Its not going to be the constituents the rise and intersect with the government without official, the agent. A big deal for us because its a big deal for iowa. Is that good . Is that good, bill . A good. Thank you all very much. I really appreciate it. [applause] thank all the students here. You were patient and u. S. Brilliant questions. This plan is a national zealous reporter. Thanks again for coming. Applaus[applause] [inaudible conversations] Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is running for a fifth term against democratic challenger jack hatch. The two candidates face one another tonight in a televised debate. Could look at the ads running in the race. Four years ago 114,000 iowans were out of work. Unemployment was the highest in five years and oustates budget was 900 million in debt. Terry branstad came back and so did i will. Today with a budget surplus, 140,000 new jobs, unemployment reduced nearly 30 and governor branstad is just getting started. Terry is back. Iowa is back. Terry
Im so happy to be back at the press club. Its really been a home base for our long arduous for the film. Urs exception. E i do feel compelled to edit. Was negative three years old back then. Though i was already working not yetlls, i had perfected what we call the ken effect quite then. I also feel, now that you war, that ihe civil reminded you 24 years ago, in the, when we came with civil war, that i reminded you felt aboutm sherman newspapers men. He hated newspapers men so much was sure if they killed them all, there would be news breakfast. Efore and, of course, unfortunately, unscathed withpe the rooseveltss roosevelts, thol eleanor, who held twice weekly news conferences with first time a the first lady did that and franklin, because he had been an the harvard crimson, felt that had made him a newspapers man himself and loved to develop and cherish the development of personal relationships with the newspaper that he crowded in men for crowded in 998 times news conferences during
Club member ken burns. Thank you all very much for coming. Im so happy to be back at the press club. Its really been a home base for our long arduous for the film. Urs exception. E i do feel compelled to edit. Was negative three years old back then. Though i was already working not yetlls, i had perfected what we call the ken effect quite then. I also feel, now that you war, that ihe civil reminded you 24 years ago, in the, when we came with civil war, that i reminded you felt aboutm sherman newspapers men. He hated newspapers men so much was sure if they killed them all, there would be news breakfast. Efore and, of course, unfortunately, unscathed withpe the rooseveltss roosevelts, thol eleanor, who held twice weekly News Conferences with first time a the first lady did that and franklin, because he had been an the harvard crimson, felt that had made him a newspapers man himself and loved to develop and cherish the development of personal relationships with the newspaper that he crowd
As well as working journalist who is are club members. To hear applause in our audience i note to members of the general public are attending so not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. I would also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter, using hashtag, npclunch. After our guests speech concludes well have a question and answer period. I will ask as many as time permits. Now it is time to introduce our head table guests. I would like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i complete announcing everybody at the head table. From your right, gil klein, journalism professor, american universitys Washington Semester Program a past npc president and chair of the clubs history and heritage committee. Janice law, former print journalist and criminal court judge and founder of the american women writers national museum. Ambassador sell la, roosevelt, the United States chie
Forthcoming with these documents and materials to these other entities as opposed to oig . Our presumption is because were independent and theyre not. So there appears to have been a conclusion that there indeed does need to be a finding that our reviews are of the assistance to the leadership. Its selfevident for the other entities, opr, nsd, because they are working for the leadership. We are statutorily independent. Congress set it up that way. And therefore it would appear the decisions been made that somehow we need to go through this process so that its clear our reviews are being overseen or are being of help to the leadership. And of course thats entirely inconsistent with what congress has set up in the i. G. Act. All right. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Chair thanks the gentleman and recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. Gohmert for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, Inspector General. Appreciate you being here. And we appreciate your candor and your