after the process is completed. she made reference to the political noise behind all of this. what are your thoughts? what impact has this >> people don't know if they're supposed to sign up by march 31. it they can be subject to a penalty. it there are still a lot of ignorance about that. they still don't know. they have heard so much political noise about this. the message has not come through. there are people who still think that there been some a repeal votes that it has been repealed. people don't know that it is still the law. the don't understand it at end of the sign up. it, you can't buy insurance until next year.

this is not the same kind of insurance senate that we used to have her you could buy insurance anytime you needed it. there is one open enrollment and when it is over you can't sign up until the next open enrollment. it is a big issue for the insurance industry. >> there are delays for penalties. >> you have to quality -- qualified for a hardship. your policy was canceled and you find oneand you can that is affordable, you can go through a process to get the hardship exemption a. it is unclear if that will be diligent. , they areip exemption too wide open and people can simply use them if they need to to get out of getting health insurance. >> a small and declining

population, it is only about 1.5 million people. it becomes a smaller and smaller group of people who don't go off and find other coverage for other reasons. they get jobs or go into the job market. to qualify from and to care. -- medicare. reasons thatf the it is not a very large portion of the market. this reaffirms something i already knew. ais is a marathon and not sprint. we are very focused on the politics and the enrollment deadlines. the real test is going to take years to find. thank you both for being with us. >> thank you.

>> next on c-span, the 24 team -- 2014 midterm elections. first, debbie wasserman schultz at the national press club. federal reserve talkshairman alice rivlin about the economy and the health care law. >> the problem is this bacteria whatcoming consistent to we have now. tb is one of the examples. gonorrhea is another example. we have new strains of tb which are completely

persistent to the most antibiotics. the other problem is there is not enough interest on the pharmaceutical industry to develop antibiotics. we need to make this a global effort to work on this. ofre should be a great deal collaboration with the developed world and the developing world. ,> the future of health care tonight at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. next, representative debbie wasserman schultz. she talks about the democratic agenda going forward. this is half an hour.

>> thank you for being here today. exactly a year ago, after losing up and on the ballot in 2012, the rnc chairman stood in this building and unrevealed what has been known as the autopsy report. they admitted they were alienating huge swathes of voters. we are doing an autopsy on their autopsy. he reportedly received makes one thing clear. 365 days later, the party is just one year older.

what changes we have seen are superficial and technical, but do little to address their core problem. they have an agenda that prioritizes opportunity for some rather than for all. they have hired our reach staffs. but how effective is it when you're agenda alienates the communities you are trying to reach? they are conducting training to help candidates talk to women. they have worked to shorten their primary calendar and limit debates. do they truly believe that limiting the number of people that here's their agenda makes it less divisive question mark we saw them try to take a victory lap.

they have failed to change their actions are tone from the days when they said immigrants should self-support. we have heard operatives call a female candidate and empty dress. talk about women's libidos. try to downplay abuse. we have heard them use derogatory terms to describe latino immigrants. use insulting stereotypes for african-americans and for our president. support our right discrimination against lgbt americans. this type of rhetoric is only the beginning of their problems. their policies are out of step with the majority of voters. it is not hard to see why an 2013, party identification

reached a 25 year low. when you later, it is clear that their attempt at rebranding has failed. since the 2012 election, half of all americans believe gays have a constitutional right to marry. 33% said the party has drifted further away from them. only five percent of african-americans nationwide identify as republican. what they do not understand is their biggest problem has never been their primary calendar or campaign tactics. their biggest problem is who they are, what they believe, what they say, and how they govern. in our report, you will find a comprehensive list of examples

showing the failure of the gop rebrand. i want to review a few examples. the first group we look that, one that the gop claims to champion -- the middle class. middle class families in particular. in the report, they said they had to be the party that would support those looking to climb to the next rung. in my home state, when i hear politicians say they have to raise the minimum wage, i cringe because i know that is a lie. his governor echo the sentiment americans rejected with mitt romney. at the state level, matt gates said medicaid recipients were too busy playing grand theft

audio to get a job. this shows that they do not understand what it means to be a middle-class family. they have blocked commonsense measures to raise the minimum wage. countless republican governors have rejected funds that would insure millions of americans medicaid expansion. as we look at the choices in the 2014 midterm election, there is a party working to expand opportunity for all to read another focused only on opportunity for a few. the gop's attempt to reach out to women has garnered a lot of press. but not in the way republicans hoped. it is said to be best thing to do was to organize seminars to teach their candidates how to talk to and about women. and how to run against women. clearly, it has not worked out so well. in missouri, they are sponsoring a restrictive abortion bill without exceptions for rape.

senate minority leader mitch mcconnell's political director tweeted an article featuring kentucky candidate allison's face photoshop onto obama girl. steve martin referred to pregnant women as nothing more than a hoax. who can forget one of the potential residential candidates, mike huckabee, whose own words took us all through his insight into women's libido? the most damaging actions come from their policies, not just their words. in texas, they require that the name on one's id and voter registration card be identical,

which is a problem for women who change their names after marriage or divorce. republicans have continued their obsession with restricting a women's right to choose. whether it is pushing the most restrictive abortion bans in generations. they continue to focus on a restrictive social agenda rather than working to create jobs, invest in infrastructure, or improve education. this may be one reason why they have recruited 30% fewer female house candidates than they have two years ago, despite creating a special recruiting program. one of the places where they have struggled the most in the last two years is in the latino community. this is not surprising, given that this is the party that the last presidential nominee thought undocumented immigrants should self-support. since then, we have a congressman say, for every

dreamer who is a valedictorian, there are 100 -- someone proposed a -- these are buttressed by their own policies. presidential hopeful rubio worked with a group of senators to pass immigration reform in the senate, only to abandon the cause when he faced political backlash from the right. just last week, republican colleagues in the house voted to pass a bill that could dismantle the deferred action program that the obama administration implemented in 2012.

what have we seen? republicans and more than 40 states have introduced legislation or pass laws making it harder to vote. while these laws affect all voters, we know they fall disproportionately on some committees including african-american voters. they have opposed raising the minimum wage and tried to cut education funding. their words have been no better. just this week, paul ryan said, we have a tailspin of culture in our inner cities. men not working. generations of men not even thinking about working or living the value cultural work. there is a culture problem that needs to be that with. in minnesota, one state rep said if 70% of the nba's team's

folded, there would be an increase in street crime. we have seen little if any attempts to demonstrate the caring for lgbt committees. the policy and rhetoric has been dismissive at past and -- at the bank and often -- has been dismissive at best and often truly insulting three -- daryl metcalfe blocked his colleague from speaking on the floor of the house. their policies and goes these remarks. -- echo these remarks.

they have gone as far as trying to codify these discriminatory views and legalize hate by allowing businesses to refuse services to lgbt americans. jill miller said, i believe if you are a private employer, you have the right to do with your what -- what you want. one thing that was abundantly clear in 2012. the candidate send message do not speak to the most important issues to young voters. the autopsy report says, we do not see a party that is welcoming and inclusive for all voters. since the autopsy report, the gop has failed to move to becoming a more inclusive party and moved in the opposite direction.

there was the passage of the bill that cut education spending by $500 million over two years. a georgia senate candidate said, i don't see education in the constitution. they continue to advocate for policies that directly undermine the needs of young americans. republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or dismantle the affordable care act. kick young people off their parents' plans. the standard behind the ryan budget that would make college less affordable. no matter the state, demographics, region, the rio grande has failed to make any changes that will make them more successful it at the ballot box.

every claim they make about reaching out and getting people involved is undercut every time their governors and secretaries of state restrict voter registration. what democrats understand is our reach is not just about deploying bodies. it's about developing policies that will increase opportunity and showing respect for all americans. that is why democrats are expanding the electorate, getting more people in democracy, and engaging the next generation. that is what democrats have been about. looking to 2014, we will continue to be inclusive. until the gop changes their core policies, no report or rhetoric or training will change their outcome. 2014 will be a choice. increasing opportunity for some verses opportunity for all.

as you can see from the report, our vest weapon may be republicans themselves. thanks so much and i look forward to your questions. >> do me a favor and tell me where you are from. >> is there a chance republicans could take control of the senate? >> we have opportunities across the country. our incumbents, the u.s. senators, are running aggressive bottom-up campaigns that will reach voters where they are. the problem that the republicans continue to have is they are continuing to alienate swaths of voters. i'm confident we will hold the senate. >> you said a minute ago, the best weapon may be republicans themselves. when you look at the challenges of the midterm election, some of

the polling data you are receiving -- we hope that a richard murdoch shows up? >> we are not basing the outcome. we didn't win on hail marys. we won because we built a data and technological advantage that we are maintaining through our project iv. focusing not just on voter protection, but focusing on voter expansion. we are making sure we register voters. get them turned out to vote. making sure that every vote counts. we are working on pushing hard back against the republicans. allow grassroots volunteers to fight back at the local level on republican attacks and lies.

if you look at last year, the november election, in the general election, there was a big question mark in virginia about whether democrats would replicate our ground game. i think the governor would say we were effective at doing that. that was the as we had a partnership and well coordinated effort from the dnc to the dga and state party. to give you some nitty-gritty, we have trained more than a thousand staffers through our partnership. we are not talking about sensitivity training like the republicans have to do. training them in using our

tools. making sure the innovations we have, we have on the ground staff trained in how to use them. and we continue to deploy them. >> the voter turnout -- would be different for democrats than the historical trend? why would that be? >> the bottom line is we have a firm voter count. there is no question about that. we know that when democratic voters turnout, democratic candidates win. that is the bottom line. that advantage has allowed us to exponentially increase the reach of our volunteers on the ground and neighborhood team leaders.

community coordinators. we have married our technological advantage with our superiority in terms of grassroots. the difference between our focus and the republicans is culturally, for over a decade, we have been a bottom-up party. it takes a long time to build the kind of operation that we have been able to build across the country on the ground. republicans throwing a few outreach staffers around the country and communities they have not been in does not change the fact that they do not have that grassroots culture embedded in their party. >> you mentioned the 2013 election, but not governor christie. reached out in these communities.

even though his latest polls have shown he has come down because democrats have come back to being opposed to him, he is still more popular than president obama. where is the evidence that -- he is talking about the -- being the guy who changed. >> i think it is humorous that chris christie is the best example of republicans evolving. if that is what they are going to hang their hat on, a guy who senior staff -- whose senior staff retaliated, then i think we are going to be ok. >> on the larger issue of the president's approval ratings, how concerned are you about the

president's popularity in trying to win some of these races? >> to go back to your question. the opportunities that republicans have right now on so many things. minimum wage. the bill was put on the floor of the house. it was passed. that is why they didn't put it on the floor, because they don't want to pass it. comprehensive immigration reform. the autopsy report talked about how they were going to get their clock cleaned in the latino community. the only thing they mentioned that their problem was in reaching latino voters was they didn't support immigration reform. where are we a year later?

they still don't support immigration reform trade in their meeting, they would not include a pathway to citizenship in their platform that they said was designed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform. the only thing that they focused on -- not education or health care, jobs -- those are all things that are actually higher on the priority list from the polling i am aware of for hispanic voters than immigration reform. in my congressional district, i represent a district 22% hispanic. immigration reform is not the first thing on voters minds. they care about making sure their kids can get the best education. republicans continue to focus on cutting student loans. cutting education. making it harder for hispanics to close the education

achievement gap. which we know is a challenge. both in high school and college. it is not just the words. their words are offensive. their policies are even more disrespectful. >> in florida, why didn't your technological advantage work in getting him a credit turnout? >> if you take a close look at florida 13, that was a special election. we would have liked the outcome to be different. that was a special election. the republicans won in a republican district. bill young, over the last decade, won the district from anywhere from 15 to 30 points.

when democrats votes, democrats when. turnout, in terms of what the electorate looks like, is critical. a special election in the midterm is not reflective of what the general election electorate will look like. looking at the november election, we are confident we have a much stronger opportunity for democratic candidates to win. in comparison to last november. when you have a general election that was a test case, we used our ground game with our technological advantage to make sure terry mcauliffe was elected governor. that will be a decision that alex has to make. that is a question for her. >> [indiscernible]

the immigration issue is not the biggest one for hispanic voters. why are the democrats pushing comprehensive immigration reform? my main question is, is the party going to stop deportation as many hispanic voters want you to do? [indiscernible] boy, this is firing up our base. is the democratic party going to keep insisting --

>> let me disagree with your premise. i said it was not the only important issue. you can't say it is not important issue. it is an important issue. it is important issue to many hispanic families. let me tell you, having represented the hispanic community for a long time, emily -- family is a core value. the reason that we support immigration reform is because it is the right thing to do rate it is morally right. we have 11 million undocumented immigrants that are here because they want to make a better life for themselves and their families. we would be stupid if we do not ensure they have an opportunity to be here. they are the backbone of our economy.