Up and rush things through. For the third time in history a president is on trial in the u. S. Senate. Watch live tuesday when the trial resumes at 1 00 eastern on cspan2. Now new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy delivering his second state of the state address in trenton. Lieutenant governor oliver, Senate President sweeney, speaker coghlan, majority leaders kane and brad nick. Members of the legislature included in the rocket escort that came in with me, chief justice radnor, associate justices of the supreme court, judge grants, members of the cabinet, former governors gloria, mcgreevy, and cody, tammy murphy. Distinguished faith leaders, veterans, members of organized labor, fellow new jersey and. Five weeks ago today our state was shattered by the gunfire of antisemitism and hate. In jersey city, harold and police detective, joseph feels, and three innocent people were murdered in what we now know was an act of domestic terror fueled by a vicious and unjustifiable hate. This was an act of hate against the Jewish Community and Law Enforcement but it impacted everyone. Hundreds of schoolchildren and their educators were held in lockdown including in a Catholic School across the street. Worried parents feared the worst. Africanamerican residents hid in their homes. Without the tremendous response of everyone in Law Enforcement i shutter to think how much worse that they could have been for jersey city and for our state. If ever there was a time for us to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform it was that day. We have several honored guests with us today and through them the opportunity to give thanks to our entire Law Enforcement community for their hair was in, selflessness, sacrifice and service on one of our most trying days. I would like to ask laura seals, the widow detective joe seals, mike kelly, deputy chief dexter bowen detective bob done to please stand. [applause] december thank you, december 10th also highlighted how closely out tremendous communities of faith are. All of us, regardless of where we worship or by what name we call our creator were affected that day. One of my heroes, senator Robert F Kennedy quoted the greek playwright ask elyse on the evening of the assassination of doctor Martin Luther king jr. And those words still give us comfort, quote, and even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our own despair, against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of god. Over the past weeks we have been brought together as one new jersey family. First in shock, then in morning and now in our commitment to stamping out antisemitism. I want to be clear, we are committed to ensuring that our communities of faith have the resources they need to be safe. I will probably sign legislation to provide additional security aid for our house is a 4 ship and to expand the definition of and penalties for domestic terrorism. [applause] i think both sides of the aisle for the support and in particular my friend, assemblyman Derek Scherer for championing this cause, thank you. The scar of antisemitism on our state is still fresh. The grief of four families is also still fresh. Lets us commit to using the new year to heal the rift in our society. This is new jersey. When someone tries to pull us apart they only ever succeed in bringing us closer together. [applause] and i know we will heal. We gather today at the dawn of a new year and a new decade. The day sentiments before us are filled with potential and bursting with opportunity and yet even as the new year unfolds our mission does not change. Together we must build an economy in a state that works for every new jersey family. Our values of not shifted. We are on the side of the middle class and all those working someday to get there. We have taken on the tough fights that matter. We are working to change the culture in trenton and we are putting the needs of our families ahead of the wellconnected and entrenched special interests. [applause] and our work will not slow down. Joining together we must continue to make Smart Investments for our collective future, restore fiscal responsibility and change trentons culture. Looking out, this is a room packed with people who are proud to call themselves New Jerseyans. We find, nobody among so much, our history, like the state where the game of College Football was first played. To that end i see one favorite son who has come back to intensify the jersey pride we feel on the banks, lets welcome home the returning head football coach of the Rutgers University scarlet knights. [applause] and the gentleman to his immediate right, i would like to thank bob archie for his years of Outstanding Service to our states Flagship Institution of higher education, thank you. [applause] im watching closely as rutgers undertakes finding its next great president because so many respects, so goes new jersey. The donovan new decade is a time of optimism but we also find it a time of growing anxiety but more than ever we must stay true to our firm promises and hold firm to our commitments. We have already done so. Over the past year by working together we have made new jersey a better more hopeful place to call home and we will continue to do so and because of this i am proud to report the state of our state is stronger and fairer than ever before. [applause] some might say two years into this journey we are halfway through. Im leaning towards saying we are a quarter of the way through. [applause] but that is another speech for another day. But already and just two years, New Jerseyans are seeing results because we are doing what we were all sent here to do, investing in them. Every family worries about how they will make ends meet or cover an unexpected expense. That is why we are raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour. [applause] it is why we created and expanded tax breaks for working families. Why we [applause] why we are attacking the sources of high property taxes and providing more Property Tax Relief than ever before. Too many families wrestle with how they balance work and family particularly in a moment of need so we expanded paid family leave and guaranteed the right to earn sick leave. [applause] some families, military families, are also anxious about their futures and whether they may soon be deployed. We owe it to them and the veterans who preceded them to create a state where their places secured and where they feel supported. [applause] our families lose sleep over the cost of Health Insurance coverage was how to pay their medical expenses or the financial turmoil and unexpected accident or illness will cause. In start contrast to donald trump we are protecting the Affordable Care act which has benefited millions of our residents. [applause] i remain incredibly proud of the work we have done to protect the tenets of the aca and to establish the statebased Health Exchange which will go online later this year. [applause] but the simple fact is despite the progress the cost of healthcare is still too high. Our residents, our families and our businesses all struggle with the high cost of coverage, the cost of medications, high deductibles, outofpocket expenses and more. With implemented smart policies like the historic reforms to protect consumers from surprise outofnetwork bills. Amen. But we can do more. So im establishing an office of healthcare accountability and transparency in the Governors Office to work across state agencies and lead critical efforts to reduce Consumer Healthcare costs, make insurance more affordable and improve price transparency. [applause] to ensure that we have the facts im directing the part of banking and insurance to work with this new office to track the actual cost residents pay for the Healthcare Services that they receive and armed with this data we will make smart decisions to limit Cost Increases and sets new standards for quality and transparency. We have some of the nations, frankly the worlds leading hospitals and healthcare facilities. We are home to groundbreaking research and treatment, we need to ensure that these are accessible to everyone. We will also seek to better integrate behavioral and physical healthcare especially [applause] especially for our young people. It will allow us to better identify and treat youth healthcare issues like anxiety, depression and suicide. This will also be a powerful tool to further combat our Opioid Epidemic as well as the broader fight against addiction and Mental Health illnesses that when left untreated lead to tragedy. The preliminary numbers suggest new jersey saw a 3 decrease in the number of individuals lost to opioids last year after three years of doubledigit increases. This is not a number to celebrate. 3021 lives lost is still 3021 precious lives too many but it should give us a measure of confidence that our targeted, evidencebased and datadriven whole of government approach is the right one. And we will continue the strong partnerships, the first lady has created across the state, government officials and legislators, healthcare practitioners, faith leaders and Community Activists to combat our black and infant Maternal Mortality crisis, amen. [applause] she will not stop, we will not stop until new jersey is the safest state in the nation to give birth. [applause] so, to be clear, we cant do all of what i just said alone. We need our hospitals and providers, insurers and consumers to join us in these efforts. Im proud we are fighting the trump administrations efforts to block women from receiving Vital Information critical to them to make important decisions. [applause] together with protected funding for planned parenthood and womens healthcare. [applause] we and the Prior Administrations tweet your effort to starve these critical facilities but this must go beyond providing funding to make up for the loss of title x money. It is about protecting a womans fundamental and constitutional right to full reproductive freedom. [applause] so lets commit to codifying a womans fool reproductive rights in state law. [applause] at a time when these rights are under attack nationwide lets make it clear where new jersey stands. [applause] our families worry about their childrens futures and whether they can afford one. Together we have expanded prek and made Stem Education more widely available. We have become the first state in history of our nation to make education available to every single child in our Public Schools. [applause] it gets better. Today our Public Schools are ranked as the very best in the entire United States of america. [applause] let us thank our educational support professionals who do this outstanding work every single day. But we are not done. In this 400 first year since the first enslaved africans arrived on the shores of this continent we are committed to furthering the work of the Amistad Commission and Stakeholder Group to ensure the africanamerican story is made real, not just for all our students but educators as well for the new armistead journey program. [applause] likewise with the rise of antisemitism we renew our commitment to the mission of the new Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education as well. [applause] we are putting a College Education back within reach, we open the doors to a tuition Free CommunityCollege Education to thousands of eligible students. And we have also put in place safeguards to combat college deaths. For those when the opportunity we reinvested in Workforce Development and apprenticeships like never before. [applause] we are building a new jersey where everyone belongs and everyone matters. We are seeing the reinvigoration of our cities from newark to kansas, trenton to patterson, elizabeth to Atlantic City. Atlantic city just approved for the second time in as many months. Proof that our collaborative and cooperative approach to turning Atlantic City around is the right path to take but we owe tremendous gratitude to Lieutenant Governor sheila all of her and her team at the permit of Community Affairs for this progress. [applause] expecting chance of she love our people want new jersey to stand at the forefront of the national fight for justice so we Work Together to allow the expungement of records of residents whose futures have been held back because of past positions. Once again weve given residents on probation their right to vote. And we are giving up immigrant community the ability to earn a drivers license. We received the far reaching and transformative recommendations of the criminal sentencing and Disposition Commission led by former chief justice portend former president giles shifts. I want to thank senators Sandra Cunningham and nelly go for serving on the commission. Lets all of us recommit to enacting its recommendations which include the elimination of mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses. [applause] lets lead the way for creating safe communities and neighborhoods through criminal Justice System that lives up to that allimportant word justice and lets do this not just because it is the right thing to do, which it is but because our state will only be stronger and better when everyone is a full participant in our economy, our democracy and our society. [applause] i have also spoken often about wealth disparity as a persistent issue that separates and segregates our communities. It harms predominantly black and latino families and prevents our state from fulfilling its potential. These disparities have deep roots and complex causes. Overcoming them will require us to leave behind old ways of thinking so we can ensure bless you, that no residents get left behind as we dont miss a thing up here. So on that basis im creating a new task force, government officials, academic researchers and faith and Community Leaders with the specific charge to address wealth disparity from all angles and all causes. Their work will better inform our work in closing these gaps and ensure that the communities that have historically been left behind can help us lead. Where residents have felt marginalized and left out weve worked to renew their faith that they have a place in our family and specifically for our lgbt queue plus community, we are making sure they will never fear for who they love, how they identify or who they are. [applause] amen. Despite the in action in washington, new jersey is now leading the nation in sensible gun Safety Measures and our communities are stronger and the gun lobby is weaker. [applause] we did that together. Likewise we know Climate Change is real. Instead of denying reality we are acting on it. To win the next generation we are working to be the first state in america to incorporate Climate Change education across our k12 state education standards. And we are going to make the fight against Climate Change a cornerstone of the innovation economy. Two years ago when our Administration Took Office new jerseys Clean Energy Future was stalled. Today we are on our way to the ambitious goal of 7500 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2035. That is a big deal. That is enough energy to meet half of new jerseys entire retail electric needs. It will remove billions of tons of fossil fuel pollution from our air and it will create tens of thousands of good paying union jobs. And in two weeks i will unveil new jerseys new Energy Master plan, our comprehensive roadmap for arriving at our goal of a 100 Clean Energy Economy by the year 2050. We are working to protect every school and home in new jersey from the dangers of lead. I applaud especially, amen. I applaud especially essex countys mayor, and many legislators, by the way for their partnership to fasttrack the elimination of led Service Lines in the city of newark, but we all know this is a statewide problem. It extends far beyond all lead and water lines as well, lead paint is a much bigger problem, amen. It is not just the urban challenge, it extends to suburban and Rural Communities as well. When i proposed my plan for taking on our lead crisis in always it manifests itself i did not shy from acknowledging that it will require significant investment. This is an acknowledgment shared in this chamber as well. We will need funds to replace old deadlines and remediate l