isn't that wonderful? >> does this plan raise the age for social security? >> no, sir. >> does it change the measure of inflation for social security? >> so this administration has managed to reduce the deficit in 2013 below bowles simpson to social security. >> so now we are going to wait for the response from the other side and debate the issue gagai. thank you and good luck in your job. >> ten seconds to spare. a new record. >> mr. mcclintock. >>ter mr. chairman. welcome director berbell. did i under stand you correctly

and this was the an ter that you were trying so hard to get out, that the deficit is not important to people, what is important is the economy. >> i think what people are interested in are their own perm economy. job creation and their wages. >> the cbo has been screaming this warning at united states at us. >> you run up $6.8 trillion in the last year and he held the prior record. it seems to me that mat sssive deficit spending was the key to job growth that the bush administration should have ended

the policies. we know from our open experience that if you live beyond your means today that $6.8 trillion run up by this add maybe strition is going to be repaid by the young people today as $56,000 on average per household. >> i think there is a connection. >> where we are is you have run up more debt in five years than bush ran up in 8 and we have nothing to show for it. you wanted to show us that the budget will deliver stronger growth. with all due respect we have been hearing that for more than

five years. household income has declaindec. 8.5 million private sector jobs were created. >> many of them can't get more than part-time. >> the vast majority was stated have all been consistent with private sector job growth. >> average household income is

down not up. >> when i left the admi administration i left january 20th in 2001. >> yes, there was. >> the policies of the clinton administration i applaud. he made good on that promise and signed what amouned to the biggest capital gains tax cut in american history. he went after entitlement spending. those were great policies. the problem that i see in this budget and administration is it has done the opposite. it has raised taxes. $550 billion annually. it has increased entitlement

spending with the obama care entitlements. it has run up record number of deficits. you are doing the opposite and having the opposite results. the revenue ratios are the same as the clinton administration's. >> he was reducing spending. swroo we are -- >> discretionary. >> yeah. >> we are talking about the entire budget which brings me to the final question. you propose no reforms. i'm curious how you plan on doing that? >> the trillion dollars that occurs has been implementation. >> we have to keep this thing

runs. miss lee. >> thank you very much. i apologized. i had another meeting. things got dhchanged around. i tonight believe anyone has asked you yet about the oversass account. i believe this is a so called police station holder at this point. >> there are strategies as it relates to the draw down in afghanistan. i'm very concerned that the oco has become a slush fund of wasteful spending. the pentagon reserved money even though most troops are coming home.

even though congress appropriated a total for war costs in oco, when are we going to be able to finally end this of the budget funding of cars and restore this account as a const constingenck account with the full oversight of congress. >> you are right to reflect that we have gutt a policy into effect. in terms of our budget we reflect the 450 cap.

with regard to the question of how we do funding over time, i think the congress will work to determine the best of that. i hope we can come to the agreement that it is a contingency fund add not a slush fund. let me ask you about the department of labor as it relates to people of color. now, as a result of the 2009 om omnibus appropriate race act we put language in that said the secretary of labor shall provide a report to the senate of july

2009 detailing the actions that the department will take to ensure that the programs and policies will take to reduce disparities across racial and ethnic groups. is there anything that you can do to help us get this report back to us as described by the 2009 bill. swroo th >> i'm asking everything. every add menstration official to help us. i have not been able to make any head way. >> so, we would appreciate that and finally, let me ask you in terms of job training programs that are targeted toward communities, is this the pathway

out of poverty for these communities? also with long term unemployment being what it is. the skills airport there. is this part of a strategy? >> it is. get people to have those skills and make sure there is job creation. >> what is the amount in the budget for that. >> there are a number of difference programs. to apprentice ships. there is a wide range. >> is it together to produce and appendix of document that organizes this programs and supports the security and economic independence?

>> we'll provide that information to you if that would be helpful. >> take a look at the report that was put out ip tn the beginning of the week. >> thank you for coming before us. i want to start out picking up on something mr. flores said. when he said that his letter containing questions that he wrote last year or maybe he said them verbally from the microphone, i know you are new at the arg izatiorganization yo nice person we don't know each other. can i get a commitment that you are going to go back and look for his questions and get these

answered? thank you very much. >> these putting up a paper with notes to question her staff.

on insurance that on the fence. or on discretionary programs. do you think we are spending more money on interests or on defense as a responsible use? >> ea couple of things one, agree. interest payments i would say i probably would focus on numbpub debt. i would reflect on the points that have been made the hole we are in is large and has been dug over a long period of time.

when you look at the budget you see the deficit reduction that occurs that the ratio is two to one in terms of spending. we do not believe that revenue is the answer. we believe that you need all pieces to par sticipatparticipa. you talk about americans don't care about debt or care more about jobs and the economy. do you stand by that. the people i talked to and i come from the people that elected the patieresident i thi they are concerned when we are paying more than interest payments. >> i think what the american

people are caring about is yes, i think they care about debt. i think they care about how they're roads are. >> do you think the people of america care more about themselves or their children or chaer children of tomorrow? >> those chaern thildren that d exist. >> they say nope give me my food stamps, my unemployment check and my road and bhaefr awhatevet the debt on people that don't exist yet and they don't vote. because that is what i hear you saying. >> i apologize if that is what

you take from my comments. i mean to say that we need to consider the issues that are in front of us. the debt is an important one. defending our nation is an important one. making sure that those children have pre-school is another. how you balance those considerations. beare all trying to have a conversation about. >> tfr mhank you mr. chairman. i'm going to follow up on what my colleague had said. i think there are delicate balance aps s here. and i think it is very important to remember and i care about my

chi che children and lots of generation of noke folks who were in this together. they were going to have to build roads if they don't have to do it now. and so, i think that we can't to, i do at least in this contest waco contemco contemco context want to be careful for all of us. this budget focuses on more economic opportunities. i hard that i come from a state that is struggling. new mexico is not seeing the kind of recovery that anyber else in the country and it has been really difficult. in that context when i know many of my colleagues have touched on

this. i think it bears some repeating for the record that we have gone through many i think are independent i independenting issues that have negatively impacted our economy and have caused real harm. the 2011 debt crisis impacted it by $9 billion. it reduce the real gdp he both by 2016. between 0.2 and 0.6 percentage points. after all these shelf inflicted ku wounds, it seems to me that we want to move forward in creating

jobs. i think the things that work for all of us, i have a district that wants jobs. imhopeful that we turned a corner. i want to highlight a couple of things that you did. we don't want to harm seniors and children and you talked about shifts in disabilities policies. they will be employed and we have done lots of that work where we want the least restrictions here. i do think there are different dynamics that we don't take into consideration and we need to do a better job at that. this budget provides $100 million to do family care for

paid medical leave. i think that is economic security and i appreciate that we have increased investments in health services. as a result of kidney failure and related issues. so thank you very much for that. i want to talk about small businesses. what does the budget do to help create jobs? >> i have two important centers in my state. >> it would depend on what they are for. tax kcredits may be ways to tha can do that. i think new mexico could benefit by doing more manufacturing.

can the m eeltep grants expand production lines? >> we have a company that can make cars and parts of those parts ip our state. >> with regard to the specifics of the nep i would hope that there are a number of things where it is the tax credits, nep, there are a range of things that are focused on promoting that. >> thank you. >> okay. you have five minutes early. this is your first day testifying. you had budget this morning. >> i have ddid.

>> i appreciate your service. >> thank you for coming. please get back to the members in writing that which you have committed to and this hearing aajourped. >> thank you mr. chairman, thank you.

anyone who is watching at home, you deserve to know where your elected officials are. just ask them. do you support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. if they say yes, say thanks. great job. meeting courage and too, elected officials. if they say no, you should be polite but you should say why not? ask them to reconsider. ask them to side with the majority of americans instead of saying no for once, say yes. it is time for $10.10, time to

give america a raise. [applause] i want to close by sharing a story of a guy who was here today. where is dead? i will embarrass doug. stand up, right here. doug had a chance to meet secretary peres last week. doug is the president in bridgeport. his great-grandfather frank started the family business in 1893, at 1893. one of the secrets to their success is that they treat their employees like part of the family. so he pays his homeworkers fairly, but goes a step further,

he talks to fellow business leaders, meets with elected officials to make the case for a higher minimum wage for everybody and keep in mind he spent most of his life as a registered republican. this is not about politics. this is about common-sense. it is about business sense. we were talking backstage, he showed me a pay stub, because it describes his own story. when he was flipping burgers in 1970 his employer paid him the minimum wage, but it when 25% further than it does today. doug speaks from experience when he says things like a minimum-wage raise the bar for everybody. he still has that paycheck. and looks like a paycheck i got

when i was working at baskin-robbins. the point doug and his family and his business represent is we believe in hard work. we believe in responsibility. we believe in individual initiative. we also come together to raise the bar for everybody, to make sure our fellow citizens can pursue their own dreams as well, that they can look after their kids, lift them up. we look out for each other. that is to we are. that is our story. there are millions of americans like drugs and like all of you who are tired of the old political argument, raise the bar all little higher. let's move this country forward, let's move it up. that is what i am going to do as president as long as i have the honor of serving in this office

and i need your help. let's go out and give america a raise. god bless the united states of america. ♪ ♪ ♪ any ♪ >> a couple live events to tell you about this morning. political those senior white house advisor on c-span2 of little after 8:00 eastern and on c-span2 the addition c-span3 the

house foreign affairs committee with a hearing on the situation in ukraine. the committee will consider a resolution condemning the violation of ukrainian sovereignty and calling for sanctions on russian officials and other state agencies. >> conservative activists gathered in washington to mark the fifth anniversary of the tea party movement. speakers including republican rep steve king of iowa. we will show you as much as we can until our live coverage of the political breakfast at 8:00 eastern. >> thank you. okay. thank you. thank you, thank you. thank you all very, very much. this is a wonderful welcome here

and a terrific morning for us to celebrate the five year anniversary of the beginning of the tea party and tea party patriots in particular. we're slugging this out in the public arena, we always need to have a grass-roots rise up to save america from the left. you are doing it. going into roughly 2010 i watched what happened where nancy pelosi became the speaker of the house and i am sitting here doing all i can to roll that rock uphill, trying to hold the constitution together and free enterprise together and our way of life together and role of peace after peace, they rolled cap and trade over the top of us before they brought obamacare over the top. just didn't get through the senate because of what used to be known as the filibuster and supermajority required before

harry reid told -- pulled the trigger, nothing exploded over the senate. and it has been blocked legislatively by you, barack obama deciding he has the constitutional authority to make applause on his own. to direct his minions in the executive branch to do whatever it they decide to do to impose this leftist agenda on us. i have long spoken about these constitutional violations. when barack obama stepped up to the podium after he had taken a beating from the religious community because there was a requirement in obamacare that they provide contraceptives and sterilizations even through our church organizations, obamacare to the two week beating from religious organizations and stepped up to the podium and said i will make an accommodation to the religious organizations.

now i am going to require insurance companies to provide these things for free. he said for free, said it twice. look at the rule written by kathleen sebelius, wasn't a letter unchanged. the only thing that changed was barack obama had spoken. the insurance companies lined up to do his bidding as if he working. the imperial presidency has emerged and in spite of all you have done, i want to take you back to that 2010 period of time when nancy pelosi wrote saw this with your eyes, that big magnum gaveled through, let them eat cake moment, that glorified how they would use that gavel to impose will of the leftist on a free people of america and unconstitutional fashion and they did that. they did it over the largest uprising of people i have seen

in my lifetime and that was you coming to this capital building. i remember walking down the steps the day we saw the obamacare come out and how do we say this? we call the american people to surround the capitol, jam the place, don't let anybody in or out, fill the place up. you did something that has never been done before, surrounded the capital. the encircled the capital. and it wasn't just a human chain reaching with the powers we could lead to other, like a huge human doughnut with thousands of people in the quarter left to go and there's no picture of that, no air cover over the top, can fly helicopters to take a picture. used up to defend america against cap and trade, against

t.a.r.p. against obamacare of the president send the irs after you. and he says there is not a smidgen of corruption involved in this. there is not a smidgen of constitutional authority this man actually exercises. he is outside the bounds of it. we got to pull that down. we have a battle ahead of us. [applause] >> we are far from done. tea party gets the blame for everything the left doesn't like. i am fine with that. a pretty good sign we are doing the right thing together. but remember this. what about restoring the constitution, we will do this with public demonstration andy will process and from the grassroots and until the next president of the united states. the restore constitutional rights in america, reaffirm what it means they said or what not

people see it says. we will restore the american dream and identify for little babies yet to be borne the pillars of american exceptionalism. we identified because if we don't believe it in our hearts, we don't know this as part of our civilization they will define it away from us. our children's where the future is, they need to know our founding fathers meant what they said, the words in the declaration and the constitution and the law, by the way, mr. president, mean what they say. we cannot let them define them away. that is a step up because we oppose this to the people who handed this republic over to us to preserve, protect and defend it and hand it to the next generation. they form it out of the ideas of the rights the came from god and argued for it, shake to the declaration and the constitution, fatah revolutionary war and there is

our great country and all we have to do is the send it andou revolutionary war and there is our great country and all we have to do is the send it and handed to the next generation and we will do this with the most patriotic motivation and serve with july aoy and might al have fun. if you serve with joy they can never defeat you. they will never defeat the tea party. we are stronger than ever before, and anchored in the constitution and limited government and free enterprise and strong families, anchored in western civilization which is the foundation for these things that we believe in. let's go out there and continue this effort in our homes and cities and churches and schools and workplaces and families. god bless america.

let's save it together. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome congressman raoul labrador from idaho >> good morning. it is a great honor for me to be here. i want you to know that i wouldn't be here if it weren't for the tea party. [applause] >> four years ago i ran for office and the establishment decided that i wasn't the right

candidate for idaho. they decided they wanted somebody else to be the congressman for idaho. we had a democrat who was in office and we all knew he was beatable but they wanted somebody who was electedable and that person apparently was not me. and i had a bunch of people out there who decided they wanted me to be their representative and people like you who wanted to bring back america to what america used to be. they wanted the strength, the energy, the excitement that most of us had to be americans. in little old idaho they decided, this tea party patriots are so racist, they decided they wanted a puerto rican mormon.

in my primary i got out spend 5:1. they couldn't raise the money unfortunately, but they could raise the forces to beat the establishment. i want -- at won might raiy rai nine points. the establishment want me to be in washington d.c. so they were not going to help me in my race and move on to other races. the tea party wanted me to win. i got outspent 6-1 and i won that race by ten points. [applause]

>> i am here to tell you you can and have made a difference in the united states and it is important that you get together and make a difference again in 2014 because we need to take our country back and we need to remind america with the dreams and aspirations of our founding fathers, of our grandparents and our parents used to be, we want a nation that is once again great, a nation where a young boy who was born in pr cuerto r can aspire to go to college and get that without meeting the government to depend on. [applause] >> that young boy can move to

idaho and can decide that he wants to run for office, to make america once again what it used to be. give other young people, to expand and become great in the united states and can run for state legislative seats and can win. that boy can then decide he wants to go to congress and decides that in his state, there is less than 1% of hispanic descent and 9% hispanic descent, the majority of that state will send him to congress. [applause] >> not because he fits a particular class or a particular idea of what a person or should look like or sound like, but he

believes in the values that made america great. and it is because of view, when the tea party decided to get behind my candidacy and many other groups, not just the tea party, many other groups, the old reagan coalition where social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, tea party groups, activists, silent majority that is out there that we have talked about for many years, we are calling it the tea party but we have called in many things. it is when all those groups got together and decided we can actually win and we can send people to washington d.c. that want to make a difference. i didn't come here to make friends. i came here to save this republic and save this nation. [applause] >> i need you to get engaged. i need you to get active, with

your help i believe 2014 will be bigger than 2010. so thank you very much and god bless america. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome co-host of raging elephants radio, george rodriguez. >> good morning, my dear friends. i am fighting off an nsa allergy. they are trying to silence us.

five years ago the founding of the tea party movement came to texas and is stronger than ever particularly in our area in south texas. what is curious to many political pundits is that we attract hispanics into the movement in south texas and there are several reasons. first of all, contrary to what many liberals believe, not all hispanics are the same. okay? you just heard from roll, a porter rican. i and mexican-american. there are cubans, there are central americans and even within the large group of mexicans there are mexicans that have been here like my family for generations since before taxes was texas. there are those that just

crossed the border illegally and all of them have a different perspective in american politics. secondly many hispanics particularly the new immigrants continue to be attracted to the faith based family values. that makes fertile ground for recruiting them. serve and importantly is the out reach that we do. for example, we do trench work over at the gop. i don't want to hurt their feelings but over at the gop they hire professional hispanics, okay? i am sorry. they hire professional hispanics. in a clear example of the

differences, let me give you an example. we have a recall effort going against a liberal city councilman alan not on doors and talk to people and having great success. lt. governor jerry patterson put together a video, a professionally made video resending out to hispanics. to do you think is going to be more successful? a fourth reason is that our message, my friends, is not a segregated message. by that i mean that the same message to all americans resonates in the hispanic community. okay? the message of god, family and

country is important to us. that is important to us. the biggest challenges we have got and i want to point out latino, spanish-speaking media, is the mainstream me and in particular the spanish speaking media. those are our challenges. in the spanish-speaking media they look at us as monolithic, as victims who just care about immigration. i feel that that is just another form of liberal reverse discrimination, racism. that is what that is. i personally have worked very hard in south texas to show that conservatives and the tea party have a brown face. c-span is speaking media, we do need spanish speakers, the

spanish-speaking media, specifically the liberal networks regularly referred to us, conservatives, tea party folks as anti-immigrant when in reality we are and tight illegal immigration. intentionally or not. [applause] intentionally or not, my friends, what they are doing is dividing a future group of american citizens. that is what they are doing, misleading them. rather than helping them to assimilate they are polarizing them. maybe if they want to maintain a captured spanish speaking audience. i don't know. but they definitely are promoting their own liberal agenda and message. conservatives need folks like

rush limbaugh, sean hannity and others to challenge the liberals in spanish. and the mainstream media in south -- south texas where we endeavor to speak on national tv, on fox, on cnn and all the other ones. we must be heard in the spanish language as well as the english language and they must see us, that is not just a bunch of old white men. i was born, my friends. i was born in public housing. my parents were self-taught. they taught us that there may be many reasons to surrender, there are always many more reasons to laugh and succeed and though we spoke in spanish at home, we were always americans first.

[applause] >> liberal and the gop need to accept the fact that the tea party movement is not going away and the gop must realize grassroots hispanics like myself are true believers who will work to save our nation unlike the professional hispanics and consultants who need to be paid to get the vote out. in texas, my friends, we have many tea party hispanics who are americans first, at jackson, san antonio, and of course my very good friend and champion of conservative causes, senator ted cruz. [applause] >> senator ted cruz who was elected not just because he was hispanic but because he was an

american. i am proud to be of mexican descent but more proud to be an american. god bless america, thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome organizer of the washington blueprints, woody hurtson. ♪ >> i am from seattle. what is seattle known for? that is a good answer. rain. we are known for starbucks, amazon, microsoft, expedia, costco, bullying, now the

seattle seahawks. what else is seattle known for? an incubator of national movements and trends. people think washington state is deep blue, but it is not. it is purple. three years ago i read a book called the colorado blue print. some of you may be familiar with it. it is about how four individuals put a plan together to change colorado from red to blue and i am sure you are thinking now why is would be excited about this? because we can do that here. the washington state blueprint. when looking at the image task how to turn washington state red, john f. kennedy had a quote, the american by nature is optimistic. he is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. this is about the american

dream, our dream and how our dream is protected and local activists can work together to turn a. state purple. how did we do this? first, we surround ourselves with people who have a deeper understanding of the political process. by deep understanding of i mean interest . for example we knew needed karl rove but also an organization that runs efficiently like a business. for example the executives that ran the 757 program was a perfect fit. and he was on our team. some of you know dan would, second, the coalition, coalitions i nearly unstoppable.

we sat out with patience, diligence, and brotherly love to form this coalition. to name a few the washington state area federation, the freedom foundation, tea party patriots, and local groups from all across the state. to the covington tea party patriots. second amendment foundation, washington state farm bureau and campaign for liberty ron paul groups, all of us banded together to work hand in hand for the first time in 35 years with one common goal, the goal of changing the state senate and house to fiscal conservatives. we all agreed to leave our egos and agendas at the door. third factor.

[applause] >> targeting. selected the targeted districts to flip them is critical. we identified seven districts that a conservative candidate lost every single election for the last 35 years, but with 48-49% of the votes, some cases the spread of 800 votes for 35 years, what do you do once you have your district? you must make sure your candidate can win. do they have a campaign manager? do they have a written campaign plan? have they taken a selfy with their iphone for the voters? voters guide can look sketchy. make sure the guy is not a moron. as election season started, we put the plan into motion. some of you flew in from alabama, georgia, tennessee to

walk with us. that made acute difference and was very special to us that you all flew in. we ask organizers from the wisconsin governor walker effort to run the ground game. we couldn't have done it without them. it was truly a team effort. hundreds of walker's began fanning out over two months knocking on thousands of boars, engaging voters, handing out information on which candidate was fiscally conservative. along with a walking cane the training. one of the most respected conservative operations in washington state, the freedom foundation, was busy training hundreds of grassroots activists along with campaign staff and their candidates. if the washington state blueprint was in motion. fast forward to election night.

we sat and watched the disheartening news streaming in from the east coast but as the night wore on and it got later, it seemed as though one bright lights started shining in the night of disappointment and despair. washington state results started trickling in. celebration started to one fold as it became clear fiscal conservatives had taken control of the washington state senate for the first time in 35 years. [applause] >> one firsts that move in washington from. to read and one step closer, spreading this to all 50 states. this can't be just about one state. it is about our country. this is how we finished the story, the fight for freedom and

fiscal responsibility. the american dream. this project, this machine is capable of running in all 50 states targeting everything from city council, local races in red states, to purpling even blue stage, the next chapter is ready to be written, the blueprint is ready. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome president and founder of screw the vote, catherine in will brett -- catherine engelbrecht. [applause] >> thank you all. thank you. thank you. it is a pleasure and honor to be here this morning.

is humbling. quick show of hands. how many of the previous five years ago have any political experience -- let me ask how many of you had experienced five years ago? five years ago to the first tea party patriots rally in washington d.c. quick show of hands, how many of you were there that day? in this hotel, i did know what to expect, i came completely unprepared. i didn't see anybody else that looked like a patriot. and i fought -- my husband already thought i lost my mind, i knew i was potentially going

to be in a lot of crow when i got home and when i prepared to go to rallies that morning i looked out my window. this is not a part of my prepared comments but i am swept up in it. i looked out my window and i saw this scene of red, white and blue shirts working their way down into what became just a current that led to the capital. millions. these and gentlemen -- ladies and gentlemen, that does not happen but by the hand of god. we have been called here for a very high purpose. we could have been born at any time but we have been chosen to be born at this time because we have a job to do. let me tell you ladies and gentlemen, if the american dream is to be preserved it will be

because citizens are willing to take a stand and preserve, preserve ideal's that transcend politics. is not -- [applause] >> not about republican and democrat because we need two parties. we need debate and open discourse, that is healthy and good. what has changed is we used to have this common center. we used to have a common center where we believe in the ideas of freedom and opportunity and faith and somewhere along the way we lost that true north. that is what we need to find our way back to. i first stood up in 2009 when i started an organization called true the vote which i thought would be a great uniting effort. it has been, unified camps in different ways. it has been interesting to watch. i assumed everybody would be in favor of election integrity.

how can you be against free and fair elections? if you are against fair elections what are you for? i will leave that to your imagination. what i will say is as our reach increased, so did the number of alphabet soup agencies in the federal government that founder way to my doorstep including the irs and the fbi, osha, alcohol, tobacco and firearms. in the last three years there have been 25 plus audits or investigations or inquiries into my personal business. now this morning as many of you know, the co-founder of tea party patriots is testifying before congress on the same types of irs abuse and targeting

that this administration is looking to legalize, to the notify. we started a web site and i have a call to action for you this morning, we will not be silenced.org. let me lay this out for you quickly. the irs has attempted to write into law regulations that will so stifle political speech that it will change unalterably in the landscape of nonprofit organizations many of which are the type you belong to in this room. standard levels of voter education and engagement will be made illegal if they are allowed to pass but there is a window of time for citizen comments and that ends tonight at midnight, tonight at midnight.

if you vote on weekwillnotbesilenced.org, there are over 100,000 comments already in, it is up process, still a country of law and in the law it is our requirement that every comment be addressed. 100,000 comments will take an awful lot of time and in that time seiner heads will prevail. things might change. maybe we will have up midterm election and we can stop some of this nonsense but if we don't and if you don't stand up is not going to stop. latest in gentlemen, this american dream is worth standing up for. thank you.

[applause] >> thank you for everything you do in this room. believe me, things that many people would never believe have to happen just to preserve the right to free speech, preserve the dream for our children. thank you on behalf of my family and my children for what you do, god bless each of you, god bless america. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steven tucker. ♪ >> good morning. thank you all for coming. mark levin just signed my book. i am not letting go of it until

i leave this stage. he is coming up pretty soon. for many months before the passage of the patient protection and unaffordable care act we were told by our friends on the left of which i have zero that we had to pass this law to solve the issue of preexisting conditions. we were told 45,000 people were, quote, dying in the streets. is that true? no. of course it is not true. we know people are not dying industries because of what law? the emerging medical treatment and leave act which was passed under president ronald reagan, 50 yards for many emergency room they must treat you regardless of your ability to pay. was president obama's speaking truthfully when he said if you are denied health insurance on the individual market where there is no protection for preexisting conditions is that

mean you are left with no options? no. who is responsible for preexisting conditions? where do they come from? as is the case with most of our problems it comes from right here in washington d.c.. back in 1996 a bipartisan group of legislators got together and wrote a lot called hipa. we think of one thing. what is that? privacy. there's a more important cause, the letter that is responsible for the third word which is affordability. that allows one to port one coverage for preexisting conditions from an employer sponsored plan to another employer sponsored plan as long as they find a job that provides that coverage within 63 days. how do we know that is true? has any employer ever looked you up and down and said you could lose a few pounds? how many medications do you

take? does your family have a history of heart disease? it is illegal to do that and that protects 90% of the american insured. the federal government wrote this law they dropped the ball and extended no affordability protection for those of us in the individual market that by our own health insurance, that is 10% of americans insured today, 14 million americans. those people prior to obamacare could be denied for coverage for preexisting conditions. do we need obamacare to solve that problem? do we need to spend $2 trillion over the next ten years and leave 31 million people uninsured? we did not. the state stepped up and started their own solution. we had infrastructure build already. 35 states before obamacare was ever heard of their worst a high-risk health-insurance pool. in the people's republic of

illinois where i hail from we had one called icit, the owner health insurance plan, if you're denied any individual market from any carrier the regulators and the state of illinois at each insurance company that operates in illinois has to deal with the percentage of profits to a pool of money and we will manage that money and if you are denied from any carrier you come to us and we will ensure you and you will carry a blue cross blue shield of illinois card even though you have preexisting conditions. guess what? we didn't need obamacare to solve the issue of preexisting conditions. ten other states have guaranteed issue individual mandates, ohio is an example. in ohio each inch or offers 4% of the block of business people once a year during open enrollment. those things were in place and there is another important cost which is section 2742 which prohibits any health insurer in this nation from dropping your coverage when you are sick or

raising your premiums when you are sick and i found this out years ago as a health insurance broker. i am an evil health insurance broker. it is a clause that is ironclad and i watched be meghan kelly show on november 7th, bill elliott told -- thanks to obamacare his insurance company was dropping his coverage in the middle of cancer treatment raising his deductibles, a $15 deductible and premiums, 199 a month, up touch $15 a month. deductible to $13,000. the president has been lying to the american people for four years. they can't drop your coverage, raise your premium, it is illegal to do so under federal hita law. contact governor neil d. haley in south carolina, she is one of us and so he did.

he put it on section 2742, of the truth about preexisting conditions, shameless club, i get a message three days later that says steve, i can't believe it, the insurance company called me eight hours later, you were right. i can keep my policy. [applause] >> three weeks later, i want you to know that bill is in full remission. [applause] >> largely because he could keep his health insurance policy and what did he get for speaking out? a letter from the irs on thanksgiving day. the same day that i got my letter. that is right. i want you to understand we should never be afraid from this tyrannical lawless regime we are living under because we must

speak out because you never know through god's grace when you might save someone's life. thank you for listening. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome congressman matt salmon. >> i am one of those few people in congress we caller read fred. i got elected to congress in 1994. remember the contract with america? i was one of the few people that made a term-limit pledge and kept it. there were a hundred of us that made the pledge. that is the way things go in washington d.c.. you drink that water you change

forever. when i was in congress before, i was -- as one of the bad boys of the republican party. there were even of us and it was the precursor to the tea party. we were the tea party before the tea party was cool. there were 11 of us and we were constantly having to not only fight bill clinton who was the president and that time but against the things our own leadership was doing because we didn't come to the mindless lending for the elephant over the donkey. we came back with some values and that was to get our government spending down, to live within our means, to get fair taxes that don't ruin people's businesses and their lives and we actually believe the things the republican party has been saying. that was our big crime but they call us bad boy republicans and now to be referred to as a tea party patriot makes my life a lot easier.

she didn't like the bad boy republican thing. i want you to know what brought me back. i left for 12 years and when i left having kept my term-limit pledge i never thought i would come back to congress again. when i left we had balanced the budget for the first time in 40 years. in 1998 we balance the budget, 1999 we balance the budget and the year i left in 2000 not only did we balance the budget but we had a $247 billion surplus. the federal budget was $1.7 trillion and i am out of it for 12 years and i see what happens in 2010 with you glorious patriot stand up and fighting against the most tyrannical president we have ever had in the history of america. and my juices start flowing. i get energized. these patriots are on the march. in 2012 i decided to come back and run again because i believe

with all my heart that this movement is growing. you heard from folks out there in the media, we referred to the mainstream media, the fact is they try to put out the obituary for the tea party. the fact is it is growing and strengthening. when i was in congress before there were 11 of us on the house side. there are 40 of us on the house side. that is the good thing. [applause] >> when i first came there was nobody that was carrying the banner on the senate. nobody. now we have six or seven and will only grow after this next election. i want to talk about the idea we get labeled with almost all the time, extremists. we get called extremists. i want to remind you that the father of conservative politics, barry goldwater from my state, arizona said this.

he said extremism in defense of liberty is no voice. [applause] >> he said moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. i want to stand before you all today and acknowledge something. balancing the budget is extreme, i am guilty as charged. i am extreme. if sending obamacare to the netherworld is extreme then i am extreme. [applause] >> a finding justice for brian kerri, a great patriot that was killed on the border during fast and furious as extreme than i am

extreme. [applause] >> finding justice for ambassador stevens who was murdered in benghazi is extreme than i am extreme. [applause] >> i will tell you something. the old phrase when the going gets tough the tough get going, i will stand shoulder to shoulder with you patriots any day of the weekend fight side-by-side with you until we take our country back and get our freedom back. thank you. [applause] >> 18 years ago when i came to congress on was the father of four children, now i am grandfather of six grandchildren. i look into their eyes and faces

it makes me want to weep. what legacy are we going to leave them. i spoke to a group of high school students and said what we're doing today and spending away your future is so immoral it is like your parents getting an all expense trip around world with the finest hotel and first-class air lines putting it on a credit card in your name. that is what we're doing today and those kids get it. we need to get it. we need to fight for our country. [applause] >> if that makes the establishment folks cringe a little bit, makes them uncomfortable, then boohoo. this is not a game. this is an epic battle. abraham lincoln once said if

america is ever defeated it will not be from without, it will be from within. let's rise up and take our country back. i am proud to be a tea party republican and proud to represent you. god bless you and god bless america, thank you. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome tea party pantry it indiana state coordinator emery mcclinton. ♪ >> reporter: people say the american dream is dead but i believe the vision our founders had for this nation is alive in the hearts and minds of most

americans. never before in history has any group of people enjoy freedom and liberty as we have here in america. [applause] >> many of you gathered here today like me, tea party before there was a tea party movement. i became part of the tea party because it fit in with the natural flow of my compassion and love for our great nation. [applause] >> i served in the u.s. air force during the vietnam war. [applause] >> eyes of the disrespect shown to those who had served our

nation upon returning home. they returned home from a war to a citizenry that showed a anchor and disrespect toward them. that is wrong. 30 years later while driving one day i heard glen beck say he wished he could -- say he wished he could find a way to reach our troops during his rally for america event. he wished for tweet 2 way communication, an exchange during these rallies between our troops the college in iraq, afghanistan, europe and here at home but he said it would be too expensive. hey, folks, that was back in 2003. there was no skype, no facebook. cellphone bills were very

expensive. but i am a ham radio operator. [applause] >> i had an idea how it could be done for free. so i pull over and called our local radio station. they laughed at my idea and hung up. but shortly they returned my call and wanted to know more. glenn beck held a rally in our town, one of the largest in the nation at the time. i introduced amateur radio communications to the event and we chatted live with the military during the rally. [applause] >> we had a mom in the crowd began a conversation with a soldier. to her surprise, that soldier turned out to be her son.

it was very emotional. as a result of our success i was invited to the national glenn beck rally in west virginia and then went on to organize a series of them on my own over the next ten years. in my community and world wide. calls amateur radio military appreciation day. i was invited to breakfast with president george w. bush and his entire cabinet on the white house house lawn. all because i have an it and took action. [applause] >> that is what i mean by being tea party before there was a tea party. shortly after the tea party movement began i got a call from a fellow patriots asking me to organize a rally in my city. i rose to the challenge even

though the local media said i would fail. they printed a front-page story in our local newspaper saying this man will need a lot of luck to pull this off. they said no one would attend a rally that was led by a command. i had two weeks to prove wrong. for that rally this black man booked another black man, alan keyes. as the keynote speaker. we had one of the largest crowds in the nation and a tea party event organized by black man and key noted by another. anything is possible if you eat

are active and the pursuing your american dream. .. >> because our voices make a diffe. i like to think mine has. pursue your dream and don't ever think that one person is not important. stay united, continue to stand up for