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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. ....
Cspan. Org. Next, south dakota governor dennis dugard. His remarks are an hour. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Thank you. Thank you very much. That was very kind of you. Thank you. It is good to have you back in pierre to the new members of or legislature, welcome. Im sure youll enjoy this experience immensely. Before i begin today, though, id like to note a historical milestone. Today is the beginning of Lieutenant GovernorMatt Michaels session as president of the senate and prior to that he presided forever four sessions as speaker of the house. Those 11 sessions make Matt Michaels the longest serving presiding officer the history of the south dakota state legislature. Lets recognize and thank him for that service. [applause] thank you very much. Over the past six yea ....
In mine and my bias . Because i will give you after this time because i need to go on to my other colleagues. You can try to sell me. I think we can and i think one of the things we can work on maybe establishing better right tear yaw. Let me put it bluntly. Will my sheriffs agree we need to increase the amount of money going to treatment and prevention in hida and go away from them, would they agree with that. I honestly dont know what the locals are thinking but i think they would probably object and we would object if that dilutes from their main mission. If they do object well have a issue. I will go to the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands, miss miss plaskett for five minutes. Thank you very much, gentlemen and good morning. Im very appreciative everything you all youre putting forward in your testimony, your thoughtfulness. My first job out of law school was a narcotics prosecutor in the bronx. So i understand this complet ....
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