 The county had a space, and the good news is, because the president... I asked Malcolm, he would swim the deepest ocean to be by our side, he'd be over Thursday night, it didn't rain. I expected, you see, when I was born, that's a source of annoyance to a number of people. I had to be downing to nothing, for human freedom, for the civilized people to be discussed. But as I look back on that January 20th, three years ago, I can't help thinking, we have made a new beginning. In 1980, America faced a crisis. In a month, George and I took our posts of office, inflation stood in double digits. The prime industry gave the highest points since the Civil War, and economic growth was disappearing. It didn't matter where you came from, but you were a man, a woman, and black and white. You had strength, struggle, and saved. You sent your children to college, 21 and a half percent inflation, or 12 and a half percent, which they inflationally were slamming shut the doors of opportunities. A woman and a child, to our foreign policy. In the soviets and the cubans, equitable and verifiable arms reductions are in their interest, too. And, as I made clear in my address earlier this week, when they do, we'll be at the table, waiting for them, ready to go on negotiating real arms reductions. And we agree we still have a lot to do. Ringing out more waste and fraud in government, putting more Americans back to work. It's easy to, when you're in Rome, do as the Romans do. Options in order to bring down government spending. What we came here to do, when they find out that doing was good for the people, also turns out to be good politics. We brought an open land that offers opportunity to all. It's a dream of a magnificent country that represents a force for peace and goodwill among nations. O God, thank you and God bless you. A nice to see you, gentlemen. Nice to see you. Yes. I'm presenting all the way out of the time. No, you're not. I don't have to sit there, don't need to worry. Sit quiet for a minute. That's the word, not the little TV camera thing. I suggest this is how we're going. Right, and what do you... Oh, it's been going forward to that. Going back out to my hometown where they bought one of the houses we lived in and redoing it and so forth or so forth is what it was. I've noticed one thing I don't think I'll tell them about because I don't want to cut down a tree. I think tree on the side of the house that used to be the football field here, the neighborhood. And it sloped a little. And down here we'd go this way, but down here it was more. And then there was two elderly sisters who lived there and had a nice fun. And we caused them an awful lot of anguish and they were hanging with them going for it. The Republican government's government's to give each other a break. Kater, thank you Kater for that. That's very good. Thank you. We do know it's a problem. We'll hear you. Thank you President. I appreciate that very much. Obviously I appreciate the opportunity. I was asked to represent the North Eastern government and talk to a number of them yesterday and the points they really asked me to make first of all to say just how seriously they viewed the problem. It is from that point of view storms that have been measured with the greater aesthetic content in Venice that they can measure the forests being destroyed, the trees that are stunted. It's not only lakes and fish, but we believe something that is affecting humans seriously. The reservoirs are affected. The kind of metals that are found now in the water can affect seriously kidney dialysis patients. It can begin to relieve the sulfur content in the water. Now it affects anybody who's got an asthmatic condition and so on. Alzheimer's disease. Some research indicated an impact on that. In other words, there's a very, very serious health hazard that we feel is there in addition to the kind of destruction of recreational opportunities and wildlife and all of that. So we figure it is a serious problem and therefore one that needs addressing. We've pegged in the Northeast an eight billion dollar problem in terms of the destruction of our natural resources, in terms of the economic impact, tourism, a number of other areas which comes, we've figured, about 160 dollars per person. We recognize your budget problems and we support you on every attempt to reduce that deficit and I'm not proposing any additional one for a federal budget. What we are proposing is a widely-based cost-sharing impact in one area of the country substantially. We realize this is a national problem. We in the Northeast, even though we already require very low software emissions in our area, are willing to take part of the cost and are stated publicly as governors that we will be willing to share that cost to the rest of the country. We've got a number of innovative financing mechanisms. We've proposed one that we've worked out with some people on Wall Street in New Jersey that would really phase out any fee on people's utility costs after a six-year period and by using innovative bond-making borrowing techniques we figured we could get the cleanup and get those stacks built right away rather than wait it. That program we're proposing could do it over a six-year period and phase out any additional utility costs over that same period. They also asked me, the other government, to stress the fact that every bit of information that they've seen indicates there is a national awareness of the problem. Lou Harris spoke to one Tony Mead and gave us polls of the Adonan acid rain and showed him, for instance, that in the Midwest there is also an awareness of the problem. Further, there is a willingness according to his polls, both in the Midwest and far west and the south among almost 70% of the people to share in the cost of cleaning. So basically what I've been asked to say is that first of all it is a very early series problem. We don't believe or will accept, obviously, further study. We don't believe further study is needed. We think the effects are there. The majority of scientists agree on the causes and we believe it's very, very important that any national cleanup program start immediately. We're not just concerned with which program it is or we pushed our own because we think it may be the best and the Senate in which program it is is we are the apron to get the support and we hope to help your relationship. Tom, I think this is one of our problems here, isn't it? We're tracking a figure of attention and we're aware there's a problem. I think of the Donald's people this, I think, it is such a gigantic undertaking that you want to make them sure and that's the place where it's difficult to find out that you do have the proper answer before you embark on something that you've done all this time and it didn't, too, solve the problem. But Mr. President, the key is that in order to get to the right answer we must avoid, as you've noted, going the wrong route but in order to avoid the momentum or perhaps the wrong like route coming through Congress leadership right now is necessary I think to amalgamate what has been a very co-constructive cooperation amongst different constituencies involved to put a package together that does make the balance not convinced that legislation can be granted that meets the needs of making sure that the high-sulfo liners are not thrown out of work that opens up the markets to low-sulfo carbon that addresses the fact that the Northeast needs to be assured that there is a phasing of a program that will eventually deal with the problem and provides the basic research and development to bring online at an appropriate time a new technology. We have gone through a whole series of discussions with the various states that are involved and I do believe that that balance of legislation can be achieved. My concern is that the opportunity is now to provide the compromise and that it will allow it to become a snowball issue it will not be dealt with in the spirit of compromise but really in the spirit of trying to push something through and then enforcing this administration what particular congressional leaders may be is most appropriate from a very narrowing point and that's where your leadership I think is going to be so crucial and constructive. Well, Mr. President I don't know whether Jim Thompson could give you another vision of this Chairman of the Governor's conference what we have in hand are a number of resolutions from various various sectional Governor's associations recognizing that there is a problem suggesting something to be done about it and there may well be within all those resolutions the possibility of compromise but it certainly would take a lot of work to get that done because right now they are taking very different approaches to the problem whether it's New England, Middle West, Southern Governor's conference has got another one that I saw this morning that certainly takes a different approach than New England suggests Jim I don't know if you can have many as good time to give you Mr. President the position of the National Governor where we're at and then the majority of them will come and speak for their regions of the country too and I'll go back and speak as much as I can the resolution of the asset range controversy that is not that easy in the National Governor's association and you might suspect all of the regional views that the administrators spoke of come to play when we get together when I became the chairman last year I wanted to task force an asset range shared by Governor Samoon and he worked very hard over the course of the summer and fall to come up with a consensus position for the governor I attended the last meeting and the task force spent about four hours there and we finally drafted a product which was adopted which was a couple of sending votes by more than two-thirds margin we thought it was specific enough to be useful to the general general enough so that we could hold Governor's together and provide an attitude on the problem we took that task force report to the executives and many of you became the National Governor's and there it was received but not adopted sort of left on the doorstep like the founding and so I said okay, executive committee will not work on the problem the staff has been meeting they have a new draft as I understand it with some very sharp division of opinion I don't think there's any doubt as Governor Cain says that people in my area the state or the country understand the problem but I'm very concerned about it it's making a difference where you live if you evoke a concept something bad is going to fall from the sky and you're innocent and you might be smart everybody understands that everybody's against it everybody wants to do away with the people in the Midwest or the Midwest in the coal base in that case in particular I think are concerned about two things first some would dispute the notion that Midwestern emissions play a great part in North-Eastern Latin and some are set there is that controversy in the science of the community all of the ponderance of opinions is between one side second one and I suppose it is important in the last four years we've struggled very hard with recession in the West our area of the country is going a lot of technological economic change we have our fears too on the side of making sure that our people are employed and live useful and productive lives and Illinois and other states are very much based in certain sections on coal mining economy and the ripple effect of that economy goes up in small town the rural area beyond it is not just the minor in his family and the minor in his family it's a rather widespread gas and grain strategies which would open up markets now held by Illinois based coal people to other kinds of coal from the West are seen as simply regional competition for economic markets in the guise of gas and grain propulsals and there is a lot of fear presentment I wouldn't be surprised like Otterson that if the Governors eventually come together I suspect there will be a passive grain resolution or resolutions offered and we'll get to vote we're still trying to get the executive committee together but I think it's fair to say that the Governors are concerned about the issue we'd like to be a part of the leadership process if we can but it is not an easy one for my own feeling from the Midwest I don't think there's been enough emphasis in the past on going right to the heart of the problem yet the sulfur out of the coal so that all parts of the nation's economy can compete so that we are as free to sell our coal as the coal producers to the West and the differences will be determined by possible termutrients of transportation and who's got most innovative minds and things of that sort but the federal government now puts fewer dollars into taking the sulfur out of the coal of human technologies then does my own statement I don't want my coal or our dean and the coal that our government does and I think obviously the state doesn't have the capacity to compete with the federal government the federal government in other areas is important to the nation to take the lead in technology we've done that in defense we've done that in space we're not much further advanced than the Germans were in World War II we were among the tanks on gasoline made from the coal but we could be I think the most of all