my primary purpose in being here today is to read the statement of senator robert dole and so i will do that right now. chairman menendez ranking member corker, and members of this committee i urge you to give your support and consent to the convention on the rights for persons with disabilities. while i cannot stand before you in person today i approach you in the strong hope that on your second examination of this important treaty you will again do the right thing and advanced the rights of disabled individuals from the united states and around the world. in so doing i am privileged to join with over 20 veterans organizations, 40 religious groups, more than 700 disability and allied groups, dozens of view on both sides of the senate i'll and many other prominent americans who recognize the imperative of the united states leadership on this issue. a leadership that will be imperiled without the united states ratification of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. when this treaty came before the senate last year it fell just five votes short of passage. in debatin

my primary permits to the purpose in being here today is to read this statement of senator robert dole, someone who was an extraordinary leader in the united states senate. he is someone who was a role model in terms of what it means to be a public service, and we all appreciate that he is inter-american hero with the service that he gave to our country. i am deeply honored to be here. personally support what this committee is doing, the convention and the rights for persons with disabilities i think is very, very important for us to work together to get this passed. and so i look forward to working with the chairman and other members of the committee to do that and to address any concerns that members of the committee may have to read my primary purpose of being here today is to read this statement of senator robert dole, and so i will do that now. chairman menendez, ranking member corker, and members of this committee, i urge you to give your support and consent to the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. while i cannot stand before you in person today to my approac

my primary purpose of being here today is to read the statement of senator robert dole, and so i will do that right now. "chairman menendez, ranking member corker, and members of this committee, i urge you to give your support and consent to the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. while i cannot stand before you in person today, i approach you in the strong hope that on your second examination of this important treaty you will again do the right thing and advance the rights of disabled individuals from the united states and throughout the world. in so doing, i am privileged to join with over 20 veterans organizations, 40 religious groups, more than 700 disability and allied groups, dozens of you on both sides of the senate aisles, and many other prominent americans who recognize the imperative of the united state'' leadership on this issue, a leadership that will be imperiled without the united states' ratification of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. when this treaty came before the senate last year, it fell just five votes short of passage

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as being more liberal than jfk, and robert kennedy campaigning in 1968 in kokomo, indiana, quote: we've got to get away from the welfare system and the idea of the dole. we've got to have jobs instead of welfare. >> still not quite welfare queens. but thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening. hopefully, that's working. so kennedy, of course, had some ambitious health care reform plans that he never was able to enact. could you speak to how his health care reform ideas connect with your argument for him as conservatives? >> sure. so the idea of medicare had been around, and, you know, it was kennedy proposed it. and he did it framed in very, in very conservative language, and i'll find that for ya. it was funny, he also -- this connects to the welfare point where, um, where he said, he proposed this medicare plan as very modest proposal, cut to meet absolutely essential needs. and with sufficient deductible requirements to discourage any malingering or unnecessary overcrowding of our hospitals. this program is not be a program of socialized medicine, it's prepayment of health costs with absolute freedom of choice guaranteed. every person will choose h