the washington journal, booktv, it American History tv. She has also been involved in the creation of numerous cspan history series such as american president s, the lincolndouglas debate and american writers your for over 30 years she has been one of cspans principal on camera interviewers. Most recently on april 14 first ladies was released as a book by Public Affairs books featuring a collection of images from the Television Series. It is the ninth book susan ness edited for cspan and Public Affairs. And as you noticed when you came in, we will have copies of the book for sale after the program and sh