and iraq needs a long-term friendship with the united states. a friendship though based on the values of democracy and the respect of human rights, and stable states. not state that is working outside with discrimination. i think that in washington, americans understand and i'm convinced they should concentrate on iraq once again in order to protect it from the

lack of stability. and, of course, the situation in syria, the americans also do not want iraq to be another region that exports problems and terrorism. but we want to be an oasis of democracy and stability. >> one last question. iraq is scheduled to have elections at the end of april. what would you like to see the united states do around this elections to be sure they are positive? we have seen elections in iraq that were extremely helpful for iraqi democracy and we've seen some that were constructed of a rocky democracy. what can a trainee due to ensure these are structurally elections, not destruction? [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: when there should be a medic that should come from all countries that the

elections should be respected and organized and just and transparent ways. and circumstances should be prepared. i mean, this is not minimum stability. there should not be decisions that are controversial like the one that was taken two days ago, the reaction -- we should avoid provocations. we should avoid confessional model decision in a to be able to organize there and just elections that can provide a solution to the iraqi government. if we do not have international observers in the united states should be present as should the united nations and all countries, if we do not have office, elections can be very

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>> our preview program starts live tonight at eight eastern with the president and nine. followed by the response from republican conference chair, and your reaction by phone, facebook and twitter. the state of the union tonight live on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> at the republican national committee meeting in washington, d.c., one of the panels focused on how the party can appear to minorities and women. this is a little less than one hour. >> well, good afternoon and i want to welcome you on behalf of the republican national committee to a rising star scale. relaunched as you know the rising stars panel in the first group of rising stars at our last meeting in boston when we were last together.

and so i'm so honored to have the opportunity to be a today with our new group of our rising stars, adam opportunities them to our committee as well as to also introduce them to the media into the world. will look at what we're doing at the rnc we are looking reaching up to make sure we are not just again talking to women, we are empowering women. we are training women. we're going around the country making sure that we find dynamic women t want to run for office like these individuals, run for something again in a stronger position and would not just talking about it or talking to them. we're going out there and we are reaching them. we are training them. we are empowering them. we are working with and to make sure they understand fund-raising, messaging, media events, communications. whatever it may be that those individuals and these young women and more women around the country that share our principles and values, that they understand the importance of what we're going to do together. when we look at these

individuals we know you will see them in the days ahead as you get our last rising star, these are the rising stars, this is a parties future and with that it is my honor to introduce the chairman of the republican national committee, a great part of somebody who does truly understand the importance of strong, principled and empowered women across the country, reince priebus. >> thank you, sharon. as always, appreciate all of your work and a great partnership together. the rising stars program is something that we started about a year ago, and it is part of our effort on top of highlighting different voices in our party, it's part of our more formal effort to have different people entering different people to start speaking for our party, both regionally and nationally. that we shall america that we have a party that looks like america, and we tried to find dynamic people across the country that can help us achieve

that goal, the want to step up to the plate and lead this country. so that's what this program is all about and we are really proud of where we are at. i wanted to quickly introduce the folks that you see up here and just give you a little bit of background about each of them. first of all to my right, to your left, chelsi henry served as senior advisor to the elected chief financial officer of the state of florida. in 2012 at the republican national convention, she was highlighted in "national journal," "national review," tv one and in tv, among others. she was a speaker at cpac 2013, selected for red alert politics, 30 under 30 and recognized as one of b.e.t.'s 10 republicans to watch. chelsi is a serial entrepreneur and says she is a perpetual optimist when it comes to the "grand old party." very good. you need to be. [laughter]

chelsi holds a jd from florida coastal school of law and undergraduate degree from university of north florida your so please welcome chelsi henry. [applause] >> to the right of chelsi, and it may be appropriate, i don't know, because you will see a bio, alison howard is a conservative activist who speaks on pro-life and profamily issues. alison has appeared on radio and tv outlets across the country including the sean hannity show, "fox and friends" into your. she kelly services communications director for concerned women for america and represents cwa at colleges, high schools and conferences around the country. so please welcome alison howard. [applause] >> now to your right, notice i avoided the left, to your right alex smith, national chair for the college republican national

committee, the c.r., making her the first female elected as national c.r. chairman in its 120 year history. [applause] she's a native of pennsylvania and the graduate of the catholic university of america. she formerly served as national co-chairman during the 2012 cycle as chairman of the d.c. federation of college republicans, and this chapter lead for the catholic university college republicans. she's currently a student at seton hall university school of law. please welcome chairman alex smith. [applause] >> and next to her is kimberly yee. she represents arizona's 20th legislative district in the state senate and is the first asian-american woman elected to serve in the arizona legislature. she is chairman of the senate committee in education. before she was elected to office

you worked for state treasurer dean martin. and in the united states department of justice. she served as a member of governor schwarzenegger's cabinet and on the state board of education under california governor pete wilson. kimberly and her husband are also small business owners and live in phoenix with their young son. please welcome kimberly yee. [applause] >> and the best for last, we have monica youngblood. and her first term in new mexico's house of representatives, she is on the board of the rfl sees future majority project and was named as one of cold packs 2013 emerging leaders. she's a native of new mexico and was raised by a single mother in albuquerque. at age 19 monica became a single mother but as she said, she was determined to end the cycle of poverty. so she set off to give her daughter a better life. monica now runs a successful real estate business and also works as a marketing consultant. she and her husband have two

children between the. so please welcome our newest rnc rising stars. [cheers and applause] >> we are going to have an opportunity for all of you to get up and ask questions at the mic, so i'm going to ask each of our participants to questions. we'll try to move quickly and then we'll open up the mic. first question is to chelsi. you said you were the first republican in your family. so the first question is, why? what about republican party appeal to you? go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman. again, i'm chelsi henry, born and raised in jacksonville, florida. my mother had me when she was 16. for the first years of my life we were on welfare. and so for me growing up i learned at a very early age the value of a dollar. i learned how to live on a budget. i learned the phrase that we often hear delayed gratification

and what that means, because when there was something we wanted, we saved, we planned for it. so when i think about conservatism and i think about what we stand for, what we all believe in, it's less taxes, it's smaller government. and those things resonate with me because i understand with my mom and being a single parent for a decade of my life that every dollar in her paycheck counted. i understand what it means to go to the grocery store and you want frosted flakes, yet you have to get the generic brand because those 80 cents matter. so i understand the value of a doll and how it impacts families, how it impacts life. i'm about economic prosperity for all. i'm about a hand up and not a hand out. and so that is what resonates with me when i think about the republican message. it's because those values of what we all believe in, they are

the same values i believe in. and how i was raised. so yes, first republican in my family. no one else in my family, you know, was a republican, shared anything about republican message. what i can tell you is because of the sacrifices my mother lived, i understand what it means to be a conservative. so actually since i've been involved the past few years my mom is now a republican. so the message works. [applause] >> excellent. alison, how can the party better connect with independent women and our conservative principles? >> thank you for having me and thank you for being here and sparing me the terrible weather to come and hang out in d.c. honestly i think right now there's an opportunity to reach out to women on issues that really matter to them. women make the majority of economic decisions in households, and right now are making a majority of their health care decisions as well. for me i think it's most

important for conservatives to talk to women as smart, intelligent, purpose driven women that they are. we care about so much more than the left presents to us. and pandering to us for a vote is so easy to see, and women in this room will know that. that we as conservatives can come around the message of upward mobility and talk about what limited government does for women, talking about what situations their best in economically, sociologically, psychologically, that i think is a really, really neat way that we can message to women, reach out to them and tell them that they can do better than this administration has brought to them right now. and i think we are doing the. i think it's a way forward, and things like this where you are showing up and showing out that you care and you are concerned about so much is really important. >> thank you. alex, why is it important for republican candidates to engage actively with young voters but i think most importantly, what do you think some misconceptions

are that we tend to have about voters in college? >> thanthank you so much, chairn priebus, and co-chairman day for this tremendous honor. these are two of the strongest youth allies that we have in the conservative movement so i thank him so much for the support of college republicans. i go over and busting youth myths all day. a couple of them are that, for example, the youth vote was an obama phenomenon, the younger voters turned out for the president because he was cool and they're not going to turn out that way again. we don't need to pay that much attention to them. that's not too. the youth vote has grown 1% of the pro-presidential cycle for the past four presidential elections in a row. it started out in 2000, when up to 19% in 2012. let's not get the president credit for a trend that started under president bush. the youth vote is only growing. it's growing as a percentage of our elected so we need to be

attuned to the younger voters. another what is younger voters will get more conservative as they get older. we saw the age demographics 30-34 was the only age demographic to approve -- improve for the president the second time in 2012. they are not going and buying a home, not becoming parents come these traditional things that might make one more conservative because they can't afford it. just being sensitive to that as a political party. wants a younger voter votes with a national political party twice in a presidential election, they are likely to vote that way for the rest of their life so we need to capture them now. these are now two rounds of votes to president obama's we need to be especially sensitive to that. the biggest myth out there is that younger voters are liberal. they are not. there was some research in 2013 and what we found was younger voters agree with us on the size and scope of government. what they don't do is they don't connect these fundamental values

about spending and the size of government to the republican party bring. that's where we need to come in and bridge that gap. [applause] >> kimberly, you are the first asian-american woman elected in the arizona legislature, and what just a few in the entire country. what you think our party can do better to engage more with the asian voters across the country? >> there are 15 million asian-americans in this entire country and that number is growing. and, in fact, asian immigrants are the fastest growing ethnic group in the united states. so what we are doing here on this stage today with our rising stars is the best start that we can do which is reach out to these various communities and speak out about the great work that asian-american republicans are doing from community to community across this country. and what's exciting is that when we look at asian-americans, they are highly educated, higher age

words -- higher age -- higher wage earners. those principles of our party should resonate naturally with the asian-american population. what we need to do is to go out into the communities to be able to showcase people like myself who are in those legislative seats to say this is what this person is doing and they are standing for the very same values that you hold dear in your families. what's interesting is in 2008 when i was a delegate at the national convention in st. paul, i look at the thousands of people around me on that floor and there was no one that looked like me. that was very telling because when you look at a brand or to look at a group, the person will wonder, do i fit in as a natural response. so what they need to say in our party is that they contact him. and, in fact, when they are part of our group we will embrace

them and with so much to do for them. part of your strategic initiative is to be able to showcase the great work. and i think we have so many opportunities before us because these are people that we can bring back to our party. they voted exponentially higher in the george bush administration and then they left during the obama run in 2012. so i believe this is the time when we can bring that back in 2016. >> monica, you talked about the fact that you raised by a single mom and she wanted to end this sort of cycle of poverty. where do you see the republican party fading in and out fight? >> thank you, chairman, for having me, and co-chair. it's an honor to be here. growing up my mom was always a republican. i remember her crying when president reagan got reelected and i didn't understand at the time. as i've grown up, although i didn't agree with her when i was

younger, i understand the republican party to be the party of self-reliance, personal responsibility, of opportunity for all no matter the color of your skin, no matter where you are from, what side of the tracks the war on. i resonate with republicans, with the republican party because i want to determine my work and i want to determine my success. and one thing that my mom always, when i became a young mom, which again i was rebellious and did want to listen to my mom, was she told me, no one will ever care more than you do about your success. no government entity, no entitlement program will ever care more about you and your success then you will. looking back at my community, i see that, unfortunately, a lot of people depend and get caught up in the cycle of dependency, and just never reach the success

that they may have dreamed of as a young person. >> chelsi, you talked about growing up on welfare, and with government assistance and going through some similar issues. what benefits, blessings, lessons do that cause you to learn from going through something like that? >> many lessons, mr. chairman. and so one lesson i can say is, overarching is, how conservative principles work. and i say that and i mean that from the bottom of my heart, which is why i'm so passionate about being a conservative and being a republican. because again, every dollar counted when i grew up, you know. when it was dinnertime and we had a long day, my mom had a long day at work, it was okay, i get two or three items off of the dollar menu today, and that was my biggest decision of the

day. answer those lessons have continued with me, and it has allowed me to want to continue to give back and to be a public servant. in 2010 i had the opportunity to run for local seated there in jacksonville. i was elected and became the youngest female elected in my city's history. it was a big deal, because for people in my neighborhood the action had never known anybody on the ballot. so when they went into the ballot box november 2010, they were able to check the name of somebody they knew, somebody the remember, somebody they can call facebook and get a response to. and so when i think about the lessons, most important it's to give back. it's to share our message because it works. we talk about war on poverty. the answer is the conservative message. it works. [applause] >> picking up on, talk but resonating on college campuses.

i know, alison, you were a hold on campuses across the country. what kind of lessons and what do you think we can be doing better to engage and what's working on your end on college campuses? >> well, that was an amazing answer, and i enjoy hearing everybody stores but i think it's one of the most important things that we are doing is sharing our stories. just like chelsi and everything alex said, if you walk into someplace you don't recognize anyone who looks like you, talks like you, things like you, you don't think you fit in. we've been working on young women for america chapters which are essentially college chapters of conservative young women they get together each week and some of them are like a prayer group with action items. they get together and they pray for the country and they tell each other what's going on. because her young people in college or in a bubble of sorts, so to be informing them that so we are here to do and that's

what leaders are doing, moms, dads everywhere to get together and coalesce around an idea. a lot of them are doing things on their college campuses that i think you would be really proud of. the left will take that melendez only care about same-sex marriage and abortion but that's just not true. we have young men and women out there that are going and combating sex trafficking, that are going in serving the homeless, that are getting into the communities just like every year has outlined and just like i think the rnc is going to get and conservatives are working on to be able to connect with those around you. and explain to them why conservative principles work so you can elevate yourself into a position that you want to be at. and as when i think we have unique positions, as friends, as probably the best talkers, talking gender out there, take you medicaid that we are talking all the time. and what we get to do as young people especially is talk and

use the platforms we have in front of a, whether that be social media, facebook, twitter, instagram or the meetings that wwe have. no complaint with the pda is doing if you're not willing to go and be a part of it. i can't talk about that if am not willing to serve my community in everything i believe in. the college campuses we're starting to get some of these young leaders pulling them in under this conservative umbrella and think it's cool to be a conservative, you know. and they are starting to see the. if we can communicate that to them there's a place for them here. we care about what you care about. student loans, getting a job, what does that really look like? it's hard right now. it's hard for our young people. we are able to take this unique opportunity that they are seeing what the government does to their opportunities once they graduate and what their paycheck looks like if they get their first job, and i think conservatives will have a group of young people who really are willing to fight with passion to protect that paycheck and these

principles. >> thank you alex, someone is running for president and they come to you and they say i want to win over college students. tell me how i can get it done. what would you tell them, or are? >> the answer is a simple one and one of the things we found out in our research last year was to go were younger voters are and give them something to share. what does that mean? it means channels and messages matter. channels, i mean online, going were younger voters are. going to hulu, pandora, spotify. if your talking to younger voters on television, radio or director matthew are not reaching them. they are not on those channels. but they are online. they are a consuming content in real time online and that's where we need to capture them. by channels i also means the campus. i always say to candidates women have the opportunity to speak about best practices and tactics is if you were too afraid to go to the campus because of the

environmental club that's going to come out and protest or something, a couple of kids with a banner, you are leaving the weight of our work as a party on the shoulders of 18 year old college republicans who have to carry it alone. said candidates must go to campus. they must engage with younger voters again where they are. and messaging matters, too. i'll give you a perfect example. what we found was the term big government was a nebulous one with younger voters. they didn't understand what we meant when the asking and/or focus groups. how do you feel about a candidate who proposes to buy big government? government, big government, like the windows? today? want to talk about? big isn't scary. big is this. big is getting out a million followers on twitter being able to send a message out to all of them in an instant. what is scary to younger voters is an intrusive government. it's about the language that we

use to describe this. if we talk about reducing government spending, talk about fixing big and other programs like social other programs like sauces to get and medicare, the things that we need when we say big government. we just say them differently to younger voters in a language that is relevant to them. that's what's going to matter. what matters the most is just talking to younger voters. it's just a basic tenet of human to human interaction. if someone is not talking to you they don't think you care about them very much. we need to be talking to younger voters and sharing them that we want to earn the votes at the party. >> thank you. kimberly, you have effectively used the pro-life message to resonate with voters. you want to talk about that a little bit? >> i have the opportunity in the senate to sponsor a lot of bills the idea education policies, tort reform, public safety. i will tell you that the pro-life legislation that i sponsor an icy passed in both of our houses, that's the

legislation that is the most meaningful. as a woman, as a new mother of a four month old, i can relate to these issues about women and how it affects their individual lives, and really about the health and safety of women when we are talking about these practices, and ensuring that someone out there is standing for those little tiny babies they can't otherwise speak for themselves. those other things that we share, that i share when i go out into my community and i knock on the doors and the talk to these moms and their families. they are the ones that are often making the decision for their household about who to vote for in the next election. and so as a woman i really feel that we have to share that story, and often go back, i was the sponsor of the ultrasound legislation in arizona that allows a woman who is getting

ready to have an abortion to see the ultrasound image before she was forward with that decision to and i spotted the 21 we've been bill that the supreme court just rejected. those are the bills i have to share, there was a nurse testified on the bill and she said when she turns that monitor to these young teenage couple they came in for an abortion in the clinic, the young teenage boy put his hand over his mouth he was moved with emotion any he said that's our baby. guess what? they ended up, that young couple turned around and walked out of the clinic and they kept that precious child. those are the stories that matter and those are the stories that i hope to continue to share. because once they hear the significant gains that we have made in arizona with the passage of many of these pro-life bills, we have decreased abortions 7% year over year. that's about 1000 babies that have been saved. we have much more work to do

that this is a start and am excited to be a part of it. >> thank you, kimberly. >> the last question before we open up the mics goes to monica. we told you she was from new mexico. she was successful running for office, heavily hispanic community. what do you think the secret is for winning over hispanic voters? >> in new mexico we're very much a hispanic population. we concentrate on talking about issues, reminding people the american dream, is never depicted in movies as an entire program. the program. it's always achieving your goals and reaching that. governor martinez has done an amazing job at doing relatable to hispanics, and to people that are, that live in new mexico, letting them know that we are important. we don't talk about party a lot of the time. talk about issues.

we talk about conservative issues with democrats across the state because we need for them to vote with us. its work. we just elected come in albuquerque we elected mayor barry to a second term which had never been done before. and we will reelect governor martinez because people in new mexico no that she is and feel like they can relate to her. so that is my advice across the nation, as far as bring hispanics in, understand the issues. not really asking them to change their party but to really vote the issues that concern them and their families. >> thank you. and what do you think about our rising stars? pretty impressive. [applause] >> chairman, if i could say something real quick. i think we saw the other rising stars that we have done a lot to great workforce before but i'm very proud that argumentation's department and our committee, if you look at her at this stage,

we send five dynamic as you have seen and heard extraordinary women, so thank you for the ethics and etiquette the communication. very proud of you. thank you for the communicate department for and taking these unbelievable rising stars. >> questions? [inaudible] >> freddie simpson, washington state. i live in the middle of the state where we have no major industries so we are all agriculture. so immigration reform is huge for us. how do you, as women, address this? because i know we can tiptoe around issues and we can talk issues without saying where republicans are necessary we get

on pro-life or we so tiptoe around some the dangers with wht some people consider as dangerous subjects. how do you address when people ask your stance on immigration reform? >> why don't we start with alison and move this way. >> we don't take a position on immigration so i might not be the best to talk on this but i think an easy way for us to address it is to protect the borders and enforce the law. that's something i think the rnc all they have said, is just we need immigration reform to make better games in that community. it's something again with. something a lot of women are dealing with, and it's a growing conversation. so it's important to i look forward to hearing how these guys can do with it as well. >> i think being, a lot of times come immigration reform is directed to latinos and latinas

across the country. and i think at a state level you really have to understand there is nothing, i mean, we depend on the federal government to do their job. i think we need to embrace immigration reform. i think we need, we took the senate, took a step come to come in the right direction and we're waiting to see how it plays out in the house, but i think that the state level and they get the question all the time, i think at the state level we will have to look at the federal government for guidance on this issue and would just embrace that it needs to be done, and be compassionate in doing that. >> chelsi. >> i agree. with what both of the rising stars have said. and that is we have to brace immigration reform. exotica what that looks like, i think that has to continue to be worked out, but i think there needs to be a solution and the

conversation needs to continue. >> anyone else speak with remember, i come from arizona, the state of 1070 so i have a few things to say about immigration reform. absolutely. we need to wrap our arms carefully, diligently around comprehensive immigration reform. we cannot delay coming from a southwestern border state, we see it every day. and so the first and foremost thing that i would encourage for those developers of whatever plan we will soon see is, please listen to the border states, hear us out. we need to share the issues that we deal with day in and day out. the businesses, families, all of them are affected daily by the immigration, those who are coming undocumented across our lives. and so this is the conversation we have got to wrap our arms around. it's not easy.

it's going to take some time, but as republicans i think the messaging that we should have is that we are for every community. and we stand for what they want swinney to bring everyone to the table and do that successfully. >> i represent college republicans but we don't take a formal stance on issues but what i will say is this is an issue we studied carefully in our 2013 research. voting started at age 30, governor romney would be president today. a growing number of that youth vote is young hispanics are so this was an issue we studied carefully in 201 2013 and it's e without the language of compassion and dignity could go along way to starting a dialogue with younger voters, being careful about what we choose our words and be diligent about explaining our positions. >> any other questions? >> i'd like for each one to comment on what governor

huckabee said at lunch today, democrats have promoted this myth about the war on women, and he suggested, saying another way, that maybe we have a war for women and would take the offensive because we've got great rising stars like we have today. >> why don't we start with alex, this war on women rhetoric, opinions on that. >> i'll tell you what, when we studied the youth vote and look at the composition of it, younger single female voters are huge part of it. they have unique needs as a demographic. for example, more women are entering into higher education and postgraduate degrees than men at this point. what does that mean? it means the college affordability becomes a very big issue. it means student loans comes to the forefront, getting a job after graduation. so women are not monolithic voters. they are not centered around

just a few issues. i think younger female voters are especially concerned about the state of the economy, in terms of creating a future for themselves and their families. >> the phrase war on women is really just a way liberal democratic tactic that they use in the media that cannot be proven because he we are, we are examples of women in this country. we are -- [applause] -- conservatives and we stand for families. they cannot ever define when they use that phrase what that really means. because we are real examples that live day-to-day and we stand or conservative values. we stand for government out of our business and out of her home. and just wait, because obamacare will be telling. they will see, everyone all the women across the country will see that that government intrusion in the lives of our families will be enough.

and we will see that turn around soon enough. unfortunately, we will have to work towards getting that message out, that we have real examples and we are just the start right here on the stage. >> thank you. monica. >> i agree. i think the war on women is a tagline that just got picked up in the media and unfortunate i myself was accused of war on women, and i'm a woman and i have a daughter and i really was very confused by the concept. but again it was a tagline that god, i think was a reckless tagline because you look across the world and there are women truly suffering through a war on women. we used it and threw it around our mediated, and it made it into a conservative, republican/democrat issue where it shouldn't have been. >> you know, when i heard war on women i would just think to myself, what war on women?

as it was shared before, you have five amazing young women up here who are contributing to their communities, contribute and to this day, contributing to the party, mr. chairman. so what this is about is just a normal political rhetoric. what we show here today and what you've done, mr. chairman, is show them that we are for women. we offer women begin leadership. i think about governor martinez, governor haley. let's highlight the fact that they are in office. [applause] we have to represent is with us here today. that's a war for women. we are showing them that we don't even have to use the word war. it's about what you our results show. >> alison. >> i think it's a good question, really relevant. saw the war on women, speaking to that is directly the last attempt to narrow women down to one issue, voters. that's not too.

we know that. on both sides women look at a broad spectrum of issues, fiscal, economic and social. but the war for women is an attempt for women's vote. because it's a large demographic, a huge voting bloc and we should be honored so much that people are trying to figure out what we care about, enough to speak to us. now, conservatives have an opportunity to speak to women about those prospectors, the broad spectrum of issues, not just one. because the question is in this country, right now, what are you willing to pay for? the president's health care law has put that before us. what are you willing to pay for? and for many of us, for many families are not really willing to pay for many families, someone els else's anything bece it's tight. especially not something i might morally disagree with and religiously disagree with. that's what you see the war on women to me, his little sisters

of the poor. the group of catholic nuns who is and was forced to sue the administration because they were being asked to fund something that they disagree with. and that this administration is forcing catholic nuns to pay for birth control when they have taken a vow of chastity, should enrage us. as women and as men, protectors of life. so if we can take that back onto our terms and explain that we are the party of compassion, of restoring dignity, i think we're doing that. it doesn't just look like politics and public policy. it looks like demanding dignity and honesty in the media, demanding dignity and honesty in the music that your children are listening to. and demanding honesty and authenticity in those who are speaking to women. we are not monolithic. we care about so many issues. the conservative party is the

one that's willing to talk to women about those issues. >> thank you. >> i'm a national committeewoman from connecticut, and i'm a member of the resolutions committee. yesterday we passed a resolution. it was initially entitled the war on women. we changed it. i can't remember to walk. however, we are focused mostly on life issue. in my experience there's not much talk among women about the glass ceiling. it goes beyond that. it always comes down to the life issue. now, i noticed yesterday at the rally there were many young people in support of life, which is quite a change. last night, new polls came out,

i think it was a fox news poll, but 48% of americans polled, those polled were pro-life, 45 pro-choice. and what we emphasized in the resolution yesterday were the statistics on how many people support parental notification. may be a 24 hour waiting period, maybe -- what do you call that test you have? [inaudible] yeah, so in my experience every time we address issues on women, it always comes down to the choice issue. sharon, you came to luncheon in connecticut last summer. want to delay the talk about? life issues.

so hopefully the entire membership will pass that resolution tomorrow. thank you. >> bill. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and madam chairman, for bringing forward such wonderful rising stars, this time and before. we all realize how important it is worse to get the youth vote and the mobile if we're going to win the presidency again. my question is how important is it to have a female or useful person on the ticket in 2016? and do you see one being more important than the other? >> good question. we will try to be quick on these answers. >> i like the juxtaposition, female or useful. i think it's important that people see someone that they understand, believe in what they believe and. whether that's a female or male i think people understand this is a person that runs the country and kills with international affairs. something people are just looking for someone that speaks up for what they truly believe in at the end of the day.

>> i agree. so why not have a youthful woman? why not just put them together? but at the end of the day, it's about people being able to see someone represent that they can relate to that they can trust and that they can believe in. >> i think it's about being relatable and i think we still, on policy, we still need to talk about policy. being relatable is important to young people, and as women i think, too. >> i absolutely agree that if we're going to be politically strategic in the 2016 elections, and if hilary rodham clinton is going to be one of the candidates then we absolutely need to consider a woman on our ticket. it's easy to do because there's a lot of leaders after that you can choose from and what will be very important though is to really place that at the field bell alum and i guess because when we're talking about the importance of showing our party

as a compassion party, when it stands for families, that's what women can do on that ticket. >> when we talk about these votes were really talking about young female voters, talking a young hispanic voters. those are huge subsets of what we generally refer to as the youth vote. in terms of having someone that will be attractive to both young people and females, or young females i should say, their talk of one and the same we talk about the demographic. authenticity is tremendously important to young people, just being who you are, but again if you're not talking to younger voters where they are about the true self about your positions, clearly explained to them showing you care about showing up on the campus, running a thoughtful media strategy and advertising to them online, and they will not be able to see that. the candidate who goes where younger voters are an speaks in the lane which is relevant to them. >> real and authentic is key,

because with the key mutation that we have now in this country and among young voters, all of us now, real and close has to be the case in order to make a connection. last question to jason. go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman. jason halliburton from atlanta, georgia. this goes to monica youngblood and kimberly yee. i'm first generation american. my family is originally from the island of jamaica. those people and only come from the caribbean, the commit and they don't identify with the right party. my question to monica and kimberly is how we able to remove the d. and the our and connected people on a one on one basis and if there was one particular issue, what with that issue to help your message connect lacks thank you. >> for me, it was really talking about the american dream and prosperity. we talked about the housing bubble. i talked about we saw a lot of foreclosures and short sales in

our state, it would talk to people about how people were walking away from home, getting bailed out. people really resonated with that, the life issue is another issue with conservative democrats in our state that they relate to us. but i really think when you go back to the american dream, and freedom to prosper, you know, that is really where we identify with one another. i don't ask anyone to change their party. i really just ask them to think about the things that i stand for and to vote with me, vote for me if they agreed. >> i also share a personal story, how my grandfather opened up a small little longer business and hard of downtown pittsburgh him and my maternal grandfather opened up one of the first local corner grocery stores in phoenix, arizona. they came with nothing to this country but they were brave men who were for the families. they did this for the future. and so when i share that story it does resonate. eating at a restaurant, i'll

talk to a local restaurant owner and i'll was a, they will find out i'm a republican and a nation, they don't understand i'm a strange animal. i will share with them, we have a lot in common. we on businesses and ask them, do you want that hard earned money that you worked so hard for every single day, do you want the government to take that out of your pocket or do you want to build to keep that in your pocket and use it the way you want to use it? that's a small principle but just having a conversation with these individuals one by one face-to-face puts a personal element on the. they understand. we can bring them over one by one that way. >> we clearly i think hit a homerun with our rising stars here in washington, d.c. thank you to everybody up your. [applause] we're going to work with the rising stars throughout the entire year. as i said earlier, the plan here is to show america what we've done, what success has been out

there in our party. we've had a lot of success. i think sometimes our party just isn't lousy at bragging on and we've got to do a better job. this program is part of that effort to bring new faces, new voices across this country to speak for the republican party. so thank you all for being here and we've got a lot more events here coming today and tomorrow. god bless you. thank you. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] this is where the clintons lived when their professors in fayetteville but, in fact, bill was driving hillary down the road to go to the airport and they saw a house and it was for sale and hillary pointed at the house and said, that's a cute house. bill tucker to the airport and pick her up from the airport one month later and said, i bought your dream house. you have to many because i can't live there alone. that was the fourth on the proposed. >> there were nine people at the wedding but it was a very small. the wedding announcement made notable mention of the hill it was retaining her own name. build wasn't bothered by this, however when they told virginia, she gasped and when they told hillary's mother, she cried. fayetteville was a place he really settled in.

they thought they arrived. they got married, bought a house, they had jobs as law professors and they finished law school. they achieved a lot of things they have set goals for in life. life. >> watch our program on first lady hillary clinton at our website, c-span.org/firstladies or see a saturday at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span. live monday our cities continues with first lady laura bush. >> a couple of live events to tell you about today. on c-span3, the senate arms services committee looks at retirement benefits. and at 2 p.m., two house foreign affairs subcommittee's focus on how the iranian nuclear deal is being implement.

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>> [inaudible conversations] >> okay, good morning. we're going to call the meeting to order. if folks could take their seats. we have a pretty full agenda this morning for this particular committee. my name is setti warren, i'm the chair of committe of the commitn housing for the u.s. conference of mayors. i want to welcome you all here joining us, our committee members as well as those who are

joining us outside of the committee and also want to welcome the c-span in to a meeting. we are very pleased that we're able to talk to a wide audience this morning. we have a few items on our agenda this morning. i want to begin with secretary donovan in just a minute and then went going to hear from city, to develop director and we'll hear from kerry searle grannis from the brookings institute, all three speakers this morning have very substantive presentations and question and answer for this morning. before we begin i want to make sure you know who are vice chairs power, can't i think will be joining us momentarily.

so i'm going for start with secretary donovan and then will move to our agenda this morning. just one note because you all know how important cdbg funds are for us before introduce the secretary. and i want to get this out before we start the meeting. we are very pleased, obviously, with the good news in fy '14 for cdbg. funding with what we're hearing previously, but we also know that it's up to all of us to really be aggressive and talking to members of congress and the senate about how important this program is. so i want to mention two things while the secretary is here that we're going to be asking committee members to participate in between now and the spring. this year is the 40th anniversary of cdbg funds. this has been one of the most successful programs in history as far as funding housing,

economic developed, accessibility at the local level with the mayors. we want to make sure we communicate with the country about the importance of this program. ..