Chair of the board of trustees of the National Trust historic reservation. I thank you for coming to the diversity summit. It will be the kickoff of the diversity and inclusion programming that you will see throughout our conference. We are being taped by cspan and we are live streamed. I would also like to recognize the sponsors of this discussion. The National Park service, the Smithsonian Institution and to , all of the smithsonian and park Service Staff here today, welcome and thank you. To our friends and allies in the preservation work, we thank you for coming in for joining us. And a special thank you to those from outside traditional areas of our field, scholars and advocates for community advancement. Especially to our panelists, special guests who i will introduce at greater length later on in the program. We deeply appreciate your input and want to thank you for helping us expand the scope of historic reservation so that it reflects the two root true diversity of our nation
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First of all, we couldnt dealt with the debt of the existing medicaid, which is for women, the elderly, children, and the disabled. What Medicaid Expansion does is expand that to much more of the population, and i could argue for good reasons because theyre being served off in the emergency room and so forth, but the dilemma i had was this. In a very short period of time, i would have had to put a brand new democracy bureaucracy together at a time period that i couldnt meet. I knew i couldnt meet it. When my current bureaucracy couldnt handle medicaid cost overruns happening. In my state, it was 500 million over projections set forth by the Previous Legislature and previous governor. Over 500 million over projection. Thats out of a 20 billion budget. Thats a big hit. There went all my teacher raises right there. Infrastructure. So the Medicaid Expansion is, i think, one of the most difficult issues on governors plates right now. Let me tell you the other issue we are having, and that i
Quite clear that is an important part of of their feeling confident. Thats good for job creation. So that is what is enough diverse. We also want to welcome her cspan viewers around the world. The front page of politico about the budget deal being reached country is reached. Undersecretary, the headline is shell bring stability to your budget. We can get a little carried away, go a little too far up with the deal means. Its not a big deal. But as we were talking about, evidence is there can be regular order. It means we could then proceed. A budget is a big deal. Frankly, weve been letting far too long without the kind of budget and ability to predict. Imagine if you dont know what your budget is come here not sure what the budget is for a year or two for now, how do you know if that be what you can get done quiet i do think its a big deal. Im wearing a boot. Youre wearing a button that says open for business. Thats also assign you having your offers. Something that came from. Speak th
Custom in january, that we would do anything legislatively. Mr. Levin the senator points out the reality, which is what is likely to happen in january. But there is another reality. In other words, what will happen in january, it will be very difficult to get to this bill because of, number one, the crushing business of c. R. s and other crushing business in january tpaoepb we meet in even if we meet in january. I guess the shortest answer i can give is the following im in combat. Im in combat somewhere in the world, and im going to read, combat pay stops on december 31. Theres dozens of these kind of authorizations that are listed in general demseys letter. Dozens of them that just stop on december 31. Just take that one. Think about that. What kind of an impression are we giving to our men and women who are in combat, in harms way, when they read combat pay stops . Maybe it will be extended in january or in february, but thats totally unsatisfactory. It would be outrageous, i believe