representatives and was elected chairman of the freshman caucus and house whip. today senator scott works to promote conservative causes in congress where he has worked with senate colleagues to introduce a balanced budget amendment to strip the power away from congress to spend money that we do not have. he also was an original co-sponsor of the bill that would permanently ban the wasteful earmark process. tim scott's agenda will empower america through economic freedom and education. he is dedicated to working with anyone committed to building a better future to develop bold ideas that break away from this country's past failures. please join me in welcoming and

giving a warm colorado welcome to senator tim scott, a true conservative american hero. >> thank you. thank you very much. i'm sure that those of you who live in the sixth district will be sending mike kaufmann back to congress. and i'm looking forward to y'all sending the great corey gardener to join me in the united states senate. corey is a good man. we need some help in the united states senate. anybody realize that? everybody realizes that. i want to just spend a few minutes talking about how we can make sure that in 2014 we take

back the majority in the senate and in 2016 we have an opportunity to make sure that there is a republican in the white house. we need a republican in the white house. when i think about the challenges that we face as a nation, i always go back to the song "amazing grace." anyone know the song "amazing grace"? i like that song a lot. i once was lost but now i'm found. i was blind, but now i see. i thank the lord he saved my soul. yes, he saved a soul like me. and that's my story. i'm not sure if it's your story, but it certainly is my story. i think about how amazing the good lord is and how amazing america is and how the combination of a strong god and an amazing nation makes a guy

like me even possible. and that's the story of the grand old party. it's the story of the great opportunity party. let me share my story with you and explain how the conservative principles have made me possible. growing up in a single parent household, my parents got divorced when i was about 7 years old. i started drifting. anybody ever drifted? all drifting seems to head in the wrong direction. by the time i was 14 years old i was flunking out of high school. as a matter of fact, i flunked out of high school. i saw some kids over there. please don't do what i did, okay? i failed as a freshman, world geography. i may be the only senator to ever fail civics. but then when i got to the senate i felt like i was very comfortable because lots of those guys on the other side have failed civics. amazing. just amazing.

i also failed spanish and english. now, when you fail spanish and english, they don't call you bilingual. no, they call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language. that's where i found my unhappy self. but i had two major blessings. one was a strong mama. i'm a mama's boy and i thank god more strong mamas. give all mamas a hand, especially if you're sitting next to the one you're married to. please give her a hand. i saw a man up the front and he's like praise the lord. smarten ma man, he wants to go tonight. i have to go back to washington d.c. so this is all the fun i

get to have. my mama is and was an amazing woman. she would work 16-hour days as a nurse's aid making sure we stayed off of welfare. she believed she needed to set the example for her boys to follow. she worked hard at it. when i flunked out of high school as a freshman, she was none to happy with me. my mama believes that sometimes love has to come at the end of a switch. i know this is the west, but a switch, for those of you who don't understand what a switch is, a switch is a southern apparatus of encouragement, typically applies from your belt line to your ankles and my mama encouraged me a lot that freshman year. and the second blessing that came my way was a small business owner, a conservative republican. i didn't know it at the time that the chick-fil-a operator was a conservative republican. all i knew was that john showed

up at the right time. he started telling me some very important lessons. he started saying that, tim, you don't have to play football or be an entertainer in order to be successful in america. you can think your way out of poverty. i had never heard this before. i thought the only way out was playing for the dallas cowboys. i know this is denver territory, i understand that. let me just say, my chief of staff is from colorado. my deputy chief of staff, colorado. my legislative director, from colorado. it pains me to see all the orange in my office. this is not a part of the speech, and i apologize for interrupting the presentation to have a commercial break. i decided during the football

season last year to make one bet. not a bet that puts you in jail because betting is illegal. this is not a bet. this is simply, i made a statement that, in fact, if the denver broncos can beat the dallas cowboys in the cowboys stadium, i would wear a denver broncos tie. when tony romo threw that interception and we lost 51-48, i called my pastor. i wanted to know if it was okay for me to violate my statement. and he said, son, i know you're a politician so you guys do that all the time. however, as a man who believes in the lord, you got to honor your word. so i said, sir, i'm cheap -- i mean, i'm frugal, sir, would you please buy me a tie, so he bought me this beautiful denver broncos tie. he, too, is from colorado. god bless his soul. so i had to wear the tie, unfortunately. the cowboys did not win that game, so now the commercial

break is over. back to the presentation. that message is brought to you by the western conservative summit, sponsored by john andrews. god bless you, john andrews. let's give john a hand. john, my mentor, chick-fil-a operator, he was teaching my some very valuable lessons. he started teaching me that if you have a job, you've done well. but if you create jobs, you've done extraordinarily well. if you have an income, you can support yourself. but if you make a profit, you can change the life of your family and your community. and this became the very fabric of my journey towards conservatism. as a 15-year-old kid learning these very basic business principles that the free market -- four letter word coming, please close your ears -- making a profit is an

amazing journey and experience in america. i will tell you i bought it full. it took me four years to get it. and then when i was 19 years old, john was 38, he died. and it changed the course of my life. i set my mission statement to positively impact the lives of a billion people with a message of hope being my faith in christ jesus and an opportunity being john's lessons of financial literacy. i had a great successful business. he was right, it can change your life. we grew up living with my grandparents in a 1,000 square foot house. me, my mother and my brother shared a bedroom. my grandparents had the other room. john said you can change all of that through business ownership, and he was so right. one of the reasons why, as you uncover my opportunity agenda in

washington d.c., that i focus so much on the entrepreneur is because i've experienced first hand that when the government steps back and entrepreneurs step in, all things change, that a good economy makes all things possible. the question is what makes a good company. so my opportunity agenda focuses on how do we create a good economy. we all know that tax reform and regulatory reform are necessary, key ingredients to that good economy. i can't hire more people and pay higher taxes and have higher regulations at the same time. i can do two out of the three. if you want me as an entrepreneur hiring more people, we have to reduce the cost of doing business. i know you guys in this room are fans of obamacare. good, good, good.

obamacare spends too much, taxes too much, and it destroys the best healthcare system in the world. i like my friends who say, what about the balanced approach. if you're looking for the balanced approach, just look no further than obamacare. over $800 billion of new revenues, higher taxes, the destruction of the relationship between a doctor and a patient, look no further than obamacare for all the challenges that we face because in obamacare we see a couple things. not only do we see higher taxes, higher regulations, but we also see this march towards centralizing the control of all the major decisions, taking over another sense of the economy and presenting to the america people in my opinion a clear decision,

do you believe in redistribution or do you believe in the private sector, do you believe in entrepreneurship, do you believe in the power of 300 million americans. or do you believe in the intellect of 535? let me just tell you if you're looking for the answer, it ain't the 535. as we move forward, we're going to have to have something as we face the fact that there are some things that we are clearly going to have to stand against. let me do a survey. how many of y'all -- you can say yes or no. do you think obamacare is a good idea? how many of y'all -- do you think the president is handling the border situation with the guatemalan kids in a good way?

how many of y'all think he's handling the syrian situation in a good way? how about the irs scandal? the economy? the v.a.? all the things that are going wrong, we should be winning every single election. we should. someone asked this simple question. why are we not then winning the elections? i think this is an important point. people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. this is a very important key to our success in 2014 and 2016 and one of the reasons why i'm so excited about y'all bringing corey gardener to the ballot is that you can't see corey and not smile. he's always smiling.

corey says hi, obamacare stinks, y yes, it does. one of the keys to success is making sure that our candidates are likable, that our candidates are armed with the right message, that, yes, we know what we're standing against. when we have a $17 trillion debt it's clear, we're standing against spending money you do not have, buying things you cannot afford and impressing a world that seems to be completely unimpressed. this is easy. when you have a $600 billion annual deficit, it makes it easy for us to stand strong against the challenges that the left are bringing to our country. that's the easy part. we have to answer the question, what are we for? as we answer that question, what are we for, i believe we'll start winning elections everywhere. standing up and saying no is

good. it takes us through october. unfortunately, the election is in november. so for us to get through november, we have to have a positive policy agenda that attracts a diverse group of voters to take a second look at the grand old party and start thinking of it as a great opportunity party. my opportunity agenda, in my opinion, does just that. there are two pillars to the opportunity agenda. the first is education. the second pillar is how do we build a good economy. let's talk about the first pillar, education. one of my first bills in the senate is a choice act, creating hope and opportunities for individuals and communities through education. as a guy who did poorly as a freshman, my mother beat me -- i mean, she encouraged me into summer school, which helped me catch up with my class, finished on time, earned a football

scholarship, went off to college, finished five years and have done pretty well since then. the foundation of which is education. if we look at the centralization of education, we come to one very simple conclusion. it's not working. a classic example embedded in my opportunity agenda in the choice act is this notion of school choice. i'm a big believer that parents deserve more choices the fact is that the choice act helps us get there. here's a classic example. in d.c., the cost per student for a public education is around $21,000. i know that sounds like a very low number to some of ay'all. this side of the room said wow. this side of the room said

hmmmm. i'm going to talk to the hmmmm section here. for $21,000, 56% of the students graduate. very few of those students go on to get a two-year or four-year degree. my choice act embedded in the choice act is a d.c. opportunity scholarship. it allows for school choice in d.c. here are the results of school choice. i'll be right back. for the wow factor over here, the d.c. opportunity scholarship costs $8500 per student. $21,000 typical public education, $8,500 for school choice. 93% graduate versus 56%

graduating. 91% go on to a two-year or four-year institution. 93% of the parents are happy. if we were looking for a way to change the dynamics in who votes for us, the issue of education cannot be owned by the democrats. cannot be owned by the democrats. and when we do our part, i will tell you, the results are amazing. i'm taking this agenda around the country and i'm telling the truth, people love it. all people love the concept of choice so much so, i've noticed a couple things in d.c. when the people start liking something, the federal government sues. if there seems to be a

correlation to relationship, i don't know what it is, but in louisiana they decided to go forward with the school choice agenda and the federal government, the department of justice decided to say that you cannot help poor kids get a better education, unacceptable. it will hurt public education. i assume that's what they said. don't quote me on that one. but they said something like that as they attacked public education because of school choice in louisiana. i believe the way that you improve public education is to decentralize public education from washington d.c. and send the control, the decision-making, and the money back to the states. you can do that very quickly. think about the fact that the average employee at the department of education in

washington d.c. makes $103,000 a year, and the average teacher makes $53,000. people keep telling me that we have a money problem in education. i think we have a priority problem in education. this country spends $700 billion annually on education. we can do better. we should demand better. the second part of the choice act simply says this. kids with special needs deserve to maximize their individual potential. everyone in america deserves to understand their own potential. what we say is if you can't get the education your child needs in your zip code, you should

make the idea, the money for special needs kids, portable. just like we have school choice for vulnerable kids, we should allow the same thing for our kids with special needs. a great story out of south carolina, a young lady at the time i guess she was five years old. she was going to kindergarten. she has downs syndrome, rachel lewis. doing pretty well in mainstream classes. teachers got uncomfortable with her being around students, tried to push her into a special needs class. her parents fought to get her back into a mainstream class. after a year and a half they were successful and then they realized that ultimately these teachers who fought to get her out of the class are now responsible for educating her. so they took her to a private school, hidden treasure. 20 years later or 18 years later, she's now 20 years old. she graduated from hidden

treasures with her high school diploma and she doesn't have one job, she has two jobs. if we give people the opportunity to maximize their potential, they will succeed beyond our wildest imaginations. it's kind of like e feeshens 320. he is able to do above what we ask or even imagine. that's the picture i want for the kids. thank you. for the bottle of water, thank you very much. coming from south carolina where it's 95 degrees and the humidity is 100%, waking up at 58 or 60 degrees in colorado springs the other day, a little sniffle. i'm going back tonight and it will be 90 degrees in south carolina. my body is still adjusting.

by the time i get there it will be okay. thank you for the water. it's helpful. the second part of the opportunity agenda is, in fact, how do we build a better economy. i'll tell you a couple things. the clock says i have 3:30 seconds. my mama wanted a preacher which means i get three closes, not one. jobs in the economy. it's simple. if you look at the economy recovery around this nation, if we did not see success in the energy sector, we would not have this terrible anemic recovery we're having today. the balance of our success has been driven by our energy production. today our president is considering whether we should federalize the rules and regulations around fracking, horizontal drilling and taking

over the energy industry. i think that's a bad idea. y'all think that's a bad idea? i'll tell you that one of my bills in my opportunity agenda is called the see jobs act. i believe there are resources in the atlanta o.c.s. if we're able to seismic the atlanta o.c.s. we'll discover, i believe, deposits of gas. if we do that, south carolina could see $1.8 billion of new revenue just from one state. the whole four-state region will see, i think 10 or $12 billion of more revenue. 9 million jobs a day in america are connected to oil and gas. it can double in the next 15 or 20 years. we can see south dakota unemployment all across america that, once again, if it starts working right, the president thinks it's wrong. that's a problem we can sove.

we can solve that problem. let me close with this. over the next several months you guys and gals will have an opportunity to send help to the united states senate to corey gardener. we have to have -- corey's cousins are clapping for him. those of you not related to corey can also clap. we need corey gardener in the united states senate, period. if we are going to succeed in 2014 we've got to win six seats while holding onto the 45 that we have. i have colorado on our map. so we need 51. number two, if we're going to have a real shot, if we want to improve the likelihood of our success in 2016, we need the house and the senate on the same page using reconciliation and

other budgetary opportunities to push an agenda to the president's desk and make him say yes or no to things like the keystone pipeline and tax reform, lowering corporate taxes. we have to figure out how to tackle the toughest issues coming our way and that takes a majority in the senate and the majority in the house. and with your help, this is a key state. the west was won by the conservatives. we need your help. by doing so, we will return america to the brightest path forward with the greatest opportunities for success, and we'll see more kids like me rising up not to be senators, but to be ceos, presidents, and difference makers in their communities. god bless you, god has already blessed the united states of america.

>> all right, who's winning the fight on the right. i want to welcome back mary katherine, second time to the summit guy and thirdly, james golden, summit newcomer, great book out there, assault and flattery. thanks to the four of you for being with us today. last night at the opening of summit 2014 we heard the remarkable dr. ben carson

propose a truce between the rhinos and the tea party. someone came up to me afterward, two sisters at the summit for the second time from southern california, the simon sisters. the first words out of their mouth were they're loving the program and right after that john, don't ever let the establishment take over the western conservative summit. you got to keep away from those rhinos. so there it is in a nutshell. one approach is conciliations. the other approach is polarization. let's get started with guy benson. guy, who is winning the fight on the right? we look at establishment versus tea party. we look at social conservative versus libertarian. we look at drug legalizers versus drug enforcers. we look at foreign affairs, national security hawks versus

noninterventionists. who's winning and are we hurting ourselves more than we're hurting the enemy. >> thanks for having me back and look at this crowd. thank you all for being here. john and his team put on a tremendous event. i think all of us do a lot of conferences over the course of any given year and the western conservative summit is one that i'm really always looking forward to because it is a first class operation. it's a loaded question that john asks obviously and sort of covered a lot of ground in his question. i would say there are a few different ways because i was ruminating how to answer this. you can attack it from various angles. you can look at the 2014 cycle and look at the primary fights that have happened. who has had the upper hand on this tea party grassroots versus establishment struggle and tug of war that's going on and there are examples in both columns. mitch mcconnell easily won against a tea party challenger

in kentucky. tom tillis won his primary there so the establishment had a kl notches on their belt. in nebraska you had ben sasser. eric cantor was stunningly defeated, something no one saw happening. and then there are the sweet spots. you have joni ernst in iowa. another way to approach the question is to look through the prism of the upcoming 2016 cycle and the potential republican field of candidates. while i think that's wildly premature, the first rule of political commentary is that it's never too early too baselessly and recklessly speculate about the next presidential election so perhaps we'll get into that. but if you want my candid and honest opinion to the very

simple question, who is winning the fight on the right, it's this. the left. the left is winning the fight on the right. because we are spending an enormous amount of time and energy and passion and money beating the tar out of each other while they don't. i was reading the wall street journal this week -- >> you would, rhino. >> they had an info graphic about spending this cycle, in 2014, from the biggest super pacs on the right and left. they took the top three super pacs on the right and the top three super pacs on the left and they broke down the numbers. overall the democrat top three super pacs have spent $24.1 million whereas the republican

side was spent 13.8 monda$13.8 . the democrats are very comfortable spending lots of big money as long as it's big liberal money on politics. if you look further into the numbers and this is where the journal's piece was so important, of the $13.8 million spent by those top republican leaning super pacs, 74% of that money was spent fighting primaries, 74%. on the democratic side of the $24.1 million they've spent, 90% of it was on general election to beat the right, to beat conservative. only ten percent went to their primary fights. i'm not here to say that we shouldn't have robust debates on foreign policy, social issues and what have you on the center right. we should have those things. we are a party and a movement of ideas and debating things openly is important. i'm not saying that we should just crown people, nominees,

without blinking an eye and do what the democrats do which is immediately and unquestioningly stand up and salute. they're much better than we are and i don't think we ought to aspire to be just like them. however, we have to think about strategically, when it makes sense to fight against one another, how to kiss and make up and go onto the real battle united. if we don't do that, the left will continue to eat us for lunch every single cycle and they are absolutely thrilled to watch this fight play out. i think that's the challenge to all of us here and in this room to figure out how to avoid that, how to navigate those seas. i will say again on a positive note, i think what you've done on the senate race here in colorado is exactly what needs to be done nationally. thank you. >> guy, thanks. that gets us off to a great start. just thinking about that act row nim that we throw at each other

on the right, republican in name only, rhino, do you hear the other political party sniping and calling each other a dyno in name only. we all agree that the liberal progressive socialists know strum advertise that fail again and again are about extinct on the dinosaurs don't call them dinos. katie, what say you? >> i think they've won in a couple instances but you can't talk about this topic without looking at where the battle between the nonestablishment and the establishment actually comes from. that comes from people being frustrated with the republicans versus democrats and not seeing a difference between the parties in washington d.c. the reason why they have a conservative movement in a tea party movement the way that we've seen it is because after

president bush left in 2008 president obama came in and people said there's not a lot of difference here between what big spending republicans are doing and what big spending democrats are doing. that's why it was important that grassroots activists got into that cycle and had an incredible historic movement. debate is a very good thing and i think we can talk about serious issues without demonizing each other and come to an agreement. guy is right when he says the left is winning when we continue agree on issues. the establishment and conservatives, nonestablishment agree on a lot of big things that can have a big political impact. obamacare is one of them. the irs scandal is another one. i think that if we focus on issues that we can all agree on to fight the left, that's how we can win. it's really important to stay focused that this is not a one size fits all policy. we've seen, as guy pointed out,

the differences between, say, lindsey graham winning in south carolina for example was different than what happened in virginia with eric cantor. the immediate headlines are tea party loses or establishment wins. the media i think fuels a lot of the war that goes on between us on the right as well, whether it's true or not. so it's important to have healthy disagreement and i think the best solutions are found by looking at our difference, airing our differences in a nonpersonal attack way and behind closed doors and talking about how we can come to agreements on some very, very big issues. and we have a lot of those. you mentioned libertarians versus social conservatives. there are a lot of libertarians who are pro life. that's an issue we can win on and an issue we can bring people who maybe aren't on the right in on according to polling. so there's a lot of things that we can come to an agreement on. nobody is going to get everything that they want. one of the biggest frugs traces

that i've seen is when ted cruz did his filibuster for example, the immediate reaction is he is crazy, why is he doing this. everyone is going to remember the government shutdown. no one remembers the government shutdown. that was false that was put forward by the media. i don't like that the establishment whatever there's an idea from the grassroots it's put off. when you've been in power for 30 years you feel threatened and you don't want to power taken away from you. i think that we really have to take a serious look at where will the fight on the right comes from and that is there isn't that big of a difference in washington right now between republicans and democrats and i think it's time for big government republicans to take a hard look at the way that they're voting and the way that they're in bed with cronie capitalism. it's really easy for people who have been in the senate or

congress for 30 years to pooh-pooh ideas coming from the grassroots and saying those ideas aren't going to work when washington isn't working very well. we've seen conservative grassroots infiltrate d.c. and there's been a lot of frustration about gridlock but the whole point of the way the system was set up was to slow things down so we weren't passing through all of these things. when republicans were in charge under george w. bush we didn't do a very good job and when we expanded government significantly and then the left came in in 2009 government again was expanding significantly. we're at a tipping point now where we have to reign government in and fall on the side of less government or we're never going to be able to fix it. we should come to an agreement on the right and do it in a way that isn't attacking each other and we have to look at where

this fight comes from. it comes from people in washington d.c. getting comfortable with agreeing with each other on both sides of the aisle and not wanting to reign in government spending. >> that's great. katie. thank you very much. get aload of the hat and jacket on james golden. summit 2013 veterans will remember that i had serious fashion envy when moderating the james golden panel a year ago. my crack staff did some focus grouping on an andrews fashion makeover because i wanted to be as hip as james golden in 2014. clearly i have made very, very little progress. i am wearing the new centennial institute, limited edition, 1776

signature tie. the 2012 edition was blue, politically fitting. the 2014 edition is red, we hope politically prophetic. there's a great women's scarf in the 1776 motif. it's a great conversation starter. be sure to get one at the exhibit booth. here's where i have gone out and gone pretty wild. with the example of george h.w. bush and egged on by members of our media team, jeff and marty, we're now into the crazy socks, okay? so at least from the ankle down, andrews is no longer shall we say a dinosaur. i'll be, windowi working on the me. who's winning the fight on the right. no cross roads in america gets more of this debate than the rush limbaugh show. when somebody dials that number and waits in line for 90 minutes, it's you that's holding them.

what do you think, james? >> number one, i think you're a pretty hip guy, okay? and proof positive of how hip you are is that you are making such a difference with your leadership, western conservative is growing to be one of the premier political events in this country. congratulations to you and everybody who put this together. and you speak about rush. i just want to talk a minute and say how blessed i am to have worked with rush limbaugh for so many years and what a great and amazing human being he is. and i thank him. i thank god for bringing that man into our life and into our country and to all of you who listen and support the show, thank you so much. now who's winning? it's obvious. you told me right. the left is winning this hands down. and they are whipping inning ont just the left wingers, but left wing media is having a field day.

they play us conservatives as if sometimes a struggle of power hits. they know what will set it off. if you want to know who else is winning the forces of intolerance of winning, and you need to look no further than what just happened in mississippi. for an example of what happens when this gets really ugly and people are prepared to put everything into this battle against each other and yet what we keep waiting for is somebody to take the same energy and oppose the administration in washington, d.c. and that never happens. so what we get is a full-fledged war, and it has been, a full-fledged war on the tea party since almost day one. i've never seen in my life where you have a majority handed to you in a majority that can flip

the house. the 2010 elections were historic. and they should have been historic because it was a seat change. and instead, what you have instead of actual seat changing politically, and back stop to what was going on with the obama administration, you have the republican leadership pretty much ignore the victory that was handed to them. and squander what could have been a natural alliance with the tea party. who won? are they winning? is the tea party winning? absolutely not. the only ones that could be winning politically is the left. one of the thing that we have to do, as conservatives, is win. this is the war for the heart and soul of the republican party. a third party is goning to cut it.

you just dilute it to the point that we will never win elections again. we conservatives have to win this for the heart and soul of the republican party. that is our mission. it is that simple. >> well said. >> from the panel, mary katherineham was with us when the summit was just getting started back in 2011. she was with us via skype last year. i think an historic first. the first west enconservative summit. baby brought no this world as part of the next conservative generation. baby daughter's home with dad now, 11 months old. we are glad she is with us for the third, mary katherine, what say you? >> thank you for having me. i would have brought my daughter, but frankly she was a lot more quiet last year than she is now. she is not mic ready. she is with her dad.

it is an honor to be here with you guys, who do so much great work in your communities. and who wage this fight in ways big and small all the time. and it is also really cool to be here with you, who i've heard so much about for years and to finally meet you in person. is a blast. i think just to echo a couple things that you guys said, yes to katie. the media is interested in our fight. but that's part of our issue. and playing into that is something that we need to be wary of, especially when things get so ugly, as in mississippi. and a brief example, a friend of mine who does conservative politics got a call from a reporter the other day putting together a panel of conservatives who disagree on guy marriage. to talk about where this issue is going. when there are so many other things to talk about. and she said, i'm not really so interested in relitigating all offes this issues that we disagree on.

when she was done having the conversation with the media, comes to me and says, you know, i never see the panel where they put democrats with fracking activists and have them fight about what they disagree about. [ applause ] >> and so i think we just need to be aware of that. and some of these things are not easily changeable. you go to war with the media, you have the constructive criticism you need sometimes. but beaware of that. i want to maybe take this in a slightly different direction by saying one of the issues of fighting with each other is that it can wall us off from the new people we want to speak to. because they hear a bunch of more conservatives than you bickering and they just cannot relate to that. because perhaps they have never identified as conservatives. perhaps they're hearing only fighting and not ideas that

speak to them. i think that's something we need to be wary about. and i want to offer a couple of issues where we can speak to new people and many establishment folks and tea party folks and libertarians can come together on something that is principled and conservative. i will get -- i apologize, a little al sharpton on you. because these are going to rhyme. all right? overregulation, sued in libations, educations, and innovation. these are all areas where the left is full of many state fun-suckers trying to ruin everything.

on overregulation, most of us can agree. this is where the debate is healthy. because it is true, that within the establishment, the people have you on the opposite side of these issues and opposite side of where they should be, they are establishment republicans. they have been inside the board too long and they are functionally with the left on some of these issues. i think the tea party has done an amazing job of pulling some of those people back to where they should be and we continue to fight that fight. but on overregulation, we all know, it crushes dreams. it creates situations where people cannot rise up. so that's something i think all of us can agree on and make an argument about and many people in america do not understand that the regulations bit hundreds handed down everyday, diminish the american dream little by little every time they happen. and that's one argument we can make. on food and libations, first of

all, young people who would like to reach really hate michelle obama's school lunches. they also are not particularly fond of soda bans. >> how did the first lady turn into the lunch lady anyway? >> i know. so i think that's an area where we can talk to new people. and sometimes globally, frankly. when you've got people sort of default liberals who really love local food and farm to table and all of the things that left talk about, those things require freedom. they require the fda not to come in and say, i'm sorry. your homemade sausage that you would like to sell to your neighbors doesn't have enough nitrates in it for our taste. so you are not allowed to make these free transactions among free people. and when that happens, it

crushes a dream, crushes a small business and makes life less fun for people who would like to eat delicious pork products. and we can make that argument to people and make it to new people. education, obviously. freedom to choose is of dire importance and of most importance in communities we're not reaching. finally, innovations, that's right, you like my al sharpton bit? issue -- i know you guys know about it, alternative to taking a cab. liberals love it. they are literally limb zone liberals on this issue. they like having a limo come pick them up because they ordered it on their smart phone. so suddenly they're libertarians. they don't want local government and taxi cartels to come down on these things. young people, i think, are very

transactional about politics. what is it doing for me? sometimes that makes me sad. buzz a lot of times they go, thank you government for doing this for me. we can make an argument that looks, this is where government is standing in your way. often not doing things well. teaming up with unions to keep you from -- so yeah we can be on board with this. many have been good at identifying these are areas where we can make an argument. so i want to offer that, that the people will be establishment republicans sometimes. >> speaking of food, that's great. thank you. that's great. i'll see your al sharpton and raise you dr. seuss. your fans here at the summit, every time we say less green

eggs and more ham, okay? i've got a food thing going yesterday. green eggs and ham doesn't work as well as steak and tofu. >> green eggs is just a metaphor for juan. >> that's right. it is on c-span. it's going on. >> love you, juan. >> we have a living memory of the great reagan victory of the '80s. and you have living memory you were fairly young in the gingrich '94. we agreed on 80% and disagreed

amicableably opt other, 20%. start with you, james. is that just a false nostalgia? was it really better back then or have we always had these kind of fights on the right? >> reagan was a better leader than what we have today. if you remember the period like i remember the period, the left absolutely detested ronald reagan. as quiet as it is kept, so did certain republicans, which we would now call the establishment republicans. they didn't want ronald reagan as their first choice. what made him a great president is that he did not waiver from his convictions. he knew what he wanted to do. you can get into the nuances of politics and this and that. but what he wanted to do, optimism, number one. he believed in the greatness of the american people and he was not ashamed to say it. this is a great country. i love this country. and everything, every being, particle of this man, loved

america. that's one. reasons that america loved him back. number two, he wanted a strong defense. he understood what the risks were from communism, and still are, by the way, from communism he and terrorism, and was not afraid to build up the military. they made fun of him, called him a duns, all of that. yet this man among with margaret thatcher ant pope changed the history. giving us unsustained economic freedom and prosperity that's been unmatched. and he did this with an unfriendly media and with democrats that couldn't stand him. it is possible do this again. >> so to come not just to an approach but to inspire and motivate around that approach. i asked the three of you, i think of you two young guns, we

have three of them up here this morning, katie, how about you? as you study your history, you didn't list through that period, but as a pundit, have we always had these battles and divisions to overcome, as you see it? >> i actually had the honor of being at the reagan ranch center yesterday. so i got a little refresher on reagan's time in office. i think that we've always had these battles. but i this i what made reagan great is when people said it was impossible to get these thimgs done in washington. that's not the way we do things here. he said, i don't care if this is the way you do things here, we are going to do things here. there have always been disagreements and i think that's healthy. disagreements for a great idea. i think disagreements allow us to come up with new way dose things and get rid of bad ideas and we're always going to have an establishment for grass roots battle as long as people are allowed to stay in office for 30

kbre years at a time. when people are able to hold on to power, they don't want to give it up easily. so when people feel threatened, they will disagree. but i think we can do it again. we are well on our way for the 2010 election. extremely successful, historic indictment against big government. and i think in 2014 this year, we have some really good candidates who i think will go to washington and try do their best to turn back that tide of continuing government. we can't do it again and we will continue to have disagreement and that's okay. >> i will ask to be taken out by giving us a name or two, i think all five would agree up here, it is futile to look for the next reagan but that ability to inspire and unite around a common vision and to bridge the divide. who do you see out there, mary

katherine, that's good at this? >> let me say first that when it comes to reagan, and i got a refresher course as well this week, because i watched the address that reagan gave after the korean airlines flight was shot down, and thank you for thinking of me as someone who maybe didn't live through the years. but i have some memory for it. i noticed there wasn't an applause line for under 35 in the crowd. so i do remember some of that. but i rewatched that speech and i kind of expected going into it -- of course i will like reagan better than obama, if that's all the comparison. i'm wired that way. but what really struck me, especially having been in politics for 24 hours a day during era for a while, is the

intellect he assuessumed in the american people. the confidence he had in them. the prosecutorial laying out of the facts. and for the american people to approach that with an open mind. >> he gave us credit. approached us like grown-ups. like citizens. >> yes. frankly, i get frustrated sometimes. maybe if you're explaining, you're losing. but i need to explain some things. you see the studies where they are all over the map on what they believe politically. an lot of confidence in government but still want government do everything. they want budget cuts but ng to any of the things they like. there are always paradoxes that make you scared. having confidence that we can and giving the american people credit, it is part of the battle. so i just want to commend him for doing that. >> and great thoughts to go back and find youtube reagan addressing that kal flight 7

from 1983. a couple of sometimes that you think are not the political scene and perhaps rising farce that have that ability to pull it together. if you care to mention a name or two that are examples of how we shouldn't do it and do that too. >> you were asking how things change on the right. i want to point out quickly how the left changed. just over the last few decades. in 1993, the religious freedom restoration act passed congress with three total descenting votes. both houses. over 97-3 in the he is not rate. sponsored by fed kennedy. signed by president clinton. this weekend every single democrat voted to overturn the hobby lobby decision, which is base owned that bill. the protections in that bill. we're not dealing with our daddy's democratic party any more. not even close.

they never talk about how radical the democratic party has become. so i wanted to make that point, which is unresponsive to john's question. but it is important to point out. >> we're on a hard break. i need a name or two that has that unifying vision. >> i will now answer that question, john. i have watched what scot walker has done. he has stood up to them, laid out the facts. treated the people of wisconsin like adults. and he is in for a very tough fight again this year for a reelection. the media is out to get him. if he can win for the third time in four years in wisconsin, i think he should at left get a

look from our side heading into '16. >> and walker was great kicking off western summit a year ago. a lot of us were here. okay. as we wrap the pand el. panel. some returning three times. as the rookie, katie, we want to initiate you. they got their ultimate glamour portrait last year. i hope we have the slide of katie's glamour portrait. please come back often. thank you, guys. katie, mary katherine and james golden. wednesday on c-span 3, washington journals interview of university of minnesota president eric hailer. part of a special series of

universities in the big 10 conference. that's followed by part of this year's nation conference. selections from the usa an newell convention and progressive politics from the campaign for america's future. travellers entering the u.s. from any of the three west africa country reporting an ebola outbreak must enter through one of five airports. airports in new york newark, washington, atlanta and chicago, quick to screen passengers for the virus. here is the white house press seconded to say about it. >> on two other subjects, department of homeland security just announced that any travellers from west africa from

liberia and sierra leone will have to go through the five airports you had designated. and screening measures and as you have said last week that that covered virtually everybody that was coming in from the country but not entirely. why was not this policy that is being in today putting place back then since it would have been presumably 100% coverage? >> what we said for some time is that president stands to further protect the american public and this is an example of american travel restriction that could be put in place by our homeland security officials to ensure safety and security of the american public. when the president was asked in the oval office on thursday evening of last week about a travel ban, the president explained why he believed the travel ban would not be in the best interest of american public safety but did indicate an openness to travel restrictions

that could be put in place to protect the american public. this is an example of one of the travel restrictions and -- this is relatively creative policy making. airlines were flying from a variety of countries from pure yop to the united states. it did require work with other countries. there is a lot going into the development of the policy. i'm pleased to see it is being implemented, starting tomorrow, i believe. >> which step does the administration take in the event that any of the travellers enter the are they in both northern and southern entry points? >> it is my understanding that dhs is focused as well.

there's been a lot of public attention on the screening measures in place for individuals arriving at the airport. there are more screening for those that arrive at sea ports and over land ports of not try as well. for those details, i would pass you along to homeland secure whoit have the details. >> members of congress have been weighing in on the new west africa travel restrictions. fred upton said, i continue to believe more comprehensive travel restrictions can be used to keep ebola from spreading and allow us to train all of our resources on treating the sick and this disease in the effected kun countries. michael mccall released this in statement. in addition requiring all travellers from at-risk countries to fly through airports with enhanced screening

measures in place, i can see a call on the administration p. this is from liberia, sierra leon and new guinea. well follow the latest on the u.s. response from ebowl why. can you see it on-line any time at c-span upon the org. now more western conservative summit. first tea party co-founder jenny beth martin talks about undocumented children along the u.s./mexico border np then in 15 minutes, former lieutenant gov betsy mccaughey talks about the affordable care act. finally this 3 minutes, gel better guill rey ordonez y talks about his switch to the republican party. this part of the forum is just under an hour. >> thank you senator andrews,

how is everyone doing? isn't this an amazing event? yesterday, after all of the events, i was reflecting on the tea party. when i think of the original tea party, i'm reminded of frustrated government appearance. frustrating and dumping tea into boston harbor. their principled protest, they could not have known their demonstration would be the movement hundreds of years later. and they would never guess a savvy businesswoman and mother two of would lead the charge. jenny beth martin is the political strategist in 2009 responded to the call for a new kind of party. frustrated by government, fully commit together grass roots movement and today hail eats tea party's co-founder. tirelessly working for return, the constitutional principalsco.

jenny beth overseas nearly 2,000 affiliates and plor than 15 million members. in additishe is also a frequent on every tv, radio and news outlet in the country. she blogs about everything from household menu plans to irs discrimination. i, for one, do not know how she does it. we are so tremendously blessed to have this revolutionary with us today. please help me welcome, jenny beth martin.

>> thank you. i bring you to the war of 1812. just yesterday morning i woke in texas having spent the bet ae b part of the last week, seeing for myself, and for you, exactly what is happening on our southern border. i spent that time talking with local sheriffs and residents. hearing directly from the front lines and learning firsthand about the problems on the border. we hear calls from people on the left and even some in the republican party saying we must launch what they call a humanitarian effort. they tell us we must care for the unaccompanied minors coming into our country. they tell us we must not, no, we cannot, send these young people home.

they tell us we must borrow even more money from china to house and clothe and feed and inoculate and treat these strangers who broke into our home. well, i am a mother, i am a woman, i am a christian and i'm proud to say, i am an american. i have listened to these arguments and i checked them against my heart and my head. my experience and my values. and to these arguments i need the one word to respond. no. [ applause ] disagree? go to the american border and speak to the citizens with whom i have spoken. learn about the crime.

local residents will tell you they have seen a flood of illegal residents pour into their city last two years. they will tell you how crime against persons and property has increased. sheriffs means and del rio tell us of residents along river who have had their homes robbed. everything from televisions to washing machines to copper wire. stolen from homes, put on floats -- put on rafts and floated across the river into mexico. i saw a photo of a home where a mother and her children had to hide under the bed for safety while a band of immigrants started shooting outside their home. these are american citizens who call this part of o you are country home for the last decade. many for generations. they do not want to give up

their property and they should not be forced to do so. we saw a 2.8 mile stretch in del rio texas, 2.8 miles. now to keep that in perspective, the border -- along the border between texas and mexico is 1200 miles. unless you're a member of the new york times editorial board, you have no trouble seeing the problem here. you realize how easy it is to go around and still get into the country. people have literally walked around the fence about 20 feet to the east of where it begins. if it were not so serious, this

would be for jon stewart. then there are the coyotes. even people who smuggle human beings across the border for profit. the coyotes get their money up front. consequently in the words of bureaucrats ever where, they are disinsent advised to care whether the people they are smuggling into america make it alive. retired sheriff's, who started the border sheriff's coalition, tell us there are times when the coyotes, cornered by authorities, will abandon their car. with people in the trunk. which might not be so bad, except sometimes they do it while driving across the rio grande. and then they just watch as their car sinks in the river and they escape the border patrol. and the evil doesn't stop there.

sheriffs confirm that they are running the show on the southern side of the border. and all too often on the u.s. side as well. the drug cartels are sophisticated and cunning yet it is not rocket science for them to climb out from atop buildings in mexico, use binoculars and see when and where the boarder patrol are and send their network through an area that's not being covered.rder patrol are and send their network through an area that's not being covered. sheriffs confirm that as soon as one area beefs up security, the illegal immigration in that area increases while not surprisingly it decreases in other areas on the border. people don't realize how the administration has entered people illegally subjecting them to this evil in the process. president obama's deferred action for childhood arrival

program, another one dictates the written laws of this nation, sending people to central and south america, saying if they just get into our country they will be able to stay. images of plane rides, flat screen tvs, soccer balls and teddy bears, send messages that children will be cared for and showered with material gifts. but the media is blocked from the detense centers where many of the children are sick. for the young children cry themselves to sleep wanting their parents. reports ignore how the trek to the united states can be. articles for some reason don't mention that overwhelming majority of these so-called children are actually mid teen boys, 16, 17, 18 years old. just a perfect age for gangs. the young people are at the

mercy of the drug cartels and brutal desert heat. they risk injury and death if they are not pulled into the drug cartel and used for other purposes. friends, what we are seeing is neither moral nor compassionate. it is neither moral nor kmagsate to encourage parents to send their children off to embark on a life or death truck with an uncertain outcome. it is neither moral nor compassionate to put children at risk of bodily injury, disease and death or possibly even worse, life is a game played. it is neither moral nor compassionate to put our hardworking american families who live on the border in such great risk. it is neither moral nor compassionate to force the

american public to borrow another $3.7 billion from china to pay for a border bailout. unfortunately, those in washington are responding to the border crisis in the way they always do. roll the bureaucracy, concentrate more power in washington, d.c. and for more of our hard-earned tax dollars that's be a problem, just like the sale used by politicians to cover up the problems of their own creation and pay out special interest. there are 3.7 billion border bailout rewards the president's allies, bails the centralized bureaucracy and concentrates more power in the hands of the government. this border bailout is so bad, would we be opposed to it?

even if it were free? we don't need it, we don't want it, and we oppose it. no border bailout. let me have a show of hands. how many of you have flown anywhere around the country in the last year? at beginning of every airline flight, we are remind need should the cabin lose pressure even oxygen mask deploy, we need to put them on ourselves first before we reach over and help others. why? because if we don't take care of ourselves first, we are no good to anybody. let's call it the delta rule. tea party patriots headquartered in atlanta, i fly delta air lines a lot. i suggest to be truly

compassionate, to be truly moral, we apply the delta rule to the border. first, take care of our own, then take care of others. instead after border bailout, simply respect the law and secure the border. millions of immigrants come to the border legally. we are for legal immigration. we are against illegal immigration. there already is a path to citizenship for those wishing to come to america. a legal path to citizenship.

our government should not reward those who choose to get off the path, cut in line and break the law. do so would be immoral. in fact, immoral with a ton of unfairly punish those who obey the law and follow the rules. by simply respecting the rule of law, we will send a message to the rest of the world that we welcome immigrants who come here legally and reject those who do not. one of the things that makes america exceptional is the notion we are a nation of laws, not a nation of men. but we will only be a nation of laws as long as we abide by the law. so today, i'm on a mission to recruit you for a mission.

to rally an opposition to this proposed border bailout. it is immoral for the president to decide on his own a clear violation of the u.s. law that he will not send back illegal immigrant no matter what their age. the deferred wild hood action law must end immediately. it is immoral for the president to seek to borrow billions more to pay for the bailout. it is immoral for congress to consider giving him what he seeks. call your congressmen, write your senators, give them one simple message. no, tell them to vote no on border bailout.

and if you feel so inclined, you can add a personal note. tell them to vote no on the border bailout or i'll be voting no on you in november. thank you, god bless you and god bless the united states of america. >> i am so glad to be with you today. because we are in the fight of our live time. our access to our doctors and hospitals, our religious freedom, our send second

amendment right and the rule of law, the very basis of our society, are all under attack. you will play a key roll in helping us take back the united states senate this fall this this country. and you will be decisive in selecting the next president of the united states. there are republicans in washington who say we ought to settle for fixing this health law within the friem work of the health law. they are saying that because they haven't read the health law. if they had, they would know that it is rotten to the core. and i urge you to choose a

president of the united states who will fully repeal this law. a president who will reign in the government spending and a president who will take seriously his or her duty, sworn duties, to defend and uphold the constitution of the united states. because this law threads your constitutional rights. it lowers your standard of care. it puts government in charge of your care and it takes away something as precious as life itself, your liberty. this law requires almost everyone to enroll in a one size fits all government designed health plan. when you go to file your taxes, you have to attach proof for the

irs that you are enrolled in such a plan. attaching the proof will shield you from an irs penalty. but it will subject you to a degrief government control and entrugs unprecedented in american history. for the first time in american history. this law empowers the secretary of health and human services. to dictate how doctors treat privately insure eps patients. so even if you have aetna or cign a a, and you paid for it out of your own pocket, the government can still call the shots. yes.f your own pocket, the government can still call the shots. yes. section 11yes, read it and you

will see. doctors and hospitals will obey whatever regulation the secretary imposes in the name of quality. well, that blanket authority can cover everything in medicine. when a cardiologist chooses to use a stint versus bypass. when an ob-gyn ordered a son grm or does a cesarian. your doctor will be legally retired to epder your medical information into a nationwide interoperative electronic data base seen by thousands of eyes. your doctor's decisions will be monitored for compliance with these government guidelines. which are being written right now. your doctor may have to avoid what is best for you. now your president said he would solve the problem of the

uninsured by making premiums lower. but instead, you all got the bill in the mail. it takes $716 billion out of medicare over the decade and move it over to fund the expansion of medicaid. it is rock grandma to spread the wealth. that right. even richard foster the president's chief actuary warned that the cuts to medicare are so severe, that some hospitals may stop taking medicare. where will hospitals go in other hospitals are reresponding to

the severity of the cuts by laying off thursdays everywhere. and i advise people, if you know you're going to the hospital for surgery, for example, try to wobble together enough money for a private doughty nurse, at least for the first night. because when you push that button for pain control or health in the middle of the night, you will wait too long. and if you're a baby boomer, 60 or 61, line up your doctors now. line up your cardiologist. line up your internist. don't wait. in because in you wait until medicare, the doctor doesn't even want to take you on as a new patient. doctors are paid less for seniors than any other kind of patient. in addition to these across the board cuts to medicare, section 3001, award bonus points to the

hospitals that spend the least for per senior. now think about that. not for patient. per senior. we know that hospitals have higher death rates for congestive heart rates, pneumonia, older patients in those hospitals have a poor chance of surviving their illness and making it home again and this law is pressuring other hospitals to imitate the hospitals that have the high death rate. this provision will also mean that fewer seniors get hip replacements, knee replacements, angioplasty, bypass surgery, cataract operation. those are the surgeries that have transformed the aging in

our country. when i was little, i remember little people were trapped in wheel chairs with crippling arthritis or stuck in nursing homes because they were so out of breath because of congestive heart failure. they continue o work. they travel, play with their grand children. they even come to meetings like this one. . that's right. that's right. and obama care will undue that process. the stakes are very high here. because if you're serious, the best place to be is in the united states. oh, yes, don't let anybody tell you differently. a woman in the united states diagnosed with breast cancer has nearly 90% chance of surviving it. in europe her chances are less than arithmetic, it means

she is twice as likely to die there.. you do the arithmetic, it means she is twice as likely to die there. nearly 1 of every 4 men in prostate cancer in europe dies from it. and if someone in your family, has what we currently call an incurable illness, this is the nation of hope. this is where the cures are developed. since 1950, the united states has won more nobel prizes than the entire rest of the world combined and that's why defeating this law is the fight of our lifetime. that's right. we're not going to give up on this. congress has taken this bill and put it in the paper slhredder ad

given us a 20-page bill. a bill that members of congress would actually read before voting on it. 20 pages aught to be enough. the framers of our constitution established the entire federal government in just 18 pages. that's right. i've written a 20-page bill that i will share with you that will replace this. it is the very size of this. that makes it so dangerous. you know, the cheap architective constitution james madison, wrote in federalistic 5 cautioning against congress ever passing a law and here are madison's own words. so volume nous that no one could read it. or so frequently changed that a

reasonable person would not know what the law is. that is obama care twitchy. yes. yes. and our wallness president has repeatedly rewritten, revised, deleted, and delayed, and distorted this law. so that health plan he is rolling out now bears little resemblance to what congress actually enacted in 2010. and that is the most important reason that we must win a sizeable majority in the united states senate this fall. not simply to slow down obama care. no. but in addition, we must elect a new senate majority leader. a new senate majority leader who

will have a chat with the president. and we mind the president that in these united states the rule of law is king, not mr. obama. pe must be able to dangle the sword of impeachment over this lawless president's head. not that we would actually want to put our nation through such an ordeal but we must have a sufficient majority in the united states senate it make the threat credible. but that threat is the tool that framers gave us in our constitution to defend our freedom. we must also vote out of office this fall. the spendaholics who have gained control.

taken the government into their grip. the spendaholics. because under the obama administration, they push federal spending up as high as 25% of gdp. then you add in state and local government spending and you're up to 42% of gdp. 42% of everything all of us produced going to work everyday. 42% of the fruits of our likor are sucked up by government program. do you get 42% of your happiness from government? no, no. in the midst of world war when we were fighting for our survival as a nation, nothing

today, justifies government appropriating 42% of the fruits of our labor. it's wrong. that's right, it's wrong. we must put a stop to it. the fact is, that our government has been hijacked by people who don't share our values or value our freedom. the spendaholics are pushing government spending up to levels commonly found in european countries. we americans don't want to be europeanized. no. no. in europe people toil to support the state. in america we work to support ourselves.

at least that's the way it's always been. but now, the federal bureaucracy is run by the bureaucrats for the bureaucrats. they have taken the service out of civil service. it's gone. let's face it, no system ever pays more than they would get in the private sector. no more than we get in the private sector. it is virtually impossible to fire them. no accountability. right? irs employees, taking home big bonuses at the end of the year even when they have been found guilty of not filing their own taxes. imagine. and you saw this one. general services employee on the front page of papers all across the united states sitting shirtless in a hot tub with a glat

glass of wine on the taxpayers' money. he returns with full benefits. how about this story? a v.a. surge yojon suspended for 14 days for abandoning his patient unconscious on the operating table before the procedure was complete. he still gets an $11 thousand bonus at the end of the year. these federal bureaucrats are living on easy treat and they are putting us on the road to surf dom. that's right.dom. that's right. and think about it. think about what is happening as result. we are hijacked by people who don't val you're our freedom. they put the state over the head of our individual.

but you and i, you and i have a rendezvous with destiny because we are going to elect a president of the united states who will fully repeal the obama health law. a president whole raip in the power and size of this beheme oj federal government. we should eliminate the department of energy. environmental protection. education. and most importantly, let's get rid of that department of the interior because the land belongs us to. it shouldn't be long to the federal government. that's right. and we will elect a president. who takes seriously, his or her

oath, to defend the constitution of the united states, the finest document ever created by mankind. this is the fight of our lifetime. this is a fight we must win. because you and i know one thing for sure, freedom isn't free. it's up to you and me. thank you. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. we can do this! thank you! thank you. thank you. thank you very much. >> douglas once famously stated, i'm a republican, a black

republican. and i intend to belong to no other party than the party of freedom in progress. those words describe the mind-set of a true public servant,on the party title and the name. the louisiana state senator guillory is a man of these words. recently changing to the republican party from the democratic side. when asked why he made that decision, he said, it is the right decision. bu because /* senator guillory is an example of leadership for all public servants across america. he has dedicated his life through the vietnam war serving in the united states navy. after of which he obtained his law degree from rutgers university and has been practicing law for over 30 years. he uses these experiences in the

committee meeting and decision making. he is also one in the community. he has invested in the community and community of louisiana through a nonprofit organization and being one with his constituents everyone issing them the judiciary committee, health and welfare and other committees. we is not responsible for all leadership is supposed to be all across america. it was said by martin luther king, jr. that human progress is neither automatic nor inevita e inevitable. every step towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice, struggling and suffer. tireless exertion and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ladies and gentlemen, i'm privileged to present you too man dedicated to this cause, for justice, for opportunity and for froe dom. a man in a fight for what is right and a man who will die with his boots on, senator

elbert guillory. ♪ ♪ >> good afternoon. joseph, thank you very much. that was extremely well done. young men like that -- [ applause ] and i see some other young people in this room. i'm very heartened to see them. i'm actually heartened to see so many types of americans here under one banner. speaking one language. the language of freedom and liberty but many, many colors of americans. happy to see you here. 14 months ago i was a democrat.

yes. once i was lost but now i'm found. for years, it's been a difficult fit. i was having difficulty in the meetings that we held p i was having difficulty in the vote that we were taking as the louisiana democrat party moved further and further left. a and just kind of left me standing there. then one day the head of the louisiana democratic party, also a senator, said that anyone who does not like obama care would only not like this wonderful idea because of the president african father. anyone who does that is a racist.

i pick up the phone, my 104-year-old mother, yes, mom? did you hear what that person said? it was all over the television and newspapers. yes, ma'am, i heard. did you agree with that? >> no i didn't. were you any part of that? no ma'am i was not. you better not because i don't want you to dishonor our family. i hung up the phone, called the registrar of our county and within a couple of minutes, i was a republican. so now i'm here what are we going to do.

240 years ago there were meetings like this held in america. so people met and talked with each other and tried to decide what we with do. how would we create -- what are we going to create for the future? what kind of nation will there be? and that is what we are doing today. men ut men and founding fathers and founding mothers, created a vision of a nation where people could live in freedom. live without government breathing down their necks. without government bots on their backs. without some government finger picking their pockets. without a government czar telling them thousand educate their children. without some government dictator selecting their doctors for them. no government, no government, no government. central to their vision was the

concept of very small government. and the democrat led administration there. vision has become a nightmare and every minute aspects of our lives. a r and there are the days of the revolution, the minutemen, warriors. it was their sacrifice. their energy that threw off the yolk of oppression of king george. today my brothers and sisters, you are, you in this room, are the minute men. it is out of these days of oppression that we in this room must create a new liberty and freedom, a new america of freedom. we've had almost a decade of

hope and change. seems like so much more. so much longer. hoping for a job and trying to live off the change in our pocket. the unemployment figures in the black community are so high, i haven't seen black unemployment this high since the great depression. what is happening in washington, d.c. is bad for all of us. my brothers and sisters, we need to chart a new course for america. we need to set forth our vision of the new america. so i have today to present to you ten points that i think the new america should adhere to. first and foremost, america must continue its tradition -- excuse me -- america must continue its tradition as a godly nation, a

prayerful nation. godline godliness-s a birthright of america. -s a birthright of america.i-s a birthright of america. s a birthright of america.s a birthright of america. our prayers in school have been set aside too long. prayer, only prayer, has the power to lift individuals, families and nations up from desolate moments. but we have let a small minority to come into our house and stop us from praying. this is our house. this is god's house, we must take it back. [ applause ] powerful net marked by effective

and smart spending, on tis day, we have troops stations in 16 7 nations.7 nations. i didn't know that planet earth had 167 nations. no one convinced me that we have a burning interest in 167 nations across this world. we need a new law. any politician who advocates sending americans into some forlorned escapade, his children or grand children should be sent to the front line. if we implement that law over night our military will become much more effective because there will be fewer, far fewer, fat old men jumping up and down trying to send our young people who harm's way on just a whim.

the third point for a new -- a renewed america, we should stop our war on children. we should outlaw abortion on demand.