my colleagues are here. chaired fed committees on education. so i have the working relationships on education. stemve already past education bills which was part of the education reform. we had a major bill when i was in richmond and a delegate. we stopped $120 million in cuts in 2010. one of the first things that i dealt with when i became a delegate. my opponent was not here working with us on these issues but what she is talking about would have spent more money downstate while we were going to increase taxes. right, tom? i m the one with relationships with george mason. on research and technology. on lowering the regulations so they can really research. i have a stem bill for young women, i did it by myself. it is already out of the senate committee. moderator: thank you. 60 seconds. bennett: budgets are about priorities. joe biden has a great line he likes to use. and it is from his dad. he says jelly, show me your budget and i will tell you your priorities. educationpri
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america. and there are still barriers like in my state tragically and it gets back to the earlier question cynthia, about jobs. in new york state, we have the same shale gas resource that they do in pennsylvania. in pennsylvania, they have 60 to 80,000 jobs good paying jobs developing that domestic source of clean gas. in new york state, we have a moratorium we have nothing. and we need to develop resources like that. the second thing i do on energy is create an integrated north american concept of energy independence. canada developed massive resources. that was why the keystone pipeline was going to bring canadian oil to our gulf coast refineries, replacing oil from venezuela. i think that would have been a very good thing. mexico is just changed its rules so they can bring in american investment and technology to develop their oil and gas resources. so we can create a north american energy powerhouse that makes us not reliant at all on the middle east or unstable overseas