i could talk to more about that but we want to propose amendments to look at the power and jurisdiction of the federal government for his subject matter. the convention of states has extremely strong grassroots organizations. those that have been in the tea party for any length of time will recognize that name. mark mackler was the founder of the national tea party hatreds in 2009. this man knows grassroots. his partner in founding this was a guy by the nathan of michael ferris. he homeschooled my kids for 16 years. michael ferris was the founder of the homeschool association 30 years ago this year. it's one of the largest grassroots foundation. he's also one of the finest constitutional scholars in the nation and i called him a mentor of mine. the plan is to build a viable operation in-house districts to organize a thousand people

through statewide leadership positions. and the state director and north carolina. come downstairdownstair s to the table on the second floor and talk to us. there are 124 legislative districts in south carolina. i'm trying to put what we call a district captain. many of my district captain's, some of them are here with me. we are going to put one in every district and drivers will. we were the first day state to introduce its application on december 3. virginia follow this, florida followed us and we have 14 co-sponsors. represented l. taylor was the lead spencer and larry grooms followed in the senate. we have a bill that we are going to push through. come downstairs and please do want to answer your questions. we know there are old that are afraid of a runaway convention. what i want to explain to you is if you're honest with yourselves

you know when you look at our federal government we are staring down romans xiii tells us the government they are so soared. we are staring down the government gun barrel of a runaway federal congress. when you look at that, the only thing wrong with that is the needless and all the way over. there is much bigger fear of a runaway convention. please visit.convention of the states.com and come and talk to us. [applause] >> thank you bob and i guess he is bypassing that room and going to the second floor are you the gentleman right over there. just for people who don't know this we are are streaming the slide in english and in spanish. we have a web address for each. the web address for the english version is bit.ly/s. ctp

convention, south carolina tea party convention. a spanish version is that dot ly/spect.hispaniola. if you can spread that on your tweets in facebook and social medium that kind of thing. speaking of the hispaniola version we have dr. juan torres from the bear witness project. they are streaming it live for us and working it in for us in spanish. dr. juan torres, thank you. [applause] the hashtag. as maxie tp, cc. thank you so much for inviting me. let me tell you a couple of

things before i mentioned my message. it's great to be here because we know what the tea party is all about but much more important these messages need to -- otherwise we have defeated the purpose. the reason we are doing it in spanish and english is because half of the hispanics in the u.s. elections are in not to be ignored anymore. i gave half of my time to mr. barone up because i wanted you to listen to him. everybody asks this question, why latinos voted the way they voted. think about this because this is the case.

we don't have media representation in the united states. everybody knows that. and you gov to the hispanic media, it's even worse. it's time to change the way we do it. we cannot give these people what they want so they continue winning elections. [applause] it's very important that you remember that they don't want you to educate hispanics. hispanics need to know that one out of four live in poverty and united states. hispanics need to know that the unemployment rate in the hispanic population is more than 10%. hispanics need to know that president obama says this is not a christian nation. do you remember a few days ago when president obama said i have a pen and i have a phone.

i wonder where that pen and where the phone word during the benghazi attack? [applause] i wonder where the pen and the phone were planned christians were killed all over in the middle east? [applause] 24 million hispanics who are registered to vote in the past presidential election, only half of them voted. that gives you an idea how how important it is, this issue. we need to reach out to hispanics because they need to know what we are facing right now. if we don't reach hispanics say goodbye to the presidential state and local conventions. there are more than 50 million hispanics living in the united states. the hispanic vote is going to

get bigger and bigger every year it's time for you to realize that you can do something about it. otherwise, it's going to be worse and worse. think about this. 80 to 90% of the hispanics voted for president obama. 80 to 90%. that was never before seen in american history. when you think about the reason behind this polling, we think about. [inaudible] they are all in bed together. they make sure the hispanics don't know what they need to know before they go and vote. if they don't hear the news from you, they will never hear what's happening in the country. they need to know what the tea

party is all about. one day i was talking to, i think it was people of innovation. in those days i used to have a -- with me. i said yeah i believe in the tea party. they are anti-immigration. the ice they no they are not. i want to tell you what the tea party is all about and you tell me which one you don't agree. limited government, national security, in god we trust, lower taxation, controlling the borders and i went one by one until i finished. and i say can you please tell mf you don't believe anything i said.

it was a woman and she could not say one single word. i said if you don't say anything it means you agree. now if you don't it be with this you shouldn't be living in this country, period. [applause] i intend to send this message all over the country. the reason is exactly that, because we want this message to go out as never before. think about the elections in new jersey. governor christie runs -- one the election with more than 50% of the hispanic vote. a republican candidate. do you know why he didn't? the same reason they won the elections. they campaigned in spanish and

heavily in areas where hispanics live. when that romney said he was going to get 35% of the hispanic vote he got 29% of the hispanic vote. the reason i'm telling you this is because we cannot win elections without the hispanic vote. the hispanics need to know what the tea party is all about. hispanics need to know that we moved here and they do know that, we moved here because america was the best country in the world. we don't come here looking for socialism. we don't want a hugo chavez here. that is the reason we moved from our countries. it is a two u. to make sure these people know we are

christians. we are conservatives. they think the tea party is anti-immigration and the tea party is this and that rate you all know that is propaganda because believe me they want you to make sure you keep doing what you are doing. they don't want you to educate hispanics. the last thing they want is what's going on right now. we are hearing this message across the country in english and in spanish for the first time in any political campaign in american history. [applause] there is one more thing because i think i'm getting close to the 10 minutes. i asked my wife to tell me one

minute before. i don't know where my wife is now. i have almost two minutes now. thank you, thank you so much. i want a couple more numbers because it's important to know. i don't know how it is in south carolina and florida there are 4 million hispanics. it's amazing that but that is the way it is. about every hour 50 hispanics reach the voting age. every hour. now even with -- don't be surprised if in this coming election we have 20 million or even more. how many really know what's going on right now? without media representation they won't know. they want those people not to know. so please, do your part. i know you can do it.

if you have a hispanic relative use those web sites. we put together a web site freedom usa to make sure hispanics get all the information. we have a wonderful database and the put information where the government doesn't want us to put it that but it's there. it's there to educate people so that when they go to vote they know who they are voting for it. thank you again. i really appreciate this opportunity. [applause] and god loves everybody. god bless everybody. >> i know i am -- but i love what he's doing. that is going to be a frequent topic over the course of the next few days. thank you so much. [applause] >> i bring you greetings from

the sunshine state. i am also from there witness center. friends i hate to tell you america is in decline. this is precisely the subject of my latest book. i have studied obama since 2008 and i've written four books about barack obama, three of those in spanish. 2008, 2010, 2012 and this one just came out two weeks ago. and of course this book is in english. the other three were in spanish and the only hispanics in the nation that have written four books on barack obama. [applause] in this book i have documented in 480 pages and 85 pictures and

for maps the misguided policies of barack obama domestically and internationally. he has made us a superpower in retreat. a superpower has to be respected by our allies. we need to be feared by our enemies and we are neither, unfortunately. [applause] i am an american that was born in cuba. at the age of 17 with my brother and a bunch of friends we made it over the bay of pigs on april 17, 1961. due to negligence we lost that war and i was sentenced to 30 years of hard labor and i spent two years in the very worst prisons of cuba. >> how fat i am not?

i have gained 120 pounds out of jail. therefore we, americans born in cuba, are quite sensitive to communist infiltration into the united states. we have detected from the very beginning especially bear witness center we have been saying we have a communist the lives in the white house. [applause] not only is he a communist, he is the key than marxist and a heathen muslim. [applause] barack obama's -- barack obama's brother was announced by the vice president at egypt as an architect of the finances of the muslim brotherhood in egypt. he also works with sudan with a

terrorist organization. this is the older brother of barack obama, malik obama and that is why egypt and israel profoundly hate to barack obama. in egypt because he helped the muslim brother rat and in israel because he is helping iran and al qaeda and so forth. in terms of the violations of the constitution of course from the very moment that he took the oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states he violated that oath by naming 45 stars none of which have passed the senate. they are not subjected to congressional oversight. that was just the very beginning. from map point out he has dashed

the constitution numerous times and unfortunately our congress closes their eyes. it's about time when he says i have a pen and they mentioned that many times. i have a pen and i have a phone and i can sign an executive order that i want to take executive action. we have to give barack obama a warning. the house in the senate also have a pen and they can easily sign your impeachment. they can pick up the phone -- [applause] the house of representatives also has a phone and they can -- and get him out of power. [applause] he has violated the constitution in so many ways great he already said that he is negotiating with vladimir putin who has produced

a new rear arsenal which he was doing since the very moment he was elected into office. he needs his approve that in a treaty. he is trying to push 17 u.n. treaties through the united nations. control the internet, agenda 21, international court of justice and each of those treaties take away our sovereignty destroyer constitution and take away our wealth and give it to countries in the united nations. [applause] he has declared a war upon religion and christianity. he is destroying our armed forces by denying them their right to the solace of the bible he is doing that. a lot of military is complaining

he has allowed the muslim brotherhood to -- of the f. the eye and the cia and in fact he is appointed a bunch of muslim brotherhood people to rewrite those. now we are lying about it because the. [inaudible] he has used all the federal agencies the irs the epa the national labor relations board, the labor department to harass conservative organizations like the tea party and to harass billy graham. the irs has harassed and persecuted him and the f. e. i said nothing has happened.

i can give you a lot of personal experiences. we are very close to being a police state, very close unfortunately. of course the biggest -- of orrock obama has been the fact that he will bring massive fraud of elections. he used acorn and he was the leader of acorn to commit massive fraud in the swing states. not in new york, not in california but all the swing states were acorn falsified tens of thousands of -- and his friend eric holder did not investigate any fraud there or

other places in the united states. they introduced the software of the electronic voting machines that we use in venezuela. those machines are -- so they came to the united states and bought sequoyah. a california-based company and later at canadian country -- company bought sequoyah and bought diebold premier another company and those machines with the software from venezuela were used in 22 states and the district of columbia in 50% of united states those machines with the software from venezuela by a canadian company was use to

determine the election in this nation. i can tell you in florida two or three weeks before the election there was the poll done by the "miami herald" which endorsed obama by the tampa tribune -- by seven points. i can tell you there is no electoral integrity in this nation. we will never restore democracy in this country until every single electronic machine in this nation is thrown into the trash can. [applause] in 13 states and the dishes of columbia florida virginia pennsylvania we use something

called direct recording voting machines and when you press the button to vote there is no paper trail. there's no way you can investigate fraud. and give me a second. i will go quickly. it goes dormant in his self-destructs at the end of the election. all of these machines can be fixed and -- thank you so much. [applause] >> i would just like to tell you that all of our speakers are invited into the q&a room behind that gray wall and anybody who would like to ask some questione

until the next speaker finishes and then he will follow them in the q&a room. thank you. >> there he is. do you want to go and see him or do you want to listen to dr. ed wardrobe gill? he is going to tell us more of how terrible barack obama is. [applause] >> i could not get my tablet to charge. i'm going to have to use paper. it's an honor to be here. my name is ed wardrobe gill. i'm a hispanic in american paradigm latino and i love this country, i love america and i welcome the opportunity to speak to you about the demographic trends that are happening in our hispanic american community if that's the right way to address this community. there is tremendous change and

it is significant. let's look at the numbers for a minute. i have a lot of visuals. by the way for me i was told 10 minutes. and latino time that is like 27 minutes so help me out. i'm going to try to be very efficient here. 50.5 million hispanic americans. that is a lot of people. that 16% of the population. one in four children. that is significant because the young population is what is really growing. hispanics account for 56% of the population growth over the last 10 years. that is not going to slow down. in fact it's going to increase. and i will show you that in a minute. i always like to start with back to the future. this is a classic movie that we have all seen in love and i'm sure you remember the scene where the mad scientists.

he is like what you mean you are from 1985? michael j. fox's telling him the car you build brought me back 30 years. the mad scientist doesn't believe believe that denise is okay whose president in 1985 and michael j. fox's well ronald reagan. he goes ronald reagan, the bad movie after? yeah right in who is vice president, jerry lewis? he could not believe in 30 years a bad movie after could be president. a similar situation is happening now. by the way it's very significant demographic time period. in 1985 michael j. fox traveled 30 years back to 1955. let's go forward 30 years and that puts us to today. if 30 years ago somebody had told you that the wealthiest man in the world would be a mexican,

carlos slim, that barack obama would be president and a lady would be running the federal reserve bank, the number one golf player in the world would read an african-american, the number one tv actress in america today is from columbia, that the three biggest professional sports contracts in the history of any sport are three hispanics. they all happen to be dominican by the way and the bachelor on abc is also latino. he is from venezuela and we will get to that in a minute. if somebody told you that 30 years ago you would probably not have leaked it. let's go back here for second. i'm going to jump around a little because -- let's look at purchasing power. when we say full disclosure we are not per se at first. we are professional observers of culture if you will and we provide the strategic

intelligence and the telecommunications to reach those people. look at the purchasing power. $1 trillion. remember we are talking about 5, 16% of the population already providing $1 trillion of her choosing power. if you look at the growth you will see that it's not only the fastest growing ethnic segment but it's going to be the fastest growing, the most politically active, the most mobile. accounting for and by the way this is the nielsen but ford saying if the hispanic american community where a country is gdp would be among the top 20 countries in the world. ..

they keep. so you would expect the traditional hispanic chalcis, california, the southwest, florida, the east coast, as the traditional. where is the growth happening? well, it is happening or you

would not expect coming into the melee, the traditional post. and you see countries -- i mean, excuse me, counties with the highest growth, you would expect in mexico, california. the look at this, georgia south dakota, tennessee, pennsylvania, virginia, the growth is happening toward the mainland where you would not necessarily expect. and the five biggest dates with growth over the last two years you would not expect south dakota, that. kentucky, south carolina, number two. very interesting. like at the rate of change. yellow means hispanic where red means general market, a glove traditional. let's get the yellow verses the red. look at overall change versus

hispanic verses read. this is very important. everything in telling you is true because hispanics are a very young population. look at this craft. if you take over on the right, that is the eighth glove general market, the ages of 45 to 65. its allied -- there are a lot of people there. he contrasts with the hispanic is the opposite. so toward the aging years is -- there is much less. most of the hispanic population is young, under the age of 35. and the growth is not coming from without. it's about people migrating from latin america to the u.s. its native born. these children are being born in the united states. there are american citizens been

another very important factor to know is in terms of media and political influence there is significant growth. no, that growth is not necessarily a line or your world u.s., but it is there, and you have to consider. every major media market, the spanish equivalent. fox launched window fox. univision, of course. the bachelor again. this guy is from venezuela. i don't necessarily watch it. you should know that this is a very interesting. he's doing to represent the community well. he's a classy men. he's intelligent. the think it things could come.

people will recognize. the number one paid actress and television is colombian. we all know. the political influence. again, not of them are aligned with our views, but tremendous amount of people in state in terms of growth this connected. internet, all of the incident. they're more likely to adapt to new technology, especially smart phones illustrate to the tablet and thus far from. so it is very easy to engage in communicate. you, perhaps, when the think that. this is what i was telling you about the richest men the world, mexican carlos slim.

hispanics tend to gravitate toward conservative family values. kimmel's of the study which means the world you the delicate hispanic protestants, red and blue, republican and democrat. it's almost equal. when they're not it's a very big difference. there's a study showing that typically they would embrace conservative family values. the longer they live in america, that is when they start to gravitate away from those traditional values. we have done -- is done? can i say one thing? we have had the privilege to participate. we actually did the spanish program for the show the kaynine in november. that was a tremendous honor a blessing to deal to do that. the movie courageous, we did the hispanic adaptation.

we provided of the spanish-language for their website. we created two-minute promos. that is the kind of thing we do that can help bridge the gap but the hispanic american community. thank you so much. [applause] >> and need to take a minute. this is while we doing now is so important. it's a demographic. the question then becomes what kind of americans to become? carol young now. use of those numbers. fifteen and under crowd were talking about. the question becomes, do we reason, do we teach them, do we show them what america is supposed to be? and that's a we shape the country going forward. otherwise the end of like xavier and luis rodriguez. was the guy's name, gonzales and

chicago. we need to take all these people. that's where there would this translation is important. it's great that we are addressing this now. we need to give much more proactive going forward. no, we have my american. [applause] well, what a pleasure to be here. >> i don't know about you, but if i was an ally a.m. would be suspicious. i heard about six people. i know washington d.c. needs the tea party from south carolina. let's try it will mark time. that's one of talking about. it's always a pleasure to be here to be around truly engaged

americans. we just came back from south dakota where was 38 degrees below zero. it was worth the visit educating party party fellow patriots out there. although the to keep me on track at ten minutes. i have to move fast. i government spends $7 million a minute. i have to hurry. the finding very disheartening to find out that our congressmen and senators gutted d.c. medicare was cited is. as the question why is that. out in that be. listen to their speech. impressed me of a sudden they get this disease. emmy's it.

the peach ccs disease. all they can think about is party power control over uni and special-interest money. that makes me angry. we all choose to be self-evident that all men were created equal and are endowed by our creator with certain of variable rates. among them are -- for the debt of this as we are endowed by our creator. let it be known right now. my creator, not the federal government. they're not allowed to take them away or to pass legislation like common core. coming down the children. shame on them. how about that ten to 21 lesson

is say, intelsat say, from bordeaux like you. and a everybody equally. people like you out without due process. does that make you angry? and live about that. this is bad news. now, you know, one of the issues that the have not talked for spoke about yet is for only the biggest in terms of those issues combined to the national that. we are in serious trouble, elise and joe. people don't realize what would happen if our country cannot pay its bills. admiral mike mullen said it best -- actually, our founding fathers of the best. admiral mullen said that the number one threat to our country is the national debt.

our founding fathers said -- and the wondrous -- their two ways to lose your country. through this sort in debt. and of about you, but of a little concerned. number one, the economy collapses. number two, the military colossus. forget it. stuck going to come in. disability, milch. how about military tyree's. that's me. the checks. the biggest pool of the mall, welfare recipients, 50 million people. when you total all those folks together into one group that's 100 million people on the street

looking for food and shelter. i guarantee you there will be fighting about pro rights are common core or pro-life. it will be fighting for food and shelter. when that happens the government will step in and suspend the constitution to put us under martial law. you with the? that's a concerned. now the good news. a little farther them, it becomes destructive. it is we the peoples right to alter or abolish it. [applause] and 2014, we have a lot of altering in abolishing, ladies and gentleman. no, the good news. by the way to announce a venture. no, yes it is. look at rome, greece twice, detroit, michigan, and 20 and cities. saponin representative before your eyes. russia to.

but awakened anybody here about the miracle in ohio? send the police. this is a woman here led the crusade. we had an article five balanced budget amendment pass in 55 days . [applause] as a matter of fact to like to give a balanced budget task force report right now. the co-founder of the budget taskforce while work with. my good friend who will give you a current up-to-date article five resolution to tell you what we have. i tell you what, put on your seat belts. getting article five resolutions passed in the state legislature to limit the convention to a balanced budget amendment.

in 2005 there were 16 states that had active balance budget amendment resolutions. we need 34. in 2010 my state of florida passed it. 2011 alabama passed it. 2012 new hampshire passed it. tom deasy this fall to ohio passed it will be less bring to power last fall the michigan senate passed it. over to the house and thursday morning. testify before the house committee. georgia senate passes over to the else. the south carolina house passed it by s -- and your senate finance committee right now. and you need to let them know about it. we have resolutions filed in 12 more states. grass-roots people are helping us along. they could not have done it in ohio without the effort. ladies and gentlemen, if everything would go well, of course, it never does, but it's

possible, by august we could have 35 active resolution is to convene a solution. >> thank you. until you what, i get excited every time i here as numbers. no, knowledge is power. tomorrow night at 630 it:00 eurofranc to seminars to teach that the party, the grassroots, on the ground have to take back our government as easy as abc. how to reform the government. abolish the irs and replace the tax code balance the federal budget. why can't they? forty-nine others. and compel our government to fall to constitution mesquita

please help us to win this fight . if not know wind, if not you, then who? we need you in the fight. abraham lincoln once said of a free-fall and lose our freedom that will be because we destroy yourselves. i urge you, please, join the fight. by the way, my partner wrote this book four years ago. it chronicles a knowledge of the founding fathers and up to use article five. it will be available at our booth downstairs. are you an american? ask you to join me. let me tell you what. it's not about the left. it's not about the right. it's about on the elbow.

>> thank you. that policy. and bless america. please join us. [applause] >> david copperfield, ladies and gentlemen. up next day shorts is from the american prosperity foundation. of unfortunate to live in the d.c. area and work for them for a number of years. there met him before. anyway, did shorts. [applause]

>> it afternoon, tea party. come on. good afternoon, tea party. [applause] >> well, it is an honor to be here. a just want to say, i am optimistic. i am optimistic. some people call me crazy. i am optimistic. at the grand and the right direction. 2014 is going to be a much better year than 2012 with 2013. his with me? there are some signs of that. i'm not crazy. although sometimes the wife thinks of grazing, but i'm not. the president's approval ratings, the lowest they've ever been. right? says the truth. i think that he is a lame-duck president. i just don't think that congress and the senate and the american people are really in the mood. obamacare.

we have been fighting this for a long? obamacare pier below, they launched it. it did not go so well. kind of a told you so moment. in that think the american people and seeing what is happening, feeling less at the. many people, millions of people losing their insurance because of this disaster. so optimistic. and i really, truly believe or would not be here at the kennedy else would, really, surely believe that america is still the greatest country in the war. absolutely. i lived in mount pleasant. my wife told have to be homeless 730 to lead to check in the kids i promise of less than ten minutes. i went up to washington to visit the south carolina congressional

delegation. i was staying in arlington. at to get a taxi cab to the capital. and if you have there been to d.c., you know, is the worst driving conditions of the world. speeding around. it's a terrible place to drive. roast over the place. in this taxi driver, they have a tough job. i got in the taxicab early in the morning. my taxi cab driver was not from here originally bid he was for my country, eritrea, probably a kutcher not many people as far enough. onion the name. east africa, tiny. right about ethiopia. we just got to talking. and it really interesting story. he came over here because he wanted freedom. he came over here with a green card. he had a family member of the government to the country. the get a green card, started

working in a taxi business. he started -- married, had five kids. eventually ended up working for the capitol police. he was opening of letters. the dust, the rest of the people said. niacin. he actually inspected the letters before they came into the congressional offices. hard worker, but he had a dream. his dream was to love the taxicab business. his dream was and still to the state committee wanted to open his own taxi company. one and a fleet of saddam's. we were talking about that. i worked hard. i save the money. he had five kids. gabba some. five kids. about a year-and-a-half ago he quit the government kick in october with the body of his to start a cab company. they were beginning to realize what it was like to run a

business. he was telling me, the number one issue, number one was of carom. what happens -- there were talking. what happens if we give really successful? what happens when we have to employ more people, hire more people, buy more cars. that is what we want. that is the dream. it's a dream of every buddies. anyone because in the business want to become a big, flourishing business. what happens who have to get health care for employees? baena, elected me seriously and said, the presidents will -- the set and a very diplomatic way, does not comport with my beliefs. he said, it puts a burden on folks like me. in we have told back for a little bit. still holding back. it's see in his buddy. their partner up with another texas company. that want to go on the road.

he said, it said this back because he went back to his time and said, we head government ranchers of there. what happened was the hospitals with government, the doctors or employees of the government. what happened was when you go to the doctor, you know what to everyone is to go and see you. you have to wait a while, but you get to see a doctor. and they give you the treatment. did manage to upper whenever. of forbid if you have cancer or some kinnell's ptt go elsewhere to another as the gulf. for the most part if you have something complicated and something costly the doctor will say, tell you what, if you can afford it ahead after hours starting a 5:00. come see me at my house and puppy. it's the same system. universal care, government health care. but it's really not. the government doctor will only

give you normally do what he has to do this tree right there. if you need more or extra you have to pay for it and do it elsewhere. he said, that's one of worried about. no word about that, the cost. i can't afford it. i can afford it. i can't afford to provide health care of the president's plan he's a smart guy, hard worker. he will figure it out. it gave me hope because here's a guy that came here with nothing but a dream. nothing but a dream. got married, five kids, provided for them, save money will also open up the business. still the greatest country in the world. still the greatest country in the world. and there were 600 people here this weekend. as going to be 600,000 people this weekend. that's a start. let's start. we can win. we can do this. the prop to con the public needs this. one is to win. we have to go to them.

hispanics for america was a great side show. we have to register more voters. we have to register more conservatives. i can tell you, as state director, that is what we will do right here in south carolina. we're going to register more conservative voters. that is what we will do. i hope you'll join us. but i know i am optimistic. i really am. at the beacon win this battle. i think the best days of america are ahead. for those of you that of yummy, have a 20 month old, will one of the way every day, like you, every day i get up thinking about my kids. that is what motivates me, it's the fired up. i want him to have more opportunities, not the same approach in this and that it, more opportunities and that it. in a thickening get there. so we need your help. please make sure that you visit

our protesters. you can e-mail me, call me. if you are around on monday morning before the debate stop on by. we will be in the dunes room. we have a complementary hot breakfast. check us out. to paraphrase a great president, if you like your government, and if you like your status quo, you can keep it. if you don't come join the movement. come join us. thank you all. in a policy. >> they do a lot of great stuff. he is a south carolina chair. you will be in the room in the back if you want to talk more about joining up with them. there an excellent organization. speaking of excellent organizations we have one of the favre sons of the state now in charge of heritage foundation to my jim demint. and this is carrying zero from

their ejection which is theirs to get in there riling. >> they key very much. we will see if i can make them both work. >> blended over here. >> and sorry. >> it's not working. >> okay. that makes it easy. avid collector for one up front. my name is karen. and with heritage action. for those of you that don't know me, and from florida, co-founder of the temperamental project. a half a cheering fan from a couple of the other co-founders in the back room with me. i am at home. and also the regional coordinator in florida for heritage action.

you can go head -- how about i good game. one more time. heritage foundation, a great organization, been around for 40 years. we'll you a debt of gratitude for electing senator jim demint as your senator and putting him on the national stage so that we convinced that some back. thank you all so much for senator jim demint. the we have been around since 1973. at least the foundation has. the foundation comes up with great policies. pot without anyone advocating in actually converting them into law is there really wasn't -- what cut them as their protection. thus heritage action was born in 2010. so we aren't a government relations team that takes of conservative policy and puts it into place. we have a great team of young -- we call the government relations

staff, but they're really lobbyists for freedom. they run out the fourth floor of the heritage foundation building right across the street from the capitol where they can meet with members of congress and their staff and get in front of them and pretty much spread conservative policy based upon the sound principles and values a wheelchair. so there are wonderful groups that the really proud of, and this is a video. and pressed for time. if you want to me just astaires, tomorrow we will be in the seven all and can talk more. this is a video that shows the excellent quality and caliber of people that we have in d.c. one more. louis get it. the next part of the equation, we have a team in d.c., but we need to add a team of people out in the field where they actually have their constituents. ..

and you can hit the next slide. our sentinels know the issues. they grow their activist skills and they go out and lead. that's kind of our motto. everyone in the room here we don't need to teach her how to lead it as i have a group of leaders here i can tell but what we'd like to do is to equip our activists with the depth of information that they heard his foundation has. there's a lot of information out there so by signing up you get e-mails and updates on what's

happening. we have a great clinical directory that holds conference calls on monday night at 5:30 every monday so by joining us you will continue to get access to that. you get this really cool pin. we give you a kit of materials and we tried to equip activists and groups with information to spread the conservatives message because lord knows we need to spread the conservative message across the land. on our web site i'm not going to go well into because you can pull it up at your leisure but i just wanted to give you a screenshot. if you go to our dashboard and put in your zip code you can find out information on your leaders. you will see up here senator lindsey graham and you can on the tabs and it changes the information depending on who the member of congress as you are looking for. we have an area that tells you what party they are, how conservative is the district and gives you a list of facebook and

twitter. it's a one-stop shop for activist to use a we hope it's a tool you all can use and simplify this activism is there's a lot of activism around at the state federal and local level. at least on the federal level that is where expertise is that the federal level so we hope you can join us as we format the tip of the spear that michele bachmann talks about a lot. we focus our action in this timely. we don't do a month in advance. we do it right when it's ready to go. our weekly calls tell you about what's happening in congress that week and what information. we arm you with information so you can go and make the changes and hold the members of congress accountable and let them know. a lot of times our activists will call the office staff and inform them on the issues. it's really amazing how effect give our activists can be. down at the bottom, if you can go back i was just going to use the pointer here. it's very important if you hit

the green call button you will get whatever that action is. that is actually an old screenshot so i think it's talking about the omnibus but by hitting the green button you get bullet points of the issues and the most important part of that screen is where you give us feedback. so that information, if you need to call and you found out you were pushing an issue and therefore let us know because that's one less person that we need to worry about. if you hear back from them and let's say there's a roadblock, that's critical information because we will send that intelligence to wear staff and they will send it to the foundation with their experts and research the roadblock whatever it is. we will get that information back to you are back to some of the other activists in the area. we had a town hall in august and one of the representative said we are all for defunding obamacare is that you are not allowed to defund mandatory spending. so we got that information.

we had a fact sheet that i was able to get to some the activists in the congressional district. the next day they worked with a town hall where the member of congress was speaking and they were able to confront him and say look, it is a law that limits mandatory spending on medicaid. it limits the amount of abortion funds that can go to quote mandatory spending. in fact the congressional budget office even has a term for that. it's called changes in mandatory programs spending so we were able to educate his this representative and when the vote came he asked he did vote for it. it's important filling in the feed that. it will be helpful in getting our conservative message across. so scorecard. as you can see he had a 52% scorecard. we issue key alerts on important matters like omnibus or ryan

murray or the immigration bill and the score at and you can see here this red line is the average republican. i congratulate you in the state of carolina -- south carolina. you are to be commended however you do have some guy down here that needs accountability by the name of center lindsey graham. are you getting ready to send accountability? i hope so. the scorecard he can drill down by the representative and drill down to individual votes. some of our sentinels use it as a report car as they go through issue by issue. we will go to the next slide. this is a great video of senator ted cruise talking about the scorecard. we will skip that and go on to the next one. know the issues. you can go one more.

okay so just a little bit about the issues. we have all heard recently that there's a war on poverty and it has been 50 years and $20 trillion since we have been fighting this war. it is not created a safety net. we have actually created a trap that is kept people in poverty and dependency. so in fact more families are in poverty today than when president obama took office. in fact we are at a tipping point where more people are receiving food aid from the government then have a private sector job. that my friends is a tipping point. next. and did you know that the farm bill is a trillion dollars and is gone up 56% since 2008? 80% as food stamps.

there is a problem with spending. when we are this far in debt and we keep getting our children more and more in debt, we have got to do something. immigration reform. we are for legal immigration. for illegal fishing. there are 4 million people in line legally for immigration however we are not for the senate amnesty plan. [applause] if i could finish this one point i will be real quick and you guys can visit me tomorrow in the booth. speaker boehner said he would not do anything to allow immigration to go to conference after the senate gang of eight plan was passed that wherever he is making key signals now. when they pass the ryan murray

budget and they cleared the calendar for time to debate immigration and recently hired the most ardent supporter of amnesty to be on his staff. we are very fearful that any piecemeal anything even if it's a three word build us a secure the border it's going to go into conference and we don't want to start out with the gang of eight because we are not going going to get anything near us a bill this as secure the border. make sure your member of congress knows not to pass anything until the session is over and you get rid of the gang of eight amnesty bill. i'm just going to cut it short because i have to but thank you all very much. this it was a wonderful day and thank you for allowing us to speak. [applause] >> do you know it would be very frustrating if the house republicans snatch it from the

jaws of victory and do the one thing that would cause a good election in 2014 which is shove amnesty down us. speaking of obamacare our next speaker was just about as patient as anyone and exactly how it would play out which is the bad news. the good news is hopefully she can put us on a path forward that is a little more free market and better for health care. this race marie jones from the galen institute. [applause] >> hi everybody. join me if you would in thanking joe and the incredible team of volunteers that have put together this fabulous conference. [applause] it's so important to have everybody come together, get on the same page, learn the issues and be able to move forward with the battles that are so consequential to our country. i'm going to talk about obamacare is i'm going to see if this works.

there it is. just press it forward. so right after this law passed, actually it was a few months after this law passed, i was talking with a democrat member of congress who said you know, when we were being asked about this law we all called the white house and people were on the fence. we were told, the president looked me in the eye and he said if you don't vote for this bill your constituents are going to be so mad at you because this is going to be the most popular entitlement or to graham in the history of this country. he looked me in the eye. the guy was defeated that november but they really believed, so how many of us think is this bill more popular than it was four years ago? is it going to get worse? let's talk about that.

what were the promises they made it's going to reduce your health costs by $2500 a year. lower cost for individuals and lower costs from the government. the plan will not require cuts. if you like your current health plan you can keep your current health plans of this was the data taken two years after the law passed. and already 72% of people said it was false to say that it's not going to add a dime to the federal deficit varied it's false to say that you're going to be able to save $2500 on their health care. it's false to say it's going to lower costs. the one thing that people still believed as of last year, if you like your health plan you can keep your health plan.

72 -- max 62% of people still thought that was the one promise he was going to keep. so what has happened? gallup has been asking people for 10 years who do you think should run the health care health care system? the green line, the dark green line, the government really ought to be in charge of making sure everybody has health care. look what has happened to those lines. when they finally found out what it really means when the federal government runs their health care. look at this. this is just the estimate. the cost of this law for 10 years. even before it went into effect. we start to see those numbers. if anybody wants the slide

presentation i'm happy to send it to you. use it in your own education give me your car afterwards. there is a book signing later on and i have copies of our book why obamacare is wrong or america. we wrote this a few months after it passed. so many things we predicted are now happening. but this will show you. they estimate the average cost of the health insurance policy in the obamacare is changes is going to be $14,000 a year for a family of four. the average subsidy, if you make let's say 150% of poverty you get a huge subsidy. about 10 to $12,000 a year, every year for that policy. and it goes up.

blue is how much the individual pays for a policy and the great majority, four out of five of the policies sold are the subsidized coverage. no surprise, right? a lot of people are getting free health care. and it's terrible coverage to boot. 4000-dollar deductibles on top of three or $4000 in premiums? every time you see a doctor you still have to pay $65 for specialists? people are looking at this and seeing this awful insurance. this is the best the government can do, even with 12,000-dollar annual subsidies for a family for that health insurance. and look what happens with young men. this is how much we expect young men to pay and how much more

they expect very the red line is young men in and the dark green line is young women and the blue line is average. 60% more and that is on average. some young men in some places are going to pay two to 300 times more. several times more than they are paying now for health insurance. they're not buying it. is that a surprise to anybody? no. is it a surprise to you? you are surprised, right. here are 10 predictions i wrote for the national review, 10 predictions for 2014 because pretty much everything we have said so far has come to pass. many people are not going to pay even those they are saying 2 million people who have signed up for the state exchanges a lot of them are not going to pay. some of them can't. they will be billed by the insurance company and this

monstrous mess of a healthful and others are just going to say my premium is $1100 a month and i have to pay that every month for the rest of my life? i'm not paying it. even if they pale once they are not going to keep paying it. others are going to stop paying and say i just can't afford this anymore. especially when i have a 4000-dollar deductible every year that i have to make before the insurance kicks in. most of the people -- mckinsey and company says only 11% in its survey of the people who have signed up for obamacare is insurance were previously uninsured. it just makes me furious. they have taken the best health care system in the world, turned it completely upside down, thrown for 5 million people out of their health insurance so far

tens of millions yet more to come in order to be able to provide health insurance for a few million people that we could have provided coverage for much more sensibly and direct way and much less expensively. we are going to get even further from the goal of universal coverage. that is what other members of congress told me. i was in the galleries and i have to watch it to the bitter end. there were people saying finally we are getting to the goal of universal coverage. we are going to be further away from that. when you have tens of millions of people in small businesses about to lose their coverage, and people that have coverage last year and can afford it now and are not buying it we are going to have more as a result of this law. many of the uninsured just aren't going to enroll. it's too expensive even with subsidies. it will will be sicker older people and as i've said tens of millions will lose their

small-business coverage this year. individual policies that were lost last year just in the beginning. most of the newly uninsured will be on medicaid. that's the only one that is free. millions of people. fewer insurance companies i think will participate next year and we will talk a little bit about that in the court cases will continue. there is a serious challenge to this law but i think we are going to win some of the second for a real monkey wrench into it so, but everybody keeps saying well that republicans have to get together around one bill. let me tell you, the republicans do not and should not have a better idea of how you write 2800 pages of legislation that spends a trillion dollars in new taxes with a boatload of new mandates to leave 30 million

people uninsured at least. we don't have a better idea on how to do that. we don't want one bill. if we have a bill, the democrats would go into it and find something that was difficult and tara to pardon the american people would not have any idea what our vision is. so we need to spend this year, when everybody says oh we need to get together around one bill, say that's wrong. we have got to get to gather around a vision. let's let the american people understand where we would take the health care system. people who believe in freedom. believing competition. we want more choices. send an e-mail grace marie at galen.org and i will send you this. we want more choices of affordable coverage and a free competitive market without federal mike rowe management

plus straightforward guarantees that you can pick your own plan, urahn hospital and you're on doctor. the american people can get that. [applause] i work with my policy colleagues. i basic they don't sleep and neither do they. we have been fighting this thing every day nonstop for seven days a week for the last really for years but longer than that to help the american people understand what is in it, because we read it. that is why we could write this book. we knew what was coming. we are not surprised by any of this but we also know we have got to have better ideas. we have got those ideas and affordable choices, security, protection and we have the policy underneath that but we have to go about this in a smarter way to help the american people understand that we really

care about solving this problem. tens of millions of people are losing their health insurance. we have had the virtual earthquake in our health sector over the last four years. as companies following the law have no choice but to make major changes. so we have got to help people. we have got to talk with the young mothers. you can pick your own plan of doctors and hear our ideas about how we would change this already changed health sector in order to help you. a young single guy. affordable catastrophic coverage. it's all he needs. he is leaping out of airplanes and he has a motorcycle accident and he needs health coverage for that. let's get him a cheap policy. can do that. and we have a small business owner who really loves to

provide health insurance for her employees but she can't afford it if she has to comply with a boatload of mandates and rules and regulations that make it so expensive that she basically says i can't do this anymore. she wants to provide that coverage but she needs flexibility and then some with with -- someone with a chronic disease we are a compassionate country. we want to help you. we can do that. we can do it without encrypting our country and saddling future generations. so follow me on twitter at galen institute or grace marie tweet is my personal account which is more fun and on facebook the galen institute. send me a note at grace marie at galen.org. like i said i have copies of the book. we have provided for the publisher but 10 bucks and i

will be the book signing and i have other material and literature including some -- this one pager of talking points on what we should do instead. so thank you all very much. thank you for staying with us. we are going to win this. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you so much grace marie. you have taught us a lot today and we appreciate it. i would like to introduce our next her. he is a gentleman from beaverdam virginia who i happen to meet when driving through the area. he is doing something that i would love to see people doing here in south carolina and actually all over this country. he has got a great idea and i would like to introduce to you bob keeler who is with the

patrick henry tea party. [applause] in beaverdam virginia. thanks so much for coming, bob. >> thank you joe. i think all of you for all the sacrifices you have made and i think ron hughes too for the sacrifices he made to help save our country. we are pretty much in a critical mass. it wasn't too long ago that jenny beth martin said we must build our tea parties and 2014 and we need to make them bigger and stronger and better. and that is what i'm here about today. i have a concept that i think you can all endorse and get behind. i have got to get down here. i'm more comfortable mingling amongst we the people. there's a nasty rumor out here that you are the angry mob. is that true? wonderful, wonderful. thank you very much. i need that clicker.

i got obamacare is, don't worry. [laughter] good help from a guy who is a public speaker. i'm going to go off kilter here just a little bit so i can see the signs. do we call them science? the first question should be how many do we have? frankly and all the excitement we have got over 80 locations and hunters and that's within h hundreds of signs. if they didn't work we would not need them. there is your first line right there. that is a clint eastwood sign and i hope you can see it. i'm going to let you guys do the

reading because quite frankly the. >> reader should help me get through this faster. that was one of our most popular signs. this is the next on right here. we approve this message. i want to point out a couple of things i'm assigned to you. we misspelled government, son of a gun. help build this sign. we couldn't fit it all on one line and we topped it off. we actually got a phonecall from a woman who said what a shame for the tea party because you don't know how to spell government. that's true. you can't make this stuff up, you just can't. these were made by hand with

stencils and pains and lots of hours of time and we realized that the supply would never meet demand so we got commercialized. the next commercial signs you will see a vast. [laughter] we got that off of "fox news." this is true. i don't make this stuff up. you can read this. 50% of christians and 50% of hunters also don't vote. i know that is not you guys. i will point and the two most important things on the signs are that has to be very well

crafted and in the connector at the bottom right down here. put your tea party name, your telephone number and once again if these didn't work we would have hundreds of them up. we have been called racist, terrorist, arsonists, everything in the book. none of it is true. this addresses the issues in you can address all the issues in order to deny with the mainstream media is telling you. rules of engagement. son of a gun. you can probably see it. the goal here is to become memorable and if you make somebody smile, make somebody think it will become memorable when they will contact you. what a pithy. that is a tribute to bill

o'rielly. keep it simple, stupid. not a lot of words on the next two signs. i don't know if you can see that or not. liberty, the absence of arbitrary governmental interference. this is so simple. [laughter] it doesn't take rocket science. web site drivers. there are two causes we promote to the web site, obamacare is and two germans want in office, one in prison, community service. [applause] ..

leadership and irs. >> we can't profile. >> i will have these down at the great price. you have to take you down emotionally here and myself too. i think you know what is coming here. if you are a veteran, raise your hand. thank you. [applause]

the next three signs are silent. i hope you can read them. that's a little big. some gave some, some gave all. thank you, u.s. vets. [applause] [applause] this is the last one right here. we're not done. this one is not finished. left to die, left to suffer, left to shame. it's not an accident the word left is up there. it isn't. the signs that tell a story, this one got the virginia tea party patriot federation six pro bono lawyers to help us.

i put my phone number on there. we call them liberty lawyers. this one right here produced a girl who is now vice president of hand over county young republicans. she's on the raldolf college republicans. and raldolf college had four years of conservativism to look forward under her leadership. that's a wonderful time. i said read the sign. it shut her down completely. just because you have been misinformed doesn't mean you can't be properly educate today. [applause] that's my phone number, once again. it's founded a complete tea party. when i put a sign up in downtown richmond, pretty much, i got 100

phone calls and away it went. the founding fathers pat trick henry thomas jefferson. fisher plus one right there. it decreases return on investment. it decreases your membership for volunteers raises donations. 2011, 11 people made contact. 44, 2012, 59 in twifort. these are people that volunteered and will do things for you. we have raised $1,835. i hardly ever ask for any money at all. only when they couldn't do anything else.

i'll give you a dvd of 65 signs. and pdf, pdf on crafting and picture fort follow owe. and put a sign in your yard. it's the first amendment right. 12 messagesly bring the signs. i'll come to south carolina and do that. one more and then we're done. this is probably the most important thing of all. don't miss this. it's the only immediate yument that delivers the truth right directly to the uninformed and the misinformed. there isn't anything else. thank you for your time. god bless america. [applause] we took steps to get our economy growing again. save as many jobs as possible. and help americans who have become unemployed.

that's why we extended or increased unemployment benefits for more than 18 million americans. made health insurance 65% cheaper for families who get their coverage through conan cobra. and passed 25 different tax cuts. let me repeat. we cut taxes. we cut taxes for 95% of working families. we cut taxes for small businesses. [applause] we cut taxes for first-time home buyers. we cut taxes for parents trying to care for their children. we cut taxes for 8 million americans paying for college! [applause] watch president obama deliver this year's address. our preview program starts live tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern with the president at 9:00. followed by the response from republican conference chair kathy mcmorris-rogers. and your reaction by phone, facebook, an twitter. the state of the union tuesday night live on c span, c-span radio, and c-span.org.

in a few moments, a telecommunications policy. and about an hour, a look at expanded medicaid in the states. then we'll reair the south carolina tea party convention. a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow on the companion network, c-span 3. the senate armed services democratic national committee -- committee look at military retirement benefits. the newest member of the federal communications commission said the fcc does not have the authority to regulate the internet. part of michael's comments at the hudson institute on

telecommunications act is interpreted inspect is an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello. i would like to welcome you to this session. the center for the economic of the internet here at the hudson institute. we're extremely honored today to have with us commissioner michael oh riley of the federal communications commission. before we start with commissioner oh riley. a couple of housekeeping matters. first of all, at the end of february, jeff lee of the hudson institute and i will be presenting a session on our preliminary research findings on measuring the contribution of the internet to various industry

-- economic contribution to various industry using some new techniques we have. so we'll be announcing the date of that soon. second, for our online audience from c-span, welcome to the hudson institute. it if you have questions for our speaker today, please send them via twitter to@hudsoninstitute. we'll be incorporating those with other questions from our audience. it's my great pleasure and honor to introduce commissioner michael o- riley today. you can find his formal biography at the federal communications commission website. i will give you the informal biography, which is that commissioner o'riley and i were staff members today at the house commerce committee nearly 20 years ago.

longer than either of us probably cares to remember. we both had the great privilege of working on the the telecommunications act for 1996 for chairman tom. i've nobody commissioner riley for many years. there are two salient characteristic about commissioner o'riley. one is integrity. he is extremely honest fell loy, and is known for that. and the other is extremely good judgment in discretion. and those characteristics who served him well over the past 18 years as a staff member on capitol hill, which on capitol hill is an extraordinary long career, and his bosses in the

house and the senate have valued both the integrity and judgment over the years. please welcome him. [applause] [applause] >> let me begin by thanking my good friend and former colleague harrold for arranging this event. as he mentioned many years ago what is called the house energy and commerce committee we worked together helping to craft the bipartisan communications act of 1996. he went on to serve with the distinction as a commission of

the federal communications commission. over the years he's been a thoughtful adviser to me on many issues. i also want to thank the hudson institute and the exceptional scholars at work including my friend and predecessor former fcc commissioner. as previously mentioned, i am the newest fcc commissioner. i was fortune enough to be confirmed alongside our new chairman tom wheeler. in our short tenures, we both have come to be known for certain tagline that prompted further questioning. is this competition? mine has been freedom. i would like to explain the work what i mean by mine. i bring to my position the core belief that the most enduring value of america is freedom. our nation began with a desire to be free from the paternalist monarchy in britain.

our forefather embedded in the constitution certain protection to ensure that the government does not abuse the power or harmfully restrict individual liberty. these principle of a free society such as freedom of speech, religion, and assembly and so forth are also inherit in the concept of free markets. from which we form the basis of our economy. in our system of free enterprise we hold the belief that consumers and businesses should be able to freely buy and sell without needing the permission of the government and with minimal restrictions placed on business activity or asset ownership. to illustrate why the economic freedom is so important, let me relate a story from my youth. one hot summer day near buffalo, new york. it actually happens. my younger brother and i decided to sell lemonade to consumer. it weren't the cute adorable kid sitting on the front lawn. it was a brash effort to make real money.

the three of us did what every good business does. paid necessary beverage supply, design and built a stand, and did market research. we reimbursed our capital provider, my dad. at our major role yacht, we had the town annual tennis tournament. who doesn't like a cold drink while watching a match. initial success prompted us to dream of expansion possibility and what to do with our millions. it just so happened the vast number of tennis court were in parks owned by the city. our prime location was the local high school owned by the city. it wasn't long before we hit a nerve by the second weekend of the tournament our business was effectively snuffed out when a local official formed us we couldn't occupy the location next to the tennis court. the world was deprived our product. admitly we were kids and i was able to focus on a paper route instead.

it provides a good example of a lost opportunity that ours can when the government restricts entrepreneurs. there's a loss that would be seller would be buyer, and society as a whole. as a staffer on capitol hill, i saw the same theme play out time and time again in seaght with far more serious consequences. the most absurd example that comes to mind in 1996, when the fda tried to tell sunny cloud a single mother in atlanta, georgia she couldn't market at home drug testing kits. they were available to employers. the fda ration tell me. if they tested positive for drugs. until public and congressional outreach ended the rule they were allowed to target a small business that was trying to empower parents. who knows how many young people had been saved from a life drug addiction due to the early detection through the use of the home tests. which are still available.

more often; however such are more subtle and difficult to spot. take, for instance, the failed merger of the two two video rental giant. block buster and hollywood video. after the federal trade commission signaled a likely rejection they abandoned the deal. about that time they were concerned about the anticompetitive effect of one company having a significant percent able of home video market. they failed to account for the rise of video delivered through vending machines, mail, and internet streaming such as netflix. both block buster and hollywood video declared bankruptcy in 2010. who knows how much longer a combined entity could have lasted. or if their combined asset would allow it to innovate an better adapt to the changing market. policy makers in washington, d.c., should be constantly on guard against unnecessary restrictions that interfere with the freedom of any willing buyer or semier in our economy.

because just like the example i provided, we have no idea what type of products or services our regulations may discourage from coming to market. championing economic freedom will be my guiding principle when it comes to overseeing the communications industry. to inform my decisions i will consider the following. first, the commission must consider the authority to regulate as well as reelect the confine of the authority. there's no place in the rule for policy even ones well meaning. that have no basis in the statute. the commission exists to implement the statute. no less, and certainly no more. second, the commission must have verifiable and specific evidence that there is market failure before acting. in many cases competition and industry self-regulation are sufficient to ensure that services are provided and consumers are protected. and should only regulate when there's evidence bona fide data and actual problem exists

resulting in real harm to consumers that the commission can solve. third, when the commission does intervene the solution should be carefully they for-- tailored. we must guard against overregulating by analogy. fourth, the benefit regulation must outweigh the burdens. even when rules are grouted in the statute based on evidence, addressing a real harm and target at specific problem there is still a cost to implement -- to intervening and must consider the cost as part of our analysis. let's accept the reality that costs are always passed on to consumers in one way or another. we often hear it said that the commission's rule have not kept peace with changes and technology and the marketplace. that is true. the communications sector is in the midst of a digital revolution campaigns are innovating and thriving. they are investing billions each year in new networks and technologies. and consumers benefiting from a vast array of services and

products not imagined years ago. but what some advocate for automatically applying antiquated rules i do not believe that legacy rules or construct are entitled to live on after their usefulness. when it comes encouraging competition and consumer choice, i start from the premise that removing regulation word is not needed will better serve the goals fop ensure that participates in the communication marketplace are as free as possible, to meet consumer demand, i believe the commission must periodically re-examine the rules and justification that underlie those rules. over time those justification they have erode order changed. it's why i consistently advocate for sunset provision to force the commission to make sure our rules are still relevant. now you may be wondering how does the thinking apply to specific communications issues. let me share my thought about a few matters currently before the

commission. also relying more and more on wireless voice, texting and broadband. as believe the traditional telephone network behind, there are some unanswered questions about the potential implications of ab all-ip world. the commission is poised to embark on trials to help answer some of the questions. when it comes to ip transitions, i believe the commission must ensure that its policies and regulations do not impede this innovation so they are -- when it co comes to governing the forthcoming ip trial specifically. i suggest the following criteria. first, any trial should not interfere with the choices that the consumers are already making every day to go with ip services. let me give you an idea of the magnitude of these choices.

by the end of 2008 when the commission began certain tracking of residential voip connections, subscribers topped 189 million or 20% of the residential wire line market. just four years later, it's more notable when you consider the total wire line connections went down by over 24 million during the same period. in other words, the ip transitions are well underway and the commission should not allow the trials to obstruct industry innovation or consumer adoption. second, trials should not delay the commission's work. the trials won't resolve many important and legal policy issues. therefore, they should not service an excuse for delaying appropriate decisions. separate from the trial i dealt that many of the old rules will be necessary going forward. we should take the opportunity

to see how many regulations we can live without such as our regulatory accounting and jurisdictional separations. finally, it should be made clear that the commission establishes -- any rules the commission establishes in the trial will be nonbinding on what is happening outside the trial or for future decisions. these trials should be exactly that. trials. not stalking horses for new regulations. next, the commission must continue updating the universal service programs.

high cost support that that was not well targeted or serving the intended purposes is being phased out. in the linkup program has been eliminated in most areas. i also support the chairman's commitment to revisit the quantity tile aggressional analysis. the qra benchmark. they are not operating as intended, and those rules should be replaced. as we move forward, we should consider variety of approaches to complete universal service reform to extremely high cost areas through a variety of technology platforms including satellite and fishingsed wireless. we must fully explore, again, consistent with our 2011 order all ideas to ensure that do not

get left behind. we must also remain mindful of the size of the fund because a burden of paying for the programs ultimately falls on rate payers. the size of the fund may be down from last year, there is no overall cap. as we continue to reform the various programs, we should look for ways to offset the cost of modernization within existing budgets. budgets make for hard choices. but those hard choices force efficiency, encourage innovation, and benefit rate payers. to put this in perspective, the contribution factor this quarter is already -- likely to increase further in the coming years. therefore, contribution reform is long overdue. however, it must be addressed in a manner that is fair for everyone. providers, recipients, and american consumers. and it should not be reformed in a way that dampens internet usage or increases overall consumer costs. finally, we need to take a close

look at program management. projected requirements which drive contribution are higher than actual dispersement. it makes some sense to plan for specific future expense, the reobserve should not be more than absolutely necessary at any given time. we should review administration expenses which have been trending upward. one of the last pieces of legislation i worked on as a congressional staffer enacted in to law was middle class tax relief and job creation act of 2012. it district -- directed them. providing the platform the niching authority, the generation 9-1-1 program and deficit reduction among others. it will be the most complicated spectrum auction in our history i. technically we need to be cult

with the forward option to allocate for wireless use packing remaining broadcasters. in order to be successful, we need many things to fall in to place correctly including broadcaster participation because without them the auction fails. educating broadcasters about their options whether selling spectrum, channel sharing or moving from uhf to vhf will be a greater challenge. it will be -- are complex or confusing. similarly, we must remain attentive to the concerns of those broadcasters interested in being repacked. simplicity and transparency are paramount to providing broadcasters the certainty needed to decide whether to participate in the auctions or continue to serve their communities. failure to do so may deter broadcaster participation, or lead to legal challenges that could significantly delay the auction. i also feel strongly --

preor -- such efforts failed in the past and now more than every we cannot afford to diminish participation or revenue. section 202h of the telecommunications act of 1996 mandates that the commissioner view its immediate ownership rule every four years to determine whether they still necessary due to competition. if they are not, we must modify or eliminate rules that are no longer in the public interest. we have failed to comply with

this congressional directive. specifically the commission hasn't released the 2010 order and arguably behind on 2014 review. when congress extended the immediate ownership review from a two year to a four-year requirement the intention to ensure a thoughtful, competitive analysis of the space. what resulted is regulatory paralysis. nonetheless, we are required to comply with the statute. let's face it, the media landscape changed dramatically mat an numbers. we have satellite providers, cable networks, the internet, and mobile platform. i'm open to thoughtfully updating the commission's rule to reflect the reality of today's marketplace. today i have shared with you some of my thoughts about what

freedom is and how to apply to the work of the commission. in closing i would like to acknowledge the simple fact there will be differences of. over how the principle will be applied. when i use the word freedom i don't mean to apply i hold a monopoly or trademark on the value. i have seen my professional career the are exchange of idea and the bipartisan comprise can produce the best policy result. already i have found my colleague to be incredibly thoughtful and dedicated publicker servant. everyone has a different backed help balance decision makes. the same goes for the career staff. i have been impressed by the depth of knowledge, expertise, and work ethic they demonstrate. finally, i believe input from thinkers inside and outside the communications industry is essential. so i want to hear from everyone on the issues currently facing the commission and those issues that will confront us in the future. please know my door is always open. my contact information as well

as contact information of my staff is publicly available on the fcc website. carefully tailored rules benefit outweight costs.

i would like to ask you just a few questions on those lines. one, a little over a week ago the d.c. circuit issued opinion on the network neutrality order. what do you think of the dpk circuit's opinion, and how do you think the rules that were lost out by the d.c. circuit kind of lined up with your more concept of regulation? >> he mentioned we had a chance to work together on the tell telecommunications act of knicks. we had an opportunity to work specifically on section 706. so we're quite familiar with the provision how it was drafted and crafted. what it was meant to do and not meant to do. i have articulated a couple of times in the last couple of weeks i think should have happened in the court case and obviously i have deep reservations. i disagree with the court's decision.