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everything we have erred in 1987, all free and indexed online at the c-span video library. >> the two candidates running in nevada's third congressional district, the net titus and republican joe heck met in las vegas. in one of the most closely watched house races in the nation, they debated on healthcare and the economy as well as such local issues as the future of renewable energy and nuclear waste issues. the hour-long debate was organized by the nevada broadcasters association.

>> good evening and welcome to vegas pbs impact nevada election special. tonight the democratic and republican candidates running for congress district 3 will debate. the candidates are incumbent democratic congresswoman dina titus and joe heck. all moderated discussion on six issues of importance to voters in southern nevada. the candidates will take questions from readers of the las vegas journal and will have an opportunity to question each other. >> thank you for tuning in, and good evening. i am running for congress because i believe that at this time in our nation's history, we are standing at a critical

turning point as the country, state, and community. it hinges on the sample in question i invite you to ask yourself, are you better off today than you were two years ago? our state is suffering from the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and our community is mired in housing in foreclosure crisis. as a small-business man, my business has trailed off. my daughter recently graduated and cannot find a full-time job in her major. another daughter was laid off under company had to downsize. congresswoman titus will tell us about all the things she has allegedly done for nevada, but same.acts remain the stat we are pushing an unemployment rate of 15%. this is not rhetoric. these are facts. it is time for common-sense solutions and a new direction. i know how hard it is to make a

payroll, brought -- provide benefits, and balance the budget. i have had to dip into reserves to stay afloat and have gone without paychecks so my employees could get theirs. working as an emergency room doctor, i am on the front lines of medicine, seeing firsthand what works and does not work in our healthcare system. i am a strong voice for our veterans and their families that have sacrificed so much. there's a clear contrast between myself and congresswoman titus. she believes government is the answer to all your problems. i believe that you see the need for a new direction. >> thank you, pbs, for hosting us, and for all of you watching out there. i am proud to represent district 3 in congress, fighting for you

in washington and serving you here at home in the district. when i was sworn in, that month alone we lost 800,000 jobs in this country. the deficit was over one trillion dollars, and nevada already led the country in foreclosures. today people are still hurting. i know that because i hear their stories everywhere i go throughout the district. stories about people losing their jobs, losing their insurance, losing their homes. these are stories that inspire me to work even harder. we need to do something to help these people. it took eight years of the failed policies of the bush to administration to get us into the greatest recession we have known in a generation. it will take more than 21 months to get us out. the question is not were ueberroth two years ago. the question is, what are going to do next -- the question is not where you better off two years ago. we have to continue to making nevada at the world leader in

renewable energy and production. we need to build on the budding biotech industry with the cleveland clinic and the brain center. we also have to invest in education so we can have a trained work force to meet the jobs of the future. those are the things i want to continue working on. this so-called new direction of my opponent is just a u-turn back to the old policies that got us in this fix. i say this is not a time for us to move backwards. it is a time for us to move forward. >> will start a discussion on six issues of importance to southern nevada. the first topic is on it yucca mountain. in an interview, you refused to rule out yucca mountain as a waste don't even know the chairman of the nrc recently told scientists to stop work at

the site. >> and there was a law passed in the 1980's to look at yucca mountain as whether or not it would be a suitable site for a nuclear waste repository. my point to the editorial board was, the process should run its way to completion or the application would be submitted to the experts, who would then evaluate the application and decide if the part of energy could safely build and operate the repository. whether or not it comes your, the bigger answer is what to do with a billion dollars hole in the ground. we should turn it into something for economic development here in southern nevada. make it into a nuclear research area. we have already done so much nuclear testing in that area, we should be able to use it for job creation and economic development. >> this is one of those areas

where i greatly differ from my opponent and another area where he tends to flip-flop his position. it is hard to pin him down. i am absolutely opposed to storing nuclear waste at yucca mountain and have been fighting against it for many years. in the state legislature and out in congress. i am delighted to see that the accountant project is over. that was built on bad politics and not good science. it became an issue of not is it a good place but will it do. that just will not do for nevada. i am glad it is close. do we need to do something else with that? yes, let's do more renewable energy testing. >> the issue is not whether it was bad science or politics that passed the law. the law said that the nuclear regulatory commission would make the final determination whether or not the site could safely be

built and operated. as is usual, politics short circuit the process. we should have allowed to go to completion to find out for sure if the experts agreed whether or not the site could be used. >> it is yes or no. you cannot head on this. it is like being partially pregnant. it is yes or no on yucca mountain. we have the transportation issue. all this has come out over the years since the bill was passed. let us not forget that one of the amendments to the bill was known as the screw nevada bill because it limited the number of sites that were being studied just to us. i don't think we should screw nevada. i think we should not have yucca mountain as a storage facility. let's look at some other ways to invest in renewable energy instead. >> our next topic has to do with

health care. you originally voted against health care reform because the original bill would have hurt families and small businesses, but then you did vote for after getting those provisions change. are you concerned at 10 years from now we will be saying that it was not worth the cost? >> absolutely not. i am not concerned about that. 10 years from now we will look back to this as a historic moment, just as we look back to when we created social security and medicare. i did vote against the original committee bill because i thought there were provisions in there that we could improve on. i had an amendment to the bill that i got past that help small businesses. there are a lot of small businesses in this district and i care very much about what happens to them because they are the engines of our economic recovery. under this bill, small businesses benefit. if you have fewer than 50 employees, you do not have to reach a man they, but you do get tax breaks if you want to ride

that insurance -- you do not have to reach a mandate. small businesses will come out ahead of the long run. they are scheduled to have their premium costs increased at a much higher rate than large businesses. >> i care deeply about the folks that i care for at the emergency department at university medical center and i care deeply about this bill. there are some things in the bill that i think fundamentally change the way we provide health care in the u.s., and not for the better. it will impact on patients and businesses. there are taxes on individuals who do not take on the individual mandate and exercise their personal liberties in finding an insurance policy. this bill limits options for seniors. cubs 5 under billion dollars from medicare.

it raises co-payments on certain seniors. it also eliminates their open enrollment period. they are stuck unless they want to transition back to traditional medicare. in totality, the bill is not good for the people of nevada. >> this is one of those areas where a completely disagree. i don't know where you get your figures. there seems to be a little bit of fun maps. this is another area where you flip flop. first you were going to repeal the whole bill, and now you see some things in it that you like. that is interesting because when you go on the floor of the house, you don't get to vote yes, but not this section. it is yes or no, which is better? i think the provisions of the bill are much better than any minor things that need to be fixed over time. this is not written in stone like the 10 commandments. it is legislation that he can work on. >> any time a bill is written

and there is a section that says the federal government receives a billion dollar -- the increase bureaucracy will separate the patient-physician relationship and decrease the ability for physicians and allied health care providers to take care of the patients there charge to care for. >> this has to do with the foreclosure crisis. three-quarters of homeowners zero more on their mortgages than their home. how did we get into this mess, and how will we get out of it? >> the mess began decades ago we started putting people into homes and trying to assure that everyone could get a home that they might not be able to afford. once the loans were made, backed

by the full faith of the taxpayer, then we did see banks get involved in trading some of these phony loans, resulting in additional stressors on the housing market. when the market collapsed here in southern nevada air, because of the escalating prices will repay because of the scarcity of lead. the issue is how we are going to fix it. we still lead the nation in foreclosures. the bill that allows for refinancing at 125% of loan to value, the average home is at 140% loan to value. making sure that people understand that their house is really a whole and not an investment. >> your absolutely right. this is the number-one problem we face in the district. we have become ground central for dealing with this issue. we are the gold standard nationally because a lot of

congressional offices ask how we -- we have had had several housing foreclosure workshops around the district. we help them when they have been scammed by people who take their money and say they are going to save their home. that has been our number one issue. we will continue to work on it. going back to the things that the senator suggests, and he often just criticizes without offering any solutions. it is wall street run amok that allowed the ravages and predatory lending and all kinds of unregulated mortgage unbundling got us into this fix in the first place. there are a number of housing bills and place. the people who lived across the

street from the lost their home. we have seen people impacted in our own neighborhoods. if we really want to have people stay in their homes, we need to get them back to work so they can pay their mortgage. the number one issue is jobs and the economy. >> i agree on that, but he says it is not his job to create jobs. that is my no. 1 job, to create jobs so we can get back to work and pay our mortgages. the programs that have been in place and the help we get given their lives have made a difference. if you don't believe that, talk to the lady who came up to me at the housing workshop and was crying and said i have accomplished more here in one hour and in the last year, dealing with those banks that my opponent thinks that's not need much regulation. >> the next topic has to do with the stimulus and jobs.

the $787 billion stimulus has been a point of contention between democrats and republicans. some say it is a driving reports -- driving force behind a republican rebound. please the tell your position on this. >> i absolutely support the stimulus. i don't know what nevada would have done without it. it brought $500 million for education alone. if you don't think it has worked, just look at the jobs it has created. 1800 construction jobs have been saved at the airport where they are building a new terminal. teachers' jobs were saved right here in clark county. i have been to a new facility opening up that a chinese company is going to make led lights and wind turbines.

as those people who say thank you for getting us that job. 1500 jobs in august alone. you see owns all over this valley. even the most conservative economists say if we had not had it, we would have been a lot worse off. >> my opponent says it is her job to create jobs. the fact is, if that is her job, she has failed. our unemployment rate is at 15%. it continues to go up, not down. 13,000 new unemployment claims were filed nationally. the bill was going to save or create 3 million jobs and keep unemployment at less than 8%. now unemployment is pushing 10%.

the departing energy says that about $2 billion worth of tax incentives are going to companies with facilities in china, spain, and north korea. how are we going to return those people who lost their jobs back to work? >> once again, my opponent like to criticize but has offered no solution for creating any jobs. he has opposed everything we have done to try to create jobs. i outlined some of the jobs we created with the stimulus. the energy at that would bring 17,000 jobs to this date in the next years. the need to create jobs faster, but i don't hear any solutions. let's diversifying our economy here in nevada.

>> even the president is saying the government does not create jobs but said the conditions for small businesses to hire more people. we need to set an economic climate to give confidence to businesses to come in and hire people. >> the next topic is social security. the federal program that guarantees an income for seniors is set to run out of money in 2037. 52 million americans receive social security with benefits going to one in seven in nevada. is social security worth saving, and if so, how should we protect the system? >> it is a sacred trust between us and people who have paid into it and expect to benefit when they retire. i would do nothing to take away from those who are already collecting.

i am expecting the benefit to be there when i turned 67. how do we secure social security and allow future generations to secure their own retirement? we need to move that other programs. when do you want to worry about it, in 2035 or 2036? once our economy kicks back in and we start seeing growth in our gdp, we will see more tax dollars going back into social security. we have to start making considerations for help you generations can secure their own retirement. >> i am astounded that my opponent is able to flip-flop on so many positions. he started out by saying he wanted to privatize social security, then he wanted to partially privatize it. either you are putting money

into the system are taking it out. i think you have to protect social security. it is one of the most successful government programs in the history of this country. we just celebrated its 75th birthday. it will be solvent until 2037 or 2039, and we need to work on that in a bipartisan way, to look at ways we can continue its solvency, but taking the money of the system and investing in the gold market or stock-market -- taking money out means it will be insolvent much sooner. >> congresswoman titus loves to put words in my mouth like privatize and personalize.

what did you vote for the higher act that allows employers not to pay into social security but to hire somebody else? of't talk out of both sides your mouth and say employers don't have to pay in, but employees must. >> if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, you want to take money of the system, allow people to use it for private investment. if the money is taken out, it will be insolvent much sooner. then what do you have to do? >> every economist will tell you the only thing you can do is raise taxes or cut benefits. i guess he wants to do one or both of those two things. >> the next issue has to do with immigration. tillage your position on illegal immigration and address such issues as border security and amnesty.

>> like everybody, i am opposed to illegal immigration. i have sat on the homeland security committee. it is a very important issue in nevada. we are not a border state but we are certainly affected by the emigration issue. the first thing you have to do is secure the border. i have voted instead of four things that do that, better technology. i supported the drones. i supported the war patrol officers along the border, standing the national guard. close the border and into comprehensive immigration reform because the current system is not sustainable. >> getting the emigration issue right has to be critically

important. we all agree we have to secure the border. we have to look at -- we have to mandate that businesses use everify. next we need to apply the laws that are already on the books to make sure that those who do come illegally are processed in true goren's with a loss that have already been passed. we did an event in henderson were worked at a 7/11 for a day. jay took 12 years to bring his .ife' over >> immigration reform was a bipartisan issue. mccain was in favor of it and gramm, but now has been hijacked.

my opponent was opposed to making businesses in nevada get covered sanctions if they hired illegal votes. i have worked with r siragusa said that a better arrangements so that they are arresting more illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in turn them over to immigration to send them back. >> the issue they are facing is there is not enough ice age years. there is not enough people there. >> will take some questions from readers of the las vegas review journal.

bruce wants to know, what is your specific plan to bring green technology and jobs to the state of nevada. >> we are the perfect laboratory for renewable energy with geothermal, wind, biomass, solar. we can put in solar forms and build wind turbines which brings some short-term construction jobs, but the long- term -- the growth is going to be in research and development. every single, every roof as it shingle with a built-in solar panel. that is what we need to encourage for people to come here to nevada. >> i think we need to do everything we can to lead the nation in renewable energy. we have the most geothermal in the west and we have a lot of wind. look at my hair. it is so easy to say let's do

it, and then not support the things that make it happen. their recovery act had tax breaks for renewable energy. it has been called the biggest energy bill ever, as opposed to the energy bill itself which was also -- which would also jump- start our renewable energy. now he is saying let's do research and development. he talks about wanting to do all these good things that everybody thinks it sounds so great, but he doesn't want to spend any money. he does not want to vote for any of the bills that make it happen. i say let supported and let's do it, and that is what i have done. >> i was not in congress to vote against the recovery act. the clip he referred to about not wanting to create jobs is a clip you took out context. the follow-up to that was, it is

the role of the government to create the conditions in which the private sector creates jobs. it is not the government bring in the jobs. it is private industries. we need to make sure we said the conditions through regulatory structure to encourage those businesses to do the things for our state to diversify the economy. >> it is up to government to help create those jobs, which is exactly what was in the recovery package. a number of tax breaks for small businesses. we have given tax breaks to businesses who are hiring. we eliminate the capital gains for investments. we have given them a tax break for health care and to be more energy efficient. but don't know what additional tax breaks we can do, but that is government does the job.

you can say now you were there, but you have said repeatedly that it failed and he would not have supported. i just do not understand that. >> the next question is from ellen who lives in henderson. she wants to know about cap and trade legislation. do you still believe the benefits outweigh the costs? >> i do. the energy bill has a number of different provisions including investment in renewable energy which will bring numerous jobs to this day. it was estimated that it would be 17,000 jobs coming to that state. you heard a lot of intrudes from the other side, the same side that gave you death pedals. they call it capt. tax. that is not true. there is no tax in that bill.

the most of costs nationally on average would be the price of a postage stamp a day. in nevada, it will bring down prices of energy because it incentivizes the development of renewable energy. we have a really big customer next door in california who will buy their renewable energy. we will become an exporter. it is good for international security because we will no longer be so dependent on foreign oil that comes from a lot of possible sources. it is also good for the environment. >> we must become energy independent. the cap and trade policy that was passed, will add about $73 to the average family's utility bill during the course of a year. it sets off an entire scheme of trading credits for energy, which is rife for abuse and

fraud. we need to explore nuclear energy as a tool and we ourselves of our dependence on foreign oil. >> i think you forgot about their arithmetic. republicans love to side the cbo, which is a non-partisan organization when it works in their favor, but when it does not, they try to debunk it. i can disagree more with my opponent on nuclear energy when we have not solved the problem of ways before we can go down that road. natural gas, i am very supportive of. we see that happening already run into in nevada with one of our plan is moving to the use of

more natural gas. >> the issue with the cbo, they are just estimates. in 1990, loss was $67 billion. the administration said the tax on the average family would be about $1,700 per year. >> please explain the role of the federal government in our higher education system. >> the question is, what role should it play? it should be in of a total one and title 9. what has happened since the department education has become a full level of -- this year it will cost about $69 billion. we are spending money to washington and then getting a

return on the money we sent. i think the bureaucracy should be made smaller and stay in nevada and go directly to the classroom. have and the department of education of has really done little. it will continue to do pell grants and guaranteed student loans, things that i was a beneficiary of when i went proposed education. >> this is a priority of mine. i've been working on this issue. this is where we differ greatly. if you eliminate the department of education, you run a great risk of losing funding for those title programs that were listed. if you take it -- taken out of cabinet status, who will be the

organization that makes this happen? it just won't happen, and we cannot afford that. if it were not for the $500 million would got last time, we would have lost all those teacher jobs and next time they predict it will be even worse. reducing the department of education to a < cabinet levels as a lot about this country's values. we have an agriculture department and an interior department. >> i have three children that winter the clark county school district. i also have a degree in education. education is critically important to me and my family. i want to ensure that money is getting to where it needs to be. since the department of education was formed, we have not seen any increases in

southern nevada. we need to take the curriculum and standards and bring it back to the states or principals, teachers, parents are more involved. >> the standards are set at the national level, but the states determine how the standards are met, what tests are given, and what curriculum is followed? the states do that now. i am a strong supporter of empowerment schools, if those that allow decisions to be made at the local level. when you were in the legislature, you voted to cut the budget for school books. people come to me and tell me they asked the teacher what they should bring to the first day of class. the teacher says bring the ram of paper.

you cannot be for it and against it. >> now the candidates will question each other. get your notes out and get ready. it candidate will have one minute to ask the question. his or her own will have a minute to respond and then the candidate who asked the original question will have a minute to respond. >> two years ago you criticize your opponent for voting to george bush nodded% of the time. you have voted with nancy pelosi nearly 97% of the time. no one disputes that. my question is whether you are giving in to pressure from nancy pelosi to vote with democratic leadership on bills of whether

you really believe that her agenda is the right one for southern nevada. >> i seldom wrestle, but i appreciate the question. those numbers are pretty silly, because i would like to point out that during the time that the senator was in the legislature, he voted with the northern republican leadership 99% at the time. he voted with may 92% of the time. maybe he would like to explain that to some of his supporters. i have stood up to leadership. i am not nancy pelosi or barack obama. people know what i stand for. i always vote for my constituents in my country. i am proud of my voting record and i hold it up as mine, not

anybody else's. >> the republicans were in the majority during the time i was in the state senate. she voted with us 92% of the time. she has voted 97% of the time with nancy pelosi on all the bills, whether or not that anything to do with the people of southern nevada. >> in the 2005 legislature, offered an amendment to increase the property tax rebate for seniors from $500 to $1,000. it passed with bipartisan support, but you voted no. during that session, you also

sponsored a bill to give tax cuts to banks, during a time when banks were running wild. there were making huge profits, giving big bonuses, and moving our country towards financial collapse. do you still believe that supporting tax cuts for a bank of opposing tax cuts for seniors was the right thing to do, and are those your priorities for the people in district 3? >> i would be happy to take a look at that bill and see what may have voted against it if in fact, i did. you set up a two-tiered parallax system, and at a time when we are trying to diversify our economy, we don't want to send a message that i will be next.

it could have been someone who is making widgets for baskets. there should have been a fair, level, equitable feel for payroll taxes. >> it was pushed by republican governor and defended in court by republican attorney general who is now running for governor. it is a crying shame that you cannot remember a bill that you voted on that denied a tax break for seniors. how could you forget something like that? you voted to give the bags a tax break at a time when banks are making huge profits and did not really need a tax break. then they went on to create the word -- worst foreclosure rate in the country right here in the third congressional district.

>> when you ask a question, you will get the final answer. greg is neither -- a number of national media outlets have pointed out that almost nothing in your advertising campaign is accurate. ads have been called plainly false and misleading. independent media sources have said that you and your allies to are guilty of fear mongering. should you lose and go back to your job as a professor, i would like to know what you plan to say to the first didn't you catching on a test or lying in a paper. how can you tell them it was ok for you to deceive the voters of southern nevada but not ok for them to deceive you? >> i certainly do not tolerate

seeing in my classes, so that will not be a problem. your assessment of these ads is off. those were not my s. they were run by a third party about your votes for the cancer vaccine. i read your own words at the last debate recall that a cancer vaccine. maybe now you don't think it is a cancer vaccine, but it was when you were voting against it. i stand by that ad. you voted against mandating insurance companies to cover the vaccine, just as she stood against the mandate for insurance to cover psa test for cancer for men. i stand by that at and i stand by the social security at. now you are saying you don't want to privatize it, but you have said all along you want to

take money out and put it in private accounts. >> you did not answer the question. what would you say to that student? was it okay for you to deceive that voters, but he could not deceive you? it was every major media outlet in southern nevada. the ads were called lately false and fear mongering. it is a three year-old boat that distracts people from the issue at hand. >> you ask me what was said to my students. what would you say to your patients? what would you tell them if they come in with cervical cancer because they could not afford to get that vaccine that you voted against having insurance companies cover? what would you say to that man who has prostate cup -- prostate

cancer? what we say to the parent whose child has diabetes but they cannot get insurance because it was a pre-existing condition and you want to repeal the health care bill? i know what i can say to my students. what can you say to your patients? >> over the course of this campaign, you made a number of conflicting statements. if you pledge to repeal the horrible health care reform, then plan you never said it. when asked what federal department you would eliminate, you answered the department of education, and then claim that is not what you meant. you said you would not have helped save the city center, only to climb later that it would have. it claimed we need a reasonable

regulation of business, but you said we don't need more regulation of wall street. he said he strongly supported share an ankle and stood with her at rallies at republican conventions, only to tell undecided voters that you were also undecided and wanted to get all the information first. how can the people of district 3 trust you? how are they supposed to know what you stand for? >> i have been in the community since 1993. i never said that i was going to repeal the entire health care bill. i said we would repair and replace the health care bill. i never said i wanted to eliminate the department of education. as for the issue with sharron angle, it was taken out of context by a reporter 10 feet away.

before you make a decision, the need to about you at all the evidence. she is asking me whether or not she should vote for angle. i said she should make an informed decision. >> before you changed your position and sign the tax pledge, is that all people need is your word and your handshake. we have senior word does not mean that much. you say one thing and then in front of another audience, you say something different. the people of district 3 need to know what you stand for and that it will be with them. i tell it like it is. people know where i stand. they know i will not lie to them and stab them in the back down the stretch. >> i have stood with the people of southern nevada through my entire service whether as a physician, military member, or an educator.

people no longer trust -- people say that they would fill a lot better if i would sign the pledge. the issue is, my word is my bond, but of the constituent asked me for some other bit of proved that i will stand with them, i will jump through hoops to make sure they know i will be with them when i am serving them in washington d.c. >> we have time for one more question. let's take up the issue of tax reform. it is an issue that has been debated for many years on capitol hill, everything from a flat tax to a national sales tax. what is your proposal for tax reform that would not impact the deficit? >> something we can do to streamline the irs is important.

we all know that the tax increases beginning january 1 will drive many small businesses to the brink of bankruptcy. we are trying to encourage people to create jobs and hire more people. you have to do a comprehensive review of global impact the tax structure. a symbol form that people will be able to fill out and send back and know what they will be paying on their taxes on a regular basis. these are the questions that need to be asked and answers that need to be determined. >> i voted for the largest tax package in history and recovery act. over 95% of people in small businesses in this country got a tax break averaging $841 right here in the state of nevada.

i support parmelee continuing the middle-class tax break and temporarily extending those for the welfare. also the ones that were passed in 2003. the truth is, taxes to impact the deficit. a lot of people think it is only spending that adds to the deficit, but tax breaks do as well. the people who want to parmelee extend the tax break for the wealthiest -- to want to permanently increase the tax break. i think we could use a simpler form. there is no question about that, so we can turn in our reports in a way that makes more sense and is easier for the average person to do. don't make any mistake. does affect the deficit. >> it has to do with the "don't

ask, don't tell" policy. a federal judge issued a decision that effectively repealed "don't ask, don't tell". please give us your response. >> i know that the federal judge issued the injunction. has been appealed. it will probably be played out in the cacourse. it has cost our national defense considerably. we have lost very skilled people, interpreters, high-tech personnel, because of that policy. i think it should be repealed. the vote that is spending now in congress would repeal it based on the military's approval and they are saying through a report that is due in december that this is not good for our military and does not threaten our national security. we need to do it. we need to get rid this outdated policy and with the nine people who want to serve our country,

protect our freedoms, and put their own life on the line for us, and let them have that opportunity without these kinds of conditions. >> i believe that "don't ask, don't tell" was a flawed policy from the beginning. all it did was set people up for failure. my concern is can they shoot straight, can they do their jobs? and i am obligated to initiate those actions which in many or most cases is concerned, because i know it was a good soldier. i believe the answer must come from our military leaders. it should not be a political football used to gain points. they need to do an assessment to determine whether or not it affects morale and the ability to complete their mission.

>> we have come to the point where the candidates will give the closing comments. >> thank you for moderating and thanks for the sponsors of the debate. are you better off today than you were two years ago? we have continued to be mired in recession. we continue to see unemployment rates increase. homes are being foreclosed on a daily basis. the policies of the last 21 months have done nothing to stem the bleeding. i am not george w. bush. nobody wants to go back to anybody's failed policies. it is about who has the vision to look forward and take the lessons learned from both

previous administrations and put together a plan that will prevent us from finding ourselves in the next situation in the next 10 years. the democrats have been saying that when you want to vote, -- when you want to drive you put your car and d. when you see your car heading over cliff, you want to put it in reverse. we need a new direction in washington, common-sense solutions, someone who has worked with these issues on a daily basis to bring that type of expertise to washington d.c. and make a plan that will make sense to stop the job killing policies and put us back to a path of prosperity for all americans. >> thank you of for sticking with us through this hour. the last two years have been very difficult for nevada.

people are frustrated, and i share their frustration and understand their pain. i hear it every day, up close and personally. that is why the real issue in this campaign is what do we do next? how do we get out of this fix going forward? my opponent was returned to the same failed policies that created this mess. giant corporations in our jobs overseas but ignore our needs here at home. no to seniors who depend on social security for that safety net. when given a choice to provide books for our children are tax breaks for banks, he chose banks. when given the opportunity to protect men from prostate cancer and women from cervical cancer, he sided with the insurance companies. when asked to support a cap on property taxes for all people in clark county where to get more property tax rebate to seniors,

he turned his back and voted no. while he sits on the sidelines and offers no new solutions, i will be fighting for you every day to turn this economy around and get our condi -- get our country back on track. i am on your side. he is not. i will be willing to fight for you every day. i am not afraid of the big banks. i am not afraid of the big insurance companies. tsongas i am not afraid to -- i am not afraid to stand up to those third-party companies that run this barging adds. thank you very much. >> we have reached the conclusion of the program. i would like to thank congresswoman dina titus and joe heck for participating. thank you for joining us.

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