a woman has five months to make a very difficult decision. moderator: thank you very much. senator davis. >> senator davis coming catapulted on this issue at their filibuster against abortion restriction. you recently told the editorial board that you might not have filibustered if the legislation only banned abortion after 20 weeks and allowances for rape and. what were you except? >> i have always believed a woman guided by her faith and family and doctor to make it very difficult decisions for them ounce. i do not believe that the government should intrude and not most personal and private

decision-making. greg abbott on the other hand believes that it is his right to intrude even when a woman has been the brutal victim of a rape four has been the background of incest. it should come as no surprise given that mr. abbott attitudes towards women have revealed themselves another ways. he pays women in his office less than he paid males assistant attorney general's. he campaigned with a known sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls. thank you. >> earlier this week the congressional hispanic caucus held a conference in washington.

this panel focused on the underrepresentation of hispanics in business, entertainment and the federal workforce. it's under an hour. >> one thing that was sent mentioned. it's the kind of thing that would make my parents cringe. since present company as president company on the history of latinos in america, which is available online or a book steered near you. it's called the 500 year legacy that shape the nation and very germane to what we talk about today. after all these years in public media i can finally do a commercial for myself. i hope you buy it or it may keturah ticket. crop mac as you heard in the introduction, the panel does have its work cut out for it this morning as we discussed the underrepresentation of latinos in so many sectors of our society. we will talk about where we are

at, why the situation is very bad and what we need to be doing about it. the panel must expand their decision making points in every important sector. there are more than 50 million of us as has been mentioned in a country of more than 300 million people. when you move from a tiny minority to 16 of anything, in this case a country, it is no longer a question of how those people over there are doing, whether they are getting over, but a question of whether the whole country can continue to be the affluent, productive place it has been for generations. if the aspirations of a sixth of its population are not men. if those 50 million people remain concentrated more than other americans in chief houses that find cheap schools, date

yield cheap college educations, a lot of debt and not much opportunity, that will leave us with lower than average family incomes, which is where we are at now to start the cycle all over again. if that's the way the next generation plays out, this is not going to continue to be a rich country. it is as simple as that. in the next 35 years, as we move from more than 50 million people in the sixth of the whole 2,130,000,000 people and a third of the whole, it is not kindness. it's not charity. it's not pity a couple force america to open the opportunity structure of the united states, but rockhard self-interest. we are finally able to say to the rest of the country we really are all in this together.

if we don't prosper, you don't prosper. there is something else of work that we have to wrestle with. they taint of eternal foreignness. even though we've been here since before there was a united states, when fortune seekers splashed ashore on the marshy virginia coast and began jamestown decades later when a boatload of grumpy protestants and black hats and bonnets stepped onto plymouth rock, sun augustine in santa fe were already long-established cities. when sod busters staked their claims under farms in the great plains, the missions that became the shiite cities of san diego and los angeles and san francisco were already settled spanish-speaking towns. so here we are, taking her strawberries, cabbages and apples, killing her.

and chickens, laying your work shingles, busting your tables, take your blood pressure, fighting or worse, changing your oil, keeping your drywall and changing lots of diapers. both your incidents and your grandparents. we are with you at the beginning of your life and when you are close to the very end. and yet, we remain somehow strangers, the most familiar strangers possible. our stories come our accomplishments, respirations, here is an heroines live in a cat of the imagination for most americans, unable to penetrate the core of american life and those we are always having to explain ourselves. demand argue as if we are asking for a favor for consideration that we have not earn comment that a gift given only reluctantly to people who were

forced to check a box on some human resource list. my panelists know very well the road is long, the battles are complicated, the struggle is real, but we are not asking for anything unreasonable and anything on her. please remember you can join our conversation on twitter. we will be entertaining questions from the audience during the discussion. there will be roving microphones in the audience. if you have a question, please raise your hand in my fading eyesight and advanced age it will try to see you and we will bring the microphone to you. let me introduce our palace. katherine archuleta, director of the office of personnel management may 2013 president obama pointed director katherine archuleta to lead the u.s. office of personnel management, federal agency responsible for attracting and retaining innovative and diverse talent to the workforce.

director archuleta is the first ahead this federal agency. please welcome katherine archuleta. [applause] next, rita moran now, one of the few performers on planet earth to have received an oscar. [cheers and applause] an oscar, an enemy, a tony and grammy she will solidify her reputation as a national treasure by being awarded the presidential medal of freedom by george w. bush in 2004. ladies and gentlemen, our own national treasure, rita moreno. [cheers and applause] she is here with us today in her capacity as chair of the newly formed latino corporate directors association. pat currently sits on the board of levi strauss & co. and has served on to other corporate boards as well. she's also been with toyota for 30 years and is group vice

president of toyota's hispanic business strategy for north america, toyota's highest-ranking latina. please welcome pat genaro. [applause] nextwave israel roach, chief executive officer at renaissance , responsible for overall operations as well as development of a strategic plan and execution of the corporate mission, israel roach. [applause] and finally, maria teresa kumar, president and ceo of latinos has dedicated her career to empowering latino youth in engaging in the political process. this is a tough year to be doing any of those things. please welcome maria teresa. and again for our panel. [applause] catherine, let me start with you. what do the numbers currently look like for latinas in the federal government quiet talk to

us what you do at opm to address the issue. >> well, the good news is we are few in number now, but we are growing larger and we are on our way. so right now, the representation of latinos in the federal government sits at about 8.3%. more disturbing is the fact that only 4% -- 4.1% of the total federal leadership is latino. so that means we have tremendous opportunity and it's a challenge. but we have the right leadership in government today to really make that happen from the political to the civilian workforce, we have dedicated individuals who are trying to make a difference every day. as the director of the office of personnel management, i am pleased we sat for a path that will not just changed numbers, but will also institutionalize the steps that are needed to

take to increase the number of latinos in the federal workforce. we are calling this program ready. it's probably an easier way for me to remember all the components. but let me tell you so you will remember, too. the first one is recruitment. what are we doing to increase the numbers of latinos who are interested in and applying for jobs within the workforce. we are basing this on data. we are being very targeted. we are going to schools, to colleges and universities and high schools to talk to young people, mid-level executives and senior executives about the opportunities that exist within the federal government. we are also taking a look at the hiring processes. that is really important. the one name we will improve over the course of the next two and a half years as u.s.a. jobs.god. i know a lot of people will nod their head yes and they have been on the website, it's very

complicated. we are changing that, creating u.s.a. jobs.gov 2.0 and working to change many aspects to make it friendlier. we're make a net response is. we are changing the information on the application process that would change how people apply for jobs and we are doing this based on what we hear from users themselves are just instituted a whole focus group that will help us design and we are using social media as part of the focus group strategy. we are also now taking a look at those individuals who are on board right now. how do we keep them? had we make sure they don't feel isolated and i'm engaged in the work with? the issues of engagement are very, very important and we have created a new dashboard that goes out to our senior leaders and government to inform them about diversity and inclusion in their own workforce is.

finally, we are thinking about the whole issue of diversity and inclusion. how do we make sure that all of our employees, including those to make sure they feel included in decisions happening every day in the federal government that impact the latino community no matter how big those decisions or how small they are, we need to be included. finally, i would say in developing partnership across the board come across this country, certainly colleges and universities, but nonprofits like ch nonprofits like chc i am also making sure organizations like and a chalet, we lack, ga forum are engaged in this effort. and finally, using the most important tool we have and that we have been that if there were government employees. how do we work with employees we have one word coming out with you, latinas making sure they have the opportunity to talk

about why they've come to government for the purpose driven mission. we can't compete with the private sector on the perks, but we can compete on the dedication , the purpose driven mission that are federal employees have. so we may be small now, but with the work of the incredibly talented team at the office of personnel management, we are really working hard to institutionalize the changes that will happen and continue to have been well after i leave government. >> we have just a little time left. 8% plus with latinos are 17% of the population is roughly half perigee. are there opportunities? is part of the problem that a lot of people don't think of government service on their coming out of school. >> i'm a sound that the number of young people today who don't away thing about government. they actually believe all government jobs are in washing

10, when in fact 85% of all federal jobs are across the state. so my job and our recruiters jobs in the recruiters in the various departments are very targeted and going out and talking to people today about the opportunities that exist in government today. going to the hs site, going to other schools and high schools and community colleges where we can reach latino students, right when they think about their careers. >> katherine archuleta, thank you your readout, over the course of a longer of show business, and sure you've seen a lot of changes, but probably not enough. are we looking at a glass half all or half empty or could you not even have imagined this day when you were earning your way ahead in the business quite >> i think you just answer the question, but i give you another answer. >> good. >> yes, it has changed quite a

bit. though formal complaints the latino community is to have about hispanics in this media in my profession has changed immensely. we used to say the wonderful phrase, the door was ajar and i think the door has really opened considerably. but i have to tell you that it is a long, long way from what i experienced as a young actress in hollywood and play in all of those, what i call, derisively and on purpose is the dusky maidens. all those ladies who are uneducated, who were illiterate, who are suspiciously easy, who were close that were modest. those were all the kind of ladies i played four years. far too many years, ladies who would make things like you stole

my people's gold. it's funny now. i get a lot of that and it is changed really considerably. i think what we need to do is become more of our own producers and writers and directors. [applause] i think we have become a part of the expression the modern family and yes, we are brash and we are, we are all of those wonderful things, but we are also other things. i think it is really important. this happened with the black community. the trap is that if we become our own producers, directors -- excuse me, and writers, is that we will, if we are not careful,

we suddenly humbled me hispanics for hispanics. i think that's a very serious trap and we have to be careful to stay away from that. but in my business right now, we really are in desperate need of writers, producers and directors. they say this and i know they do. we don't know about it. and that is the problem and how to get that changed is beyond me. i would know what to tell you about how that can be helped except to make noise and keep on making noise and mentioning it. those are positions to help those people who have serious show business connections help out in that manner. i think it's going to be very, very difficult. >> a big commercial release. you talk about get no invasion,

but is part of the problem that while we are expected to turn on the television and see our general humanity in other peoples stories, other people are not expected to look at our stories and find connection, universality and association. they say that's not me. that's not my life, so therefore that is not for me. >> well, the problem, the big, big rob loomis a lot of understanding of who we are. i think what you see in film nowadays as well as television come you don't see a real world represented. because if you did, there was certainly not be more latinos, there would be more asians. i mean, do we ever, ever see asians? very rarely. and when we see them come and

they are in a lab somewhere. for some reason, they are casted as being my persons who do blood tests for detectives. so i think how to make people at -- i mean, think about we've done in this country but such bridges. our heritage, our histories are so rich, filled with music and dance, yes, but also filled with the most amazing history that nobody -- nobody seems to know this about us. we are still in the minds of too many entertainers. i remember -- do we have a moment laughter now quite >> a moment. >> i don't know. i'm a latina. [laughter] >> don't take advantage.

[laughter] >> impossible, but nevermind. i remember meeting ronald reagan when he was president and i was there with about six or seven@chile successful people, one of whom died the way was an admiral who had the pacific fleet arid view is puerto rican. nobody had ever heard of something like this. all the people i was within that little group were extremely accomplished people. and reagan as always a very gentlemanly person, thank you very much in yes i appreciate. we started to leave and i thought, you know, i have to say something. i said president reagan and my little group went, what is she going to say? i said to something to him something and still think which is killing me is i just want to remind you that this little group represents many, many in this country.

there are just members who are very accomplished. there are many, many more and i want to remind you of that. then he was very gracious and all that, that there is such a mindset. you're laughing at signing. >> well now, i was thinking about how much more opportunity there is in the u.s. navy than the puerto rican navy, which has always been small. [laughter] but tanks for the story. [laughter] corporate america may be one of the places for the toughest challenges lie. the numbers are terrible. lots of customers, not a lot of positives. how do you work to improve that situation? how do the captains of industry change their view of who should be sitting around a boardroom table? >> well, let me just say that any consumer brand in this country that is not currently

involved with the u.s. latino market is missing a huge opportunity and is in danger of becoming irrelevant. today, 54 million latinos represent 17% of the u.s. population and by 2050, we are project did to represent one out of three americans. [applause] our purchasing power is project it to be $1.5 trillion next year and 1.7 trillion by 2017. research indicates that overall hispanic consumer spending will increase of 74% between the years 2012 and 2022 versus 51% were non-hispanic. our per capita income is steadily increasing and in 2012,

69% of hispanic high school graduates enroll directly into college versus 67% for their white counterparts. [applause] and the population skew is young with an average age of 27 years versus 37 years for everyone else combined and 41 years for the white population. so when i look at these demographics, one thing becomes very clear. just as u.s. companies are looking at the potential growth of china, india, brazil and other emerging market and adding international board members, they should also be looking at the growth potential of the u.s. latino market and adding hispanic board members who can bring cool truly relevant market is to their board rooms.

and yet, as rafe points out, the number of hispanics on corporate boards is abysmal. and it is not because there are qualified the tenets, because we all know that there are. it is simply because many companies do not have the desire or the will to add hispanics to their board. so what is being done about this underrepresentation? well, i said the hispanic corporation has been and continues to be a very strong advocate for hispanic corporate board representation. in addition with full support, a number of five, latino corporate directors decided to years ago to form and hispanic corporate director, a membership association led a latino corporate directors and it's

called the latino corporate directors association. and our association is in the very beginning phases of working to address this underrepresentation to what we hope will be a positive and fruitful collaboration with corporate america. i am the chair of the board and i am very proud to tell you that over the last year we have recruited 35 hispanic corporate director members, many of whom -- [applause] many of whom are prominent latinos you all know. another very important effort underway is the public advocacy of our elected hispanic leaders such as senator bob menendez, congressman hobby or to fade and congressmen rooted in a hole so. all of whom have been vocal about the underrepresentation of hispanics on corporate boards.

another important voice is that of u.s. securities and exchange commissioner, luis aguilar who strongly supported the fec disclosure regulation, requiring u.s. publicly traded companies to disclose whether diversity was considered as they assess more canada, how diversity was a part of the process and how they assess the effectiveness of their policy on diversity. but clearly, we need more leadership ought to add shareholder boys says actively advocating for hispanic corporate board members. >> thank you, pat. [laughter] you are on the frontlines of providing health care to the latino community and you are the only man on the panel.

we know that there were hundreds of clinical trials taking place to develop drugs, cures, for any number of diseases and ailments. i am wondering if what they are looking for reflects the needs of 16 of the united states and terrible diabetes, hypertension, abnormalities that particularly inflict their community, but also the clinical trials themselves very rarely include latinos. how does that affect the way diseases are attacked, the way drugs are developed in the way health care is delivered? >> i want to start by saying good morning to everybody and the hispanic rational caucus are having this event. i think the topic is for the latinos, a question we asked her cells were relative critical tribe research. we serve a largely hispanic

community. we represent a growing popular psychologists and make america around the nation and we are to also reflect the past comments on the age. we deliver almost 800 had a record growing to 901 hospital volunteers so we are quickly showing the ages as we get younger and not older. but when we look at clinical trials in the american work on hispanic work, we are disappointed with what is happening. the reason we started looking at that is when i look consistently at some of the medications were always having to modify the dosages we were having. you would see diabetics with conditions for the drug in the current dosing patterns of artwork in the way they were supposed to be working. we had decreed a partnership that was the first diabetic clinic in partnership with harvard university and worked on how we could control diabetic conditions at a better pace than a lot of it was we had to start

modifying dosages and then we did research on what was going on and we had to do consistently, whether it's trying to treat a condition or liver cancer, trying to treat a condition for stomach cancer, diabetes, any spectrum of conditions we had to consistently be changing those and so we started looking into that issue. and it was that there while we learned while hispanics are 16%, 70% of the u.s. population, we have 1% participants in clinical trials. and that is important because if you are not participating in clinical trials, when establishing doses in how medications work and how they interact with the trial panels, anything less than 1% can sometimes be dismissed as an outlier, not the condition. if you are not at the table in an engineering for pharmaceutical development, you are not at the table in terms of disease and i became a concern when you look at the fact hispanics today are twice as likely to be diagnosed with stomach cancer, twice as likely

to be a diagnosed with liver cancer, twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes at the non-hispanic caucasian counterpart. that is a serious condition that we represent now when you asked the question of latinos are very well represented in the conditions unfortunately with diseases we see in america, but not represented in the trials. we started doing research as to why that happens and i don't think there's stringy real intent for it. it was research-based institutions, large community of, large communities and, large community of the not of course there's not a lot of minority populations. so we've been working diligently for the past year or not that our hospital. have recruited great talent around the country to come start working with the research center. we've created partnerships with the pharmaceutical industry. we work to create a campaign to educate the community. in order to be a hero in health care, all you have to do is sign up for a clinical trial. to be a participant today you

can come up at daycare for tomorrow's diseases and winning hispanics to be counted in the development of the pharmaceutical industry. >> but you know, there's a cultural problem. when you say think of an average american and they don't think of us, that is a problem, but not something that will kill you were short your life. but these kind of fight means you are making are shocking because they involve the compounds we put in our bodies to make as well and they could be making us sick. the pharmaceutical industry should be dead set on the idea that a knuckle trials have to represent a broader swath of american humanity. women have had this problem with dosage changes. that's another medicines and other treatment. it is shocking that big pharma has not responded more quickly to that kind of thing. cultural problems we can fix.

if you put a medicine in your body, that's tough. >> i think it really comes from the expectation. there are two things that. you have an odd to get a drug market. they go with researchers at large centers or large centers were they compose trials quickly. we have to incentivize new centers, like hospitals to create one that had large base minority concentrations that are minority serving hospitals to be a lot to get them ready to get those trials just as fast as the traditional centers in other countries and we have to demand for drugs go to market they've been tested on the demographic that represents that. as we say here today, talking about how we make sure hispanics are represented in my saving diseases -- lifesaving cures for diseases we have, we also married something happening in new zealand, which you have a

researcher who actually found that heart medication and women was not working for them either and had not been tested. when i went back to trial, they found women were not a large enough segment of the population. so we sit here today talking about hispanics americans feel attacking the heart medications were women. we have to make sure in the future going forward demand clinical trial research tool in your all americans. [applause] >> israel rocha. maria teresa, it's beginning to be that time again. i'm glad you are here because i'm sure you are very busy. we're trying to mobilize latino voters to come out and exercise their rights as citizens. though patina has been doing registration and turnout generation for years and with great success. but it always seems like you guys are we in 19 the wheel, by

2014 doesn't stand on the shoulders of 2010, which stands on the shoulders of 2006 and on and on. why is that and where are the latinos quiet >> thank you so much, ray. happy heritage month everyone. i want to take the opportunity to recognize two women have been incredibly important and they are sitting on the stage with us. one is rita moreno, who has been not only a treasure in hollywood, but incredible political activist and has been a mentor to the cofounder rosario dawson. they talked about hollywood plane into shaping minds, but also mentoring. the other individual back other individual by two recognizes katherine archuleta. catherine became a mentor before that katherine peered she was working behind scenes promoting both latino, recognizing important than the need to have this communigate in talking to young people. i say this because often times the latino community right now

today, we feel a little stock and we don't recognize the people working behind the scenes and the differences they make. ray, you mentioned today right now we are not meeting the needs of the community by registering voters. both latino recognizes that then responds by creating a coalition in conjunction with the inside and over 85 organizations have come on board in seven days to meet this answer and meet this need. of the latino community, we have to stop following our vote and the efforts of registering. it is a responsibility of every single person in this room. we are no longer in the day we have to worry about marching in and knocking on doors to register a voter. not all plain can we do that, but let me let you in on a secret. there's something called the

web. right now sitting here in conjunction with 85 organizations, both latino, the united states commerce, the latino coalition, comcast herbalife and i save these as examples have all taken a responsibility same little register voters together. we are registering around 300 register voters every single day online and that doesn't include efforts on the field. imagine if we can actually get corporate america, all of us here, our churches, our media, to recognize in order to have more individuals not only corporate boards, but more clinical trials, every single industry representatives back to government and representation. we have 800,000 latino youth treating 18 every single month -- every year. that's a congressional district. but the only way we are going to

change is if we show up at the polls. one of the reasons often times fairness he clinical trials is because clinical trials are also based on fences. the government runs the senses. if we are not participating out the polls, if we are not filling out the senses, we will be missing clinical trials. oftentimes when corporations decide what they market to, it's also based on the senses. everything leads to government and smaller short forms and until we try to recognize that the community that are number one initiative is to organize each other and it's fairly easy to do now, we are always going to be left behind. and it gets to appoint that it's it's no longer anyone's fault but our own. so i hope you guys will join latinos 2014.com. they register you to go, but

then we give you crave sheets. hominy of you know what crib sheets are? thank you. someone is being honest or it's a cheat sheet, guys. you can go online and we provide you with the graphics, everything you need to do in order to mobilize online and on the ground. we are not making our numbers in the 2012 election everybody's patting each other on the back because we are working very hard. both campaigns and voter legislation organizations combined registers 650,000 people. we didn't even meet the 800,000 people on opportunity every single day. we are not living up to potential because it's increasingly hard, but because sometimes we feel government doesn't reflect s. government is not going to reflect us if we are not participating. i want to thank you again, read a katherine for believing long before we did on this possibility.

we need every single person in this room in your friends in family to realize this has to be a collective priority. [applause] >> where are the mics? your questions. your alec atlanta for a ensure questions. get a microphone that they are. >> good morning. >> okay, we will start here. all right. tyminski or question, the latinos are here. the only problem is some companies, corporations, including the federal government is sort of reluctant to keep their doors open to all of us.

how did they do that? the first question goes to katherine archuleta. do you say that there are 8.3% -- i just wonder what levels you are talking about. can you split up the administrators, the admonishment above all, mid-level, what are those numbers coming from? >> let's get an answer to that question. >> well, i spoke about the 8.3% and the management level. >> for grading about? >> management at the ses level would go to 15 in the next levels include the ses.

>> 4.1%. >> in a follow-up question >> sometimes i have applied so many times to u.s.a. jobs. honestly, hundreds of times. but some of the e-mails say yeah you qualify, that at the end, here comes the veteran and takes over my position. i understand with all the respect to veterans, then i just want to understand the rationale for placing veterans on top, so therefore they kick us out the ones at the bottom. >> let's get an answer to that. points for various kinds of american. right, catherine? be met veterans preferences is a lot and i would be there for us to say that i stand very tall

and very supportive for governs preference. it does not eliminate the opportunity for individuals to apply it to be hired. a group of individuals who can be considered for a job. you know, we can look back and spend a lot of time talking about the 80% or 4%. i'm not that type of person. i want to look forward. how do we -- how to lie as the director of opm a good difference? one of the way to the question is how do i improve u.s.a. jobs stock of? hideaway make sure that the process of application is working and after that and the application process, the 2.0 i talked about, hideaway proved that? the next thing i need to do is take a look at the selection your data people get on the

certification list? we are doing that as well. the next thing i look at the same time is looking at how are we hiring managers, looking at the certified lace? that is really important. all of that is important. there's not one single answer for why we're at a point when%. i have to look for the appliqué to the application process to the screening, to the certification, to the hiring and the actual higher and engaging. all of that is happening right now. that is my responsibility. i can't speak to what happened in the past, but i can speak to the future. my role. what is your role? two maria's point i'm a to be tacking about it ourselves yet those of you on federal government -- and federal government, you need to be talking about the role you play, how important it is an encouraging young people, people of all experience to join in.

they are like the corporate communities, the jobs become fewer. the skills are becoming more targeted to extend skills are very, very important to the federal government as in the corporate community. those who think we have to deal with, we don't have to be stopped by. so as we take a look going forward about what we are changing, we are looking at everything that is implicated and how we higher better talent, stronger talent, more talent to the federal work force in making sure that latinos are part of that. >> let's go to the back. >> i am a kindergarten teacher here at the california teachers association. my question is a little story about going to purchase a car with my dad and my dad saying to me, just be very respectful. let's hope that they finance us.

if i wait a minute, dad, aren't they supposed to earn our business? is that the other way round? my dad didn't have a good concept of that. that's the tone of the question, are we hoping that they are financing a instead of demanding business? how much more do we have to do with latinos and did a little more vocal. i wouldn't go as far as military, but more vocal in demanding that we recognize, demanding that these companies are technology and our participation in this economy. even with our undocumented immigrants, they are nodded knowledged with the marketing and just with the potential they have for the contribution to this economy i'm aware nontechnology not. we really have to stand up and say hey, the inside -- the inside.

>> i couldn't agree more. we need more voices because clearly the underrepresentation cuts across all sectors. until we start to talk about the need for hispanic representation in all these factors, it is not going to happen. i want to share with you some data points that underscored the underrepresentation. in 2013, has 13, hispanics only held 3% of all fortune 500 company board seats. 70% of the fortune 500 companies did not have a single hispanic on their board and the latinos held less than 1% of those seats. and overall, hispanics held only

171 feet out of 5511. so we have to become more vocal because nobody is going to do this for us. >> who's next? >> from the university of texas at austin and i represent the disability community. i am wondering if there are specific strategies that we can use to really organize their spouse because there are so many of the men is where we are underrepresented and i am particularly concerned with non-english-speaking children who have such poor access to education and for the disability community at large that has such a high dropout rate in such high rates of unemployment. i think we are talking about so many sectors of our community that require services and i am looking for strategies that allow us to organize so we can in some systematically addressed issues. so how do we bring those voices

to the table but an organized way to address the problems? >> organization and access sounds like maria teresa. >> i can go first. the best way we have found is by making a conscious effort. the rules representation is a partnership to getting representation. it can simply mean we are going to be here, why are they finding us? we have to go and be active as ever one of talked about here in the representation. the best way of forming coalitions when we are starting to go down the path of another research trials, health care, we could always go out there and be the advocates for ourselves, to put ourselves in from of the tables where we needed to be. if we weren't able to manage the diabetic population way we needed to because we didn't have the dosing patterns, we will go to harvard johnson, the oldest clinic and sit there until they work with us and sure enough

they were willing and create a partnership. we have found that happens over and over. if you are determined, it may not happen the first time, but if you consistently organize yourself in a way that you were able to create those partnerships, those collaborations to start getting this start getting those barriers out of our way, that is how you get there. it has to be a conscious after we bring together resources locally if you have challenges the disability or any kind of challenge bring together a large faction and together: partnership that you have barriers to getting access. i think our business thing has been. it represents what you're trying to address unmet challenge and you could have a source that has the barrier. eventually they will hear you. i think the real path to getting representation is it is not when will they find us? we have to speak for ourselves

and do it over and over until they hear us. that is something we learned from our experiences and people work for. >> i think the coalition building is incredibly important, bulatovic at the life of empowerment in our community because if you are a person representing families and others and fathers and all the sudden they are empowered to go represent their children at the school as well, it is an incredible effect. i am tired of people saying they do a latino politics is not the political thing to do in washington. i am sick and tired of that. because that is basically telling us we have to sit in the back of the line. we have to figure out what the pro-choice movement did so well, what the lgbt movement did so well, that wasn't poetical thing to do. you know what they did? they change the politics. the only way we change the politics of have to get every single person involved.

[applause] as hard as you are working to represent coalitions, with 54 million people strong? everybody is working day in and day out. they have their heads down, trying to make ends meet. if we care about the minimum wage, education, health care, the ability to make sure we are achieving the american dream, our powers and numbers only reflect that. so i'm going to pledge one marked time, voto latino because it's about making sure we are sharing information and leapfrogging what people have done in the past aware that he not only for the present, that the future and the only way we do that is by sharing information and empowering ourselves because it's time to change the politics. thank you. >> is there one quick one? are you going to promise to be quick?

>> my question is actually that i am a high school teacher on long island. i teach high school students in a school is 70% latino population. how do i bring those opportunities into my classroom and sure what my students about federal government jobs? >> well, there's lots of things we can do in one of the things we are working on is how we reach young people the way they want to be reached? as through social media. we are where the highest users on one of the largest groups of social media users in the country and we need to deal to bring not mass through social media and we're focusing on that. how do we tell the stories and how do we really portray the face of government? , and if you are federal government employees? okay, a lot of you are federal government employees. you are the face of government. it can't be katherine archuleta a player who is the face of government. we need to have the face of

government either young people who comment, the gun millennial's to come in and dedicate themselves to this purpose driven mission of federal service in reaching young people today in ways we can reach them and working with high schools, community colleges, colleges and universities so we can talk about the path that there is. you don't have to have a baccalaureate to join the federal service. indeed in fact, there are jobs available for high school graduates and community college graduates. we need to talk more about what those opportunities are and really present the vast survey of work government can be. this is a little bit different, but i'll tell a story. i talked is a bioengineer at the university of texas brownsville and he was on his way to medical career. one thought about what bioengineering could mean in the federal government.

we talked a long time. he came up afterwards. he said i never really thought about that, but i am going to look at it now. it's that word of mouth. it's katherine archuleta, all of you and federal government who are supporting the purpose of federal government. you need to be talking about it. it is for maria says. it is not one spokesperson. it's all of us together who have to accept the responsibility of how we vote, how we get our manacle care, what part of our decisions and medicare are we making quite how we are part of corporate decision-making and how do we portray ourselves in the arts and culture of this country? it is up to us. not one of us, but all of us to do it. >> that is all the time we have for questions. we have to finish with a lightning round because we are getting close to the end of our time. final comments from the

panelists. when you start with kat, moved to the hand and come back around. >> for corporate america can adding hispanic corporate board members to their board is no longer simply the right thing to do morally. it is the fiscally responsible thing for companies and boards to do. after all, we know in order for companies to be successful today, and they need to be able to compete in the u.s. marketplace, which is now significantly latino. >> israel. >> increasing the role of this xanax and health care is important for addressing diseases and conditions that will challenge is not only today but for a lifetime. individually, being able to ensure the trial in america starts with us volunteering and working together, but also with our own health and in the future from a macro perspective on what hispanics will hold together. we can always make sure we

address health care, but it starts with ensuring that cures for tomorrow's conditions than they making sure the clinical trials are representative of the american population we can ensure we have cures for the american people. >> maria theresa. >> there's an old talon of a loved, dating myself -- [speaking in spanish] the vote is one of the great equalizers of our democracy. there is a reason why people are trying to challenge us, but the only way we do that as we have to show. i also want to commend her brace wire is. you have been such a voice of our community. often times people don't understand i ascend to share stories. you have done that. you are breaking through to a general audience to get a glimpse not only of who we are, but the possibility we can contribute. so thank you for what you do. [applause]

>> at 2050, we are going to be 24% of the civilian workforce. we have to start right now, to make sure that we are at every decisions table that impacts the families, our communities, our neighbors, our selves as latinos. we can do this together. >> reda, take us home. >> for years, my biggest liability was listening to the voice in my hand that fed you are not good enough, you are not blessed with the right ethnicity, wide enough, popular enough, and i've finally can't you see how internalizing those awful terms like garlic mouth, that greeted me as a 5-year-old really affect me. at some point i had to face a choice, which is to speak the truth of the accuser or be defined by her. it was a long road with many

skirmishes, but i chose to fight and as a result, for large part of my life i have lived the american dream for which i am profoundly grateful. and now, one can dock a victim mentality and fall prey to mean stereotypes or grow beyond them. stereotypes can be a copout. for me, integrity trumps playing the race card. i choose to define myself, not be defined by others, which is why i believe we are here. i know it is why i agreed to be her. i want a world to know me, to know us, doctors and patients, natural born immigrants and adventures, factory workers. ..

inpatients and gratitude and just demands do not contradict each other. impatience and gratitude and just demands live very comfortably in us for should take that with you. check out my show. thanks a lot. [applause]

>> our campaign 2014 coverage continues with the nebraska governor's debate between democrat jack castle rock and republican pete rickets. they will meet in lincoln. recent polling lists this race as solid republican live at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. and on c-span will head south of oklahoma for governors' debate between incumbent republican barry fallon and democratic challenger joe gorman, the first and only debate between the two candidates, and they will be is still water. this race is listed as solid republican. :00 eastern of ron c-span. >> earlier today the council on foreign relations of the discussion on the relationships between the u.s., canada, and mexico and ways to strengthen those ties in order to support iraq in defeat i guess i

yes. here is more now. >> this strategy in which we are embarked has a reasonable chance of success. it really comes down, as the president has been clear, to the prime minister performing tasks and the iraqi security forces performing tasks that we had to do in 2007 because the place was literally on fire and about to burst of the solar flames had we not done that. we should not underestimate given all the challenges, we should not underestimate the ability of this new government to reach out to the city-arab community and to make them part of the fabric of society of iraq again and to accommodate some very legitimate demands, requests from the kurdish regional government as well. i think that is all dual boot. those are critical political components to will go forward. if that becomes the foundation for iraq, then i think that you can

reconstitute in some cases the iraqi security forces and with help from us in terms of the intelligence picture, assistance with planning and the provision of close air support, i think that those forces can and must begin to -- that this is to be sustainable, this must be a result of actions by iraqi security forces noting that that term is inclusive of what will undoubtedly stand back up the former sons of iraq that will now be part of the iraqi national guard and the prime minister's initiative and encompassing the actions of the kurdish-murder and other militias as well. >> a quick follow-up. can you do this by promising from the start doublets on the ground? do you need some special forces? >> north american boots on the ground. [laughter] >> as we look to the north american decade of the future, i think general

dempsey has been appropriate and forthright in noting that if it comes to he would ask for certain abilities as required to assess the iraqi security forces on the ground, but by and large again, point is that this can and must be done security forces which includes not just the army but also the police elements and, indeed, the air components if they are gradually developed as well. >> as part of an event held earlier today by the council on foreign relations, see that tonight at 11:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span2 or any time on line. >> just to the british foreign secretary philip and allied breweries of the u.k. foreign-policy to members attending the conservative party's annual conference. this is close to an hour.

♪ ♪ [applause] >> thank you. thank you. i am so proud test into today as prime minister of foreign nations and one united kingdom. [applause] i was always clear about why we call that a referendum. our union could have been taken apart bit by bit. take it on, and we have the chance to settle the question.

this party has always confronted the big issues for the sake of a country. and now in england, scotland, wales, northern ireland, we are one people in one union command everyone here can be proud of that. [applause] and i think that we can all agree that during that campaign a new star, a new conservative star was born, someone who will take our message to every corner of scotland, our very own ruth davidson. [applause] the lead up to that

referendum was the most nerve wracking week of my life. but i can tell you, the best moment of my year was june the sixth, the 70th anniversary of d-day state. wheeler and france with my constituents patrick churchill, no relation to the great man, but i great man himself. patrick is 91 years old and 70 years ago he was there fighting fascism, helping to liberate that time. and i will never forget and we talked about the currency and left behind and also the pride that he felt in the job that went down. as we walked along the street committee pointed out where he had driven his stake. and along the roadside there were french children waving flags. the grandchildren of the

people he liberated. patrick is here today with his wife, and i know, like me, you want to give them the warmest conservative problem. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] when people have seen our flag in some of the most desperate times in history, they have nowhere stands for , freedom, justice, standing up for what is

right. they have known that this is not in the old country. this is special country. june the sixth this summer, normandy, i was so proud of great britain that they. and here today i want to us set out how in this generation weekend though the country whose future we can all be proud of, how we can secure a better future for all, how we can build a burden that everyone is proud to call home. the heirs to those who fought on the beaches of normandy are those fighting in afghanistan today. for 13 years and men and women have been serving our country there. this year the last of our combat troops, and i know that everyone here will want to show how grateful i am proud we are of everyone he served. [applause]

[applause] but the end of the afghan nation does not mean the end of the threat. the threat is islamist extremist terrorism, and it has found a new palace crucible with isis en iraq en syria. these people are evil, purine simple. they killed children, raping women, threats and nonbelievers with genocide dhabi had journalists send aid workers. some people seem to think that we can opt out of this. he cannot. as has become a british servicemen and women are flying in the skies over iraq. they saw action yesterday. and there will be troops on the frontline, but they will be iraqis, kurds, and serious fighting for the

faith in democratic future that they deserve. we are acting in partnership with a range of countries including those from the region. let us be clear, there is no walk on by option. unless we deal with isil, they will deal with us spreading terror and murder to our streets. and as always with this party will do whatever it takes to keep our country safe. and to those who have had all of the advantages of being brought up in britain but who want to go and fight , the recess, if you try and travel to syria or iraq, we will use everything at our disposal to stop you, taking away your passport, prosecution, conviction, and present, and even if you are there already flynn may prevent you from coming back. we have declared your allegiance.

your enemy of the u.k., and you should expect to be treated as such. [applause] when it comes to keeping britain say if i have had one man by my side for the last four years we remember those vocal tons all those years ago. [laughter] to all right. all right. i've won't give up the day job. but when he was a teenager he did not only address the tory party conference he had a record collection that

apparently consisted of one album by dire straits and dozens of speeches by winston churchill. with that said, he was just a normal, happy boy. [applause] all i can say is this, that boy became an amazing parliamentarian, a brilliant foreign secretary, our greatest living york sherman , and someone tamayo and enormous debt of gratitude, william hayes. [applause] [applause] [applause] now, william, there is one more task want you to carry out, bringing fairness to our constitution. during that referendum campaign we made a vow to

discourage people that they will get more powers and we will keep our overall. here is my vowed to the people of england, wales, northern ireland. i know that the system is unfair. i know that you are asking if stalin connotes separately on things like tax and spending and welfare, why can england, wales the man northern ireland do the same? and i know that you want the censored. so this is my vow. english votes for english laws. the conservatives will deliver it. [applause] now, we have delivered a lot these past four years, but we have had to do it all in a coalition government. believe me, coalition is not what i wanted, it is where i

had to do. and i know not just what i want next but with the country needs next. i want to be back here in october of 2015 delivering conservative policies based upon conservative values leading a majority conservative government. [applause] so where do we want to take our country? where do i want to take our country? during these four years i hope that the british people have come to know me little. i am not a complicated man. i believe in simple things. families come first. there the way you make the nation's strong. i care deeply about those

who struggle to get by, but i believe the best thing to do is to help them stand on their own 2 feet and, no, that is not saying you are on our own, but we are on your side helping you to be on the -- helping you to be all lets you can't. i believe in something for something, not something nothing. those who do the right thing, but the effort then who work and build communities, these of the people who should be rewarded and all of this to all of this is underpinned by a deep patriotism. i love this country, and my goal is this, to make britain a country that everyone is proud to call home. that does not just mean having the fastest growing economy or client into some international league table prevented not given the politics to make the lines in the grass grow in the right direction. i want to help you live a better life, and this comes back to those things that i believe.

a burden that everyone is proud to call on is a burden where hard work is really reported. not of free-for-all, but a chance for all, the chance of a job, home, a good start in life, whoever you are, wherever your from. by the way, you never pull one person up by pulling another down. [applause] this party does not to the politics of envy and class war. we leave that to others. we believe in desperation and helping people get on in life to lead what's more, we are proud of it. [applause] the past four years have been about laying the foundations.

the next five will be about finishing the job. put another way, if our economic plan to the past four years has been about our country and saving it from economic ruin, our plan for the next five years will be about you and your family and dumping duty on. nothing comes easy. there is no reward without effort, no wealth without work, and the success of the sacrifice. we credit the british people to know these things there will preach to you about a brave new world. we understand they have to start in the real world and make it better. and who so i will let other politicians stand on stages like this one and promise an easy life. not me. i am biggest step out our conservative commitment for the next five years.

if you want to up provide for yourself and your family you have the security of a job but only if we stick to our long-term economic plan. if you work hard we will cut your taxes, but only if we keep cutting the deficit so that we can afford to do that. for those wanting to buy now home, yes, we will help you get on that housing ladder, but only if we take on the vested interest and build more homes, however hard that made the eighth thought it'd make sure that your children a great education for the best education, but only if we keep on ticking got everybody that gets in the way of high standards. and for those retiring, will make sure you get a decent pension and real rewards real-life and work, but only if we can as a country, except that we'll have to work a bit longer and save a bit more.

it is pretty simple really. a good job, nice sound, more money at the end of the month to buy a decent education for your children, as safe and secure retirement, a country where if you put then you get out, of britain that everyone is proud to call home and above all a proper, real long-term plan to get there. and it starts with more decent jobs. look how far we have come. today there are 1,800,000 more jobs in our country than there were in 2010. we are creating more jobs here in britain and the whole of europe together just under 2 million jobs. you know what to know when britain is getting back to work it can only mean one thing, the conservatives are back in government. [applause]

the highest employment race of in the economy. i would call for an employment in britain. just think of what that would be. the suit can work are able to work, standing on their own 2 feet, looking at their children and thinking, i am providing the you. we can get there, but only if we stick to our plan. companies from all over the world are coming here to invest and create jobs. that has not happened by accident. it is because they see a government that was rolling up their red carpet, cutting the red tape, but here is a commitment. the next conservative

government perry will always have the most competitive corporate taxes in the g20, lower than germany, lower than japan, live in the united states. that is our commitment. george said something really important. a message to those global companies. we have cut your taxes. now you must pay what you will. [applause] we will stick to the plan on welfare, as well. with us, if you're out of work you will get unemployment benefits, but only if you go to the job center, update your curriculum that they cannot

attend interviews command except work offered. as i said, no more something for nothing. look at the results of what we have achieved so far. 800,000 to fewer people. in the next five years we're going to go further. you heard it this week. we will not just aimed to lower youth unemployment, we aim to abolish it, and we have made clear decisions. we will reduce the benefits kept and say to those 21 and under, no longer was you have the option of leaving school and going straight into a life of benefits. you must turn your learn. and will help by funding 3 million apprenticeships spree that as say to our young people, life on welfare is no life of all. here is open by chance to get on and make something of real life. that is our message to get people in britain today. [applause]

and what do our opponents -- they have opposed every chance to offer the we have made, and i expect there will oppose this one, to. the typical thing about policy, and yet they are the ones who left a generation to rot on welfare. let us compare our records. under labor and unplug morose. with the us, unemployment is falling faster than at any time for 25 years. under labor inequality widened. with us, it has narrowed. those are the facts. let us sit proudly of loudly with britain getting off welfare and back to work, the real party of compassion and social justice is not the liberal party. it is the party here in this

hall. be conservatives. [applause] and you know what, it is not just the job numbers that matter. is the reality of working life for people of our country. a specialist. anyone in our country should be free to take on different shops so that they can get on when companies employ a zeroth job contracts that is affixed market. in a britain that everyone is proud to call home people are employed. they're not used for exclusive zero our contracts that leave people unable to fill different -- decent lives for themselves. we will scrap them.

[applause] but there is still more injustice when it comes to work a mandate is even more shocking. criminal gangs trafficking people halfway around the world and making them work in the most disgusting conditions. the world for families of for cramming in 15 people like animals. those crime lords to think that they can get away with it, i say, no, not in this country, not with this party we are coming after you and we are going to put a stop to it once and for all. [applause]

them, once you have a job in my what you to take home more of your money. if you put in you should get out. not hand so much of it to the taxman. that is why these past four years despite everything i have made sure we provide relief to taxpayers in our country, especially the poorest. no income taxes and so you aren't 10,000 pounds a year and 10,500 pounds a year. 3 million people taken out of income tax altogether. a tax cut for 25 million people. in our commitment to you for the next five years to monday want to cut more of your taxes, but we can only do that if we keep on cutting the deficit. this is common sense. tax cuts need to be paid for here is our plan. we're going to balance the

books by 2018 and start putting aside money for the future. to do that we will need to find 25 billion pounds worth of savings in the first two years of the next. that is a lot of money, and it is doable pre 25 billion is 3 percent of what government spends each year. it is one-quarter of the savings that we found. i am confident that we will find the savings that we need your spending cuts alone. we will see the job through, and we will get back and the black. but as we do that to combine clear about something else, we need tax cuts for hard-working people. [applause] and here and now i have a specific commitment. today you right here today

the minimum wage reaches 6 pounds 50 per hour and before long we will reach our next goal half of 7 pounds of our. i can tell you now that a future conservative government will raise the tax free personal allowance to 10,500 pounds to 12,500 pounds. [applause] [applause] that will take 1 million more of the lowest paid workers out of income-tax and give a tax cut to 30 million more. with us, if you work 30 hours a week on minimum-wage committee will pay no income tax at all, nothing, zero, zilch. it.

[applause] lower taxes for hard looking people, that is what i call a britain that everyone is proud to call home. bell we will also do something else. the tax rate was only supposed to be paid by the most well-off people in our country. but in the past decade far too many people have been dragged into it. teachers, police officers. so let me tell you this today. i want to take action that is long-overdue and brings back fairness. with a conservative government we will raise the threshold on which people pay the rate. it is currently 41,900 pounds. in the next parliament we

will raise it to 50,000 pounds. [applause] so here is our commitment to the british people. no income taxes if you are on minimum-wage come a allowance for millions of hard-working people , and you only pay tax when you are 50,000 pounds. let the message go out. if you work hard and do the right thing we say that you should keep more of your own money to spend as you choose. that is what our long-term economic plan means for you. [applause]

and while i am on the subject of big, economic questions that our country faces on spending and tax, did you hear last week, he spoke for over an hour but did not mention the deficit once, not once. he said that he forgot to mention it people forget their kirkes. my children sometimes are with their homework. i once even forgot that i lead nancy down the event happen again. let me say this, you cannot be prime minister of this country and free up the most important issue that we face. [applause]

to a few weeks ago something interesting, 13 years of government they had made some mistakes. some mistakes? excuse me? your the pitbull lead britain with the biggest peacetime deficit in history, the deepest recession since the war, destroyed our pension system, busted the banking system, left a million young people of work, 5 million an award benefits and hundreds of billions of debt. labor was just wondering mistake that and a burly a

speech. they still want to spend more, borrow more, tax more. it is the same old labor. you know what, they say that madness is doing the same thing over and over again in expecting a different result. well, i say madnesses voting for this high spending high techs and deficit ballooning shower of an opposition and expecting anything other than an economic disaster. [applause] [applause] in a country that everyone is primed to call home, you should be with the biome if you're willing to serve if permitted should not be some impossible dream.

the inherited a situation where it was panic young people who watch location, location, location, not as a reality show with fantasy and reid is we cannot solve this housing crisis with us some difficult decisions. the planning system was stuck in the mud, so we were forfeited. nearly a quarter of a million houses or giving planning permission. people needed massive deposits that they just could not afford the were those who criticized, usually speaking from the comfort of the home that they bought some years ago. unless you what actually happens permit this it help to buy would just a couple of london. put 94 percent of buyers live outside the capital in this city would help people and has already, but 4/5 of first-time buyers. they said it would cause the housing bubble, but as the bank of england has said amata's not.

so here is our renewed commitment to first-time buyers. "we will help you get a place on. we will ask a landmark new policy called start a home. he will build one under thousand new homes, and they will be at least 20% cheaper than normal. here is a crucial part. wealthy foreigners will appeal to buy them. first-time buyers under the age of 40. homes built for you, me for you. our party, the conservative party. [applause] [applause] you would not be able to tell the child gcse by their

postcode or by what their parents to. their must be a great education for every child. a month ago to study school. all three of my children read the same primary school, and such a joy taken together. clinging on for dear life until subleases son new friend and rest interclass frontcourt cannot backward glance, something that's have to get used to. it is hard to describe border relief it is apparent to find a decent school free child. but it should not be a lottery. what we have in our state primary in london i1 for every child our country. and we are getting that. more children in good or outstanding schools with less science of language,

history, and truth curriculum. the whole work harder and harder. you know what, the biggest change with is the culture. we have teachers to feel like leaders again. this is our school. the children must behavior and we will not tolerate failure within it. we have come so far. make no mistake, the biggest risks to all of this labor. you know what drives me most matt? it is the hypocrisy. christian hunt, a shadow of education secretary, let me, one of the best educations that money can buy. guess what, he will allow out for your children. he went to an independent school that was not set up by local authority but he

does not want charity for parents to set a school for your children. the benefit of four class teachers you ought to have some government certificate, but he wants to stop people like that from teaching your children. some of the best schools in our country. here's the difference. they want their restricted those advantages. i want to spread them to every child in our country. [applause] now, we know labour's real problem with education. every move that they make they have to take their cue from the unions. that is who they really represent, the unions. well, have a bit of news for

you. it is something we have never really set for. we, in this party, we are a trade union, too. and i will tell you who we represent. this party is the union for hard-working parents, the father who read his children's stories buses cost of the mythology it is for children that the start the bridge this party is the trade union for children from the poorest states in the most chaotic homes, the union for the young woman who wants an apprenticeship, the teenagers want to make something of airlines, this is too weak represent. that is why we will not let labor dragon's back to square one. we are going to finish what we have begun. [applause]

a real education, not just imagining. and people must know that this is a country where if you put a new will in out. by got in trouble before for talking about twitter. d'agata lot of trouble for talking about a lot of things. we crossed over that. but a country where young people are endlessly thinking what can i say at 140 characters, what does my character say about me? that is why i am so proud of national services service. every summer thousands of young people volunteer and serve their community. we started this. people come up to me on the street and say all sorts of things. believe me, they really do. but one thing that i hear a lot is parents saying about national citizens' service thank you for what this has done for my child.

and i want this to become a rite of passage from a teenager's in our country. i can tell you, the next conservative government will guarantee a place for national citizens' service for every teenager a country. [applause] now, that rule, if you put in you should get out, more than anywhere it should apply to those who want dignity and security in retirement. for years it did not. there were three great roles . the more you save the less you get. roll number two, compulsory annuity. you could not spend your own money as you wish.

iii, the pension was taxed at 55%. three wrongs, and we are putting each one right. a new one under 42 pounds per week. every penny you say during your working life you will keep. compulsory annuities are scrapped giving you a complete control of your private pension. as for that 55 percent tax and a penchant you heard it this week. we cut it to zero percentage . conservative values in action. [applause] but when it comes to our elderly that is, perhaps, one thing that matters about everything. knowing that we are there for you.

and for labor last week we had the same old rubbish about the conservatives for the in a chess. they were spreading complete and utter lies. and i just think how it was the labor party and give us the scandal of mitt staff, elderly people begging for water and dying of neglect. for me, this is personal. i am someone who has relied on dna tests and his family knows more than most how important it is a knows what it is likely to go the hospital-tonight with a sick child and your arms know when that when you get there are people who love for and care for that child just like it was their own. how dared to suggest there would never put that at risk for other people's children. [applause]

we in this party, i believe that we can be proud of what we have done. sixth refunded six that thousandth or doctors think of the amazing things around the corner. we are no mapping and each individual pleaded is called the genome. i have a model of one of the first ones on my desk in

downing street. this could mean curing a rare genetic diseases and saving lives. our n.h. as is leading the world on this incredible technology, and i understand personally the differences that could make when you have had a child who is so ill that the doctors cannot work out what he is gonna , you would give anything to know, an investment that we are making that means more parents will have those answers and hopefully the cures that go with them. let us also be clear, all of this is only possible because we have managed our economy responsibly. that is why i can tell you today, we will do it again. the next conservative government will protect the n.h. as budget and continue to invest more because we know this truffe, something labor will never understand and we will never forget, you could only have a strong

in a chess if you have a strong economy. [applause] a burden that everyone is proud to call home, place where reward follows effort. if you put in, you get out. it also means a country that is strong in the world and they control over destiny. and yet that includes controlling immigration, getting our own people fit for work, fixing welfare, fixing educations of we turn out young people with skills to do the jobs that were created and, yes, we need to control the borders and that immigration system that puts the british people first. that is why we count

economic migration from outside the you, shut down 700 bogus colleges that were basically these of factories, kicked up people who do not belong her. let's hear it for the woman who made it happen. but we know the bigger issues today is migration from within. the media access to our welfare system, paying benefits for families back home to my employment agencies signing up people from overseas, not recruiting, numbers that have increased faster than we and our country wanted at a level lows too much for communities in liberal market. all of this house to change, and it will be at the very

heart of my real negotiation strategy. britain, i know that you want disordered to masorah will go to brussels. i will not take no for an answer. when it comes to free movement, i will guess what -- did what britain needs. -- [applause] anyone who thinks that i cannot always deliver, i would say judge me by my record. i am the first trimester the village really, the first semester to cut the european budget. yes gobble less of those european bailout schemes as well. around that table and europe and of that i say what i mean and mean what i say. we will bill into the country can begin their powers back to fight for our national and chest and put it to a referendum. we will be your choice. but the message go up from this fall, it is only with the conservatives that you will get that choice. [applause] three --

[applause] now, of course, it is not just the european union need sorting out. it is the european court of human rights. when that charter was written it set out the basic rights that we should respect. but since then interpretations of that charter have led to a whole lot of other things being, frankly, wrong ruling says stop bust supporting suspected terrorists, the suggestion that you have to apply the human rights convention on the battlefield. and now they want to give prisoners the vote. no, i'm sorry, i just don't agree. our parliament, the british parliament decided they should not have the right. this is a country that wrote the matt mccarty, the country that time and again

step for human rights with a liberating europe from fascism were leading the charge against sexual violence and more. let me put it very clearly. we do not require instruction from judges in strasbourg on this issue. so at long-lost -- [applause] at so at long last with a conservative government after the next election this country will have a new british bill of rights to be passed and our parliament come are rooted in our values, and as for labor and human rights, we will scrap it once and for all. [applause] with so that is what we are after, of britain that everyone is proud to call

home, and a clear plan to get there. over the next five years we will deliver 3 million apprenticeships skillful employment, the most competitive corporate taxes and that she 20, eliminating the budget deficit through spending cuts, not tax rises , building 100,000 new starter homes, letting you pass on their pensions tax-free, reinvesting in a just spending so that not penny is cut, renegotiating in europe, delivering that referendum, scrapping the human rights act, no income tax until you are and 12,500 pounds and no tax rate until you are and 50,000-pound smith. if you want those things, vote for me. if you've got to a vote for the other guy. and let's be clear. let us be clear.

this does not matter whether parliament is hung, drawn, or course, there is only one real choice, the conservatives or labor, me in downing street or at fill a band in downing street. if you'd -- here is a thought for you -- [applause] on the seventh of may you can go to bed and wake up. wind and the i don't know about you, but not one bit of that works for here is the big question for the election. on the things that matter in your life, who do you really

trust? >> comes your job do you trust labor, wrecked our economy or the conservative estimate is one of the fastest-growing economies in the west? when it comes to britain's future, who do you trust? labor, the party of something for nothing and human roles in the the better of human rights of the conservatives who believe in something for something and report for artwork? who do you trust? the party of big debt, big spending, big borrowing if, were the party, our party of the first paycheck, the first chance, the first home, the one that is delivering security, opportunity, hulk, making this country grady grin, our party, the conservative party, that is the choice at the next election. [applause] we are making britain proud again.

look what we are showing the world, not just a country that is paying down debt and going from the deepest recession since the war to the fastest-growing economy in the world to accept that at the same time a country that has kept its promises to the poorest in the world, that is leading cannot following and climate change , and has just saved their united kingdom and one of the ratios of democracy the world's ever seen. making britain prod again. our car industry is booming. aerospace expanding, manufacturing growing. making britain proud again. car engines not imported from germany. well race not made in china built. record levels of employment and the record numbers of apprenticeships, britain regaining its purpose, pride, and confidence. we are at the moment where

all the hard work is finally paying off and the light is coming up after some long, dark days. go back now. striding into the sun. that is a question. the want to go back to square one and finish the we have begun? i don't claim to be a perfect leader. i am a public servant. standing you wanted to make a country so much better for your children and mine. i love this country, and i would do my duty by it. we have the track record, the right key to take his plan for country into endo plan for you. millions of people wiping the eyes of all when stream, raising children as well as they can't, working as hard as they can, doing it for a

better future to make a good life for them and their family. that is the british spirit. this is a great chemistry. we can be greater still. that starts next may. what's it going to be? i say, let's not go back to square one to let's finish what we have begun, let as bill the burden we are proud to call home for you, your family, for everyone. [applause]

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♪ >> welcome to the 2014 nebraska gubernatorial debate presented by any scene isn't cooperation with the nebraska broadcasters association. i am kellogg and the moderator tonight. i will serve as the tonight. we are live from the studio and lincoln nebraska. we will feature the candidates for governor.