got to call in an expert in look at your income and your outgo. and they finished their calculations and they say, you know, you're spending $16,000 a year more than you're taking in. but the number we can relate to. we don't understand one point extra in her 61 billion, but we can understand 16,000. for now let's imagine that you turn around and say to the bank, yes, i am spending 16,000 more than a take and, but i've got a solution. solution is i am going to cut my spending by $610. well, that's exactly what the bank would do. they would laugh. well guess what? this time aroundcoming for the bank. at least her half the bank and the chinese or the other half of the bank. so i'll tell you what's really extreme. as extreme as the senate that

can understand this. they don't have their hands on a period even 100 billion that was in the pledge, that's not enough. in our little example, that would translate to $1000 or one 16th of the problem. we have got to change the culture entirely. we've got to commend leaders like congressman jordan and congressman king who is coming later and congresswoman thought meant and even the republican leadership. they're doing the right thing and changing the direction of spending, but they've got to go further. so i ought to wrap it up by asking you to join me and a chance that hopefully will be loud enough that they can hear it up there on the hill, that i guarantee you they have never heard before. here's the chance. we want less. join me in that. we want less.

we want less. we want less >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you very much, colin. next we have congressman steve king from iowa. [cheers and applause] >> thanks, jennie bass. thanks, colin. and thanks for coming out. some say it's a dreary day. that's not going to stop us. we've got a country to save. it lifts my heart to sing the national anthem here with you and start to soften this plays center to other symbols for the whole greatness of america here in the city. ..

and we want it back mr. president, we want it back, and united states senate. [chanting "we want it back!"] and 87 freshmen here and the quick reaction force to take it

back. [cheering] and every one of them ran on the repeal of obamacare and every one of them voted to repeal obamacare and over the united states senate every republican voted to repeal obamacare, too. the market has been put down. he fought the fight and cuts out of this fiscal year and the freshman stood up and fought the battle and came to a number it calculates out for the full year but its 61.5 billion. that's where the fight came down on h.r. one. that's the account we've taken. let's hold it. general rose manning and army and training at around this city and the beginning of the civil war lincoln wasn't pleased because he didn't want to fight.

you've to pick the ground you want to fight on, that's this continuing resolution and you want to fight when your army is as strong as it can possibly be. that was a month ago but it's still now so this is the time, this is the ground we need to fight on this continuing resolution, we need to fight on the 61.5 billion on the proposal on the u.n. funding planned parenthood. [cheering] and we are going to hear from him in a minute and we need to fight on cutting off the funding that implements obamacare. [cheering] so here's my pledge i stood in front of my colleagues this morning and said if you choose to fight on the 61.5 billion i will stand and fight with you. and if mike pence is we're going to fight on funding for planned parenthood, i will stand and fight with you. [cheering]

and if we choose to fight to cut off all funding to implement obamacare the $105.5 billion i will fight with them. [cheering] and if we choose to fight on on funding obamacare if we choose not to fight their then i will fight alone but i'm going to fight obamacare until it's gone. i want my money back and forget to have your constitutional rights back. i'm going to have them back and we can put up until we get them back. god bless you all. [cheering] thank you, a congressman and now we have congressman mike pence from indiana. jericho i'm mike pence, from

indiana, the two-party patriots americans tell all welcome back to your nation's capital. [cheering] with a deficit this year of $1.65 trillion in the national debt of $14 trillion a defiant little majority in the senate it's time to pick a fight. [cheering] in 2010 the american people send a deafening message to both political parties in washington, d.c.. they said it's time to end of the borrowing and spending and the bailout's and to end of the congress of nancy pelosi once and for all. [cheering] and you did it. and house republicans have gone

to work since being awarded the majority again. we cut our budgets. we repealed obamacare lot of stock and barrel on the floor of the house of representatives, and we voted to cut spending to the pre-stimulus bailout levels, defunding obamacare and ending all public funding for planned parenthood of america. [cheering] [applause] but house republicans have run headlong into harry reid. harry reid took to the floor of the senate and said that our modest down payment on fiscal discipline was reckless, irresponsible, mean spirited, she even defended federal funding for the cowboy poetry institute of nevada.

the truth is they just don't get. they don't understand the party's over for the liberals of washington, d.c.. [cheering] the american people are demanding that we change the fiscal direction of the government, but i have to tell you i learned a long time ago things don't change here in washington, d.c. until they have to. we've got to say to harry reid and liberals in the senate this far and no farther. we have to borrow a line from harry and say that stops here. [cheering] you know, and if liberals in the senate would rather play political games and shut down the government instead of making a small down payment on fiscal discipline and reform, i say shut it down. [cheering]

nobody wants the government shut down that if we want to get and we are going to shut down the future for our children and grandchildren and make no mistake about that, this is a defining moment for the majority of congress. not that $61 billion of cuts is anything to write home about, except in the chest a down payment maybe it's just earnest money on research in fiscal discipline, but it's a start and it's a first step and will be the first win for tax payers that could set the stage for larger victories on battling against the debt ceiling increase without fundamental reform, battling for the budget in the long-term vision for fiscal discipline and setting the nation back on the halfway towards constitutional limited government. you know, sometimes even small

steps aboard the taken can change history like it did christmas night, 1776. the harsh winter storm settled in the delaware valley, public support for the war was waning and troops were weary and demoralized and a general conceived of a bold and daring plan he would pick a fight in the dead of night, taken directly to the enemy so they boarded the boat, crossed the great river and they won the day. by historical standards, washington's crossing was a small event. on that might 2400 americans fought 1500 haitians and the battle lasted a couple of hours. bye contrast, 115,000 men fought a terrible battle and continued for a day, battle of the bulge

involved more than a million men and went on for a month. but while the victory was not a great battle, it was a battle of great consequence. history records that was a defining moment in our still young nation. that small victory brought by the continental army showed the victory was in our reach. the americans were still willing to fight it rekindled the fire of independence and set the stage for the larger victories to follow. it's not against an implacable enemy and we will not hear compared with three contest with political debate the principle was the same by picking a fight and winning this one small step towards fiscal discipline in washington, d.c. the american people will see that victory over deficits and debt is within

our reach, that we can fight and win and we can restore limited government at the national level and so we must fight. [applause] republicans must show we are worthy of this moment to be equal to the crisis, willing to stop, turn and squarely face the mountain range of debt that threatens our children's future and squarely face all of those who defend the status quo. if harry reid wants to fight, let's give it to him. [cheering] democrats in the senate may think they have the advantage, but let me assure you it only seems that way. a minority in the senate plus the american people equals the majority. and no this, men and women,

whenever you take a stand for freedom, for future generations, for traditional values, you do not fight alone. he who still is the waters, who clears the guice flow on the delaware will make a way for america because he's not done with america yet. [cheering] let's go pick a fight. [cheering] thank you, chris van pence, and i want to thank everybody for out here today for giving a tour de and getting to d.c. again. we have groups from pennsylvania, virginia, ohio, massachusetts, are they here?

, georgia, wisconsin, west virginia, california. this is great. thank you. thank you. this is our fight, and we are going to make it. we have our next speaker as cathy, a grass-roots activist from ohio. [applause] thank you. >> good afternoon everyone. first i would like to give a patriotic heartfelt think you to representative bachmann, jordan and representative king. i feel forever indebted to them for what they've been doing for us lately in the house. the first time i learned about obamacare being fully funded the next eight years was through michele bachman on the sean hannity show and i have to tell you i was pretty angry because i

did not know that this bill was being funded without the knowledge and consent of the people or their elected representatives. and the last time i checked, it was of the people, by the people and for the people, not over, under and around the people. but there were 54 representatives who recently broke away from the leadership and took a strong stand. they refused to vote in support of the last cr because it didn't remove 105 billion from obamacare. and they simply said to the congress a familiar phrase, hell no, we won't go. they are truly the heroes of the house and i want to thank them all and then to know that america has your back. [cheering] it was made clear with absolutely no doubt, with

absolutely no question the american people said through on the brakes, let's go in reverse. we must make serious cuts to the budget. we must not raise the debt ceiling and we must defund obamacare. [cheering] i wrote all day yesterday on a greyhound bus from ohio. i live in john boehner's district and i got up at 4:30 in the morning and i got here last night at 10:00 at night and there's only one reason i did that and that is because i love my country. i love my country with a capital li love my country and right now i picture my country on the edge of a cliff and with such little effort it could be pushed off the side. and everything that i hold dear and everything that i cherish will be lost. the leadership is worried about a government shut down and

future elections and to me that is like a house burning to the ground and the republicans won't put out a fire because they are afraid water might splash on a nearby house. i say to the republican leadership to gough your lease panties, stop being noodle backed, take a strong the bold unwavering stand for and with the american people. [laughter] our republic depends on you. thank you. [applause] [cheering] >> thank you so much, cathy. i think we have someone you're going to enjoy hearing from, congresswoman michele bachman. [cheering] >> hello everyone, good to see you. thank you for coming. [cheering] you are a sight for sore eyes.

thank you. thank you for coming. you know, it is your heart that i love. you have such a wonderful part. thank you for coming today come to the party patriots. we love you. [cheering] and harry reid thinks you're the problem. i think those cowboy poetry festival for the problem. [cheering] what do you think? i'm so glad to see your faces and it is so wonderful to see that all of you are still fighting. there are people here in washington, d.c. who fought after the november election that your all going to go home and go back to sleep; is that true? >> no. >> in fact what i have seen across america you are paying more attention now than ever.

[cheering] because you have an investment in what is happening in washington, d.c.. you made the difference, you knock on doors, you made phone calls, you donated to campaigns, you sent your voice to washington, d.c., and you expect that your voice will be heard. and i agree with you. well, it's no surprise to me and i think you the power here in washington, d.c. specifically in the white house have been wrong about a few things. >> wrong about everything. >> wrong about everything is that it? you can always count on the tea party to get it right. [cheering] well remember the head of commons? they promised we would see unemployment not go below 8% if we just spent a trillion dollars of your money. were they right? they were wrong.

you're right. then they promised the health care law we would create jobs and would bring down the price of your health insurance premium by $2,500 per household. were they right? >> nope. >> we've increased 20%, 40%, and some cases even higher. 242, they are not doing real well. then we were promised this would be the most transparent congress -- >> i think you have an opinion, is the right? and then they forgot to tell us a little fact that there was $105 billion buried in the obamacare legislation. >> [booing] >> have they been transcript? >> no. >> okay that's three fer three. how about this promise, president obama promised when he was running for the white house that he would make energy prices

necessarily skyrocket. has he kept that promise? yes, he has. he's getting his wish, this is exactly what the president was hoping. we've got gas at $4 a gallon, and we know that his energy sector terrie weigel the president was running for office was reported to have said we've got to make the price of energy here in the united states the same as in the united kingdom or the european countries which have that time was approximately $8 a gallon. would you like that? >> nope. >> that's their plan. that's their plan. >> [inaudible] >> okay let them move there. would that be an idea? [laughter] maybe we need to send a change of address form to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. [cheering] i think you've made it abundantly clear, stop spending

money you don't have. but president obama doesn't seem to get it. the big spenders don't seem to get it. we are headed for an annual deficit this year bigger than anything we've ever seen and we have had a couple of them in the last two years. we had 1.4 trillion, a 1.3 trillion, does anyone know what it will be this year? 1.65 trillion every year going forward until 2020, over a trillion dollars. is this the hope and change we were hoping for? who is ready for true hope and change? i like you guys. [laughter] i'm with you. how many times can these big spenders and the president be wrong? every time, that's right. every time. but that's why we are here. that's why we are fighting and

that's why i know that you are not going to walk away from this fight. because i know that you are here to hold all of us accountable and you represent so many people, everyone of you here represents essentially a community that column of people who are thankful to you can be here today because all of the other people are out working today to be able to pay their taxes. i feel it's time to get serious, don't you? and cutting 61 billion in my opinion is a starting point. it is not the goal. because taking a vote to repeal obamacare is a good start it can't just be our goal. we have to actually repeal it and actually defunded. [cheering] and cutting off funding to groups like planned parenthood has to be one of those issues we are just not going to back down

from. [cheering] because we can't afford anything less than a fight on these important issues and if the democrats want to shut governor down, and this week we found out from harry reid, chuck schumer and howard dean that they've got their fingers crossed right now that the government will shut down. that's their plan. they want to shut the government down, and they want to turn you into their scapegoats and say that it's the tea party's fault for shutting the government down. >> [booing] >> now the cat is out of the bag. we know who had no interest in negotiating. it's harry reid, it is the liberals over in the senate and they want to once again for two years it's been the same song second verse. it's always the tea party's fault, right? what i like about you is whenever i'm with you i feel like it is a family reunion.

i feel like we are going to the state fair. you don't even leave later afterwards. [cheering] you're just awesome. you are awesome people. no wonder they are so afraid of you. they are afraid of you because you are powerful. so i'm here to give you a message stay courageous, and i know you will. don't back down, and i know you won't. we will stand for cutting the size of government. we won't change our principles. we are going to say no to another debt ceiling increase. we are not going there. [cheering] we are going to bring the government back to you, we, the people, that's the government hour founding fathers gave us. stand strong, told us accountable. we love you. thank you, everyone, thank you for coming. thank you, tea party patriots.

[cheering] >> thank you, congresswoman bachmann. next, we have david -- >> michele? [inaudible] >> all right, next week of david smith, is that correct, from -- i just ruined his name. he's from pittsburg and he has shom something to show you so let's hear it for david? [cheering] [applause] >> i don't know how a non-politician can follow michele bachman. ayman as grassroots as it gets. we drove from self of pittsburgh today to be here. this is and our first time down.

we are coming from a very traditionally liberal area, southwestern pennsylvania, can you imagine that? i have with me, altman and karen is with one of our groups also, from a group called the patriots. we just want to let you know our founding fathers gave us the greatest country with the grace of god gave us the greatest country that the world has ever seen, and i think when ben franklin said we give you a republican keep it i think he was talking to us today. i truly believe that. and, you know, not everyone can drive to d.c. every time the turnaround. we have a very small part, so i brought some friends with us. [cheering]

>> these are the conservatives and liberals from our area. everyone is upset. [cheering] the 2010 election was monumental. it was a tremendous show, but if you think was big wait until we showed in 3g in 2012. [cheering] thank you, everyone for coming, god bless. >> thank you, david. if you want to sign this afterwards seeking add during to the list. next we have congressman louis gohmert from texas. [applause] [cheering] >> well it's great to be here with you. i'm telling you what, you bring calcium to those who need it for

their backbones. [cheering] you make a difference. you know, for so long in washington when somebody had some little idea that we needed to throw money at the would always add at the end it's for the children. i'm telling you what, you know this or you wouldn't be here, what you're doing, we are doing standing up against this incredibly excessive spending is truly for the children, right? now, if you dug a hole so deep that it would be tough to get out, is it helpful to keep digging even deeper? if you pay so much in taxes that you work for months each year to pay the government, does it help

to add another several months to how much you work for the government? if everything the government controls takes longer, is less efficient and less caring about the consequences do you really want the government handling your health care? if the federal government says you cannot stop it from spending more money, could you say yes we can stop it? if the federal bureaucrats say you cannot stop us from sending jobs overseas because of how much we over regulate, would you say? yes, we can! if the epa says you cannot brief out carbon dioxide without our permission, what do you say? yes, we can! with democrats in the senate and

the white house say you cannot stop us from hiring 18,000 more agents to control your lives, what do you say? yes, we can! when the president says you cannot stop me from creating a new president controlled commissioned officer corps in my obamacare bill, what do you say? yes, we can! when the president stops playing golf long enough to 66 [laughter] -- we cannot say no to whatever the u.n. asks, what do you say? yes, we can! when the president says we cannot avoid helping those who want to destroy us, what do you say? yes, we can! when the president by action says we cannot avoid hurting israel, what do you say?

>> yes, we can! when the president says we can't avoid paying our enemies billions of dollars to drill in their country, what do you say? >> yes, we can! does the united states have more natural energy resources than any country in the world but our president says you cannot use them, what do you say? >> yes, we can! >> when the president says you cannot keep me from making your lectures the costs skyrocket what do you say? >> yes, we can! -- when the president says you can't keep me from giving away your tax dollars to buy corporate buddies, what do you say? >> yes, we can! >> when the president says will street gave me four times more money than it contributed to my republican opponent so you cannot keep me from making them even richer, what do you say? >> yes, we can! >> when the democratic senators

-- twice a centers? the democratic senators say that we only promised to cut spending so you would vote for us, but you can't force us to keep our promises, what do you say? >> yes, we can! >> let me read directly from the republican pledge last fall. with common sense exceptions for seniors, veterans and our troops, we will let the government spending to the pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, that's down about 2.4 billion or trillion, saving at least 100 billion in the first year alone that's what the pledge says. so there's no mistake. it says we will say the least 100 billion. you rolled back to the pre-bailout, priest and nellis levels than it is more like

1.5 trillion. so let me ask you, can we keep that pledge? >> yes, we can! >> let me just tell you -- no kidding, we better because if we don't, we deserve to be thrown out of office. and let me tell you, for people who don't keep that pledge, you need to keep stores and throw us out of office, right? [cheering] can you do that? >> yes, we can! >> i'm telling you from the bottom of my heart, if you will do that, we can save this country for our children and their children, and if we don't keep that pledge, it will be our fault and you get us out of here. thank you.

god bless you so much. [cheering] >> thank you, congressman. and our next speaker from virginia beach is cassidy donelson. >> i'm from virginia beach but my husband is in the military so we have been everywhere are around this country. >> thank you for coming! >> we have met a lot of people as we have travelled around this country. and as i have travelled, and talked with tea parties across the country that people who sacrificed time, money and energy and are contributing their talent, expertise and resources to bring this country back to what made a great, the constitution. [cheering]

sound financial principles and free markets. as i look out at you today, i know that you have sacrificed to be here and i want you to know your sacrifice matters and it is making a difference. thank you. patriots of the tea party movement often look back to the founding fathers of this country for guiding fundamental principles and inspiration. these are men whose names are well known, george washington, john adams, benjamin franklin, all have become symbols of strong sound government principles. before the iconic names were people who risked everything, sometimes sacrificed everything to begin a life where they could own the fruits of their labors and live their own beliefs. ownership. you put in the work, you reap the reward, this is the american

dream. there have been times in the country's history when the dream mutated during the roaring 20's people played fast and loose with their credit, agreed and speculation the firm wall street. for the most part, government got out of the way and the house of cards came crashing down and we crashed. during the great depression, people were forced to live within their means oftentimes scrambling for basic necessities and competing heavily for any job. but they came out of it, self-government, hard-working and financially responsible. in contrast a few years ago when i lived in michigan i spoke with a man who was very wealthy due to his high paid position at a major american car company. he was married and had two children. his goal, his american dream was that he would become so wealthy that his children would never have to work.

how many of us dream we could have fortune without work? how many children do their homework and chores not because of the value of education and work but so they can vegetate in front of a tv show or video-game? the politicians we he liked serve as a mirror for the values the citizens as house. as the people of this country have wandered away from sound financial principles we have elected leaders who spent frivolously regardless of whether the checkbook balances red or black. as the people of this country are the allies reward without work, our government has inched toward entitlement, the allowance and handouts until now. the households of this country have tightened their belts and we expect our politicians to tighten it as well. we will not stand idly by as our politicians spend our freedom away. congress has been kicking the can down the road looking for the next payday loan from the

proverbial money tree. it's time to stop shuttling up to the teller a month after month and balance the checkbook we gave them. it will take time but all sustainable progress moves gradually. and gradually we will put politicians in office to reflect our value of hard work, living within our means and respecting the constitution of this country [cheering] we will be like and support leaders who reflect the original true american dream. god bless. [cheering] >> thank you. the next speaker is congressman joe walsh from illinois! [cheering] >> a proud freshman from the

president's home state. [cheering] let me do something terribly unusual for a politician. i'm going to take 45 seconds and that's it because you know what? we have a line of honorable the speaker is and you know what? we don't have much more time than 45 seconds. i'm one of these now eve freshman who came here to get things done. i don't want to stay here my entire life, a term limit dhaka. we don't have a lot of time. i turned down my health benefits, i turned down my pension benefits, i came here not leave because i wanted to play my role in saving this country for our kids and grandkids. i've got 15 seconds left.

folks, we do not have a lot of time. our kids and grandkids are going to be indentured servants. we will never speak to them, they won't speak to us unless we turn this around right away. the president in the white house has no clue, he doesn't get it, the senate democrats are in denial your house republicans understand. your house republicans understand, the you know what? here is what most politicians never understand, the world didn't start with them. this movement to take back this country didn't start with them, it started with you, it will grow with you and succeed with you. we don't have a lot of time. pastore house republicans on the back when you can.

tell us good job but you know what come have the bucher ready. patau us on the back, we are doing the best we can, but have ted deutch ready to put that boot somewhere the sun doesn't shine. keep us going. we don't have a lot of time. keep the pressure on knous and we will do right by you. god bless. thank you all for coming. thank you. [cheering] [applause] >> thank you, congressman walsh. next, we have congressman tom graves from georgia. [applause] >> well on behalf of the georgia nine freedom fighters, i want to say hello to you. we welcome you here today. i tell you, being here today has taught me to think back a little

bit. think back to maybe a couple of centuries ago when we had the founding fathers, these patriots. you think about one specific account where, against all odds, you had a young man who was born into poverty who had to go to work to support his mother who was widowed and support his brother. and at the young age of 25, he found himself standing next to george washington outside of boston. the british have been held up for a little while and they knew they needed one of your step, one other element to get out, and so looking to this young man, henry knox, he said we need some artillery. who's willing to stand up? and henry said i will do it. so he took his band of friends and they traveled hundreds of miles to get the canons that were necessary, and the went to the fort begot the cannons. and it took almost eight weeks

to get back to george washington, and they try first every kind of country that you could imagine, for this, swamps, frozen rivers, snowdrift, anything you could imagine, all elements against them. and of course we know the rest of the story. it was the pivotal point in our great history. and there was a van when they had the artillery the country began as we move forward and had a victory in boston. why did henry knox step up? because he believed all along with the other sons of liberty that there was a cause, there was an idea i was going to be called this great and glorious cause called america. he seized the moment, and i'm here to tell you to do this is our moment. it is time for us to seize this moment. so i'm here to tell you that sees it and stand together to get so, when the left wants to

attack the conservatives and the tea party, we are going to stand together. when they say you can't cut any more spending that is too close to the bone or maybe it's extreme, we are going to stand together. when they say free markets to work, capitalism is false and government is the solution, we are going to stand together. so today we have a decision to make. the decision is clear, we are at a point we can either build upon our greatness as a nation or feed off in history. and i'm here with you today because we are going to build upon our greatness and seize the moment. we are going to stand together and we are going to do that on behalf of the next generation. thank you. god bless you. [cheering]

>> thank you. next we have andrew langer from the institute for liberty. [applause] [cheering] >> you know it's funny coming up during one of these events and coming up after steve king and meshaal bachmann and toledo word and others it's kind of like the guy that went on after the beatles on ed sullivan. it's amazing. you know, it's funny because we come to these events, and it always seems that it's raining and wet and cold, and you all are the hardiest bunch of americans that are out there so think you all for coming out. i'm supposed to be briefed today, and i will be because you all know why can talk. we all have our crops. this $30 billion that they're talking about is not a

compromise. it is an insult to each and every one of you, not just those of us in the tea party. it's an insult. i want to put it in perspective. everybody has their props. this is institute for liberty stadium here. about 91 colin 92,000 people. if this, my friends, were the federal budget, you see the black square in the bleachers in the nosebleed seats clacks that a little bit is what they are talking about cutting. that is their grand compromise >> [booing] >> is a compromise? are we going to stand for it? are we going to fight? muskett fighting. thank you very much. [cheering] >> how was too fast. i wasn't ready. [laughter]

okay, next we have from washington, d.c. ben kessler. [applause] >> welcome to the nation's capital. you know, here as a person who has been a part of the problem. i wasn't watching what my government was doing. but now i'm part of the solution. thank you all for being here. i want to tell you a little personal story. i was in a meeting a few months ago while the budget cuts were going on and some of the representatives who were here today came to speak to us and they were -- they looked like they were really beaten up. so i just can't imagine all of these great people what they have to do just to do the right thing, just to save the country to make cuts in a budget that is

so large, so onerous, we have to do is give them help. we have to elect more people like the ones in the freshman class. [applause] we have to take back the senate and in 2012, the presidency. that's the only way we are going to save our country. so we can do it. we are only for 2-years-old we need a lot of progress and we have a long way to go but we are all resolved that we are going to do this. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. next we have congressman jack duncan from south carolina. i don't know about you all but

i'm hot and it's not because of this mine war march the we have, it's what i see going on in washington, d.c.. it's why i ran for office to fight the policies coming out of the nation's capital and in south carolina let me tell you we spell poor with one o bankrupting this country. we are still fighting those policies every day and i am blessed to be part of the 87 freshman class fighting for you but let me tell you, there are as joe said they are in denial about the debt, 14 print $3 trillion, they are in denial about the deficit, the third year in a row of a trillion dollar access. $1.5 trillion deficit. we need an aa program for the spending denial their we have in washington, d.c.. [cheering] ronald riggins of a lot of good things but he said the future

isn't for the faint of heart it's for the bold and we have to be bold. the bold color which made it unmistakably clear where we stand on these issues. rall regan also said we were the first revolution in the history of man that changed this government with three little words. we, the people. thank you for all that you are doing. let's send a message to the administration the we don't need to drill there and here we need to drill here american energy independence. we need to rein in this federal debt. we need to create surpluses and cut the spending in sanity. the we see in washington, d.c.. thank you for what you do and for your support, god bless you and america. [applause] [cheering] >> thank you, congressman.

next, we have from pennsylvania [applause] >> gough where? that's the problem. good afternoon everybody. my name is rob and i just want to let you know, we are doing out here is important. 26 months ago, i was like you getting mad every night wondering what was going on. and then i heard the rant and said that we've got to do with how we do it? about a week or two weeks later i got this call from a lady named diana asking me to join to go to a party in west philadelphia, and i went. and i've been here ever since.

i've been here through the health care fight and every other fight we have had the last three years, but i'm here to tell you what we need to do is keep fighting. [applause] we don't have a choice. i am a father, grandfather, uncle and husband. i want to give my kids, my grandkids a country they can be proud of and not one that they are ashamed of and wishing what the heck did he do. we are doing everything we can put we have to get those people out there to do it. [applause] we have to kick the can down the road. what we tell you what i'm going to do. i'm going to take in 2012 i'm going to kick some democrats cans down the road. [cheering] that's what we have to do. so everything we are doing,

harry reid and nancy pelosi and barack obama think that this is going to die out, though we are just going to go away, we are not going anywhere. we can't afford to lose this fight or to stop this fight. so, everyone this year, thinking from the bottom of my heart. and diana, thank you for the phone call 26 months ago. thank you. [applause] >> speaking of thinking by emi, i want to let you know i didn't formally introduce diana was one of my fellow national coordinators from pennsylvania, and she is helping today. thank you. [applause] [cheering] this is totally impromptu, so next we have -- i'm sorry, thank you, rob. next we have from idaho congressman labrador.

[applause] [cheering] >> good afternoon. im raul labrador. [laughter] and i am one of those guys that wasn't supposed to win. i am one of those guys who was outspent five africa one and it's in my primary until that he party decided to endorse me by 1.10 points. [cheering] i was outspent by a so-called blue dog democrat 7-1, and by 1.10%. [cheering] i was a republican legislature in the idaho house of representatives, and i was the tea partier before there was the tea party. i believe the republican party needs to remember why we got

elected. we got elected because we made some promises to the american people. we told you we were going to cut spending. we were going to cut the deficit, and stop borrowing money, and we need to remember those things because that's why we are here. we are here because we told the american people the truth, we told the american people that we are in trouble, we are broke. i am the author of five children, and i worry about their future. just like i know you were real about their future. i came from a single-parent home. i was an only child. i had no money growing up. but my mother taught me that if i worked hard, played by the rules, and i did everything that i was supposed to do, i would be successful in life. and that's exactly right. that's what america is all

about. [applause] and we have too many people here who forget that there's people struggling. if you go to a restaurant in washington, d.c. on a tuesday night, it's full. if you go to a restaurant in idaho, there's empty seats because people are struggling. they are having a hard time putting food on the table, so it's about time that we remember what america is about. america is the greatest nation on the earth. [cheering] it is the most powerful nation on the earth, and it is powerful not because of the government. it is powerful because of its people. [cheering] [applause] we have been told that we have to act like adults, we've been told we have to do the same thing that people have been doing for 40 years. if acting like an adult is going

to lead to a 14 trillion-dollar debt, its acting like an adult is going to lead to $1.5 trillion of deficit spending, if acting like an adult is going to lead to $3.6 billion every single day that we are borrowing, i would rather be a child. [cheering] because it's about time that we told the american people and the people here in washington, d.c. the we cannot continue spending. we cannot continue borrowing money, we cannot continue doing the things we are doing and taxing people out of american prosperity and out of their future. [cheering] we need your help. we need you to stand with us. we need you to go back home and elect people that are going to do the right thing. [cheering] [applause] and we need to make sure that

you understand we believe in you as you believe in us and we will do everything we can to make america once again the strongest nation, the best mentioned, and may god bless you and god bless america. [cheering] .. >> hey. [whistles blowing] [crowd cheering] >> some backbone has come to washington.

[crowd cheering] >> suppose we need some backbone right now. thanks for showing up. i'm just so thankful for what you did in the last cycle, i didn't be standing next to senator rand paul if it weren't for the tea parties in kentucky and all over the country. we have some great reinforcements here in the senate that are changing things, as well as in the house. it wouldn't have happened without you. i want to say one thing and turn it over to senator paul. our country is in trouble. 2012 could be our last chance to get it right. and we are not going to get it right unless americans rise up, stand up, speak out on every street corner across the country as you have been doing. and we need to invite you to invite many, many others to come out, let their voices be heard, because we can win this thing. there are many good freedom solutions, this is not a doomsday scenario for america.

we can solve our problem, only if we get people who understand that this country runs on principals of freedom, not on the government controlling every aspect of our lives. folks, thanks for being here. come back as often as you can. [crowd cheering] [whistles blowing] >> thank you. thank you, senator demint. they said washington would co-op the tea party. [laughter] >> two weeks before we were sworn in with the leadership of senator demint, we got rid of earmarks. [crowd cheering] >> even the president now says he's going to veto any bill with earmarks. who's co-oping whom? [crowd cheering] >> harry reid says the tea party is over.

>> he's over. [crowd booing] >> anybody ever seen harry reid at a tea party? >> planning his retirement. >> love to. >> he's right over there. i kid you not i'm walking over there to sit down in his office with him. let's hear a little noise to see if he can hear us in his office. [crowd cheering] >> 2010 was just the beginning. [crowd cheering] >> the debate has changed. instead of talking about where they are going to spend, we are talking about where we are going to cut. but it's not enough. all of the proposals on the table are for cutting the rate of increase in spending. we have to really cut spending.

we have to embrace constitutional, limited government. we need to send responsibilities back to the states. [crowd cheering] >> we face serious crisis. i think we have a debt crisis looming on the horizon. but i believe that we can surmount any problem. we can climb any hill. i believe as ronald reagan said that government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem. [crowd cheering] >> the fight is just beginning. keep their feet to their fire. call them. e-mail them. let them know that you are prepared for america to move forward, but only by balancing the budget and making government smaller.

thank you very much. keep up the fight. [crowd cheering] [whistles blowing] >> thank you, senator. next we have our grassroots activist, phil rap from richmond tea party. >> good afternoon. thanks for coming. phil rap with the richmond tea party. boogeyman. i've been called a lot of things. i like that. we're in the 7th district. the 8,000 activist are in the same district as eric cantor. despite the overwhelming outcome, we handed it back to the majority. the lack of action has been

entirely unacceptable. there have been no obvious comprehensive plan presented to address the physical catastrophe, excuse me, that our nation is facing. the national debt that we've heard the numbers over and over this morning of $14.1 trillion, annual deficit of $1.6 trillion. and all that's been proposed so far is $61 billion in spending cuts. [crowd booing] >> that will reduce the debt by a meaningless and whopping .43 percent. making matters worse, an amendment offered by representative marsha blackmon and jim jordan, we have added $20 billion to get us to the $100 billion which we were originally promised. congressman cantor, along with 90 other house republicans voted against it. what's it going to take to get

the message to these folks? while we are encouraged by leader cantor's recent new position on continuing resolution, we remain concerned with one of his earlier comments, and i quote, don't expect us to balance the budget if i time in the next decade, unquote. [crowd booing] >> we need to see a clear vision for how to save our country and give us a reason to make 2012 another monumental election year. we don't need our leaders to continue playing politics at the margin and destroying the enthusiasm of the electorate. the fact is the country is about to go belly up. all washington has to offer is the status quo. very soon the national debt will become so large, it can't be refinanced, let alone ever be repaid. when this happens, the nation will default, the dollar will

collapse, financial system as we know it will be in meltdown. simply just unbelievable. we are risking an economic collapse, and all we get is a proposal of $61 billion in cuts. so let's talk about what we're going to do about it. as kids, we all played musical chairs. do you remember that game? >> yeah. >> the winners of the game are those who are able to find a seat and sit down when the music stops; right? the loser is the guy who is last standing. we knew up with this game. congress is still playing this game. the rules are backwards. and need to be changed. the winners, in fact, are those who are standing when the music stops. those who fight to grab a chair to sit down when the going gets tough are, in fact, the losers. we need elected officials who are willing to remain standing, make the tough decisions, take

the heat, and get us physically sound again. those who fight for the safety of a chair, the status quo, must be held accountable at the polls and be replaced by those who are willing to stand up for us americans. the music has stopped. too many of our elected officials in congress are sitting down and taking the safe route. our message to them? we are watching you. [crowd cheering] >> the republic -- the republicans may not control both houses of congress, but they own the house. they can shut the government down, they can stop raising the debt limit again. [crowd cheering] >> this is their leverage. those are the bargaining tools that they have. they should be using them. if they are not willing to do everything in their power and go to the mat for meaningful spending cuts, nothing is going to change.

the financial meltdown will continue barreling forward. the 2010 elections for an edict and indictment to those elected and those who are not re-elected. stop the insane spending. we need to support those who are standing tall to make the tough decisions. and we need to hold accountable at the polls those who are choosing to sit out. my time is about up. one more comment. if you do the math, we've heard some calculations this morning, based on the $1.6 trillion deficit for this year alone, that equates to $50,000 per second, or $3 million per minute in deficit spending. during the past three minutes, our federal government spend $9 million that it doesn't have. it's time to change the rules of the game. the music has stopped, and the question to our elected representative is very simple: are you standing or are you

sitting? it's vitally important that we stand strongly and we stand together. thank you. [crowd cheering] >> okay. thank you. nec -- next up, rita grace from virginia constitutional tea party. [crowd cheering] >> yeah, virginia! >> i'm the events chair for the virginia tea party patriots federation. we are 40,000, approximately, members strong. we commend for you. god bless you. i'm a second generation american. my family stood in line on ellis island, came over from ireland. my eldest brother coming from a poor irish family got the idea of jeffrey giraffe, the commercials, and headed up for many years toys "r" us, and my

second oldest brother is sitting in the chairman seat of petco. he wanted to sit in the white house. now i wish he was. he left politics for toys and pets. that's us, the american people. we the people as americans. i gave birth to five children, and now i have nine grandchildren. and i don't want to put that debt on their shoulders. >> amen. >> what do we need from the debt? do we want to fight them, or freedom? freedom. [crowd cheering freedom] >> okay. and i thank god for this nation. i took our children and our five children and my husband who's here today, joined hands with people in the baltics, we joined hands in three nations. there was not one break in the hands. not a break. the people lifted their hands, they sang their national hymns, paid -- patriotic songs and they cried out to god for freedom.

after 50 years of communism, they got their freedom. after seven years of communism, russian got their freedom. what i'm going to ask, join hands, find someone, and lift them up. let's sing god bless america. this is our prayer for our country, elected officials, and for us, we the people. also my brother always began every speech with never surrender and never give up. we're going to see never surrender, remember november. never surrender, remember november. [crowd chanting] >> let's sing this. lift your hand and maybe someone can join. we can reach across. and may god hear our players across the country and for our leaders. ♪ god bless america ♪ land that i love

♪ stand beside her ♪ and guide her ♪ through the night ♪ with the light from above ♪ from the mountains ♪ to the prairies ♪ to the ocean ♪ white with foam ♪ god bless america ♪ my home sweet home ♪ god bless america ♪ my home sweet home >> amen. never surrender, remember november. never surrender, remember november. god bless you. [crowd chanting] >> thank you, rita grace.

[whistles blowing] >> thank you for being here today, george washington. and captain america, and their cohorts. jan with the white hat. they are always here and always here to represent us. i want to let you know we have dick morris on the way. he's not here yet. he's landed. next we have a speaker that you are going to like very much. he's a former lieutenant colonel, congressman allen webb. [crowd cheering] >> airborne all the way. [crowd cheering] >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. [crowd cheering] >> okay. look. look. look. they only gave me two minutes. come on. i got to tell you something. we had a saying back in the

united states army, if it ain't raining, we ain't training. so from the bottom of my heart, hoowa. simple thought. anchors away. i don't know what they say in the air force, off they go. whatever. but thank you for being here. because this shows your commitment to your country. this shows your commitment to the principals and values upon which the country was established. some of the things the people continue to ask me, they continue to ask me about why won't you compromise, why won't you negotiate? let me tell you something, abraham lincoln said plant your feet in the right place. then stand firm. so i'm going to be standing firm. [crowd cheering] >> when i was a young lieutenant, and i was going through airborne school, and the sergeant black hat said very simply, he said if you set the

bar low, you jump low. >> that's right. >> you did not send us up here to set the bar low. >> no. >> you sent us up here for expectations and mandate and believing that we were here to do the things to turn around the great ship of state called the united states of america. because right now, this leaderless, rutterless ship is out in the storm about to get tossed on the rocks. i'm sick and tired of hearing everyone talk about the great constitutional, conservative grassroots movement called the tea party. i'm sick and tired of them trying to blame you, castigate you in a negative manner. no one says anything about moveon.org. no one says anything about organizing for america. you are what this country was founded upon. and i am glad to be standing here with you. [crowd cheering] >> we are not here to talk about

shutting down a government. but if you want to know about shutting down a government, go right over there and talk to chuck schumer, harry reid, go down to 1600 pennsylvania and talk to the president. we are here to talk about the incredible fiscal irresponsibility. i got to tell you something, why would i want to sit down and compromise with people who enhanced this problem that we have in america? with the three years of deficit spending, $1.42, $1.92, $1.65 trillion. the debt in the last four years has gone up $5 trillion. why do you want to listen to people like that? because i don't think they are going to give me any good solutions. the bottom line is this: we have got to turn this ship around. >> amen. >> i am not going to lower my standards. i am not going to do anything but stand upon the values that you sent me up here for. for 22 years, you asked me to do

one simple thing. you asked me to always protect your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. you asked me to guard the great symbols of this country. and in november of 2010, you gave me the privilege and the honor to take off the uniform, put on a suit and tie, and continue to serve you. i will continue to protect you, i will protect your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. i will not let you do. god bless you all, god bless america. and thank you to the tea party. thank you so much. [crowd cheering] [crowd cheering usa] >> thank you, congressman west. next we have phil for americans for prosperity. thank you, phil. >> all right. i'll be quick because you guys

have been standing here for a long time. i know dick morris just arrived. i'm going to be quick. the left wants to pretend that we are heartless. that it's a terrible thing to cut government spending, but widows and orphans in 2008 level. i don't know about your town, we didn't have widows and orphans in the street in 2008. we can cut spending and do it in a way that doesn't hurt people, but help people. we have to. if we do not cut spending, we believe our children and grandchildren with a crushing burden of debt that they will never dig out from. the only compassion thing to do if you care about the people of the country, cut spending now before we have a bond market crisis, like in greece, and we have to take disaster measures. we are going to have a fight next week when the budget cycle

starts. and chairman ryan's budget comes out, it better be aggressive and everything they have touted it to be. and the biggest thing that we can do right now is to learn the lesson of the 1990s what we do for families with dependent children, welfare reform worked. and it worked. we cut spending and didn't throw people in the streets. we cut spending by getting people off of welfare and into work. we got people relying on themselves instead of relying on government programs. we need to do the same thing with medicaid. we're going to get people off of the medicaid rolls by getting them to work. [crowd cheering] >> and we're going to fix state budgets and federal budget by repeating the success of welfare reform from the 1990s. thanks, everyone. cutting spending is the right thing to do. keep the heat on, keep the pressure on. you guys are the future of america. if we can turn this thing

around, it's going to be because of the tea party movement and because activist from the only party, -- you know, american for prosperity is a nonpartisan organization. we are. today i am partisan. i'm tea partisan. because the tea party is the only party that can fix this country. thanks, everyone. [crowd cheering] >> thank you, phil. next we have bishop e.w. jackson from chesapeake, virginia. [crowd cheering] >> thank you. thank you. patriotic friends, our nation stands at a critical cross roads. when our founding fathers bequeathed us this nation, they bequeathed it on the basis of freedom for the american people,

and sovereign of the american people, not the power of the government. [crowd cheering] >> we are in a dangerous circumstances right now. and some pay say that's an exaggeration. that's a foundation of our freedom is not at stake, but it is. and any time that you spend, you borrow 40 cents of every dollar that government spends, you are endangering our freedom. every time you tell us that you are racking up trillion-dollar deficits, you are endangering our freedom. and every time you make deals in the back room and you buy off people in the cloak room, and against the will of the american people, you force those policies into our living room, you are endangering the american people. get out of our doctor offices, get out of our businesses. we don't want you there. [crowd cheering]

[crowd chanting usa] >> now there are those in the congress that have bought into this status arrogance, but thank god for the allen west and the michele bachmann of the world who are standing up with us and standing up to stay that our founders did not establish this nation that it might force the people to vow to the will of the government. they established it to force the government to vow to the will of the people. [crowd cheering] >> now there are those right now who have been meeting and conspiring to what names they will call us. what they will say about us. but while they are figuring out what names to call us and how they can benefit politically from what they do, we are determined to benefit our nation for every citizen of this

country. >>[crowd cheering] >> i want to thank the black americans and hispanic americans. you belong here. this is your movement. we care about you. [crowd chants we the people] >> it is time that we said to barack obama and harry reid, and the forces that have dragged this nation into the muck of fiscal disaster, it is about time the government vow to the will of the american people and enough is enough. [crowd cheering] [whistle blowing] >> now my friends, i want to encourage you, these big spenders have their plans, we also have our plans. they have decided that maybe if they call us names, maybe if

they philander us we will quilt -- quit and stop. this movement is not about black and white, it is about red, white, and blue. [crowd cheering] >> they may think think -- theyy think if they call us names, slanderous, that we will quit. but they make a grave mistake to under estimate our resolve. we are not backing down, we are not backing up. in the words of the old spiritual, we don't feel no ways tired. come too far from where we started from. nobody told us the road would be easy. but two years ago when this movement started we knew we were going to continue all the way to victory and we knew it didn't bring us this far just to leave us. [crowd cheering] >> just one final thing.

the powers that be on the capitol hill need to understand this nation was not built by government. this nation was built by the people. >> we the people. >> we sacrificed, we struggled, they bled, they died, they tried, they failed, they tried again. but they heard the spirit of george washington say, fight on. you may be outnumbered, but fight on. it may look like victory is beyond you, but fight on. freedom is worth fighting for. freedom is worth fighting for. losing is not an option. i hear george washington say we will not quit until we bring this nation back to the founding principals that made it great. [crowd cheering] >> so fight on. fight on. [crowd chanting fight on]

>> fight on. fight on. [crowd cheering] >> great job. thank you. next we have another excellent speaker, it's dick morris. [crowd cheering] >> we forgive you, dick. [laughter] >> now y'all are in washington. some of you don't live here. so i got to give you some travel advice. don't drink the water. [laughter] >> there's something in the water that makes you liberal. makes you want to spend lots of taxpayers money. >> we bring bottled water. >> makes you want to regulate. bottled water only. [laughter] >> now you know what you do when water is contaminated.

>> don't drink it. >> no, you boil it. then you toss in a tea bag. [laughter] >> that's my recipe for you. [laughter] >> thank you, robert taft. okay. so the folks that work over there, can't find any way to possibility cut the budget. they are negotiating while the deficit is rising by $5 billion a day. and they work for three weeks on trying to cut the deficit and in those three weeks it goes higher than their cut wills ever reach. but they can't figure out how to cut the budget. and we are at $61 billion,

prorated is 100. they can't think of anything other than 30. well, i have some suggestions for them. we give tenya $714 million a year. >> cut it. >> we give mozambique $450 million. we give nivia $39 million. we give 30 countries in the world more than half a billion a year. foreign aid was at $20 billion in 2000. now it is at $50 billion. so that would be a nice place to start. wouldn't it? now a lot of people are talking about a government shutdown. we don't need to shut down the

government. we need to shut down the foreign aid program. we need to shut down the infrastructure stimulus package pork barrel program that obama passed. so my advice, we need to close down pbs. we need to shut down the endowment for the arts and the humanities. so that's why i think we ought to do our shutting down. because i say you shut down what you want to end. and we don't care if it stays shut down. we're for that. don't shut down the rest of the government if the democrats want to do that to retaliate against us, that's their look out. we are going to shut down things that we want to zero fund anyway. and there's more than enough of that there. so you bet there's going to be a shut down. but it's going to be a targeted shut down at the agencies that

we want to get rid of and the programs that we want to end. now that's -- that's act one. that's unfolding right now. and i think we can win that act because i think the democrats are scared to death. [crowd cheering] >> and i have a message for any republican that is thinking of waiverring. it's spelled p-r-i-m-a-r-y. it's not primary colors either. it's primary vice. for example, i'm going up to indiana tomorrow and i'm going to speak at a rally for murdoch who is going to get rid of the rhino lugar who hangs out in the united states senate for indiana. he's going to be gone. he hasn't visited indiana in a couple of years. he's going to get to move to

washington. act two is when they want to borrow more money. when they want to raise the debt limit. and would -- and what we should say to them, before you borrow more money, we want you to get control over the single program that is doing more to bankrupt the united states than any other program. it's not social security, it's not medicare, it's medicaid. under obama's administration, medicaid has gone up by 54% in two years. it's doubling every four years. and the budget deficit we are running more than anything else is caused by medicaid. social security went up by 12%, medicare by 16%, it's medicaid that is going crazy. and half of obamacare is the

increase in the medicaid program. and i say if you want that debt limit raised, you got to kill that program. cancel it. cancel the increase that obama passed, cancel that part of obamacare, the courts will take care of the rest of us for us. >> i hope. >> and i know. actually it's problematic, i do have pledges from all five members of the supreme court that they won't die. [laughter] >> but the point is that we tell the democrats in congress, you got to roll medicaid back to the 2008 levels of spending, you got to give it to the states and let the states do whatever they want with it. you don't want to spend $750,000

per state covering viagra. you don't have to. >> no wonder the budget is high. >> you don't want to cover people who make incomes of up to $80,000 a year. you don't have to. every state makes it's undecision about how to spend that money. now as we're speaking, the governors of wisconsin and ohio and indiana and pennsylvania and florida and tennessee and idaho are standing up to regain control of their own states. [crowd cheering] >> they are saying vote me out of office if you want to. but you are going to run your own schools. you are going to decide who gets hired and who gets fired. and no union contract is going to make us keep incompetence on our payroll.

[crowd cheering] >> you know, in new york city, there are 80,000 school teachers. and 4,000 of them have got to be fired because of budget cuts. well coincidently, there are 4,000 teachers in new york go to every day what are called rubber rooms. those are rooms that they never see a student. they watch tv, read the paper, some of them are even literate enough to read a book. if there's large print. but they are so abusive, physically, verbally, and sexually, and so incompetent that the chancellor has judged they can be exposed to students. but the union contract won't let us fire them. >> waiting for superman. >> the total number of people that have been discharged in the new york city school system with cause with 80,000 teachers is two. and they can't touch those

4,000. now layoffs are coming. which 4,000 are going to be laid off? the people who enrolled in teach america from princeton and columbia and yale? 20% of the graduating classes go to n to teach for america, motivated, articulate, brilliant young people wanting to serve the country and help our students, they are going to be the first one laid off because they don't have the seniority. the 4,000 are still going to be inside the rubber rooms and we can't touch them. and when bloomberg asked the legislature to give him authority to lay them off, not the people lower in seniority, the unions and state assembly they control said no. you got to lay off all of the young idealistic teachers. this is ending now because of the stern, aggressive action of the new american heros.

scott walker of wisconsin, john kasich of ohio, mitch daniels of indiana, corvit of pennsylvania, as much as i sometimes hate him, rick scott of florida, and the legislative leaderships in ohio and tennessee. they are paving the way for us to the future. so between what they are doing, you get control of education, and we are going to give them control of medicaid, you know what that equals? the 10th amendment. it gives the states back their power. it's 3/4 of their budget in those two programs combined. and we're taking the power away from the unions over the schools, and the feds over the health care system and being governor of a state will now

mean something. then we come to act three. that's the biggy. that's going to be the budget for the year 2012. now the debate will start now. but it'll get real serious over the summer. everybody is going to say you are going to shut down the government in order to get rid of obama's programs. and i say again what do you have to shut the government down for? you don't want the individual mandate enforcement that requires everybody to buy health insurance approved by the government, written by the government, and pay full freight for it? you don't want that enforced. you don't want the employer mandate enforced that's going to cost us jobs. fine, close down the irs. zero funding until they approve of the budget with those riders in it. we could do without it for a couple of weeks.

believe me. and when those guys within the drawing salaries, you bet they will begin to see the light. you don't want carbon limits that are going to destroy american manufacturing and force the jobs overseas. by the way in my book "revolt" i point out that the united states has already accomplished 60% of the goals of kyoto and copenhagen, the way that free men and women do it, through the market and education, and voluntary action, not through coercion and taxation and regulation. you don't want the epa unilaterally approving from congress didn't approve? close them down. put that rider in their budget. if they don't like it, we don't have an epa. believe me, nobody is going to cry. [crowd cheering] >> you don't want the national labor relations board to jam

down the throats of american business and labor the provisions that congress reject the for the card check bill that says you set up a union with no secret ballot and people are coerced into checking off of the cards. that's enough and they have no further role in the process. put a rider in the nlb, national labor relations budget. sudden -- suspend, and if they don't go along, zero fund the nlrb. you don't want the fcc cracking down on talk radio? >> no. >> and telling you that every -- here's the game. every talk radio show has to locally produce 25 percent of its content. now rush limbaugh, shawn handy, they are cheap. they split the revenue for the ads, they don't pay anything.

they make money. when you hire the local guy as a talk radio host, you got to pay them real money. maybe he makes a profit, maybe he doesn't. what they will do, they will close down all talk radio and just run top 40 music like they used to. you don't want the fcc to do that? >> no. >> butt -- put in a rider prohibiting it. if the senate won't go along, close down the fcc. we don't have to close down the government. we're going to close down the parts of the government we can't stand. [crowd cheering] >> and that strategy is going to work because the only alternative obama and the senators have then is to say to spite you, we are going to close down the rest of the government. and that's not going to be very popular with the american people. so listen, i went throughout the united states during the

election year of 2010, speaking at tea party gatherings, and i always quoted that wonder movie, same time next year. i said we're going to get together in the same place at the same time to hold their feet to the fire and make sure that they act as they promised to act during the election of 2010. and that's why you are here, and that's why i'm here, and that's why together we are going to win. thank you. [crowd cheer] [crowd chanting usa] >> thank you, dick morris. i'm just pulling up a note here so i know what to tell you to do. we have a couple of things. we are about to wrap up. i want to say one last thing. if you remember nothing -- okay. give me a second. i'm sorry. some how i wound up with a lot

of stuff. if you remember only one thing today, remember this, and it's important, we're only asking congress to cut $2.6 pennies out of every $1 of hours that they are spending. that's it. that's the message to remember today. it's draconian, it's not severe, and it's needed so that we will be able to continue to have this great country that we have. >> amen. >> two quick housekeeping things. then we'll wrap it up. i appreciate all of you for being here. standing in the rain. it's pretty cool out here today. we are committed to this country, we have doing this for thousands and millions of americans who couldn't be here today. many of the people that couldn't be here, they e-mail me and say please make sure you tell the people thank you for being there for me. so you have appreciation from people all across this country. especially the people on the west coast. [crowd cheering] >> we the people.

>> if you have photos that you took today, we'd love to have them and put them on our facebook page. if you will e-mail those photos to pics -- p-i-c-s, pics like pictures, pics@teapartypatriots.org. we need this. this is the important part. the last part. we need to go into the senate, two senators, and go into the house and see our congressman. we have letters printed if you like what it says, leave it and put it with the congressman. we need to make sure they are listening to our message and tell them what we expect them to do. thank you for being here. we're going to restore our constitution together. thank you so much. [crowd cheering] >> god bless, jenny. >> thank you. >> god bless tea party. god bless america.

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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> after this rally at the capitol, democratic senator, charles schumer, of new york, spoke on the floor about 10 minutes about the tea party and budget negotiations. >> mr. president, i rise to speak about the current status of the ongoing bipartisan budget talks. mr. president -- madam president, we are in a much

better place than we were two weeks ago. the two sides are much closer than you might be able to tell from the public statements. after three months of back and forth, two short terms continuing resolution containing cuts, and one near collapse of the talks last week, we are finally headed for the home stretch. last night, we had a very good meeting with the vice president. after words, we confirmed that the house republicans and we in the senate are for the first time in the negotiations working off the same number. as the vice president said last night, there has been agreement to meet in the middle. around $33 billion in cuts. the appropriations committees on both sides are now rolling up their sleeves and getting to work to figure out how to best arrive at that number. today speaker boehner said

nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. that is a fair and reasonable position to take. you need not publicly confirm the $33 billion number. but as long as both sides keep their heads down and keep working, a deal is in sight. we are right on the door step. but madam president, there are outside forces that don't like this turn of events. outside the capitol today, there was a tea party rally staged to pressure republican leaders not to budget off of hr1. they want speaker boehner to abandon these talks and hold firm. even if they means a government shutdown on april 8th. this is a reckless, and yes, extreme position to take. earlier today, the republican leader came to the floor to defend the tea partyers rallying

outside this building today. let me say this, i agree with some of his points. for instance, i agree that the fact that the tea party is so actively participating in our democracy is a good thing. they have strongly held views and they join the debate. this is as american as it gets. but the tea parties priorities for our government are wrong. their priorities are extreme because they are out of step with what most americans want. every poll shows that americans want to cut spending, but with a smart, sharp scalple. they want to cut down to the meat and bone. they want to focus on waste and abuse, cut oil subsidies, end tax breaks for millionaires, don't want to support the port

security funding that keeps us safe. they don't want to take the meat ax and cut vital education, they don't want to end cancer research that could research that saves many, many lives. and most of us, unlike the tea party, most americans don't want the government to shut down. they want both sides to compromise. madam president, a deal is at hand. if republicans in congress will tune out the tea party voices that are shouting down any compromise. these tea party voices will on o a deal. and our resolve must remain strong. if the speaker will reject their calls for a shutdown, we can pass a bipartisan agreement. many conservatives whom i would otherwise disagree with, agree with me on at least this point.

it was very interesting to see on fox news yesterday three commentators all on the same show, plainly agreeing that it is time to accept the compromise with democrat to avert a shutdown. charles was adamant that a shutdown would be avoided and that if the government did shutdown, republicans would be blamed. kristin powers, a reservist columnist said quote what should happen if boehner should strike a deal with the blue dogs and moderates and go with the $30 million from the senate and just move on, unquote. bill crystal agreed while the republicans may like the budge on their terms, the relate is the speaker would need democrats to get a deal done. mr. president, madam president,

the tea party may have helped the republicans win the last election. but they are not helping the republicans govern. the tea party is a negative force in the talks. but we are close to over coming the force and cutting a deal. as the negotiations enter the home stretch, here's how we should define success. first and foremost, a government shutdown should be avoided. we should all agree on that. it bothers me when i hear some on the other side of the aisle or in the tea party say we should shut down the government to get what we want. second, the top lying target for cuts should stay around the level described by the vice president and that both parties are working off of. this makes complete sense. since $33 billion is the mid point between the two sides. and it's what republicans originally wanted in february

before the tea party forced them to go higher. third, the makeup of the cuts as i suggested a few weeks ago should not be only from domestic, discretionary spending. you cannot solve our deficit problem by going after only 12% of the budget. mandatory spending cuts must be part of the package. the higher the package goes, the more the proportion should be tilted in favor of mandatory, rather than discretionary spending. and four, the most extreme of the riders cannot be included. there are some riders that we can probably agree on. but the epa measure is not one of them. neither is planned parenthood. or the other extreme riders that have been so controversial. i believe we can settle on a few measures that both sides think are okay. but the most extreme ones to not belong in this budget bill.

those are issues that should probably be debated, but not as part of a budget, and not holding the budget hostage to debt. mr. president, -- sorry, madam president, if we can adhere to these tenants, we can have a deal that both sides can live with. time is short, and we need to begin moving on to the pressing matter of the 2012 budget. and speaking of the 2012 budget, let me say a quick word about that. i saw today that house republicans plan to unvail their blueprint next week. interestingly, the report said republicans no longer plan to cut social security benefits as part of that blueprint. they are admitting that it is not a major driver of our current deficit. that is true. and this is a positive development. it comes after many of us on the democratic side, including leader reid and myself have

insisted that social security benefits not be cut as part of any deficit reduction plan. it is good to see that republicans, including the house budget chairman, according to the reports in the paper, now agree with us. his original plan called for privatizing the program. i hope we are not going to bring up that again. because it will not pass. but if the house republicans, instead, simply insist on balancing the budget, on the backs of medicare recipients, instead of social security recipients, we will fight them tooth and nail over that too. there has to be give on all sides. shared sacrifice. not just in any one little area. a lot is at stake in the current year's budget. but in another sense, it is simply a prelude to the larger discussions ahead. we urge the speaker to resist

the tea party rallies of today, and the ones that -- the ones that are to come to accept the offer on the table on this year's budget, and let us tackle the larger topics that still await us. thank you, madam president. and i yield the floor. >> madam president, would the senator yield? >> senator from florida. >> would the senator please yield? >> i would be happy to yield to my friend from florida. >> i have a question. in the senator's opinion, why would the republicans, particularly from the house of representatives, want to cut social security since the social security system has little, if any, affect upon us getting our arms around the deficit and moving the budget toward balance over the next ten years?

>> my friend from florida makes a good point. in fact, by law, the social security system and it's pluses and minuses and the federal budget's budget, the federal government's budget and it's pluses and minuses must be separate. by definition and law the two are separate. social security has its liabilities and assets and a big pile of assets over here and the federal government has its liabilities ands assets. and they don't meet. one would think, particularly those that are saying privatize, that their opposition or desire to include social security in large scale budget deficit talks which we need and which are good, and i commend the group of six for moving forward in this direction. but one would think that is an ideological agenda, because they don't like social security, want to change it, privatize it,

whatever, rather than any motivation about the deficit. and then when you see that some of them may want to extent tax breaks for millionaires to permanently, which would increase the deficit by a huge amount, and at the same time, say let's deal with social security, let's privatize it. which doesn't have anything to do with the deficit. you scratch your head and say i don't think deficit is what's going on here. >> i thank the senator for his analysis. >> i thank the senator for his question. :

more now in budget negotiations on capitol hill. first you hear from senate majority leader harry reid for five minutes. followed by republican senator scott brown of massachusetts. >> we are continuing to work hard to avoid the terrible consequences that come with the government shut down. as vice president biden announced last night after the art half meeting we had in his office here just a few feet from where i speak, he announced the democrats and republicans agreeu upon a number in which to base their budget cuts. dead number $73 billion below the president's budget. now we have to figure out how tt get to that 73 number. a as i've said all along this is in just about dollars in deficits. it is about principles and priorities. what we cut is much more important than how much we cut. indeed he is very concerned with which party will win the fight. i'm much more concerned withe

making sure the american people don't lose out in this, what we are doing. we have too sure that the cuts are those that don't really damage the basic fiber of ourcon country. let me once again remind the senate, children, students teachers nurses and seniors would be significantlywo hurt at the cuts in republican past h.ra 1. the tea parties here today. they are here to demonstrating the h.r. 1 should be followed mr. president. $100 billion.n. damaging children, students, teachers nurses seniors and many other people. h.r. 1 mr. president is not alai piece of legislation anyone should be proud of. not a single child, not a single student, not a single teacher, not a single nurse, not a single police officer, not a single senior led us into this

recession, not one and punishing innocent bystanders will not lead us to recovery. we will continue talking and continue working to find an, middle ground. again mr. president we haver. agreed on a number. hav we haven't agreed how to get toe that number. h i hope an agreement can beac reached as how do we get to that number but it will not come on m the backs of middle-class families and jobs they need. i will not, the other side continues to insist on unreasonable tea party unrealistic cuts.nd i appreciate speaker boehner and the rest of his republican leadership in the houseub. what a tremendously difficult job they have.s i'm sure it is not easy trying to negotiate with the tea parties screaming in their ears. with a lot more work to do. this country is at a crossroadsf on a lot of different wayst. mr. president.erin the economy is recovering. not as much and not as rapidly as they would like, but we can't help what is going on here with

the tea parties demonstrating,s all these harsh cuts with unrealistic writers, punishing innocent folks just for political ideology. we have a lot more to do. i hope the latest development is the beginning of the end of this crisis, because you remembersn this isn't the only crisis and we as a country are dealing with. we have about eight -- from our navy trying to help the good people in japan. we have got a big situationiddl going on in the middle east, not only in libya but all of the middle east. with a war going on in afghanistan as we speak.anis we have men and women whose lives are on the line in afghanistan who are trying to drawdown in iraq. t we have just a lot of issues mr. president we need to deal with them. t we know that there has to be w budget cuts and we are willing to do that, but let's also't understand, we can't can balance

the budget with what the tea w parties wanting us to do. we have a huge problem in this country with deficits. now mr. president we have been e pretty good example of how wewed can balance the budget. we did it in the clinton years. we spend far less money than we in. taking we were reducing the debt. we were not having annual deficits, so we know it can be done. but we have to do it in the right i way, as we did. we want to work with their republican colleagues and we have proven that we can do that with with the two short-term cr's that we have had.i h but i hope that everyone understands that there is only so much that the middle class of this country canis take. there's only there is only so much that we can do to theur damage and the basic fiber of our children, students and teachers in our n seniors.un mr. president, head start is and program that has been around for decades and it helps a lot. it helps little boys and girls learn to read and do their math

that they wouldn't ordinarily have an opportunity to do. really poor children.hous what h.r. 1 does is cut hundreds of thousands of little boys and girls club most programs. that doesn't help ourt country.e we know that cats must be made that they must be smart cuts ano we want to do the best we can to work together to do whatever is reasonable to reduce the stepasn that we have. but we know it can be done and it has been done in recent history. >> mr. president, i enjoyed the previous speaker's presentationr mr. president i come to the floor today to talk to about the ongoing negotiations between the white house with speaker banner and my colleagues here in the senate regarding the appropriations for the current fiscal year. since the beginning of thee 112th congress, the house and senate have been trying to find commonon ground to finish the appropriations for fy2011 and instead of reaching a long-termx

compromise, we pass no fewer than six short-term continuing t resolutions. wom not only does that disrupt our military men and women trying to serve, but also every other facet of government and people's lives throughout this greates country. six funding resolutions that provide little in the way of responsibly addressing our staggering deficit. t a little certainty with their trading partners and absolutelyr no certainty whatsoever to the world market in terms of our ability to manage our nation'say finances. sadly rather than reaching an workable, bipartisan solution, responsibly addressing our staggering deficit which is expected to reach $1.5 trillions this fiscal year, our leaders have repeatedly given us falseen choices between continuing resolution proposals that are there don't go far enough touc reduce federal spending and proposals that i feele established the wrong priorities for me and in my state and many other people as well throughout this chamber.

and i feel calm and many of the choices that were made disproportionately affect low-income families and seniorsu one of my senate colleagues mr. president if you remember has characterized t this proces" that i quote hobson's choice and i. agree. you know the world right now is looking for two things. the world markets, the financian markets and the people it invest in this country are looking for two things.or t they are looking for us to do is lean and mean budget and get our fiscal and financial priorities in line right now. for that is what they're looking for and they are also looking for, entitlements whether it is military honestly, social security and medicare, medicaid etc., and then they will know that in fact they can investo here. when i they do invest, that mony is going to be safe in their exit going to get a good return when pimco doesn't do any more a bonding with the united states of america, i mean that is just assigned. when you have other countries throughout thisme world actually being downgraded by the bondingn

services, it is a problem. we are in this financial role tn negativity and we have to get our fiscal and financial house in order right away. i've been absolutely disappointed that i know everybody listening in the gallery and everybody watchingut today is absolutely disappointed by the pace of the negotiations between the two chambers. we have got an faa -- great i plan.l,find a safe we have also done the patent bill and i want -- i get it. w now we are in the small business and the townsmen deform heok spoke. i get get a come i'm on the committee and i'm happy to do it. are you kidding h me? i mean really, we are in the biggest financial mess that we have ever been in and we are doing everything but dealing with the financial mess. so, here we are. we are at -- when i got here, the people got here it is overti

14.3 trillion counting. dissent historic deficit and unfortunately, despite passing six different fy2011 cr's, each with the understanding that passage removes her negotiations are there along, we are once again facing the likelihood of a government shutdown. i never ever thought i would be a united states senator from massachusetts and come here and say oh myua gosh i was here when they shut down the government. i wonder what it feels like?ck h what do i tell the staff on what i tell people i've come? i'm not going to participate inm that.so i'm going to be a problem solver. i'm going toar be one of the gus come and appear fewer liberal,t conservative, republican or democrat. i'm going to t come here to find solutions and try to avoid any t type of government shutdownf because you know, i don't want one. no when i'm talking to wantsso one. so what does that mean? we have to actually get these negotiations in perspective. we actually have to express to our leaders as i just did thatrt hey i'm concerned.

i want to make sure we start to tackle these very real issues and while the federal budget is only a small part, i can't tell you how many -- how how many times that we have been in ath committee hearing now and they are talking about wasting billions and billions and billions of dollars?of $76 billion, just through onei program that we are attacking. d i was in the military budget hearing the other day. $104 billion over budget for one weapon system. are you kidding me? i mean really. it is just phenomenal so here we are debating cutting i guess 61 give or take it in dollars on the one hand but we don't have a problem with basically going over budget 100 plus billionam dollars in various programs andr wasting various billions of other dollars so the only thing we are fighting about is that which is a small my new part ofh what we are doing. on the other hand we have given away the money.ther there was just a report that

came out that said we are wasting billions orsf dollars jt for duplication., executive order number one, let's fix it. so we don't have to worry about this. the money that we saved could bi used for the seniors, for the kids and the pell f grants and t the things that people are fighting about right now. i will say however that a government shutdown absolutely serves no purpose and is in no one's best interest, neither our country's best interest, our worker's best interests and it is absolutely not in the global economy's best interest. i for one stand ready to work with any senator or any congressman or any member of the demonstration they want to getbe together and solve these very t real problems.og i will say however i'm encouraged about the recent developments in the negotiations of the news breaking yesterday that a possible deal is close. that is great. are they talking $33 billion? they decided they were $104,000,000,000.1 military

program and dealing with medicarear issues, 76 billion gs out every year, just because. that is great i'm happy withs. doing it but the world ist looking for a couple of things.h they're looking for at the eneme budget but also looking for us to get a handle on entitlement reform eliminating c the waste d abuse that is common sense things that every single hom person's gallery and everybody listening does in their own -- homes and business. by can we treat the federal government like a business foree once? sor it just make no sense to me. i'm sorry, i'm no i'm not theca new guiney more. you are the new guyhe mr. president. congratulations being president today. let me tellef you been a new guy i'm hopeful that you agree with me that we have to work together and we tried to do that human being andan senator to find that common ground. i think we all agree on what the number is. it is just a question of tackle through etc. and then they to

through the problem solved. is going to take real choices, tough choices. right now are pretty listening right now absolutely understands that everything is on the table. we have to be fair and judicious about her cuts. how do you go from a to z just overnight? there is no transition. period mac and no consideration for jobs and actually the safety of people and some of these cuts.aa i'm ready as i said to work with each and everyone of you to put politics aside and listen, is there an election this year mr. president? i don't think so, because i am looking at 2011 right now, 2011e as the one year, the one chance that we have to actually solve problems. to solve problems, folks. 2012 we can do what we do in the political season. i get it but for right now we have a greatea opportunity. we have an opportunity right now to send a message to all those folks who say you know what?

washington is broken. washington is broken. jow, great.r everyone is great.ri senator carper is great. he is one of my best friends up here butf listen, washington say they have no clue what we are doing. they don't trust us.l they don't think we are addressing the very real problems that affect our greatur country. and our collective works begins by having a clear understanding of the seriousness of our budgea concerns.eeti now i know we have those bipartisan meetings. i am so encouraged as a relatively new member that we have had about 60 or 65 people i come together to come together to hear what the numbers. number is. is a fact, is it fiction, is it real? what ist a? we agree we are in trouble soou why are not the leaders of this great country all leaders? there is plenty of blame to gore around folks. weren't they getting together and reallyal seriously let us kw what the parties are?r why doesn't the president call my office or your office or anyone else and say do you know

what? to these are my priorities. i challenge to review to get them done. what are his priorities fori cuts? does anyone appear no? i don't know. because if he called me or if he called you i know we could give him certainly the respect of of the office deserves and we would actually go out and say do you know what?r i will work with my colleagues mr. president or mr. lederer mr. minority leader and they will actually find those things we can do. we can start with a report that just came out in the eliminate all that duplication.ncie summonses as i don't want to misquote but i think there were 26 pages he is doing the same thing. are you kidding me? i believe you know that the in responsibility that we have been given is huge. look at these and people here. a lot of them came to a charityn basketball game. a lot of the young pages came and it was so exciting to see their faces and they are so excited to be here. everyone of these young people are saying oh, gosh, the united

states senate. i'm in the united statesen sena. working here for these people. we look up to them. we expect them to do better and be better. they challenge us on a daily basis. just by those bright eyes, the fact that they are studying each and every second, some more than others i might add. and they are looking for us to solve problems because it isno really not even them that we are worried about. it is like their great-grandchildren.s if we do nothing, is that what you want us to do, folks, nothing? do you want me to do nothing? i'm not going to be part of thep do-nothing caucus around here. i'm going to find common senseog solutions and work towards common sense goals, regardless of the outcome. even if i lose, whatever. i have played a role in history right now. in this time of history to makee a difference to make a change. and i am so hopeful. i'm an optimist. i really believe that we can don it better. i believe that we have an

opportunity to do a better right now with your leadership and the other l senators who are going o be heree soon, to just take gete together and solve the problems folks. we can battle in two to -- 200. the world is looking at is to make a difference and i'm hopeful that we willin find that ability to do so because if weni don't, then we miss a great, opportunity to just solve problems. so thank you mr. president. i appreciate your patience and your occasional smirks, and i yield the floor. thank you. >> senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says the spending in the deficit are the biggest issues facing the country. he and all the other republican senators are cosponsoring a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced budget. this is a half-hour.

[inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon everyone. i'm not sure this is working. isn't working? i think we know joblessness is one of the biggest issues in this country today. all 47 republican senators have come together to sign a constitutional amendment in order to give us the fiscal discipline to do the job that we need to do.

the same job at every family in america does. we all leone being -- within our means. finishers had taken the lead on this issue. [inaudible] i want to call on senator hatch first, and those up in the leaders on this issue and actually everybody has played a role in this. this particular constitutional amendment would be the right thing for our country. [inaudible] the total national debt was

around $5 billion into data is over $14 trillion headed towards $20 trillion. the spending was a reasonable area spending against the gdp. today we are at about 69% and according to the cbo, the president's budget has followed, we are going to hit up a fully 90% of gdp, which would make us similar to -- and that is that the president budget figures are right. we simply cannot live without. now can you imagine if they pass that amendment when we left one vote. at that we had 67 at the time and when person didn't leave that very morning. when we lost by one vote that but have a past that, we wouldn't be in the terrible fiscal distress we are in today. and we would have had to make very tough choices just like every family has to make and in

balancing their budget and living within their means, and i think most of us would agree that this government is incapable of living within its means, and we have to go to this extended order to get angst on. so we are filing this a balanced budget amendment. all 47 republicans are bored. we will work with their her colleagues on the other side to see what we can do to get them on board and hopefully we can pass this bill and such an amendment and get our country into a fiscal situation that really works. we have a lot more i could say that i'm going to stop at that and call on senator leahy and then after senator leahy, senator cornyn, senator cornyn and then senator -- and i will call on others. >> at the end of the day this is an issue that is neither democratic nor republican, neither dog liberal nor conservative. this issue, our mounting debt

potentially threatens every federal program, every federal expenditure known to man. by the end of this decade, if we continue to spend at our current rate, it is likely we will be spending about a trillion dollars a year just on interest on national debt and to put that in perspective of course this is substantially more than we spend on social security and an entire year. is more than we spend on medicare and medicaid combined in an entire year. is substantially more than we spend on national defense in an entire year. so regardless of whether you most concerned about protecting our ability to defend ourselves against foreign aggressors, or on the other hand you are most concerned about protecting entitlement spending, you should be concerned about perpetual reckless runaway deficit spending, and that is what this amendment would put an end to once and for all. thereby protecting all of those programs. again, programs that are important both to liberals and conservatives alike. this is a time when we have to

address the difficult questions that arise from the fact that perpetual deficit spending brings about a particularly pernicious form of taxation without representation. one group of elected legislators spends money, and then people who are not yet worn or not get a voting age someday have to pay off the debt left by the roof of legislators. we fight a war over taxation without representation and we won that war and we need to abandon this pernicious practice once and for all and that is what this does. i'm please pleased to support it i'm very grateful to my colleagues and senator hatch, senator cornyn, senator kyl, senator -- and some of you is who have helped us us with this and to our minority leader mitch mcconnell who is shown so much leadership in getting our party in the senate behind us. >> on november the second lesser the last year the mayor can people send a very clear message to all of us, whether get as mike said,

whether we are republicans democrats or independents, that they are sick and tired of the reckless spending and the unsustainable debt and they wanted us to act together hopefully on a bipartisan basis. is the only way this going to get done. to address that problem, and we can do it, and this constitutional amendment is one way to do that. in 1997, senator had said when they came within one vote there were 11 democrats but joined republicans then, and i hope now that we have gotten an amendment that 47 of us agreed to, we will be reaching out to her democratic colleagues to see if they got the message that we got loud and clear on november the second. we are accountable. we are responsible to the american people for what we do. we usually have those determinations whether we have been good stewards or whether we have done what they expect of us. we find out in an election, so i

think this is a great opportunity for us to work together. i hope both sets of data will come together, pass this amendment and that will go to the states were 38 states would have to ratify it, and then within five years, this balanced budget amendment would be implemented. >> thank you. i would like to start by saying a quick thank you to senators hatch and cornyn. on the one hand and senators lee and kyle. these two groups, these true centers that produce thoughtful alternative ideas on how many might reach a balance budget amendment and through a lot of hard work we all came to an agreement on a consensus product that i think is a great product, and importantly has the universal support of the republican conference into that and i want to tangle leader mcconnell for having the wisdom to seize the opportunity to unite this conference by this very very important idea. it is important for many reasons. i want to touch on just one, and

that is i am absolutely convinced that i think many economists are, that we cannot have the economic recovery we need and we cannot have that job the job growth that we badly need as long as we have this disastrous fiscal deficit looming over our economy. getting our fiscal house in order, getting a balanced budget is an absolutely necessary precondition for the strong economic growth and job creation that frankly we were sent here to accomplish. so i share the hope that some of my colleagues have alluded to, the hope that there will be a large number of democratic colleagues who will join with ue republican and pass an amendment to the constitution that we badly need that will provide the fiscal straitjacket that we need to get our fiscal house in order. >> thank you. i was a freshman congressman back in 1997 when the senate had

it this vote the last time and it failed by one vote. senator hatch mentioned. it would have passed in the house of representatives and i can't help but thinking how much better our country would be today 14 years later if we had enacted a balanced budget amendment that then. because since that time we have seen dramatic growth in government, dramatic increase in spending and debt, and today, today it threatens the country on a level like we have never seen before, so much so that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, echo mike mullen, called our national debt the greatest threat to america's national security. i think that speaks volumes. i think that is why this exercise is so important and we worked together as republicans to come up with a proposal that we would like to put before the senate and before the american people, and hopefully rally them around and get the democrats on board with this because it is high time that washington did what so many states and what every family in this country is to do and that is balance the budget. south dakota was at first it in

the union this year to balance its budget and it took some hard decisions. they cut $127 million which is a lot of money. doesn't sound like a lot of here, but they did it the hard way. they made the hard decisions, and because we got a balanced budget within our state constitute their required to do it. we do it every year and lots of states to their beer. is high time the federal government did it. is long overdue if we are going to get this country back on the right track, growing, creating jobs in dealing with this massive problem of spending and debt. >> thank you orrin and thank you all of you. does work so hard to make this a reality. having examined the amendment i do think it is solid and we will do the job it reopened to do and i congratulate those of you who have worked so hard to have unanimous support for it. we have demonstrated that systemically, it seems, congress is in a bill to its means.

and 97, when the amendment failed by one vote, i was one of the first key votes i cast is in a senator. people were saying we were getting our house in order and maybe we didn't do need a balanced budget amendment. now we have deficits 10 times that rate. it threatens our financial future. it threatens their jobs. erskine bowles and alan simpson, the cochairman of prison obama's budget debt commission signed a joint statement before the budget committee, and they said this is the most predictable economic crisis this nation has ever faced. the debt is growing out of control. so, i would say that the greatest thing we could do for our economy, the greatest thing we could do to put this country on a path to financial success and growth and vigorous strength in the future is to get our financial house in order. this will do it. i think those who have worked

for it so much, and i do believe it is not a hopeless task. one vote short in 97. i believe we can pass at this time. i thank all of you who have worked so hard. >> like my colleagues i want to thank senator hatch for his leadership and everybody else for their leadership. this is a team effort, all 47. i know that you all like to write about the times we had 45 and maybe not 44. all 47-cent above most amendment. they think this is one thing to consider. the second thing, i know some of the people in the poli-sci goober department say wait a minute, this is not going to work. somebody talks about is the budget has to be, you have to have -- they don't have a printing press. that to be a balance but they don't have the protection in regards to national security.

in a declared war, which might be helpful this time around, you can overcome that with 51 votes, so national security is protected. the other thing i would say is that some people that are critical of this, how long will it take for 38 states to ratify it? i think that is the proper number. i want to tell you something. you talk to any state-led that's -- legislator and a governor today and say is there some way that you can reign in federal spending in part that goes for the funding of all the speculation on all these mandates that they have to put up with? they are going to say a man and i think it would be gratification. read it up appear, long-term, long-term. that is exactly what we are after here. while we may not be successful i don't want to put a wet blanket on this. ivan see much leadership in the white house. we can't kick the scan down the road to an even numbered year and go until 2013 and bob up

against what could be real economic chaos. none of us know when that tip of the spear is going to hit but if we send a message like this i think it will signal to the american people we are serious and most especially to the world and most especially to the financial community. thank you. >> thank you. spending has been an addiction for congress for many years, and i'm very proud of our public and conference for standing together to break that addiction. and if anyone questions the need for a balanced budget amendment, all we have to do is look at this current debate on funding the government for this year. at a time when the whole world recognizes that american is on an economic cliff, the democratic party is yet to even agree to cut this year but we borrow every week. they are not going to join us. they're not going to show the leadership until the

constitution requires that we do it. that is why this balanced budget is so important, and that is why we need to have a vote on this balanced budget amendment before there is any debate or vote on the debt ceiling. >> if america, as we know today, is going to be saved, it is imperative that this balanced budget amendment to the united d states constitution pass. this institution is not capable of living within its means. this is not a partisan issue. it is an american issue, and it is imperative that we do in the federal government but virtually every state has and that is a requirement that the balance the budget. it works very well and stay. we need it at the federal level. >> senator graham. >> this is a historic day for

the republican party. we all agree on something, and it is a big deal. every end of our party has come to believe that the budget in the constitution is probably not going to happen and what would it mean? it would mean the political record -- reiter gives way to constitutional mandate. i've come to believe since being here since 1995 that all the rhetoric in the world is never going to lead to a balanced the budget in less than bing changes pretty soon. in a balanced budget would make us do what everybody has to do it home. you can't leave town until you get the budget balance. you have to say no to people. may be your friend who would make mad and he would have to title your belt and -- tighten your belt. you have to do things that people in the real world do every day, so i hope and pray that we can get some momentum to one day have the constitutional balanced budget amendment to change the way the congress works, not just for now but forever. it is sad to say.

>> thank you senator hatch. before being elected to the senate last year i actually have the distinction of being the longest-serving governor in the united states. i served as a governor for 10 years for the state of north dakota. and one thing that we have to do each and every year was balance our budget. families have to balance their budgets. businesses have to balance their budgets. cities have to balance their budgets. states have to balance their budgets. our country needs to balance its budget. i am pleased that all 47 republican senators are together on this balanced budget amendment. it provides the right kind of safeguards. it provides safeguards in time of war. at divides transition to get to that balanced budget so we can address social security, medicare, all the programs are important to people. i'm very hopeful that with all

of the republicans on this balanced budget amendment now, we can join with their counterparts across the aisle and get past. there was a sense in the senate vote not too long ago you will recall and we picked up 13 democratic votes. so if you do the math, we are getting close, and i'm hopeful now that we can get enough votes to pass this balanced budget amendment. again i want to thank senator hatch, senator lee and certainly there leader senator mcconnell for their leadership on this incredibly important issue for our country. >> thank you. i want to thank senator hatch and all those that have been involved in drafting a constitutional amendment. one of the things that you all have not seen happening but has been happening every week, most of the time two times a week, is republicans have been gathering in this room and in another room to talk through those things we need to do over the long-haul to make sure that our country

becomes fiscally sound. it has really been a three-step approach. one is to make sure that we negotiate. the deepest cuts that we possibly can in the continuing resolution is underway right now. a second piece is to have a statutory solution. one that can go into place right now, because we have had financial analysts on both sides of the aisle coming and talking about the fact that something has to occur right now. and the third piece is to make sure that over time, after the focus on why natural discipline goes away, that we have something to her then and there is a constitutional amendment. we have had lot of people working on all three phases of this. i think it is shown tremendous leadership by mitch mcconnell and their leadership team to pull us all together around all three of these concepts. i believe it is the number one issue in america. i really do and i don't want a

message. i want is to solve the problem in all of us want to work together to see that happen. i really appreciate again with the leadership of our party has come together to try to do that and we are reaching out to the other side to try to make sure that this happens. thank you. >> thank you senator hatch for your leadership on this and senator mcconnell and gathering all 47 republicans which i think is for important. the number one problem we face in our country is our debt. we will never ever balance or budget until we amend our constitution. it is the single most important vote we will cast. republicans need this as well as democrats. we all need a rule that we must obey. this is the single most important vote we will cast this year and i hope the other side will come and embrace the idea of fiscal sanity again. thank you.

>> i get home every begin to wyoming and sit around and asked people questions, sit around and discuss things and i did leslie. set with a group of people and said who here believes they have a better life right now than their parents had and every hand goes up. in and i asked the question, how many of you believe that your kids will have a better life then you have right now? the hands all came down. we talked about why that is and the reason fundamentally is the debt. the debt is the threat to our future. and wyoming i said in the senate for five years. we had a balanced budget amendment to our own constitution. we have to balance a budget and wyoming. her family stayed to do it in their businesses need to do it and if we are going to have the secured future of this country, the one that we know, that we need there is only one didn't do it and that is by making sure i constitutional amendment that we balance the budget every year in this country and that is why i'm so bad that 47 of us have come together to unanimously signed onto this approach for a

balanced budget amendment to the constitution. thank you. >> last but not least,. >> thank you so much senator hatch and senator mcconnell for your terminus leadership. i think it says so much that we are all together in what in my view is the single most important piece of legislation that we can pass in the united states senate. and this is about what i heard from a hoosier voters as they campaigned up and down our state. why can't you live within your means and congress? white why do some pushing think get it like we do at home? and congress has not been able to live with its -- within its means and that is why this is the single most important legislation that we can pass. for me it this letter children. i have two small children at home, and we owe it to our children to make sure that they can live their lives free from being indebted to china, that we are passing on to them our failure to make the tough decisions today. so i'm so proud to join with my

colleagues to make sure pasturing rosebushes and management and i look forward to working with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle so that we can pass this and make sure that we live within our means and address the fiscal crisis in this country. thank you. >> i want to pay personal tribute to senator mcconnell and senator kyl for their leadership on this. they have both benjamin's leaders and having us all together is a very important step in the right direction. we will turn it over to you pretty questions and we would be happy to colin anybody. >> can you give us a sense -- [inaudible] >> spending is around 25.3%. aven had that much spending since world war ii. since the height of world war ii so it is clear that we are off the charts and not standpoint.

the 18% is the average revenue that we have had over the last 50 years. and we decided that as an appropriate figure to try to shoot for and that is why the 18%. >> if i could just add one thing to that. as recently as 2007, total federal spending was just barely over 90% of gdp. that was at a time when i would argue congress was not at all trying to exercise any fiscal discipline and yet virtually by accident, here they were just barely over 90%. wouldn't take a big lift to go from that level down to 18. [inaudible]

>> number one, we won't have a vote on this. we will have to let leadership determined that at least it seems to me. if we are smart we will do that. number two with regard to the senator you voted for the balanced budget in 1997, and i suspect that, i suspect he would vote for this one if you were here. [inaudible] i heard it, but i think you would vote for it. he is and talk to me. we chatted together very carefully the last time, and if he wins in florida he is a different constituency now i suppose. >> let me add just one more point of context. under article v of the constitution they are two ways to amend the constitution. one is by joint resolution of congress. the second is by constitutional convention. at an earlier time in our history were actually within two states and triggering a constitutional convention

responsibility by congress, so i will tell you that this is such such -- has such power across the country, people simply don't understand the proper ways of the congress and why we can't do what states and families and businesses do. so there is going to continue to be, i would suggest, significant pressure from the states that we do this as well, and i think that is an important part of this context. we need to do it anyway, but that is senate and a port and additional pressure. i am sorry, i can't hear. >> my preferences we would pass the senate would move the whole issue of the constitutional convention. i'm just saying that is an article v of the constitution, that would be an alternative if we don't do our job. i hope we do our job and that would move the point. >> one point i want to emphasize relative to some of the questions asked earlier there are safeguard provisions in this balanced budget amendment you should take a look at.

the dressings that time of war, transition to get to the point where the budget in balance and other issues. we do provide safeguards in this package. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> let me put it this way. this is a version that all 47 republicans have agreed on. i personally believe this is step one. the house is going to pass this. we will have to see how close they come to ours, and we will certainly work it out, but i would work for this version and let's hope we can get it

through. [inaudible] right now we are dedicated to this ounce budget amendment and i do believe we will have democratic support on this. now, time will tell. [inaudible] i expected number of democrats to vote for this. if they don't they're going to have to face their citizens, and that is not going to be easy because everybody in this country knows we are in trouble. everybody knows that we may lose the greatest country in the world, and so we are going to do everything in our power to get

the democrats on board and i hope we can. >> i do think that it is going to be imperative for anyone of are there house or are there political party who stands for fiscal responsibility and fiscal restraint to vote for this. and for those who voted for the predecessor version of it years ago, think would be difficult to articulate an adequate justification why they would vote for that imposed against this. this simply has safeguards built into to make sure it is not circumvented so if you are for the principle of balancing the budget there is no reason why you shouldn't be in support of this. well, anytime you are talking about passing an act of congress there is a reason why people describe something that they want to characterize as a herculean effort. is not -- like getting an act of congress. when you are trying to get a constitutional amendment passed out of congress it requires

two-thirds and it is difficult. i'm not going to stand here and tell you i'm absolutely certain that we will have two-thirds of those houses locke up by tomorrow. i am telling you that the mood in the country is right, and it is sufficient i believe so that people are listening to their constituents. they will vote for this the senate will vote for it by a requisite margin. [inaudible] well, we have 11 or 12, maybe 13 webb indicated that they would vote for a balanced budget amendment. as for this proposal we live and we have been working on getting republicans on board in establishing republican unanimity. [inaudible] sorry? [inaudible] well, look. it is not my inclination.

i doubt is the inclination of any of my college to signal what would or wouldn't be on the table in terms of negotiations if this were not to pass. right now we are focused on getting this passed and we believe anyone who believes in a balanced budget amendment idea should get behind this, and if they have some rational persuasive explanation as to why they should and then we will talk. as of right now i don't see any reason to make changes. [inaudible] >> remember one of the aspects of this balanced budget amendment is that after ratification meant to balance it within five years. whatever. we will have to see, but i think republicans are committed to passing this amendment in the senate. and i believe we have republicans and democrats that are committed in the house to pass their amendment, which will mirror this to a degree. [inaudible]

>> i think over time all of us have to be because the can't live the way we are doing right now. no question about it. thank so much. great to be with all of you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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tea party activists rally at at the capital demanding congress be more aggressive in cutting spending. in about two hours, democratic senators schumer of new york on the tea party in budget negotiations. and after that, senate republicans talk with reporters about their proposed constitutional amendment that would require balanced budget.

while news reports suggest the members of the house and senate have compromised on $33 billion in budget cuts for this fiscal year, tea party activists rallied at the capitol demanding that congress be more present in cutting spending. speakers at the two-hour event included republican members of the senate and house. >> thank you everyone for being here today. it is a great day to be out and to stand up for america. [cheers and applause.ca.

how many of you this is the first time you have ever been to washington d.c. for one of thesn things? how many of you have been here more than twice before? before? how many of you have been here more than three or four times before? [cheers and applause] how many of you are sick of coming to washington d.c. in the middle of the week to tell these people what to do? you know, we've been loud. we've made our voices heard. they've heard us, but they're just not listening. that's why you're here today. we're here to make sure they listen to us. they are talking about the people in congress. they're talking about this being a battle over federal spending. we understand the american people understand this is a battle over how our families salaries are going to be spent. this government spending comes from somewhere and that somewhere is our back pocket.

[cheers and applause] the american people, you and me and people just like us all around this country, we want substance and meaningful spending cuts. we don't want symbolism that congress can turn around and pat themselves on the back and say we got more than we've ever cut before. you bid $700 billion in just a couple of weeks. [cheers and applause] the cuts come in the senate leadership are currently proposing they will not pull this country back from fiscal disaster. it is inevitable if we continue on this current course. the bottom line is that -- our bottom line is tea party picture it's his to put america back on a sustainable path into fiscal

soundness. [cheers and applause] we right now are calling on congress and the republicans to keep the pledge they made to us before the elections and cut 100 billion this year. you know, it is a start. some people call that draconian. i is someone today asked me what you are in means. severely punishing to cut $100 billion. let me put it in perspective for you. the simple truth is that if every single dollar in spending our money, we're asking them to cut 2.6 pennies. less than three pennies out of every single dollar and they are saying buster conan.

we can make this card. i asked my 8-year-old daughter last night, what if i cut your allowance each week or three pennies? to thing you can live with that? my 8-year-old daughter said yes, i can live with it. i don't want you to, but i can live with it. she gets it. my cofounder, mark muckler, his 11-year-old, she gets it. why can't these people up here get that we are only asking for a little bit and we are trying desperately to return this country to fiscal soundness. you're right. [inaudible conversations] the main problem is this is a debate over america's future, about my children's future in their children's future. and we're spending -- at this point, were not spending our

money anymore. we're spending their money and we cannot keep it up and we need people who have the courage to leave. we have 11 people to lead this country and they are not doing it. we are here today doing it for them. we're going to lead the american people if the people we elect can't get it together to figure out how to do it. [cheers and applause] let me to show you their playing games. earlier this week, senator schumer is on the phone telling people that the republicans need to quit listening to the tea party and just do with the democrats the democrats want to do. they say we need to make sure everyone knows that if the tea party salt. guys, if we do a government shutdown, congress souls. they have not passed a budget