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2009 NGA Annual Meeting 1 NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING Transcript of Plenary Session "Infrastructure (Freight)" Mississippi Coast Coliseum Biloxi, Mississippi Saturday, July 18, 2009 11:30 a.m. Reported by: Monica Schroeder, RPR, CRR, CSR Merrill Legal Solutions Mississippi Gulf Coast Office 800) 765-8636 www.Merrillcorp.com Merrill Legal Solutions 2 GOVERNOR [JIM] DOUGLAS: Welcome governors, guests. Great to see everyone here at our 101st Annual Meeting of the National Governors Association. Before we get underway with this morning's Plenary Session, I wanted to urge all of you who haven't picked up a translation device and ear piece at the door to do so. We're going to have a presentation from a distinguished guest from China in just a few moments. No. They're not for Haley Barbour. We're going to have a distinguished Chinese guest speaking with us in a few minutes, so I would urge you all to pick one of those up if you didn't get it. Well, this is an exciting time for all of us who have this important responsibility to our states and to the people we serve, a difficult economic and fiscal environment, and we'll be talking about a lot of those issues over the course of the next couple of days. Merrill Legal Solutions 3 We'll get underway very shortly with our opening session. We're going to talk about infrastructure. We're going to make the presentation, as we do each year, to the Distinguished Service Award winners and recognize our 15- and 20-year Corporate Fellows. First of all, may I have from my colleagues a motion to adopt the rules of procedure for the NGA Annual Meeting? Moved by Governor [John] Baldacci; seconded by Governor [Chet] Culver. Any discussion? If not, all members say "aye" at this time. [All say "aye".] GOVERNOR DOUGLAS: Opposed: "No." The ayes have it and we've adopted our rules. One of which, I want to remind you, is that any governor who wants to submit a new policy or resolution for adoption at the meeting will require a three-fourths rule suspension vote, and any of those initiatives ought to be submitted Merrill Legal Solutions 4 to David Quam, of our NGA staff, no later than 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. I want to welcome a new colleague to the annual meeting, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona. Governor, thank you for being with us. We are delighted to have you and we want to put you right to work, so I, at this time, will appoint the Nominating Committee who will make a recommendation to the Plenary Session on Monday for Executive Committee members and officers. I would like to appoint Governor Brewer. You want to help me with your resume here? Governor [Bob] Riley, Governor [Bill] Ritter, Governor [Mike] Beebe and as Chairman of the Committee, Governor [Mike] Rounds. We've got a number of distinguished guests from outside the United States here. I mentioned the Chinese delegation. We're also honored to have members of Parliament from our nearest neighbor to the north, Canada. We have representatives of the National U.S. Arab Chamber of Commerce. We have the head of the Korean Governors Association. We have a representative from Merrill Legal Solutions 5 Pamplona, Spain, and we have a number of former governors here at our annual meeting as well, and we welcome them and thank them all for being a part of NGA's annual meeting. I want to recognize our distinguished host, someone who has provided tremendous leadership to the people of the great state of Mississippi, who along with his wonderful wife, Marsha, has worked tirelessly over the last year or so to prepare for this annual meeting of the association, our good friend, our host, Governor Haley Barbour. GOVERNOR BARBOUR: Jim, thank you very much. I take no offense at that smart aleck remark by you or Governor [Joe] Manchin wearing his earphones. We, in Mississippi, and I literally speak for all Mississippians, not just those who are from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, welcome the National Governors Association back. The last time we held this conference was in 1935. And we just had the opening Merrill Legal Solutions 6 news conference over in the sister city to Biloxi of Gulfport, which is immediately to the west. And from the room in which we held the opening news conference, you could see the Markham Building, which in 1935, was a hotel where the National Governors Conference was held. The Markham got about three stories of water through it when Hurricane Katrina hit here almost four years ago. Several of you have mentioned to me that you had visited Mississippi since the storm, and we are very, very proud of the progress that's been made and that continues to be made. But, as you can see, we're not through. There's still more to be done, but the strong, resilient, self-reliant people of south Mississippi are up to the task. The coast is coming back bigger and better than ever, and we are really glad to have a chance to show it to you. And one reason is every one of our sister states helped us after the storm. So many of you sent National Guard, you sent law enforcement. We had 600,000 volunteers, Merrill Legal Solutions 7 not from Mississippi, who came to volunteer during the first 12 months after the storm. They came from every state. And, Jim, I'll have to tell you, the first time that I realized how Americans were pouring out their hearts for my state, on Friday, after the storm came in on Monday, President Bush was here, and we went over to a feeding station, and at the feeding station, which is so crowded, and whenever the President would come, I would usually try to get as far away as I could just because of the crowds. So I saw these seven guys standing over under the edge, so I went over to speak to them. It turns out, they were from Vermont. And they said, yeah, we drove those big tractor trailers down there full of food. I said, golly, that is so fantastic. And a little man named Eddie, who is older than I am now said, this is my third trip. It's just spectacular what people did, what the states did, what your citizens did and we'll never forget it. I mean that Merrill Legal Solutions 8 sincerely. I want to thank you again for coming here. I have told everybody who was here last night that this is going to be a great conference. We've got a lot of business to deal with, some serious issues to talk about and share ideas about solutions, but the other thing is, we intend for you to have a good time. And if you don't have a good time, it's your fault. We're going to have a great show tonight of Mississippi Grammy winners who are coming in to play. Your spouses today are over at Keesler Air Force Base, where they're packing packages for our men and women overseas and for their families. And Paul Overstreet, who is a several-time Grammy winner, came actually a day early to go over and play for the military families and for our spouses. It will be fun. Tomorrow morning, there is going to be a gospel lunch, a gospel brunch. I don't care what religion you are or aren't, it's going to be fun. Marty Stewart, who is a several-time Grammy Merrill Legal Solutions 9 winner and Mississippian, is going to entertain, and he's incredibly talented, and it will be a good way to start your day. So come have a good time while you are here tonight and tomorrow night. Mississippi is known as the hospitality state for a good reason, and we want to show you that. I should tell you this building was devastated by Katrina. We had water about 20 feet deep in the coliseum part. But then much of what you are seeing has been built since the storm, part of our recovery. And so we're very proud of it, want you to enjoy it. And with that, governor, let me say, on behalf of all Mississippi, for every governor, welcome. We're glad to have you here. GOVERNOR DOUGLAS: Well, Haley, thanks so much. I think it goes without saying that all the American people are privileged to assist whenever other Americans are facing the kind of adversity that Mississippians and Merrill Legal Solutions 10 Louisianians did a couple of years ago and we're glad we could help. Thanks so much for putting this together. It's not a small task to raise the resources necessary, organize the events to make sure that everything goes smoothly, and Haley and his staff are doing an outstanding job. Well, unfortunately, as all of you know, the Chairman of our association is unable to be here because of the fiscal and economic crisis in his home state. Governor [Ed] Rendell is doing a great job leading our association. We will miss him. But he is here through the magic of telecommunications, and we're going to start with a video message from our chairman and then invite him to offer some other remarks as we get into our discussion on infrastructure this morning. Chairman Rendell. [Video presentation given by Governor Rendell--Welcome Message and National Infrastructure Bank] GOVERNOR DOUGLAS: Thanks so much for your leadership, Merrill Legal Solutions 11 for your great work.
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