Again and said, ill bet it makes you mad, dont get . [laughter] that was such a good start, i told all over iowa. Scott, you might be the ones turning it around. [inaudible] thats what i did. You probably heard in utah. You are exactly right. Let me see if i can do to i wanted to make four points. Let me see how quickly i can make it. Went i think about my job as United States senator given my background, i think about how can i give bill haslam more tools to be a better governor . Because i know if i give them those tools he will do something with them. And i think of the federal government in the internet age as a place where we ought to invest in things that empower states and people to do things for themselves. Kind of in the way apple created ipad with that telling you what the app is, you can create an app and a lot of people can use it. So here are four tools that we worked on, three in a bipartisan way, one is not one is partisan in washington by dont think it is so much among
Never gotten anything done. We dont need that advice. They dont want to do any better than we do, and really they dont know how to do it at all. Guess we are all pioneering a little bit we would try to find a fairway to reward outstanding teachers, give them 10 months and 11 months contracts, pay them more for being good. Good. So theres a 10th of a penny in washington. Is it partisan difference right now but i dont think the democratic and republican governors would have the same difference of opinion democratic and republican senators have. So i bring this to your attention, and you may want to talk to your senators between now and the end of the year. We need to fix no child left behind. We need to get rid of the way, but we dont need to do it in a way that creates more of a National School board. We have two very distinct points of view right now in washington. So on market place fairness we are bipartisan. On this we are partisan. On changing the workforce act, we got that done in
About the fact that we might get goalpost, get the ball through the goalpost. The United States is a leading global power. Freeomote open markets and trade. We have for the last 30 years spent a tremendous amount of diplomatic effort to promote open markets and free trade and energy. The is a vital interest of United States. I appreciate the thoughtful comments of the committee in terms of full debate on the subject. We do not want to take actions that enhance the monopoly power of opec or russia to use energy as a weapon or a tool. We want to lead from the front not from behind. Have important for us to this thoughtful debate and reevaluation of our current export policy. Avoidd to consider how to creating market distortion. We need to consider the following things. We actually export our new oil and gas. Form oft our oil in the Refined Products directly so we do not have an export ban on gasoline, propane. We are exporting that instead of exporting the crude oil. What we are discussi
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, lets give that the Vice President a great thank you. [applause] and move on to our committee meeting. Our next meeting will be starting very shortly. They both start at three so we are running a little delay. Our committee on economic and development, and also at the same time education and Workforce Committee. Later on tonight we have the wonderful entertainment at the lime and auditorium. See you soon. [inaudible conversations] as you hearing a brief break in the governors meeting. Coming out, coming up in the few minutes, the education and Workforce Committee is meeting to focus on the role of education and economic development. They are guest speaker will be Lamar Alexander, the senior republican on the Senate Education committee. The ng Education Committee is chaired by governor steve beshear. We will have that live for you when they start here on cspan2. Until then a look at some o
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