customers. you the customer should pay our wages. my dream is coming true. there is a bill in congress that would finally raise the wage for both tipped and non-tipped workers. there are a number of states and localities where we are moving to eliminate the the were minimum wage for tipped workers altogether. what does that mean for tipped workers? it is 50-50 male-female. tipped workers are 70% female. this is the only industry that has found a way to engage in legal gender discrimination. making this dream and reality means many things -- a reality means many things. it means women lifted out of poverty.

not living at the mercy of tips.ers' [applause] stagease welcome to the our guests. [applause] >> hi everybody. we have heard from a movement leader, activists, and organizer. before that, we heard from a senator. those were conversations about policies. the idea is to bring it back to the ground level. speak to some of the individual people who might be affected by some of these changes.

.ho can tell us our stories what it is like to be an individual human being. a young woman living life in america today. hopefully that will be a valuable perspective. this is a lie fed session -- life ed session. kelsey come and from the leadership project in new york. we will hopefully have a bit of a conversation -- round-robin style. we will start with the question of what challenges have you gone through? we will start with you, gracie. >> one of the biggest struggles i have had to overcome has been

my financial situation with my mother. she is a single mother. my father left around 2006. it has been pretty rough. poverty has always looked like $20,000 below the poverty line for a three person family. allude -- avoid the landlord at 1:00 in the morning. that is what my struggle has been. , that was onunger top of health struggles. i don't want to say i am over that. i'm in the process of recovering -- overcoming. >> is a process. thank you. [applause] -- what about?

you? >> i'm in the process of overcoming my struggle. i live in a single-parent household. my struggle is my dependency on my mother who has a dependency on the government. --'s not making enough money is making enough for one person, but not for the seven people in my household. i am only 17 so i can overcome this myself. i am tried to go to college and get education. i have a scholarship to a college which i want to attend. but the scholarship does not cover half of the tuition. might problem is trying to get through college. >> thank you. [applause] >> i am kelsey.

one of the challenges i have overcome was the language barrier. old, i was one-year occurrence at me to peru to live with my grandparents. because of the economy, they were not stable enough to care a healthy have household. they sent me to peru. when i came back when i was eight, it was hard for me trying to live without my grand parents and forming a relationship with kids that spoke a different language. i overcame trying to get along with people i really wasn't used to.

[applause] >> thank you so much. you are so young and done so much in your lives. what would you say as you go forward? one of the challenges you are facing -- what are the challenges you are facing? >> one thing that has helped me has been a safe space. it is a space where people can speak and share ideas and be themselves. and exclusive -- inclusive space. it is a support system. i have had to in high school -- two in high school. i have been learning about college since 14. scholarship toht

university in indiana. [applause] space -- it is an exclusive space where i could be horrible -- mold herbal -- vulnerabklle. it is hard to say? i am poor. i feel like women, daughters and moms, they need spaces where it is ok for them to speak. especially in a society where they are told not to speak. share our stories and be ok with telling them and not fear being ted -- judged. that is what we need. spaces where a woman can be vulnerable. but not make it seem like it is bad, it is strength.

>> is the strength. how about you? >> to bounce off of what she i find it hard to say you are poor and then find someone who cares and wants to help you. i need money. [laughter] school.a charter i have been part of the cap from fifthip system grade to 12th raid -- grade. i am certain they don't have enough money to get me through college and everybody else in my school. when i need is money. that's what i need is money. >> i need role models.

i feel like the industry i want to go into which is business does not have role models that look like me. i feel like finding people that look like me and do the things that i want to pursue is what i need. >> thank you all three of you. your voices are so powerful. please welcome to the stage steve clemons. and more guests. >> thank you. going, aget the panel lot of you have jackets next to you. there are people wanting to set -- sit.

thatu find a jacket belongs to somebody else, stuffit under the chair. we are going to do fantastic sessions. this front row has been here all morning. they deserve extra credit. [applause] >> we will give you a gold star. >> i am the editor at large of the atlantic. ans has been amazing day -- amazing day. here is the striver port -- shriver report. it isia shriver said, inspiration for the heart and head. we have a fantastic panel of people who have been doers. a lot of people have been taking individual response ability for themselves and sharing stories they have navigated

the most horrible of circumstances. there are others who have set the stage for a lot of what has been going on. practitioners on the policy side. the doing side. we want to start with kiersten. she is the cofounder and chief executive officer. this is an mostly, vice ey.sident -- ann mosl .nd this is kasim thank you very much. we do every policy area with you, it seems. this is the one that is your favorite. -- this isan d randy. 16 years ago, we started this

group. i am interested in the story and what animated you to decide that changing women's opportunities was the way he wants to go. -- you wanted to go. >> the inspiration came out of volunteering in head start. in addition to providing children with exceptional opportunities, we also needed to be providing support to their parents and families. housing,m find excellent jobs, education for themselves and their children. in the last 15 years, we have helped over 100,000 families move away from -- the key lesson we have learned at lift and what our data

supports is that when they put women in the drivers seat of their own journey, we will see the greatest success. when we put them in the driver and map our programs according to their needs, women will be more active participants. it will become better lifelong advocates -- they will become better lifelong advocates. they will rise to their aspirations. example ofgive us an where you have seen certain patterns -- i think many of us know people who were impacted in dramatic ways by the financial crisis. can you share how you have done -- what youe done have done? >> we pair women and families

advocate.icated who works with them to find all the necessary resources and opportunities they need to get ahead. a member right here in d.c. is one example of how a symbol hardship can drive someone. she grew up middle-class. she had a long and extensive work history. -- whenhe came to left she came to lift, she was demoralized by a health challenge. -- felt the only change choice was a choice between unstable temporary shelter and homelessness. her aspiration was to exit her situation. by working with her and working -- she actually moved to become a homeowner.

she has a new lease on life. the facty exemplifies that people end up in or close to poverty for many reasons. that means that everyone needs something different to navigate away from the brink. the only way we can be effective is if we listen first to what people need. and then design programs and services accordingly. >> you deal in a similar area. part of what you have been doing is a two generation strategy. what does that entail? >> thank you very much. it is great to be here. we have been a year-long partner with the shriver report. one thing we want to put out sometimes we talk about the public private partnership and forget about the people in the me at -- in the middle. i'lloint you just made,

use that as a segue. we listened to a range of mothers and also boys and girls in middle and high school about what did the world look like for them. i aming about the needs -- reiterating the themes -- confidence and respect. college is almost the new high school. the importance of being money and market savvy. the importance of mentors. we talked about how stretched single moms are. also with teachers and coaches who were playing a writable -- vital role. it is soer says,

simple mom. when we think about the growing huge spike of women headed families, and the challenges of that >. for us it means education. how do we bring education together a post secondary education. at the aspen institute, lift is lifting off. we are tracking 100 models across the country. we were tipping our hat to maria. when we go back to the first architecture for the two generation approach, i think it started at the schreiber -- table.hriver kitchen

we are working on 2.0 here. it is important for us to be adaptive with how the world has changed.o -- let's take head start. there is an amazing program in intel's --. there is an amazing program and. -- tulsa. they said, we will give every kid everything we can. every best practice and promising program. when the mother comes, we lose them. they created a program for the mothers and fathers. while the kids were in head start, they found a way to work with them to create a coaching

circle. to get them it into also tech tech.- tulsa they found partners and employers. we want to stick with these parents because we know for some of the women on the brink, of youen car, -- a broken car, miss a day at work. let's have a carpool system to take her to work and get the car fixed. let's double down and get better permanent results. >> is that program in place now? >> yes. it has local and national support. it has a grant with the department of health and human services. it is best when the social contract is working.

with parents are designed and involved. >> we have talked a lot in the thatabout the classic role teachers often played in their communities. points of light and leadership. structure. a lot of that has been under attack and eroded. if t has taken on the responsibility -- aft has taken on the responsibility -- tons of households that are women, single headed households. i would love to get your take on how you see these questions from a leadership perspective and some of the whole family perspective. i am delighted, to be on this panel. i want to tip my hat to maria shriver.

talking about women, children, and poverty. that is really cool. [applause] teachers -- let me just say yesterday, in west virginia, before the schools were reopened because of the chemical leak, ahead start teacher -- a head start teacher who knew that her kids were not getting hot ill for the last three days organize packed75 males -- meals up. she got them to all the families in charleston, west virginia. --the legacy of head start that is the legacy of head start. it simplifies who teachers are.

they are the first responders to poverty and families that are on the brink. here both as a teacher and a labor leader. it in terms of these three -- women have fewer benefits. all the issues surrounding kids. one can be one issue away from the brink. one health-care crisis away from the brink. there are lots of systemic things that we need to do. like paid sick leave. that gets to two of the three issues. if your kids are sick and your employer says you cannot take a

day off, you have a problem even though you may have a federal right to take a day off. ironically, when we had more unions, one of the things we would negotiate was paid sick leave. that is part of the benefit structure. it was organized in the way that if you were a teacher, if somebody was a substitute, the other kids do not get it. if you have to take your mom or your child to the doctor. there is an interplay here but between -- between some of the some of the things we used to have. -- is interesting that the paid sick leave issue has become such a issue. intervention,rect i am very much into the lift

program. eigit on adoing sustainable scale. it is a sustaining avenue. there are three things i want to throw out. number --, this notion around schools, wraparound services. take what we are doing in cincinnati. a lot of the things that this mayor is trying to do and amanda -- in atlanta. immediately have a two generation approach of prewrapped services around schools. programs afterschool that we wraparound in cincinnati. programs for kids who have had kids.

there is a beautiful, wonderful pre-k program. it helps parents learn parenting skills. programwo, i direct that actually helps kids with mentoring issues and also in terms of communities. we have lost this and i would push to have it again. we had it in baltimore and new york and other places. a program of having teacher assistance in schools. jobs re now middle-class

if you do the following things. a lot of people who are assistant teachers get the bug to teach. when you have grams and -- moms and grandmoms to get the book to teach, that is amazing. we negotiated to have college paid for and have a career ladder. --t path in new york city this is an amazing program to actually create real the class jobs. i think there are about 50,000 people in it. the last piece i would raise his other kinds of things like the childcare workers that have come out -- we have been organizing them. have try and make sure we

-- create real jobs so we can deal with some of the other issues including the issue of raising raises. -- wages. >> we have three practitioners here who are trying to not away at the 42 million women at or the edge of poverty. you are a mayor so you are blamed for everything. >> i'm so glad. >> be on the blame game -- beyond the blame game, can you share with us your take on this and how you are trying to change the habits of the city and the interaction with women? >> i believe that the biggest thing that you and i could do is to listen to women. [laughter]

i'm not try to have a headline -- hit line. the city attorney is a woman. my chief of staff is a woman. i got elected with 84%. [applause] what we should be trying to do is create an ecosystem to take the problems on that maria shriver has raised and we have talked about. the way you take it honest to have examples that you can point you directly, we live in a world where we like concrete examples and concrete results. atlanta has one of the longest womenions of encouraging entrepreneurship in terms of who

we do business with as any major city in america. example.hat up as an were going to have to have more women entrepreneurs. when we talk about the start of culture, we are failing to talk about women entrepreneurs. successfulo take a route and extended to the women's entrepreneurs center. i was talking to women who live in atlanta. they said when they start businesses, one of the biggest impediments is office space and feeling safe in their environment. when they start up oh is this -- a business, she can't say come by my business or here is my home phone. -- adds thelayer

layer to the challenges facing women. i went out to raise private capital. -- blueave a lumen ribbon commission of entrepreneurs. we will select the most talented 15 women. we have office space and support. they get 18 months to chase their dream. we are going to remove the impediment. i heard it from women who had started businesses. they don't want to go out and have to sign a commercial lease. toy don't want to have operate out of their home. we can continue to give the example after example of what works. we will change our behavior internally. i am ordering another look at the city's equal pay issues. these arethings --

all things that mayors can just do. we will go through our behavior and see if we are paying equal pay. if we are not, we will change it. finally, folks have been talking about the increase in the minimum wage. as soon as it led to got fiscally strong, i made the decision that everybody that works in the city will earn $10 or more. that includes women. i did it and made the decision. cities?ple of other >> i did it in the south. if you can do it in atlanta, georgia -- >> we are time constrained. steve ratner show these great charts. the area with the least economic mobility is the south.

atlantic is becoming an exception. i want to thank you. we don't have a lot of time. two power panels back-to-back. perhaps the question to ask -- when everyone is coming up with such interesting methodologies, the system is stacked against many women. stacked against many men. it is stacked against a lot of people were trying to get ahead. the system is not as flexible -- we could go the more caring society with more facts ability and it is not there -- with more flexibility in his is not there. i am wondering if you can do your job, can you work around

the resource challenges that we have today? >> two points. have fundamentally disconnected our values and our conversation about the economy. if we get back to what is the american dream? ando work in by the rules, you still cannot make it? that is nonsense. we have not had that conversation updated. this is a group of influencers. there is power to refrain that conversation. when you get to better answers, you have to connect with your values. i don't know whether this is a washington conundrum or across the country. i think there is a lot of money in the world. is the money going to where it can be most effective, we all would like more money.

but we have to be smarter about how we are currently using and tracking our money. when we think about the two generation approach -- you have to spend a little to get a little. programs forthese parents and for kids, do they talk to each other? you have to get that are about shy awayrs, but don't from the large conversation that we have let our obsession with the market run wild. >> apart from the usual spending level conversations, we need to focus on the fact that we have tools that we did not have it years ago when we launched the war on poverty. manage our new year's fitness plans with her smartphones. -- can't reread the ploy redeployed at technology to help

families access resources and services that they need? have aes like amazon good out that the biggest prediction of shareholder value is customer satisfaction. >there are things that we can be doing today, even as congress has trouble making decisions. we need both. most of us need a letter -- ladder. you don't just jump to the top rung. you have to walk up the stairs. if you think about the american dream that way, this is the debate that happens all the time. any time we talk about resources, there is a group that thinks we are talking about handouts. -ups to move up

the ladder of opportunity. this is very much an american value. the conversation about poverty and income equality has created the the you system again that these are hand-ups. >> the other part we have to do -- you all ship some of your time to cities -- shift some of your time to cities. i know we are in washington. i would invite you to come and deal with cities. >> what about in atlanta? atlantau are coming to and trying to get a policy shift, you need eight votes on the city council. personluence a 6 million metro area. i couldn't be in the room today

without promoting. when you look at our major american cities, are mayors are willing to think about the problems in a different way and take decisive action faster than is being done at the federal and state levels. >> i see a shriver report -- guests.hank our [applause] i will escort you right this way. thank you so much. --joni's steve clemons joining steve clemons, is welcome maria shriver. [applause] what a day it has been. good to see you.

slaughter -- is the former director of policy planning at the state department. she wrote an article that was the atlantic's most read article in our history on why women cannot still have it all. -- maria give her shriver, thank you so much for anchoring this. i have the report. is heavy but it is worth it. filled with factoids and moments i think that are very important. deepak, it is good to see you again. and youere to talk, don't need me to put much guest on the pedal, but you have had

doers and people that set the stage. stories of people that lived this life. we have had powerful women who have changed their lives. i read your piece about the caring society. this is an idea of what we can do to become more compassionate. i want to start with you to come in for a moment and share with us from your powerful piece -- that article encapsulated why we are here today. was the nexus between the heart and head? can choose -- can you share with us what we need to do to step forward and do something that changes the game tomorrow? >> it is great to be here. it is great to see this crowd for this report. the report reflects

evolution of my own thinking since the article. i started writing the article from the point where many of us who think of ourselves as feminists have been. it has been a longtime. we have made enormous progress, the world has transformed since i was a girl. are we were stuck -- our stuck. we are not seeing the numbers of women in congress and is ceo's -- as ceo's. that is the perspective from which i wrote my article. i have focused more on what i see as the deeper problem. is the problem that affects women on the brink.

the way i frame it is it is fundamentally a problem not valuing care. we see that if you are a career woman and you take care of your parents, your loved ones. you'll pay a price in terms of your career. as a whole in your resume -- hole in your resume. we don't respect that. at the bottom of the income ladder, it is much worse but the same problem. if you are a breadwinner and caregiver, if you have to support your children, we say you should have a job. there is no support for the care side. which means the people for the werest are those caregivers and breadwinners together.

mostly women, but also single fathers. the women who are making it, even among middle income women, they are often among the brink. -- a society that values competition. also what we call the habits of the heart. is not just about individual striving. is about our relationship with individuals and the community. we wille value that, not write the balance as a society. in big about that -- in thinking about that, i talked about your commitment to women with a tough time, how is a society did we get there?

deepak, how have we got here? we have been around here for i've thousand plus years, yearsng a -- for 5000 building a mail dominated society. i want you to be the conceptualist about the social picture we have and how we got here. view have to take a broad of how human beings have evolved over five dozen years. -- 5000 years. we started as hunter gatherers before the dawn of civilization. the predominant activity was to kill and conquer. ibal chief went and

killed for food. that became a dominant activity for our brain, literally. as we moved through the stages, bear in mind that the previous stageoes not go away -- does not go away. we move to agriculture and then ial age of industr agriculture. this is a male-dominated activity. -- then it moved from the age of industry to the age of information. it was spearheaded by a male biology.ed -- brained age and a beyond this knowledge-based society. i hope this will be a

wisdom-based society. a great mentor of mine said, survival of the fittest is gone. permanently victorious species already. we have destroyed the ecosystem and killed all the other species. we have created weapons of mechanized death, even though we have tribal tendencies. we have destroyed the environment. 50% of the world lives on less than two dollars a day. women and children are abused all over the world. workingto see it is not -- it is time to see it is not working. if you don't have a new solution , we are done.

we might as well go out and have a drink and call it quits. what we said was the next page of solution is survival of the wisest. that should become the criterion for survival and evolution. i do think it is time to unfold what very great spiritual traditions all over the world, not just in india or china or aged egypt or greece -- ancient egypt or greece said, which is there is the divine feminine. it is embodied in certain motifs and themes. the goddess of power as exemplified in margaret thatcher

-- >> we decided hillary clinton. >> the mother energy. nurturing and intuition. athena, wisdom and culture and arts. the healer. , of course weese associate them with the feminine. cultivatedot been because of the dominant way civilization has progressed up to this point. i think we need to unfold the potential of women leaders. if we heard the disparity between women leaders and then 50% of the women are

population, why are they not today percent of the leaders? why aren't 50% of women ceo's? i was talking -- >> the fact that we are having this conversation, that means we have reached the stage of evolution where we have to stop the reactive kind of thinking on the part of women and create a society where women lead. in man we can relegate to and then, we can relegate them to technology. [laughter] jobs.s would get the tech i think what you have said is powerful.

coexistedetypes have with the hunter gatherer. they are there. one of the things that is our job is to look at how can we convert some of our priorities and raise compassion and empower people? this is your report and moment. you have critters of that will have echo effects for generations. compassion in washington? >> i really do believe we can create a conscious, carrying, compassionate community. it begins with every person in the room. this is a spiritual challenge as much as it is a political challenge. --wouldn't want to imagine if heller clinton was around --

president, we would want everyone to be women around her desk -- one wouldn't want everyone to be women around her desk. we want to find a way to bring men into this discussion. we have to find a way to be compassionate with ourselves and in our homes. how we speak with ourselves. how we raise our children and parents. how we treat the people who take care of our parents. goingltures we create, out of our homes into the schools. into the larger businesses. it's easy to blame washington. we have more power individually then is on this hill. that however goes the nation culturally, so goes

politics. i wrote about my mother who had achieved so much, and i asked if she felt successful. she said, no. i was like, how is that possible? she was raised in a male oriented family. she said, i never ran for office so i never had real power. that taught me a lot. i believe the powers is with every single person sitting in this room. it is not at power sump is -- summits, it is on main street. if each person viewed themselves as a person with power within, who was capable of changing their own life and the culture hill would behe

forced to enact many of the things we're talking about today. these are humanistic things, not partisan. we will try to make fun of the other side. one thing i learned by being a democratic first lady and a republican in administration, which is compensated --, complicated, is a learning experience. is not true. -- there are good people on both sides of the aisle. it is about finding what we have -- have in common. summit hevidually --

asked a question to nancy pelosi, how many letters would it take to move the hill? she said thousands. but every person in this room has a village of hundreds if not thousands of people. if we believe sick pay is important -- we can start in our own home. there are 10 things in this report that each of us can do. mentoring other person, stressing education, talking about education before childbirth. pain people that care for our trainer. than we pay a this discrepancy in how we live our lives. this is a moment for all of us, not for me or the shriver report. learned through all the

programs we did on nbc is people are responding. this is myying, story and i want to see more of it. i am always been told to crack the foundation. lean in. there's nothing for me to stand on. i want somebody to lean on and talk to. we have all felt invisible in our lives. here's what we can all do. ing -- start by being see people in our lives. that goes for women. >> this is the open that you wrote. she says, i have never lived on the brink or been in foreclosure. never had to choose between

feeding my children and paying the rent. i'm not thrown into crisis mode if i have to pay a parking ticket or if the rent goes up. if my car breaks down, my life does not ascended payoffs -- to send into chaos -- descend into chaos. you are not trying to address these issues. womenon the stage these telling their stories, they were like deepak clients. they are much more in touch with themselves than i am. >> i'm glad you mentioned story. we heard stories. we know what the story is right now. --eth at the centrism,

ethnocentrism, i could go on on and on. we need a new story. that is the big challenge now. what is the story? they cannot come only from issues. it can come if we only unfold the potential that is inherent in every human being. the word education comes from two were -- roots. enfold --ry has to what is your passion? what gives you meaning and purpose in your life? what are your unique skills?

is society helping you unfold those skills? what do relationships mean to you? who are your mentors? what gives you joy? is a time to heal ourselves? participate in this writing, we will only be talking about fragmented issues. -- of societies women society is women. we have not heard their stories fully. what stories they want right for the future. >> there are two ways to do this. one is to hear other people's stories. -- one of the most fundamental things we do is to recognize each other. we have research on babies. if you do not recognize them or

acknowledge them, it throws them rauma. give something to the homeless person, you acknowledge they are there. that is a fundamental way of validating each other. is equally important to challenge the received narratives. i have been big a lot about care and compassion. the emotional side. first-year law school -- it was all about having that red out of of me.ead out it was learned to shut off human feeling. about a how to talk case in terms of rights and responsibilities and costs and

benefits. should not fear human reaction -- shutting off your human reaction. we need to challenge that. in law, medicine, politics. gates writing condolence letters to fallen letters -- soldiers. he tells the story that he was in tears every night. i can tell you the number of times we have set in policy discussions with no element of humanity. >> we can all play a role in the kind of society we want to create. this report is saying about those are really the headlines. it begins with each and every one of us. an mary talks about care giving and bread winning and we are

caught in those multiple roles. i think there is so much power in each person in this room. >> you have so many fascinating -- >> i did that on purpose and we did that on purpose because that's how you break through in a conversation. for lebron james to talk about what it means to have a single mother and the love he got from her. what it means for beyonce to talk about equality. i understand the way the media works and beyonce is going to get you to read barbara great. i think that comes back to i think what kind of society do we want to be, what kind of community do we want to create, what is the idea of america in 2014. are we ok with 42 million women living on the brink and the 28

million children being brought up in that kind of stress? is that something we're comfortable with? there is so much gg on on the local level and so many states and marries doing innovative inspiring things. you come here, i live in california but everybody is kind of cynical like nothing is going to get done out there. what is going to happen is if we do something, manage is going to happen. we've seen incredible examples of it. everybody said nothing would change in the military and would you women come forward and tell their stories and they put a human face on the issue and there is change. the young girls that came up today and talked about what it's like to be poor, talked about their shame, what it is like not

to have food. that's going on in this country every single day. every single day. and they are putting a face to this issue. and it's going to move if we don't go back and close off our minds and just think it was a one day thing. >> you wrote a book dalled soul of leadership. what lessons from the soul of leadership would you share here? >> part of the book was drawn from gallop so we look at what people want from their leaders. and what they want is in the four most important things they want are hope, trust, stability and compassion. and if a leader cannot give that, then that leader is not going to be an effective leader

for change and transformation. also right now the teams that are running in the ecosystem of leadership, not perhaps political leadership but definitely among the younger , ople are love, kindness, joy empathy and compassion. so whatever story we're going to write, if it doesn't have those themes, then we are going to be ineffective with all the policies. it has to embody those things and the leader has to be expressions of those things. it's timely you are talking about -- look at this room. how many men do you see. look at congress, the quality of the debate and the filibusters and i don't neon understand the temples. it's emotionally retarded

conversation. >> my brother is going to get after you. the special olympics has a big r word. to end the >> people use these words compassion and valuing care giving. what is the difficult in addition of that. how do we know we value care giving? by paying care givers more? >> economically but with the currency of press tige. amanda just wrote a book the smartest kids of the world. that oks at why is it finland does so much better than we do in terms of education and it's because the smartest kids that come out of college are teachers. we value the caring professions.

we do value medicine but we don't value or much less teaching as we value professors. but as we go down as you think of the caring professions as teaching, coaching, therapy, ministry of all different kind, the nur tour and care of other people is something we rank way below in money but also in prestige in terms of are you doing something other people value. you start by talking about it and saying when somebody says to you i'm a teacher, i'm a therapist, i'm a minister, you start to say why is it we value investment banking so much more than the care of others, why exactly is it? >> i meet women every day who come up to me and say i'm just a mother. 'm just an assistant, i'm just a receptionist. i say why do you say just.

i've never met a man who says i'm just. i think that's about if we could lose the just and honor, i think that's up to each and every one of us. i go to a cocktail party and say i'm a mother and everybody turns the other way. >> speaking of things every one of us can do, when you meet a couple and if he happens to be the bread winner and she's not, you do not look over her shoulder or talk only to him. you talk to her and ask her what she's read recently. there are countless ways you can hange your own behavior to say i'm buying into this. the work my mother did raising us was every bit as important as the work my father did providing an income for us and also raising us. she wasn't better than him, but she's the equal. and we have to be able to

actually claim that. and as we do, we claim it for men as well as women so a man who chooses to be home raising his children and his wife is the bread winner, he's equally valued too. you don't just value it for women, you value it for men and then you get a different opening. >> we also have the issue of many more households are single women households or single male households with children. i have a brother who was beaten up and laid off in the high-tech industry and went into elder care because there was going to be a job that was going to have less layoffs. and the people he takes care of adore him. never want him to move or go which i'm trying to get him to move right now and i'm the most hated person around there.

they love him. that being said, when you get into that profession, it has regrettably none of the things you call for. it doesn't have flexibility. it treats nurses that work all night or have issues in their life. while they are there and loved by the people they care for, they are dealing in highly ruthless corporate circumstances frequently giving care to the people we should be giving care to. >> you said how do we do that? you are doing that right now by having this conversation. but that conversation has to extend and be persistent in media, in education institutions, in news networks, in leadership circles, in congress. the more that conversation gets activated, the more likely it is that the story will change. have you to keep the conversation going because what we see out there is an expression of the conversation we are having. >> just to help close this up

before we have this phenomenal perform tons close the day, can you share what your aspirations are for what is next, what the people in the room, the guidance you've begin to people in the report, what do you hope to do? this has been a huge deal today and i'm sure you have a track that you might share with us about how you are going to keep the pressure on the system. >> the mission of the report is the same as the mission of pretty much everybody who wrote in the report which was to ignite a conversation, raise awareness and for each person to really go out and create impact. this at its fundamental nature is a work of journalism and it's storytelling and putting a face to these issues. and our hope was to do that. so there are political leaders who can take it over the line on

capitol hill. there are think tanks, there are non-profit leaders. we spent time trying to work on the language so it would break through and brought up ten things each person can do be you a government leader, a spiritual leader, a mother, a father, an individual. we hoped that everybody would read the report, discuss it at their kitchen table, have these conversations in their homes. cite the report. we are asking law makers to implement it. we are asking people who have businesses to look at it and see how they by creating a culture that is compassionate and caring can implement some of the recommendations. we're asking people to be 21st century employers in their own home, to pay a living wage to people -- there is a whole

subset of people that have been created by women going out into the workplace. for twoim look in the mirror and say am i paying that woman who cares for my children the same kind of living wage that i'm getting? am i giving her or him sick days? am i paying that person who cares for my parents a living wage, not because it's the moral thing to do but it's the right thing to do and it makes good economic sense because that person has a family too. i think it begins to honor what we're talking about, the care giving economy which is very often women's work. i think it's -- there is ten things there that i think each of us can do. but we can begin with changing the conversation at our own kitchen table and to go out as a -- i often quote a poet who has a great line that says out

beyond write doing and wrongdoing and i add out beyond fear and judgment and expectation there is an open field and i'll meet you there. i hope each person will go out beyond fear, judgment, expectation, old visions of political partners and know there is an open field and that each of us have a role of creating that in our own lives and that i really do believe -- i grew up in a time when politics was a noble profession and both parties got along. i remember saying why do i see those people on tv yelling at you daddy and they are here for dinner. i always found it ratherer odd. and my father and mother both reached out to people.

my father always reached out to people who were republicans, to people of different faiths, of different colors and our house was a melting pot. we had journalists and faith leaders and economic people and priests and nuns and people with mental disabilities and convicts and they were all in there. it was wild. but out of it came great creativity, great understanding. and my parents in their home built the kind of culture that i'm talking about. and they walked their walk. and they raised kids who were like forced to go into it but still stay even though our parents are gone. the power of motherhood and fatherhood is huge and it starts in our home. it starts in us, the open field

in our home and goes out. i really do believe that we can create a different culture that goes to this place that we call washington. >> i think all three of you walk your walk. and it's been nass nating. -- fascinating. thank you so much for the shriver report. >> can i ask the people who worked on the shriver report for wrote rs to stand, who and were regular voices just to stand because these people worked. [applause] > they worked really hard. they came from all different walks of life, all different beliefs and all had the same mission. and they really worked hard. >> it's been a powerful day.

i can say how pleased we were to partner with you. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i want to thank you for the women conferences to put out this concept of a compassionate society and talk always at the women's conference about the power of the feminine. > my mother gets the credit. >> where would you put ann marie slaughter? >> what do you mean where would i put her? >> a roam man goddess. i did a lot of work. i think every woman is that. >> we are grading everybody. >> so male and so uncompassionate.

>> she is a warrior and a peacemaker and she knows when to put the helmet on and when to take it off and when to go to the bar and when to call it a day. [applause] >> don't go to the bar yet. >> download the shriver report for free. >> for a special treat, a performance by garrison star. >> her music is the one under the trailer that we started the day called the one and she is incredible singer, has a great story and i'm so thrilled that she's here today. >> and she's going to perform everything you are is beautiful. so do not leave. if anybody leaves, no drink. >> great to see you. thank you so much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome to the stage singer song riter garrison star.

>> i just want to say thank you for having me. i feel so honored to be a part of this conversation that is so empowering and beautiful. thank you guys so much for including me. i've had a really special day today so thank you. ♪ ♪

>> that was beautiful. thank you so much. >> we have copies of the shriver report outside or you can download it at amazon.com. it was a privilege to be here with you and your team and others. you've done terrific work and we are honored to be a part of this. thanks tort center of progress for their work and partnership and underwriters who presented

today's program. the federation of american teachers and abbott and thompson writers, we appreciate their support. we hope to see you all again. please fill out the comment cards. thank you very much. [applause] . >> the big expectation is that obama is going to continue to focus on incoming equality, all the issues surrounding that, so

we think that is their push the democrats' push for 2014 as they head into the mid term. >> we understand that representative kathy mcmorris rogers will give the republican response. what should we know about her? >> she's the republican woman in the house, the house g.o.p. conference chair. i don't know this stuff but i think the republicans probably have an interest in putting her up there as a woman. we're in that attack season where democrats are going to say things like republicans hate women and they hate minorities so we're seeing republicans put a lot of those members up in the public eye to make the case for the g.o.p. side of things. so we can expect this for several more months. >> at least in the house next week it looks like a short week with the state of the union. but there is an abortion bill coming to the house floor that was mentioned by eric cantor this week's march for life. what's that about? >> he promised this in the

event you watched all day on wednesday, the march for life. he said there will be an abortion vote next week and it's a vote we saw before in 2011 they passed a very similar bill that cod fizz current law that changes over every year that says no federal funds can be used for abortion. this is a ride thear shows up on the spending bill. it has some twists this year it has some obamacare language in it. what obamacare does is says if you have a low enough income and qualify for a certain federal subsidies to buy a health insurance plan you won't get those -- rather, you get those subsidies. under the bill of next week you won't get the subsidies if it became law. so that's one of the ways the republicans are continuing to attack. >> could this be dicey in terms of leadership getting the bill passed? >> i'm not aware yet that it's coming as a suspension yet.

it passed in the last congress about 16 democrats that we want with republicans. so it probably can't pass as a suspension. it would probably fail. but it should pass easily if it becomes a normal bill and they just need a simple majority. >> presumably a longer week in the senate. likely action in the senate. the senate looking to delay key provisions of the flood insurance reform. what's going on there? >> that's a complicated bill. in 2012 congress passed a flood bill that tried to rescue the national flood insurance program from about 1 billion in debt that it's -- $18 billion in debt. they say let's raise the rates in some of these years. if you have to buy insurance ire going to pay more. a couple issues come up that members on bose sides see as problem. there was language that said if you sell your house and as a subsidy attached to your flood insurance premium the new owner won't get that subsidy.

and so that's something that a lot of people have said means now i can't sell my house. the new owner will know it's too expensive to buy this house so it's too hard to sell it. so mostly by delaying them it has enough support i can see this probably passing the house and senate. >> you also tweeted about another issue that's still out there, the military pensions. in your tweet saying lawmakers are saying crocodile tears over the military pension cuts. >> this is that issue that we saw since the budget. the budget deal said let's cut veteran pensions and we get to see a fix. congress rushed to pass that it was in the budget but in the spending bill and now everyone's saying we need to fix it. this is several weeks after you pass the bill that makes the cut. so in some ways it's typical congress. a month or year goes by and they all want to change it. so that is an issue that will be talked about at the very

least and we might see a vote on that in the coming weeks. >> as we wrap up we haven't talked about unemployment extension of unemployment benefits or other must get dones in congress. what are some of those that we will see in the coming weeks? >> i'm not sure we will see unemployment again. the senate tried and failed and they talk like they'll try again. but that is something that especially -- something that obama's speech could reenergize democrats to try to get another shot at extending the benefits for three months or longer. with the retreat coming up with republicans we may see immigration talked about a lot more. we know the g.o.p. is working on principles for that. probably in the next few weeks is a little too quick but we'll see stuff this year. >> you can read pete's reporting at the hill and follow him on twitter. thanks for the update. >> any time. >> congress returns on monday.

the u.s. house gavels in at noon eastern on the agenda that will ban federal funding for abortions. roll call votes are scheduled after 6:30 p.m. eastern. you can watch the house live here on c-span. the senate will return at 2:00 p.m. eastern to continue work on flood insurance it will delay the scheduled rate increases for four years. a vote is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. eastern. ou can watch live on c-span 2. on the next "washington journal," grading ethics and corruption with the managing editor for the center for public integrity. then the federal options in responding to the chemical spill in west virginia this month with the enterprise institute's angela and reina. and a discussion about mandatory life sentences for young criminal offenders.

r guest is carea drinen of catholic university of the law school. we'll be looking for your calls, tweets and facebook comments orn c-span. >> some of you have been marching for over 40 years and have endured many setbacks including the recent expansion of abortion coverage in obamacare. but it is important more now than ever that we remain strong and stand together. we cannot allow the opponents of life to continually weaken the moral fabric of our country. they need to know and they need to understand that we will continue to march. we will continue to educate.

we will continue to advocate. and we will continue to fight for the unborn. >> despite the fact that president obama is using stealth deception and the coercive power of the state to promote abortion violence, the pro life movement is alive and well and making serious significant and sustained progress. >> this weekend on c-span, the annual march for life rally. this morning at 10:00 eastern. on c-span 2's book tv, what's the secret to a life of happiness? talk radio host on the possible answers tonight at 8:00. and on c-span 3's american history tv, from 1964 to 2004, the issues and concerns from five decades of state of the union speeches sunday afternoon at 3:00.

>> republican national committee chair reince priebus talked about the state of the party as part of the annual winter meeting held in washington, d.c. his remarks run about 15 minutes. > good morning once again. we welcome you to washington, d.c. i want to thank everyone on our team for the work that went into this week, the work i know they do so well every day. let us hear it for the staff for putting on a great meeting so far. and i think we are having a pretty good time as well. we have heard from some great leaders in our party and are going to hear from more.

we are blessed this week that we join hundreds of thousands of people from across the country in the march for life. before we get to everything else, i just want to say, i think this was a very special year to be part of the march. this year's was adoption, and i think adoption is something we need to talk about more. we are the party that respects life, and we are the party of adoption. every child should have the chance to have a loving family. and every child should have the chance for life. thank you. this is a gift. this is a gift. and it is important that as a party we continue to be advocates for respecting and valuing life. one year ago, we came together

and said we were going to do things differently at the rnc. we set out to build a permanent ground campaign, to close the digital divide, and to engage with voters of all backgrounds. we have accomplished a lot together in just one year. we had our whole field team in town for training last month, with hundreds of field staffers over by the dulles airport. it was a wild moment to see how fast the republican national committee had grown in 2013. we are getting to know communities where we had not done for a long time, and we are talking to people who had not heard from us for far too long. that is how you grow a party. the truth is, this work is never done. it is a permanent operation. that is the new normal at the republican national

committee. to win, it has to be this way. on the tech front, we basically have a start up running inside the rnc, and big reforms are coming to our presidential nominating process, with forms that put republican voters, not the liberal media, in the drivers seat. this is about getting better debates. but it is also a way to put a check on the media. last time we were together, we took a stand against nbc and cnn. we said, if you want to run your hillary films, no debates for you. and a little while later -- a little while later, they backed down. they canceled their tributes to hillary clinton. the rnc is not going to put up with the same old ways. we are going to set a new standard.

finally, i want to draw everyone's attention to our fundraising. i am glad to report we have raised well over $7 million in december alone, and easily outraised the dnc in 2013. not only that -- we ended the year debt free. it is very significant that we outraised the party in power. i do not know the last time the party out of power outraised the party that has the white house, and it is important, because we are making investments early. it is not good enough to be the party that shows up five months before an election. that was the old way. we have to set a new standard. we have done a lot. the truth is, the rnc cannot do it all. it is up to the other committees as well. and of course the candidates have to do their part as well.

but our example matters. i have said many times before that the policies and principles of this party are sound. however, as we look to grow the ranks of our party, we must all be very conscious of tone and choice of words when we communicate those policies effectively. we should set the standard. we should set the standard for future rnc's, and also set an example for other republicans. we all know the gop has to get out of our comfort zones and go to places where we have not been for a while, and engage an welcome new voters. we cannot do all the work ourselves. but we can show what a difference it can make. let me tell you a couple quick stories. the first one, some of you have heard before. at the anniversary of the march on washington luncheon last year, we had hundreds of people

show up. it was a great overflow crowd. a couple people came up to me and said, you know what? we are here, but you know, we are democrats. the we are here because we know that if those parties do not fight like crazy for black voters, the other side will take our votes for rented. as a party, we believe it is wrong for anyone to be overlooked or taken for granted n our political process. and even a simple act can send n important message. this fall, i went up to detroit to announce our michigan black advisory council, and to welcome when bradley aboard as our state director in michigan for african-american engagement. i was amazed by how many people came to take part. we had business leaders and community leaders who are ready to stand up and make a difference. we did a pretty simple thing by just showing up, and it is

having a big impact in a place that desperately needs a new direction, fresh ideas, and more opportunity. so i am glad to see friends like rand paul going to detroit and showing up to support party efforts there. likewise, i am glad to hear marco rubio, paul ryan, eric cantor, land, and others, taking up difficult issues, sharing republican ideas on how to fight inequity in this country, a problem that has gotten worse under the democrat leadership of this administration. they each have their own approaches. but at the end of the day, expanding opportunity is always the focus. and that is the way we will stand together as republicans. this issue of income inequality is best addressed by ensuring equal opportunity for everyone in this country. the president is now preparing speeches on income

inequality. i believe he should give those speeches while standing in front of the mirror. because under his watch, everything has gotten worse. he should talk to himself. because poverty is worse. food stamp dependency is worse. and more people have given up looking for work under barack obama's watch than at any time can remember. when the federal government tries to equalize outcomes, we are all going to end up equally worse off. but when we make sure people have equal opportunities and education, and a job market, and health care, we are all going to be better off. that is the right approach. and that is what is fair. i think that is what americans expect from their leaders -- fairness. we are about that as a party. it is not fair to voters when

leaders they trusted light to pass their agenda. it is not fair to the working mom who loses the insurance she liked because the president did not like it. it is not fair to the college grad who already has a mountain of student debt and also has to shoulder the cost of government debt, of obamacare, of a bad economy. it is not fair that disadvantaged inner-city students are forced to go to bad schools, and not the schools of their choice. and it is not fair that a young child -- that government benefits are structured in a way that penalizes his parents when they get married. none of that is fair. but that is what democrats stand for. republicans are going to stand for fairness, freedom, and equal opportunity for all americans. before i close, i want to share

with you a very short video of what has been going on in the field, some of the great stuff that we are doing at the republican national committee. >> over the next two days, we are going to be talking as a group on how to accomplish our mission. >> my name is becky. >> my name is chris young. >> my name is nicole daniels. >> i am jill barkley. i work in the political department at the rnc. >> i came to meet some people from other states, field staff and directors. >> i am from north carolina. >> alaska. >> louisiana. >> colorado. >> there are people across the country. our goal was to get everybody together to start a discussion

about how we are going to run our operation. we have been working across this country for the past, in some cases, six months. it is really exciting to see everybody. >> i really think this is important. i want to make you proud. this is a huge team to have this early. i want to tell you thank you. i want you to know you are a blessing to us and our party and what we are trying to get done. every day is a challenge. every day is an opportunity. >> in north carolina, we are working on recruiting leaders to work on a community level, the peer-to-peer relationships. >> we have to go in case-by-case, voter by voter, identify them, and know where they stand. >> it is an exciting time. we are getting together and embarking on this new trajectory. the ground game, we are

connecting with new people, community members, as well as flourishing long-term relations with them. crexendo values of the republican party are core in my life, and are core to the success, i feel, of the country. i am doing what it takes to support it. >> we have already recruited 7000 precinct leaders across the country. these staff are going to go back to their states and work with precinct leaders. in january and february, they will go door to door, gathering data, putting all this practice together, as we learn more about the voter and how to communicate with them. >> i am an rnc field staffer. >> i am an rnc field staffer. >> i am an rnc field staffer.

>> when you look at something like that, you realize what we are doing is a big deal. it is frustrating sometimes when people try to attack our work or create the appearance of dissent. every once in a while, you read or hear about some of our own friends attacking the rnc. attack what? it reminds me that we need to tell people more of what the nc does. it continues the infrastructure all of our candidates need to be successful. attack what? a permanent field operation that we are paying for? a multimillion dollar technology upgrade that our friends are going to use? engagement with the hispanic, african-american, asian american faith leaders, and use? a ground game that will help rick scott and other opportunities across the

country? digital directors working with state erectors and volunteers in the field. a tech office right in civic and valley, to recruit the best talent. hundreds of staffers and thousands of precinct captains, and team members getting to know voters neighborhood by neighborhood. everything we are doing is about one thing -- getting more republicans elected at every level of government. and all of it is essential for winning and helping this country. and anyone who opposes that is not looking out for the good of our party or our country. and we are doing something nprecedented here. when, in the history of our party, has the rnc been able to completely transform our approach to politics in less than one year?

the great vince lombardi, the former coach of my green bay packers, once said -- it is a good one -- "the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." our work is not done. in fact, it is only getting started. to close, i have to challenge is for us in the coming year. as we keep up the work, let us set an example for our fellow republicans. let us set the standard for the future of the rnc. thank you very much. god bless you. have a great rest of our meeting. i appreciate you all. thank you. [applause] >> under the rnc's winter meeting in just a moment. first, a look ahead.

>> the secretary of homeland security jay johnson called for changes to immigration policy in one of his first public speeches at the u.s. conference of mayors winter meeting. here are some of his remarks. reform is on supported by the conference of mayors, businesses, and the polls to be believed a majority

of the american people. border security is inseparable from homeland security and border security must and should be parted of comprehensive immigration reform, protecting our borders, securing our ports, promoting the lawful flow of trade and travel through our ports to cities and other communities over the past four years dhs has made historic investments at borders in terms of man prour, comprehensive immigration reform, would add even more to that effort. comprehensive immigration reform would also promote a more effective and efficient system for enforcing our should ion laws and include an earned path to citizenship for the approximately 11-1/2 million undocumented immigrants present

in this country, something like 86% of whom have been here almost ten years. an earned path to citizenship to those currently present in this country is a matter of, in my view, homeland security to encourage people to come out from the shadows, to be accountable, to participate in the american experience, the american society, it is also, frankly, in my judgment a matter of who we are as americans to offer the opportunity to those who want to be citizens, who have earned the right to be citizens, who are present in this country, many of whom who came here as children to have the opportunity that we all have to try to become american citizens. st before i came here, i

swore in out in northern virginia at a naturalization ceremony 438 new americans, including a member of the armed forces. it was probably the best thing that i do in my job. there is a lot of love in that room as well, and not for the secretary of the homeland security but for the families who love and support those who have done what it takes to become americans. that is part of who we are as americans, it is part of who we are in our heritage. and i believe comprehensive immigration reform should include the opportunity for those present in this country who earn it and who are entitled to it to become citizens. so we must in my view as a matter of homeland security as and a matter of who we are as americans address comprehensive

common sense immigration reform and address it this year. >> you can watch more of secretary johnson's remarks and more of the u.s. conference inter meeting on line. >> millions of egyptians came down to the streets in nationwide protests. >> this uprising defies any definition. >> about 20 minutes after landing, driving towards the square, the military has come down to the streets. i was stopped and searched the car and in it found the film, egypt we are watching you. which is not a good title as the country is exploding. so they said, come with us. we just want to talk with you for a while. and i went to a place, i still don't know where the location

was, and i was taken by people in plain clothes so at the time you don't know who is interrogating you. but i realized at a certain point this is the dvd that i have in the car and i need to get rid of it. so i made my way to the car at one point excused myself to the bathroom, tried to destroy the dvd by breaking it apart. and i don't know if you've ever tried to break apart a dvd but they're quite hard. so i shoved it down the drain. went back into the interrogation room feeling confident that i had gotten rid of evidence that could possibly keep me there for a lot longer than i wanted to be. and about five minutes later, the guy cleaning be bathroom comes in with a piece of the dvd in his hand. >> more with the director of the academy award documentary, the square, sunday night at :00.

>> next, south carolina senator tim scott talking about the future of the republican party. he spoke at the republican national committee's annual winter meeting for about 20 minutes.

>> welcome back, everybody. i can tell you that we're very grateful for the outcome as to what happened in general session, grateful and blessed to have the responsibility and the opportunity that fixing these issues afford us as a national party. so thank you very much for everyone's work and effort on behalf of the republican national committee. [applause] we have a spectacular guest today for lunch. our guest speaker was sworn in as the the senator from south carolina about a year ago after representing the first district of the house of representatives down in south carolina. his story, senator tim scott's story embodies the americans dream from growing up poor in a single parent household to running a successful business

to serving in the united states senate. he credits his success to learning conservative values from his teen age mentor. that's the kind of story we need to tell all over the country as a party. and i think it is something we heard echoed at a rising star party yesterday that it is conservative values and principles that will lift people up from poverty and create more opportunity for every person in this country. so i am grateful that senator scott is here to share his story and proud that he is such a rising star and star of our party today. so everybody, please welcome the great senator from south carolina, please welcome senator tim scott. [applause]

> thank you. very kind. very kind. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. you guys make me blush, which is kind of hard to do sometimes. i'll tell you what, i was up here and thinking to myself as melody potter was doing the prayer -- where is melody? she has who? she had to what? now, when she walked up here and started praying, i wanted to preach for just a few serkts up here. -- seconds up here. i decide that had honoring melody and honoring my mama who wanted a preacher and not a politician would take too long so i am going to stick with my written notes here and just

thank you for the outpouring of affection. we live in an amazing country. think about the roads this nation has traveled. think about the progress we have made in a very short period of time. and i will tell you, my journey has been filled with pot holes. i hit them all. factually. but in america, a kid born anywhere at any time can rise to the level that he or she decides to go. and that is the story of america. but it is also the story of conservatism and i will tell you that i am the beneficiary of a mentor who was a chick fillet operator who taught me early on that you can think your way out of poverty. what a remarkable thought process. you can think your way out of poverty. now, our country and our government over the last 6 or 7 years, i guess they have thought us into poverty. in use when i arrived

congress 2-1/2, 3 years ago, we were spending $3.6 trillion. does anybody think that's a lot of money besides me? good. but we knew when we were spending the $3.6 trillion, we knew without question we were only bringing in about $2.5 trillion. said differently, can you imagine an american family that knows that their annual income s $25,000, setting a budget at $36,000? we would never do that at home. and we should not do that as a government. hink about $3.6 and where it went. social security, medicare, medicaid, and to take care of our mandatory spending, and about $300 billion was for our interest payments on our debts. if you think about us having

our 25-year annual average interest rate, our net interest payments for interest only would have risen from $300 illion to over $700 billion. or, 25% of all the revenues that came into our country. in addition to those categories, we also spent about 666 -- oh, goodness gracious. $666 billion. i'm glad you caught that joke. i'm in the right room. halleluja all right. about $666 billion on nondefense discretionary while we spent $692 on defense discretionary. knowing we only had $2.5 trillion. and to make matters worse, if you think about on top of that, we went from $14.3 trillion in debt to $17 trillion in debt. and then january of last year we had a tax increase of $600

billion. now, i'm here just to give you the good news. you look a little depressed. let me just tell you. in the end, we win. 2014 is the year that the republican party takes back the united states senate. it gets better. [cheers and applause] i have learned in sales one of the things you learn in sales when you own a smal business, sometimes you have to make them sick before you make them well. anybody feel a little nauseous, this is how you should feel. and if you think about our long-term unfunded liabilities as a nation, if you couple health care and pensions, that number is over $200 trillion. sometimes the numbers truly do tell us a very important part of the picture. to complicate matters, in 2009 democrats have the white house, the senate, in the u.s. house.

what was the remedy for poverty then? they had the whole control, the whole enchilada. what do they do instead? they focus on health care. we saw the creation of obamacare. without any republican support. these tell a little bit more of the story. in 2009, the estimate for obamacare was $900 billion. two years later, the estimate rose to $1.8 trillion in two years later the estimate last year some said will exceed $3 trillion. we story 15% of americans uninsured. the experts say by the year 2023