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Annual Conservative Political Action Conference gathering that runs through Saturday. DAY TWO 13::32:44 Remarks by Senator John Thune 13:00:31 WOW. WE HAVE A LOT TO DO IN THIS 13:00:34 COUNTRY. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT. 13:00:38 AT THINK THAT THE KEY THING IS WITH OUR DOMESTIC, MAKE A 13:00:44 DIFFERENCE IN VOTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE. 13:00:46 WE SURE DON'T NEED ANOTHER PRESIDENT LIKE WE HAVE HAD. 13:00:49 WE DON'T NEED A PRESIDENT OF THE U.N. OR GLOBALISM OR GLOBAL 13:00:54 ELITES OR BANKERS OR ISLAM. ISN'T THAT WORD? 13:00:59 WE DON'T NEED A PRESIDENT OF ISLAM. 13:01:02 WE NEED A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITH 13:01:04 SOVEREIGN BORDERS, STATES, AND CONSTITUTION. 13:01:10 YES. OF SOME OF YOU PROBABLY FORGOT 13:01:11 WE ARE A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY. APPARENTLY OBAMA DID. 13:01:17 HE SAID WE ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY. 13:01:20 OF COURSE NOT. YOU'RE TOO BUSY KISSING UP TO IS 13:01:22 ON. WHAT IS THAT ABOUT? 13:01:25 I DON'T GET THAT GUY. WE HAVE A FEW MESSAGES. 13:01:29 YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THE NEW COMMEMORATIVES CPAC 2011 PAN. 13:01:35 YOU CAN PURCHASE THEM AT THE EXHIBIT HALL AT THE BOOKSELLERS' 13:01:39 BUT. YOUR HANDS ON THAT. 13:01:41 IF YOU HAVE MISSED ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT CPAC YOU CAN WATCH 13:01:47 ONLINE. YOU CAN ALSO ORDER THE VIDEO AND 13:01:53 AUDIO IN FRONT OF GENERAL REGISTRATION. 13:01:56 MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS LATER. WE HAVE AN AMAZING DOW WILL COME 13:01:59 UP AND INTRODUCE OUR NEXT SPEAKER. 13:02:01 YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS. GRACE MURRAY TURNER IS A DIVA IN 13:02:06 THE HEALTH CARE BUSINESS. SHE UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS GOING 13:02:09 ON, PRESIDENT OF THE GALEN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC POLICY 13:02:13 RESEARCH. SHE HAS BEEN A LEADER IN THE 13:02:17 DEBATE WITH HEALTH CARE, THE ISSUES AROUND IT, AND AS A 13:02:21 MATTER OF FACT, THE COOLEST THING ABOUT HER OTHER THAN HER 13:02:25 IS SHE IS ONE OF THE KEY AUTHORS OF A BOOK CALLED WHY OBAMA CARE 13:02:29 IS WHERE FOR -- WRONG FOR AMERICA. 13:02:32 YOU CAN PRE ORDER NOW. THERE IS A WEBSITE DOWN HERE. 13:02:37 NOW, THIS BOOK IS ALREADY BEING HERALDED AS A RUNAWAY HIT. 13:02:43 WINDY YOU THINK IT IS COMING OUT? 13:02:45 SUPPOSED TO BE RELEASED THE DAY OBAMA CARE WAS SIGNED. 13:02:49 DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THAT? GET YOUR HANDS ON WHY OBAMA CARE 13:02:54 IS WRONG FOR AMERICA AND PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR GRACE 13:02:57 MARY TURNER WHO WILL INTRODUCE OUR NEXT GUEST. 13:03:13 HELLO, EVERYONE. THANK YOU. 13:03:15 IT IS MY PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO INTRODUCE YOU TO SENATOR 13:03:23 DR. JOHN BARRASSO KNOWN IN HIS HOME STATE, THE COWBOYS STATE, 13:03:27 AS WYOMING DOCTOR. DR. BARRASSO KNOWS OF WHAT HE 13:03:32 SPEAKS WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT HEALTH CARE SERVING THOUSANDS 13:03:37 AND THOUSANDS OF PATIENTS IN HIS HOME CITY OF CASPER, WYOMING, AS 13:03:44 AN ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON FOR 25 YEARS. 13:03:47 HE ALSO HAS PROVIDED PRACTICAL MEDICAL ADVICE TO CITIZENS 13:03:51 THROUGHOUT THE STATE ON A REGULAR PUBLIC SERVICE AND 13:03:56 TELEVISION NEWS PROGRAMS FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS. 13:04:00 HE ALSO AS MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF WYOMING'S LOCAL HEALTH CARE. 13:04:07 NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MONEY INVOLVED TO PROVIDE A LOW-COST 13:04:10 SCREENING IS TO WYOMING CITIZENS. 13:04:16 HIS COLLEAGUES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR COMPETENCE IN THEM THAT AS 13:04:21 A NEWLY ELECTED SENATOR, RELATIVELY NEWLY ELECTED, 13:04:26 ELECTED BY AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY, HE IS SERVING AS VICE 13:04:34 CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS. 13:04:38 NO ONE SHOULD TELL DR. BARRASSO THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE'S 13:04:42 TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT HEALTH CARE. 13:04:47 HE HAS BEEN A LEADER AND CONTINUES TO BE A LEADER IN THE 13:04:51 FIGHT TO REPEAL OBAMA CARE. HE HAS INTRODUCED LEGISLATION TO 13:04:56 PROVIDE FLEXIBILITY AND FREEDOM AND HEALTH CARE. 13:05:00 EVERY WEEK SINCE THIS LEGISLATION PASSED HE HAS GONE 13:05:05 TO THE SENATE FLOOR TO PROVIDE A SECOND OPINION ON THIS 13:05:10 LEGISLATION. THE DISTRUST OF FACT IT IS GOING 13:05:12 TO HAVE ON SENIORS AND TEN PEOPLE AND FAMILY AND TAXPAYERS 13:05:20 AND FREEDOM-LOVING CITIZENS. PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING 13:05:27 DR. AND SENATOR JOHN BARRASSO. AT BACK. 13:05:39 13:05:52 THANK YOU FOR THAT INCREDIBLE INTRODUCTION. 13:05:55 I WANT TO TELL YOU THE TOPIC HERE TODAY IS OBAMA CARE, CAN IT 13:06:00 BE STOPPED. THE ANSWER IS YES. 13:06:11 NOT BY ME, BUT BY ALL OF US. WE NEED EVERYBODY INVOLVED 13:06:16 BECAUSE, REMEMBER, YOU ARE THE ONES THROUGH YOUR ACTIVISM, YOUR 13:06:21 COMMITMENT, YOUR FOCUS, YOUR DEDICATION, YOU OF THE ONE THAT 13:06:25 SENT THE CAVALRY TO THE UNITED STATES SENT BY SENDING 13 13:06:29 REPUBLICAN SENATORS, SIX BRAND NEW ONES, INCREDIBLE, AND YOU 13:06:35 ARE THE ONES THAT FIRED NANCY PELOSI. 13:06:40 YOU HAD A CHANCE TO VISIT WITH 13:06:47 SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL YESTERDAY. 13:06:49 I'M SURE HE TOLD YOU THAT WHAT WE'VE REALLY NO NEED ARE FOUR 13:06:53 MORE REPUBLICAN SENATORS SO THAT WE WILL BE IN THE MAJORITY. 13:06:58 YOU HAVE DONE IT IN THE HOUSE. WE NEED YOU TO HELP US DO IT IN 13:07:01 THE SENATE. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS, WE NEED 13:07:09 A NEW PRESIDENT. 13:07:18 NOW, IF YOU NEED TO BE MOTIVATED ABOUT THIS FIGHT ALL YOU NEED TO 13:07:23 DO IS READ FOR ARTICLES, FOR ARTICLES BY GRACE MURRAY TO 13:07:29 ARTICLE. CHOPPING OFF THE MANY HEADS OF 13:07:31 THE OBAMA CARE HYDRA, STATES PREPARING TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST 13:07:36 OBAMA CARE, DISMANTLING OF THE NEW ACT NEEDED PIECE BY PIECE. 13:07:44 THIS IS IF YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BOOK TO COME OUT. 13:07:48 THE BOOK IS COMING SOON. FOR YOUR RIGHTS UNDER OBAMA 13:07:53 CARE. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS? 13:07:55 WELL, THE RIGHT TO LOSE A JOB, THE RIGHT TO SUE THE FEDERAL 13:07:59 DEBT SOAR, THE RIGHT TO LOSE THE COVERAGE THAT YOU HAVE, THE 13:08:04 RIGHT TO PAY HIGHER PREMIUMS AND THE RIGHT TO HAVE THE GOVERNMENT 13:08:09 DECIDE WHAT INSURANCE YOU MUST HAVE. 13:08:13 IF YOU READ THAT YOU WILL BE READY. 13:08:15 WHEN I SAY THE OBAMA CARE AND THE OBAMA CARE HEALTH CARE LAW 13:08:21 EVERYBODY KNOWS THE ONE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. 13:08:24 THIS IS THE ONE RIDDEN BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN SPITE OF THE 13:08:28 FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT PROMISED EVERYTHING WOULD BE ON C-SPAN. 13:08:32 VOTED ON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ON CHRISTMAS EVE. 13:08:35 THIS IS THE ONE WHERE THEY HAVE SWEETHEART DEALS IN EXCHANGE FOR 13:08:39 VOTES TO GET THAT LAST VOTE SAID THAT THIS WOULD PASS. 13:08:45 YOU ALL REMEMBER THE CORNHUSKERS KICK BACK, THE LOUISIANA 13:08:49 PURCHASE, ALL OF THESE SPECIAL SWEETHEART DEALS. 13:08:52 YOU REMEMBER THIS IS THE ONE THAT CUT $500 BILLION FROM OUR 13:08:55 SENIORS ON MEDICARE, NOT TO SAVE MEDICARE OR EXTEND THE LIFE, BUT 13:09:00 TO START A WHOLE NEW GOVERNMENT PROGRAM FOR SOMEONE ELSE. 13:09:04 THIS IS THE ONE THAT INCREASED TAXES BY $500 BILLION GRAEME 13:09:09 16 MILLION MORE PEOPLE ON TO MEDICATE, A PROGRAM THAT IS 13:09:14 FAILING AND HAS CONTINUED TO FAIL ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 13:09:18 THIS IS THE PROGRAM THAT WAS CRAMMED DOWN THE THROATS OF THE 13:09:21 AMERICAN PEOPLE AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE SHOUTING KNOW. 13:09:25 THAT IS THE HEALTH CARE LAW THAT WE ARE GOING TO REPEAL. 13:09:37 NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO WHEN YOU TALK TO PEOPLE, PEOPLE SAY WHAT 13:09:40 IS IN THIS FOR ME. HERE WE ARE ON THE HUNDREDTH 13:09:44 ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH DATE OF RONALD REAGAN. 13:09:48 I SO VIVIDLY REMEMBER THAT DEBATE WITH JIMMY CARTER OR 13:09:53 RONALD REAGAN SAID BASICALLY ARE YOU BETTER OFF OR WORSE OFF THAN 13:09:56 YOU WERE BEFORE JIMMY CARTER?? 13:10:20 THE HANDS ARE ALL UP. HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THE 13:10:24 AVAILABILITY OR QUALITY OF YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE WILL ACTUALLY GO 13:10:28 DOWN UNDER THIS HEALTH CARE LAW? OF THE HANDS UP. 13:10:33 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT THE HEALTH CARE LAW WILL ADD TO THE 13:10:39 DEFICIT? I KNOW. 13:10:44 AND WITH THE NATIONAL DEBT OF $14 TRILLION HOW MANY BELIEVE 13:10:48 THAT IF OBAMA CARE IS ALLOWED TO STAND IT WILL BANKRUPT THE 13:10:53 COUNTRY? EVERY HAND. 13:10:54 AND THESE ARE THE SAME ANSWERS WE GET A TOWN HALL MEETINGS. 13:10:59 WE TRAVELED THE COUNTRY DOING THIS AND A DOCTOR SHOW. 13:11:04 PEOPLE REALIZED THAT THEY WILL BE ENDING UP PAYING MORE 13:11:07 COMMANDING THE WEST. THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PROGRAM 13:11:10 FOR AMERICA. IT IS UNAFFORDABLE. 13:11:15 IT IS UNSUSTAINABLE. LADIES AND CINNAMON, IT IS 13:11:20 UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 13:11:29 SO THIS IS A FIGHT THAT WE ARE GOING TO CONDUCT ON THREE 13:11:35 FRONTS. IN THE COURTS, IN THE CONGRESS, 13:11:37 AND ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE NEED YOUR HELP. 13:11:43 IN THIS FIGHT IN THE COURTS WHAT IS SO OFFENSIVE? 13:11:47 IT IS AN INDIVIDUAL MANDATE, MANDATE THAT SAYS YOU MUST BUY 13:11:53 GOVERNMENT APPROVED INSURANCE. HAVE TO. 13:11:56 NO CHOICE. YOU HAVE TO. 13:11:58 THE COURTS IN VIRGINIA GOT IT RIGHT. 13:12:00 THE COURTS IN FLORIDA GET IT RIGHT. 13:12:04 OF FIVE MORE STATES THIS YEAR HAVE ADDED THEIR NAMES TO THE 21 13:12:10 STATES THAT ARE ALREADY PART OF THIS. 13:12:13 WE HAVE HAD SINCE JANUARY 1st CANTER'S, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, 13:12:18 WISCONSIN, AND MY HOME STATE OF WYOMING OF JOINING IN THE SUIT. 13:12:28 THIS IS NOT LIKELY TO GET TO THE SUPREME COURT UNTIL 2012, EVEN 13:12:33 IF THEY TAKE IT UP NOW. IT SEEMS LIKE THE MINISTER SINCE 13:12:37 HAS TRIED TO DRAG ITS FEET SO THAT MORE AND MORE MONEY GETS 13:12:41 SPENT AN EFFORT GETS SPENT BEFORE WE GET A RULING FROM THE 13:12:44 SUPREME COURT. MIKE LEE, A SENATOR WHO WILL BE 13:12:49 TALKING TO YOU A LITTLE LATER, HE DOES A GREAT JOB. 13:12:52 THANK YOU FOR HELPING US. HE IS IN THE JUDICIARY 13:12:58 COMMITTEE. LAST WEEK IN THE SENATE THE 13:13:01 JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ACTUALLY HAD A HEARING AS TO WHETHER OR NOT 13:13:03 THIS HEALTH CARE LAW THAT THEY PASSED AND VOTED FOR AND THE 13:13:08 SENATE PASSED DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS CONSTITUTIONAL. 13:13:14 A LITTLE LATE, DON'T YOU TAKE? MIKE LEE ASKED A QUESTION, CAN 13:13:21 YOU REALLY MANDATE PEOPLE UNDER THE GUISE OF HEALTH OF THE 13:13:24 NATION TO DO THINGS? ONE OF THE WITNESSES SAID, OH, 13:13:30 YES. SO, CAN YOU ACTUALLY MAKE PEOPLE 13:13:32 IF YOU THINK IT WOULD BE IN THE BEST OF INTEREST OF EVERYBODY TO 13:13:36 EAT BROCCOLI, MAKE THE MITT BROCCOLI? 13:13:38 THE ANSWER ESSENTIALLY CAME BACK, WE CAN MAKE THEM BY 13:13:42 BROCCOLI, WE JUST CAN'T MAKE THEM EAT IT. 13:13:45 THAT IS THE WAY PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE NOT THE TYPICAL PEOPLE WHO 13:13:50 ATTEND THIS MEETING. THE FIGHT IN CONGRESS IS GOING 13:13:55 TO BE HELD IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT STEPS. 13:13:59 THE FIRST STEP IS FINDING THIS. WE DID THIS WHEN WE DEPLETED THE 13:14:04 BIG SPENDING BILL LAST DECEMBER. THAT CUT $1 BILLION OF THE 13:14:15 FUNDING. THE HOUSE AND, AGAIN, THANK YOU 13:14:19 FOR GIVING US THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 13:14:22 THANK YOU. THE HOUSE, AS YOU KNOW, VOTED TO 13:14:29 REPEAL OVERWHELMINGLY. HARRY REID SAID HE WILL NEVER, 13:14:33 EVER SEE THE SENATE HAVE THIS BROUGHT TO A VOTE. 13:14:37 MITCH MCCONNELL SAYS, OH, YES, WE WILL. 13:14:41 WE GOT INTO THE FOUR THROUGH MITT IS INCREDIBLE. 13:14:46 EVERY MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE IS ON RECORD. 13:14:49 EVERYONE IS ON RECORD. YOU HAVE SEEN THIS RIDICULOUS 13:14:58 1099 BUSINESS PEOPLE WERE KILLED. 13:15:01 HOW DID THAT GET IN THE BILL? WELL, MAYBE THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD 13:15:04 HAVE READ THE BILL BEFORE THEY VOTED FOR IT. 13:15:15 OR AS NANCY PELOSI SAID, FIRST YOU HAVE TO PASS IT, AND THEN 13:15:18 YOU GET TO FIND OUT WHAT SENATE. WELL, AS A DOCTOR I AM DISTURBED 13:15:25 THE LAW WILL REQUIRE MORE IRS AGENTS TO INVESTIGATE ALL OF US 13:15:28 TO MAKE SURE WE ACTUALLY BY INSURANCE. 13:15:32 IT FAILS TO DEAL WITH THE SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS AND NURSES 13:15:35 IN THE COUNTRY TO HELP TAKE CARE OF US. 13:15:38 THERE IS GOING TO BE A SHORTAGE WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS OF 13:15:41 ABOUT 90,000 DOCTORS, A MUCH HIGHER NUMBER OF NURSES, AND 13:15:46 IT'S NOT JUST FAMILY DOCTORS. FAMILY DOCTORS AND SURGEONS ALL 13:15:51 ACROSS THE BOARD. WE HAVE INTRODUCED A NUMBER OF 13:15:53 BILLS IN CONGRESS. A NUMBER OF WAYS TO GO AFTER 13:15:56 THIS PIECE BY PIECE AN ADDITION TO TRY TO REPEAL THE WHOLE 13:15:59 HEALTH CARE LAW. YOU ARE NOW SEEING BILLS 13:16:02 INTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND SPECIFICALLY TAKING 13:16:06 IT APART TO REPEAL THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE, REPEAL THE 13:16:11 EMPLOYER MANDATE, RESTORE THE TENTH AMENDMENT. 13:16:20 WE HAVE A WONDERFUL BILL CALLED THE HEALTH CARE BUREAUCRAT 13:16:23 ELIMINATION ACT. THE ONE I JUST INTRODUCED, THE 13:16:33 STATE HEALTH CARE CHOICE ACT, STATE HEALTH CARE CHOICE ACT. 13:16:39 LET STATES DECIDE. LET STATES DECIDE. 13:16:42 AFTER ALL, ISN'T THAT WHAT THE TENTH AMENDMENT WAS ALL ABOUT IN 13:16:45 THE FIRST PLACE? ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL, NEVER 13:16:53 HAS. SO UNDER THIS STATE'S HEALTH 13:16:56 CARE CHOICE ACT STATES CAN OPT OUT OF THE DIFFERENT MAJOR 13:16:59 PROVISIONS OF THE OF TURLOCK, MEDICAID MANDATE WHICH IS GOING 13:17:03 TO BANKRUPT THE STATES, INDIVIDUAL MANDATE MANDATING 13:17:08 INDIVIDUALS HAVE TO BUY INSURANCE THAT THIS GOVERNMENT 13:17:12 APPROVED. ALLOWING THEM TO OPT OUT OF THE 13:17:13 EMPLOYER MANDATE AND ALLOWING THEM TO OPT OUT OF THE BENEFITS 13:17:18 MANDATE. WHAT STATES ASK FOR AND 33 13:17:20 GOVERNORS WROTE TO THE PRESIDENT RECENTLY, WHAT ALL OF OUR STATES 13:17:24 WANT IS FLEXIBILITY, FREEDOM, AND TOYS. 13:17:27 THAT IS WHY THIS LAW, I THINK, IS GOING TO BE SO EFFECTIVE. 13:17:32 IF WE CAN GET THIS THROUGH, SEVEN STATES HAVE ALREADY 13:17:36 WRITTEN LAWS OR HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES TO SAY 13:17:38 YOU CAN'T COME INTO OUR STATE AND MAKE AS A BYPRODUCT. 13:17:43 MEDICAID IS BREAKING THE STATE'S. 13:17:46 WHEN I HAVE A BIG STORY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES AND IT SAYS JERRY 13:17:51 BROWN AND ANDREW CUOMO TALKING ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS, YOU 13:17:56 HAVE TO A IMAGINE HOW REALLY BAD IT IS. 13:18:00 THAT IS WHY WE ARE DEALING WITH. EVEN THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF 13:18:05 TENNESSEE CALLED THIS THE MOTHER OF ALL UNFUNDED MANDATES. 13:18:09 MEDICAID IS A PROGRAM. ABOUT HALF OF THE DOCTORS IN THE 13:18:13 COUNTRY WON'T SEE MEDICAID PATIENTS BECAUSE THE 13:18:16 REIMBURSEMENT IS SO LOW. THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO TALK 13:18:20 ABOUT GIVING PEOPLE COVERAGE. THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE 13:18:25 BETWEEN COVERAGE AND CARE. JUST BECAUSE YOU GIVE SOMEBODY A 13:18:37 MEDICAID CARD DOESN'T MEAN THEY CAN GET CARE. 13:18:41 IT'S LIKE GIVING SOMEBODY A BUS TICKET WHEN NO BUSES COMING DOWN 13:18:45 THE ROAD. SO I THINK IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE 13:18:54 WORK ON THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION. 13:18:56 2012 WILL BE A REMARKABLE YEAR, A VERY GOOD YEAR FOR REPUBLICANS 13:19:01 AT THE SENATE LEVEL. THIRTY-THREE SENATORS RUNNING 13:19:05 AGAIN. THIRTY-THREE SEATS THAT ARE 13:19:07 OPEN, 23 DEMOCRATIC, TEN REPUBLICAN. 13:19:10 OF THE 23 DEMOCRATIC, TEN ARE IN STATES THAT JOHN MCCAIN CARRIED 13:19:16 IN 2008. IT IS A RICH ENVIRONMENT FOR US 13:19:19 TO ASK THOSE INDIVIDUALS IF THEY ARE RUNNING, PEOPLE THAT VOTED 13:19:23 FOR OBAMA CARENATOR WHO VOTED FOR THIS. 13:19:53 ASK THAT SENATOR THE QUESTION, TO YOU BELIEVE IN MISERY OR 13:19:59 WASHINGTON? WHEN NO ONE SIZE DOESN'T FIT 13:20:01 ALL. IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE'RE DOING, 13:20:04 THE HOUSE WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD OVERSIZE HEARINGS -- OVERSIGHT 13:20:08 HEARINGS. YOU GET TO CHOOSE THE WITNESS IS 13:20:10 ANN PLANNED HEARINGS. YOU WILL HEAR WEEK AFTER WEEK 13:20:14 ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS WITH THIS LAW. 13:20:17 YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM BUSINESS OWNERS WHO ARE HIRING 13:20:21 FEWER EMPLOYEES BECAUSE OF THE MANDATES. 13:20:24 YOU WILL HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO KEEP THE COVERAGE 13:20:26 THAT THEY LIKE. YOU WILL HEAR FROM PEOPLE WITH 13:20:31 INCREASED INSURANCE COSTS TO THE LAW, AND YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT 13:20:35 TAXPAYER MONEY BEING USED TO PAY FOR MISLEADING 13:20:38 ADS, TV ADS, MAILINGS, TO TRY TO PERSUADE 13:20:41 PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THIS LAW. YOU AND I KNOW ALL OF THIS 13:20:45 MISLEADING PROPAGANDA HAS NOT WORKED. 13:20:49 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REALIZE JUST HOW BAD THIS LAW IS. 13:20:54 NO MATTER WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS YOU GO TO YOU CAN FIND PEOPLE 13:20:58 WITH THESE STORIES TO TELL, AND THEY WILL GET WORSE. 13:21:01 MORE AND MORE REGULATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO COME OUT. 13:21:05 THE THING THAT IS SO INTERESTING, THE PRESIDENT SAYS 13:21:08 IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE YOU CAN KEEP IT. 13:21:11 GET TO THE TWO PAGES OF THE LAW. YOU FIND THAT KATHLEEN SIBILA IS 13:21:16 HAS WRITTEN 117 PAGES OF RULES AND REGULATION. 13:21:19 IF YOU GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT HALF OF THE AMERICANS TO GET 13:21:22 THEIR INSURANCE THROUGH WORK WILL BE ABLE TO KEEP IT AND 80% 13:21:25 OF THE PEOPLE WHO GET IT TO SMALL BUSINESS CARD GOING TO BE 13:21:29 ABLE TO KEEP WHAT THEY HAVE. THE OTHER THING YOU WILL HEAR 13:21:34 FROM, THE ELUSIVE DOCTOR BRICK WHO GOT A RECESS APPOINTMENT, A 13:21:39 RECESS APPOINTMENT BY PRESIDENT OBAMA TO HAVE MEDICARE AND 13:21:43 MEDICAID WITHOUT EVER HAVING A SINGLE HEARING IN THE SENATE. 13:21:47 IF YOU REMEMBER HIM, HE SAID WHEN HE SAID HE LOVES THE 13:21:50 BRITISH HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. THE FAIR AND EQUITABLE WELFARE 13:21:55 SYSTEM. YOU REMEMBER THAT ONE. 13:21:57 THEY'RE GOING TO YOUR. THE WAIVER-GRANTING SECRETARY OF 13:22:04 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GIVING WAIVERS TO FRIENDS IN HIGH 13:22:08 PLACES. LAST WEEK THE DEPARTMENT OF 13:22:11 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GRANTED MORE THAN 500 NEW 13:22:15 WAVERS. 729 WASHINGTON WAFERS. 13:22:19 2 MILLION PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE UNDER THE LAW THAT EVERYONE 13:22:23 ELSE THEY STILL LIVE UNDER. YOU KNOW WHO GOT A LOT OF THE 13:22:28 WAIVERS? UNION MEMBERS. 13:22:29 UNION MEMBERS WHO ACTUALLY SUPPORTED, LOBBIED COMMAND 13:22:34 CONTRIBUTED TO WORK TO GET THIS LAW PASSED. 13:22:37 THAT IS -- WHY DON'T THEY HAVE TO LIVE UNDER THE LAW? 13:22:41 BELOVED AND WANTED IT, BUT HERE WE ARE. 13:22:43 THERE ARE THE ONES WITH WAIVERS. UNION WORKERS ARE 7% OF THE 13:22:49 PRIVATE EMPLOYERS, YET THEY GOT 40 PERCENT OF THE WAIVERS. 13:22:52 IF SHE CAN GIVE WAIVERS TO 2 MILLION PEOPLE WHO HAVE 13:22:56 FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES, I THINK EVERYBODY IN AMERICA OUGHT TO BE 13:23:00 GIVEN A WAIVER AGAINST THIS HEALTH CARE LAW. 13:23:03 AT BACK FAUGH. 13:23:13 ON ELECTION NIGHT THE EXIT POLLS SAID 59 PERCENT OF AMERICAN 13:23:17 VOTERS WANTED THIS LAW REPEALED. PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, AND 13:23:22 IT'S NOT THIS. MY GOAL IS TO GET PEOPLE THE 13:23:26 CARE THEY NEED FROM THE DOCTOR THEY WANT AT A PRICE THEY CAN 13:23:29 AFFORD. THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE. 13:23:35 YOU KNOW, IF OBAMA CARE WAS A CAR IT WOULD BE 11. 13:23:42 YOU TAKE IT BACK TO THE, YOU GET TO A NEW DEALER AND BY A 13:23:46 DIFFERENT CAR. AMERICA HAS LISTENS TO THE 13:23:51 PRESIDENT, HEARD HIS PROMISES. ALMOST A YEAR. 13:23:54 COMING OUT ON THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY. 13:23:58 A YEAR LATER PEOPLE REMEMBER THE BROKEN PROMISES. 13:24:02 IT'S UP TO ALL OF US TO CONTINUE TO REMIND PEOPLE. 13:24:06 I STILL REMEMBER. HEALTH CARE REFORM WON'T ADD A 13:24:12 DIME. ALL DATA DIME. 13:24:14 THEY USED EVERY TRICK, A BUDGET GIMMICK, DOUBLE COUNTING, SIX 13:24:18 YEARS OF SERVICES FOR TEN YEARS OF TAXES. 13:24:21 PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY GET IT. AMERICANS FUNDAMENTALLY 13:24:25 UNDERSTAND THAT YOU CAN'T SUBSIDIZE COVERAGE FOR TENS OF 13:24:27 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY REDUCE THE 13:24:32 DEFICIT. PEOPLE GET THE FACT THAT THIS 13:24:34 LAW IS BAD FOR PATIENTS, BAD FOR PROVIDERS. 13:24:38 NURSES AND DOCTORS TO TAKE CARE OF PATIENTS AND IT'S BAD FOR 13:24:43 TAXPAYERS. PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS. 13:24:45 THEY UNDERSTAND THAT IF YOU TAKE 500 BILLION FOR MEDICARE IT'S 13:24:49 GOING TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE TO SEE A DOCTOR. 13:24:53 THEY UNDERSTAND THAT 33 GOVERNORS HAVE WRITTEN A LETTER 13:24:56 TO THE PRESIDENT. THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE 13:24:58 PRESIDENT'S OWN DEBT COMMISSION LOOKED AT THIS CLASS ACT WHICH 13:25:03 HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY A DEMOCRATIC SENATOR AS A PONZI 13:25:08 SCHEME. EVEN THE DEFICIT COMMISSION SAYS 13:25:11 THIS PART SHOULD BE REPEALED. THE DEFICIT COMMISSION ALSO SAID 13:25:15 IF YOU'RE GOING TO CUT $500 BILLION DON'T USE THAT 13:25:19 MONEY TO START A WHOLE NEW ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM. 13:25:24 WHILE THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS ON ELECTION NIGHT WHO WANT THIS 13:25:30 REPEALED IS 59%, IF YOU POLL PEOPLE TO TALK TO A NURSE OR 13:25:34 DOCTOR OR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT THE NUMBER IS MUCH HIGHER. 13:25:38 THE MORE THEY FIND OUT ABOUT THIS LAW THE LESS THEY LIKE IT. 13:25:44 THAT'S WHY EVERY WEEK I GET TO THE SENATE FLOOR TO GIVE A 13:25:48 DOCTOR'S SECOND OPINION ABOUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS HEALTH 13:25:50 CARE LAW. NEW RULES AND REGULATIONS COME 13:25:53 OUT WEEK AFTER WEEK. THERE IS EVERY WEEK SOMETHING 13:25:58 NEW TO SHARE WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH 13:26:01 THIS AWFUL, AWFUL LOT. WELL, I HAVE TO TELL YOU 13:26:07 REALISTICALLY THERE IS GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANT OPPOSITION TO OUR 13:26:11 COLLECTIVE EFFORTS TO REPEAL THIS HEALTH CARE LAW. 13:26:16 THE WHITE HOUSE IS DONE AGAIN. WE WILL BE OPPOSED EVERY STEP 13:26:19 ALONG THE WAY. THE ADMINISTRATION IS DUG-IN. 13:26:26 KATHLEEN SIBILA THIS CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT ONE PERSON BEING 13:26:28 HELPED BY A LAW AS OPPOSED TO THE OVERALL IMPACT OF THIS LAW 13:26:32 ON OUR NATION, FREEDOM, AND FUTURE. 13:26:37 DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS ARE DUG-IN TO FIGHT. 13:26:40 AS A MATTER OF FACT, PETE STARK HAS COME OUT WITH A PAMPHLET 13:26:45 ABOUT THE DANGERS TO AMERICAN HEALTH. 13:26:50 THAT WILL CONTINUE TO SPEND TAXPAYER DOLLARS. 13:26:54 THE TV ADS TALKING ABOUT HOW GOOD MEDICARE IS. 13:26:59 $17 MILLION OF YOUR MONEY SPENT ON A MISLEADING MILLER TO EVERY 13:27:03 MEDICARE PATIENT IN AMERICA. OUTSIDE GROUPS ARE GOING TO BE 13:27:08 INVOLVED. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL 13:27:10 COMMITTEE. AN ARTICLE IN THE WASHINGTON 13:27:12 POST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING, ALL OF THE 13:27:15 GROUPS THAT ARE PUTTING MONEY INTO DEFENDING THIS FAILED 13:27:18 HEALTH CARE LAW. THE TRUTH BE KNOWN, THE 13:27:24 LIBERALS, THE REAL LIBERALS DO WANT TO OBAMA CARE TO FAIL SO 13:27:28 THAT THEY CAN GET WHAT THEY REALLY WANT. 13:27:31 THEY CAN SAY, WELL, WE TRIED, LISTENED. 13:27:34 NOW WE NEED A SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM LIKE THE ONE 13:27:37 IN CANADA WAS THE ONE IN BRITAIN WHICH IS PRESIDENT OBAMA AS A 13:27:43 PREFERRED APPROACH AS HE HAS SAID ON MANY OCCASIONS. 13:27:47 WELL, THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO BE FOCUSED, ACTIVE, AND PERSISTENT. 13:27:54 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET ME CLOSE WITH T GAVE UP. WE WILL NOT GIVE UP. 13:28:23 IT IS KILLING TO TAKE THE JAWS OF LIFE TO SAVE THE LIFE OF OUR 13:28:27 COUNTRY FROM THIS PACKAGE OF OBAMA CARE. 13:28:31 WE MUST AND WE WILL NEVER STOP, NEVER STOP IN OUR EFFORTS TO 13:28:37 REPEAL THIS DANGEROUS, DISASTERS, AND BROKEN HEALTH 13:28:42 CARE LAW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING 13:28:43 ME BE WITH YOU TODAY. THANK YOU. 13:28:51 13:28:57 13:29:09 OBAMA CARE, YOU HAVE TO LOVE 13:29:15 IT. AT LEAST OBAMA WOULD SAY, WELL, 13:29:18 YOU KNOW, AT LEAST THE SENIORS WILL DIE AS FAST. 13:29:21 WE HAVE TO DESTROY IT. IT HAS TO BE TAKEN INTO 13:29:26 FRANKENSTEINS LABORATORY AND DISMEMBERED. 13:29:28 NEXT WE HAVE JAMES HIGGINS FROM THE MONDAY MEETING NEW YORK 13:29:32 WHICH IS AN AWESOME INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC JOURNAL. 13:29:37 HE IS GOING TO BE INTRODUCING SOME ONOMASTIC AT THE PLANE. 13:29:47 HELENA. 13:29:59 IT HAS BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE THE GREAT BEHEMOTHS, BUCKLEY, 13:30:05 LEFT US. HIS PRESENCE IS VERY MUCH 13:30:07 MISSED, BUT HIS LEGACY AND WISDOM REMAINED WITH US. 13:30:12 LAST YEAR AND PARTICULARLY AS THE TWO PARTY HAS EMERGED THERE 13:30:17 HAS BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION, AS THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN, AMONG 13:30:20 CONSERVATIVES ABOUT WHAT KIND OF CANDIDATE SHOULD CONSERVATIVES 13:30:25 NOMINATE. AS WAS SO OFTEN THE CASE BILL 13:30:27 BUCKLEY HAD WISE WORDS ON THE SUBJECT. 13:30:30 WHAT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS THE BUCKLEY RULE SAYS A CONSERVATIVE 13:30:33 SHOULD NOMINATE THE MOST CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE WHO IS 13:30:37 ELECTABLE. CONSERVATIVE AND ELECTABLE. 13:30:41 .. HE MADE GOOD ON A PROMISE TO 13:31:25 SELL TERM LIMIT AFTER THREE TERMS AND LEFT THE HOUSE IN 13:31:29 2002. HE CAME WITHIN 500 THOSE OF 13:31:31 WINNING THE SENATE SEAT IN HIS FIRST CHALLENGE TO AN INCUMBENT 13:31:34 RULED DEMOCRATS SAY. IN 2004 HE TOOK ON SENATE 13:31:37 DEMOCRATIC LEADER TOM DASCHLE. 13:31:44 AND JOHN THUNE ONE. FOR ANYONE HERE WHO MAY THINK IT 13:31:49 ISN'T EASY TO DEFEAT -- I SUGGEST YOU TALK TO OUR FRIEND 13:31:57 FROM NEVADA ABOUT THEIR EFFORTS TO UNSEAT HARRY REID. 13:32:01 HARRY REID START HIS REELECTION 2010 FALLING ONLY SLIGHTLY AHEAD 13:32:05 OF THE EBOLA VIRUS. BUT BY ELECTION HE WAS REELECTED 13:32:10 WITH A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE NOT EVEN MANAGING 45% OF THE VOTE. 13:32:14 BUT SENATOR THUNE DID BEAT THE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR. 13:32:21 CONSIDER BEFORE SENATOR THUNE WAS ELECTED TO THE SENATE HIS 13:32:24 SEAT HAD BEEN HELD BY EITHER GEORGE McGOVERN OR TOM DASCHLE 13:32:29 436 OF THE PRECEDING 42 YEARS. BY 2010, THE DEMOCRATS COULD NOT 13:32:35 EVEN GET A CANDIDATE TO FILE A CHALLENGE WHO BECAME ONLY THE 13:32:39 THIRD REPUBLICAN SINCE THE ELECTION OF SENATORS BEGAN 100 13:32:44 YEARS AGO TO WIN A SENATE RACE UNOPPOSED. 13:32:50 SENATOR THUNE INTEREST THIS 13:32:57 YEAR FOCUSING ON GETTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND DEFICIT 13:32:59 UNDER CONTROL. SO TO REVIEW THEIR -- SENATOR 13:33:02 THUNE, CONSERVATIVE, LET'S HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY. 13:33:06 OUR FRIEND, SENATOR JOHNSON. -- SENATOR JOHN THUNE. 13:33:15 13:33:26 THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. THANK YOU JAMES, FOR THE VERY 13:33:31 GENEROUS -- THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT VERY GENEROUS 13:33:36 INTRODUCTION, AND THANK YOU FOR THE WARM WELCOME. 13:33:39 HE FORGO ANY FURTHER, HOWEVER, LET ME INTRODUCE MY WIFE, 13:33:43 KIMBERLY, WHO IS SOMEWHERE DOWN HERE. 13:33:46 RIGHT HERE IN THE FRONT AS A MATTER OF FACT. 13:33:49 MY DAD TOLD ME TODAY I GOT 13:33:53 GOT MARRIED THE DEMAND CAN SAY IF HE ISN'T AFRAID ABOUT HIS 13:33:58 WIFE, LIE ABOUT OTHER THINGS. ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER TO 13:34:01 INTRODUCE THE REALLY IMPORTANT PERSON IN YOUR LIFE. 13:34:04 I WANT TO ALSO SAY WHAT A GREAT HONOR IT IS TO BE HERE AT CPAC 13:34:08 WITH THE LARGEST GATHERING, ANNUAL GATHERING OF 13:34:11 CONSERVATIVES ANYWHERE AROUND THE COUNTRY. 13:34:12 I KNOW THAT AS WE GATHER HERE IN FEBRUARY 2011 THERE'S ALREADY A 13:34:18 LOT OF SPECULATION ABOUT NOVEMBER OF 2012. 13:34:21 I HOPE AND I'M BETTING THAT 2012 IS GOING TO BE THE YEAR ARE WE 13:34:27 NOT ONLY TAKE BACK THE SENATE BUT ALSO THE WHITE HOUSE. 13:34:32 SO CPAC, ARE YOU READY? 13:34:37 ARE YOU READY TO GO TO WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ELECT A 13:34:41 CONSERVATIVE SENATE AND A CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT IN 2012? 13:34:45 IT IS AN HONOR FOR ME TO 13:34:51 OCCUPY THE STAGE WAS SO MANY OF OUR PARTY'S GREAT LEADERS. 13:34:54 IT'S FAIR TO SAY I DON'T HAVE THE SAME NATIONAL NAME 13:34:57 RECOGNITION THAT SOME OF MY MORE FAMOUS REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES 13:35:01 HAVE. I'VE NEVER HAD A BOOK SIGNING. 13:35:04 I'VE BEEN TO IOWA PLENTY OF TIMES BUT IT SURELY ON THE WAY 13:35:06 TO SOUTH DAKOTA. AND THE CLOSEST I'VE COME TO 13:35:10 BEING ON A REALITY TV SHOW IS C-SPAN'S LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 13:35:14 SENATE FLOOR. 13:35:22 WILL COUNTRY AND IT'S NOT THE MOST EXCITING TELEVISION, BUT IT 13:35:27 DID HAVE A GOOD ENDING LAST YEAR BECAUSE A NUMBER OF MY LIBERAL 13:35:32 COLLEAGUES GOT VOTED OFF. 13:35:37 THE TRUTH IS I SPEND MOST OF MY TIME EITHER BACK IN SOUTH 13:35:41 DAKOTA TALKING TO THE FOLKS WHO ELECTED ME, OR OUT HERE IN 13:35:45 UNITED STATES SENATE WORKING HARD ON THEIR BEHALF. 13:35:48 MY FAMILY'S ROOTS RUN DEEP IN SOUTH DAKOTA. 13:35:50 BACK IN 19062 BROTHERS NAMED NIKOLAI AND MATTHEW BOURNE AND 13:35:55 NORWAY IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. 13:35:58 WHEN THEY GOT TO THE SHORES OF AMERICA AND ONLY ENGLISH WORDS 13:36:01 THEY KNEW WHERE THE WORDS APPLE PIE AND COFFEE. 13:36:06 THE IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS THOUGHT THAT THEIR NAME, WHICH 13:36:12 WAS -- WOULD BE TOO DIFFICULT TO SPELL AND PRONOUNCE FOR PEOPLE 13:36:16 IN THIS COUNTRY SO THEY ASKED THEM TO CHANGE IT. 13:36:19 SO THE TWO BROTHERS PICKED A NAME OF THE FARM WHERE THEY 13:36:23 WORKED IN NORWAY WHICH WAS THE FOOD FAR. 13:36:27 SO NIKOLAI WAS MY GRANDFATHER. WITH HIS NEW NAME, AND HIS NEW 13:36:32 COUNTRY, MY FATHER SET OUT TO BUILD -- MY GRANDFATHER SET OUT 13:36:36 TO BUILD A NEW LIFE. HE LEARNED ENGLISH, GOT A JOB, 13:36:41 AND WHEN HE AND HIS BROTHER HAD SAVED UP ENOUGH MONEY THEY 13:36:43 STARTED A SMALL BUSINESS. FIRST A MERCHANDISING COMPANY 13:36:47 AND THEN A HARDWARE STORE. NORWAY WAS THE HOMELAND, BUT 13:36:51 THEY MADE AMERICA THEIR HOME. 13:36:59 MY GRANDFATHER HAD THREE SONS INCLUDING MY FATHER. 13:37:02 HE INSTILLED IN HIS VOICE MIDWESTERN VALUES THAT MY 13:37:07 PARENTS IN TURN PASS ALONG TO ME AND MY FOUR SIBLINGS. 13:37:12 THEY TAUGHT US TO LIVE WITH ENEMIES EVEN IF IT MEANS 13:37:13 GOING WITHOUT. IT TAUGHT US TO HELP OUR 13:37:16 NEIGHBOR AND TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY, TO WORK HARD AND TO 13:37:20 PULL OUR OWN WEIGHT. THEY TAUGHT US ABOUT THE 13:37:22 IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY AND THE VALUE OF LIFE. 13:37:26 AND THEY TAUGHT US TO 13:37:32 APPRECIATE OUR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY, GIFTS THAT COME FROM 13:37:35 BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO LIVE IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. 13:37:38 BECAUSE OF MY UPBRINGING I BELIEVE IN THINGS LIKE LIMITED 13:37:42 GOVERNMENT, FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PERSONAL 13:37:46 ACCOUNTABILITY. I BELIEVE IN THE WISDOM OF OUR 13:37:48 FOUNDERS AND THE SANCTITY OF OUR CONSTITUTION, AND I BELIEVE IN 13:37:51 ORDER FOR OUR VALUES TO HAVE MEANING, OUR ACTIONS MUST MATCH 13:37:55 OUR WORDS. IF YOU ARE BLESSED ENOUGH TO 13:37:58 SERVE IN PUBLIC OFFICE AND YOU SHOULDN'T JUST T0:38:23 SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME SOME NEW FRIENDS THIS 13:38:27 PAST NOVEMBER. 13:38:32 IN THE HOUSE, AND THE HOUSE, REPUBLICANS HELD 240 SEATS AND 13:38:36 THE SPEAKER'S GAVEL. INNOCENT WE MAY NOT HAVE A 13:38:39 MAJORITY YET, BUT WE GOT THE KIND OF MOTIVATED CONSERVATIVE 13:38:42 MINORITY THAT CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. 13:38:45 IN NOVEMBER USE A CONSERVATIVE LEADERS TO WASHINGTON AND YOU 13:38:48 SAID THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ALLIES A MESSAGE. 13:38:51 THE LIBERAL PARTY THAT THEY'VE BEEN HAVING ON THE TAXPAYER DIME 13:38:53 IS OVER. NOW, TO THINK THAT ELECTIONS IN 13:39:02 MASSACHUSETTS AND VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY AND MIDTERM VICTORIES 13:39:04 ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WOULD RETHINK 13:39:08 HIS AGENDA AND MODIFY HIS APPROACH. 13:39:11 I WAS LISTENING FOR A SIGN OF THAT IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION 13:39:13 ADDRESS LAST MONTH. AS YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR IN THE 13:39:19 STATE OF UNION ADDRESS WE DID THINGS LITTLE DIFFERENT WAY. 13:39:22 DEMOCRATS AND FIVE THEIR FAVORITE REPUBLICAN TO SIT WITH 13:39:25 THEM. SO I SAT WITH CENTER GILLIBRAND 13:39:28 IN NEW YORK SENATOR CARPER FROM DELAWARE. 13:39:31 APPARENTLY TAKES TO DEMOCRATS TO BALANCE ME OUT. 13:39:36 BUT LET ME MAKE ONE THING 13:39:43 PERFECTLY CLEAR. A NEW SEATING ARRANGEMENT IS NOT 13:39:49 BIPARTISANSHIP, AND YOUR RHETORIC IS NOT A NEW AGENDA. 13:39:54 THE PRESIDENT LAST YEAR, FOR 13:39:59 EXAMPLE, TALKED ABOUT, EXCUSE ME, THE PRESIDENT TALKED A LOT 13:40:03 ABOUT SUPPORTING CLEAN ENERGY. AND HE KIND OF STARTED BY 13:40:07 RECYCLING HIS SPEECH FROM LAST YEAR. 13:40:11 IF YOU LOOK AT A SPEECH LAST YEAR THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT 13:40:14 HIS THREE-YEAR FREEZE ON SPENDING. 13:40:16 THIS YEAR HE TALKED ABOUT A FIVE YEAR FREEZE ON SPENDING. 13:40:20 LAST YEAR HE TALKED ABOUT PUSHING THROUGH TRADE AGREEMENTS 13:40:23 WITH SOUTH KOREA, PANAMA AND COLOMBIA. 13:40:25 YESTERDAY TALKED ABOUT, YOU GUESSED IT, TRADE AGREEMENTS 13:40:30 WITH SOUTH KOREA, PANAMA AND COLOMBIA. 13:40:32 LAST YEAR THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT SPENDING. 13:40:35 THIS YEAR HE TALKED ABOUT INVESTMENT. 13:40:40 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T HAVE YOUR OBAMA STATE OF THE UNION 13:40:43 DECODER RING, INVESTMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WASHINGTON WORD FOR MORE 13:40:51 SPENDING. WHEN THIS ADMINISTRATION TALKS 13:40:53 ABOUT MAKING AN INVESTMENT I THINK A LOT OF US KNOW BY NOW 13:40:56 WHAT KIND OF RETURN WE CAN EXPECT. 13:40:59 MORE GOVERNMENT, MORE DEBT, FEWER JOBS AND LESS FREEDOM. 13:41:06 IF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS IS ANY INDICATION, 2011 13:41:11 IS SHAPING UP TO BE MORE OF THE SAME. 13:41:15 IT'S DISAPPOINTING BUT NOT SURPRISING. 13:41:17 AFTER ALL, THESE ARE THE FOLKS WHO TOOK OVER OUT OF COMPANIES, 13:41:21 INSURANCE COMPANIES AND BANKS. AGM TO OBAMACARE AND TWO AND 13:41:25 HALF TRILLION DOLLARS ENTITLEMENT THAT WE DON'T WANT 13:41:27 AND CAN'T AFFORD. WHEN MEMBERS OF THEIR OWN PARTY 13:41:30 WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS ADMINISTRATION'S LEGISLATIVE 13:41:32 SCHEMES, THEY GO AROUND TO PEOPLE'S ELECTED REPRESENTS AND 13:41:36 TRY TO DO WITHOUT THEM BY EXECUTIVE POWER GRABS YOUR THEY 13:41:39 COULDN'T PASS THE CAP IN TAX BILL SO THEY GOT THE EPA DOING 13:41:44 THEIR DIRTY WORK. THEY COULDN'T PASS THE CARD 13:41:49 CHECK BILL AND SO NOW THE LABOR RELATIONS, NATIONAL LABOR 13:41:51 RELATIONS BOARD IS TRYING TO TAKE AWAY A WORKERS RIGHT TO 13:41:55 CAST A SECRET BALLOT. AND NOW THE OBAMA FCC IS TRYING 13:41:59 TO TAKE OVER THE INTERNET. SINCE 2008 WE HAVE WITNESSED THE 13:42:04 LARGEST EXPANSION THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT SINCE THE 1960s. 13:42:08 ALL THAT COVERT MEANS A LOT LESS FREEDOM AND IT COMES WITH A 13:42:12 HEFTY PRICE TAG. IT TOOK 43 PRESIDENTS MORE THAN 13:42:15 200 YEARS TO RACK UP THE FIRST $5.8 TRILLION OF PUBLICLY HELD 13:42:19 DEBT IN THIS COUNTRY. UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S 13:42:22 LAST BUDGET, WE WILL DOUBLE THAT IN FIVE YEARS AND TRIPLE IT IN 13:42:26 TURN. WE ARE PAYING FOR IT WITH A 13:42:29 BORROWED MONEY. LAST YEAR OVER 40 CENTS OUT OF 13:42:32 EVERY DOLLAR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENT CAME FROM 13:42:34 PLACES LIKE CHINA. PRESIDENT OBAMA LIKES TO TALK 13:42:38 ABOUT WINNING THE FUTURE, BUT SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL HIM YOU 13:42:44 CAN'T WIN THE PROSPERITY OF TOMORROW IF YOU ARE MORTGAGING 13:42:48 TO PAY FOR THE BIG GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS OUT TODAY. 13:42:51 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE LIVE 13:42:58 IN A TIME OF SERIOUS CHALLENGE. UNEMPLOYMENT IS 9%. 13:43:03 WE ARE RUNNING HUGE DEFICITS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE. 13:43:06 THE FEDERAL DEBT IS NOW MORE THAN $14 TRILLION. 13:43:11 IN FACT, ADMIRAL MIKE MULLEN THE CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF 13:43:16 STAFF, THE HIGHEST-RANKING MILITARY OFFICIAL IN THIS 13:43:18 COUNTRY SAID A FEW MONTHS BACK THAT THE GREATEST THREAT TO 13:43:22 AMERICA'S NATIONAL SECURITY IS OUR NATIONAL DEBT. 13:43:27 NOW, THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES BECAUSE THE THREATS THAT WE FACE ABROAD 13:43:31 ARE GREAT AND GRAVE. ISLAMIC EXTREMISM, AND UNSTABLE 13:43:38 MIDDLE EAST, POTENTIALLY NUCLEAR IRAN, AND CHINA WITH ITS GROWING 13:43:42 MILITARY CAPABILITY. AND A DANGEROUS NORTH KOREA 13:43:46 ARMED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. THE ONLY THING MORE ALARMING 13:43:51 THAN THESE THREATS IS THE PRESIDENT'S WEAK RESPONSE. 13:43:54 WE CAN'T WIN THE PEACE WITH APOLOGIES AND RESET BUTTONS AND 13:43:58 DEEP CUTS TO OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE. 13:44:00 WE CAN'T WIN THE PEACE IF WE DON'T TELL IT LIKE IT IS AN ACT 13:44:05 OF TERRORISM IS JUST THAT, TERRORISM. 13:44:11 CALLING IT A MAN COST 13:44:16 DISASTER DOESN'T CHANGE THE GRAVITY OF THE THREAT. 13:44:20 IT ONLY MAKES US QUESTION THIS ADMINISTRATION'S WILL TO DEFEAT 13:44:23 IT. 13:44:29 YOU KNOW, WE FACE SERIOUS CHALLENGES THAT REQUIRE SERIOUS 13:44:33 SOLUTIONS. IF WE LIVED IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY 13:44:34 IN THE WORLD I WOULD BE WORRIED WHETHER OR NOT WE WERE UP TO THE 13:44:39 JOB. BUT THE AMERICAN WAY IS TO TURN 13:44:44 ADVERSITY INTO OPPORTUNITY. FOR THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US, 13:44:48 MEN AND WOMEN LIKE MY GRANDPARENTS AND MY PARENTS, WHO 13:44:51 SURVIVED TWO WORLD WARS, THEY WEATHERED THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 13:44:55 THEY TOOK DOWN AN EVIL EMPIRE, AND THEY BROUGHT THE LIGHT OF 13:44:58 FREEDOM TO THE DARKEST CORNERS OF THE WORLD. 13:45:01 THEY TURN THIS COUNTRY, THEY TURN THIS COUNTRY INTO THE 13:45:07 GREATEST NATION THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. 13:45:10 NOT BY REINVENTING THEMSELVES BUT BY HOLDING FAST TO AMERICA'S 13:45:13 MOST SACRED VALUES AND DEFINING PRINCIPLES. 13:45:15 WE DON'T NEED TO FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM AMERICA. 13:45:20 WE NEED TO STAY TRUE -- STAY TRUE TO WHO WE ARE. 13:45:26 AND DESPITE WHAT PRESIDENT 13:45:30 OBAMA BELIEVES, WE DON'T NEED A NEW FOUNDATION. 13:45:33 OUR OLD FOUNDATION WORKS JUST FINE. 13:45:35 YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, A FEW DAYS AGO WE CELEBRATED WHAT WOULD'VE 13:45:42 BEEN RONALD REAGAN'S 100th BIRTHDAY. 13:45:45 REAGAN ASSUMED THE PRESIDENCY AT ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING 13:45:48 PERIODS IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY. BUT HE KNEW THAT THE CHALLENGES 13:45:53 BEFORE US WERE NO MATCH FOR THE GOOD THAT RESIDES WITHIN US. 13:45:59 REAGAN SHOWED THAT THERE CAN BE GREAT HOPE IN THE MIDST OF GREAT 13:46:04 DESPAIR, THAT THERE CAN BE GREAT JOY AND GREAT SACRIFICE, THAT IF 13:46:09 WE STICK TO OUR CONVICTIONS, GOOD THINGS CAN COME FROM HARD 13:46:13 TIMES. WHAT A CONTRAST TO OUR CURRENT 13:46:16 PRESIDENT. YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT OBAMA CLAIMS 13:46:20 TO ADMIRE RONAL0:46:42 HOW MUCH OUR GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR US, BUT HOW MUCH ARE PEOPLE 13:46:45 CAN ACHIEVE. 13:46:53 REAGAN'S LEADERSHIP IS THE GUIDING EXAMPLE FOR TODAY. 13:46:57 HE ONCE SAID THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS, BUT THERE ARE SIMPLE 13:47:00 ANSWERS. WE MUST HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO 13:47:03 WHAT WE KNOW IS MORALLY RIGHT. WE SHOULD TAKE PRESIDENT 13:47:09 REAGAN'S SOUND ADVICE, AND WE CAN START BY REFORMING THE WAY 13:47:13 THAT WASHINGTON, D.C. DOES BUSINESS. 13:47:15 LET'S PUT AN END TO THE BACKROOM DEAL AND THE BIG GOVERNMENT WAYS 13:47:19 THAT HAVE BECOME THE HALLMARK OF THIS ADMINISTRATION. 13:47:21 CONGRESS IS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE, AND THAT PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO 13:47:25 KNOW WHAT GOES ON THERE. 13:47:33 THOSE ELECTED TO SERVE IN CONGRESS SHOULD RESPECT THE 13:47:36 PEOPLES MONEY BY SPENDING LESS AND SAVING MORE. 13:47:40 SO INSTEAD OF FREEZING SPENDING, AT THE BLOATED LEVELS WE KNOW 13:47:46 TODAY WHICH IS WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO DO, LET'S GO 13:47:48 BACK TO THE SPINNING CLOUDS OF 2008. 13:47:52 LET'S ADOPT A TWO-YEAR BUDGET THAT SPENDS MONEY IN THE ODD 13:47:55 NUMBERS YEARS AND SAYS MONEY IN THE EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS WHEN 13:47:59 PEOPLE GO HOME TO RUN FOR REELECTION. 13:48:01 LET'S MAKE ELECTIONS ABOUT HOW MUCH WE CAN SAY, NOT HOW MUCH WE 13:48:05 CAN STAND. 13:48:10 LET'S CREATE A NEW CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE VOTE 13:48:13 WHOSE SOLE PURPOSE IS TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT BY CUTTING SPENDING. 13:48:18 YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS, BUT THERE ARE 26 COMMITTEES IN CONGRESS, 13:48:24 COMMITTEES OR SUBCOMMITTEES, THAT SPEND YOUR MONEY. 13:48:29 ISN'T A TIME DELAY OF AT LEAST ONE DEDICATED TO SAVING YOUR 13:48:31 MONEY? -- ISN'T IT TIME TO HAVE AT 13:48:36 LEAST ONE DEDICATED TO SAVE YOUR MONEY? 13:48:39 AND HIS AMERICAN FANS ARE MAKING TOUGH CHOICES TO LIVE WITHIN 13:48:41 THEIR MEANS, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD SHOW SOME 13:48:43 FISCAL DISCIPLINE AND BALANCE ITS BOOKS AS WELL. 13:48:46 THE TIME HAS COME TO FINALLY PASS A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT 13:48:51 FOR THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. 13:48:55 IF WE'RE GOING TO GET OUR 13:49:01 FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER, AND OUR ECONOMY UP AND RUNNING, WE'RE 13:49:05 ALSO GOING TO NEED TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE AND 13:49:09 MEDICAID. THAT REQUIRES BOLD LEADERSHIP 13:49:13 AND A BIPARTISAN APPROACH. PRESIDENT OBAMA TALKS A LOT 13:49:18 ABOUT BOTH, BUT HE DOESN'T SEEM CAPABLE OF EITHER. 13:49:23 SO IF WE'RE GOING TO SOLVE OUR ENTITLEMENT PROBLEM IN THIS 13:49:27 COUNTRY, WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO SOLVE OUR WHITE HOUSE PROBLEM BY 13:49:32 ELECTING A CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT IN 2012. 13:49:35 WHEN IT COMES TO OBAMACARE, 13:49:42 IT'S GREAT TO SEE THAT THE COURTS GOT THIS ONE RIGHT, TOO. 13:49:47 BY RECOGNIZING THAT THIS COSTLY MESS IS ALSO UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 13:49:53 IN CONGRESS, MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES AND I ARE WORKING 13:49:56 HARD TO GET THE VOTES TO REPEAL IT AND REPLACE IT. 13:49:58 BUT IN THE MEANTIME WE CAN AND SHOULD DEFUND IT. 13:50:04 IF THIS ADMINISTRATION CAN GRANT WAIVERS TO ITS FAVORITE FRIENDS, 13:50:08 THAT WE OUGHT TO ALLOW EVERY STATE IN THE UNION TO OPT OUT AS 13:50:11 WELL. 13:50:16 WHEN IT COMES TO THE ISSUE OF ENERGY WE NEED TO STOP SENDING 13:50:20 BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY SINGLE YEAR TO FOREIGN 13:50:26 REGIMES, RESOURCES THAT WE CAN AND SHOULD DEVELOP RIGHT HERE AT 13:50:30 HOME. WE NEED AN ENERGY PLAN THAT 13:50:38 ENCOURAGES ALL FORMS OF AMERICAN ENERGY, ONE THAT REDUCES 13:50:43 AMERICAN RESOURCE AND CREATE AMERICAN JOBS. 13:50:48 WHEN IT COMES TO THE ISSUE OF NATIONAL SECURITY, LET'S WIN THE 13:50:51 WARS OF THE DAY. AND FOR THE FEARS OF THE THREATS 13:50:57 OF TOMORROW. LET'S STAND BY OUR TROOPS AND 13:50:59 MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED TO 13:51:02 COMPLETE THEIR MISSIONS. 13:51:06 AND LET STAND WITH THOSE, LET'S STAND WITH THOSE AROUND 13:51:11 THE WORLD YOU ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES FOR FREEDOM. 13:51:15 AND LET'S, AND LET'S STAND UP FOR OUR ALLIES, LIKE ISRAEL. 13:51:22 AND LET STAND UP TO OUR 13:51:33 ENEMIES, LIKE THE RADICAL ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WHO SEEK TO 13:51:36 HARM OUR FRIENDS AND DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE. 13:51:40 YOU KNOW, DESPITE WHAT SOME 13:51:47 IN THIS ADMINISTRATION THINK, OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM ARE 13:51:52 NOT ENGAGED AND OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATION. 13:51:58 THEY ARE FIGHTING A GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR. 13:52:00 AND THAT IS A FIGHT -- THAT IS A FIGHT THAT WE NEED ALL ELEMENTS 13:52:05 OF OUR NATIONAL POWER TO WIN. WE NEED TO USE LAWFUL 13:52:09 INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES TO ACQUIRE ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. 13:52:16 AND WHEN WE ARE DONE INTERROGATING TERRORISTS, WE 13:52:20 SHOULD GIVE THEM THEIR DAY IN COURT IN A MILITARY TRIBUNAL, 13:52:25 NOT AN AMERICAN COURTROOM. 13:52:40 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE'VE GOT A TOUGH ROAD AHEAD IF WE'RE 13:52:43 GOING TO GET AMERICA BACK ON TRACK. 13:52:44 WE FACE OF HARD CHOICES. WE NEED TO MAKE THE RIGHT 13:52:49 DECISIONS. THERE WILL BE OPPOSITION TO OUR 13:52:53 AGENDA AND TO OUR IDEAS. BUT AS I LOOK OUT AT WHAT LIES 13:52:58 BEFORE US I AM REMINDED OF MY FIRST SENATE RACE BACK IN 2002. 13:53:02 IT WAS A TOUGH AND HARD-HITTING CAMPAIGN AND A CLOSE ELECTION. 13:53:07 I ENDED UP LOSING BY 524 VOTES. IT WAS A KIND OF EXPERIENCE THAT 13:53:13 COULD MAKE YOU WANT TO PACK IT IN. 13:53:16 SAID ABOUT THE NEXT TIME AROUND. 13:53:19 IN FACT OUR MEMBERS SITTING IN OUR LIVING ROOM IN SIOUX FALLS, 13:53:23 SOUTH DAKOTA, WITH MY WIFE, GENERALLY. 13:53:25 SHORTLY AFTER THE ELECTION SHOULD LOOK AT ME AND SHE SAID, 13:53:27 I AM NOT GOING TO END OF THE CAMPAIGN AND LEST GOD HIMSELF 13:53:31 COMES TO THE DOOR AND SAYS YOU HAVE TO RUN. 13:53:36 I PROBABLY DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, HONEY. 13:53:39 YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE AS THE YEAR WORE ON AND PEOPLE 13:53:42 START TALKING ABOUT THE 2004 ELECTION AND HE WAS GOING TO RUN 13:53:46 AGAINST THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER TOM DASCHLE, WE'RE HAVING 13:53:51 A DISCUSSION EVER CONTEMPLATE THAT RACE IN OUR LIVING ROOM 13:53:54 AGAIN. MY WIFE LOOKED AT ME AND SHE 13:53:57 SAID, YOU KNOW, I HAVE FINALLY CONCLUDED AND REALIZED THAT WHAT 13:54:00 WE WENT THROUGH IN LOSING THAT 2002 SENATE RACE WASN'T JUST 13:54:05 ABOUT THE WINNING. IT WAS ABOUT THE RACE. 13:54:13 LIKE WHAT? OF COURSE IT WAS ABOUT THE 13:54:15 WINNING. I WAS A COMPETITOR. 13:54:17 I MEANT IS TO WIN. BUT SHE MADE A REALLY IMPORTANT 13:54:20 OBSERVATION, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 13:54:22 THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE IN THE RACE, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE 13:54:27 IN THE ARENA, THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO GATHER STANDING UP 13:54:30 AND FIGHTING FOR THE THINGS THAT WE BELIEVE IN. 13:54:32 SHE WAS RIGHT THEN AND SHE IS RIGHT NOW. 13:54:36 NOW, I KNOW THAT EVERYBODY 13:54:40 HERE, I KNOW THAT YOU ALL KNOW THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO 13:54:44 GET IN THE ARENA AND FIGHT. YOU'VE MADE OUR CONSERVATIVE 13:54:48 CONVICTIONS YOUR CALL TO ACTION. IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN MORE 13:54:53 GOVERNMENT AND MORE FREEDOM, YOU ARE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM. 13:54:56 AND IN THE BATTLE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE HE THE, 13:54:59 YOU ARE FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY. TOGETHER WE COME A LONG WAY BUT 13:55:07 WE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO AND A LOT MORE TO DO. 13:55:10 WE NEED TO GET THIS COUNTRY BACK IN THE VALUES THAT MADE MY 13:55:14 GRANDFATHER, AND SO MANY LIKE HIM, RISKED IT ALL TO COME AND 13:55::55:45 DOES NOT AND ON OUR WATCH? AND THE ANSWER IS THAT WE'VE GOT 13:55:53 TO GET BACK INTO THE TRENCHES AND FIGHT FOR THE VALUES AND THE 13:55:58 IDEALS AND THE PRINCIPLES THAT MAY DISAGREE HIS COUNTRY ON THE 13:56:01 EARTH. 13:56:04 -- THAT MADE THIS COUNTRY THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE EARTH. 13:56:09 FOR OUR PART I WILL BE USING EVERY TOOL TO EXPAND LIBERTY, TO 13:56:13 EXPAND FREEDOM, AND TO STOP THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT. 13:56:15 WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TRY TO REGULATE WHAT THEY CAN'T 13:56:21 LEGISLATE, I WILL THROW EVERY OBSTACLE I POSSIBLY CAN IN THEIR 13:56:24 PATH. 13:56:29 SO WHEN THEY TRIED TO INCREASE SPENDING AND PUSH THEIR 13:56:33 LIBERAL AGENDA, I WILL BE ON THE FRONT LINE VOTING NO. 13:56:38 ON MONDAY, ON MONDAY AFTER 13:56:44 THE CPAC CELEBRATION IS OVER I'M GOING BACK TO WORK AND I HOPE 13:56:47 YOU WILL, TOO. I HOPE YOU GO BACK TO YOUR 13:56:51 COMMUNITIES AND KEEP SPEAKING OUT, KEEP HOLDING WASHINGTON 13:56:56 ACCOUNTABLE AND KEEP MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD. 13:56:59 WE MAY NOT WIN EVERY BATTLE EVERY TIME, BUT AS WINSTON 13:57:04 CHURCHILL SAID, SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL. 13:57:06 FAILURE IS NOT FATAL. IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE 13:57:08 THAT COUNTS. 13:57:17 SO LET'S MAKE OUR CONVICTIONS OUR COLLEGE. 13:57:19 LET'S GET BACK IN THE ARENA. LET'S HAVE THE COURAGE TO 13:57:22 CONTINUE OUR FIGHT. LET'S EXPAND OUR MOVEMENT. 13:57:24 AND TOGETHER, LET'S MAKE 2012 OUR MOMENT. 13:57:30 THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD 13:57:33 CONTINUE TO BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 13:57:34 THANK YOU. 13:57:37 13:57:41 13:57:58 YOU KNOW, WE ARE RELIEVED ABOUT THE NEW HOUSE, BUT WE ARE 13:58:03 SEEING SOME CENTERS THAT CAN KICK SOME BOOTY, AREN'T WE? 13:58:07 MADE WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT CLEANED UP, TOO. 13:58:10 LET'S WORK ON IN 2012. GOT A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS. 13:58:14 BE SURE TO VOTE IN THE "WASHINGTON TIMES" CPAC 2011 13:58:20 STRAW POLL. POLLING LOCATIONS ARE LOCATED IN 13:58:23 REGISTRATION LOBBY IN EXHIBIT HALL. 13:58:25 VOTING CLOSES AT 3:00 TODAY. SO MAKE SURE YOU DO IT IF YOU 13:58:27 WANT TO SEE YOUR BOAT. AND GET CPAC EXHIBITOR LIST 13:58:32 SCHEDULE BOOK SIGNINGS AND HOTEL MAPS, DOWNLOAD THE SEATBACK 2011 13:58:37 APT FOR YOUR iPHONE. THIS IS VERY HIGH-TECH PLACE 13:58:41 YOU. I'M STILL -- I LIVE OUT IN THE 13:58:48 MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. WE'RE GOING TO GET OUR COUNTRY 13:58:50 BACK. WE ARE. 13:58:51 IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF WORK AND YET SOME OF US HAVE NOTICED 13:58:55 IT LOOKS LIKE ROADKILL. BUT I KNOW WE CAN COME BACK AND 13:58:59 BE A LIGHT ON THE HILL BECAUSE WE MUST. 13:59:01 THE WORLD DOESN'T NEED US. WE WILL COME BACK. 13:59:07 SO DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR COUNTRY. 13:59:09 IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME WORK. I KNOW IT'S HARD TO COME BACK, 13:59:13 AND WE WILL BECAUSE I GET FROM NEAR DEATH FIVE YEARS AGO. 13:59:16 I WAS TWO MINUTES F 14:00:00 LIBERAL GOVERNMENT ON THE AIR AGAIN. 14:00:03 I AM AN AMERICAN. I HAVE A WILL THAT I WANTED TO 14:00:06 LIVE. I WANTED TO TALK AGAIN AND STOP 14:00:10 DOING. AND REMEMBER THINGS AND WALK. 14:00:13 AND IT TOOK A LOT OF WORK BUT I DID, AND I'M A JOGGER. 14:00:15 I'M BACK. THANK GOD FOR PRAYER AND LIFE 14:00:21 AND WORK. WE HAVE TO USE THE SAME SPIRIT 14:00:23 OF TO GET THIS COUNTRY BACK. WE'LL, VISION, DISCIPLINE, WORK, 14:00:29 AND GAPS. THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES. 14:00:31 OTHERWISE YOU'LL JUST BE A VICTIM. 14:00:34 WILL JUST DRIFT AWAY AND WE DON'T WANT THAT. 14:00:35 LET'S MOVE ALONG. WE GOT KEN BLACKWELL COMING UP 14:00:39 NEXT WHICH IS A SENIOR FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS UNION 14:00:41 AND TO INTRODUCE OUR NEXT GUEST. CENTER MIKE LEE. 14:00:45 AND YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS. KEN IS QUITE THE GUY. 14:00:48 PUT OUR HANDS TOGETHER. 14:00:54 [APPLAUSE] GOOD AFTERNOON. 14:01:05 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE ARE AT A POINT IN OUR NATION'S 234 YEAR 14:01:15 HISTORY. WHERE WE ARE FACING AN ECONOMIC, 14:01:21 MORAL, AND SECURITY CHALLENGE LIKE NONE OTHER. 14:01:27 WITH OUR DEBT IN WHAT IT IS, WE HAVE A SITUATION AND A PROBLEM 14:01:33 THAT IS A MORAL CHALLENGE. BECAUSE OF THE INTERGENERATIONAL 14:01:42 THEFT THAT WE ARE PARTICIPATING IN. 14:01:44 IT IS A NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGE BECAUSE OF THE FOLKS 14:01:46 WHO HOLD OUR DEBT, CHINA. IT IS AN ECONOMIC CRISIS WIN 14:01:57 TOTAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS 41% OF OUR GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT. 14:02:07 BUT THEY ARE, AS WE ARE TOLD IN HEBREW SCROLL ONE, THERE'S A 14:02:11 CLOUD OF WITNESSES WATCHING HOW WE RUN THIS RACE, HOW WE NEED 14:02:20 THIS CHALLENGE. AND FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS, GOD 14:02:27 HAS BLESSED US WITH A SET OF LEADERS NOT ARE READY TO TACKLE 14:02:38 THIS CRISIS, THE CHALLENGES, THESE PROBLEMS. 14:02:42 AND AMONG THE TALLEST, AMONG THE BEST PREPARED IS SENATOR MIKE 14:02:49 LEE FROM UTAH. [APPLAUSE] 14:02:58 HE IS A CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR. 14:03:00 HE IS A SUPERB LAWYER. HE IS A GRASSROOTS TELL IT LIKE 14:03:05 IT IS POLITICIAN. HE IS A FAVORITE AMONG TEA 14:03:12 PARTIERS, AND HE IS A ANOTHER AE ASKED THE QUESTION. 14:07:13 PERHAPS SHE WAS ASKING HERSELF, NANCY, ARE YOU SERIOUS? 14:07:17 CAN USE AS WE MAINTAIN CONGRESS HAS ITS POWER? 14:07:23 WE ANSWER THIS QUESTION FOR HER IN NOVEMBER OF 2010. 14:07:27 [APPLAUSE] WE CAN NOW SAY TO SPEAKER 14:07:37 PELOSI I CORRECT MYSELF, FORMER SPEAKER PELOSI. 14:07:42 YES, NANCY, WE WERE SERIOUS. [APPLAUSE] 14:07:49 IT REMINDS ME OF THE ORIGINAL TEA PARTY. 14:07:55 NOT THE ONE THAT TOOK PLACE IN FIGURE 19, 2009. 14:07:59 THE ONE THAT TOOK PLACE IN DECEMBER 1773. 14:08:04 WHERE AN AMERICAN MERCHANTS UPSET OVER WHAT THEY PERCEIVED 14:08:09 AS OVERREACHING BY THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, NOT A NATIONAL 14:08:14 GOVERNMENT BASED IN WASHINGTON, D.C.. 14:08:15 IT DIDN'T EXIST THEN. AND NEITHER GOVERNMENT IN. 14:08:20 PROVIDE LAID THEM, BEING FAR AND DISTANT AND REMOVED FROM THE 14:08:26 PEOPLE THAT WERE SLOW TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS AND DEMANDS OF 14:08:30 PEOPLE. RELUCTANT RESPECT THAT 14:08:31 QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN VALUE OF SELF-RULE. 14:08:36 THOSE AMERICANS BOARDED SHIPS IN BOSTON HARBOR AND SEIZED CRATES 14:08:40 OF TEA, CASTING IT INTO THE WATER. 14:08:44 SLOWLY THE NEWS TRAVELED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. 14:08:47 A DIVISION MADE ITS WAY TO THE EARS OF KING GEORGE III AND HIS 14:08:52 MINISTERS. WHO I CAN ONLY IMAGINE MIGHT 14:08:54 HAVE HEARD THAT SAID IN A DISTINCTLY BRITISH ACCENTS, ARE 14:09:01 THEY SERIOUS? COULD IT POSSIBLY BE SERIOUS IN 14:09:04 WANTING TO STAND UP FOR WHAT WAS THEN THE WORLD'S ONLY SUPER 14:09:06 POWER? WE SHOW THEM THAT WE WERE. 14:09:10 IT TOOK US 14 YEARS TO GET TO THAT POINT IN 1773 WHERE WE AS 14:09:16 AMERICANS WERE PROCLAIMING WHAT WE DID NOT WANT FROM OUR 14:09:18 NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. OPPRESSIVE TAXATION 14:09:22 OVERREGULATION AND AN ASSUMPTION THAT THAT NATURAL GOVERNMENT. 14:09:26 IT TOOK US 14 YEARS TO GET FROM BOSTON HARBOR TO PHILADELPHIA 14:09:32 WHERE IN 1787 AND A HOT HALF, SHE WAS SWELTERING SUMMER WE AS 14:09:36 AMERICANS CAME UP WITH A DOCUMENT IN WHICH WE LAID OUT 14:09:41 WHAT WE DID WANT FROM OUR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. 14:09:44 BECAUSE WE UNDERSTOOD THAT, JUST AS WE UNDERSTAND NOW THAT 14:09:48 NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS BY THEIR VERY NATURE HAVE A CERTAIN 14:09:51 TENDENCY, UNAVOIDABLE UNFORTUNATELY, TO INCREASE THEIR 14:09:54 POWER OUT TO BECOME PIRATES. AND THIS WE SEE IS TRUE 14:09:59 REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN QUESTION 14:10:03 IS HEADED BY THE KING ON THE ONE HAND, OR BY A PRESIDENT ON THE 14:10:08 OTHER HAND, OR AS IT TURNS OUT, BY AN ELECTED PRESIDENT WHO 14:10:10 THINKS HE IS THE KING. YOU SEE, WE UNDERSTOOD THEN THAT 14:10:20 IT WAS IMPORTANT TO PUT IN SIGNIFICANT RESTRAINTS, 14:10:26 CONSTRAINTS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S ABILITY TO EXERCISE POWER. 14:10:29 SO IT CAME UP WITH A LIST OF POWERS THAT WE WANT TO LODGE IN 14:10:34 CONGRESS. WE SAID CONGRESS WOULD BE IN 14:10:36 CHARGE OF JUST A FEW BASIC THINGS, NOT EVERYTHING. 14:10:39 MOST OF THE POWER WOULD BE LEFT TO THE STATES. 14:10:42 BUT CONGRESS WOULD BE IN CHARGE OF THINGS LIKE REGULATING TRADE 14:10:46 BETWEEN STATES AND FOREIGN NATIONS, DECLARING WAR, 14:10:48 ESTABLISHING A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, AND A FEW 14:10:51 OTHER PARTS INCLUDE MY PERSONAL FAVORITE, THE AUTHORITY TO GRANT 14:10:54 LETTERS OF REPRISAL. I'M GLAD I GOT A FEW CHUCKLES 14:10:58 OUT OF THAT ONE. THAT'S MY FAVORITE POWER OF 14:11:02 CONGRESS, ONE THAT HELP ONE DAY TO EXERCISE AS A MEMBER OF THE 14:11:04 U.S. SENATE. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE YET 14:11:08 UNSCHOOLED IN THIS PRACTICE, A LETTER OF MARKET AND REPRISAL IS 14:11:13 ESSENTIALLY A HALL PASS ISSUED BY CONGRESS THAT ENTITLES THE 14:11:14 BEARER TO ACT IN UNITED STATES NAME TO ENGAGED IN 14:11:20 STATE-SPONSORED ACTS OF PIRACY ON THE HIGH SEAS. 14:11:24 AND SO HELP ME IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO REGARDLESS OF HOW 14:11:28 LONG I MIGHT BE PRIVILEGE TO SERVE IN THE U.S. SENATE, I'M 14:11:30 GOING TO GET THAT LETTER BEGUN GOING TO GET A SHIP AND AN EYE 14:11:34 PATCH AND GOING TO BE A PIRATE AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED TO JOIN 14:11:35 ME. [APPLAUSE] 14:11:47 WE SHOW THE BRITISH THAT WE WERE SERIOUS. 14:11:51 AND WE STOPPED THEIR PIRACY. WE ADOPTED THE LIMITATIONS AND 14:11:57 WE PROSPERED AS RESULTS. ANOTHER FORM OF USER HAS 14:12:04 OVERTAKEN IS AN INTERVENING YEARS. 14:12:05 AFTER THOSE LIMITED POWERS AND THEIR BOUNDARIES WERE RESPECT 14:12:09 FOR THE BETTER PART OF 150 YEARS AFTER WE ADOPTED THIS BLESSED 14:12:15 DOCUMENT, AFTER MAKING A 14 YEAR JOURNEY FROM BOSTON TO 14:12:17 PHILADELPHIA, WE STOP LOOKING TO THE DOCUMENT ITSELF FOR THE 14:12:23 LIMITS. WE BECAME CONTENT FOR WHATEVER 14:12:25 REASON TO LOOK ACROSS THE STREETS TO THE SUPREME COURT OF 14:12:29 THE UNITED STATES WHERE NINE MEN AND WOMEN LEARNED IN THE LAW 14:12:32 TELL US WHAT IT MEANS, BUT THEY DON'T ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT 14:12:38 ANSWER. INSOFAR AS HOW SHOULD CONGRESS' 14:12:41 POWER EXTENDER THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT THE 14:12:44 SUPREME COURT SAYS IT WILL NOT GET INVOLVED IN AND HOW FAR THEY 14:12:49 WILL ALLOW THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO ACT IN ADOPTING 14:12:54 NEW LEGISLATION. AND ON THE OTHER HAND, WHAT CAN 14:12:56 BE RECONCILED WITH THE TAX AND THE ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDING OF 14:13:01 THE CONSTITUTION. IT'S THAT QUESTION, THE QUESTION 14:13:03 THAT SPARKED WHAT I CALL THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE THAT NEEDS 14:13:06 TO BE RESTORED TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. 14:13:09 IT'S FOR THAT VERY REASON THAT IRAN FOR THE UNITED STATES 14:13:12 SENATE. IT'S FOR THAT VERY REASON THAT 14:13:14 I'M STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY BECAUSE THE VOTERS IN MY 14:13:18 STATE, A GREAT STATE OF UTAH LIKE THOSE THROUGHOUT THE 14:13:23 COUNTRY UNDERSTAND THIS PRINCIPLE. 14:13:25 IT RESONATES WITH THEM. IT RINGS TRUE. 14:13:27 AND I WILL FIGHT EVERY DAY THAT I'M PRIVILEGED TO SERVE IN THE 14:13:28 BODY TO RESTORE THAT DEBATE AND REMIND MY COLLEAGUES OUR POWERS 14:13:32 ARE INDEED LIMITED. [APPLAUSE] 14:13:42 OVER THE COURSE OF TIME, BECAUSE THE LIMITATIONS ON 14:13:47 CONGRESS' POWER HAD BEEN SO WIDELY, SO BROADLY, SIDDIQI 14:13:53 IGNORED, IT'S TIME TO PUT AN ADDITIONAL CONSTRAINT ON TOP OF 14:13:57 CONGRESS' CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY. 14:14:01 WITH THAT DOCUMENT OF 1877, WE GIVE CONGRESS POWER TO BORROW A 14:14:07 NAME OF THE UNITED STATES. THIS POWER HAS BEEN ABUSED. 14:14:10 THE ABUSE OF THIS POWER HAS LED TO THE ABUSE OF OTHER POWERS, TO 14:14:14 THE UNFETTERED EXPANSION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 14:14:16 DO PIRACY IN A DIFFERENT FORM THAT WE NOT COMBAT. 14:14:20 WERE IN CONGRESS DECIDES TO RAISE TREASURY NOT ONLY OF THE 14:14:22 DAY, BUT THE TREASURY THAT PLAY HOST TO OUR CHILDREN AND OUR 14:14:26 GRANDCHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AFTER THEM. 14:14:28 WILL BE A MASSIVE DEBT THAT IS ASTOUNDINGLY IS NOW APPROACHING 14:14:35 $15 TRILLION. SOME PEOPLE DON'T MAKE THAT MUCH 14:14:37 MONEY IN A WHOLE YEAR. [LAUGHTER] 14:14:43 IT'S TRUE. SAD BUT TRUE. 14:14:45 EVEN WHEN YOU DIVIDE THAT FIGURE, $15 TRILLION BY 300 THE 14:14:50 AMERICANS, IT WORKS OUT TO ABOUT $50,000 A HEAD. 14:14:54 A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T MAKE THAT MUCH MONEY IN A YEAR. 14:14:57 AND YET THAT'S WHAT THE YOUNGEST INFANT ALIVE TODAY OWES TO THE 14:15:00 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON A PER CAPITA BASIS. 14:15:04 THIS IS WRONG. IT'S IMMORAL. 14:15:06 IT HAS TO END. NOT ONLY THAT BUT IT'S HURTING 14:15:09 US. IT'S KILLING JOBS. 14:15:11 WHERE AS IS CURRENTLY THE CASE, OUR NATION REACHES A DEBT-TO-GDP 14:15:17 RATIO APPROACHING 100%, NO JOKE, IT'S WHERE WE ARE, STUDY AFTER 14:15:21 STUDY AFTER STUDY DEMONSTRATE THAT THAT ECONOMY WILL SUFFER 14:15:25 THEM TO THE TUNE OF LOSING AS MANY AS 1 MILLION JOBS A YEAR. 14:15:29 TO THE TUNE OF SLOWING ECONOMIC GROWTH BY 1% OR MORE EVERY 14:15:32 SINGLE YEAR. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE 14:15:38 THIS. WE CAN'T ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN. 14:15:41 WE'VE GOT TO ALLOW THOSE HAVE TO BE CLEAR. 14:15:42 WE GOT LOVE THE ECONOMIC GROWTH TO RESUME. 14:15:45 THAT WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL WE STOP TRANSFERRING WEALTH FROM ONE 14:15:49 GENERATION TO ANOTHER. ESPECIALLY WHERE AS YOU THE 14:15:53 GENERATIONS FROM WHOM WE ARE BORROWING INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO ARE 14:15:56 NOT YET BORN AND IN SOME CASES PEOPLE WHO WILL ONE DAY BE BORN 14:15:59 TO PARENTS WHO HAVE YET TO MEET. THIS IS WRONG AND WE HAVE TO 14:16:04 STOP THE. THE WAY WE STOP IT IS THAT SAME 14:16:06 WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS STOP IT. 14:16:08 TO ADOPT A DOCUMENT, A GOVERNING DOCUMENT, DIFFICULTY CHANGE BUT 14:16:12 IMPOSES AND EXTERNAL CONSTRAINT ON THE ABILITY OF GOVERNMENT TO 14:16:16 OPERATE IN THIS FASHION. WHAT I'M PROPOSING, WHAT I HAVE 14:16:21 PROPOSED IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 14:16:22 FIVE, THE SO-CALLED LEAK-KYLE BALANCED BUDGET AND PROPOSAL. 14:16:27 I URGE ALL OF YOU TO SUPPORT IT. LET ME TO YOU BRIEFLY WHAT IT 14:16:36 SAYS. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION FIVE 14:16:41 TELLS US THAT ONCE IT'S APPROVED AND ONCE IT'S BEEN RATIFIED BY 14:16:44 THREE-FOURTHS OF THE STATE, AS IT CERTAINLY WILL BE, BECAUSE 14:16:47 THE STATES BALANCE THEIR BUDGETS JUST LIKE INDIVIDUALS AND 14:16:51 FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES DO, ONCE IT'S APPROVED IT WILL TELL 14:16:54 CONGRESS THAT IT MAY NOT SPEND MORE THAN IT TAKES IN EACH YEAR, 14:16:58 THREATENING US IN MORE THAN 80% OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT IN 14:17:01 EACH YEAR. THAT IT MAY NOT RAISE TAXES, 14:17:02 THAT IT MAY NOT RAISE THE DEBT CEILING WITHOUT TWO-THIRDS OF 14:17:06 BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS APPROVING THE EXTRAORDINARY 14:17:09 UNUSUAL MEASURE. [APPLAUSE] 14:17:20 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION FIVE, THE TREND UNDER -- THE LEE-KYL 14:17:29 IS THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND. IF YOU AGREE WITH INCOME IF YOU 14:17:32 LIVE IN, IF YOU LOVED LIBERTY, IF YOU LOVE IT, IF YOU LET 14:17:35 PROPERTY, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATOR, CONTACT YOUR 14:17:39 CONGRESSMAN AND TELL HIM OR HER TO SUPPORT THE LEE-KYL BALANCED 14:17:45 BUDGET AMENDMENT TO GET PAST AND TO END THIS FORM OF MODERN-DAY 14:17:49 JOURNEY ONCE AND FOR ALL. [APPLAUSE] 14:18:00 THERE ARE THOSE WHO STILL DOUBT. 14:18:03 THERE ARE THOSE WHO STILL INSIST WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IS 14:18:08 IMPOSSIBLE TO AND YET I WAS HERE A YEAR AGO AND I CAN SEE THAT 14:18:11 OUR NUMBERS HAVE SWELLED. PERHAPS DOUBLED OR TRIPLED. 14:18:16 I CAN SENSE AS I SPEAK TO GROUPS ACROSS MY STATE IN 14:18:20 WASHINGTON, D.C., AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, OUR MOVEMENT HAS NOT 14:18:24 STALLED. OUR MOVEMENT HAS SLOWED. 14:18:27 OUR RATE OF GROWTH, A RATE OF ACCELERATION IS INCREASING 14:18:31 EVERYDAY, EVERY SECOND. AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. 14:18:35 WHAT HAPPENS IN THE 2012 ELECTION CYCLE WILL MAKE WHAT 14:18:39 HAPPENED TO OUR DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS IN 2010 LOOK LIKE A 14:18:46 SUNDAY PICNIC. [APPLAUSE] 14:18:54 ARE WE SERIOUS? YOU BET WE ARE. 14:18:59 WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE SERIOUS. WE WILL FIGHT, AND WE WILL WIN 14:19:05 BECAUSE THIS IS A BATTLE THAT WE CAN WIN. 14:19:07 THAT WE MUST WIN, AND THAT WE WILL WIN. 14:19:10 MAY GOD BLESS THE SOVEREIGN, THE 50, THE UNITED STATES OF 14:19:17 AMERICA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 14:19:23 [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] 14:19:26 14:19:41 I'M GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE MY THEORY OF OUR GOVERNMENT NOW. 14:19:44 FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN SO ANNOYED WITH THE 14:19:47 REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS, LET ALONE OBAMA AS NORMAL. 14:19:53 THAT I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, FIRE THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM. 14:19:57 BUT DOGS AND HOUSE AND SENATE BECAUSE I LIKE ANIMALS. 14:19:59 I'M A DOG PERSON. LEAVE US ALONE. 14:20:06 WE WOULD DO BETTER I THINK. IT OUT HAVE TO EAT MY WORDS 14:20:11 BECAUSE OF THESE KICK BUTT SENATORS. 14:20:13 THEY ARE ACTUALLY DOING STUFF. THEY ARE BEING BRAVEHEART. 14:20:19 HELLO. HELLO. 14:20:21 HELLO. WE'VE GOT SOME REAL COURAGEOUS 14:20:27 PEOPLE IN THE SENATE. WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THEM AND 14:20:30 HOLD THEM. AND IN THE REPRESENTATIVES THAT 14:20:33 THE TEA PARTY HELP ABOUT HIM, OKAY. 14:20:36 IT'S GOING TO BE INTERESTING. MAYBE OBAMA IS GOING TO GET 14:20:40 QUITE A GROOVE BETWEEN HIS BROW. PELOSI CAN. 14:20:45 SHE CAN'T. I WON'T EVEN GO THERE. 14:20:47 I WAS GOING TO BE MEAN. NOW, SOME OF THE ARMY. 14:20:51 I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING. MOVING RIGHT ALONG. 14:21:00 LOU IS GOING TO INTRODUCE OUR NEXT PANEL, AND THIS IS ABOUT 14:21:03 TAXATION COOKIES THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TAX LIMITATION 14:21:07 COMMITTEE, ONE OF THE NATIONS LEADING GRASSROOTS LOBBIES WHICH 14:21:10 HE FOUNDED IN 75, ONLY WITH MILTON FRIEDMAN, OKAY? 14:21:15 HE'S RATHER HUGE. WITH THEN GOVERNOR RONALD 14:21:18 REAGAN. DEVELOP A MODEL FOR TAX 14:21:20 EXPENDITURE LIMITATION MEASURES NATIONWIDE. 14:21:23 HE IS THE AUTHOR OF THE SPENDING LIMITS, CONSTITUTION CONTROL OF 14:21:27 GOVERNMENT. OFF OF CALIFORNIA'S PIONEERING 14:21:29 STATE TERM LIMITS INITIATIVE AND A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN 14:21:32 CONSERVATIVE UNION BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 14:21:34 NOT TO BE MESSED WITH, TOTAL LEADER AND SERVANT, LOU WILL 14:21:40 INTRODUCE OUR NEXT PANEL. PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER. 14:21:43 [APPLAUSE] 14:21:45 14:22:16 [APPLAUSE] 14:22:32 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHAT A GREAT, GREAT CPAC THIS HAS 14:22:36 TURNED OUT TO BE. [APPLAUSE] 14:22:42 WHEN WE MET FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1973, AT THE MAYFLOWER, 14:22:49 WHY, THIS WAS ABOUT THE CROWD RIGHT HERE. 14:22:52 LOOK WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THAT TIME. 14:22:55 IT'S A GREAT TESTIMONY TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE AMERICAN 14:23:02 CONSERVATIVE UNION, TODAY'S TEEN AND CLAYTON MITCHELL AND THE 14:23:04 WHOLE TEAM. AND TO THE ACTIVISTS AROUND THE 14:23:10 COUNTRY AND TO THE NEW TEA PARTY MOVEMENT THAT WE HAVE, THIS HUGE 14:23:15 AND IMPRESSIVE EVENT. TO CELEBRATE TOGETHER THE 14:23:19 PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE AND 14:23:24 LIBERTY. INTEREST IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL 14:23:33 AMENDMENT, WHICH IS OUR SUBJECT MATTER TODAY, IS AS OLD AS THE 14:23:40 CONSTITUTION ITSELF. OF COURSE, AS THOMAS JEFFERSON 14:23:43 URGED THAT WE HAVE SOME KIND OF CONTROL OVER THE BORROWING POWER 14:23:48 OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE REPLAY OF THE 14:23:57 INTEREST IN RONALD REAGAN WITH THE CELEBRATION OF HIS 100th 14:24:00 BIRTHDAY, AND I HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING FOR HIM FOR THREE AND 14:24:04 HALF YEARS WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, BUT WHEN HE CAME 14:24:09 TO WASHINGTON AND WE JOINED HIM AND BROUGHT THE CONSTITUTIONAL 14:24:14 AMENDMENT CONCEPT FOR FISCAL DISCIPLINE, WHY WE HAD ONE WHALE 14:24:20 OF A FIGHT ON HER HANDS. AND WE HAD A REPLAY THAT WAS 14:24:28 JUST INCREDIBLE WITH THIS GENTLEMAN ON MY LEFT, ON YOUR 14:24:32 RIGHT, THE SENIOR SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF UTAH, ORRIN HATCH. 14:24:37 [APPLAUSE] WE HAVE SOME GREAT COSPONSORS 14:24:43 OF THE AMENDMENT, BUT I'LL TELL YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS 14:24:49 HE AND I WORKED TOGETHER, THAT IT WAS HIS LEADERSHIP AND HIS 14:24:56 ABILITIES HAVING BEEN, BY 1982, IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE FOR 14:25:04 SOME SIX YEARS, ON AUGUST THE FOURTH, 1982, WE GOT ON RONALD 14:25:11 REAGAN'S TAX AND SPENDING LIMITS BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT, 67 14:25:16 THOSE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 14:25:21 IT WAS A CLIFFHANGER THE HALLWAY, AND ORRIN HATCH WAS THE 14:25:24 MAN WHO MADE IT ALL HAPPEN. UNFORTUNATELY, WE THEN WENT INTO 14:25:32 A TIP O'NEILL CONTROLLED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 14:25:35 WE FOUGHT VALIANTLY. WE HAD BEEN DEMOCRAT 14:25:40 REPRESENTATIVE PHIL GRAMM AND REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVES 14:25:45 MICKEY EDWARDS, AND WE WERE ABLE TO SECURE THROUGH THEIR EFFORTS 14:25:51 A DISCHARGE PETITION IN THE HOUSE. 14:25:54 AND SO WE BROUGHT IT TO A VOTE IN THE HOUSE. 14:25:57 WE GOT A HUGE MAJORITY, BUT NOT THE TWO-THIRDS VOTE THAT WAS 14:26:02 REQUIRED. INTEREST IN CONSTITUTIONAL 14:26:07 AMENDMENT OVER TIME, BUT WITH THE RESURGENCE OF CONSERVATIVE 14:26:12 FEELINGS AND THE WELLSPRING FOR HUMAN LIBERTY AND FOR CONTROL 14:26:16 OVER THIS CRAZYTOWN FISCALLY, HAS RETURNED THIS ISSUE TO THE 14:26:22 TOP OF THE ISSUE LIST. SO WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO 14:26:27 WORKING WITH EVERYONE AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL AND WORKING ON 14:26:31 DESIGN OF THE AMENDMENT AS WE PROCEED. 14:26:35 SAYS WHILE REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT, A NEW BODY OF INFORMATION HAS 14:26:41 EMERGED CALLED THE OPTIMAL OR RIGHT SIZE OF GOVERNMENT, WE ARE 14:26:45 ALL FOR LIMITED GOVERNMENT. NOW WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE TO DO 14:26:48 IN ORDER TO MAKE IT A GOVERNMENT THAT IS MAXIMIZING ECONOMIC 14:26:53 GROWTH, WHICH IS WHAT WE MUST HAVE IF WE'RE GOING TO WORK OUT 14:26:58 IS BANKRUPT SITUATION IN WHICH WE FIND OUR NATION. 14:27:01 AND IT IS WITH THAT IN MIND THAT SOME OF THE NEW AMENDMENTS HAVE 14:27:05 BEEN TALKING ABOUT, PERCENTAGES AND ASPECTS OF GROSS DOMESTIC 14:27:10 PRODUCT AS THE TARGET. BUT WITHOUT FURTHER ADO LET ME 14:27:15 INTRODUCE OUR FIRST SPEAKER ON THE PROGRAM AND PROJECT YEAR, 14:27:21 AND HE IS THE GREAT SENIOR SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF UTAH, 14:27:24 OUR GOOD FRIEND, SENATOR ORRIN HATCH. 14:27:29 [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. 14:27:38 THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT'S A REAL PRIVILEGE TO BE WITH 14:27:42 YOU GREAT ACTIVISTS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 14:27:45 AND ANY CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. WHICH IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT IN 14:27:47 MANY RESPECTS. LET ME JUST SAY THAT HOW DID YOU 14:27:53 LIKE MY PARTNER IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, MIKE LEE, ISN'T 14:27:57 HE GREAT? [APPLAUSE] 14:28:03 HE'S A VERY FINE YOUNG MAN AND HE'S A VERY, VERY ASTUTE 14:28:07 CONSTITUTIONALIST. SO I APPRECIATE HAVING THEM WORK 14:28:10 WITH US. WHY DO WE NEED A BALANCED BUDGET 14:28:13 AND? I'LL TELL YOU WHY BECAUSE 14:28:15 CONGRESS IS INCAPABLE OF BALANCING THE BUDGET BY ITSELF. 14:28:18 IT'S THAT SIMPLE. [APPLAUSE] 14:28:22 AND PEOPLE GIVE MORE CREDIT FOR SPRING THAN HE DO FOR 14:28:25 CONSERVING. AND THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM 14:28:28 WITH US CONSERVATIVES IS THAT WE HAVE TO FIGHT THESE BATTLES ALL 14:28:30 THE TIME. THEY ARE CALLED STINGY IN A 14:28:33 THOUGHTFUL AND COMPASSIOCOMPASSION AND ALL 14:28:35 THOSE THINGS, BUT I THINK THE PEOPLE WHO ARE STINGY, A 14:28:37 THOUGHTFUL AND UNCOMPASSIONATE ARE THOSE OF OTHERS COUNTRY INTO 14:28:40 THE GROUND. [APPLAUSE] 14:28:46 I'M GETTING TIRED OF VISIT MINISTRATION BLAMING GEORGE BUSH 14:28:48 FOR EVERYTHING. [APPLAUSE] 14:28:57 WHAT THEY FAIL TO TAKE IS THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER BOTH HOUSES 14:29:00 OF THE CONGRESS TWO YEARS BEFORE BARACK OBAMA TOOK OVER THE 14:29:04 PRESIDENCY AND SINCE HE TOOK OVER THE PRESIDENCY THEY JUST 14:29:07 ABOUT SPENT AS BLIND. THAT'S THE THING THEY VERY 14:29:10 SELDOM MENTION. WE'VE HAD THREE STRAIGHT YEARS 14:29:13 NOW, $1.5 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT, OR DEFICIT. 14:29:18 RENAULT $14 TRILLION NATIONAL DEBT. 14:29:20 BY 2020 WE SHOULD BE AROUND 21 AND HALF TRILLION DOLLARS 14:29:25 ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN ACTUARIES. 14:29:27 WE'RE SPINNING 25% OF THE GDP AND WE HAVEN'T SPENT THAT MUCH 14:29:31 MONEY SINCE WORLD WAR II WHEN THE GOVERNMENT VIRTUALLY TOOK 14:29:32 OVER EVERYTHING. AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER. 14:29:34 WE WERE USUALLY AROUND 18-20% OF GDP BUT IN 25%, THAT'S A HUGE, 14:29:43 HUGE BURDEN ON THE TAXPAYERS, HUGE BURDEN ON OUR COUNTRY. 14:29:45 WE'VE GOT TO GET IT BACK. A BALANCED BUDGET, IT SEEMS TO 14:29:49 ME AS ONE OF THE FEW WAYS THAT WE HAVE WILL REMAIN GET IT BACK. 14:29:54 LET ME TELL BIT OF HISTORY. BACK IN 1980 WE PASS IT THROUGH 14:29:58 THE SENATE. WE COULDN'T GET TO THE HOUSE. 14:30:01 THEN ANY NUMBER OF OTHER OCCASIONS I BROUGHT IT TO THE 14:30:03 FLOOR OF THE SENATE YEAR WE HAD 63, 64 AND FINAL IN 1997, 66. 14:30:10 CAN YOU IMAGINE IF WE HAD HAD THAT ONE MORE VOTE IN 1997 WHERE 14:30:14 WE WOULD BE TODAY? WOULD WE BE IN THE MESS WE'RE IN 14:30:17 TODAY? WITH PRIZES BE ABLE TO GET AWAY 14:30:20 WITH WHAT THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH? 14:30:21 WHAT CONGRESS BE ABLE TO BE SO PROBLEMATIC WAS THE PROBLEM TO 14:30:27 GET IS NO. THAT'S WHY WE NEED A BALANCED 14:30:28 BUDGET AMENDMENT. .. 14:31:11 [APPLAUSE] THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS WRONG 14:31:12 IN THIS TOWN. I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW I'VE 14:31:17 BEEN IN THE SENATE NOW 34 YEARS. IN FACT, WHEN I WALKED IN TODAY 14:31:22 SOMEBODY SAID YOU WERE IN THE ORIGINAL TEA PARTY. 14:31:26 [LAUGHTER] I SAID NO, I CAME A FEW YEARS 14:31:30 LATER. BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS 14:31:32 I'VE BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW A FEW THINGS, TOO. 14:31:35 I'VE BEEN IN THE SENATE 34 YEARS. 14:31:38 WE HAVE NEVER HAD A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY IN THOSE 14:31:41 34 YEARS IN THE SENATE. AND WHY IS THAT? 14:31:45 BECAUSE WE'VE ALWAYS HAD THREE TO SIX MODERATE TO LIBERAL 14:31:49 REPUBLICANS WHO GO WITH LIBERAL REPUBLICANS ON SPENDING ISSUES. 14:31:55 MOST COME FROM BLUE STATES ARE LIKELY TO BE IN THE SAME SENATE. 14:31:59 WE WANT BATTLES BECAUSE THE GREAT PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP, 14:32:01 REAGAN BUSH ONE, BUSH TWO AND EVEN CLINTON WAS HELPFUL IN A 14:32:07 NUMBER OF WAYS. BUT SINCE THEN, THEY'VE BEEN 14:32:12 SPENDING A SPINE. AND WE CAN GET IT BACK IF WE ALL 14:32:17 GET ACTIVE, WE'LL DO WHAT WE SHOULD. 14:32:20 I JUST TOOK OVER AS THE RANKING MEMBER OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. 14:32:23 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IS THE 14:32:28 MOST IMPORTANT IN THE WHOLE CONGRESS. 14:32:30 WHY? IN THE FINANCE COMMITTEE'S 14:32:33 JURISDICTION HAPPENS TO BE OUT THE TAX PROGRAMS, HAPPENS TO BE 14:32:36 SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICAID, MEDICARE, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, 14:32:41 BONDING AND A WHOLE RAFT OF OTHER THINGS. 14:32:43 A GOOD XT% OF OUR BUDGET IS IN THAT COMMITTEE. 14:32:46 I INTEND TO GIVE REELECT THAT IN 2012 AND I BELIEVE I'LL BE 14:32:50 CHAIRMAN IN 2013. [APPLAUSE] 14:32:58 I CAN TELL YOU THIS, THEY HAVE NOW 25 DEMOCRATIC SEATS VERSUS 14:33:03 REPUBLICANS. DAN ACTUALLY REPUBLICAN SEATS. 14:33:06 WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE SENATE. 14:33:10 AND IF WE CAN KEEP CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, I GUARANTEE TO YOU 14:33:13 THAT I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO GET THIS MESS UNDER 14:33:17 CONTROL. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:33:25 I AM GOING TO DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER UP TILL THAT TIME, BUT 14:33:30 THE FACT IS THAT IT'S A LOT EASIER WHEN YOU CAN CONTROL THE 14:33:33 AGENDA. LET ME JUST TELL YOU, I'M 14:33:34 PREPARED TO BE THE MOST HATED MAN IN THIS GODFORSAKEN CITY IN 14:33:39 ORDER TO SAVE THIS COUNTRY AND I NEED YOUR HELP. 14:33:45 [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] 14:33:59 TIAMAT, SENATOR. AND NOW SOMEONE WELL KNOWN TO 14:34:03 THE TEA PARTY MOVED TO, WHO IS CEO OF FREDA MARKS ALONG WITH 14:34:10 DICK ARMEY HAS REALLY HELPED TO PAVE THE WAY FOR MUCH THAT IT 14:34:16 HAPPENED IN THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT NATIONALLY. 14:34:20 THIS YOUNG MAN CAME FROM GROSS CITY COLLEGE BY GOLLY AND FROM 14:34:26 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY WHERE HE GOT HIS MBA AND TSA PATERNOSTER 14:34:33 AT BUDGETARY ISSUES, HAVING BEEN IN THE HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE 14:34:40 AND HAVING WORKED FOR REPRESENTATIVE JIM MILLER FOR 14:34:44 YEARS. HE IS ONE OF THE GREAT YOUNG, 14:34:49 BRAVE ECONOMISTS IN WASHINGTON WHO BELIEVES, AS WE DO IN 14:34:53 BALANCED-BUDGET AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. 14:34:55 PLEASE WELCOME, NOT KIDDING. -- NOT KIDDING. 14:35:08 [APPLAUSE] SINCE PEOPLE SEEM EAGER TO 14:35:10 STAND UP, NAT PARTIERS IN THE HOUSE? 14:35:13 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] DO YOU GUYS WANT TO STAND UP IN 14:35:17 SHOW YOUR NEIGHBORS WHO YOU ARE. GIVE THESE GUYS A HAND. 14:35:28 [APPLAUSE] OKAY, I NOTICED SOME PEOPLE THAT 14:35:31 DIDN'T STAND UP. LET ME ASK ANOTHER QUESTION. 14:35:36 DOES ANYONE HERE THAT THE BANK OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS 14:35:40 SPENDING TOO MUCH MONEY THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE LINUX 14:35:45 [APPLAUSE] DOES ANYONE THINK THE FEDERAL 14:35:47 GOVERNMENT IS GETTING INVOLVED IN SO MANY THINGS THAT IT 14:35:49 SHOULDN'T DO BECAUSE THE COST DUCHENNE SAYS IT CAN'T DO IT. 14:35:53 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WILL YOU GUYS STAND UP I'M NOT? 14:36:04 [APPLAUSE] OKAY, TEA PARTY GUYS COME AND 14:36:08 MEET THESE OTHER GUYS. GET THEM INVOLVED. 14:36:11 IT TURNS OUT WE ARE ALL T. PARTIERS NOW. 14:36:15 YOU DON'T NEED TO BE SHY. I MEAN, THIS IS A COMING-OUT 14:36:19 PARTY FOR ALL OF US. MY NAME IS MATT. 14:36:22 MIT PARTIER. YOU KNOW, I GET KIND OF 14:36:28 EMOTIONAL ABOUT THIS PLACE AT THIS HOTEL BECAUSE LAST YEAR AT 14:36:31 THIS TIME IN THIS HOTEL, I THINK ON THIS DAY, RYAN HACKER AND THE 14:36:36 TEA PARTY ON A NUMBER OF TEA PARTY GROUPS WHO HAD PUT 14:36:40 TOGETHER THIS DOCUMENT THAT NO ONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO HOW 14:36:42 THE CONTRACT FOR AMERICA -- IT BECAME WHAT IS NOW UNDERSTOOD AS 14:36:52 A MANIFEST TOWARDS THE NINE TO 10 ISSUES THAT WE WERE INSISTING 14:36:57 FROM THE BOTTOM UP, FROM THE GRASSROOTS TO CANDIDATES WHO 14:37:00 WANTED TO WIN PUBLIC OFFICE SIGN ON TO. 14:37:03 BUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY? WE HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE THE 14:37:07 SPARSELY ATTENDED PRESS CONFERENCE, WHERE A PARTICULAR 14:37:11 CANDIDATE, MIKE LEIGH FROM UTAH WAS THE FIRST GUY TO SIGN. 14:37:24 [APPLAUSE] NOBODY REALLY PAID ATTENTION, 14:37:26 BUT BY THE TIME THE DUST SETTLED ON NOVEMBER 2nd, 55 WINNING 14:37:30 HOUSE MEMBERS AND 12 SENATE WINNING NUMBERS HAVE SIGNED ON 14:37:34 TO THAT DOCUMENT. SO WHEN MR., THE TEA PARTY TOOK 14:37:38 OVER WASHINGTON D.C. IT WAS A HOSTILE TAKEOVER. 14:37:42 THESE ARE THE ISSUES THAT NOW DEFINED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN 14:37:47 WASHINGTON D.C. [APPLAUSE] 14:37:52 AND WHAT IS HIGH ON THAT LIST? LIMITS THE SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT, 14:38:02 LIMIT TAXES. A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN WORKING A 14:38:04 LOT OF YEARS ON THIS PROJECT. AND IT IS IMPORTANT WHEN YOU 14:38:08 OFFER THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION TO GET IT 14:38:10 ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THE FOUNDERS CREATED A PROCESS 14:38:15 THAT IS AN ARDUOUS PROCESS TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION BECAUSE 14:38:18 THEY KNEW THEY DIDN'T WANT FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TAKE THIS 14:38:21 RESPONSIBILITY LIGHTLY. I LOOKED AT THE VARIOUS 14:38:28 PROPOSALS AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT HOW MANY SENATORS, HOW MANY 14:38:31 CONGRESSMEN WANT TO DO THE RIGHT BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. 14:38:34 MY OWN PERSONAL CHOICE BASED ON WHAT I'VE SEEN IS THAT SENATOR 14:38:37 MIKE LEIGH HAS OFFERED A BALANCED-BUDGET REPOSE OF 14:38:39 GOVERNMENT AND SCOPE OF GOVERNMENT GDP, WHICH IS THE 14:38:44 HISTORICAL AVERAGE AND NOW IN SENATOR HATCH MENTIONED IT ONLY 14:38:48 5%. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS. 14:38:51 WE SHOULD NOT TOLERATE THAT AS AMERICANS, AS GRASSROOTS 14:38:54 CITIZENS WHO BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION. 14:38:56 WE HAVE TO GET IT RIGHT. WE HAVE TO GET IT TO SMALL 14:39:00 CHANGE RIGHT. WE HAVE TO PASS IT OUT OF THE 14:39:02 SENATE. WE HAVE TO PASS IT OUT OF THIS 14:39:03 HOUSE AND WE HAVE TO TAKE IT TO THE DATES. 14:39:06 AND I BELIEVE THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT WE NOW CALL THE TEA 14:39:09 PARTY IS THE WAY TO DO THINGS IN THE WORDS OF ROBERT MANUAL, THE 14:39:13 WAY TO DO THINGS YOU COULDN'T DO BEFORE. 14:39:15 DO YOU THINK WE CAN GET IT DONE THIS TIME? 14:39:18 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE. 14:39:24 THAT IS A LONG PROCESS. WE HAVE TO DO IS SPENDING TODAY. 14:39:29 WE HAVE TO START CUTTING BACK PROGRAMS THAT DON'T MAKE ANY 14:39:32 SENSE ANYMORE. WE HAVE TO PUT EVERYTHING ON THE 14:39:35 TABLE. AND I THINK WE AS ACTIVISTS NEED 14:39:38 TO INSIST THAT EVERY CONGRESSMEN, EVERY SENATOR OFFER 14:39:40 REAL SPENDING REDUCTIONS TODAY. WE NEED TO TAKE A WHACK AT THIS 14:39:44 $1.5 TRILLION DEFICIT. WE NEED TO GO AFTER THE 14:39:48 $14 TRILLION DEBT. AND IT'S NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE TO 14:39:49 SUPPORT LONG-TERM AND TRADITIONAL CHANGE. 14:39:54 WE'VE GOT TO STOP THE BLEEDING TODAY AND EVERYONE OF YOU IN 14:39:56 THIS OFFICE NEEDS TO IN THIS FIGURE MEMBERS TO THAT. 14:40:01 [APPLAUSE] FINALLY -- AND THIS IS THE MOST 14:40:06 IMPORTANT LESSON I THINK OF THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT. 14:40:09 IF YOU GO BACK AND READ THE FOUNDERS, YOU GO BACK AND LOOK 14:40:11 AT THE DEBATE AROUND THE DECLARATION, AROUND THE DRAFTING 14:40:16 OF THE CONSTITUTION, YOU DISCOVER -- YOU REDISCOVER A 14:40:19 MANDATE FROM OUR FOUNDERS. IT IS NOT ENOUGH THAT THEY 14:40:24 OFFERED US THE MOST INGENIOUS DOCUMENT KNOWN TO MAN IN TERMS 14:40:29 OF REINING IN GOVERNMENT TO ENSURING MAXIMUM INDIVIDUAL 14:40:34 FREEDOM. THEY NEGATE ANY DOCUMENT WASN'T 14:40:36 ENOUGH TO PROTECT THE LIBERTIES WE HOLD SO DEAR IN THIS ROOM, 14:40:40 THAT THE PEOPLE IN THE NAMES -- AND THE WORDS OF THOMAS 14:40:45 JEFFERSON, THE PEOPLE ARE THE ONLY ASSURED ALLIANCE IN DEFENSE 14:40:48 OF OUR LIBERTY. WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 14:40:52 WHAT WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON TALKING ABOUT? 14:40:53 IF PEOPLE DON'T SHOW UP, IF YOU DON'T I'LL TAKE THAT 14:40:58 RESPONSIBILITY TO HOLD YOUR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE, WE WILL 14:41:00 ALL FAIL. NO BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT, NO 14:41:04 CONSTITUTION WILL PROTECT US FROM THE GOVERNMENT UNLESS WE 14:41:06 SHOW UP. WHAT IS THAT? 14:41:08 THAT IS THE TEA PARTY MAY SHOULDN'T. 14:41:11 ARE YOU GUYS READY TO DO THAT? [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:41:16 ARE YOU GUYS READY TO MAKE 2012 LOOK LIKE A FIRESTORM AND 2010 14:41:23 LOOK LIKE A GENTEEL TEA PARTY BY COMPARISON? 14:41:28 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WITH HAVE TO TAKE AMERICA BACK. 14:41:33 EVERYTHING WE ARE DOING TODAY IS STEP ONE. 14:41:37 I FEEL LIKE WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED AND I HOPE YOU GUYS WILL 14:41:41 JOIN US IN THIS SITE IS WE SET OUT TO BALANCE THE BUDGET AND TO 14:41:44 STOP THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. 14:41:46 THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:41:52 THANK YOU, NOT. NOW WELCOME REPRESENTATIVE 14:41:58 THADEUS O'CONNOR. ONE OF MICHIGAN'S FINEST ELECTED 14:42:04 TO THE CONGRESS IN 02. HE HAS SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE 14:42:11 REPUBLICAN HOUSE POLICY COMMITTEE, ONE OF THE MOST 14:42:13 IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP ROLES IN THAT INSTITUTION. 14:42:17 HE IS A VALUED MEMBER OF THE IMPORTANT FINANCIAL SERVICES 14:42:22 COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTED TO 14:42:26 FISCAL WITH POSSIBILITY. I INTRODUCE TO YOU, 14:42:31 REPRESENTATIVE THADDEUS MCCARTER MCCOTTER. 14:42:47 [APPLAUSE] IT'S NICE TO BE WITH YOU. 14:42:49 I KNOW WE ARE RUNNING SHORT, SO I'M GOING TO BE BRIEF BECAUSE WE 14:42:51 WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HEAR FROM YOU. 14:42:56 I WORK ON THE BALANCED-BUDGET FOR IMPORT REASON. 14:43:00 AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME WHEN APPROPRIATIONS ARE MADE FOR THE 14:43:02 UNITED STATES CONGRESS, THE MOST POWERFUL ENTITIES -- ARE MOST 14:43:04 POWERFUL ENTITIES REMAINS THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THEMSELVES. 14:43:09 THE CONSTITUTIONAL BALANCED BUDGET BUT THE SOVEREIGN 14:43:11 AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE APPROPRIATOR SERMON TELLS THEM 14:43:14 WHAT THEY CANNOT DO. AND IF ANYONE THINKS THAT IS 14:43:18 UNNECESSARY, LOOK AT OUR CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS. 14:43:21 AND THE REASON THAT WE DO THIS IS NOT SIMPLY BECAUSE THE 14:43:23 BALANCED-BUDGET HAS BEEN DONE TO IT SELF. 14:43:26 IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVEN NOW. 14:43:29 AND IF I MAY DEMONSTRATE THE USE OF THE CRUDE CROPS. 14:43:35 IN THE INDUSTRIAL AREA, BUSINESS BECAME HIGHLY VERTICAL. 14:43:45 PLEASE, NO USE OF PROPER FINGERS. 14:43:49 [LAUGHTER] AS TIME WENT ON, GOVERNMENT 14:43:53 THINKS FDR, LBJ BECAME HIGHLY VERTICAL, HIGHLY CENTRALIZED, 14:43:58 HIGHLY CALM DOWN. BUT WE SEE EVERY DAY AMONGST 14:44:03 THEM AND AROUND THE WORLD IS THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION, WHEREBY 14:44:08 LARGE CENTRALIZED INSTITUTIONS AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE 14:44:10 DEEP FAMILIES THEMSELVES HAVE BECOME MORE NIMBLE, MORE 14:44:13 ACCOUNTABLE, MORE DEMOCRATIC BECAUSE WE LIVE IN WHAT? 14:44:17 A CONSUMER DRIVEN ECONOMY. A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT IS 14:44:22 CRITICAL TO ENSURING THAT THE HIGHLY CENTRALIZED TOP-DOWN 14:44:26 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WE HAVE TODAY BECOMES A CITIZEN DRIVEN 14:44:31 GOVERNMENT. AND WHEN WE IN THE UNITED STATE 14:44:37 MATCH A CITIZEN DRIVEN GOVERNMENT WITH A CONSUMER 14:44:40 DRIVEN ECONOMY, WE WILL REMAIN THE MOST EXCEPTIONAL NATION IN 14:44:42 THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY. THANK YOU. 14:44:48 [APPLAUSE] WE ARE READY FOR SOME 14:44:57 QUESTIONS. AND WHILE PEOPLE GOT THERE, LET 14:44:58 ME PUT OUT ONE THOUGHT THAT I HAVE SHARED WITH THE TEA PARTY 14:45:02 PETRIE UP, WITH AMY KRAMER OF THE TEA PARTY EXPRESS, ET 14:45:08 CETERA. AND THIS GOES RIGHT TO EACH AND 14:45:09 EVERY ONE OF YOU. I REALLY LIKE GOOD HOUSE OF 14:45:16 REPRESENTATIVES LEADERSHIP HAS HER HANDS FULL WITH CUTTING 14:45:21 SPENDING, FOCUSING OVERSIGHT AND OBVIOUS WE'VE ASKED THEM TO DO. 14:45:27 THE LAST THING WE CAN DO AS A PEOPLE IS TO PROVIDE ANY ISSUES 14:45:33 ON WHICH THIS CURRENT SITTING PRESIDENT CAN WIN REELECTION AND 14:45:40 12. IF WE INTERJECT INTO THE DEBATE 14:45:45 RIGHT NOW, PROPER REFORM OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND HEALTH CARE, 14:45:49 WE RISK OVERLOADING THE BURDEN WE ARE PLACING ON OUR CURRENT 14:45:54 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERS AND OUR LEADERS IN THE SENATE ON 14:45:58 THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE. WE THINK IT'S GOING TO BE 14:46:02 INCUMBENT UPON US. GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS, T. 14:46:08 PARTIERS AND ALL THE REST, TO TAKE THOSE OUT OF WASHINGTON FOR 14:46:12 THE NEXT TWO YEARS, PUT THEM AT THE TOWN HALL MEETINGS, PUT THEM 14:46:18 AT THE BUS STOPS WITH ALL OF THE BUSES THAT ARE CROSSING THE 14:46:25 COUNTRY AND CAN CROSS AGAIN AND BEGIN TO DISCUSS WHEN THE BOTTOM 14:46:29 UP THE PROPER SOLUTION TO SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE HEALTH CARE 14:46:35 SITUATION, WHETHER IT BE MEDICARE OR WHATEVER. 14:46:38 SO I THROW THAT OUT AND OFFER THAT FOR YOUR THINKING. 14:46:42 BECAUSE COMING OUT OF THIS CONFERENCE CAN BE SOME 14:46:45 TREMENDOUS CHANGES AND DIRECTION FOR US AND THIS COUNTRY IF WE 14:46:48 GET IT RIGHT. QUESTION? 14:46:56 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SENATOR HATCH, I HAVE A QUESTION 14:46:58 FOR YOU. ONE MONTH AGO TONIGHT IN THE 14:47:02 DARK OF NIGHT, ILLINOIS HIKED ITS INCOME TAXED -- PERSONAL 14:47:07 INCOME TAXED BY 67% AND OUR CORPORATE INCOME TAX BY 43%. 14:47:14 AND LISTENING TO THIS PANEL THIS MORNING, I AM WONDERING HOW MUCH 14:47:17 OF THIS IS MANDATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN TERMS OF 14:47:24 THE AMOUNT OF DATA SAVED EACH OF THE STATES ARE HAVING TO BURDEN 14:47:28 HIM AND FORCING TAX INCREASES. I WOULD HAVE TO SAY WOULD 14:47:33 TAKE A LONG TIME TO SAY HOW MUCH HE CARES THERE'S A LOT, BUT 14:47:37 LET'S TAKE THE HEALTH CARE BILL. IT'S MAINTAINING ALL TYPES OF 14:47:42 OBLIGATIONS WITHOUT THE STATE HAVE IN CONTROL. 14:47:44 MICHAEL HAS BEEN TO A 50 STATE LABORATORIES OF THE STATES CAN 14:47:47 PICK AND CHOOSE AMONG EACH OTHER AND SEE WHAT IS RIGHT BECAUSE 14:47:53 EACH STATE HAS DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS, EACH HAS DIFFERENT 14:47:55 APPROACHES TO THINGS. THERE ARE SO MANY IMPOSITIONS ON 14:47:59 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKE ONE OTHER IN THE HEALTH CARE BILL 14:48:08 AND MEDICINE MEDICAID RESTRICTIONS THAT THEY REQUIRE 14:48:10 THE STATE TO DO AND PROMISE IN THE STATES ARE STUCK WITH THEM. 14:48:16 AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THEM EITHER. 14:48:19 I THINK YOU'RE FROM ILLINOIS, IS THAT RIGHT? 14:48:23 ABOUT THE STATES IN THE UNION, ILLINOIS IS IN THE WORST STATE, 14:48:27 EVEN WORSE IN CALIFORNIA AND THAT IS BECAUSE OF DEMOCRATIC 14:48:28 LEADERSHIP AND THERE'S NO OTHER EXCUSE OR A. 14:48:34 [APPLAUSE] I'M HAPPY TO SAY WE JOIN WITH 14:48:39 VARIOUS TEA PARTY GROUPS TO TRY ROLLBACK THE TAX INCREASE AND I 14:48:44 THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO DO. AND I WOULD LOVE TO SAY THAT IT 14:48:49 WOULD FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S FAULT THAT ILLINOIS IN THE STATE IS 14:48:52 IN. I THINK ILLINOIS HAS DONE A LOT 14:48:53 OF THAT ON THEIR OWN. BUT THESE MANDATES THAT SENATOR 14:48:59 HATCH IS TALKING ABOUT ARE A REAL PROBLEM ACROSS THE COUNTRY 14:49:02 AND I WOULD SUGGEST WE START TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK ONE 14:49:06 STATE AT THE TIME AND WHY NOT START OF THE WORST PLACE RIGHT 14:49:07 NOW, ILLINOIS. [APPLAUSE] 14:49:12 I ONLY MENTIONED A COUPLE OF THINGS. 14:49:15 THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF IMPOSITIONS BY THE FEDERAL 14:49:19 GOVERNMENT. I THINK IT FURTHER PROVES THE 14:49:21 POINT THAT THE WAY GOVERNMENT IS OPERATING AS NONSUSTAINABLE, 14:49:24 FIRST IN THE STATE LEVEL. YOU LOOK AT HIGHLY 14:49:28 INDUSTRIALIZED STATES LIKE ILLINOIS COULD HAVE BEEN THE 14:49:30 LARGEST STATE GOVERNMENTS IN OPERATION, THE TAX BASE IS AT 14:49:33 THE TIME PRODUCING WHERE THEY COULD LIVE, THAT SORT OF SIXTH 14:49:37 SENSE. NOW WE SEE WITH THE BREAKDOWN OF 14:49:38 THE MANUFACTURING BASE, INDUSTRIAL SITE ARE, WHICH IS 14:49:43 YOUR GOVERNMENTS RESORTING TO HIRE TAXIS YOU TRY TO PROP UP A 14:49:46 MODEL THAT DOESN'T CONTINUE TO PROVE SUCCESSFUL ANYMORE. 14:49:49 AS THEY RAISE THE TAX BASE TO DO THAT, TO CHASE PEOPLE TO OTHER 14:49:52 STATES AND CONTINUE TO SPIRAL DOWNWARD. 14:49:54 WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN IS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MICHIGAN AND IS THE 14:49:59 GOVERNMENT HAS TO BE REINVENTED TO MEET THE 21st CENTURY NEEDS 14:50:01 RATHER THAN A MENU TO STUMBLE AND BUMBLE ALONG AS IF IT 19th 14:50:05 XT NINE. [APPLAUSE] 14:50:11 NAME IS EARL. I AM FROM COLORADO. 14:50:13 THE BALANCED-BUDGET SOUNDS NICE. SENATOR UDALL HAS MADE NOISE 14:50:22 ABOUT SUPPORTING THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. 14:50:24 IT SEEMS TO ME TO WAIT FOR THE BALANCED-BUDGET 14:50:26 QUICKLY IS MAINTAIN OUR CURRENT LIMIT. 14:50:29 MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, WILL YOU SUPPORT MAINTAINING OUR DEBT 14:50:32 LIMIT IN WHAT YOU SUPPORT SENATOR TO ME AND HIS 14:50:33 INITIATIVES TO PARSE THE DEPICTION THAT FAILURE TO 14:50:37 INCREASE THE LIMIT EQUALS DEFAULT? 14:50:42 [APPLAUSE] I BELIEVE I AM THE COSPONSOR 14:50:49 IS SENATOR TO ME'S BILL AND I THINK THAT SAYS IT ALL. 14:50:56 [APPLAUSE] WAY, THE OTHER ONE. 14:51:03 CLEAR DOWN HERE? THE KEY TO ME TO RAISING THE 14:51:10 DEBT CEILING IS WHETHER OR NOT IF YOU RAISE THAT YOU CAN TELL 14:51:12 ME WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO BREATHING AND. 14:51:14 IF YOU DON'T PUT REFORMS TO DO THAT, IF YOU SIMPLY CUT THE 14:51:17 BUDGET RATHER THAN REORIENT, WHICH IS TO CREATE A CYCLE OF 14:51:22 DEPENDENCY FOR LARGER GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO WHAT IS SUPPOSED SHE 14:51:26 SAID THE FINANCE COMPANY SHOULDN'T DO IT. 14:51:27 YOU ARE RIGHT, IT DOES NOT DOES IT AFFECT. 14:51:32 THE CONSTITUTIONAL BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT. 14:51:35 AS TO THE DOOM AND GLOOM OUT THERE, IF WE CONTINUE TO DO WHAT 14:51:37 WE ARE DOING NOW, SOME SAY FIRE, SOME THICK ICE. 14:51:41 INDIAN TO REACH A DESTINATION YOU DON'T WANT TO BE AT. 14:51:46 [APPLAUSE] THE QUESTION FROM FAR DOWN 14:51:50 THE HALL. HI, MY NAME TO SEAN, 14:51:52 ORIGINALLY FROM NEW YORK. I WAS WONDERING, THIS IS MAINLY 14:51:56 GOING TO SENATOR HATCH. HOW CAN WE TRUST YOU ON YOUR 14:52:01 PLEASURE OF FISCAL CONSERVATIVISM WITH YOUR VOTE 14:52:04 FOR THE TRUCK BAILOUTS IN 2008? [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:52:26 WELL, TO MY TEA PARTY PEOPLE, I HAVE SAID I FEEL BADLY THAT I 14:52:30 DID GO VOTE FOR IT. [BOOING] 14:52:38 BUT THEY ALSO MAKE IT CLEAR UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES AT THAT 14:52:41 TIME, WE WERE GOING DOWN. AND THEN THEY TELL YOU, WE WERE 14:52:46 GOING INTO -- LET ME ANSWER. LET ME ANSWER. 14:52:52 HE MAY DISAGREE, BUT YOU ARE NOT SITTING THERE HAVING TO MAKE 14:52:54 THESE DECISIONS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:53:07 LIKE I SAY, I MADE A MISTAKE VOTING FOR HER. 14:53:10 I DON'T THINK I MAKE MANY MISTAKES. 14:53:13 IF YOU LOOK AT THE RECORD YOU'LL KNOW THAT. 14:53:16 BUT LET ME JUST SAY THIS TO YOU. AT THE TIME, WE WERE IN REAL 14:53:19 TROUBLE. IT LOOKS LIKE WE WERE HEADING 14:53:21 INTO A DEPRESSION. THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 14:53:25 REPUBLICANS SAID THIS IS WHAT HAS TO BE DONE. 14:53:30 AND FRANKLY, I BELIEVE WE WOULD'VE GONE INTO A DEPRESSION. 14:53:34 IT WOULD'VE TAKEN MY VOTE TO MAKE THE 51st VOTE TO DO THAT, 14:53:38 TO STOP US FROM GOING INTO THE DEPRESSION, I WOULD'VE DONE THAT 14:53:41 ANYWAY. [APPLAUSE] 14:53:42 SO WHAT I HATED -- WHAT I HATED ABOUT THAT BILL, WHAT I HATED 14:53:48 ABOUT THAT BILL IF IT DIDN'T TURN OUT TO BE AS THE SECRETARY 14:53:51 SAID IT WOULD. THEY MADE A LOT OF DIFFERENT 14:53:56 CHANGES AND NOT FEEL THAT I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH AND THAT 14:53:57 IS WHY I SAY, YOU KNOW, I AM SORRY I VOTED FOR IT. 14:54:02 ALL I CAN SAY IS THERE AREN'T MANY PEOPLE WHO SAY I'M SORRY. 14:54:05 I AM ONE WHO WILL. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:54:18 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET ME MAKE SOMETHING PERFECTLY CLEAR. 14:54:25 WE CAN DISAGREE, BUT WE WILL DISAGREE AGREEABLY. 14:54:32 [APPLAUSE] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:54:44 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND THE HALLMARK OF THE 14:54:54 CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MOB IN THE 14:54:57 STREET IS STABILITY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:55:09 I WANT TO TELL YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND I WORKED FOR 14:55:13 RONALD REAGAN FOR THREE AND HALF YEARS, LOVED THE MAN DEARLY, 14:55:16 RESPECTED HIM. NOBODY COULD'VE BEEN MORE CIVIL 14:55:19 TO ANY OF HIS ENEMIES. THINK ABOUT THE TIME, WHAT DID 14:55:24 HE INHERIT AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES? 14:55:27 AND HE WAS VERY SIMPLE WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF THAT BODY. 14:55:29 AND HE GOT ALONG WELL AND HE GOT THINGS DONE BECAUSE HE WAS. 14:55:32 ALL RIGHT? [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 14:55:36 AND WE ARE CELEBRATING NOW. AND LET'S CELEBRATE THAT 14:55:41 PROPERLY. LET ME TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE 14:55:44 WITH THIS MAN, ALL RIGHT, I THOUGHT IN THE TRENCHES WITH 14:55:47 THIS MAN, WEEK AFTER WEEK, DAY AFTER DAY. 14:55:52 NOBODY IS MORE COMMITTED TO CONSERVATIVE AND FISCAL 14:55:55 PRINCIPLES THAN THE SENIOR SENATOR FROM UTAH. 14:56:00 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND I AM PERSONALLY GOING INTO 14:56:09 THAT STATE. I AM PERSONALLY GOING INTO UTAH 14:56:10 TO TELL THAT TO YOU TIMES WE LOVE THEM ALL. 14:56:16 MY WIFE WENT TO BYU FOR A YEAR. WE ARE VERY ATTACHED TO THE 14:56:20 STATE OF UTAH AND WE ARE SUPPORTING THIS MAN FOR 14:56:24 REELECTION BECAUSE HE DESERVES IT. 14:56:27 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] NEXT QUESTION. 14:56:36 IF I CAN SAY ONE THING, ELLIE BALLANCE BUDGET AMENDMENT AND 14:56:42 SAID THAT TO THE FLOOR HAS BEEN MINE. 14:56:43 I CAN TELL YOU THIS, THE HATCH AMENDMENT HAS REPUBLICAN 14:56:48 SPONSORS. THE ONLY REASON WE DON'T HAVE 14:56:50 MORE SALMON UNABLE TO TALK TO EVERYBODY AND GETTING MORE. 14:56:53 WE BELIEVE IT IS THE BEST AMENDMENT. 14:56:55 I AM PLEASED THERE'S SO MANY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS COMING UP 14:56:57 WITH THEIR OWN VERSIONS THAT WILL PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER INTO 14:57:00 WHAT IS RIGHT. AND WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS AND 14:57:04 WE'VE GOT TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT OUT THERE. 14:57:06 AND I'VE GOT TO SAY, LOOK, I DON'T MIND WHEN PEOPLE DISAGREE 14:57:10 WITH ME. IT DOESN'T ALWAYS MAKE YOU FEEL 14:57:14 GOOD, BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT'S WHAT WE ARE. 14:57:17 WE ARE REPUBLICANS. WE CAN DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER, 14:57:19 BUT WE CAN BE SIMPLE, TOO. [APPLAUSE] 14:57:30 THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. 14:57:31 MY NAME IS JUST FROM CHRIS MULLEN.COM. 14:57:38 WE HEARD THE NUMBERS ARE 18% OF GDP. 14:57:43 WITH ALL DUE RESPECT IN A CIVIL DISCOURSE, YOU KNOW, 18%, I 14:57:48 WOULDN'T PUT IT PAST OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO CHANGE THE 14:57:50 DEFINITION OF GDP TO MASSAGE WITH 18% MEANS. 14:57:55 CAN WE KEEP IT SIMPLE, CAN WE KEEP THE LANGUAGE SIMPLE SAID 14:58:04 THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T SPEND MORE THAN IT COLLECTS RATHER 14:58:07 THAN HIS ARBITRARY NUMBERS THAT WE PICK OUT. 14:58:12 [APPLAUSE] IN THE SPIRIT OF STABILITY, 14:58:17 AND LEW, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT A CALL FOR MOVEMENT A BEAUTIFUL 14:58:23 MOB. WE LOVE OUR FELLOW REPUBLICANS, 14:58:25 EVEN WHEN WE DISAGREE WITH THEM. I THINK THE KEY TO A GOOD 14:58:31 BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT IS TO KEEP IT SIMPLE. 14:58:33 THE CHALLENGE WITH JUST MANDATING THAT THE GOVERNMENT 14:58:36 DOESN'T SPEND MORE THAN IT TAKES IN IS THAT THE EASY SOLUTION 14:58:41 INSIDE THE BELTWAY IS TO SIMPLY TAKE MORE AND. 14:58:45 SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT 14:58:48 DOESN'T BECOME A CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED 14:58:51 AUTOMATIC TAX INCREASE YEAR AFTER YEAR. 14:58:56 THAT'S FINE. HE TAKES THE FIRST 10 14:58:59 AMENDMENTS. THEY ARE ONLY ABOUT A SENTENCE 14:59:00 OR SO LONG. I AGREE WITH THE CONCERN. 14:59:05 THAT'S WHY HE SAID WE HAVE TO GET IT ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY 14:59:08 RIGHT. LET ME JUST SAY THIS. 14:59:10 OUR AMENDMENT IS 20%. TO PUT IT FROM 25% TO 20% IT 14:59:17 WOULD BE MIRACULOUS.