we are for illegal immigration. -- we are for legal immigration. and we are against illegal immigration. [applause] there already is a path to citizenship for those wishing to come to america. a legal path to citizenship. our government should not reward those who choose to get off that have, cut in line, and break the law. to do so would be immoral. in fact, it would unfairly punish those who obey the law and follow the rules. by simply respecting the rule of law and securing the border, we will send a message to the rest of the world that we welcome immigrants who come here legally, and reject those who do not. [applause] one of the things that makes america exceptional is the

notion that we are a nation of laws, not a nation of men. we will only be a nation of laws as long as we abide by the law. [applause] so today i am on a mission to recruit you for a mission, to rally in opposition to this proposed border bailout. it is immoral for the president to decide on his own, in clear violation of the u.s. law, that he will not send back illegal immigrants, no matter what their age. [applause] the deferred action for childhood arrivals program must end immediately. it is immoral for the president to seek to borrow billions more to pay for his border bailout.

it is immoral for the congress to consider giving him what he seeks. call your congressman. write your senators. give them one simple message. tell them to vote no on the border bailout. [applause] if you feel so inclined, you can add a little more personal note, to give them a little more personal incentive. tell them vote no on the border bailout, or i will be voting no on you in november. [applause] thank you. god bless you. and god bless the united states of america. [applause] >> the former new york lieutenant governor was another

speaker at the western conservative summit. she talked about the health care writtenething she has about in news articles and her most recent book. she is also the chair of the group aimed at reducing hospital deaths caused by infection. this is 20 minutes. [applause] >> i am so glad to be with you today. because we are in the fight of our lifetime. our access to our doctors and hospitals, our religious freedoms, our second amendment rights, and the rule of law, the very basis of our society, are all under attack. you will play a key role in allowing us to take back the united states senate this fall

for the freedom of this country. [applause] and you will be decisive in selecting the next president of the united states. there are republicans in washington who say we ought to settle for fixing this health law within the framework of the health law. they are saying that because they have not read this health law. if they had, they would know that it is rotten to the core. [applause] and i urge you to choose the president of the united states who will fully repeal this law. [applause] a president who will reign in the government spending. and a president who will take

seriously his or her duty. sworn duty to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states. because this law shreds your constitutional rights. it lowers your standard of care. it puts government in charge of your care. and it takes away something as precious as life itself. your liberty. this law requires almost everyone to enroll in a one-size-fits-all government designed health plan. when you go to file your taxes, you have to attach proof for the irs that you are enrolled in such a plan. attaching the proof will shield you from an irs penalty. but it will subject you to a degree of government control and intrusion unprecedented in

american history. for the first time in american history, this law empowers the secretary of health and human services to dictate how doctors treat privately insured patients, so even if you have at or cigna, and you paid for it out of your own pocket, the government can still call the shots. yes, section 1311 h1-b of this law -- that is right. [applause] read it and you will see. says that insurers can pay only those dr.'s and hospitals that thatctors and hospitals obey whatever regulations the secretary imposes in the name of quality. that blanket authority can cover everything in medicine. when a cardiologist decides to use a stent.

when an ob/gyn orders a sonogram or does a cesarean. your doctor will be legally required to enter your medical information into a nationwide intraoperative electronic database seen by thousands of eyes. your doctor's decisions will be monitored for compliance with these government guidelines which are being written right now. and ultimately, your doctor may have to choose between doing what is right for you and avoiding a government penalty. the president said that he was going to solve the problem of the uninsured by making health plans more affordable, but that's not what happened. you have gotten your premium hikes in the mail, right? instead, what this law does is it vastly expands medicaid and pays for it by eviscerating medicare.

it takes $716 billion out of medicare over this decade, and moves it over to fund the expansion of medicaid and the subsidies on the exchanges. it is robbing grandma to spread the wealth. that's right. even richard foster, the president's chief actuary, warned that the cuts to medicare are so severe that some hospitals may stop taking medicare. where will seniors go when their local hospital stops taking medicare? other hospitals are already responding to the severity of these cuts by laying off nurses everywhere. i advise people -- if you know you are going into the hospital for surgery, for example, try to cobble together enough money for a private duty nurse, at least

for the first night. because when you push that button for pain control or help in the middle of the night, you are going to wait too long. and if you are a baby boomer, 60 or 61, line up your doctors now. line up a cardiologist. , an internist, even if you are healthy. because if you wait until you turn 65 and go on medicare, you will not be able to find a doctor willing to take you on as a new patient. doctors are paid less to care for seniors than any other kind of patient. and in addition to these across-the-board cuts to medicare, section 3001 awards bonus points to the hospital s that spend the least for seniors. think about that. not per patient.

per senior. we know hospitals in the bottom quintile for spending for seniors have higher death rates for congestive heart failure pneumonia, other common maladies , of the elderly. older patients in those hospitals have a poorer chance of surviving their illness and making it home again. and this law is pressuring the other hospitals to imitate the hospitals that have a high death rates. this provision, section 3001, will also mean that you were -- fewer seniors get hip replacements, knee replacements, angioplasty, bypass surgery, cataract operations. those are the five procedures that have virtually transformed the experience of aging in our country. when i was a kid, i remember that older people were trapped in wheelchairs with crippling arthritis, were stuck in nursing homes because they were so out of breath from congestive heart failure. now, older people enjoy their later years. they continue to work.

they travel. they play with their grandchildren. they even come to meetings like this one. [laughter] [applause] that's right. [applause] obamacare will undo that progress. the stakes are very high here, because if you are seriously ill, the best place to be is in the united states. oh yes. don't let anybody tell you differently. a woman in the united states diagnosed with breast cancer has nearly a 90% chance of surviving it. in europe, her chances are less than 80%. you do the arithmetic. it means she is twice as likely to die there. a man diagnosed with prostate cancer in the united states -- it is not a death sentence here. nearly one out of every four men diagnosed with prostate cancer in europe dies from it. if someone in your family has

what we currently call an incurable illness, this is the nation of hope. this is where the cures are developed. since 1950, the united states more nobel prizes in medicine and physiology than the entire rest of the world combined. and that is why defeating this law is the fight of our lifetime. [applause] that is right. we are not going to give up on this. [applause] congress should have taken this 2572 page bill and put it in the paper shredder, and given us a 20 page bill, in plain, honest english that members of congress would actually read before voting on it. 20 pages ought to be enough. the framers of our constitution

established the entire federal government in just 18 pages. [applause] that is right. ihave written a 20-page bill am glad to share with you that will replace this. it is the very size of this that makes it so dangerous. the chief architect of our constitution, james madison, wrote in federalist 62 cautioning against congress ever passing a law. here are medicine's -- -- oh words, soown voluminous that no one could read it or so frequently change that a reasonable person would not know what the law is. that is obamacare to a t. yes. [applause] president has

repeatedly rewritten, revised, deleted, and delayed, and distorted this law so that the health plan he is rolling out now bears little resemblance to what congress enacted in 2010. that is the most important reason we must win a sizable majority in the united states senate this fall. we must elect a new senate majority leader. [applause] a new senate majority leader that will have a chat with the president and remind the president that in these united

states, the rule of law is king, not mr. obama. [applause] we must be able to dangle the sort of impeachment over this lawless president's had. not that we would actually want to put our nation through such an ordeal. but we must have a sufficient majority in the united states senate to make the threat credible because that threat is the tool that the framers gave us in our constitution to defend our freedom. that's right. [applause] we must also vote out of office this fall -- who has gained control and taken the government into their grips. under this obama administration, they have pushed federal spending up as high as 25 cents of gdp.

then you add state and local government spending and up to 42% of gdp. 42% of everything all of us produce going to work every day. 42% of the fruits of our labor are being sucked up by government programs. do you get 42% of your happiness from government? no. no. only once before in the entire history of this nation did government spending reach 42% of gdp. that was in the midst of world war ii when we were fighting for our survival as a nation. nothing today justifies the government appropriating 42% of the fruits of our labor. it's wrong. our government has been hijacked by people who don't share our values or value our freedom.

the spendaholics are pushing government spending to commonly found in european countries. we don't want to be europeanized. no. in europe, the people toil to support the state. in america, we work to support ourselves. that's right. but now, the federal iraq receipt is run by the bureaucrats for the bureaucrats. they have taken the service out of civil service.

it's gone. most of them are paid more than they would get in the private sector. more than we get in the private sector. it is virtually impossible to fire them. no accountability. irs employees taking home big bonuses at the end of the year even when they have been found yield the of not filing their own taxes. imagine. a services administration employee on the front page of papers all across the united states sitting shirtless with a glass of wine at a las vegas boondoggle on the taxpayers money. he retired with full benefits. and how about this terrible story. a v.a. surgeon suspended for 14 days for abandoning his patient unconscious before the surgery was completed. he left the

medical center. he still gets an $11,000 bonus at the end of the year. these bureaucrats are living on easy street. they are putting us on the road to serfdom. think about what has happened as a result. our government has truly been hijacked by people that don't share our values, don't value our freedom. they put the state ahead of the individual. our president is presiding over the downgrading of our economy and the degrading of our constitutional rights. but you and i have a rendezvous with destiny. because we are going to elect the president of the united