>> >> en also announcing she is retiring comedies how it -- these to our enemies made example of fortitude and leadership on so many

important issues the senate will miss the but i heard the say they will turn pages is with a bid chapters they would rise of the shed show our appreciation to them for their years of service on behalf of our country. [applause] i literally ted keep you hear many hours talking about these amazing women but i will not do that. and also some were out there is my former colleague the this is an amazingly

distinguished group for go literally they have so much courage and smarts the grit and grace and applies to all of them is the honor and privilege of my life to serve with them to learn so much from them now the senate will be in good hands when unfortunately the to barbara's leave because we have these extraordinary senator still serving. and i will be counting on them concealed do everything we can to put our country on the right track and i am hoping that because of the election next year, this time we can celebrate more democratic senators and maybe even take a majority back. [applause]

i am so excited to see you here because they need your support, your generosity and your hours of volunteering campus saying and reach a gatt to everybody you can possibly touch because this consequence -- elections so consequential. i think about and there could not be to award to average views or visions are set of values between what we hear from the republican candidates and what i try to lay out as the agenda for the future, the kind of future to get our e conti werke, enable more people to the mill their potential with america's leadership in the world.

be here a lot of negativity and ideology coming from candidates on the other side it is important to pierce that with good old fashioned fax. [laughter] for example, i go by republicans friends hate this 1/8 day at but our economy does better with a democrat ed the white house the evidence is overwhelming unemployment is lower, income is higher in your four times more likely to have a recession and with the republican and the white house. you don't have to go all the way back just the last 35 years. three republicans and two democrats. i happen to know both democrats. [laughter]

and each inherited problems from the predecessors. and the fact that a national debt was quadrupled in the prior 12 years and i remember him saying shortly after the election it is so much worse than they told us then he was asked what you bring to washington? he said probably and arithmetic. [laughter] with 22 million new jobs and committee time in recent history so you know, whether they and the evidence is pretty clear that was an economic policy

but then gave the republicans with their ideology and trickle-down economics and they began to dismantle brick by brick. to take their eyes off of the corporation said the mortgage markets shortly after the 2008 election obama called me to come in chicago it turns out he wanted me to be secretary of state and i did not know that at the time. we were sitting there and he says it is so much worse than they told us. [laughter] i said the you know, president-elect, i have heard that before. it was terrible. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. 5 billion lost their homes

$13 trillion of family wealth was wiped out. and of the bill baughman gets the credit that he deserves to dig us out of the ditch that he inherited. it could have been the big depression in the american people worked so hard you know, the sacrifice that a lot of people made. so we're standing again recovering 13 million jobs but we're not running the way we should. need to make sure the economy is producing more good paying jobs and income is rising again. the american people really haven't had feet a raise and a long time the folks at the top for doing just fine.

but most people are still struggling. the cost of child care or college or prescription drugs are going up faster than wages. and i am laying out plans what i will do as president's widely now plans how we can create more good paying jobs. with the infrastructure the road's end airports and rail systems for about half of their virtual infrastructure by 2020 everybody should have access to high quality affordable broadband no matter where you live.

i also think we can create millions of new jobs if we get serious about combating climate change and i give the president credit from this issue you know, what republicans say when asked asked, they say i'm not a scientist. my response is go talk to one. there are a lot of them around. is maddening the denial of science natalie children and grandchildren of the bad for the economy. by the end of my first term are wanted to install half a billion more solar panels

and i am focused upon doing more for small business. to be the small business president because 60 percent will come from small business and we're not seeing it is easier to start a business in france and united states we have some great champions of want to work with them and others to clear out the brush to get the credit flowing coming get more people with those better idea is to start and grow a business. my father was a businessman i respect that spirit we also have to tackle that tax cuts this stacked in favor

of the wealthy of the loopholes and the deductions that enables somebody to escape paying their fair share paying too little or too much the middle-class deserves a raise, not a tax increase and i will then raise taxes on middle-class families because they have to get back to where they were before they fell into the ditch of the great recession. >> the was to make sure people get equal pay for equal work. i heard barbara talking

about the paycheck fairness act we will move heaven and earth in to meet real people. and have real conversations. a young man in new hampshire said i want to tell you why i am for you because my first real job i went to work as a cashier in the store were a mother was working i was excited. and i got my first paycheck i showed my mom and i watched her face all. she said you have been there two weeks and you're making more than i make and i have been there for years. i said what?

people keep their eye off for young promising then to put into managed-care programs. they paid them more to try to keep them. that we have to have more support to have family responsibilities. to take care of a loved one. start looking at what people are living like today. we need to do more to lift up the opportunity ladder that has been knocked down

if we give women an equal chance it is not only good for them and families before our economy. is a growth strategy. also education and to make sure it is the best to offer our kids. [applause] 8% in your brain is physically formed by the age of three. it matters what happens in those early years. we have to pay attention because talented is universal and there are too many people who are behind the first day they walked into kindergarten. then to make college affordable again and then

you should not have to borrow at dime if you go to a public colleges university and community college will be free because we have to think of those two additional years as the extension of what high school used to be. and we will make sure people pay down student dash. one plenitude trillion dollars. it is crippling. to prevent people from getting the jobs that they wonder even getting married. how many of you have had stated that? marcion's always go up we could save thousands of dollars i don't believe the federal government should make money off of lending money to our students to get their education.

[applause] we need to improve it but i will och deal my best but the republicans have tried to repeal more than 50 times. we have been working since harry truman we have to get the out of pocket costs down and the prescription drug costs down. that is built of the base of the affordable care act. prescription drug costs with a 12% last year. this is unsustainable. i know it is hard because i have the scars to prove it. we have to get those cost to be controlled otherwise it

is impossible if medicare or medicaid or private insurance to afford the drug did treatments they deserve. to negotiate with the drug companies with governments around the world. [applause] we do need to deal with a caregiving crisis. less some other condition that his debilitating also to pay attention to the country did mental health problems.

the v of my friends could tell you similar stories. people to you the most intimate and personal pain as. it may only be a handshake and they will say my son has a drug problem and we cannot find any help. were my brother suffers from schizophrenia and we cannot afford health is there anything you can do? you know, we have to do more. it will be a high priority to be balanced with the problems is and there is

something i have been talking about with the policies to make sure you get the right mix. i don't just want to be the president to deal with the headlines. also to figure out for those that keep you up at night. and try to puzzle through. >> we have to defend the progress we have made and then to protected recognizing the rights of all citizens. so when you listen to the

attacks of women's rights in in the gay rights and emigrants rates and pay attention. i will defend a woman's right to choose and will defend planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] what we saw in colorado springs the event was horrific. aery have to stand up for the rights of women to get the health care that they need. and we have strong soldiers in pursuit of that behind me i will also defend marriage equality and continuing

discrimination against the lgbt community it makes no sense you can get there radon saturday and fired on monday we have to change that also defending voting rights the new routes still have to defend those? but because of the supreme court rejection of the congress reauthorization so many states are trying to undermine the voting rates not only will we defend those '01 to make it possible for every 18 year-old to make it the law of the lovely and so young

people are involved in the electoral process and i will do everything i cayenne to overturn citizens united. [cheers and applause] it is likely the next president will have one or three supreme court justice appointments i will support the people borden the corporations way to buy an election also security against privatization and to defend the virginia to change the problems but we will not let the republicans privatizing them to move away from providing the services for our vets. keep working for

comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship i will work to provoke criminal-justice reform and i'm hopeful we can get some bipartisan solutions even before the end of the term and i will continue to fight against the gun lobby of the safety measures in america. [applause] where you have 90 people live day dying from gun violence tragic an avoidable accidents 33,000 people per year is something else were killing 33,000 americans we would say we have to do something like comprehensive

background checks closing the gun show loophole in dayton the immunity for gun makers aged sellers but we know how hard this is look at what is happening right now there is the bill that would prohibit individuals on the no-fly list from buying a weapon but republicans will not let it, for a vote you would think someone is still dangerous to buy a gun that the very least we should try to restrain that we need to continue to lead around the world i am very committed to leading with our values to further security and i do

that in a way that leads with straight and smarts because we have challenges we cannot ignore obviously a lot of attention paid to isis s to be like that with american leadership. and then the republicans are not serious about what we need to do her how to limit the spread of the extremists and so there is a lot to do and i can only hope he will work hard with me through

the primaries and caucuses because it will be a hard journey no doubt about that because so much is at stake it is flattering again so much attention from the other side to listen to their debates have a lot to say about the secretary of state dash it is good so i sent them a copy of my but hard choices. [laughter] if you want to know how to put together an international coalition and you can read about it. may be one to negotiate as cease-fire with the muslim brotherhood that is in their provide even suggested with so many big have a book club and read it together said

the initial surprise i did not get one thank you note but finally this election is about our children and now grandchildren because i want to be sure that the promise of our country and i was raised to believe bin will be there for generations to come. and the granddaughter of a factory worker from pennsylvania who went to work every single day in he did it to support his family but also because he wanted his three sons to have a better life. they did. they all went to college that my dad graduated in the middle of the depression and

became a salesman been welded into the navy to come now to start a business only speed the his hard work would be rewarded and his freedom would be guaranteed. revlon had a very different life. rejected and abandoned by her parents raised by grandparents who did not want her then at the age of 14 was working as a housemaid. i didn't know this until i was older and i was shocked that is so different from the solid life that she gave me. how did you do it? she said along the way people were kind. not my family but a teacher or the woman whose house that i work did and she always believed the promises of our country so now i have

this amazing grandchild i would to recant to make sure she has every opportunity she could take it the intention of. but that is not enough. for what kind of world is waiting for her and that they you should have to the granddaughter of a former president to have a promise of america made real for you yet to be the granddaughter of a factory worker or grandson of a truck driver or all other children across a land so they can reach their god-given potential. that is my mission has your president. a thank you very much. [cheers and applause] ♪

we will have the speech live on the c-span networks.

[inaudible conversations] >> good morning. a concern we will lose our focus on spending everything that we face is important to us but the issue that remains is the primary issue that can be resolved in a disbelief it is so difficult

to take space that it is not fixable but it is. i want a way to identify some of these issues. on the current pace, if we play it into place what we have that in 10 years we're back to balance from four to $50 billion this year to a balanced budget in 10 years. hypothetically the 11th year with a $50 billion surplus. if we did in the 11th year, we would have to continue to do that every year for the next 460 years to pay off our debt. with a $50 billion surplus surplus, 460 years to pay off the debt. if we balance next year and only 380 years.

we are losing track of how difficult this will be long term and what needs to be done for every state has a requirement to balance the budget they live by that except for the federal government. they don't ask, which do we have but what do we want to do and just put into process so there are issues that these to be resolved. we're trying to approach the best we can hit is not exhaustive or not everything that is out there but the ideas that we have and we are throwing those out there. excellent at articulating the issues but there are two doctors of the world there is only one but he often said it should be 535 voiced

book every office should focus and look for it to say we will put this out there to find other offices to get started august. also for the federal government a waste of taxpayer dollars those that our ripe with fraud over regulating with the cost of goods and services and to add to their responsibilities with each of the issues we have a solution we try to lay out specific cancers and highlight some the samples it isn't just completes with no solutions but some of the duplication that we have made some progress.

the department of justice has cut the conference budget by two-thirds and they should be commended. it is incredibly different mood dash difficult to find one that we have proposed that was passed in committee already the taxpayers right to go. every individual in this rube should be able to plug that the government program to see the cost and how bad is evaluated if at all and what could be done bayou cannot do that right now it is neither a searchable database it would have every outside group remembered to identify so we pushed forward to say he would be

easier for every american to identify this and determine some of those solutions. this is what the office plans to work on in the days ahead. we are encouraging every other office as well. so let's try to get these things done. everybody kid download their own copy we have the details and all the background research and i have an incredible staff that has worked very hard. i will highlight a couple of them. some of these are obvious issues with the earned income tax credit the largest area of friday year after year almost $18 billion.

year after year it is on the list of something we need to evaluate as a government. senator carver has laid out the bill was a kid the social security administration in share this information in? millions of members are hanging out that they are vulnerable to fraud and waste. those individuals filing false tax reports should be resolved and can be but we're losing billions of dollars in the process. the national park service did a study what do bugs to if you turn on a light in a rural place? everybody in oklahoma can tell you what happens. they are common sense to evaluate why we do this. what should the federal government do?

it does have real affect the corps of engineers has already said they don't want to the rule but it will cost america the billions of dollars. with a qualified mortgage peace has real affect and is very difficult to get a whole loan. in rural america there's usually only one if you make it hard to make it very hard. is no secret we had the frustration of management programs. year after year as an offset a washington budget game to be removed entirely from the

process. if you remove the corporate payment and is no savings at all. those don't ever help american families. so i will open this up for questions. >> we talked about this before with 535 people should have their own officer you comfortable with their own office spending? with the chief of staff? >> you mentioned this before you don't like the chief of staff is a locally based on

a washington d.c. but i want somebody who thinks more like oklahoma less than washington. >> but it is the cost of thousands of dollars to fly back and forth to put the many hotel. >> but a washington d.c.-based chief of staff to fly back to the state and they have hotel bills there as well so that is the decision the make. the return to a the $50,000 last year coming in under budget first-year freshman office this is very hard to do. >> klay uncomfortable 81 to do oversight in our office. and be reinforced that over and over. the oversight is always a good thing.

will of the tax credits that come in with the federal tax subsidy to wire the people love local homeless paying for a stadium somewhere else and wire people in other states spending something in the oklahoma? that is say local priority with this board's team that they need to pay for. >> what about clawback kin he retrieved some of it? and then to hold people to account government employs and not held to account the same way. there is over spending of

the contract with bad the group that is held accountable is the taxpayer. not the government employee. and two were very hard in a difficult situation. a when the major mistake is made the best thing we can do is said trespassed if they want to pay for that locally they can but why should someone else? to say how do we fix this long term? and what can congress put in place? >> the next time with it spending we can go to the

waist book. with the next piece of government spending. >> and i will give you a couple of examples. and extending a couple of pieces that our simple that have bipartisan support and the president has stated getting social security disability by the same time as unemployment by definition you can be employed if you get disability you cannot be employed but they can receive both simultaneous. so there are several issues the goal is to find a way

that is back to balance. >> that case for spending what is the moral basis for cutting? >> it is to be efficient and a year people said what my government to be more efficient. that is reasonable. for those that should be done better if we have billions of dollars that out there that is a problem individuals that fire taxes they find out someone has already filed under their social security number with their identity stolen. with the billions of dollars

lost that is your over year issue that affects taxpayers that is a matter of fixing a broken problem. >> the omnibus funding bill would appear thoughts that there is no funding for planned parenthood and if they're prepared to shut down the government? does that make it politically difficult or change the dynamics? >> i think it is an ongoing issue it is not new. to say what amounted dollars goes as the single largest provider basic living group of people that have a problem with that. but that needs to be done.

it hasn't been issue already and i don't think it will be but there are many individuals with myself included with large amount of federal dollars but as far as what happened in colorado is are wrenching nobody says the way to protest is to kill people we don't know all the motivations but one that randomly shoots adults is unstinting of four children at the same time that doesn't make moral or rational sense so we will find out more in the days ahead but clearly they're not standing up for the movement. >> maybe with the planned parenthood provisions and that changes this issue and

if not that could be a fulcrum to go one way or the other. >> one of those appropriations bills we don't have the perception in a few votes the issue is what will redo to protect children in america? but what are we doing to protect the life of children ? >> i'd prefer it to be an everything. >> thank you.

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>> good morning director of the defense budget analysis and senior fellow here and >> welcome all of this cyber monday, monday after thanksgiving.

is my pleasure to introduce the comptroller comptroller undersecretary mccord dealing with all financial matters before becoming comptroller he served as the principal deputy under the secretary of defense and before that served on the hill for 21 years in the senate armed services committee and before that at the congressional budget office. so is my pleasure to welcome him this morning. [applause] >> i totally forgot it is cybermonday we should set up something if you want to buy me something.

[laughter] but it is of pleasure to be here in this new building and though it isn't brand new but with this ousted in the institution i was in this very room and was honored to be here as the board chairman and then hosted by your president as of little younger i could count john as my mentors. to talk about the budget agreement the bottom line is the good deal for urd dod because what it does the actual funding is a hopeful

sign to return to more problem-solving ruth i. a tenure in this position of dod. and want to start at where their resources have been since then 11 the total resources with the defense resources that doubled with this deal we are getting back to where we were in nominal dollars.

and throughout my talk so if you see references it is not the cap of the budget deal and then to put our share of the budget deal. ended is an approximation is so that is a good estimate. and with high intensity operations but up from where we have been. to talk with the budget deal going for word what we have

been net to at dod it is the thing is we have been trying to achieve. with that challenge that we face today with that dimension of national-security to cover major portions of the globe geographically talking about europe and away we were not before as well as of broad range of conflict from cyberto high end to the counter insurgency your counterterrorism. but to be on the demand side. but the caps that were never

meant to be in the first place so we can get resources above that level for what we will talk about today but it is a strong gravitational pull on the resources. but this is in part the katchis id allows some flexibility and allowing them to assess the big picture. without having to examine the fundamental assumptions.

but with the diversity and would say requires us to do a lot of balancing. but in that period of time to have more congressional support that they still feel is necessary to have a lower priority issues to move those legacy issues but to have been stability we have some short-term deals and one of the things that we have lived to a after

outside this area but little by little to where we have the worst record in this administration announces a first term of ronald reagan and i did the math a couple months ago. and got their attention this is the sixth full fiscal years we have completed. but 24 months out of six years. sometimes three months or six months so with that fiscal year to execute new ideas. that