Governor Bill Walker joined six other newly elected state governors at the White House on Friday, December 5 for a series of briefings.
During those briefings, the seven state governors joined Vice President Joe Biden for lunch and met with Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy.
The governors ended the day in the Oval Office where they discussed items with President Obama, who expressed interest in infrastructure projects according to Walker’s press office.
Gov. Walker said , “I had the opportunity to discuss with President Obama and his Cabinet the importance and benefits of an all-Alaska gas line. President Obama seemed very receptive to the idea, and was surprised to hear that Alaska has the highest cost of energy in the nation. It is actually counter intuitive we have so much energy and we don’t use it.”
