>> send a rand paul expected to kick off his campaign for the white house today with a rally in downtown louisville kentucky. we will take you there live around noon eastern time. senator paul, the second candidate, to make his campaign official. senator ted cruz announced about two weeks ago. also the iraq ambassador to the u.s. will talk about threats posed by isis. live coverage starts at about 3:00 p.m. our coverage of congressional freshman continues. here is some of our conversations.

representative gallego: the friends i made and the friends i lost. i got to start with some of the -- i'm sorry -- i serve with some great men. you know. i don't think i will be surrounded with people that great again. >> what do they teach you? reps are gallego: the marines

taught me about discipline and determination. that was the marine corps. it taught me to care about human being who you are not related to. and when you are willing to do to keep them alive. >> tonight at 9:00 eastern congressman ruben gallego. we will hear his entire interview right here on seas. -- c-span. right now, our profile on representative steve russell republican from oklahoma of the fifth district. >> congressman steve russell of oklahoma's fifth district. is it what you expected? representative russell: i think

the legislative pieces are. i served a term in the state senate. i got to see what the sausage is made of and whether you are playing arson the lord junior, the stadiums are about the same, it's just a good. in terms of the dynamics, i think the surprising thing has been the division and gridlock that we often get accused of. it surprising that it's not necessarily fomented by us. it's outside groups that seem to profit from the division. and they dusted up to raise money. , how do you fix it? representative russell: i think you fix it -- the american public have such a low opinion of congress, and yet most people like their particular congressman or woman. i think trusting us a little bit, the things that we are trying to communicate back, if

they are in contradiction to the "i love america" war "i hate america" pact. take the information and see the truth behind it. and walk us through your team. how often are you in washington? what is your daily routine ndc and then when you go back to your district? representative russell: oklahoma city is in the middle of the country. it does take time to get here. i will typically be here not every weekend, i go home some weekends. there are things to do. if there is a particularly large bill that will be in markup and committee and it might be 600 or 700 pages long, that takes time to read. i try to do diligence. that is what i'm selected to do.

i was a national speaker for eight years and travel all over the country. i still do some of that, although the rules have changed on what that is. i still get around. i was in missouri this last week and speaking. and so i will get home every week but i try to get home to weekends per month, and then i will be here for the remainder of the time. >> let's talk about you. why did you decide to first run for congress? represent russell: politics has been a surprising path. i retired from the united states army and infantry in 2006. i've been deployed for three out of five years. it was pretty hard for my family. my oldest daughter at the time was a senior in high school. i wanted to settle all of our kids the last chance i had.

i took it. i did a lot of veterans advocacy work, traveling around the country, taking my personal story to convince people to back the troops, rather than the gray it. in the course of that, that gather the attention of politicos and others, party officials. before i knew it, i was approached a run for state senate in oklahoma, and ran in 2008. i did a term there. in 2012, under my own volition. i have a rifle manufacturing business. i wanted to pursue that and my book and speaking. coming to congress was really not even on the horizon. it was a result of when senator dr. tom coburn decided to retire early, someone ran for his see

but in doing so he vacated the fifth district. i looked at it and i could see a path to get there. i thought, i don't want to look back on my life thinking that maybe i could have helped my country and didn't try. so i thought, i will try. the people of oklahoma sent me here. steve: you come from a long army tradition, talk a little bit about that. representative russell: my ancestors go back all the way to the revolution, serving in uniform. my sixth and seventh great grandfathers were captured and imprisoned in detroit until the treaty of paris. they were eventually released. every major wars since that time, on one side of the family or the other.

i always wanted to be a soldier. most of my family were not career soldiers, but they did serve. my brother served in the navy. my dad served. it was just something in my family that was always an interest. it was always a topic for d discussion with relatives. anyone that knew me as a child would not be surprised i became a soldier. steve: where did you grow up? how many in your family? where did you go to college? represent russell: i am from dell city, oklahoma, a small suburb of oklahoma city. i have an older sister and an older brother. he is in the middle of the three of us. i had a four-year army scholarship, and rotc scholarship. i got some good marks in high school and that allowed me to go

to college. i got a degree in public speaking and debate. never thinking i would use it for a living, i just thought, if i could get a degree for talking, sign me up. it turned out to be a good decision on many levels. i met my wife there. we have been married -- it will be 30 years this year. and i embarked on a military career. steve: what's the key to being a successful alex bigger and what is your approach? rep russell: i take a lifetime the most effective speakers are those that can relay with stories. we see that through so many examples of christ, sermon on the mount. he would tell stories. he would connect people.

you would also see many in history, the great orders. they don't do on-the-fly. abraham lincoln, gettysburg address. prepared remarks. winston churchill. it might have looked like it was in, but he had prepared remarks. martin luther king prepared remarks. often times, if you go to the podium meandering, it comes across as well, meandering. i think the diligence behind it, the study, and to make it appear natural and connect with stories of the people can relate. steve: how influential where your parents in your life growing up and as you pursued your career? rep. russell: very influential. i nearly died several times. from birth, i nearly died. i had the opposite blood type as my mother. she had had a couple of

miscarriages prior to me. i nearly died at birth. she has always told me that i was her little fighter. you know, that does something to a child. you are not going to quit. you are going to persevere and stay with something until you get it done. then, i survived a bout of appendicitis. my friend exactly ruptured. it was about six or seven hours before i had any medical attention to deal with that. i didn't know what it was. i felt better after ruptured and then i was in intensive care for weeks. two major s surgeries. my folks at that time thought that they would lose me. steve: you did not know a ruptured? rep russel: no i didn't. i had a stomachache. i went outside and played. it was a saturday. by that night, i was double over

blinded pain. i remember asking my mother during that time, i asked her am i going to die? she was honestt with me and said, we do not know, but we are praying and believe you will make it. i appreciated that. it made me want to fight that much harder. on the heels -- just prior to that, oklahoma, no stranger to ternate is, there had been a devastating tornado at my grandparents and killed a neighborhood girl next to them. we crawled up in a small building. alternatives and i was to be in trailers, not a good idea. i have always felt -- you know we're pretty much mortal until god is done with us and then it

is time. i have not given it a whole lot of thought. i approach it that way in combat. i think those childhood experiences conveying that if there is some plan that i meant to fulfill and i'm diligent then perhaps it can be done. if not, then all of my efforts -- i certainly had that faith in combat. steve: so you are not afraid of death? rep russel: no, i am not. as far as what happens afterward, i am not. i know christ as my lord and savior. i take my face very seriously as many of our founders have. it should be no surprise to millions of americans who hold similar faith. i t ta great comfort in the -- take great comfort in that.

he promised that if i would believee and him, i would have eternal life. steve: with any expenses in your life, has your faith been tested? rep. russel: it absolutely has. in battle, i think your faith plays achievement is real. i have had to do terrible things. processing that has been a long journey. as an infantryman, you are not dealing with technology or some machines. you are on the front lines. you are carrying a rifle, hand grenades, the basic elements. organizations are the ones designed to find the enemy. in my experience, we certainly found a lot of different enemies . having to watch friends get hit

a loss of my soldiers is very tough to deal with. i have had to take human life and fight my way out of ambitious. -- ambushes. those expenses stay with you your entire life. they are not insurmountable. i tried to relate to people that if you are in a horrible car wreck, or a devastating storm, or something dramatic, it would impact your life and largely shape it. it doesn't mean that you don't function it just means that you take those experiences and they shape you for future experiences. steve one of those enemies saddam hussein. the book behind you "we got him." what happened? rep. russel: i have 8000 soldier

task force. we were there in 2003-2004. we got involved largely due to geography. it was not something where we saw specifically we would go find saddam. we weren't infantry battalion task force thank his hometown. it became apparent very quickly that saddam was probably being harbored there. we got incredible information, incredible intelligence, and we began to work that. we work that with a number of other teams. and we developed from the ground up a lot of our own intelligence. our commander, pickey, was a marvelous warrior. my two immediate commanders gave

me great latitude. i'm very grateful for not only their bravery, but also their trust. we work together as a team. mind you we were about one of half a dozen. it was very humbling to participate in that time. to leave the raids. we nearly captured saddam in the summer of 2003. didn't get him, but got personal effects and papers, $10,000 and has, $2 million in jewelry. it turns out he was captured six months after that across the river. you could see the two places from one another. you could see his home from where i had my soldiers using it as an outpost. all three could mutually see one another. it was really interesting. i count it a great privilege

to have participated in that and give credit to all units involved. my book has been noted for its vivid detail and a lot of the expenses we went through. that was very important to me coming home, to tell our portion of it. it was to make sure it did get told so it didn't somehow get a raise from history. steve: during all of this you and your wife raising five children three adopted from hungry. rep. russel: we had to children at the time. we wanted more. she was concerned of childhood arthritis. we began to look at our adoption. we were stationed in europe at the time. i went to the men's conference and in germany.

there was an army doc there. he had adopted two boys from hungary. one thing but to another and we began to and the feedback process. we used a facilitator, a woman in california and she fled in the hungary rubble. vice president nixon picked five families to become instant u.s. citizens, and they were one of the five families. she worked for the department of defense. when she retired, she began to place orphaned children in hungary with soldiers because she had such love for soldiers. one thing led to another and we

adopted a set of orphaned siblings. steve: where are they all now? rep. russel: they are all in the oklahoma city metro area. my oldest daughter runs a business. my oldest son works for hitachi. they are all doing pretty good trying to find their way. i got them all to 18 without an incident or crime. i'm thankful for that. now it is on them to make a good life of their own. steve: what about your life here in washington? what do you want to achieve? what is your objective? rep. russel: i think the main thing is we need to get back to the basics of life, liberty, and property. the government has a federal role. abraham lincoln put it really well when he said, those things that we can do ourselves, the government ought not interfere.

those things that we can collectively a call was, the government can have a role. i think we should keep in that perspective. it is tempting for the government to want to take over every aspect of our lifeves, but that's not something we can to do. the american people are resilient. they are willing to pay some taxes for roads and schools things we all need, law enforcement, but they don't want a government that tells them what to eat drink, how to be closthed. the american innovative spirit has always defined that, and it still does today. i hope to bring that reminder. as we go back and look our f framing documents right here in this town, they remind us that we can pursue that happiness. that we do have life, liberty

and property. and the government has to protect those things and also promote good policy to protect those things, not take away or encroach upon it. steve: can you carry on with his principal's and compromise with democrats? rep . russel: sure. i think the framing of the constitution was a great compromise. you had the states that wanted autonomy, a need for a road and defense system that they couldn't really provide. a were willing to -- they were willing to ditch the articles of confederation for the constitution. they believe it over -- the labelabored over it. they debated, they study path democracies to determine why they failed, and decided that we needed a representative republic

with checks and balances so that one side could not usurp one another. and to fight divided further among the branches. it was designed so that there would be competing interests. when you come to overlapping circles of need, that is where you can find the compromise. when he can find the things that most americans can get behind and you can do. already beginning to do some of it my dad was a democrat, my mom a republican. i grew up in a house divided. i think it is important to listen to both sides. no person is the fountain of all knowledge. i learned something from everybody i talk to. i think it is important to keep that perspective. at minimum, we will be more solidified in defending our belief that they are correct.

an alternative, we may gain new information that persuades us to a new view. you c cap find -- can't find that if you don't reach across the aisle. steve: any thought on how long queue plan to serve? have you thought about that? rep . russel: i haven't. i just find it amazing that i am here. as long as the people of oklahoma feel that i can represent them well, i am enjoying the work. i wouldn't say i like the work. that is a strong word. enjoy it, i do enjoy the work. i feel equipped for it. i have life experiences as a businessman, a soldier, an author, a speaker. i bring a lot to the table. i have worked with teens all my life. building them, solving tremendous problems.

i feel equipped to be here. i hope to be useful to the country for as long as that is practical. steve;: my final question, not on the politics site, but the personal side, what is the biggest challenge of being in congress? rep. russel: your time is entirely consumed by others. i think having time for my faith , my family. i'm fortunate with my kids being grown, we travel back-and-forth together. the government doesn't pay for us to keep an apartment here or for her to come up, there is a cost associated with that, but there is a cost if you don't. we are still very fond of each other after all of these years so we have determined that we want to do that. she has been a great support to me. i think building those types of margins in your life so that you can take a step back with a fresh look.

and then, as a warrior, i have tried to keep fit all my life. it allows me to have a clear head and good energy. trying to find time for that has been a challenge. steve: congressman steve russell of oklahoma. thank you for your time. >> c-span's profiles of congressional freshmen continue tonight with representative ruben gallego. he was the first and his family to go to college earning a scholarship from harvard, but jumping out to join the marines. steve: what do you remember about your time in the military? rep. gallego: the friends i made and the friends i lost. i got to serve with some of the -- i'm sorry. i served with some great men. you know, i don't think i will

he surrounded by people that great again. steve: what did they teach you? rep. gallego: they taught me about humility. my friends taught me about being there for each other. the marines taught me about discipline and organization. that was the marine corps. the marines i served with taught me about what it truly means to care about another human being that you are not related to -- what you're willing to do to keep them alive. >> freshman congressman ruben gallego. part of our series this week on freshman congressman. a new profile every night this week while congress is on recess. senator rand paul is expected to kick off his campaign today with a rally in downtown louisville, kentucky. we will take you there around new eastern time. he is the second candidate to declare a run for the two

presents a campaign. also iraq's and asked her to the u.s. will speak on the future of his country and the challenges to iraq, as well as threats goes to isis. are like coverage begins at 3:00 eastern. >> during this month, c-span is pleased to present the winning entries in this year's student cam competition. cstudents were asked to create their documentary based on the theme of "the three branches and you," to determine how one of the three branches of the government has affected them or the community. faith burton, shannon lamb, and britney erickson from silver spring, maryland are one of our second prize winners.

their entry focuses on cultural sensitivity. >> as leaves turn color people's minds turned to football. among fall football fever washington redskins are causing a controversy on the question as to whether their name and mascot is offensive and should be changed. on june 18, 2014, the united states patent office, part of the executive branch of government, canceled the redskins trademark declaring it was disparaging of the native americans. , we know that redskin was the inside of a scalp taken as bounty. we have two redskins, we have just murdered to indians,

here is proof. >> senators have spoken out about the washington team's name . >> mr. speaker continued use of the word "redskin" is unacceptable. it is a racist derogatory term and offensive to native americans. >> one day, my daughter came home crying. it hurt me. why are you crying? what's wrong? as a concern parent, i was very inquisitive. she said the name of the girl had called her a dirty redskin. that name was not meant to honor my child or my culture. it was meant to hurt her. >> this controversial issue raises the greater question of how to deal with cold chill

issues that song but not all find a de offensive. the washington bullets were changed to the washington wizards. washington d.c was the crime capital at the time and some felt that "bullets" was incentive. that meant washington bullets. ia man saw the violence and what did he do he voluntarily decided that that name was not any good and change the name. he did not want his team to be associated with lids. >> i think they should change it back to the bullets. i know why he did it, by think it was overreaction. >> and some people find the redskins name offensive and think it is a racial slur, but others do not thinking that it

should not be changed. >> if you read up on the redskin history, they will not find it offensive. they will find it with pride and joy. >> the redskins are my favorite team. i was raised in silver spring. i like all the home teams. >> christine brennan, nbc sports commentator, finds it offensive. m a it is a racist nickname. i believe it should change. i believe it will change. >> if the redskins name were to change, the local community would change as well. >> i would turn in my season tickets. i could not support them. >> the redskins still holds tremendous value to local fans. >> i love to watch the redskins. i remember when i was a kid sitting down my dad and granddad

, watching the redskins. it brings back fond memories. it is an iconic symbol for me. i grew up loving the redskins. in this town, and to me, it is an iconic symbol and a brand. it would be tough to lose. , all of the redskin merchandise that people across the country have grown to love would lose its value. the changing of the name would hurt the redskin community, but some think it would create even more money for the owner. >> he is a smart marketing guy. imagine if you see would change the name. and match and how much gear he would sell. everyone would have to buy new stuff with the new logo. i think he is crazy to not change just because he would make so much money.

>> we need to respect the dignity of these individuals. it is time to update the relationship. >> after the patent office canceled the trademark, the team went to activists to overturn the decision. there was a federal dishes decision that they were correct. >> traditionally, courts have always ruled 80% against indian issues. we are kind of used to it now. >> if people are angry, they will protest the efforts of the united states on so many topics. , overall, the redskins name has created a controversy by raising the question as to what is offensive and how these issues should be dealt with as well as what role the government should play. >> i say to my colleagues, a

p patent determining what can be used, this is -- >> knowing today that starting -- no one today would ever name a franchise the redskins. they might call them the braves the seminoles, or the chiefs. no one today would start a professional franchise and call it the redskins. >> is some people find offensive, i guess you have to look into making a change. >> it is just another speed bump in a long road ahead of us. >> to watch all of the winning videos and learn more about our competition, go to c-span.org and click on "studentcam." tell us what you think about the issues in this documentary on facebook and twitter. >> at the white house recently,

president obama welcome over 100 students from 30 states for the annual white house science fair. some of the projects included an automatic page turner built by six years old. this is about 50 minutes. president obama: good morning. good to see you. i am thrilled to hear about your project. where are you from? >> i am from denver, colorado. president obama: what your are you? , i am a junior. president obama: you are going to the sat process. a good year. but not too busy to pull off

some outstanding projects. >> if you look carefully this is important to scientist because he can tell us about leaves. right now because there are so many species of flora and fauna on the planet, we are trying to track them all. we are trying to create a system so that scientists can share information on the internet instead of sending it back and forth. president obama: makes sense. >> the current way to do this has problems, is very expensive. i try to see if there are more economically viable ways to do this. i looked at the most advanced research and this man sounds that something was very helpful

in the imaging of the systems. my first thought was that i would build an x-ray machine. i got online and found the original blueprint for next great machine and quickly discovered that that was not be way. it is dangerous. i thought to myself, why does that have to x-rays? i actually ended up using led the led flashlight on my iphone and a scanner that was pressured by the denver center for science and nature, where i come from, and i discovered that if i scanned the lease and shine my iphone flashlight over it, i was able to image the leaf successfully. as a base of comparison, this is the one that was done professionally, thousands of dollars. i was about to do this one in about two minutes on my own.

president obama: even better. >> one of the reasons why this project is important is because recently in science there has been a big leap to get citizens do science. by having citizens collect data, it can be analyzed. the thing about this process is everyone has an iphone these days. it is easy to have access to that. a scanner is basic office supplies. i was able to teach people this technique, begin have citizens upload information. the reason i was able to do this project is because i had an internship in paleontology in 2014. lee systems can help us track evolution in plants. that is one of the reason why i was able to do this. i have support from the denver museum of nature and science.

the. president obama: were you always interested in geology? >> i have always been interested in leaves and science. i did my very first science project as a first grader. i looked at all algae. the denver museum of science host an annual science fair. the first year i got an excitement of award. the science fair and went to state. i won a national science fair as well. then, in my eight year, i took third place. each time i did something concerning leaves. this is my first time doing anything with the nation system. president obama: one must question. was there a particular technique that may be scanner with the led

light work best? did you get to try a bunch of different techniques out? did you sort of arrival of this -- arrive at this your own? or was there a theory that allowed you to figure this might work? >> it was towards the and of summer when we were supposed to be wrapping up research projects when i discovered this. i discovered it completely by chance. president obama: [indiscernible] >> i was messing with the scanner. i was pretty desperate. i just signed it, and it worked. one thing that i found is that the further away you hold the light, the better the picture. one thing i did was trying to sprinkle water on the leaf. there is a substance called --

the only 30 letter word i know. president obama: you pronounce their very well. >> it works very well, and i was wondering if it would work with my method. but i got online and realized it was really expensive. the other thing i found is that there is a plastic called polyvinyl fluoride. if you put it on top of it, it creates a better image. president obama: what you want to do with all this knowledge? , i would like to teach it to other people so that we can get the citizen science movement on the ground. and also, this is my junior year of high school so a lot of people are asking me what i want to be when i grow up. i think i want to be a bio chemical engineer. president obama: excellent. we are so proud of you. look at the over here. were your parents adjusted in

science? >> my mother is a doctor and my father is a director of his own school. president obama: way to go. it is a wonderful presentation. you asked lena very well. good luck to you. wonderful. hey, how are you doing to go what's your name? good to see you. >> i was born with congenital scoliosis. when that happens, there is not enough space for certain things to develop. itf you put rosin, it is highly invasive. president obama: i was reading about this. >> what i did was i designed

this which goe grows along with the child's spine so the you will have more space. aspresident obama: what is the principle that allows us to grow? >> it is all about the space that allows it to contract. i looked at the mathematical aspects of it and added in different features based on what i was reading and how i was seeing it work. the problem is that something being strong enough doesn't mean it will work. really the only way to test that out is to put it inside an actual human. i didn't want to do that and i couldn't do that. instead, i'd held a model -- built a model. i put screws inside each one

stimulating natiural growth. this is sort of the actual bo version that i made of the implant. this should have, based on the springs, a 50 degree curvature. the rods are keeping it straight and allowing growth to happen. president obama: at what age did you decide there has to be a better way to do this and let me start reading up? >> really when i started was in high school. i knew i love science and i was interested in research. i remember one night, i googled scoliosis. the first article was by my doctor, who talk to me about what happened to me. i thought, hey, maybe i am on to

something. i read everything i could. as i read what was out there and what people were working on, i came up with my own ideas. my first model was horrible. i don't want to look at it again. but i developed this and i'm now working with an engineering company delivering it to market. president obama: how are you going to be able to test this? you have obviously modeled it and simulated it. i'm assuming that can computer models can also help. at some point, this is about as complicated a medical device as you can imagine. for to actually be implanted in somebody would require complicated fda approvals. how do you go about that? >> the weight i looked at it was in balancing the strength of the implant with the functionality. what strongest will be a sheet of metal.

in children you can't do that. and it's all, that's what you do. screws and rods and equate is it really straight. with the child, it won't grow. it's a matter of allowing for the most growth, while still preventing curvature from getting worse. we tested in other models. you can implant something like this and a in a bone but does not have scoliosis. instead of curving rods, you put the rods in street. you could do that in a light and animals spine. any use mathematics to see that the model is working the way it should. president obama: are you in college now? >> yes. i love it. president obama: this is fantastic.

the notion that you take your own experience and you are able to apply it. what a powerful story that is and inspiring for other people who are suffering from this disease. >> i figure is always good to take a bad experience and use it to do something. it makes a lot better. president obama: i'm really proud of you. let's get a good picture. thank you. hi, how are you? what he working on echo where you from? >> i'm from arizona. president obama: are you in college or nicely? >> a high school senior. president obama: what have we got here? what are we working on? >> jug development. it currently takes $5 billion to

bring a single drug to the market, which is really problematic when you are trying to develop drugs for a ebola. i used -- to allow a computer to automatically find drugs. my algorithm found an inhibitor . i was able to find for new inhibitors using my algorithm. they have been validated in the labs. president obama: was the constant behind the -- what is the concept behind the algorithm? >> these are proteins discovered recently. when mutated, they cause a lot

of diseases. finding a job for them is difficult. it is like finding a key for a law to keep changing. my approach was different. i looked for a drug that would basically trick other proteins in the cell to binding to the drugs instead of the protein. that way, we could block the protein from doing anything and treat the disease. president obama: you are applying an algorithm to drugs already out there to see if they have new applicability? >> yes. that is what we did for tuberculosis. you have already tested those drugs. president obama: you are fighting algorithm has artie been validated in subsequent studiess? >> yes. president obama: it something a powerful algorithm.

how did you come up with a? >> the way they find drugs currently is a have thousands and thousands of them and they test them. i read about these proteins and thought there had to be a better way to do it. i looked for the most eloquent approach that i can find. this was it. president obama: i don't know what you all have been doing. this is what she has been doing. so, i assume that you want to continue in this field. in light of all of the breakthroughs being made in genetic sequencing, being able to combine big data. -- big data pools like yours, we can short-circuit pathways to find potential cures for every disease. you will still have to do clinical trials, but what this does is it narrows very rapidly what might work and what might not work, and can really impressed them -- compress the

link the length of time bringing a drug to market. >> we use simulations now for everything from divers to cars. i think medicine should be reaching the same point. that is what i have been working on. president obama: we will put this young lady in touch with our medical team. we just watched a big initiative around these things. you should, you know -- don't you think she should be working on the team? >> that sounds great. president obama: nih's doing a lot of this stuff. come on over. there you go. how are you? >> good morning, mr. president.

i am a freshman in high school. president obama: what have you got? >> a revolutionizing object -- i was thinking about two things in the world, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and energy. me being a problem solver, i thought about how i can solve these two problems together. i thought about battery that uses carbon dioxide. my first test was testing how this affects the cell tension. i found i could increase the carbon dioxide in a battery, and it significantly improves and outperforms other batteries. president obama: why is that? >> carbon dioxide with water has

a weak ph. the more carbon dioxide you put into a solution, the more carbonate ions are conducted. the more that are available in this cell, means that the cell increases. if you put more in, you significantly improve the voltage. once i had caps off thought, i have the carbon dioxide in my battery, and i thought, what else can i implement to make this environmentally and economically friendly? i thought about recycled materials. if we can use recycled materials, we would solve one of the bes best issues in history. if i am in consumer with aluminum cans, and i would just throw them away, why wouldn't i give them to an office, and they

would be paid, and the battery would be sold back to the consumer. a direct connection. with all that in mind, i had aluminum foil, a commonly recycled material, and guitar strings. president obama: you are a guitar player? you had a lot of guitar strings, you had to do something. >> also a scouring pad, going back to the recycled material aspect. i had pneumonia . this product, right now i have a patent pending. it is a bigger vision for energy itself. i see an energy generation

system all happening in one confined space. that is what i'm working on right now over here. these are just some failed attempts at developing a capture system. i started thinking, how do humans breed. we breathe and oxygen but breathe out and outside. if i reverse the process, i should in theory be able to bring in carbon dioxide. here is an example of the pressure gradients in our lungs. the balloon represents how are lungs expand. they contract when we let go of the air. this is the co2 capture aspect of myself. three or four years down the road i plan to have a capture aspect on top of the box. on the bottom with bb energy generation system, so the entire thing is happening in one box. all of the energy is being

wirelessly transfer planted to -- transferred to a nearby plant. president obama: you will be busy over the next four years. you are a freshman in high school. way to go. how's it going? we've got an outstanding team here. how are you doing? what's your name? good to see you. some makeup. -- tamika. the dispute. where you from? >> u.s. virgin islands. president obama: you are the rocket team. outstanding. tell me about how things have been going? >> things are going great.

we are in one of the biggest rocket contests. it has about 700 teams and about 5000 students. only some teams qualify for the finals. president obama: how did you get involved with the rocket team? >> there is a school. these are students who have a passion. president obama: how are you feeling about your model? good? >> confident. president obama: i like that. you sound confident. what refinements have you made your model that make you commen confident? >> this is the rocket that we will use. this rocket right here -- there are two -- this one is pointed

and is what is rounded. the reason we use this one is because it is lighter. we try to be in a range of a certain weight. we calculated that the specific way for us is at least 17 ounces. team america bracket challenge has three criteria. for a tight, has to go at least a hundred feet -- 800 feet and a payload of at least one raw egg. this right here is changing. for example, in different competitions, the height could be in the 700 range, and the pay load be to raw eggs instead of one.

right here is our payload section. this is the most successful thing we have used so far. one raw egg goes right in there. right below our payload is the base. this is a unique component. we came up with thepresident obama: circuit? >> yes, it is connected to the general motors board. we connect the altimeter to it therefore we put two parts on either side and this is our component. this is what we use for the engine.

we have tested it many times. it goes about 800 feet. it is more aerodynamic and will cut through the air. president obama: you're doing pretty good. where is the actual cockpit? in their? -- in there? -- there? i want to wish you all the luck. we are well represented. i'm going to get a picture. there's a lot to get to hear. , slide over just a little bit. why don't you get in front of me, young lady?

there we go. good luck. >> thank you. president obama: continue in your science and math. how are you? where are you guys from? >> [inaudible] we developed this system -- specific robot last year. what we had to do last year was we picked it up from the bottom here and then there were different points it went higher and live -- lower. >> one lose up to another.

if you did it yourself it would be 10 points. if you passed it to another member it would be 40 points. it identifies the cooperation of the team. these motors are in preset places. it identifies where the motor is. there's the off position on the ground that we use for any that are thrown at us. in order to throw the ball we have these pistons there. we put it appear. we then shoot it there using it

like that. president obama: how far does it go? >> the goal is about six and half feet. it's pretty wide. when we are in the middle of the field we shoot it really hard horizontally, it has less time to travel. when we are close to the wall it's hard to do that. with the motor you can give it speed. the added to hear that are connected, so when we should these out it has air in it. the ball changes position from where it starts. it has less time to stay on the catapult. all the force would go from the vertical position higher.

president obama: which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] : how long would it take? >> it usually takes about one week. after that we only have six weeks. as fast as we can get the designs on. >> another pretty cool feature that we have that is not currently on it, we had a sensor here in the front area. it shoots it out and then waits for it to come back and accelerates. we shot it now it would come back and hit that table. to use that it kind of takes the human out of the equation.

the ball thinks it's getting rolled over here. once it's close enough to the grabber with velocity you know exactly what it can go beyond. when we turn this on it can also catch the balls and the sensor goes this way. the same as on the ground, it senses the ball coming. president obama: have you named the robot? >> [indiscernible] dream. president obama: pretty good. let's get a picture. i'm so proud of you guys. >> thank you.

hey, guys. what's your name? >> [indiscernible] president obama: good to see you. what's your name? >> [indiscernible] president obama: kelly about your experiment. tell me about your project. what have you got? >> we are from girl scout troop 401. these tools are to be used with education and learning. this device helps people. [indiscernible]

president obama: this is wonderful question -- wonderful. how did you figure this out? >> a brainstorming session. president obama: you had a brainstorming session? is that right? how long that it take you to build? >> three months. president obama: three months? that's a big project. i bet you have to read pretty fast. >> yes. i can only read three sentences. president obama: are you able to slow it down or speed it up? >> no. president obama: that would require a little bit of an adjustment? >> yes. it's a prototype. president obama: it's a prototype? it's a prototype. it will get refined later. >> [inaudible] president obama: ok. >> [indiscernible]

there we go. president obama: do you guys like inventing and building things like this? >> yes. president obama: you guys are very good at this. i'm so impressed. you are resetting it? >> yes. president obama: this is wonderful, guys. can i take a picture with you? >> [indiscernible] [laughter] president obama: you guys get in front of me and i am going to get down on my knees here so that we are all kind of even all right? where is pete? it's bring the camera over here. everybody look up and say cheese. >> cheese. president obama: i'm so proud of you guys. this is outstanding. did you have fun doing this? a good project? keep on learning

math and science and you will build all kinds of great things when you get older. you are already great inventors with your brainstorming sessions and prototypes. what brings you guys in? >> kindergarten. president obama: you guys have a good head start. are you having fun? >> yes. president obama: i'm thrilled to have you here. >> did you ever have a brainstorming session yourself? president obama: i did but i did not come up with anything this good. i came up with things like health care. [laughter] it turned out ok. it started off with some prototypes. >> we have health care over there. president obama: i'm going to go talk to them. good job, guys. group hug.

that was a good squeeze. thank you, guys. changing the world, i like that. let's see if you can top this. >> hello, mr. president. president obama: what your are you in school? >> a senior. president obama: president obama: do you know where you're are going to go next year? >> not yet. president obama: i suspect he will do ok. what are we working on? >> of nano tech cardio diagnostic sensor. current methods for detecting cardiac arrest are long, expensive, and invasive. i wanted to develop an -- a device that was less expensive and very sensitive. this is actually what it looks like. one drop of blood would give me an electrochemical readout from which i can tell you what a certain protein concentration in your bloodstream is an based on

that i can tell you your risk. president obama: this protein in the bloodstream there is a high correlation? >> yes, a correlation in the change in the current that i can attacked and what's in your bloodstream. president obama: was the correlation well-established with the question being how you detected efficiently? or you also have to try to map that correlation? >> it is to increase the sensitivity of the device. this is 250 times more sensitive than what is conventionally used. president obama: which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] what : what was it that made you make it so much more efficient? >> these carbon nano fibers can actually detect certain proteins. the beauty of this device is that it can be used not only for

health diagnostics, but also for food safety monitoring or environmental monitoring. president obama: where you have a correlation you can establish you can get it more sensitive and acute, quicker and ultimately a cheaper technique. >> even cheaper than this is the paper-based sensor. you can touch it if you want to. the idea is something like this you go to cvs, use it and throw it away. this would be cheap, economical, and revolutionize the in-home patient care market. president obama: this seems like a pretty good deal. where are we at now in terms of taking what you've learned and started to talk to companies that are already in the diagnostic field on this. >> i'm working in california where we are working on the prototype stage right now working on making it into a

handheld device so the you can just use it on the go or at home . we are working on that right now. president obama: obviously, you are going to continue with your research and good ideas in college. you have an idea of what you would ultimately like to do? >> i would like to major in engineering science. in the valley. president obama: let's get a picture. i'm very proud of you. congratulations. >> nice to meet you. thank you. president obama: hey, guys. >> hello. president obama: where are you guys from? >> pennsylvania. president obama: outstanding. what do you have here? >> we represent the event team from [indiscernible] a hydroelectric lake owned by a

local power company. it does not allow electricity on the water. the further down the dock you go, the less there is. however, there is a lot of recreation and wind. we thought we would use the wave energy that we have and convert it into electricity. would you mind reading some of the ways in our tank? >> we will get some waves going here. here it is. kind of a quiet day out on the lake. starting to get a little bit of a breeze. >> yes, very true. the motor generates electricity. we developed this device. >> inside we have two modified gearmotors that act as generators connected to a horizontal surface on the water

connected down to a vertical bracket connected to an anchor that floats stationary on the surface of the water. from there when this turns because the device is mapped to something floating on the lake with waves, that will be generating electricity. president obama: you are basically converting this? is there a minimum amount of wave activity required to make sure that a small bulb like this goes off? >> after the electricity is generated it is charged throughout the day and will touch the battery pack here. president obama: if everything got completely quiet the battery would still function.

>> yes. on top of the device there is a light sensor that will take readings every 15 minutes or so. once it is low enough the microprocessor will convert to the docks. >> let's let you try. president obama: oh. there we go. i was a little worried it would not work area that is outstanding. have we tested it in the lake itself? >> yes, we have, actually. some were tested over the weekend, fourth of july weekend, after school. president obama: what a great idea. way to go. what your are you guys? >> we are both seniors. president obama: do you know where you're going? >> not quite yet. president obama: you guys did good work. come on, let's get a photo. >> oh. president obama: let's get the

invention in there. do we have a name for our invention? >> compact waves. president obama: right over here. that's outstanding. >> i will be seeing these and lakes everywhere. who is next? what are your names? good to see you. where are you from? >> cambridge. president obama: a fine town with some good schools. what do we have here? >> wheelchair attachment. >> i always wanted to stay stable, but i could not find one that meets my needs, so i invented my own. president obama: you just invented your own tray table. >> i invented this for people in

wheelchairs. after you are done using it, you quickly take it apart. you put it together here and you full it. we were not allowed to bring the back here. [indiscernible] the cool thing about the holder is that it is not just for these , but you don't see how the cup holder would do this.

i am from afghanistan and i want to produce this so that people who cannot afford it can buy it for a dollar or two. president obama: the nice thing is that the concept is very efficient but relatively simple and with 3-d printing you could start -- >> yes, i designed it and then 3-d printed it. and then the canopy is still in the process. president obama: you gave it a shape. >> it comes on the back and clips. president obama: all working off of that. >> the main idea was -- it should be full double with everything having to be controlled from the front. many people do not realize that to bend backwards, anything that we entered -- that we invent, i

just unfold this. president obama: outstanding. way to go. >> thank you for having me. president obama: it's my thrill. what is this? >> senator rand paul is kicking off his campaign today with a rally in downtown louisville then heading to early nominating states to position himself as the it alternative to the establishment of the gop beginning the 2016 race as the second fully officially declared candidate after senator ted cruz of kansas, but he could face up to 20 rivals before that leadoff of the iowa caucuses next year. take a look at the ted cruz announcement from lynchburg, virginia. [applause]

[cheers] >> thank you so much, president falwell. god bless liberty university. i am thrilled to join you today of the largest christian university in the world. [applause] today i want to talk with you about the promise of america. imagine your parents when they were children. imagine a little girl, growing up in wilmington, delaware.

during world war ii. the daughter of irish and italian catholic family, working class. her uncle ran numbers in wilmington. she grew up with dozens of cousins because her mom was the second youngest of 17 kids. she had a difficult father. a man who drank far too much and, frankly did not think that women should be educated. and yet this young girl, pretty and shy, was driven, was bright was inquisitive. she became the first person in her family ever to go to college. in 1956, my mother eleanor graduated from wright university

with a degree in math and became a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950's in 1960's. [applause] imagine a teenage boy not much younger than many of you here today. growing up in cuba. [cheers] [laughter] jet black hair. skinny as a rail. >> [indiscernible] [laughter] senator cruz: involved in student council. and yet cuba was not at a peaceful time. the dictator, batista, was corrupt. he was oppressive.

and this teenage boy joined a revolution. he joined a revolution against batista and he began fighting. fighting with other teenagers two feet -- free cuba from the dictator. this boy at age 17 finds himself thrown in prison. finds himself tortured, beaten. and then at age 18 he flees cuba. he comes to america. imagine for a second the hope that was in his heart as he rode that ferryboat across to key west and got on a greyhound bus to head to austin, texas. to begin working, washing dishes, making $.50 per hour,

making -- coming to the one land on earth that has welcomed so many millions. when my father came to america in 1967 he could not have imagined what lay in store for him. imagine a young married couple living together in the 1970's neither one of them has a personal relationship with jesus. they have a little boy and they're both drinking far too much. they are living a fast life. when i was three, my father decided to leave my mother and me. we were living in calgary at the time, we got on a plane and he flew back to texas and he

decided he did not want to be married anymore and he did not want to be a father to his three-year-old son. and yet when he was in houston friend, a colleague from the oil and gas business invited him to a bible study. invited him to clay roads baptist church. and they're my father gave his life to jesus christ. [cheers and applause] senator cruz god transformed his heart. he drove to the airport. he bought a plane ticket. he threw -- he flew back to be with my mother and me. [applause] there are people who wonder if faith is real.

i can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt. because were it not for the transformative love of jesus christ, i would have been saved and raised by a single mom without my father in the household. imagine another little girl living in africa. in kenyan nigeria. [cheers] senator cruz: this is a diverse crowd. [laughter] senator cruz playing with kids, she spokes swahili, they spoke english. [cheers] [laughter] senator cruz coming back to california. [cheers] senator cruz: her parents

missionaries in africa, raised her. she starts a small business in grade school. baking bread. she calls it heidi's bakery. she and her brother compete they make thousands of lows of bread. they go into the local apple orchard, where they sell the bread to people coming to pick apples. she goes on to a career in business. excelling and rising to the highest pinnacle. and then heidi becomes my wife and my very best friend in the world. [applause] senator cruz: heidi becomes an

incredible mom to our two precious little girls, caroline and catherine, the joy and loves of our lives. [applause] senator cruz: imagine another teenage boy. being raised in houston. hearing stories from his dad about prison and torture in cuba. hearing stories about how fragile liberty is. beginning to study the united states constitution. learning about the incredible protections that we have in this country that protects the god-given liberty of every american. facing challenges at home.

the mid-1980's oil crisis. his parents business goes bankrupt. heading off to school in a place where he knew nobody. where he was alone and scared. his parents, going through bankruptcy, meant that there was no financial support at home. so, at the age of 17 he went to get to jobs to help to pay his way through school. he took over $100,000 in school loans. loans that i ask -- suspect a lot of you can relate to. loans that i point out i just paid off a few years ago.

[applause] senator cruz: these are all of our stories. these are who we are as americans. and yet for so many americans the promise of america seems more and more distant. what is the promise of america? the revolutionary idea that this country was founded upon which is that our rights don't come from man. they come from god almighty. the purpose of the constitution, as put by thomas jefferson, to service chains to bind the mischief of government. [applause]

the incredible opportunity of the american dream. what has enabled millions of people from all over the world to come to america with nothing and to achieve anything. and then the american exceptionalism that has made this nation a clarion voice for freedom in the world, a shining city on a hill. that's the promise of america. that is what makes this nation indispensable and unique in the history of the world. and yet so many fear that the promise is today unattainable. so many fear that it is slipping away from our hands. i want to talk to you this morning about reigniting the

promise of america. 240 years ago on this very day a 38 euro lawyer named patrick henry -- [cheers and applause] senator cruz: stood up just 100 miles from here in richmond, virginia and said -- give me liberty or give me death. [applause] senator cruz: i want to ask each of you to imagine millions of courageous conservatives across america rising up together to say in unison -- we demand our liberty. [applause]

today roughly half of born-again christians are not voting. they are staying home. imagine, instead, millions of people of faith all across america coming out for the polls and voting our values. [applause] today millions of young people are scared and worried about the future, worried what the future will hold. imagine millions of young people coming together in standing together, saying -- we will stand for liberty. [applause] senator cruz: think just how different the world would be.

imagine -- instead of economic stagnation, booming economic growth. [applause] senator cruz: instead of small businesses going out of business in record numbers, imagine small businesses growing and prospering. i imagine young people coming out of school with 4, 5, job offers. [applause] senator cruz: imagine innovation thriving on the internet as government regulators and tax collectors are kept it a and more opportunity is created -- kept at bay and more opportunity is created. [applause] senator cruz: imagine america

finally becoming energy self-sufficient and millions of high-paying jobs are created. [applause] five years ago today the president signed obamacare into law. [boos] senator cruz: within hours, liberty university went to court , filing a lawsuit stop that failure. [applause] senator cruz: instead of the joblessness, instead of the millions forced into work instead of the millions who lost their insurance and faced skyrocketing health insurance premiums, imagine in 2017 a new

president, signing legislation repealing every word of obamacare. [applause] senator cruz: imagine health care reform that keeps government out of the way between you and your doctor and makes health insurance personal, affordable. [applause] instead of a tax code that crushes innovation and imposes burdens on families struggling to make ends meet. imagine a simple flat tax. [applause]

it lets every american fill out his or her taxes on a postcard. [applause] imagine abolishing the irs. [applause] senator cruz: instead of the lawlessness and the presidents unconstitutional executive amnesty, imagine a president that finally, finally, finally secures the borders. [applause] imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to

achieve the american dream. [applause] senator cruz: instead of a federal government that wages and assaults on our religious liberty and goes after hobby lobby, that goes after the little -- little sisters, that goes after liberty university. imagine a federal government that stands for the first amendment rights of every american. [applause] instead of a federal government that works to undermine our values, imagine a federal government that works to defend the sanctity of human life. [applause]

senator cruz: and to uphold the sacrament of marriage. instead of a government that works to undermine our second amendment rights, that seeks to ban our ammunition imagine a federal government that protects the right to keep and bear arms of all law-abiding americans. [applause] instead of a government that seizes your e-mails and your cell phones, imagine a federal government that protected the privacy rights of every american.

[cheers and applause] senator cruz: instead of a federal government that seeks to dictate school curriculum through common core, imagine repealing every word of common core. [applause] senator cruz: imagine embracing school choice as the civil rights issue of the next generation. [applause] senator cruz: that every single child, regardless of race, ethnicity, wealth for zip code, every child in america has a right to a quality education.

that's public schools charter schools, private schools parochial schools -- every child. [applause] instead of -- senator cruz: instead of a president who boycotts prime minister netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of israel. [cheers and applause]

senator cruz: instead of a president who seeks to go to the united nations and run around congress and the american people, imagine a president who says -- i will honor the constitution and, under no circumstances, will iran be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon. [applause] senator cruz: imagine a president who says -- we will stand up and defeat radical islamic terrorism. and we will call it by its name.

we will defend the united states of america. all of these seem difficult. indeed some they may seem unimaginable. if you look at history of our country, imagine that it is 1775 and you and i were sitting there in richmond, listening to patrick henry say -- give me liberty or give me death. imagine that at 1776 and we were watching the 54 signers of the declaration of independence stand together and pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. to igniting the promise of america. imagine that it was 1777 and we were watching general washington as he lost battle after battle

after battle in the freezing cold as his soldiers had no shoes and were dying. dying fighting for freedom against the most powerful army in the world. that, too, seemed unimaginable. imagine that it's 1933 and we were listening to president franklin -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> god said that it would not be easy. if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. they decided that they are prepared to put their lives on the line and stake their fortunes saying that we can do better.

my only request for you today is that you would not only support them, but that you would pray for them by name every single day. [cheers and applause] as my friend, ron paul, would say -- [choose and applause] he walked through the alley way back there and feared -- -- he heard "ron paul run," and he said i'm not doing this again. [laughter] we appreciate what you have stood for. we're going to ask jamie williams to come.

jamie: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and just as for all. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you for the sacrifices you've made. our great nation. now, i want to introduce the young man i have gotten the opportunity to visit with over the last hour and a half and have some fellowship with him. i've been tickled over a short. of time to call him my new friend. pastor jerry stephenson will now give us the invocation. [applause]

pastor stephenson: thou with me, please. god of our silent years god who has brought us on the way. has led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray lest our feet stray from the places our god rarely met. lest our hearts front to the wine of the world, we forget the

and may we forever stand true to our god, true to this land of the united states of america. as we come before you, god, we thank you for this day, when you have brought us together to witness a movement in this country. a movement to bring back this country to the values and the principles that this country was built upon. we thank you for senator rand paul. for him coming and stepping out with courage and with commitment . we thank you, god, for his family, his father, his mother and all of his siblings. in the shadow of your love, hand them over, oh god. and now i ask for everyone to

join with me in the lord's prayer. our father, which art in heaven hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come, they will be done, as earth as it -- in earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses. forgive those who trespass against us. lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever, amen. [applause] >> you all in for a real treat. i asked diana to come sing the national anthem. [applause]

>> ♪ oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight over the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare

the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ [cheers and applause]

[crowd chanting "usa"] >> of i ever decide to sing, i'm going to sing just like that. [laughter] next i want to introduce [indiscernible] alvarado for video. >> the lights are back on. that's great. good morning. you can all imagine what went through my head when i was asked to introduce the next president of the united states. [cheers and applause]

excitement hope, honor pride just some of the words that helped to describe this feeling. the biggest word that came to my mind was -- how, how do i sum up a transformational individual for america? i realize that i should share what i know about rand paul. rand paul is more concerned with doing what is best for our country rather than doing what is politically expedient. he would just assume be voted out of office then violate his principles or the united states constitution. it is time for us to elect a man of principle. [applause] >> it is time for us to inject leadership into our white house. kentucky has witnessed leadership for the past five years in the united states senate. with rand paul in the white house, all americans will know

what real leadership is all about. ladies and gentlemen, is time for someone with knowledge and experience to lead us. time for dr. rand paul to lead us. since medical school he was trained as many physicians are to look at problems objectively and assault them with rapid and effective in a -- analysis. a physician is also inherently compassionate. dr. paul founded the southern kentucky i clinic in 1995, a nonprofit organization giving free eye care to those in need. to perform 200 surgical cases. under laid with a medical

philanthropic trip to haiti this year. it is time for a compassionate leader in the. [applause] it is also time for a uniting force. america has seen way too much division. opportunity in america. show in actions, not just words, that we are all equal under the const duchenne. young, old black, white, hispanic asian, rich poor, all are welcome. all are equal. all are prosperous. one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [applause] it is time for principled

leadership. it is time for knowledge for experience, for compassion, for opportunity, for unity. it is time for a president rand paul. [applause] please, take a look at physician dr. rand paul on his recent trip. >> in a makeshift operating room, senator rand paul, aside him most have never seen. the surgeon on a mission to help the blind and near blind in a country where nearly half the population lives in poverty. >> we have a dental clinic and we have a place here. >> scores of people line up every day for one week, hoping that american doctors can give them their site and their lives back. less than 24 hours after surgery

the reaction is heartening. just one day before a farmer could not see through cataract clouded eyes. one of over 200 success stories in a week. lives transformed. >> this is who i am. a missionary. >> there is nothing like seeing someone sit up and say that i can see. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome lore and bonds are -- lauren bondler. lauren: when i became eligible to vote i concentrated my personal political beliefs in one type of candidate embodied my values. i was raised as a republican. that i still struggled to find a

leader that i believed shared my view of the way forward. i wanted to find the candidates that shared my values as a republican and as a room -- an american. that is when i found rand paul. young americans are now faced with the legislative dysfunction. political dogma, and an unclear future. we hear rants from the left and rants from the right. we are tired of those who simply want to play partisan politics. we yearn for a true leader, one that represents us. my generation is not comprised of the traditional electorate. and rand paul is not the traditional politician. [applause]