if we do not focus on improving the g-20's ambition, it will be to contest -- to condemn the world to a new crisis. nobody in the g-20 is saying that we will not be examining the emergency is -- the current emergencies. the crisis has been overcome and we can manage the situation more calmly. i do not want us to come back to the usual routine. it is easier to be bold when the world is on the edge of a prospectus of than when calm prevails. today, we have a choice on facing -- we are facing a choice on completing the project have been started and deal with

unforeseen elements as they arise. or we could add new projects to those that are at a standstill for far too long and on which global prosperity and stability depends. france offers its partners action and ambition. only the g-20 has the weight, the legitimacy, and the decision-making power to give these projects of the future the impetus they need. for my part, although we will be consulting our partners, i can see three projects. the first one is the reform of the international monetary system, which will have to be tackled as early as next year. who can deny that the instability in currency exchange states is a potential threat to world growth. how can businesses plan for their production and exports

when the euro suddenly shoots from, say, from $1 euro parity to $1.60 and tumbling to $1.27. who can continue to advocate that we can produce in the eurozone and the dollarzone at such radical pace? we have been leaving -- we have been living in the day -- we have been in been international monetary non-system. we have not found a new international monetary system. i am not talking about returning to a fixed exchange-rate system. what is desirable is to create

instruments to prevent excessive currency volatility, the accumulation of imbalances, and the search for an ever higher level of foreign exchange reserves for emerging countries facing the sudden, massive withdrawal of international capital. we are aware of the fact that this is a sensitive issue. france plans to have it broached with its partners without taboos. i propose hosting an international seminar with monetary specialists which could be held, for example, in china. why not? it would be -- it a year to establish the britain would system. we could bring together the best monetary experts to come up with a system that would succeed.

first, we must strengthen our crisis-management mechanisms. since 1990, emerging countries have experienced 42 episodes of sudden international capital withdrawal, jeopardize in the stability and growth. -- jeopard rising -- jeopardize their stability and growth. we have to have more efficient, multi-lateral systems and we're looking at the ims instruments, . the world must be capable of mobilizing a very large sum to do with market speculation. i would also like to discuss the international doctrine on capital movements. for years, we lived with the illusion that the opening of capital markets was always

progress. reality has showed us that that is not the case. its -- it is legitimate for countries to take measures to regulate it at times of crisis. the best guarantee against the rise in protectionist risk is the development of multilateral routes. -- multilateral rules. the rules protect freedom. the absence of rules destroy freedom. the fact is, the accumulation of foreign exchange reserves in certain countries corresponds to the current-account deficit in the united states. everybody is aware of this. in london, the g-20 countries decided on an exceptional allocation of two hundred $50

billion in special drawing rights. this has set -- allocation of two hundred $50 billion -- allocation of $250 billion in special drawing rights. we must find a way to better coordinate the economic and monetary policies of the major economic zone. with the g-20 in pittsburgh, we established the framework that allows each of us to implement the appropriate economic policies. we have to go further and achieve new framework for costa cut -- for consultation for an exchange to develop. her how can we talk about exchange rates without --

it is meaningless. we must discuss the best response to this unavoidable question. it is an -- it is absolutely inevitable. we must discuss them, within the most legitimate bodies. why wait? wait for what? the next crisis? it could have incalculable consequences. the second project, no less ambitious and would be listed the usual comments, is that of the volatility of raw material prices.

look at what happens with represses. look at what happened last spring. prices were falling. less than six months ago, i went to some iman county and talked with producers of cereals who said they were on the verge of bankruptcy. today, six months later, the bad harvest in russia, a catastrophe here and there, and the prices have exploded. who can think that's such a system can function properly? have we forgotten the hunger riots in haiti or in africa when the crisis of certain foodstuffs suddenly skyrocketed? in 2008, may i remind you,

between 2008 and 2010, no one has done anything about it. who has forgotten the tragic consequences for our sudden rise in the price of gas and oil and the cool -- and the equally inexplicable drops? many say that the subject is too difficult and it is better to do nothing about it. i have identified those who will always say it is better to do nothing. we're not good to do that. these are real subjects for concern. france proposes a that its g-20 partners tackled this issue with ambition and pragmatism. we will be presiding over the g- 20. we will tackle this issue with ambition and pragmatism. first, i would like to raise the question of the functioning of

the financial derivatives market, the jury did this -- the rich -- the derivatives market in raw materials. only france has convinced the world that we have to regulate the financial market in financials. we should also be capable of doing that in the financial derivatives market for raw materials, extending regulation to raw materials being possible and desirable and indispensable. we must not finance speculation. nobody knows how this market functions. nobody knows who the players are. nobody understands how it functions. next, with regard to agricultural materials, several directions could be explored without preconditions.

market transparency, it would be useful to have more transparency. storage policies, also the creation of international institutions for countries to protect themselves against exchange-rate volatility. finally, the energy costs, france has been given a mandate to propose measures for the seoul, korea and the 2011 summits. we have substantial dialogue between consumers and manufacturers. if you complain about the price of oil when it is set at $120, you will not be heard. global governance reform, the g-

20 decided it would be the main global forum for economic financial issues. it must give itself the means to work more effectively. should we not create a g-20 secretariat to monitor the implementation of decisions and a deal with issues in conjunction with all relevant international organizations? it is true that the presidency of the g-20 rotates, but to what -- but who monitors the implementation? who follows up on the important technical decisions? we do not want to create a new administration. should not the g-20 include new subjects, such as development? should we not be adopting rules for best practices for public aid? instead of tapping the countries

that are poor, perhaps we should look at the standards of the international labor organization. we should not pay public aid to countries that do not comply with the basic standards of the international labor organization. the international labor organization has standards that everybody should comply with. i would also like us, at the g- 20, to discuss financing and possible tax on financial transactions. without the tax, the developed countries will not be able to increase their public aid to implement the commitments made in copenhagen if we do not have been commented finance. these financings are essential to meet the millennium goals.

should not the g-20 be discussing the financing of a climate agreement? it is important that the copen hagen agreement should be -- that the copenhagen agreement to be implemented. i am planning to discuss with the president zuma the next step to be taken. france will also suggest a broader debate on world governance. how can the g-20 ignore the specialized u.n. body dealing with the economy jobs trade? they all need reform. if we do not send a strong signal to the un general assembly on an inch from reform for the security council, it will be as follows. we have been debating the reform

in the severe it -- in the security council for 20 years. will that continue for another 20 years? what is the point of asking our israeli and palestinian friends to negotiate if, at the un, we cannot implement a reform that is indispensable and which nobody wishes to play its cards clearly? we need this interim reform. i spoke to you at length about the g-20. i would like to say a word about the g-8. some have said that it is condemned. others believe that it has a rosy future. if it refocuses on security issues, france intends -- france believes in the future of the g- 8. it will prepare the g-8 summit. it will bring -- it will take place next spring. the g-it brings together the major democracies who have a lot

in common. the g-it will be preceded by they home secretary -- the g-8 will be reapreceded by the finae ministers. there will be a discussion of partnerships with africa. i am more than ever convinced that africa's success will be an opportunity for africa. africa's failure will be dramatic for europe. europe's future and the future of africa are closely tied. in copenhagen, we tried to get africa and europe to work together. africa has resources. africa has been people. it is very much in europe's interest to speak with one voice to africa and to give africa the weight that it deserves in world

governments and the necessary financing. there are only 12 kilometers between africa and europe in the streets of gibraltar. ladies and gentlemen, you can see my state of mind on the evening of the presidencies of the g-20 and the g-8. i want to play a collective role, quite obviously. frank -- france plans to work collectively. we are living in a very complex world. france has presided over the eu in the past. but this is much more complicated. there are many complement -- contradictory interests at stake. the peasants and the country people in china and france all require -- all have basically the same interest. a country like china can meet its monetary obligations and

responsibility. consequently, we have the opportunity to make the forthcoming year a year for stability and security. france will play its part. the ambassadors, i depend on you to relay this message. france will continue to provide new ideas. france will be loyal to its past because we are bringing new concepts. fundamentally, perhaps the world needs new ideas in the 21st century, new projects, new ambitions. we must get out of the routine, which was useful in the 20th century, based on two world wars. france is ideally positioned. it is not a superpower. it is not a small power either.

is it the heart of europe. france can disseminate these ideas. it will be a good year and a very interesting year. thank you for your attention. [applause] >> tonight, president obama's remarks on the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina. then remarks from sharon hagel of nevada. after that, on q&a, michael kaiser, president of the kennedy center for the performing arts. >> the c-span networks provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is available for you on television, radio, online, and on social media networking sites. fine art contest any time through c-span video library.

we take c-span on the road with their digital bus and local content video, bringing resources to your community. it is washington your way. it is now available in more than 1 million -- 100 million homes, provided as a public service. >> in new orleans, marking the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina, president obama spoke at xavier university of louisiana. he praised the resilience of the people of new orleans and the gulf coast region. he also talked about continuing to restore the region from hurricane katrina and the gulf of mexico oil spill. this is about 25 minutes. >[applause]

[cheers and applause] >> hello, everybody. it is good to be back. it is good to be back. due to popular demand, i decided to bring the first lady down here. [cheers and applause] we have an extraordinary number of dedicated public servants who are here. if you will be patient with me, i want to make sure that all of them are acknowledged. you have the governor of the great state of louisiana.

bobby jindal is here. [applause] we have the outstanding mayor of new orleans, victor -- vincent landers. [cheers and applause] we have the better looking and younger senator from louisiana, senator land room -- senator landreu. i believe that david vetter is here. [applause] we have congressman joe gal. [applause] congressman charlie montrond is here. [applause]

secretary of housing and urban development who has been working tirelessly down here in louisiana, sean donovan. [applause] we have our epa administrator, lisa jackson, home girl. [applause] we have the administrator of fema here. [applause] the person who is heading up our community service effort of the country is here. [applause] surgeon general is here. [cheers and applause] she is a xavier grad, i must add. we are very proud to have all of these terrific public servants

here. it is wonderful to be back in new orleans. it is a great honor -- >> [unintelligible] [laughter] >> can you see me now? [laughter] >> it is a great honor to be here. it isn't part -- it is inspiring to spend time with people who demonstrated what it means to persevere in the face of tragedy. to rebuild in the face of bruins. -- the face of ruins. i congratulate you on being .rowned miss xavier [

she was a junior at brand -- at ben franklin high school five years ago when the school came. after katrina, ben franklin high school was terribly damaged by wind and water. millions of dollars were needed to rebuild the school. many feared it would take years to reopen if it could be reopened at all. but something remarkable happened. parents, teachers, students, volunteers, they all got to work making repairs. donations came in from across new orleans and around the world. soon, those silent and darkened corridors were bright and filled with the sounds of a bright young men and women who were going back to class. and then jade committed to xavier, a university that,

likewise, refused to succumb to despair. jade, like so many students here at this university, embodies hope, that sense of hope in difficult times. that is what i came to talk about today. it has been five years since katrina ravaged the gulf coast. there is no need to dwell your -- to dwell on your experience and what the world witness. we all remember it keenly. water through broken levees, children holding their children above the waterline, people standing on rooftops begging for help, bodies lying in the streets of a great american city. it was a national -- it was a natural disaster but it was also a man-made catastrophe.

the government left thousands of men and women and children abandoned and alone. one woman told me, "we had nothing before the hurricane. now we have less than nothing." in the years that followed, new orleans could have remained a symbol of destruction and the inadequate response that followed. it was not hard to imagine a day when we told our children that it once and vibrant wonderful city had been laid low by indifference and neglect. but that is not what happened. it is not what happened at ben franklin. it is not what happened at

xavier. it is not what happened in new orleans and along the gulf coast. [applause] instead, the city has become a symbol of resilience and the community and of the responsibility that we have to one another. we see that here at the xavier. less than a month after the storm struck, of midst debris and flood damaged buildings, the university president promised that the school would reopen in a matter of months. [applause] some said he was crazy. some said it could not happen. [applause] but they did not count on what happens when one force of nature me to another. [laughter] by january, four months later, class was in session. less than a year after the storm, i had the privilege of delivering the commencement address to the largest

graduating class in xavier's history. [applause] that is a symbol of what new orleans is all about. we see new orleans and the efforts of joslyn heights who is here today. katrina left her house 14 feet underwater. but after volunteers helped her rebuild, she joined the merkel to serve the community herself, part -- joined the miracle to serve the community herself [applause] . today, she manages a local center for mental health and wellness. we see the symbols that this city has become in the st. bernard project. [applause]

this endeavor has drawn volunteers from across the country to rebuild hundreds of homes. i have seen the sense of purpose people felt after the storm when i visited musicians village in the ninth ward back in 2006. volunteers were not only constructing houses. taken together to preserve the culture of music and art, the heart and soul of this construction is underway on a center for you. -- for youth. we see the dedication of the community in efforts of a xavier grad who mortgaged her home, maxed out her credit card, so that shared -- she could reopen

a clinic to help victims of the storm. and she is now our nation's surgeon general. we see hoped exemplified by students from high school to raise money to rebuild their field of dreams for the ninth ward. because of all of you, all the advocates, all the organizers here today, folks standing behind me working so hard, who never gave up hope, you are all leading the way toward a better future for this city with

innovative approaches to fight poverty and improve health care, reduce crime, and create opportunities for young people. because of you, new orleans is coming back. and i just came -- i just came from parkway bakery and tavern. five years ago, the storm nearly destroyed that neighborhood institution. i saw the pictures. now they are open, business is booming, and that is some good eats. i had the shrimp avoid -- po'boy and some of the gumbo. but i skipped the bread pudding because i thought i might fall

asleep while i was speaking. but i have got it saved for later. five years ago, many people questioned whether people could ever return to this city. today no orleans is one of the fastest growing cities in america, with the big new surge in small businesses. five years ago, the saints had to play every game on the road because of the damage to the superdome. two weeks ago we welcomed the saints to the white house as super bowl champions. there was also food associated with that. we marked the occasion with a 30 fact -- 30-foot sandwich made with shrimps and oysters from

the gulf. you'll be pleased to know that there were no leftovers. i do not have to tell you that there are still too many vacant and overgrown lots. there are still too many students attending classes in trailers. they're still too many people unable to find work. and there are still too many new orleanians, folks who have not been able to come home. so while an incredible amount progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, i wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly -- if my administration is going to stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done, until the oil lenses all the way back, all the way. when i took office, i directed my cabinet to redouble our efforts to put an end to the

turf wars between agencies, to cut the red tape and cut the bureaucracy. i wanted to make sure that the federal government was a partner, if not an obstacle, to recovery here in the gulf coast. and members of my cabinet, including epa is administrator lisa jackson who grew up in pontchartrain park -- they have come down here dozens of times. shaun donovan has come down here dozens of times. this is not just to make appearances. it is not just to get photo ops. the came down here to listen and to learn and make real the changes that were necessary so that government was actually working for you. for example, efforts to rebuild schools and hospitals, to repair damaged roads and bridges, to get people back to their homes -- they were tied up for years in a tangle of disagreements and byzantine rules. when i took office, working with

your outstanding delegation, particularly senator mary , we put in place a new way of resolving disputes. so that funds set aside for rebuilding efforts actually went toward rebuilding efforts. and as a result, more than 170 projects are getting underway -- work on firehouses and police stations and roads and sewer systems and health clinics and libraries and universities. we are tackling the corruption and inefficiency that as long plagued the new orleans housing authority. we're helping homeowners rebuild and making it easier for renters to find affordable options. if and we are helping people to move out of temporary homes. when i took office, more than three years after the storm, tens of thousands of families were still stuck in disaster housing -- many still living in

small trailers that had been provided by fema. we were spending huge sums of money on temporary shelters when we knew it would be better for families and less costly for taxpayers to help people get into affordable, stable, and more permanent housing. so we have helped make it possible for people to find those homes and we have dramatically reduce the numbers of families in emergency housing. on health care front, as a candidate for president, i pledged to make sure we were helping orleans recruit doctors and nurses and rebuild medical facilities, including a new veterans hospital. we have resolved -- we have resolved a longstanding dispute, one that had tied up hundreds of millions of dollars, to fund the replacement for charity hospital. and in june, veterans secretary ric some checking -- ric shinseki came to new orleans for

the groundbreaking of that new va hospital. in education we have made strides as well. schools in new orleans were falling behind long before katrina. but in the years since the storm, a lot of public schools opened themselves up to innovation and to reform. as a result, we are accessing rising achievement, and new orleans is becoming a model of innovation for the nation. this is yet another sign that you are not just rebuilding -- you're rebuilding stronger than before. just this friday, my administration announced the final agreement on $1.8 billion for orleans parish schools. this is money that had been

locked up for years. now it is freed up so folks here could determine how best to restore the school system. and in a city that has known too much violence, that has seen too many and people lost to drugs and criminal activity, we have got a justice department committed to working with new orleans to fight the scourge of violent crime and to weed out corruption in the police force and to ensure the criminal justice system works for everyone in this city. and i want everybody to hear -- to know when they hear me thank mitch landrieu, your new mayor, for his commitment to that partnership. even as we continue our recovery efforts, we are also focusing on preparing for future threats so that there is never another

disaster like katrina. the largest civil works project in american history is underway to build a fortified levee system. and just as i pledged as a candidate, we're going to finish this system by next year so that this city is protected against a 100-year storm. we should not be playing russian roulette every hurricane season. and we are also working to restore protective wetlands and natural barriers that were not only damaged by katrina -- not just damaged by katrina but had been rapidly disappearing for decades. in washington where restoring competence and accountability. i am proud that my fema director, craig fugate, has 25 years of experience in disaster management in florida.

he came from florida, a state that has known its share of hurricanes. we put together or group led by secretary donovan and secretary of balaton the to look at disaster recovery across -- secretary napolitano to look at disaster recovery across the country. we're improving coordination on the ground, and modernizing emergency communications, if helping families plan for a crisis. and we're putting into place reforms so that never again in america if if someone left behind in a disaster because they are not living -- because they are living with a disability or because they are elderly or because they are confirmed. that will not happen again. even as you have been buffeted by katrina and rita, even as you have been impacted by the broader recession that has devastated communities across the country, for in recent

months the gulf coast has seen new hardship as a result of the bp deepwater horizon oil spill. and just as we have sought to ensure that what we're doing what it takes to recover from katrina, my administration has worked hard to match our efforts on the spill to what you need on the ground. and we have been in close consultation with your governor, your mayors, your parish presidents, your local government officials. and from the start, i promised you two things. one is that we would see to it that the leak would stop. and it has been. the second promise i made was that we would see -- we would stick with our efforts and stay on bp until the damage to the gulf and to the lives of the people in this region was reversed. and this too is a promise that we will keep. we're not going to forget. we are going to stay on it until this area is fully recovered.

that is why we rapidly launched the largest response to an environmental disaster in american history -- 47,000 people on the ground, 5700 vessels on the water -- to contain and clean up the oil. when bp was not moving fast enough on claims, we told bp to set aside $20 billion in the fund managed by an independent third party to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by this bill. and we will continue to rely on sound science, carefully monitoring waters and coastlines as well as the health of the people along the called to deal with any long-term effects of the oil spill. we're going to stand with you until the oil is cleaned up, until the environment is restored, until polluters are held accountable, until communities are made whole, and

until this region is all the way back on its feet. so that is how we are helping this city and this state a and this region to recover from the worst natural disaster in our nation's history. we're cutting through the red tape that has impeded rebuilding efforts for years. we're making government work better and smarter in coordination with one of the most expansive non-profit efforts in american history. if we're helping states and local leaders to address serious problems that have been neglected for decades, problems that existed before the storms came and have continued after the waters receded -- from the levee system to the justice system, from the health care system to the education system. and together we are helping to make new orleans place that

stands for what we can do in america, not just for what we cannot do. all the metalloid that must be the legacy of katrina -- not one of neglect but of action, not one of indifference by the apathy, not of abandonment, but of a community working together to meet shared challenges. the truth is -- there are some wounds that have not yet healed. and there are some losses that cannot be repaid. and for many of those who lived through those harrowing days five years ago, there are searing memories that time may not raise. rigid time may not erase. but even amid so much tragedy, we saw stirrings of a brighter

day. five years ago we saw men and women risking their own safety to save strangers. we saw nurses staying behind to care for the sick and the injured. if we saw families coming home to clean up and rebuild -- not just their own homes but their neighbors homes as well. and we saw music and mardi gras and the vibrancy, the fun of this town undiminished. and we have seen many return to their beloved city with a newfound sense of appreciation and obligation to this community. and when i came here four years ago, one thing i found striking was all the greenery that had begun to come back. i was remanded -- reminded of a passage from the book of job. there is hope for a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease. the work ahead will not be easy and there will be setbacks. there will be challenges along

the way. but thanks to you, thanks to the great people of this great city, new orleans is blossoming again. thank you, everybody. god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. ["stars and stripes forever" playing] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010]

>> tuesday night at 8:00 p.m., president obama will give an oval office speech discussing the troop withdrawal from iraq and the shifting focus to the war in afghanistan. our live coverage begins tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. coming up, remarks from republican senate candidate sharron angle in nevada.

after that, michael kaiser of the kennedy center of the performing arts. u.s. senate candidate sharron angle of nevada is running against senate majority leader harry reid in the general election. here are remarks he made friday night on the repeal of health care legislation, tax policy, education, and border protection. if it is from a steamboat institute forum. this portion is about 40 minutes. re moving forward. [cheers and applause] i was grateful for that introduction, letting in no that i am one of you. you can see me here in the back of a pickup.

i am and bought a country girl -- i am a nevada country grow. my fher and mother moved to nevada when i was 3, and they bought a small business in self reno, a motel where my three brothers and i made beds, clean bathrooms, swe floors, did laundry, all those things that children did to help their parents keep that family business going. i graduated from high school therin reno, i got a job at bob's big boy as a waitress, and i put myself through college. i started out as an art major, thinking of all the wonderful places i would go with a career as an art painter or even a fashn designer. then i decided to get married to a fellow i am going to introduce gle.to now, to ted ankl

[applause] when i decided to marry this diet forears ago, last sunday, the 22nd of august, i knew i was not going to paris or france. i knew i was going to nevada, and i change my major to education. i tell you that because i want you to understand where i am coming from as aife and mother and grandmother. when my son was in kindergarten, he failed kindergarten. that got me involved in politics. people laughed at that, but when i put him in for his second year kindergarten, i had a 6-year-old dropout. he felt like a failure. did not want to do school anymore. as an educator, i thought, i will home school this boy. a judge made a decision and said in his decision, i kw that i

is the law in nevada that you can home school your children, but the law should say that you cannot home school your children unless you live more than 50 miles away from the nearest school. well, right then, the government got between me and my children, and that is what this tea party movement is about. [applause] we as parents and grandparents have seen the government come between us. we are no longer passing out liberty and freedom. we are passing down debt to our children, and that's what has brought people into the political arena in the last 18 months. i have found people walk up t me and they say i never even voted before. these are people that are 40 or 50 years old. i never was even registered to vote, and now want to get politically active and know how can help your campaign. i have had people just this

morning here in steamboat springs lock up and say, i gave your campaign. i have never been politically involved before, but i am giving money now toour campaign. and i am hearing that all over the nation. people are responding. when i go on shows like sean hannity or many of those that were mentioned. i say harry reid says he needs $25 million. i need a million people with $25 ronangle.com.o a lady this morning said i only sent you $10, but i am a single mom, and that is what i could afford, but i just want you to know that i am with you. i have a fellow in virginia that sends me $25 a month. he lives on social security.

he lives with his son and daughter-in-law, and he started sending me $25 in april 2009. it is what he can afford. but this is true patriotism. this is what our founding fathers were talking about when they said that we would, for liberty, have to give up our lives, our fortunes, andur sacred honor. that is what is happening all over the nation. people are rising up, joining the tea party movement, and they are sending money, not just to me, but to others. they are saying is time that we took back the reins of our country and became once more that government of the people, by the people, and for the people. it is an amazing tng that has happened. i will finish the little story about my son. i did go to the legislature that year to get our lot changed, and because we are by any legislature, it took two years

to get the law changed so that we could home school our children. during that two years, i actually started a private school where i was the teacher and administrator in a one-room school room. we graduated to seniorand i 12.kught k- i will never forget, this committee chair person came down and looked me right in the eye, and he said if i had known that this was going to take -- this hearing was going to take five hours instead of 30 minutes and there were going to be 500 people here instead of 50, i would have thrown this bill on my desk and it would have never seen the light of day. i turned too a local cowboy and asked if he could do that, and

he said yes, we will have are hearing and we will have a vo. i realize that was not the government i had been taught about in civics and government 101. this rewardour friends and punish your enemies, the whole idea that someone else is in control of the system, that it just does not work that you introduce a bill and someone votes on it, that was n how it was going. i knew at that moment that i needed to be more than just a voter. i needed to get more involved. i son did graduate salutatorian of his high school class back in the public system. he got his bachelor's degree in education and he is a history teacher here in nevada. we do know as parents what is

best for our children, and that is what our founding fathers really wanted us to do, to concentrate on raising our families, having a small business, and enjoying the liberties. peopleed in liberty rejec-- who come here want to experience freedom just like we have. when i think about this, i know that i set myself on that course that moment that i said the government got between me and my family. i served on the school board for a term. i served in the nevada state legislature for four terms, eight years. then i have been a citizen unpaid lobbyist, and i also did a citizens' petition initiative r property-tax restraint in our state. so i know government, and i

understand what ronald reagan understood. that is that we can be that shining city on the hill for the rest of the world. just as jenny was saying, we are not done yet. we have real hope, not just a change that we would hope for. we have some real hope, and our hope is grounded in some fundamental principles of freedom. we all know what the answers to these difficult times are. i have painted a bleak picture, and now want to paint the picture of a true future for this country. there are simple answers. payback, cut back, and take back. first we have to pay back on the debt. we all know that you cannot borrow your way out of debt, and you cannot spend your way into prosperity. we need to pay back on that

debt. we need to take whatever is left of the stimulus money, not very much these days, i am afraid, but there is some unspent budget appropriations. we need to take that money and put it on the debt. someone asked me, which deadwood to pay off? would you y off the 14 trillion dollars, or would you work on social security? i said what is the difference? we take $2.50 trillion out of a social security trust fund and use it for your pet projects, and as harry reid said in 1990, if you do that, if you take social security and use it for anything else, that is stealing. i agree. that was money that was paid in good faith. we have a promise to our senior citizens. we need to put the money back.

going forward, we need to make sure that our government will never again take that money from our retirement accounts. we need to give our workers the option, social security are personized retirement accounts, they need to have options. that is the american way. we need to give them the same options that harry reid has. he has a personalized account. if it is good enough for harry, it should be good enough for the rest of us. [applause] we need to pay back on that deficit and the debt. we need to cut back on the spending. i propose to you, and i was glad to hear that question about how do you prioritize the spending? that is how i am going to phrase the question on the 10th amendment. the priorities of speing at the federal level should be based on the 10th amendment.

there are enumerated powers for our federal government, and that is wary should have our priorities in spending, on those enumerated powers. when asked a conservative where are you going to cut, we are going to cut by% -- 5% per year on those b and c priorities. some of those are things the government should not even be spending on. obama can have all the friends he wants, but i don't need to pay for them. [applause] when we talk b b priorities, those are the things we are watching right now. i am truly excited when i see arizona taking their 10th amendment rights and saying the federal government has failed to prect our borders and our

citizens. we are going to do it. they know the simple answer to the illegal alien problem is secure the border and enforce the law. and then they got themselves a good share of to help. we should be cheering for states like arizona who have taken the 10th amendment seriously. our how about missouri? what they did was, they said under the 10th amendment, we are not going to let obamacare be in our state. we think it is unconstitutional. there are several attorneys general that are suing, saying we want to know about the constitutionality of this obamacare. how can a government mandate as to purchase anything? what about these mandates?

we should be really excited about that. but there are things in the federal governme's that would be better taken care of at the state level. being an educator, and understanding -- i sat on the school board and the committee for education on the state legislature, the u.s. to permit education is one of those areas that states would be better off handling. [applause] the the part of education is a policy department that picks out one-size-fits-all policies that fit no one. we all found that out with no job left behind. not only that, but they send our money back to us filtered, and it comes back in the form of unfunded and underfunded

mandates. we need to keep that money right here in our state at the level where it will do the most good, which is in the classroom, where parents and teachers are the stakeholders. that is where we need to be making the policies, not in washington d.c. [applause] when you start thinking about 5% per year for the next five years on those categories, you can think of a bunch of others. department of energy, internal protection agency -- environmental protection agency, planned parenthood, national endowment for the arts, there are literally lots and lots of places. how about the 184 testing

programs we could be cutting back on? we did that once with aid to families with dependent children. it was proposed by reagan and finally got implement it in the 1990's. every democrat hail that as lfare reform it was one program, but it worked. we have several of those programs that we need to be really looking at. there are plenty of places where we can cut back on the spending, and we should be doing that. not only that, but when we pay back on that deficit, cut back on the spending, we will send a strong signal to our corporations who are holding back. remember, they are looking out to the future. we have $2 trillion it that they want to spend on jobs,ut they are holding back, because all they can see out there is the fog. i know that obama was in our

state a ball back with harry reid and he said i see a bright new day. i think he does not know how to drive in the fog. he has his brights on, and you know how that kind of blind you when it bounces back. we need to lift the fog for our small businesses and for corporations. the way we do that is by giving them some confidence. even ben bernanke says we are in an unusually uncertain climate. thateans that we have plenty of money, we just don't have any coidence. they are holding back. if we startaying back on the debt, cutting back on the spending, and we do this for five years, they will be able to see through the fog. now they can say i have confidence, because we know what the rules will be. we need to take back the economy. thing we need to do is

repeal obamacare [applause] . we also need to make sure that those tax cuts are permanent. [applause] otherwise, they are goin to be the obama tax increases. we also need to look for true transparency. the way to start with true transparency is to let us have a true audit of the federal reserve. [applause] when jenny spoke of the culture of corruption, one not start by liquidating fraudie mac and phoney-mae?

we would like to have something that you can spell out on the back of a post card and mail it in on april 14. we would also like to see something like a single subject rule, where you deal wi the subject and legislation one subject at a time, so you don't have to have port and earmarks hanging onto a od piece of legislation. [applause] it is not the complete solutio but it would certainly make an express train to nowhere have to come up in its own bill. i guess maybe you don't know about our express tin to victorville from las vegas, but that was a piece of harry reid's pork that you are all paying

some simple, common-sense solutis that will bring the confidence that we need and what reagan would have called a shining city upon a hill. he knew that government is not the solution to the problem. we the people are the solution and we need to elect forecastle understand that we have the right contract with america, and that is our constitution. we have the right message for america -- lowe taxes, less vernment regulation, more individual freedom, and stop the spending. [applause] and we have the right angle

to defeat harry reid. [laughter] [applause] now i would like to take some questions. is there a gentleman here in a white shirt? >> thank you. see, i am a gentleman. she just said so. [laughter] my breast friend lives in reno -- my best friend lives in reno, and he wanted me to ask you, are you getting support from the republican national committee that we all hope that you would be getting? >> yes. i spoke to you all little bit about the primary. the first thing i did after winning the primary was put up a

page and everyone has been responding to that. the second thing we did is made a quick trip to washington, d.c. to speak with the chairman of the republican senate committee and they were very gracious to me. they were very supportive and very helpful in nevada. they are not running the campaign but they are certainly helping. i want to say thank you for all those who have come along side, not just those sending $25 to our web site, but those in washington supporting me with their words and their deeds. >> mrs. angle, it's a pleasure

to have you here. i am going to assume something here, i would take it that you are for second amendment rights? >> second amendment rights are very dear to me, yes. >> i have a question to ask you. i am an nra member, maybe former if they do not straighten out. [applause] had you ever contacted their office and tell them that maybe you would be a better senator then harry reid to keep our second amendment rights? would you please contact them? >> we have had some discussions. in fact, i had a discussion just wednesday with one of their representatives from the nra. it has been a very disconcerting thing, to say the least, in about that to have them even considering an endorsement of harry reid. we feel that his support of

elena kagan and sonia sotomayor are under manning -- undermining our second amendment rights. i have my concealed carry permit and i was a member of the nra. i tell them that i would renew by membership when was certain they would not endorse harry reid. i am also a member ofhe gun owners of america and have their endorsement. i had a "a"rating from the nra. with all those credentials, that gun owners in nevada had a clear choice and they will make the right choice. next question? i am a mom here and active

with our school board. i am against them for what th did. i would like when you get into our federal government up there to go wind and kicked butt = because i am so ted of seeing our ki to have been born here getting second-hand treatment in many areas that the ell o learners get. most of them were born here in the united states. we snd over $1,000 per student. they get quite sure teachers for the kids.

our english students get one teacher per 500 students. we're seeing that cutting in the fine arts and these money -- this money is going to these kids. i'm getting tired to see our kids -- not our kids, the american citizens who were born here legally, they get the second-hand treatment. i was like for you to go in there and take that course. they are not listening to us at the local level. >> you brought out the exact reason why i have been so vocal about local control of education. all politics, as you know, it is local. it starts. the local level. and when you have to implement policies that are formed for you in washington, d.c., it takes away a lot of the local control. a lot of that has to do with

the -- being tied to those federal dollars that should have been yours in the first place, never spent out of the state in the first place. that is why had been so vocal about this fight for many years. and the returning of the educational dollars to our state as well as the policy-making programming and implements that need to return to the state as well. i know what you're talking about when you're talking about those kinds of situations within our own country. i would just make a disclosure here. my daughter-in-law is latina. she is a first-generation erican. she was born in this country to naturalized citizens from mexico. my grandson's are learning spanish at home. from their grandparents.

the situation is that she has a niece and nephew, he was born in this country but he is consider a english second language learner. why is that? i do not understand that canada because of the money. they're going out there looking for anybody that might have to qualify for the programs of the faking get the money. that should not be the reason that we get the money for our schools. the money should be here and that is why policy needs to be made locally so that we can avoid this kind of situation. i think all of us just get really concerned when we hear at the end of the fiscal year, they

will have to use or lose the money. it drives is crazy because we want to keep up this gulf sensibility here. we know if they are spending all that money, it is not fiscally responsible. it is the same thing al all levels and i think that is what we're seeing the grassroots movement -- not astroturf, but the grass roots movement -- saying we need to take back the control of our government at the local level, that we the people need to be in charge like our founding fathers meant -- wrote and said that is the way they should be. >> thank you so much for being here. but when you get to washington, how you deal with people like pelosi and did things like the louisiana

purchase, maybe i nevada gambling debts being paid off, because that seems to be the way that things are done in washington. how would you address that? >> i'm going to address that the same way i have done that and my political career -- in my political rare at home. as a ste legislator in 2003, we had the largest tax increase in the history of the state proposed asset tax that would come in -- we have the two- thirds rule in our constitution. the people passed did not once but twice. it will take a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to pass a tax increase. we had 15 strong assemblymen of which i was the whip.

you say to these guys, we need to hold strong against this tax increase. we cannot stand to have a big tax increase like this. it will not help our economy. in fact, it will hurt it. i did my job. i whipped these guys and we stood for one special session -- i mean one regular session and s -- and two special sessions against this gross receipts tax. during this time, the governor sued the legislature to make as raise the -- raise taxes by a simple majority in the supreme court went along with it. at my own expense, i hired a pilot at the claremont institute to take this case all the way to the u.s. supreme court to fight for our constitution. even though we did not get all

the way -- we did get a hearing, but what happened was one of our guys pulled off and they passed a tax increase by getting that two-thirds vote, so they knew no harm, no foul. but we won in that court of public opinion because we elect our supreme court judges in the state of nevada. those who voted for that ruling were all turned out. the new accord that came in reverse that decision, said the actions of one person saying, you know, this is wrong. i'm going to use my own resources if necessary to to the right thing. it will produce the results that we want. and you do not have to be a majority. you just have to be a strong voice for rights.

for that i receive the ronald reagan freedom medallion. i know i have taken a lot of criticism in my own stateor my 41 votes. there are 42 people in our assembly and i was often the vote.hne no but that is where i am glad to stand in the united states senate, on the right side of these issues. we he to have voices that will sound the alarm, that will say, "this is not rig legislation." i have read the bill and i am not going to vote for this bill because it is wrong. i believe that we send that message together as a people, first of all, by defeating harry reid. secondly, by putting our plant

ford on november 3. we cannot just sit back and say, now we have won this election, we will wait until january. we cannot. there is a lame duck session coming at us and we need to begin on november 3 telling them what we want. and the repealf obamacare is first on our list. that is what we should begin talking about right then on november the third. third, if everyone in the united states is united behind this race to put the pressure on harry reid and to defeat harry reid, we can put that same kind of pressure on the folks in the u.s. senate who ll be voting on these bills. they need to feel at pressure. i think they have already been feeling the pressure. we've seen that they could not get capping trade past for their amnesty passed. we know that those are things

that harry reid said fourop priorities. so if we have got them concerned about that now, we need to keep that pressure up in november. and just follow through. it is exactly the same thing. [inaudible] >> of big difference between the candidates ended up being on afghanistan. i don't know what that is somethg you spend much time thinking about. one of the candidates was doubled down and do whatever we haveo do to win. the other candidate was more along the lines of set smaller goals and work our way out. where are you one then? >> i don't think there is american who has not considered what has happened in afghanistan and iraq or what happens 1 9/11.

i think that these are parf just being american. we all think about it. what can we do and what should be done? i would have to say that no one called me and ask me what i thought i should do, what i thout should be done. they do not ask me to vote on it. we're there and that seems to be something that was not under my control. i also do not get security briefing so i do not know exactly what everyone in the u.s. senate even knows about our involvement there or where we're going. i like you get most of my information from places like "the wall street journal" and "usa today." when you look at it from the outside, i can make some fairly

definitive statements. the first one is i agree with general petreaus when he says it is hard but not hopeless. i am grateful for what he was able to do in iraq when i saw the last of our combat troops come home. this was a great day for america. and i was glad to see that there is a democracy established in iraq if they can keep it. and we're giving them the tools to keep it. i am encouraged by petreaus' assessment on the war in afghanistan and what seems to be the development of at least a coalition to began to build a

military within afghanistan of indigenous troops so that they can take over their country, take back their country and put some kind of freedom -- democracy in the place. i am encouraged by those things. i will tell you definitively that i support our children. i support our military. and if we have been committed to this mission, then we need to give them all our support. we need to give them the moral encouragement. we cannot be reelecting a person who says that this war is lost and cause their general names and says he is dishonest. that is just beyond the pale. [applause] we also have to give them everything they need to fight if they are going to be there. we have to give them weapons, we have to give them defenses,

armor, we need to give them what they need to fulfill the mission that we've sent them for. if they are going to be there, we have to be 1% behind them. thank you, thank you so much. for allowing me this time to speak with you, thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> last week's sharron angle and harry reid released new campaign ads. senator reid criticized her for being too extreme.

here's a look. >> i am sharron angle and i approve this message. >> it may be the most tragic love story of our time -- pelo si, obama, and harry reid. they promise to change america and boy, did they. a $787 billion bailout that failed, and record deficits and skyrocketing unemployment. they say you cannot buy love. we have certainly paid a heavy price. >> what you call a candidate who says that the way things may be going, it may be time for second amendment remedies an armed response to our government, who says that teenage rape victims should be forced to have the baby, who proposed the scientology massage program, and says that social security