we are on the same page and the same verse. i know this president and his liberal allies will attack me for where he has failed to lead. so be it. i'm going to stand and fight, but we're going to win on this. he will attack us with the usual fear tactics, but we will remind americans that during the president's term we have seen record high job losses, record home foreclosures. . .

and do what's needed, not just do what's expediate. and let me be clear -- my presidency will be a pro life presidency. on day one i will -- [ applause ] -- i will reinstate the mexico city policy. i will cut off funding for the united nations population fund which supports china's barbaric one-child policy. i'll ensure that organizations like planned parenthood get no more federal support. and i will reverse every single obama legislation that attacks

our religious liberty and innocent life in this country. you know this, of course. the 39 si is more than just a public office. it's a sacred trust. as president, i will honor that trust by ensuring that america remains the greatest military power on the face of the earth. i will not be cutting our military budget. it's simple. if you don't want america to be the strongest nation on earth, i am not your president. you have that president today. this election is a defining moment, for america and for the conservative movement.

and make no mistake, we have an opportunity for greatness, but with that opportunity comes defining responsibility as well. you can use this election to refight past battles and reward our friends. i know fundamental change, this moment demands we take fresh bold conservative leadership with real world solutions based on real world experience. i will come to washington. with your help and guidance and prayers, i will change washington. and then i will leave washington and go back home to my family and my community i love. i believe this is a moment that demands we return to our basic values and first principles. we believe in the constitution,

the declaration of independence. we believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. withe know the brilliance of chinlgs pursuing our own 2kr50e78s not the government trying to tell us where ewho we are. this is our moments. this is why we're conservatives. the task is to reaffirm the conviction that unite us and go forward shoulder to shoulder to secure the victory that america so desperately needs and deserves. thank you, god bless america. thank you. >> thank you, guys. thank you. ♪

now remarks by republican presidential candidate newt gingrich at the conservative political action conference here in washington. he was introduced by his wife, calista. this is 45 minutes. >> thanks, babe. what a great gathering this is. i'm so happy to be here with you at cpac. newt and i have a wonderful partnership with dave bossie and citizens united. together, we have produced seven documentary filmsen conservative

values, principles, and personalities. several of the documentaries are shown here at cpac. let me just take a moment to thank all of you who have been so supportive to us throughout this campaign. when we decided to run, we knew there would be tough stories from the need yeah as well as hurtful attacks from some of our opponents. what we didn't know was how kind so many americans would be to us. throughout this great country, people have offered their heart felt prayers and support. i want to thank everyone who has reached out. you have made our lives richer and our campaign stronger. because i know newt better than most, i'm pleased to introduce

him today. i'd like to share a few things about him that you may be surprised to hear. first -- newt is an enthusiastic and committed golfer. [ cheers ] >> true. he gets in and out of more sand traps than anyone i have ever seen. newt golfs the way he does everything -- with enthusiasm and determination. he's willing to learn and he never gives up. newt loved books. we have books in every corner of our home. newt also has an entire library on his kindle. i may be the most grateful person in america for this invention.

newt is also very supportive. when i sing at the basilica of the national shrine or play my french horn with the city of fairfax band, he's right there listening. i'm personally grateful for his wisdom in not trying to sing as a candidate. he knows his limitations. finally. we have had some great family moments over the last several months. kathy, jackie, their husbands, and our grandchildren meggy and robert have joined us on the campaign trail. newt is very committed to our grandchildren and to the future of our country. we believed with all of our hearts that america is the last bastion of freedom. we believe that our current task puts the future of our great

nation in jeopardy. and we believe bold solutions and fearless leadership are necessary to rebuild the america we love. please welcome, my husband and the next president of the united states, newt gingrich. thank you, what she didn't

tell you, by the way, is i'm a very bad golfer. she just wouldn't say it. i want to thank dave bossie who's been such a great friend and partnered with us on so many different projects. i also -- this is a personal note. i want to thank ralph and cpac for recognizing last night, tony blankley, who is such a great friend. [ applause ] and i want to thank the new 2012 workers here working. we're a people-based campaign and our volunteers are really important. you know, i've spoken at cpac many times. and cpac was founded to challenge the republican establishment. the fact is, when ronald reagan came here in 1974 and gave his famous speech in bold colors, no

pale pastels, that was a decade in from reagan's national speech for barry goldwater, "a time for choosing." when ray guard campaigned in 1980, you could see the gap between the republican establishment and the conservative movement. reagan campaigned on supply-side economics, lore taxes, less regulation. lower american energy. praise for people creating jobs. the establishment called it voodoo economics. the gop establishment has a single word they use with contempt for conservative ideas. they say they're unrealistic. so creating 16 million jobs under reagan? unrealistic. ending the soviet union, unrealistic. when he was the in for reagan wrote a story pointing out the

fight she and i was in over the question we should have a soviet campaign. the contract with america, unrealistic. the house republican majority of 1994 which, by the way, was elected by the largest vote ever, 9 million new voter, unrealistic. reforming welfare, unrealistic. cutting taxes, the largest capital gains tax cut, first tax cut in 16 years, unemployment drops, 11 million new jobs. unrealistic. four years of a balanced budget. unrealistic. for the republican establishment, managing the decay was preferable to changing the trajectory. because changing the trajectory

requires real fights and a real willingness to roll up sleeves and take on the left. and that's why the republican establishment in 1996 or in 2008 can't win a presidential cam -- campaign because they don't have a toughness, commitment, philosophy necessary to build a majority in this country. let me say the republican establishment in the city, crony capitalism in congress is fully as bad as crony capitalism on wall street. and they had better clean up the congress if they expect to be re-elected. now, cpac actually represents a 50-year struggle. goes back to the draft goldwater movement in 1962. and the tea party versus the republican establishment is in many ways the same fight.

this has been going on for a half century. and it -- in the core of it it's very simple. the conservative noouchlt when it offers bold solutions to rally millions of americans, not just republicans, millions of americans, democrats, independents, people never in politics before, then it wins decisively. 1980, 1984, 1994 are examples of that. what i want to talk about today is bold solutions to get america working again. and i want to contrast it with the timidity that comes with managing the decay. two examples -- we won the second world war from december 7 1941 to 1945. this is what america can do when you unleash the american people. 44 month, three years and eight

months, we defeat nazi germany, fascist italy, imperial japan. 44 months. recently, it took 23 years to add a fifth runway to the airport. when people say, you really can't control the border by january 1, 2014, they're describing the america that can't. that's the establishment's america. tied up in bureaucracy, red tape, incompetence, interest groups. let me be very clear, all of you have seen the washington establishment and the wall street establishment pile on top of me. all of you have seen them say things that were profoundly false. there's a good reason they're doing this. this campaign is a mortal threat to their grip on the establishment because we intend to change washington, not accommodate it.

[ applause ] so let's take the speed, the toughness, the emphasis of the second world war and let's take something that would make all of us optimistic. there's a world that works. most of it, but not all of it, is in the private sector. and there's a world that fails, most of it, not all of it is in the public sector. how many of you have ever gone on-line to check a package at ups or fedex. raise your hand if you've ever checked for a package? okay? so virtually all of you. i want to stop for a second. i want to drive this home. this is not a theory. it is a practical reality that we have the technology that enables us to track between ups and fedex, we track 24 million

packages a day while they're moving and we allow you to find out where they are for free. that's the world that works. here's the world that fails. the federal government today cannot find 11 million illegal immigrants even if they're sitting still. now, i have a simple proposal -- we send a package to everyone who's here illegally and when it's delivered, we pull it up on a computer, we know where they are. let me say for my friends in the news media that's hyperbole and

we don't need a fact check. [ applause ] now, i'm going to give you a series of solutions that are big enough to get america back on the right track. and i think this has been the greatest challenge of this campaign. we have lots of bickering, lots of arguments about this and that. we have no discussion of what does it really take to take the most complicated society in the world, the largest economy in the world, and move it back to being the most successful, most prosperous, safest, freest country in the world. i'm going try this afternoon to set a stage for that. we have tons of details at newt.org. you'll see an immense amount of material. but, the standard here is to have solutions big enough to get america working again. and the principle is to unleash the american people, to rebuild

the america we love. let me start with jobs. if i am the nominee, with your help, i will ask the entire republican ticket to campaign with me on the pledge that when the congress comes in on january 3, it will stay in session and by january 20 when i'm sworn in, it will have repealed obama care. it will have repealed dodd-frank. it will have repealed sarbanes-oxley. all three of those are job-killing bills which centralized bureaucracy in washington, d.c. and increased the corruption of the political system. all three should be repealed and held at the desk until i'm sworn

in. that afternoon on the very first day, we should sign the appeal of all three. that's a reasonable start. two hours after the inaugural address. that's just the hors d'oeuvre. we haven't gotten around to the serious work yet. two hours after the inaugural dress, i'll sign presidential orders and findings all published by october 1. the country will know precisely what this campaign is about. the very first executive order will abolish all of the white house czars as of that moment. [ applause ]

we will sign that day an executive order which as of that moment approves of the canadian pipeline to houston, period. my message to prime minister harper and the canadian government is simple -- you do not need a partnership with the chinese. give the american people a few months. when we beat obama on election night, you can start buying equipment because we will approve it on january 20. there will be an executive order to move the state department, to put the embassy in jerusalem as of that day, period.

we will that day reinstate ronald reagan's mexico city policy, no money for abortion overseas -- period. and we will have an executive order to repeal every act of religious bigotry by the obama administration, period. my goal with your help is that by the time president obama lands in chicago, we will have repudiated at least 40% of his government on the opening day. let me talk now about how to

create jobs. america works when americans are working. the number one theme of the fall campaign will be a paycheck president versus a food stamp president. i believe we will win that fight by a huge margin. i work with president reagan and in his eight years, we created 16 million jobs. i worked with president clinton and in those four years, we created 11 million jobs and got down to 4.2% unemployment? how do you it? really serious change. and i have only one measurement for what i'm about to tell you. i want the establishment to understand up front, this is not about fairness, this is not about being revenue neutral. this is about maximizing economic growth to put americans back to work and create the most dynamic economy on the planet and rebuild our manufacturing base. we pull away from china and become once again the dominant

country on the planet in economic terms. so how do you do that? first, you eliminate the capital gains tax so it's zero capital gains for all investments in the united states. [ applause ] second -- you build a 100% expensing so all new equipment at every level, farmer, factory, doctor, business, all of it gets written off in one year. the goal is to make the american system the most modern, most productive in the world [ applause ] -- also, if you want to modernize the equipment, modernize the workforce. unemployment compensation should be changeled. in order to get unemployment compensation, you sign up for a business-led training program so we're modernizing our workforce. never again should we pay somebody 99 weeks for doing

nothing. in 99 weeks, you can earn an associate degree. think about the total waste of human capability when you teach people to sit at home for 99 weeks. fundamentally wrong and a violation of the declaration of dependence commitment that we have the right to pursue happiness. now, if we're serious about manufacturing, we have to eliminate the environmental protection agency which is a job-killing agency. we should replace it with a brand new environmental solutions agency made up of new people and the number one requirement should be common sense. they should also have to take into account economics. the idea that the highest gas

prices we've had, they're looking at a regulation to raise the price of gasoline 25 cents a gallon tells you how utterly totally irrational epa is today and try to replace it with a new agency. not try to reform it. the people are self-selected to be radicals, anti-business, anti-local control and seek to dictate to america. we also need a 21st century food and drug administrations whose job is simple -- be in the laboratory, understand the science and accelerate getting it to the patient so we save as many lives as possible, rapidly as possible. but in the process, we create hundreds of thousands of new jobs dominating the world market in health care. we need a 12.5% corporate tax rate. that's the irish tax rate. it makes us tremendously competitive in the world. it brings home $700 billion in profits that are locked up overseas.

it enables our companies to compete. i say to my liberal friends, at 12.5%, general electric will actually pay taxes. we should abolish the death tax permanently because it's an immoral tax. [ applause ] you know, governor romney released his taxes, the liberals were shocked. he was only paying 15%. their answer was to raise his taxes. i'm a conservative. i believe our goal should be to get your taxes down to 15%. now, how do you do that? we have in my plan something we got from hong kong care of steve forbes. hong kong has had for years a two-track system. you can keep the current code, all of the red tape, all of the deductions, all of the forms, or you fill in one page, here's how

much i earned, here's how many dependents. here's 15%. this is what i want to say to the establishment. they're going to jump up and say, this is not revenue neutral. they're right. this is called a tax cut. and i have a simple principle. and i want you to understand this, because this is going to become a huge argument inside the republican party. i worked and helped balance the federal budget for four consecutive year, the only four years in your lifetime. people say, oh, gingrich is being irresponsible. none of the people saying they balanced the federal budget. we'll get the federal budget balance. i have a single principle. my intention is to shrink spending down to the level of revenue, not to raise revenue up to the level of obama spending. this is a fight we had in 1984 when we put in the know tax

increase platform that i worked with jack kemp and trent loath against the establishment. our principle is simple -- we're not the tax collectors for the welfare state. we're not assigned to go out and raising extra money so liberals can give it away. we're interested in a tax code that creates job, maximizes freedom, gives you a chance to take care of your family, neighborhood, your charities, your church or synagogue, that's a fundamentally different model than the establishment model oriented towards government. we will not tax the american people for barack obama's credit card. now, how do you get to the balanced budget then? you cut spending, you cut taxes to maximize economic growth, you reform government, you use american energy. at 4.2% unemployment, the rate when i left office, social security is safe for a generation. a huge increase in revenue and a

big decline in costs. you take people off of food stamps, off of medicaid, you take them off of public housing, off of unemployment, off of welfare. you put them to work paying taxes. the government gets more revenue without a tax increase. the government spends less. the first big step to balance the budget. let's talk about cutting spending. this is what i mean by bold proposals that will be labeled on realistically. we should replace the 130-year-old civil service system and regulation with a new model of modern management using systems like lean six sigma and we should be prepared to save $500 billion a year in the operation of the federal government and increase the economy by $2 trillion at a year by the simple act of having the government cease to be incompetent, inefficient, and the hindrance to the future american system. we should look at cutting

spending by looking at every single agency and start by abolishing the department of energy which has been the total failure since it was founded. we should apply the system of american express, mastercard, visa, to cutting out fraud. we can save $60 billion to $110 billion a year in medicare and medicaid alone that go to modern systems that work. that's almost $1 trillion a decade just in that one zone. we should apply the tenth amendment. i'm delighted governor perry has agreed to head up a project to develop a platform this summer for a contract this fall and an implementation to return power back home. we also have things that are energy. i believe that we have an obligation to open up the

american system to produce the maximum amount of oil and gas for three reasons. keeping the $500 billion or $600 billion here at home strengthens our economy. if we maximize our production, our goals should be getting back to $2 a gallon gasoline to prove to the american people that the free market works in a practical way that affects your life. now, this isn't pie in the sky. this is pure supply and demand. when you realize that north dakota alone has 25 times as much energy as the u.s. geological survey thought eight years ago. 25 times as much? and we're not allowed to look at alaska where we own 65%, nearly 1 1/2 times the size of texas. we don't look offshore. america has been an anti-american energy president and america pays the price every time they go to a gas station. and i have a very simple

principle -- we want to ensure that no future president ever again bows to a saudi king, period. we need to move towards a personal social security savings account for young americans while taking social security off budget for senior citizens and we need to make sure no politician ever again lies to our senior citizens by threatening to keep from them checks they earn and they deserved because the trust fund is there even if there's no trust from barack obama. we need to have a complete audit of the federal reserve to find out every single decision.

we deserve to know who got our money and why. if bernanke has not resigned by the day i'm sworn in, i will ask the congress to pass a law ending his term. and we need -- we need a commission on gold and solid currency much like the one ronald reagan had in 1981. i'm delighted that lou lairman and jim grant have agreed they're able to serve as chairman. two big topics that are important about the economy. first -- this administration is waging war on religion. but so are the courts. this is why we need a movement that's bigger than just beating obama. we need a movement that understands we're going to change the congress, the white house, the bureaucracies, and where necessary, the courts. and we all need to understand how real this is. this country was founded by people who came here in order to avoid religious persecution. a very basis of this country was

religious liberty. our core document says we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable writes. and barack obama seeks to cut across those. i frank lip don't care what deal he tries to cut. this is a man deeply committed if he wins re-election, he'll wage war on the catholic church the morning after he's re-elect md. we should not trust him. we know who he really is. we should make sure the country knows who he really is. for those who understand what a real bold solution approach is, go to newt.org, a 54-page paper we put together over a nine-year period that outlines how to rebalance the judiciary and how to re-establish the right of the

people to protect themselves against dictatorial judges rewriting the constitution rather than enforcing the constitution. very serious topic. finally, this is an administration who lies about who the enemies are, refuses to tell the truth about what threat this is, blind to the dangers we're running, seeks to weaken our defense system, crippled our intelligence system, and is making a series of decisions around the world are stunning in the misunderstanding of the nature of reality. today we have americans held hostage in egypt precisely like jimmy carter with hostages in iran in 1979 and 1980. today we have the person who helped us find bin laden has been arrested by the pakistani government. now what more do you need to know? they didn't say, oh, this is terrific. you helped to find the most wanted terrorist in the world. they say this is terrible. how can you help the americans. withe need a profound national

debate and it needs to start about telling the truth about radical islamists who seek to kill us. [ applause ] this is going to be -- this is going to be a big choice, big decision election. i think while i'm seeking the republican nomination, there has to be an american campaign. we want to say to every american -- if you favor paychecks over food stamps, come join us no matter what your background, no matter where you live, we want to be with you in creating a work oriented jobs economy. we want to say to every american, if you believe that honesty about our enemies strengthen our defense and competence in our capabilities is vital to our survival, come join us. we don't care who you were, what

you once did. we need every american who wants to defend america to come together in this campaign. and finally, we need to say to every american, if you believe in the declaration of independence, if you believe in the constitution, and you believe in the federalist papers, then we want you to be with us. we understand others will be with barack obama and radicalism. everyone who believes we are endowed by our creator. our rights are inalienable. we have the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we come to every background. i hope you will go to newt.org, hope you will sign up. we're running a people campaign. we don't have the scale of money that some of our competitors do, but we do have a plan. we are gathering together a team, we have a conservative green team like rick perry, herman kahne, fred and terry

thompson, todd palin, j.c. watts, linda itmooifr, oliver north, a tremendous team. but in the end, we need you. if we can be together, there are many people -- we have more names -- you can go to newt.org and add more names. all of the years i work in this party, this movement, this is the year to reset this country in the decisive, bold way. we need to teach the republican establishment a lesson. we are determined to rebuild america, not to manage its decay. with your help, that is what we'll do. thank you, good luck, god bless you. [ applause ]

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president obama has announced a modification to the health care law provision requiring all employers to provide women access to free contraceptive services. women are still guaranteed access, be uh if their employer rejects for religious reasons, the responsibility will fall on the insurance provider. the president's remarks are about ten minutes. >> there we go. >> there i am. that's pretty good. hello, everybody. i was going to say good morning. but i guess it's afternoon by now. as part of the health care reform law that i signed last year, all insurance plans are required to cover preventive care at no cost. that means free checkups, free mammograms, immunizations, and other basic services. we fought for this because it

saves lives and it saves money, for families, businesses, government, for everybody. that's because it's a lot cheaper to prevent an illness than to treat one. we also accepted a recommendation from the experts at the institute of medicine that when it comes to women, preventive care should include coverage of contraceptive services such as birth control. in addition to family planning, doctors prescribe contraception as a way to reduce the risks of ovarian and other cancers and treat a variety of different ailments. the overall cost of health care is lower when women have access to contraceptive services. nearly 99% of all women have relied on contraception at some point in their lives, 99%. and yet more than half of all women between the ages of 18 and 34 have struggled to afford it.

so for all of these reasons, we decided to follow the judgment of the nation's leading medical experts and make sure that free preventive care includes access to free contraceptive care. whether you're a teacher or a small businesswoman or a nurse or a janitor, no woman's health should depend on who she is or where she works or how much money she makes. every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health. period. it's basic principle is already the law in 28 states across the country. now, as we move to implement this rule, however, we've been mindful that there's another principle at stake here, and that's the principle of religious libber the i. an unalienable right enshrined in our institution, as a citizen and christian, i cherish this

right. one of my first jobs in chicago was working in catholic perishes in poor neighborhoods and my study was granted by a local church. local churches do more good for the community than a government program ever could. so i know how important the work of faith based organizations do and how much impact they can have in their communities. i also know that some religious institutions, particularly those affiliated with the catholic church, have a religious objection to directly providing contraception services from their employees. we lifted all of the requirements, an exemption that eight states didn't already have. that's why from the beginning of this process, i spoke directly to various catholic officials and i promised that before finalizing the rule as it applied to them, we would spend

the next year working with institutions like catholic hospitals and catholic universities to find an equitable solution that protects religious liberty and ensures that every woman has access to the care she needs. now, after the many genuine concerns that have been raised over the last few weeks, as well as frankly the more cynical desire on the part of some to make it to a game of political football, it became clear spending months hammering out a solution would not be an option, we needed to move this faster. so last week, i directed the department of health and human services to speed up the process that had already been envisioned. we weren't going to spend a year doing this. we're going to spend a week or two doing this. today, we reached a decision on how to move forward. under the rule, women will still have access to free preventive care, that includes contraceptive services, no

matter where they work. so that core principle remains. but, if a woman's employer is a charity or a hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services as part of their health plan, the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity, will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive carefree of charge. without co-pays and without hassles. the results will be religious organizations won't have to pay for these services and no religious institution will have to provide these services directly. let me repeat -- these employers will not have to pay for or provide contraceptive services. but women who work aft these institutions will have access to free contraceptive services, just like other women. and they'll no longer have to pay hundreds of dollars a year that could go towards paying the rent or buying groceries.

i've been confident from the start that we could work out a sensible approach here. just as i promised. i understand some folks in washington may want to treat this as another political wedge issue. it shouldn't be. i certainly never saw it that way. this is an issue where people of goodwill on both sides of the debate have been sorting through some very complicated questions to find a solution that works for everyone. with today's announcement, we've done that. religious liberty protected and a law that requires free preventive care will not discriminate against women. we live in a pluralist ik society where we're not going to agree on every issue or share every belief. it doesn't mean that we have to choose between individual libernty and basic fairness for all americans. we are unique among nations for

having been founded upon both of these principles and our obligation as citizens is to carry them forward. i have complete faith that we can do that. thank you very much, everybody. >> what have you learned from this experience, mr. president? next, live, your calls and comments on "wa journal." then president oh what at the white house science fair and talking about state waivers for no child left behind standards. after that, opposing viewpoints in the debate ensuring insurance coverage for contraceptives. >> this is the way i'll remember -- here is that wonderful moment when senator lott revealed his nostalgia for the states rights segregationist south. take a look. >> when strom thurman ran for president, we voted for him. we're proud of him. >> talking points memo.com

publisher josh marshall on the internet and the website emergence to the breaking news business. >> the media ecosystem is such a different world today than it was ten years ago. i think things like that happen all the time now. i know that there's -- there's certainly many big stories that tpm has had over the last decade. you know, more and more. now we have an editorial staff 206 people. so we're breaking -- breaking stories right and left. i think the thing is it's almost become -- it's almost become common place. and it's not neefrply as surprising today as it was back then. >> more about tpm and josh marshall sunday night 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. this morning, jean karpenski reveals t