Collection:LPB

Genre: News, Public Affairs, Speech

Place Covered: Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2010-01-04

Duration: 00:26:55

Subjects: BATON ROUGE PRESS CLUB | Donahue, Jack | Louisiana. Legislature | Louisiana Commission on Streamlining Government | Politics

Contributors:

• Donahue, Jack Speaker

A speech by State Senator Jack Donahue before the Baton Rouge Press Club on January 4, 2010. Donahue is the chairman of the Louisiana Commission on Streamlining Government. He discusses: the need for the Legislature to set its priorities; the origin of the Commission; and the six categories of the Commission’s recommendations, government reform, budget reform, health care and social services, education, public safety, and economic development, transportation, and infrastructure.