A lot of areas where we can move forward. Thank you all very much and thanks for having me again. National Governors Association also held assumption on scripture drug abuse Prescription Drug abuse in the u. S. Mary bona also created the Prescription Drug abuse caucus. This is one hour and 20 minutes. If i could have your attention, lets take our seats so that we can get our joint session started. First of all, i am governors Steven Beshear from kentucky. I chair the mga health and Human Services committee. Welcome to all the governors who are here. This is a joint session of the health and Human Services committee and the Homeland Security and Public Safety committee. Joining me is vice chair of our Committee Governor bill haslam of tennessee. Im pleased we been able to come together with Homeland Security and Public Safety committee for todays discussion regarding the nations opioid crisis. I want to thank the leadership of the other committee, governor Rick Schneider of michigan, go
About gabbys injuries, and one of her neurosurgeons told me this early on, if there is any other positive thing about her injury, it is that she will not suffer from post traumatic stress. Because you dont remember . Because she was shot first and shot in the head. That memory what you remember from that day . Toyota. Mittens. Share members where she part. She remembers where she parked. Our drive to toyota to target and park, i dont remember where she part. A year to the day, she remembers where she part rate she remembered one of her Staff Members brought her mittens. No noise. Guns and law on enforcement tonight at 8 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Author Allan Hoffman shares a tale of two mississippis. Founded by hill was isaac ross, who was a revolutionary for war veteran from south carolina. When he realized he was going to die and the slaves would end up being sold or just become common slaves, he wrote in his will that at the time of his daughters death, the plantation would be sold
Of the provisions that block president obamas executive order on immigration. The senate is expected to move the measure forward this week after three failed attempts over the last month. The National Governors Association Winter meeting expected to continue momentarily. Hearing from secretary jeh johnson. He will be discussing Cyber Security efforts at the state and federal level. Secretary johnson is there after appearing on the sunday morning talk shows. Funding for his department set to run out this week. Secretary johnson this morning called the debate over funding absurd, and he said he hoped to some in congress will quote, exercise some leadership it comes to finding a solution. He also said 30,000 workers would be for load if the fund is not approved. We could hear something about that today from secretary johnson. If everybody can please take your seats, we can get started. Thank you and good morning to everybody. I want to thank the governors. I think we all understand the im
Well in the world. That i think is close to many peoples minds. That no industry is limited to smartphones, the devices we carry around. It is a Great Technology to connect so many other things and build a Better Society based on those kinds of technologies. The internet started with this thing that people needed to get somewhere or somehow. We brought the internet from that thing somewhere to your home. He brought that internet from being your home to being in every device that you carry around. The next age of the internet is about taking it from mobile devices and connecting not just people, but things with people, information with people, processes with people, so we can create an internet of everything. I think we are at the early stages of building the internet of everything. Monday night at a clock eastern on the communicators on cspan2. From the winter meeting Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson talks about Cyber Security. Than a discussion on the impact of Government Polic
Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, im happy to take questions, eager to take questions which i understand there are mics at both sides. Sitting in the middle, please come to the aisle, thank you. Question over here. So thanks for a great talk. My question is related to how you get everybody and their individual issues to align this greater issue, right, whether its either health care, environment, the lists go on. It seems like there is an emotional piece. How do i place my emotional fervor around Climate Change and if leslie, the bigger issue is the first issue. Its hard for me to get emotional about this bigger one and take that same emotion and pour it into this underlying piece. That is my discussion, my question. Right. So and this is a general problem that people have described around this Reform Movement for many years. I think the first step is to recognize something about how you cannot get what you want. I dont think its enough to think about how i cant get what i wan