this is a rally on faith in freedom. there was a book written recently were they interviewed a member of the chinese government who had worked and tried to figure out what was going to make the difference in america, what made them the greatest country in the history of the world. you know what it turned up to be? first, what we thought this committee was put together, first we thought it was their economy. it's not of their economic system. then we thought it was the military'. it wasn't that. then we thought it was the governmental system. was not the. do you know what they decided? faith. people's beliefs in a transcendent god. [applause]

ladies in dublin, and i dedicated my public career to all the things i talked about. i talked about national security, the economy, cutting taxes, but the area i have dedicated and fought on the battlefield, i will give you a quote from yesterday, last night's bill maher show. rick santorum is like a japanese soldier after world war ii did not know that the war was over when it comes to the abortion issue and marriage and homosexual marriage. ladies and gentlemen, are those issues lost in america? are they lost? >> no. >> no, but we need to have a leader my understanding in their heart. and that will go out and fight for those. i've done that. i did that when i was in the united states house and the senate. i did not always do it. when i came to the senate, i did

something happen to make. and then we heard some stories here of people and how they came to christ. i went to the united states senate and i found the lord. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] and id i did it in the one of te most casual ways. ended up going to a bible study by an amazing creature by the name of lloyd josn. hn. karen and i became on fire with our faith. as a result of that, i decided that i had a purpose of being in the senate. i was not quite sure what it was. and then there was this bill that came up called partial birth abortion. and i looked at this and i said, you know, i am a senator from pennsylvania. it is a tough state. it is the state measure probably keep my head down and do what most folks up here do, check the boxes, but not released up out. and i decided no more.

that is why i am here. i went to the floor of the senate and i fought the battle. i fought the battle on overturning president clinton's veto on the partial birth abortion ban. i fought in 1996 and again in 1998 and again in 2000. and then the supreme court struck down the nebraska statute. we kept losing because he could not override the president's veto, but i kept fighting. and then in 2002 -- in 2001 president bush was elected. i went with a group of folks in the house and i said, look, the supreme court struck down the depressed a statue. -- the nebraska status. te. let's get together and pass a bill that says at the front, the supreme court, you are wrong and lays out the case as to why they are wrong. we passed that bill, it was signed by the president.

it was appealed to the supreme court and the supreme court reversed their decision and found in favor of it being constitutional. [applause] that -- that. i hear a lot of theory. that is practice. your your folks saying it weakens stand up to the court. i did it. we took on the united states supreme court and we took on the issue of abortion and beat them. we took them on, because it is a passion in my life. why? i wish your story as i close. a story that happened right at the end of the first debate on partial birth abortion. there was a discussion on the final day. it was dianne feinstein. started talking talkinghow how, and this was the reason for

partial birth abortion, mothers and fathers found out late in pregnancy that the baby there were expecting was not exactly what they were expecting. the baby was somehow not perfect, and therefore, late in pregnancy there wanted to terminate the pregnancy. sir dianne feinstein got up and talked about how mothers find out that they have an abnormal baby that maybe can not, does not have the ears or eyes or has organs that are outside of the baby. basically saying that we need to cull the disabled and the will. i will call you what i said. i said, think about the message we are sending to the less than perfect children in america. and the mothers who are right now dealing with the possibility of delivering an abnormal baby. my wife is due in march and we have not had a sonogram. we're hopeful everything is fine. but what message are you sending to meet if i look at that sonogram and a week or two and things are not just right?

a week later, karen and i went in for that sonogram and the doctor went over and kept going over this one area. we were there with our three little children. he looked at us and said, your son has a fatal defect and is going to die. we packed up the kids as quickly as we could, we went into the car and cried and cried. and i made the decision and said, we're going to do something about it. i had just been of the children's hospital in philadelphia the week before and had a meeting with a doctor who had done as a breakthrough intrauterine surgery. so i called them. he said, i do not know if we can help, but come on up. after a few days, they figured out they could do something. of course, they recommended an abortion. of course, we told them no. why? why would we killed our sons?

why if your child is in trouble would you not do everything you can to help them? the surgery was done. it was a miracle. it worked. we came home the next day. we head to head to a family reunion, a 50th wedding anniversary of my wife's parents and his birth. the next day, i am driving to an appointment and i get a call from my sister-in-law. come home. karen's running a high fever. we were told that everything would probably go all right unless she ran a high fever. so i came back home. her fever was 103, and she was in labor. we knew what was going on. she had something call -- the placenta that was holding our

son was infected in the body was trying to expel it. we went through hours of horror, as we wanted to save our child, but yet could not save our child. he was delivered in the middle of the night. he was born alive, but far too small to survive. and we held him for 2 horus. urs. it was 2 hours where he knew only love. not a bad life. the next day to come home so our children could know that they had a little brother, that he was real, he was a person. he had dignity, and he was part of our family. karen and i stumbled along.

i remember talking to the pastor said, pray for the gift of understanding. i did not want to. i was angry. i had committed myself to the lord. i was doing the brave and a road thing of standing up for life, risking my political career in pennsylvania, and this was my answer. you take my son. karen did more. she wrote, she kept writing. she wrote letters. she always did with all our children from the time there were born, from the time that we have found out about their pregnancy, she would have the sonogram pictures and diaries and notes, just telling the kids what the life was like, because we knew at the moment of conception that was our son or daughter. she kept writing those letters and about a month later, her mother came to see her and she

read all of the letters. she said, you should publish tghem. hem. maybe they will heal somebody. she published a book called the "letters to gabriel." --ere is not a month ago b that goes by that i do not meet somebody whose life was saved, whose baby was delivered, or whose burden was lessened. i tell my children that if you cnan do for god and for life what your little brother did in2 2 hours, you will be a great warrior for god. [applause] one final story.

it is from the last page of karen's book. it is a letter to our son. it read as follows, " during the partial birth abortion debate, a senator, senator boxer, was thanking the women who had partial birth abortions from coming forward with their stories. there were women in between the elevator of the senate office building and the senate chamber itself would have this procedure, and they work buttonholing senators trying to get them to vote against the bill. she says, "they're crying. they are crying because they do not understand how senators could take away an option. they are crying because they do not believe the senator is truly understand what this meant for their families." karen continues. "daddy said in response, the

senator says she hears the cries of women outside this chamber. we would be deafened by the cries of the children who are not here to cry because of this ." procedure. "the washington post" described what happened next. republican senator rick santorum turned to face the opposition and a high pleading voice, cried out, "where do we draw the line?" some people have likened this procedure to an appendix -- an appendectomy. that is not an appendix, he shouted. that is not a blob of tissue. it is a baby. it's a baby. and then impossibly, in an hushed gallery, in one of those moments when the florida senate looks like a stage set, with its small wooden desks some up to

for the matters at hand, the cry of a baby per se the room, echoing across the hallway and enjoy it across the chamber from the outside hallway. no one mentioned the cry, before few seconds no one spoke. a coincidence? perhaps. a visitor is a baby was crying as the door of the senate gallery opened at the precise moment and closed. or maybe it was the cry from the son whose voice we never heard but who has changed our lives forever. you want to know why i'm pro life? do you want to know why i stand up and fight for the

family and marriage? because god showed me that if you are faithful, he will be faithful. ladies and gentlemen, we need people who are leaders in this country who believe that, who believe that the faceless of god, that he is blessed this country and each and every one of us. and if we stand in our faithful and fear not, that this country again could have or rebirth of freedom like we have never seen before. thank you. god bless. [applause] >> senator, thank you so much for being here tonight.

the first question is what would you specifically do to prevent abortion on demand and defend traditional marriage? >> i think it is important when you hear this question to understand it is a question about marriage and abortion. everybody upar here say, most everybody, say they support traditional marriage and support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. but you also hear, if you listen to the debates, people say that while they may support a constitutional amendment, they do not support getting involved in the states and doing something to make sure the state's don't pass, either through judicial fiat or through legislation, marriage different than one man and one woman. and that is all the difference. when i first account -- there has been one vote on the floor of the senate on the issue of the federal marriage amendment. and i forced it.

when i was there. there has not been 1 cents. one since. i forced it. we lost. but we had the debate. we went for the right solution. youle up here will tell there are for that, but will they push the debate? will they have the vote? will they take it to the american people? one way you can tell how convicted they are as when they go to the states and fight it with a fight is? i will. i did. i came to iowa last year. i campaigned here in iowa against the three supreme court justices to delivered same-sex marriage to iowa. and i will come back, no matter what i will come back and make sure that onot only do we defeat those justices, but we go to every state. why? because if we do not, then one

by one these little states or judicial opinions will come down, and the supreme court will say that we cannot have all these different definitions of marriage, just like they did with abortion. it is the same game plan. so when people stand up and say, i am for marriage but i will not do anything about the states because of the 10th amendment. the 10th amendment does not allow -- abraham lincoln said it best. it does not allow states the right to do wrong. [applause] if the state of iowa wanted to pass a gun hand, what all these folks say that the state had the right to do whatever they want? i would not. no way. this leads to the other issue, which is what are you going to do about the issue of abortion? you've heard some people stand up here and say i would vote for a constitutional amendment. did they? did they ever sponsor it? did they ever try to fight to

get it voted for, when they had the opportunity? i did. yes, i fought for partial birth. and i know there is a battle and know it is uncomfortable, but it is an important battle to have. we stand it on the 50 yard line and throw hail marys, try to get constitutional amendments adopted, or do we try to get a couple of the arts? i was just at the new mexico at state football game. i apologize for that. do we try to get something passed like partial birth or fetal pain or other things? here is the issue. are the folks who are trying to do these incremental measures committed to scoring a touchdown? or are they just trying to pad their stats?

are they just trying to make a few first downs to keep everybody happy in the pro-life movement and really not convicted to push that ball down field? my feeling is as a good offensive coordinator -- and that is what i was in the senate, i was an offensive coordinator on the life issue. i was trying to move the ball down the field. might issue on that is, you know what? yes. take your gains, but sometimes as you know, you have to stretch the field. you have to mix up the defense a little bit. and you have to go for those long passes. whether it is the person had amendment or what ever disappeared the other thing is, we have to have a discussion when it comes to what we can do. there is a lot of things that the president can do. mexico city. we can appeal the obama-care on making businesses carry abortion policies. we can get rid of the conscious

plus protection that does not protect people from providing abortifacient and other drugs. we can go to the legislature. we can do those things. we can do it in the context of saying, this is a human life from the moment of conception. and it is wrong -- [laughter] [applause] ca- [applause] we will take these few yards and we are coming back because we will not differentiate what is it legal and biological fallacy, that is human life is not a person. that human life is different because it is located in the woman as opposed to outside. some of you may half remembered the debate i had with barbara boxer on when a child was born. we were talking about partial birth, and the partial birth abortion bill. the baby was delivered all but the head.

by esther, what of the baby was delivered alal but the foot? could you kill the baby then? it is on youtube. look at it. for five minutes, she cannot and will not answer the question. we started the debate with her a standing right there. by the end of the debate, she is at the back of the senate chamber trying to get out because she could not answer what is the truth, that it's an artificial line that we draw, and we have to have the courage to say the truth no matter what legislation we are bringing forward. >> the next question is what would you do to restore fiscal responsibility and promote creation of jobs? >> i talked about my 0 0 0 stance, as to how we will bring a manufacturing base and grow the middle of america again. i also talked about what i did

in the area of trying to reduce government spending. yes, we need to do to the rest of programs in washington d.c. food stamps, medicaid, housing programs, education and training, all of these programs have no business being in the federal government. we should do to them what we did with welfare. block grant them. send them back to the states. give the states the flexibility to implement the programs. and output requirements. what we did with welfare. i had two things required. they were then two basics are refused to negotiate on. we need to have a time limit on welfare and a work requirement. people should not be able to get government benefits unless you're disabled or working for them are on for a short period of time. that is the deal. that is why we named welfare temporary assistance for needy families as opposed to aid to families with dependent children. that is one idea.

here is the big idea, which is the balanced budget amendment. i was for cap and balance, but i argued that what we needed was balance balance and balance. we were focused on cuts. what we should of been focusing on is focusing on the american public saying that we need to balance this budget. and we can do it. we can do it over a period of years. if you pass an amendment, it takes five years for it to be ratified. it takes five years after that to be implemented. you are talking 7-a years. it is plenty of time to get to a balanced budget, but you put all wall. one of the things i learned in washington d.c., and you learn a lot with experience -- you learn how the other side thinks, how they act, and all the tracks. the one thing i do know is that the only way he will change the way things operate in washington d.c. is to change the rules of

the game. that means you have to make it painful. have to put a wall. do you know what day of the week almost every bill passes? thursday night or friday. why? because people want to go home for the weekend. it is a wall. it creates a backstop. read a backstop. i pledge to not only will i try to pass our economic plan. and we will reform these entitlements, but i will go across this country and we will get the american public, just like we did with welfare, we will get the american public behind a balanced budget amendment to put fiscal sanity and maintain freedom in this country. [applause] >> thank you. one last time i get asked this question. what is your comprehensive plan and to shape your future administration's energy policy and please include how this bill

-- mission would differ from the approach of the current administration. >> i share with everybody else that the reason there is a deliberate attempt by this administration to destroyed the energy future of this country or are they incompetent? pick "a" or "b." at the current rate of extraction, we have 263 years left of oil in this country. we have 300 years of coal, which may be going up, not because we found more but we are producing less under this administration because you cannot get a permit. and they are in the process of deregulation and shutting down 60 power plants. we will be to the point where you turn on the switch and it will be russian roulette. is it going on or not, because of this administration. and what they are doing to our power supply. and of course natural gas. it was mentioned earlier. we found the second-largest find of natural gas in the world under mostly pennsylvania.

we are drilling 3000 wells a year. and guess what happened to the natural gas price? you heard the president earlier this year give his energy speech. he gives an energy speech every year. and he gives this energy speech and he says, a drill baby turtle was a joke -- baby drill was a joke. they made fun of it. this was at cleveland state. all listings are laughing. julian does not work. supply does not work. it is like a teacher at the school, instead of economic 101 he went to economics 50 1/2. he ignored supply. the only way to reduce prices by reducing demand. well, guess what happened to the natural gas price as a result of what is going on in pennsylvania? when i left the senate six years ago, the gas prices was about $12.

it is $3.60. supply works. [applause] we need to drill in pennsylvania and alaska and offshore and wherever we can. we need to have an energy policy. and i disagree with the speaker on this. we do not disagree on much. he wants to fund everything. i want to cut every subsidy. let the marketplace work. [applause] and that includes for oil and gas. we need to cut all the subsidies, let the market work. i agree with newt. i learned a lot coming here to iowa about the efficiencies created. i have no doubt that this industry can compete. let it compete on an even playing field with the rest of the energy options in this country. [applause]

>> the last question would be if you could reverse one energy related policy decision from the last three years what would it be and what would you have done differently? >> i think i agree with everybody else that the moratorium on gulf drilling was an outrageous cost to the taxpayers. lost revenue. it was an outrageous cost to the people of louisiana and texas, that area country after being devastated. it was devastated again by the actions of this administration. i would say to you that we need an administration, a president who has common sense. in my book "it takes a family," i said liberalism is an ideology. look of the presence job package. it is the same as it was before. failure. abject

his answer is propose more of the same. why? because liberalism is an ideology, not based on fact or real-world experience. conservatism as i defined it is stewardship of patrimony. fancy words that mean taking what we know is good, what wek n know of true is of nature and ordereds god, how we are in our world. taking those natural laws and taking what has worked and applying what our founders created, which was free people, free markets, and the ability to be able to pursue not just your dreams but god's will in your life. you allow that to continue in america, you allow people to transform this country like we did in 1776. i remind everybody, at the time of the founding of this country,

life expectancy in america as it was in most of the west was 35- 40 years of age. the same as it was at the time of jesus christ. we were an agrarian society, the same as it was at the time of jesus christ. 1800 years of kings and emperors ruling the world and the human condition did not change. then america, the declaration, rights coming from the god of abraham isaac and jacob and his laws in order to serve him, as i said in our declaration. in 235 years, life expectancy has doubled. we have been through ed industrial and technology revolution. the poorest person in america today is wealthier than the wealthiest person. wealthy from the standpoint of creature comforts, the wealthiest person 50 years ago. how many of you want to go to a hospital that is 50 years old? how many of you want telecommunication that is 50 years old?

9% of americans have cell phones? why? because we have limited government and we have a president and leaders in washington who believed in you. please, i asked your help and support. elect someone who has proven that they will stand up for the values that made this country great and be able to win elections in states like pennsylvania, so we guarantee that we have a republican president in this next election. thank you all very much and god bless. [applause] >> thank you, senator. now we invite pastor of the desmoines church of christ to give the benediction. would you stand as we pray?

>> we thank you, heavily father, for your grace to us in spite of we are and as a nation, father, we are seeking a new leader. our current leader has turned its back on righteousness and truth and is leading us further into decadence as a nation. and even though there is a cacophony of voices in our current culture that say that we are antiquated fools for following you, father, we know you are the only place we can turn as we seek out a new leader. so we ask you, father, to help us elect a leader that is a true christian, one who is guided by your word and your spirit and is a person who desires to make his or her days count for the kingdom of christ. we ask for a leader whose commitment to christ and love of

country compel him or her to stand for truth and righteousness in government. we need a leader who recognizes that he or she will ultimately give account to you, father. we know, lord, the time is waning, and the day will soon arrive. let us not squander what you have given to us as a people. our nation is a true blessing. and we ask, father, that you hear our prayer and the name of christ jesus our lord and savior, amen. [applause] >> thank you for attending. have a safe trip. thank you. ♪ ♪

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>> good story. really inspiring. >> great job. >> won't be long now. [inaudible] >>

>> now i need your help, ok? >> [inaudible]

to be in guthrie county monday. why don't you give us your name? we will get in touch with you. >> thank you very much. >> i'm leaning your way. i was newt, between you and newt. [inaudible] you both have the experience. >> god bless.

>> very nice, great speech. i remember listening to -- what yera waar was that? born in 1990 -- i remember crying. 's got invovlelved in bushs campaign when we were able to. >> sign them up. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] i was ready to start crying. [inaudible] it came from the heart, and this is important. that is one thing we know about you. going to the straw poll, you

were the only one that brought the whole family. >> appreciate that. >> i have my picture up front. that was me. i tracked you down. >> you saw me play baseball? >> i'm still trying to get you and your people to commit -- [inaudible] >> i follow you on facebook. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> can i get one more photo? >> come on. get in there. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> good luck. >> [inaudible] >> you stand out from everybody else. your wife, thank her again for the sacrifice. >> thank you for your story. >> you want a picture? >> [inaudible] >> do you wan t one, too?

>> i'm usually the one behind the camera. >> thank you for sharing your story. very moving. >> [inaudible]

>> [inaudible]

>> can you sign this? and also -- >> my wife says she likes -- [inaudible] >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> [inaudible] >> you want a picture, too? jim, you comign? ng? get in here. >> you're a good speaker. the historian aspect, i love that. the smartest man in the room tonight. >> wonderful job. we're behind you. >> thank you very much. >> s-h-a-r-i. totally different. thank you. >> was there a singer's name shari, spelled like that? >> you got it already?

>> thank you. here you go. >> [inaudible]

>> getting two to three people nominated. >> in new jersey. >> it's the lesser of two evils. she's a partial birth abortion advocate. >> [inaudible] >> you support, try to do -- the enemy of the good -- [inaudible]

>> my daughter is campaigning for you in nebraska. >> a great friend of mine. [inaudible] >> keep up the good work. thank you very much for being here. >> keep up the good work. >> take care, now. >> i saw your wife on fox about her new book. i'm a sixth grade teacher. the content of the book about kids not knowing about -- dead

on. >> [inaudible] it's doing really well. >> they come into class, they don't know. thanks. >> [inaudible] >> i'm going home and reading your web site. >> thank you.

>> thank you. >> i wanted to ask you about the strong america -- [inaudible] >> you brought up the family. i talked about economic issues. the family is a vitally important economic unit. the family is struggling marriage is breaking apart. -- marriage is breaking apart. the economy is suffering. and government has to be able to provide help for this family. this is facts. the question is, what can and

should we do? [inaudible]

>> [inaudible] >> dallas county? have you been to dallas county? >> i have been to dallas county. >> so thank you. >> how are you? good to see you. >> good to see you. >> you endured what all the media hit. put in 6, 7 hours sitting here. you itching to get out?

>> hopefully, we changed the mood here a little bit. >> i don't think you hurt yourself. i think you did well. >> [inaudible] >> it's a hard decision because you all have basically the same --

[inaudible] i have a niece with 8 children and a nephew is 6. >> my son has 9. >> good for you. >> he's a pastor. >> we struggle because pastors do not make a lot of money. [inaudible] >> i never married. i taught for years. thank you. >> great job.

>> we have a lot of good candidates. everybody did well. i have to say you were the only person who had the entire room to a point where we did not hear a pin drop.

>> and that will wrap up c-span 's coverage of the faith and freedom forum. if you missed any of the speeches, we will be showing them in their entirety at midnight eastern time. and one of tonight's participants, michelle bachmann,

will be on c-span tomorrow as she makes an appearance in occupy wall street. iowa. louisiana governor bobby jindal has won a landslide victory and 70% of the vote in the state's open primary. he only needed 50% to take the governor's seat. heading into his second term. on the campaign trail, just a reminder, you can watch clips from the road to the white house on line at the c-span campaign website. go to c-span.org and watch online any time. tomorrow on "washington journal", daniel serwer from the jat -- john hopkins organization that fo. alex lawson has details on that affected social security recipients will get a 3.6%

increase next year. then jonathan martin and amy gardner on the latest developments in the 2012 presidential campaign. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> it is just to me very obvious that with all the priorities we have, and they're all worthy, until further notice, every decision the national government makes, every close call should be made in favor of economic growth. every type should be broken in favor of growth of the private sector. >> he worked as an adviser in the reagan white house, omb director and george w. bush's administration and he implemented budget cuts that produced $1 billion in surplus. mitch daniels on his decision not to run for president in 2012 at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-

span's today. >> on friday, president obama honored the recipients of the 2010 medal of science and technology. it is the highest honor bestowed on scientists and innovators. the president discussed the importance of making investments and speeding up the transfer of new ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace. from the east room of the white house, this is 20 minutes. >> welcome, everybody. please have a seat. it is a great pleasure to be with so many outstanding innovators and inventors. and i'm glad we could convince them all to take a day off to accept our nation's highest honor when it comes to honor when it comes to inventions and innovation, and