00:00something else I support. The last two I want to talk about are infrastructure and energy. As you
00:05know, our roads are crumbling. I want to audit SCDOT spending. I want to aggressively pursue
00:11federal grant applications for infrastructure. What the media won't tell you, they want to
00:15write articles about my memes and my pajamas, but they won't tell you I'm actually in the top
00:221.59% of members of Congress who write policy and legislation. What if you know that I write
00:32two to three bills a week in Congress, but the mainstream media, the fake news on the stage
00:39behind you won't tell you that. They also want to tell you we assisted. We have probably gotten
00:45more grant funding than anybody else in the state of South Carolina recently. We helped assist
00:51get the largest infrastructure grant in South Carolina history. That was $195 million for
00:57Long Point Road. We recently helped Dorchester County get funding to the tune of $24 million.
01:03And in Newford County, we helped the airport get over $20 million in grant funding. The list goes on
01:09and on and on. Authorizations, appropriations, whether it's for veterans or citizens, we've done it all.
01:16We want to expedite permitting reform and increase communications with the Army Corps of Engineers.
01:23Something I have learned is it's not just our ideas, but we're not shovel ready. We're not shovel ready
01:27because of the roadblocks and permitting. And I want to be sure that we have the Army Corps of Engineers
01:33on speed dial. The mainstream media will not tell you is that people have called me asking for help,
01:38whether it was for a bridge, whether it was for dredging in Berkeley County. If they needed help,
01:43wouldn't you know that day, we called the Army Corps of Engineers and we got those permits expedited
01:49within 24 hours. We will do that as governor and we will do it for every county in the state.
01:55When it comes to energy, we have an energy crisis on our hands. And a few weeks ago, our state actually
02:02had to shut down a few facilities to keep up with the energy across the state. We need to reduce our
02:08energy costs through efficient infrastructure. We're going to get creative using dynamic line
02:12rating, distributed energy resources, consumer choice. We have to avoid the costly failures
02:18of the past. B.C. summer cost the state $9 billion for a nuclear facility and we have nothing to show
02:27for it. I will have an all of the above approach. I would like to take advantage of all of President
02:32Trump's EPA reforms. There was a recent ruling with the EPA that the press, of course, did report on
02:38that I also assisted with clarifying that the EPA will allow 50 hours a year at maximum capacity for
02:46any facility to generate energy with their backup generators, it's called Rice-Nechap, to sell that
02:52energy back under the grid. Any facility in South Carolina, I want to work to ensure that you
02:57understand what the Rice-Nechap policy is. You can generate energy with your backup generators and
03:02sell it back to the grid. Whether it's the airport, whether it's data centers or other facilities who
03:07have that backup generator energy, we're going to make sure you're able to sell it back to the grid
03:13and provide energy for our state. We'll streamline regulations and avoid radical environmental mandates
03:18and collaborate with the PSC to meet our growing energy demand. We're going to accelerate and support the
03:24acceleration of infrastructure development pipelines, LNG transmission to leverage South Carolina's
03:30resources, attract talent, and draw power-intensive industries like AI data centers and advanced
03:36manufacturing. In the coming weeks and months ahead, you'll be rolling these policies out, white papers,
03:42etc. I wrote these ideas myself. I've talked to policy experts. There is no bad idea. If you have an idea,
03:51we want to hear from you, please tell us at nancymace.org. We're here today if you want to buy swag. We've got
03:58Peter checking people out at the end of the day. I will now ask my staff to create a line over here so
04:04we can do some photos before it really starts raining. I love you. I appreciate you. We need all the
04:10help we can get. God bless you and God bless the great state of South Carolina.
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