Speech to the Florida House on Opening Day 2007

members I'm address address you briefly in a moment we'll we'll hear from our governor as we gather here today at the first day of this legislative session we began our Florida often has found itself in the last and

insurance the only way to bring lower rates to make hurricanes losses so I hope that we will invest in the side and in the submitted

one of our property the standard of living of milling and millions of four home and threatens the bottom lines of businesses big and small we

must pass me comprehensive and immediate this the opportunity to design a world class system of education to

all of our regardless of where they start out and to accomplish this I urge you to consider three things the and replacing them with a world class creek comparable

to those of the leading education systems in the whole world is to make it the central mission of our education to ensure that all of our children graduate my

school and either be college by or nationally certified in a career you're and the same expect but that some kids will need more help than to

meet those the child is raised in an unstable they have one strike they also live in a day they have to say and they have no access to health that's

three strikes that's all the raw the first day in school already it doesn't matter how good their curriculum well smaller class sizes are how much their teacher Charles

three strikes against he's going to struggle to learn from unless you address those threes right adjusting for us is not an it

is an obligate you see the nations we compete against they don't even try they do not even but the fact that we do is what's apart from the rest of the world it

is the one thing that makes America's and without it we are nothing more than another rich and so the opportunity before before each of is

to do something known and however the before available to all people it was where they start out in another opportunity before is

to serve as an international model for energy efficiency and in the and on the issue of an global warming not dependence

on foreign sources you and cap it was I've come to great opportunities for us that were unimaginable just a few short years well

new and ultimately the is headed towards a mission those changes will require technological advances that make those the

throughout you will hear calls for back bipartisanship is one of the most abused and misunderstood terms and all of bipartisanship

legislative bipartisan the kind of those who design some of government and the kind of people is one where both parties share a common vision of the and

they spend all their time and energy the help bring that into real and that is what I hope the culture of the Florida house will a place where both parties agree on where we want to and

spend all our time and energy debating on the best way to get so today I ask us here among let us agree to a a

simple and unwritten rule we will not criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative ID of

all that alternative idea can be a new ID you can be a way to improve the idea that or can be a defense of the status quo well

but for too long politics has been about scoring political points rather than stopping power by adopting your into this one simple

congratulate the members of the majority and in particular speaker designate race for proposing and most sweeping tax and in

Florida history and I congratulate the members of the minority it was fun not with the press but with a plan of their on share common we