: Vicki Taggart
: Senator Pete Domenici's Legacy 2010 The Proceedings from the 2010 Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference
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Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM) served in the U.S. Senate for over thirty-six years. He had a long legacy of contributions to New Mexico as well as the entire country. The Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Institute, located at New Mexico State University, holds an annual conference on Domenici's legacy and these are the Proceedings from the 2010 Pete V. Domenici Public Policy Conference, edited by Vicki Taggart, and published in collaboration with New Mexico State University.

Opening and Welcome

Dean Carruthers:Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I amGarrey Carruthers, the Director of the Domenici Institute and Dean of the College of Business at New Mexico State University, the Yale of the Yuccas. We’re delighted to have you all here. I have some friends from Albuquerque, so I have to say that.

We’re delighted to have you here for the Third Annual Domenici Public Policy Conference. We were delighted some years ago whenSenator Domenici, our good friend, decided that he would like to leave his papers in the archives at New Mexico State University. And in our proposal toSenator Domenici, one of the things that we added to archiving the papers was the prospect that on an annual basis we would have a major public policy conference for the community, for the faculty, and the staff, and this is the third annual one.

Now, the first one in 2008, the proceedings from that conference actually has received a literary award. It’s already a well-known document and it’s a document you might want to get your hands on, because in the first conference many people spoke highly of the contributions of SenatorPete Domenici to our community, to our state, and to our country. We also have a book out now on the Senator. Our first book on the Senator is available and I think the Senator will be available a little later on to sign those books, so if you’re interested in acquiring one of those you’ll want to do that.

But we’re delighted to have everyone here. It’s a great program. It’s a packed program. About a third of the attendees here will be students. The students register by section because they also have to go to class, so you’ll see students come and go from time to time. But we have about a third– about 200 of the people registered are students at New Mexico State University. So, we’re delighted to have student participation, and we always use students to ask questions. And over here to my right– and I’ll introduce them in just a little bit– are students from New Mexico State University, University of New Mexico, and New Mexico Tech, and they’ve been drilling for two months, waiting for these guys to get up here so they can ask‘em some insightful questions. These are talented students. We’ve seen them in action in the past and they do a wonderful job.

Let me thank first the sponsors. The paper called me yesterday and wanted to know how we fund this, and we fund it principally through sponsors, and we’ve had some sponsors be very generous with us. First of all, our diamond sponsor is Lockheed Martin Sandia National Laboratories, and you’ll hear from the retired director later on this afternoon: a very generous contribution. Silver sponsors are First Community Bank; Merrill Lynch Bank of America; the Armstrong Group, and I’ve seen them here as well. Bronze sponsors: Stolar Research Corporation, and that’s a company out of Raton. Copper sponsors are Jaynes Corporation, Merrill Lynch Bank of America, The Fletcher Group; and so, Merrill Lynch Bank of America has two different levels of contribution. And then, frien