Iowa. Governor branstad was recently nominated to be the next u. S. Ambassador to china. This is just over half an hour. Thank you 37 thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative leader, elected officials, distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow eye eyans. Im honored to address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them, and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislature in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative leaders, legislators, judges, elected officials, distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow iowans. Im honored to address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them, and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislature in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each of you and listening to your ideas on how to make our state an even better place for familie
[ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legacy of leaders, legislators, justices and judges, elected officials and distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow iowans, im honored to once again address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle, who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislator in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each of you and listening to your ideas on how to make our s
We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governor branstad and we have the vice chairman, governor mcauliffe from virginia and the host, the longest serving governor in the mystery of the United States terry branstad. We are happy to have him. [applause] and now, it is funny, people say the meeting is going great so far and i say it is good laws of governor branstad. I am turn it over to david yepsen and many of you probably know david. Heavy has been with the Des Moines Register and on Public Television in different capacities and now he is
We were there this morning when governor branstad announced the creation of the Wrongful Conviction division to be run by the state Public Defenders Office. The focus of the new division will be to identify potential cases involving inmates who have been wrongfully convicted, as well as to pursue available legal remedies. Gov. Branstad this division of the Public Defenders Office will take the lead to move forward with postconviction relief, to see that the innocent people that may have been convicted are represented, and they get their day in court. Mollie the fbi recently admitted serious errors in cases involving hair comparision analysis. The new division will work to determine if similar errors have occurred in cases here in iowa. Turning to news from around iowa now the iowa state patrol is , investigating the death of a woman whose body was found near near shellsburg. That truck was stolen yesterday in benton county. Two men who came upon the scene soon noticed blood on a door h