The governor also talked about General Electric appliances and its decision to award $40 million to four plastic suppliers in Kentucky.

The suppliers are based in Lebanon, Williamsburg, Greenville and Frankfort.

They will supply these new laundry plant in Louisville.

This is part of GE plan to invest $3 billion and U.S.

operations.

Today, the governor talked about GE's long term commitment to Kentucky over a five year period alone.

GE appliances has been very good to Kentucky, announcing over $1 billion in new investment and creating over 2600 new Kentucky jobs.

As one of our most prominent employers and manufacturing leaders, GE appliances has helped establish Kentucky as America's destination for advanced manufacturing and job creation and in return, our workforce and our ability to deliver results has landed us the honor of being GE appliances flagship location GE appliance is Kentucky.

And when I look at GE appliances, this used to be one of the largest, if not the largest employer in Kentucky.

That's that's that's ups right now.

They've gotten down to just a couple thousand jobs, in the in the last administration.

And they started growing from there.

They really started growing when they were able to break away from the bigger GE and become their own company, with their own margins that didn't contribute to that overall GE stock price.

And just to see the growth now up to 8000 strong is incredible.

We have incentivized, these investments, but all our incentives are earned here in Kentucky.

We don't just give cash payments, so you don't create the jobs.

You don't get the full incentive as also today, the governor announced Toyota is investing more than $204 million in its Georgetown plant to boost production of hybrid vehicles.

The expansion will mean 82 new jobs.