[inaudible] >> thank you all for coming. you don't think it is on? you are probably right. is this better? thank you. to the townhall meeting. i want to think the mayor for letting us use this city hall. we have done several tunnels here.

we're going to be very interactive for the next hour or so. i have a few announcements. aroundse cameras, are the room and they are from c-span television. they are going to take this and show this sometime saturday. celebritybe a c-span this weekend. rules about some our townhall. this is a conversation between youth constituents and me, the congressman. this is not a debate between the gentleman in the front row and the lady over there with the american bike teacher. if somebody says something you like, you can apply. some of you have signs you can hold up saying you agree or disagree, or what ever. not a problem. this is not a forum to get in a fist fight.

you talk to me, and i talk to you. we have a timer. we have everybody who wanted to couponuestion getting a and the duplicate is in this poll. here, young lady over leslie mcculley, and she is not a paid staffer. we have not prearranged anything. she will pull out the number, i will read it and call it out. you stand up and tell us your name and where you are from and you have two minutes. then i have two minutes. we will go through as many of these as we can. cards you handed out can write questions on. did we do that? yeah. if you don't feel comfortable standing up in front of god and country and c-span, then you can

write your questions. as long as you give us your name, and a way to get back to you. something like any mel address or street address and we will get you a written answer and within the next two or three weeks. any questions? i will put this bowl right here. let me make a brief opening statements. we will get to the fun part. that is the questions and answers. this is my little pocket copy of the constitution. i carry one with me when i am on official business in washington and in down here. when i go to schools, give a lot of these away. amendment number one of the constitution of the united states, which is the first amendment of the bill of rights. congress so make no law

respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. or abridging the freedom of speech or the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for grievances. that is amendment number one. mostprobably the important, if not one of the most important. freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of speech. that is why we are here. i have done over 1000 townhall meetings over the net last -- over the last 30 years. i learned every time, and most of the time i enjoy them. tonight will be one that i will learn and enjoy. i'm a free market conservative

republican. i believe in providing opportunity. i am not a big government mandates guy. there are certain conditions where the government does need heregulate, and when regulates i want to be as close to the people as possible. starting with the city, then county, then state. as a last resort, the federal government. that is my voting record over the last 30 something years. we're going to have a good discussion and, with that as an opening, miss mcculley will pick a number. did everyone that once to ask a question put your number in the bowl? looks like everybody did. >> [inaudible] >> just the last three digits. >>020. if that is your number, hold

of your hand and he will bring the microphone to you. nobody? mm. all right, 021. the lady in the back there. i was beginning to wonder. mandy.ame is my question -- >> where are you from? >> desoto, texas. >> my question pertains to the tax code changes that the corporations are going to consider. >> ok. >> 2008 alan greenspan spoke before the house, and he said circle span did not work.

he apologized to the american people. why do you guys keep rebranding it and reselling it to the public and taking away from the poor and middle class? [applause] rep. barton: ok. first of all, we don't have an actual bill drafted yet on the tax code, but we do have a general proposal that has been out by kevin brady. proposal, which we don't have legislative language, it reduces the corporate tax rights, individual tax rates, tonges the capital gains tax half of your ordinary income tax, it reveals the debt tax, estate tax.

it's repeals most of the itemized deductions if you are one to itemize your deductions on your income tax return. except for charitable deductions and home mortgage interest expense. adjustments -- it has a border called the adjustment tax. >> where you get the money to pay for it? >> on paper, it generates enough revenue to pay for the tax relief for everybody else. it is revenue neutral. [laughter] rep. barton: we'll have legislative language yet, but when we get it, it will be posted online and you can take a look at it. ok? next one.

>> 030. rep. barton: 030. lady right there. dietayor says he is on the and the doctor says he needs to lose weight, so this would good for him. tell us your name and where you are from. >> i'm amber george from arlington. spoke to you in mansfield in the last time hall. i drove again today because, as you remember may be, have a pre-existing condition. i have crohn's disease. i've a beneficiary of the aca.

i enrolled in 2013. i never lost access to care. costs ---- paid blue blue cross blue shield. i told you last meeting that i have one prescription that, without insurance, would be $3042. watching tv today, i see that we acatalking about repealing again. in those talks, have been language that would put me in a high risk pool. high-risk bulls are not health care. pools are-- high risk not health care. we should not be pandering and catering to audiences like big pharma.

we should not be catering to insurance companies. [applause] thatan american and i know we use the word patriotism and patriots a lot. i think we could agree that they are all great americans. he defined patriotism by saying it does not mean stand by the president or any other political by which he himself stands by the come -- country. it is patriotic to officially serve the country. it is unpatriotic to oppose him to the exact extent by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. in either event, it is unpatriotic to not tell the truth whether about the president or anyone else, but to tell the truth about health

care, let's talk about what americans need and let's protect the constituents and not the big entrance pharma. thank you. [applause] rep. barton: that shows we are running a fair townhall, because her number got pulled in mansfield and it got pulled again today. >> [inaudible] rep. barton: well a number was pulled that you used however you got to use it, that is between you and whoever gave it to you. my answer is going to be about the same as it was two or three days ago. the affordable care act isn't working. -- if hillaryng, won we would be trying to fix it. we are just try to fix it a different way. undere covered

pre-existing conditions under the affordable care act, and you will be covered under a repeal and replace bill. pre-existing conditions will be covered. >> [inaudible] rep. barton: pre-existing conditions will be covered. it, it's my turn to talk, you can listen to me. i listened to you. you're concerned about having coverage for your drug prescription and you are concerned that you are going to have health insurance. it is going to happen. to use thechooses high-risk pool and they put you in its, you probably won't even know it. the only way, the reason they are creating that's pool is because we are trying to create a market-based system that

creates lower premiums with the same or better coverage. you want good coverage, at an affordable cost. say, in order to make sure the premiums go down, the creation of a high risk full is just common sense. as long as you have coverage and your costs don't go up, in fact if you get more choices because you're going to have more choices. we are probably going to have a vote on a repeal and replace bill in the next couple of weeks. when we get ready to have the vote, we will post the language online. everybody can look at it. within three days, we will have a vote. >> [inaudible] i told the truth as i know it's.

>> 001. rep. barton: 001. >> [indiscernible] know given the hundreds of millions of dollars that you have accepted from big oil and big polluters, how can we be assured that you are doing anything to protect the environment in our community, and particularly, arlington. the barton: first of all, statement you made is false. dimeen't accepted one individually from an oil company. i have accepted political action contributions and personal contributions on political action committees that represent all the companies. and from the people who work for

although the companies. those go to my campaign. it is not hundreds of millions of dollars. it probably is millions of dollars, over 32 years because i have been in congress for quite a while. i represent texas which is an energy state. economy is aof any sound energy policy. free markets and free enterprise and i have consistently voted that way. as a consequence, the united states has the most affordable energy prices in the world. where the number one energy producer, we have great expectation of increasing that production. in all areas, oil, gas, wind, solar, and all the alternative energies. own inbably holding our terms of coal. >> [inaudible] rep. barton: i voted for the

clean air act amendments, in the early 90's. i simply don't want to be and cost jobs and create an economic perception by being too negative on the energy sector. next question. 997. rep. barton: went from 0012997. -- 001 all the way to 997. >> my name is bob. i would like to say that i agree with most everything that president trump has tried to do so far. we have the house, we have the senate and the presidency. i think it is time we have the same done that need to be done.

[applause] rep. barton: i agree with that. those of us in the majority should be held accountable and responsible. we have already talked about the tax issue and energy issue, health-care issue. the question is, what are we going to do. on some of that, maybe a lot of it, it hopefully will be bipartisan. some of it will have to be partisan. the health-care issue is unfortunately one of them. i couldn't agree more. be,ve waited a long time to have the house, senate, and presidency, and i could not agree more. >> 980. rep. barton: 980.

that's sneaky. we will let that go. snyder.me is justin i talked to you at your second town all in milford. rep. barton: tell us where you're from. >> [inaudible] >i asked you about your tax reform. , do have a detailed question but i looked it up and now i want to go into a different question. that you will consolidate texas and lower the top individual income tax rate to 33%.

this income tax rate only affects those currently making over 400 and $13,000 -- or did $13,000. 3,000$. i would like to motive -- no -- i don't about believe we should allow that symbol in america with foreign-based parts to fit into this category. the third bullet point, repeal the best tax so that loss of a family member is no longer taxable. it would only benefit those with an estate value over $5.4 million. i also believe this will not affect the average american. you want to cut taxes on small businesses by creating a

separate low rate of 25% on many . you want to lower the corporate tax rate to 20% and shift the territorial system with more competitive rates. i don't understand why you want to cut rates for 20% or corporate businesses but only down to 25% for small businesses. you are now making small businesses compete with corporations. rep. barton: that's a fair question. first of all, there are three individual brackets parried the top bracket would go to 33%. the middle brackets would go to 22%. and the bottom bracket goes to 10 or 15%. there are three different individual brackets. >> was not talk brackets, show me where your mindset is.

that particular sheet of paper which you referred to was put out by the ways and means committee. it is my hound out -- handouts, but we lowered all three brackets. we lower the corporate bracket from 35 to 20. manufacturedke our products more competitive by reducing that bracket from 35 to 20. we didn't mention that we changed the way we did capital gains so that it is now taxed at half of whatever your normal income raisings are carried to use your example, if you are in the 33% brackets and you had a capital gain, it would be taxed at the 16.5%. if you are in what i think is capitalbracket, your

gain would be taxed at 11%. and the state tax repeal, while not too many people will benefit the hundred percent from its, if you are a family farmer or have a small business that is family-owned, there are lots of farms and ranches that are worth more than $5.4 million. that eliminates the estate tax or death tax on those family holdings. i think that is a good thing, not a bad thing. the controversial part of the proposal is the border adjustment tax. , i willing to support it would like a little more information on it, but almost every other country has something similar to it. if it makes our products more competitive, i will be for it. yes ma'am. 000. rep. barton: 000?

you're going to pass? ok. >> 017. rep. barton: 017, yes ma'am. >> hello. this, iu for doing appreciate that. i work every day with for patients that need affordable care act or something like it. someone that won't have a pre-existing condition that gives them more charges for them to pay for the premium, also, another thing was, beforehand there were limitations on how much a person could be out. there were patients waiting to get transplants on the affordable care act plan and when it came out, they didn't

get the transplant because they had pre-existing conditions. they couldn't to do anything about the coverage. i know you have addressed this and i think we have to go to the root of the problem. what got us to the point that we have to. people havehese insurance because of the affordable care act. outcome large corporations such andhat walmart -- walmart why don't they do anything about how many part-time employees they can have. they were teaching their employees how to get on medicaid, and they make millions -- of billions of billions of dollars. they need to look at the root of the problems and i don't think caution goes on to the individual on trying to buy a health care plan. [applause] rep. barton: ok. first of all, thank you for what you do.

if you are in the transplants route. they are one of the best in the country. god bless you for what you do. i don't mind answering questions conditionsxisting but it is not a debate that i'm arguing with you. the republican alternative before the affordable care act covered pre-existing conditions. the plan that we are going to vote on, covers pre-existing conditions. there may be a few bells and whistles differences on how you do it, but i'm not arguing about that nor is any other republican. we are going to cover it. , full-time and part-time. that is a market decision that the management team at walmart might make -- ought to make. i happen to think you're are better off, most of the time, if most of your people are full-time. there are situations, sometimes

the individual can only work part-time. sometimes the business model only allows them to be able to hire people on a part-time basis. it is not a decision the federal government should get involved in. in at the level of whoever is doing the hiring. that is not something we should be involved in in my opinion. [applause] 964. rep. barton: is that funny, we don't have a thousand people here but we are going from zero to 1000. we're going to get to the microphone here. good evening and thank you for hosting the town hall meeting. your honor. i'm bob originally from venice. three simple questions.

rep. barton: we will see about that. [laughter] why didn't the republican party have plans set to go in january of 2017 regarding health care, tax cuts for immigration, yet the republicans believe that president trump would lose the election so they weren't prepared. rep. barton: these are simple questions. [laughter] >> what would it take to get rid of paul ryan as the speaker of the house? [applause] when watching fox news, it appears tobe -- he be in league with the democrats and i can't tell with these guys if they are democrats or republicans. [applause]

,epublicans control congress why does it appear that the democrats are in charge. [applause] and, as a follow-up to the question the person before me likebout walmart, it seems part-time employees may limit minimal amount of money and income so that they forapply and qualify government assistance. and drive those parts up. rep. barton: i don't know how simple those questions were. i think you had about half a dozen rather than two or three. we will take a pop at it. why weren't the republicans

ready to go with the health care bill if they want? if we had wanted to, we could basic decision was that you could move at one pace to just repeal the bill. [applause] that, and some of you did, there are lots of people that depend on the affordable care act or health insurance that would have been left out in the cold. we didn't want to do that. we wanted to take a little more time. we had a health proposal that we , andrepared a last year what the speaker did was give and wayshe committee of means committee and the energy congress committee which i'm the vice-chairman of. we went through regular order and hearings and put together a bill. it's kind is circulated and we had a markup. it went to the budget committee

and they sent it to a different committee. that is the bill we are revising rights now. take a little bit more time, but we are trying to do it in a way, if we are successful in passing something, we have something that can be used in a transition. so that's we don't create chaos in the health care markets. we haven't done it yet, but we are trying to do it. on paul ryan is the speaker, what would it take to change him? a majority of the house of motionntatives to move a to not support and have a new election. that is not going to happen. voted for paul ryan as the speaker, i think he is doing a good job. i think he has a tough job. this is a diverse country. the republican conference is not as united as some might believe. he is the one ultimately who has

to bring that together. he is an honest man, a decent man. he has integrity. he will turn out to be a successful speaker. there are people that disagree with that, but right now, he has my faith and trust. my times up. watching fox news and c-span and a few others, it appears that the democrats are in charge. rep. barton: you know -- >> nancy pelosi, it seems like they are in charge and they didn't get the votes. rep. barton: he said it seems like the democrats are in charge. it is always easier to beat united when you are in the minority. when you can't make anything happen. it is easier to be united.

plus, if they were really in charge, they would be moving an agenda. they don't have the votes. maybe next year, they will have the votes. that is why we hold elections for the house every two years. policy is pretty happy these -- pelosi has been happy these days because some of the republicans haven't been able to deliver. one of these days, we will. one of these days, hopefully the speaker and her will bring policies together that both sides of support. the questions. >> 028. rep. barton: 028. the gentleman back there.

>> richard comrade from cedar hill. my question is along the lines of what you are just talking about. have oneee that we republican party and we haven't had one for quite a while. i would like your comments on how you think that this is coming together. i'm talking about both houses now. when you go from senate to get the tea partiers, freedom caucus, and everything, i don't think -- if the republicans don't get together and act as he units, we really are like the other side. we are not going to move anything forward. i can see that. if you see something happening that maybe the media doesn't pick up on, i would sure like to comment -- to have you comment

on it. rep. barton: your observations are valid. while we have 237 house republicans, you don't have 207 -- 237 republicans that have the same philosophy. we represent different regions of the countries so you have regional differences, and some cases, philosophical differences. caucustioned the freedom . i'm a member of the freedom caucus which is the more conservative group of republicans. there are about two or three dozen of us. there is a group in that group that is a more moderate group of republicans. i don't think they advise many people. i'm also one of the republican study committee and they have been 150 members. elected,run and get you are responsible to some extent to the political parties

but you are also responsible to your region and to your personal value system. haveable people can creations of that. when push comes to shove, it's the ponce -- responsibility to put together a coalition that can be bipartisan that moves the agenda. we have said that we want to repeal and replace the affordable care act. i think we should do that. i think we will do that. i think we should. [applause] if we get that done, we should look at the tax system. maybe change the tax codes. we also need to look at photo communication commission. epa,ed to look at fda,

need to reform the department of energy. there are a whole lot of things that need to be done, but since we campaigned to repeal and replace the aca, that is what we are working on right now. when we get that done, go to the next step. it will be an interactive process and you folks will be a part of it. >> 985. rep. barton: 95. right there. we believe you. >> my name is carl kennedy. one of the things i would like to know, the root cause of a lot of the problems, when are the republicans and democrats start

talking rather than saying it is my party, we are in charge. [applause] your official title is u.s. congressman from the sixth district of the state of texas, is that correct? actually u.s. representative, but u.s. congressman is close enough. >> you represent the state of texas and this distressed in the united states congress and you should be working for the benefit of the united states, not only texas and not only republicans. [applause] , iwhen i listed in the army -- aot represented representative of just a specific group of people, i represented all of citizens of the united states. when we start talking, we hear

that some of the ideas of the other side are good, some of ours are good. when we work together and get the things that we agree on in a bill, then we can work on the things we are a little bit far apart on. things we are usually far apart on, we leave those out and try the bill. , and wegive it a try get rid of the stuff that doesn't work, and work on trying to resolve the big differences. that is what working together will get things done. all right? [applause] rep. barton: he says that republicans and democrats should work together, i don't disagree with that. he says on the united states representative, and that means i represent the whole country. correct on that.

i am also a representative with this particular district. the whole country is not a dentist -- identical to the sixth district of texas. this is very simple, and you are going to think it is silly. let's do a little test right now. of this group. say vanilla is your favorite ice cream, raise your hand. bonilla is your favorite. 7, and i say, 6, 10 people. how many have chocolate as your favorite? chocolate is a little bit ahead. how about strawberry? we have to work together folks. can we compromise and say everybody's favorite ice cream is neapolitan?

that is a simple test and it is silly. but, when you get on the house for -- floor, there are many members of congress. texas,alifornia, 36 in montana has one, alaska has one. , some are country lawyers, teachers, veterans, .ngineers, doctors all walks of life. the country. there are very few issues that everybody in america agrees on 100% of the time. there are a few. and we have passed a resolution that 435 people agreed. then you get to some of the issues that we talk about today. there is not agreement on health care. there are some members of congress that think we should have one single-payer government

help get system. i'm not one of those. [applause] there are other members that think the government should get out of the health care business. [applause] people are somewhere in the middle. it is a congressman's job over time to put that together. friends thatof have a deal by the name. we work on a lot of bills together. i have a lot of friends that have an r by their name. i worked with them as well. i say 65% of the bills that we vote on will be bipartisan. there will be some that won't be, because there is such a difference of opinion. health care, unfortunately, is one of those. debate ont beyond the

how to repeal and replace the affordable care act, we will fda and ament on the lot of other health care issues. my time has expired. next use my time in the one to continue that one anyway. >> 966. rep. barton: 966. yes or, right here. sir, right here. the mayor is making yawl walked to him. [laughter] that is real power. ,> my name is david all around and i went to school here and live here.

[inaudible] i became a teacher and have been teaching for 25 years. i'm about to retire. [inaudible] emote your office before and haven't heard anything lately. yourthink i have emailed office before and haven't heard anything lately. has our own texas teacher retirement system which is really good. my mother was a school secretary . in theople are covered private marketplace if you are paying your social security. there is a federal and the state law that says if you have two different pensions, that are

coequal, you get to choose the one that helps you the most, but you can't take both of them. you may get some of the secondary one but at a reduced rate. yourself,eople, like think that is unfair. there is some justification for saying that it is unfair. committee,n of the mr. brady, had a bill that would had not totally fixed it but would have helped. i don't believe he has introduced a bill to this congress, but, if he does and it comes to the floor, i will vote for it. the question you didn't ask, is why haven't we fixed this before? because this is not a new issue. the reason is, when you make a pensions, you get what , and tod a cbo score

make a change that would be the simplest, so that you can take both pensions, it is very expensive. that is why we haven't done this lady needs a microphone. >> so many questions. i have been self-employed most of my life, pretty much paid

cash when i went to the doctor because i couldn't afford the insurance. i have been around a long time. in the old days, it was not this expensive. it did not cost a fortune to you could pay cash, no big deal, but since aca came in, i had to purchase it or pay the fine, and it was going to cause my husband , plus a00,000 a month $10,000 deductible. month, plus aa $10,000 deductible. it has gotten higher and higher each year, something got i don't have to do that anymore, but my question is, i would like to go , haveo paying cash catastrophic insurance, but hey cash. shopto the car mechanic, around, get the cheapest price, very simple. i don't want to have to deal

with insurance, government, any of it, from my what ever. ith that said, i don't hear about the high cost of medical, forget about insurance, just going to the doctor, getting lab work done, it is ridiculous, and i don't know who is making money on all this. don't make this money. i don't know where it is going, but i wish that would be addressed along with all of this other health care discussion. part of what we are trying to do in the replacement bill for the affordable care act's repeal all of the mandates.

we want to give your choice. we have created health savings accounts. get a catastrophic backup plan for your savings account. we have already passed a bill on the house floor, where we allow groups to create their own group, their own plan. we will not repeal these individual exchanges. i don't have a problem with the , where it exchanges was mandatory that you had to find a plan, because as you pointed out in many cases there weren't many affordable plans you could choose from.

re-create ag to true marketplace that gives you lots of options to do what is including not having health insurance, if you so choose. if that is your choice and you don't have a health savings account, maybe you can't afford it, you will have to depend on medicaid, which is health insurance for low income .mericans you will have to depend on , all kinds of intricacies in the health care system as it is today. it is not easy to change, but our goal is more choice, more options that are truly we have not done it yet, but that is our goal.

>> {indiscernible] rep. barton: one of the bipartisan bills i worked on that is an the affordable care way to getcreate a new drugs certified and into the marketplace more quickly. we also need to reform the way we do generics, so if you buy a generic drug, it is normally the same drug but does not have the brand name on it and is a lot less expensive. foreed to shorten the time these clinical trials for approval of new drugs appeared stem cells, there is a lot of therapy in stem cells. under current federal law, you

cannot receive stem cell therapy treatment in the united states. you have to go to mexico, the bahamas, or overseas. i think you ought to be able to receive stem cells, especially are your own stem cells. especially in the united states. we have time for about one or two more. 990. .ight over here >> thank you very much for being here. i am from innis, texas. rep. barton: good deal. super. >> i have two concerns.

from 30 am retired years of federal service at the v a, and have 40 four quarters and social security. in 1988, whenever the windfall came, i happened or whoever did it, i can only collect one fourth of my social security. rep. barton: because you get a pension through your federal retirement system. >> i do. i do have that. the social security was cut down to one fourth. that is one concern. the other concern is i became a widow three years ago, and my husband passed away and we had able tome and i was not -- because i worked in the past, and i understand law on that is that if the spouse has never work, they collect whatever. my thought on that is i did not

have my home paid for. those are two that i'm concerned about. rep. barton: we have already talked about the first one, this gentleman here. hopefully we can address that in some way. on the second one, your husband collected social security, but when he died he did not get any of his social security? >> no. rep. barton: the reason for that is that when we passed the security, this is before i was born back in the 1930's, most families had one wage earner, and in most cases it was the husband, and they wanted to make sure if the spouse did not work outside the home, that that spouse got social security if and when the breadwinner passed away, so social security was set

up from the get go to take care of what we would call the traditional family model, but it for twollow very well people to work outside the home, so in the beginning of the 1960's and 1970's as more and more in most case wives, women, worked outside the home, you begin have that problem, and the answer was because of the cost thought you would get some of your husband social security, just not all of it. >> {indiscernible] is an example of how the system was originally set up. they try to take care of people who did not work outside the home, in most cases now both family members do. it doesn't really account for it in the way that it should, so it

is something we need to work on. ok. this will be our last one. 022 and then i will go to this german right there. >> good evening, congressman. thank you for your leadership over the last three decades to i practice at arlington and live in allen. i have a few questions for you skilled legal immigration. rep. barton: ok. >> i am using specific terms because of not trying to discuss

immigration.f i came to the united states when i was 21 years old. right now i am 30 years old. i pursued my masters and doctorate and practice for the last seven years. , andecialty is pediatrics my question for you is what is your take on current skilled legal immigration system? anduse i was born in india i have seen a lot of people who joined companies and practices before me because they are born from other countries, they got the green card, and a lot of people who joined with me are citizens now, and my green card has been pending from 2011 december to be precise, and current estimate is showing it will take another 45 years to

get my green card. rep. barton: because you are from india and there is such a backlog of applicants. bills consistently introduced by congressman chafe it's from utah from 2011. ultimately that bill is not getting any voting, and recently that bill came out. it died as of last congress. now that bill is again -392, and there is support from both sides, democrats and republicans are agreeing on that. there are already taking cosponsors for that bill. that.arton: let me answer our whole immigration system is broken, specifically on skilled, legal immigration. there is a quota system based on

country of origin. if you were from iceland, you would not have a problem, but being from india, you do, so we need to go back and revisit that . the key component, there are two components, is any system that we replace, if we change a system, is it good for america? number one, and is a good for the individual question mark ?umber two ban so you have to look at what is best for the united states, and once you pass that test come you have to look at the individual who wants to come to the united states. obviously some it wants to come, education and practice medicine, we should try to make that possible. on the other hand, if you are trying to come as an unskilled worker with no real skills, you

might end up on the welfare rolls, it might not be in the best interest of the united states to let that individual -- i'm not saying it would never be in our best interest, but it is taken a look at a little bit differently. in any case, in terms of skilled .orkers, we can always use more we ought to revise the system. know -- we should probably do away with the country of fortune requirement, but just base it on skill sets necessary for the united states. unequivocally say that will happen, but that would tend to be fairer than a system where come from a country with not many people, and you are almost guaranteed a green card, but come from a country that has a lot of people, it is pretty tough. offerede been

promotions. i can lead different kinds of practices, but the problem is like everything will time i would be accepting a promotion, then my company will call the lawyer can say you guys are giving him a promotion, then his title will change. i need to go to this gentleman over here, but under the current system, even though you are not given a green card, you are re-authorize legally to stay in the country. >> but the thing is it is costing the company more money. initially the country will offer a promotion. i will accept that promotion. that company will send the paperwork to a lawyer, and the lawyer will say if you want to change his title and want to give him a different role, it will cost you this many thousands of dollars, and in the company won't tell me, how about we do this. is. barton: my short answer

don't go to a lawyer. >> you have to go to the lawyer. you have to go to the lawyer. rep. barton: i don't know. let me get this gentleman. no, that's it. this one over here. he said he wanted the last question, and he asked please, so i will probably regret that i recognized him, but i will do it anyway. tell us who you are and where you are from. walks a hatchet, texas. >> i have a laundry list of things. rep. barton: two or three. >> voting rights, why do we have such a problem with voting rights in the state of texas and a lot of the southern states could voting should be a privilege, not a right. everyone should build a vote at 18 without question. [applause] i would like to see us amend

the affordable care act and do something that will work for all of the spirit we don't have to fight about this. this is something that can be worked out, but for one reason or the other, the right and left don't seem to get along. billu can see when the just came up to get past recently. 17 days is not enough time. taxes, we need to see donald trump's taxes. [cheers and applause] i feel there is a russian connection there. i'm just giving you my feelings about it. planned parenthood, what are we going to do for the people who are not able to go to the doctor? a lot of men don't know that. rep. barton: you have asked for questions. >> ok, i will stop.

we started earlier. i have 30 more seconds. representation, we expect you do a better job than i think you're doing as a representative at this point. we are the ones that voted you in. if not, i can campaign vigorously to vote against you. [applause] [laughter] all,barton: well, first of i agree with some of what you said. i don't agree with some of it, but i am glad you are here. sneaking suspicion you never voted for me, although you may have, you may have. had democratic opponents, and modes of my democratic opponents have been good people, so that is ok. on the voting rights act. i don't think we have a voting rights act problem in texas.

[booing] ,ep. barton: when i go to vote the texas voter id law center says i have to provide some sort of identification that i am a citizen of texas. [applause] in most cases, it can be a driver's license, but it does not have to be. it just has to be some sort of government issued photo id. i am a united states congressman. when i shop, i have to prove that i am. when i go through security at dfw, i have to do all that. i don't, i don't, i don't see -- i don't, i don't, i don't agree that,ou on the premise that we have a voting problem in texas. i don't agree with that.

ok. ok. 'all can yell and scream all you want. it's not going to do a lot of good. we've had a good meeting so far. this is the last question, and you had two or three others. no, no, no, sir. you can ask me private. you can ask me in private. >> {indiscernible] rep. barton: there will be other meetings. there will be other meetings, ok. yelling and screaming does not make it happen, folks. >> {indiscernible] rep. barton: we could not have had a fair system on who got to ask questions. [applause] ?ep. barton: you know i am totally indifferent to who gets to ask questions.

i just want to give as many people an opportunity as and i hold myself to the same timeframe that i give so, ok, you so, did. mr. trump's taxes, i got no problem if he wants to release .hem i think that is an issue between the people and him. ok. all right. ok. i want to thank the city of loxahatchee. -- walks a hatchet. if you didn't get your question answered, write it down, turn it in, and we will get you a written answer. thank you all for being here and be safe driving home. god bless you.

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