mr. hays.s: thank you steve barnes and the panelists good to be with you on behalf of my family, certainly the campaign that we waged today three weeks and one day the voters will be going to the polls. one week from today early voting begins. and let me add about today i would like to ask everyone to join me in helping me sing happy birthday to my middle granddaughter isabella who turns 10 today. harper my grandson turned six five days ago and one year ago what happened in the honor of their birthday of course and i'm being a little facetious, the government shutdown. 16 days, nothing happened in washington and as i fought back in what we did at city hall for compromises that we made and how we worked across party lines how we didn't really care how we solve the problem other than dealing with the problem in making sure the last of the people that live in north little rock and certainly arkansas were made better was the top of our priority. the kinds of things that were going on in washington

mr. patrick hays. hays: it is incredible we aren't in favor of freezing, talking about the arkansas minimum-wage, there appears to be growing for the ballot, the vast majority of arkansas voters support raising the minimum wage to $6.25 an hour over a three year period we go to $8.50 and there is a young lady on this campus last week that said she had a 40 hour week job and still couldn't make ends meet trying to go to college. that is less than $1,000 a month before taxes in terms of what arkansas's minimum wage, one of the lowest in the country if not the second lowest. i support raising the minimum wage. i signed a petition to do that. i think is an incredible travesty for people to work full time and still be considered in poverty. it is hard for me to understand where my two opponents are coming from. it helps the economy. it helps put people to -- give them the ability to be able to earn a middleweight and be able to take care of their families. and $6.25, maybe they can provide for their familie

mr. hays we have to secure the borders. no question. but i also believe that the same time that the to do with the guest worker program there are numerous examples of fighting in the field because we don't have enough workers to do the hardest. there are things we need to do. yet they are committed to find away for the immigration program if we could just get out of the way to sit down but we care about our problems that need to be dealt with in the future of the country is relying on. and to come up with the reasonable and administrative approach to dealing with the administrative with those issues to deal was the economy they can be done jointly. it is a to sighted approach in a bipartisan way. hill: it is one of the issues that split is our party's. president obama in my judgment has not been a leader here. into focus on the security of the border the humanitarian crisis with the american mexican importer and by a encouraging to take the risk in the breaks my heart to see those kids. it is a humanitarian crisis. in securing the borde

mr. wagner, help you all, border patrol, to secure the southern board r and eliminated illegal entry. >> travel is coming across southern border like northern border. we'll ask travel history, where they are coming from, how hay arrived in the country there. >> yes or no was sufficient. i need to move on. i want to come back to remind you that a week before last at the cdc, and i thank you for letting me come down to follow up with you on committee work, that i recommended a quarantine in the affected region and hold people there, and i think that is something that he we should consider. quarantine people for 21 days before they leave that region. that helps every country. going back to an issue you and i talk about at the subs convince phone call, and that is the medical waste. you assured me standard protocols were being followed for disposal of the waste and know that 25 years ago, hospitals could incinerate their waste. epa regular nations now prohibit that, and the waste has to be trucked and they outsource the care of this waste and results in that going to central processes centers. i have to ask you this, is ebola waste as contagious as a patient with ebola? >> ebola waste or waste from ebola patients