Contact:  NLGA Director Julia Hurst  

(859) 283-1400   

For Immediate Release

March 16, 2007

Lieutenant Governors worked with Top DC Leaders

on Health, Education and Security

The National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA) members met with several members of Congress and top Presidential officials in Washington D.C. March 14 – 16, 2007.  More than 30 lieutenant governors attended the Winter Meeting of the NLGA. 

“The economy, jobs and health care were a top concern,” said NLGA Director Julia Hurst.  “Reauthorization of the Farm Bill and No Child Left Behind were briefed.  The President’s Under Secretary for Homeland Security shared the latest technology available to states which will enable all communications systems to work together,” said Hurst. 

The meeting also featured a speaker on the Massachusetts universal health care plan and its applicability to other states.  The Deputy Secretary of Transportation gave a preview of the road financing report due out in July.  That briefing included information on how the state’s airports and pilots may be affected by ongoing reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  Details on the nation’s largest sale of a toll road to a private company were shared by Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman.    

“NLGA was a guest of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, which houses the most influential and most quoted economic experts in the world,” said Hurst.  “These experts discussed the impact of globalization on our states’ economies.”

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