just be telling any effort we make to push back against what he's doing and having the people that work for him do his bidding or he could say, let's see if there are some areas of agreement. i have mentioned a couple that i think are pretty big and important issues that i think we have potential areas of agreement. trade and tax reform. we will see. >> are you ready to meet him there? how would you prevent members from yanking you back? >> i am pretty familiar with our conference including the new members coming in. the vast majority of them don't feel that they were sent to washington to just fight all the time. as i've said repeatedly here, divided government is not a

reason to do nothing. in fact, it has been pretty productive. i think the vast majority of my members would rather make progress on things that they think the country needs to be dealt with them not. but, in our system, the president is the most important player because of the obvious constitutional advantage he has and it would require his complicity to do that. and he has been protected from having to do that the last four years by the dysfunctional senate which doesn't pass anything, doesn't send him anything that he doesn't like. now, he will have a congress that will be more challenging for him but the choice is really his. i'm hoping that he will decide to move to the center. >> ted cruz declined whether he would say he would support you for majority leader. did he pledges support to you? >> let me make a prediction for you, a week from tomorrow, i will be elected majority of the senate. thanks, everyone.

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speaking with reporters about the congressional agenda moving forward. he also spoke about the of the president taking executive action and efforts to repeal the health care law in the new session of congress. this is 15 minutes. >> i missed you all. you did? i hope you did not believe it. >> never do. [laughter] >> good. i'm going to start by congratulating my friend, senator mitch mcconnell. as you know, mitch and i have worked very closely together over the last eight years and i don't think i could ask for a better partner or do i think the senate could have a better majority leader than mitch

mcconnell. also, i express my gratitude to the people of ohio's eighth congressional district. you know, my mission is the same today as it was in 1990 when i was first elected to build a smaller, less costly, more accountable government here in washington, d.c. and right now i believe that means continuing to listen, to make the american people's priorities our priorities and to confront the big challenges that face middle class families starting with the economy. you have heard me talk many times about the many jobs bills that the outgoing senate majority has ignored. those bills will offer the congress, i think, a new start. we can act on the keystone pipeline, restore the 40-hour workweek that was gutted by obamacare and pass the harm our -- hire more heroes act that will encourage our businesses to hire more of our veterans.

again, this is just a start. i'll be going around the country outlining my own personal vision for how we can reset america's economic foundation. the energy boom that is going on in america is real. i think it provides us with a very big opportunity, but to maximize that opportunity, i believe that we need to do five things. that is fix our broken tax code, address the debt that is hurting our economy and imprisoning the future of our kids and grandkids, reform our legal system, reshape our regulatory policy to make bureaucrats more accountable and give parents more choices in a system that isn't educating enough of america's children.

now, finding common ground is going to be hard work, but it will be even harder if the president isn't willing to work with us. yesterday we heard him say that he may double down on his go it alone approach. listen, i have told the president before, he needs to put politics aside and rebuild trust. and rebuilding trust not only with the american people, but with the american people's representatives here in the united states congress. now, this is the best way to deliver solutions, to get the economy going again and to keep the american dream alive and well. this will be the focus of our new majority. i'm eager to get to work. >> mr. speaker, as the president moves forward on immigration and acts alone on immigration, is that going to poison the well for any type of cooperation between this new republican majority and the white house? >> listen, you all heard me say starting two years yesterday

that our immigration program is broken and needs to be fixed. but i have made it clear to the president if he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this congress. it's as simple as that. >> mr. speaker, you mentioned obama care and the 40-hour workweek, in that your "wall street journal" op-ed, you talked about obama care. how do you walk this balance without this being the predomen nant issue, or is it when freshman coming in who haven't voted for obama care or tweaking it to go for a full repeal? >> obama care is hurting our economy. it's hurting middle class families and it's hurting the ability for employers to create more jobs. and so the house, i'm sure at some point next year will move to repeal obamacare because it should be repealed. it should be replaced with common sense reforms. that respect the doctor-patient relationship. now whether that can pass the

senate, i don't know. but i know in the house it will pass. we will pass that. but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do other things. there are bipartisan bills that have passed the house, sitting in the senate that would in fact make changes to obama care. you know, there is a bipartisan majority in the house and senate for repealing the medical device tax. i think there is a bipartisan unanimous majority in the house and senate for getting rid of the ipad, the independent payment advisory board, the rationing board in obamacare. how about the individual mandate, there are democrats and republicans who believe this is unfair. just because we may not be able to get everything we want doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to get what we can. >> you mentioned different

issues there, votes in this congress goes back into obama care and the numbers gets into the 60 and 70's in terms of roll call against obama? >> there are bipartisan majority in the house and senate to take some of these issues out of obamacare. we need to put them on the president's desk and let him choose. >> mr. speaker, you heard the president say that he basically gave you a year waiting for you to be able to deliver on immigration reform and that in this post-election period he is ready to act, and then he would pull back the executive orders if you could have legislation that works. could that be a catalyst for you to actually get something done? >> no, because i believe that the president continues to act on his own, he is going to poison the well. when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. and he is going to burn yourself -- himself if he continues to go down this path. the american people made it clear election day, they want to get things done and they don't want the president acting on a unilateral basis.

>> mr. speaker, how do you expect the president to trust that you really want to work together when out of the gate, you say that you want to repeal his signature law that you know has no chance of getting a veto proof majority. how do you expect him to trust you? >> my job is to listen to the american people. the american people have made it clear they're not for obamacare. ask all of those democrats who lost their elections on tuesday night. a lot of them voted for obamacare. my job is not to get along with the president just to get along with him, although we actually have a nice relationship. the fact is my job is listen to my members and listen to the american people and make their priorities our priorities. >> mr. speaker, the "wall street journal" is out with a report saying that president obama has sent a secret letter to iran's supreme leader on fighting isis, your reaction, sir? >> i don't trust the iranians. i don't think we need to bring them into this. and i would hope that the negotiations that are underway are serious negotiations.

but i have my doubts. >> if, having heard your reiterated threat, the president said suddenly, fine, i will take no executive action on immigration. could you guarantee him that he will hold votes on legislation next year? >> i have made my position very clear. it is time for the congress of the united states to deal with a very difficult issue in our society. this immigration issue because a -- has become a political football over the last 10 years or more, it's just hard to deal -- it's just time to deal with it. >> can your party presidential nominee be forced to run if you -- >> this is not about politics. this is trying to do the right thing for the country. >> mr. speaker, isn't the idea of repealing obamacare third or fourth line in your op-ed today, isn't it in a sense poisoning the well from your angle?

>> no. >> when you go to the white house -- >> no. our job is to make the american people's priorities our priorities. they don't like obamacare. i don't like it. it's hurting our economy. the president said i listened to what happened tuesday night. really? >> how do you know it is hurting the economy? the economy, though, how do you -- >> well, if you spent as many nights on the road as i have over the last two years, you would hear from employers of every stripe, large, small, medium, every industry and you listen to the employers talking about the concerns they have of what it means for their workforce, what it means for their employees and you see them hesitate in terms of hiring more people, it's pretty clear to me. >> mr. speaker, you have a new crop of conservatives coming into the house who have suggested among other things but women it needed to -- that women

need to submit to the authority of their husbands, that hillary clinton is the anti-christ and that the families of sandy hook should get over it. the hell no caucus is getting bigger -- >> no, no, no. >> how do you deal with them differently than you did in the last congress? >> i think the premise of your question i would take exception to. yes, we have some new members who have made some statements, i'll give you that. but when you look at the vast majority of the new members that are coming in here, they're really solid members. whether it's the youngest woman to ever serve in the congress to another african-american republican from texas, we have done a very good job of recruiting good candidates and we're going to have a very good crop of good members. >> on immigration, for example, you tried to act in the last congress and your conservative

members yanked you back. >> no, no, no. >> how can you work with the president on an issue like this? >> no, i would argue with the premise of the question. what held us back last year was a flood of kids coming to the border because of the actions that the president had already taken. and let me tell you what the american people from the right to the left started to look at this issue in a very different way. that's why i made it clear, the president, if he continues to go down this path of taking action on his own is inviting big trouble. >> that but of kids was -- that flood of kids was the last six months, what about the 18 months before that? >> i could regale you with all of my challenges of trying to get members on both sides of the aisle to deal with this. they were numerous. but hope springs eternal. >> thank you, mr. speaker.

harry reid, the republican party has done what it said out to accomplish by firing harry reid. is he no longer an obstacle of getting the agenda of the republicans through this congress? >> you might want to ask mitch mcconnell about that question. listen. >> do you see him as still being someone who has power to thwart. >> of course, you know how the senate works, it requires 60 votes to do almost anything in the senate. and so clearly he is going to have some power. but if you look at the, let's take the 46 jobs bills that are sitting in the united states senate that have been held up by the democrat majority in the senate, almost all of those passed the house on a bipartisan basis. and i believe that almost all of them enjoy bipartisan support in the united states senate. if you're doing, as you have heard me say this before, i tell my colleagues all the time, if you're doing the right things for the right reasons, you don't the have to worry about anything. the right things will happen. next. >> will you compromise on the 30, 40-hour workweek -- >> with two months remaining

before the next congressional session, the house and senate return on monday. -- on wednesday. also this week house republicans will hold leadership elections for the new congress. that is expected on thursday when newly elected house members set to begin orientation. in the senate votes are expected on judicial nomination and a childcare grant program. a vote is expected on thursday for majority leader in the new congress. house live onthe c-span and the senate on c-span2. >> open to all middle and high school students to create a documentary on the three there arend he did

two hundred cash prizes for students and teachers are $100,000. for the rest of us and how to get started, the studentcam.org an. the national press. -- from the national press club, this is 40 minutes. thank you for coming. we have six of america's most important conservative leaders.

i will speak for a few minutes and then i will introduce each conservative leader in alphabetical order and they will speak for a few minutes. then we will open it up for questions. rejection by was a the voters of both the chamber of commerce and obama's failed agenda. every candidate ran as a born-again conservative, campaigning in opposition to obama's big government policies. that when we see republicans present a conservative alternative to the policiesegg government the voters reward them with election. and the great tea party victory of 2010. when these republicans present

compromise and grow government the votershe voters, deal a big defeat as they did in 2006, 2008, 2012. the voters gave them a mandate to do what is necessary to undo, obstruct, and oppose all of obama's efforts to ignore the constitution and fundamentally change of america. no republican ran on it platform of compromise. democrats, like military leaders, made a huge mistake and fought this campaign on the suchs of past campaigns, as the war on women, class warfare, racial divide. republicans campaigned on the issues of 2014, such as no amnesty, protect our borders, national security, less government intrusion and regulation of our lives, free market policies of the xl

pipeline, lower taxes, etc.. regularly conservatives ask me how can we defeat hillary clinton in 2016. limited a lemon it -- a government that is not part of the crony washington government. on comments by some republican leaders, they may be backtracking on repealing obama care. there is still a major divide by republican leaders and the voters. bible and to lincoln tells us a house divided cannot stand. today the republican party is still very much a house divided. i will now handed over to the ambassador of the united nations human rights commission. >> those standing before you today represent organizations that are in touch and integrated

well with the grassroots of america. as we crisscross this country and watch the -- and watch the election become nationalized we noted those issues that mobilize and energize the base of voters that turned out to give the republicans a clear majority in the senate and an overwhelming majority in the house. repeal obama care and stop amnesty and other forms of lawlessness. we watched over the course of this campaign soccer moms being moms,ormed to security national security is a primary this new republican nine say --

republican majority. hear from the voters was that they were sending a new republican majority to act like a minor league political party. party inthe majority this country across state legislatures and governors in our midst. on the end ofs underscore this --

they did not send republican managers to be competent managers. they would put us on a course of limited government and expanding economy that would put americans back to work and make sure that revenue to take care of our federal governments first responsibility, to keep our families safe. next is the president of citizens united. them a thank you. i am going to be very brief. a wonderful evening last night because conservative ideals won the night. it really proved that barack obama and harry reid have been a national embarrassment for the past six years. failed leadership, failed policy

agenda, and a disaster called obamacare. in september and october when they are trying to gut the first amendment of the united states, to create trying jobs, instead of fixing the economy, you know their priorities are in the wrong place. citizens united, our supreme court leveled the playing field. we are proud of the impact that had in last night elections. conversation, which is what a level playing field allows, really creates an opportunity for the american people to get information and make decisions. we focus on doing the things we are promised in the election cycle. amnesty andping , decreasing the

size and scope of government. one of the republican leaders on areaid i don't know if we going to be able to repeal obama care because we need to first and foremost fix the economy. i message to republicans in the house is repealing obama care is fixing the economy. small businesses that are not able to hire, big businesses that are impacted by the sheer cost of obama care. health care premiums are going that is this month area affecting every business in america. that and create jobs and atmosphere of growth and opportunity.

it is the promises that the candidates made that they have to live up to. helpve to make sure we them along with that promise. thank you very much. >> next we will hear from the founder and president of "for america." richard, thank you for putting this on. the gop won a great victory last night because every single one of its candidates ran as a conservative and the conservative base, fearing obama's far list policies -- far left policies, came out in droves. voters spoke loudly and clearly and rejected big government.

not one candidate ran as a moderate. the voters are not going to stand for business as usual for republicans and then governing as moderates. every single republican of the united states congress will have part in when they take january. that is a promise to the american people to be against this. the american party ran over 35,000 television ads on obama care a loan in october alone. it is a moral obligation to have to their campaign promise and pass legislation.

a firm pledge. the first act of the new majority in congress must be to leave. challenge the president to veto this legislation. the that if he took to american people. have a debate. republicans will win -- will win the presidency in 2016, i guarantee it. they need to join senator elect theake clear that this is number one priority of the repeal majority. conservatives will not forget. pledges must be honored. the gop must reject it professional consultants and

stop governing as big governments. this will be a prescription for political failure. last night was a referendum and my voters said enough of this. last night's results were not all that surprising. the gop runs against big government and all conservative issues it wins elections. -- 1984, 1980,4, they already has moderates. -- they all ran as moderates. no more moderates. if you want to keep your majority, keep your promises. celebrate today. you have earned it. get to work tomorrow. >> thank you. next we will hear from the

president of the susan the anthony list. >> the bottom has fallen out of the abortion center war on women strategy. it is just the truth of that women do not agree with the that unlimited and unrestricted abortion is the great liberator for women. not hold and that is why we will not see an election font on the democrat terms in such a manner, where abortion is at the center of its theme. ofrican women and all americans are tired of the politics of division and grievance that have come from that elite guard. consider this, emily's