the truth is, america goes in, america gets out. we don't want to own anyone else's real estate. our foreign-policy can be summed up in two phrases -- trade with us and don't bomb us. that is it. [applause] there are all kinds of criticisms to be made in america. i will be happy to make them as will the next guy. but i think taking the global perspective, taking the perspective of history and the comparative perspective, i end up with the words of jean kirkpatrick who said, sometimes we have to face the truth about ourselves, no matter how pleasant it is. thank you very much. [applause] >> so many straw men set up, it is hard to know where to begin. no one said that america is the most terrible place. there are a couple of assertions you have to take on faith that are astonishing. one is the idea that america's great invention was wealth creation, not based on fact at all. what about the theft of the entire continent? that was a theft. it does not mean -- [applause] 90% of the residents who lived here were murdered, and that was a part of it as well. i will go back to the questio

give america a raise. give them a raise. there are steps we can take to help families make ends meet. fewer are more effected than the earned income tax credit. right now, it helps about half of all parents at some point. think about that. it helps about half of all parents in america at some point in their lives. but i agree with republicans like senator rubio that it doesn't do enough for single workers who don't have kids. let's do more to help americans get ahead. let's help americans save for retirement. today, most americans don't have a pension. social security check often isn't enough on its own. and while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who have 401k's. tomorrow i will direct the treasury to create a new way to elp americans start. myira. new savings bond to encourage folks to build a new nest egg. no risk of losing what you put in. if this congress wants to help with me, work with me and fix an upside down tax code that helps the wealthy saveb. offer every american acc

in america again. now, the choice we face is just as stark when it comes to our national security. hillary!y! clinton: anyone reading the news can see the threats and turbulence we face, from baghdad and kabul, to nice and paris and brussels, to san bernardino and orlando, we're dealing with determined enemies that must be defeated. so it's no wonder people are anxious and looking for reassurance, looking for steady leadership, wanting a leader who understands we are stronger when we work with our allies around the world and care for our veterans here at home. keeping our nation safe and honoring the people who do it will be my highest priority. i'm proud that we put a lid on iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. now we have to enforce it, and we must keep supporting israel's security. i'm proud that we shaped a global climate agreement. now we have to hold every country accountable to their commitments, including ourselves. and i'm proud to stand by our allies in nato against any threat

a strong america is a safe america. [applause] mr. pataki: ronald reagan proved that peace through strength is more than a slogan. peace through strength is a policy that works. weakness, equivocation, and false promises lead only to chaos, brutality, and war. the world is a better place when america is strong, and a champion of liberty and freedom. [applause] mr. pataki: allies and friends of america must know that our word is our bond. we will stand with our ally israel. a democracy on the front lines of terror and barbarism. we will stand with our allies in nato and the free baltic states against a resurgent russia. we will make sure the number one sponsor of state terror in the world, iran, never has a nuclear weapon. [applause] mr. pataki: we will provide whatever aid is necessary to those already fighting isis on the ground, to stop their barbarism and inhumanity. and yes, if necessary, american forces will be used to defeat and destroy isis so they can pose no threat to us here. [applause] mr. pataki: we will not spend a trilli

you defend america and america will defend you. [applause] thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] but that promise has been broken by our politicians like so many other promises our country has made. not only to its veterans, but to its citizens as a whole. president obama has allowed our veterans affairs, health care, all systems, really denied them the help and the support and really have to do it, we have to get on the ball, we have to do it right. hillary clinton recently said of the v.a. scandal that it's not been as widespread as it's been made out to be. that's a quote. she actually thinks that veterans health administration is well run. that's because she's been part of this rigged system for a long time. perhaps it's easy for politicians to lose touch with reality when they're being paid millions of dollars to read off a teleprompter speeches to wall street executives instead of spending time with real people in real pain. [applause] the disconnect -- thank you. [applause] the disconnect in america is deep. there are two americas; the ruli

we have 5% of the worlds population here in america. we neither to be millions of people on this pleasant -- planet who can afford to buy what we make in the services we offer. you cannot have global prosperity without american leadership, because you can have stability without american leadership. the united nations can't do it. china won't do it. russia can't do it. there's only one nation capable of routing the freedom loving people of this planet to confront evil. the lessons of history are that the evil is confronted and defeated or it grows and spreads. look around the world today. it is in chaos. every region of this planet. from asia, where china is building islands to stake out it's in legitimate claims in the south china sea, to latin america, where these spread of anti-americanism and erosion of democracy, in europe, where vladimir putin is trying to rewrite the cold war, to the middle east, where after 3800 years of instability it is more unstable than ever but the threat of radical jihadist groups. and iran is moving for th

america grow again. [applause] in the days ahead, we will provide more details on this you,and how it will help and most importantly, your families. it will present a knife and a taxrast to the job killing raising, poverty-inducing, obama -clinton agenda. [applause] so important, the state of new already lived through leadership.led -- soshington post important, the state of new york has artie lived through hillary pledged 200,000 jobs for upstate new york when she was a senator. what happened? writes and in post quote, upstate job growth stagnated overall during her tenure with manufacturing jobs plunging to record-setting force was --y 25% nearly 25%. she was unable to pass big-ticket legislation. many promised jobs. vote for jobs, she will bring back jobs. many promised jobs never materialized and others migrated to other states. she turned her first presidential run, which also was a disaster. [applause] thank you. then it shows that upstate actually lost jobs, a lot of them, during her first term. s

but if you love america, which we all do, it is a moral obligation. we can not let the forces of darkness, the hard-right oligarchs cause that torch to flicker by paralyzing government and paralyzeing america. but if we work hard, if we work hard and elect hillary, if we work hard and take back a democratic senate, if we work hard and take back a democratic house, you can be sure, you can bet on the fact that we will change things around. we will get government once again as an engine to help the middle class and those trying to be middle class and that torch, which i look at, out my window every morning, will burn brightly once begin. thank you, god bless you, god bless new york and god bless the united states of america! [applause] >> okay. now -- [applause] a leader after lidgetive body -- of a legislative body can't do anything unless they have really good people, unless there are really good people in that body, and one of my jobs as one of the leaders in the senate to try to get the best possible people to run for the senate and win. we want the

america is not safer. since secretary clinton took charge of our nation's diplomacy, we abandoned american leadership in the world, forgotten that america is an exceptional country and lost faith in america's ability to influence world events. the results speak for themselves. hillary clinton to appease vladimir putin with the reset button. sensing weakness, he has rejoined the map of europe with loaded guns. he is dismembering ukraine, trying to destroy nato, and threatening to use nuclear weapons. hillary clinton a pivot to asia that proved hollow, and she downplayed china's abysmal human rights records. this is the result -- the chinese are aggressively expanding their territories, building islands of military .ases in the south china sea paging conducts massive cyber attacks against the united states, stealing classified military data, sealing the personal information of millions of americans, and stealing billions of dollars in intellectual property. sadly, there is more. , hillary clinton pushed for

just about anyone in america. just about anyone in america. local governments do not have the money to fix the hundreds of potholes that exist all over america and the federal government is doing absolutely nothing for its part to help cities and states fix the roads and bridges. we have crumbling roads and ,ridges that are not safe although people are still traveling on them. we have the worst infrastructure anybody can remember. we built the interstate system. our interstate system is falling apart. local roads are one big pothole. bridges are falling down. this is not the america that helped build the economy that we have had in the past. foxx said, earlier in may, he was talking about this. [video clip] >> i would like to be here celebrating the work that is happening around our country and reinvigorate our nation's networks. unfortunately, this may be the the americanoment transportation system has faced in decades. the highwayugust, trust fund, the account that pays for repairing and building our roads will

this is not the america we should be. i heard from one worker who said, i was so sick i did not go into work at a fast food restaurant. call me nutty. he nutty. he told me he got to work the next day and his employer said, you are fired unless you bring in a doctors note. he said how can said, how can i bring in a doctors note if i cannot afford to go to a dr.? not my words. a union organizer making $9 an hour. why can't i get access to medicare? if you were a governor you would. talk to your governor. why do people wake up everyday thinking that that might candle we will shine brighter. that is not who we are as a nation and why we need to keep moving forward and working on raising the minimum wage. you should not have to when the geographic lottery ticket a fair wage. this president will relentlessly work to increase the minimum wage because there is no dignity and working a 40 hour work week and going to a food pantry to get your food. we will continue to work overtime to put in place and overtime regulation. they were

i have heard enough speeches in america. i want i want some real leadership to change america. [laughter] [applause]. their battles going on in the city right now. an important one. defund planned parenthood. [applause]. when i hear people act as if we could just defund planned parenthood we could just pat ourselves on the back. i'm just going to remind you something, for 42 years, we have lived under the notion that it is a human right and privilege to take the lives of an unborn child. here's what i would like to propose, if we do something far bolder than simply cut out the funding for one agency that provides abortion because as important as that is, it doesn't and the nightmare, it does not and this horrible uncivilized savage behavior, it just moves it over to let someone else do it. it is why i have said, that as president of the united states i will raise this question, is the unborn child a person, or is it just a blob of tissue? i i believe with all my heart, the answer without that question, we all know, is, is a person. none of your daughters and daughters-in-law [a

we need jobs in america. i'm going to vote against this and if i do and if it's the wrong vote, i'm going to be voting with the people that i represent, the people who sent me here, the people who have said, represent us. they want a no vote. i vote no because i represent them. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr.tiberi: thank you mr.speaker. i now yield one minute to the gentleman from nebraska, mr. smith, a leader on trade, a member of the ways and means and trade subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska is recognized for one minute. mr.smith: mr.speaker, i rise today in support of the trade act of 2015. we have the opportunity to remove major trade barriers which make it harder to sell u.s. products to consumers in other countries. to grow our economy, we must expand our access to 96% of consumers outside the united states. nebraska's producers, farmers ranchers and others want to serve new markets, and this bill is an important step forward. a n

senator rubio: but i think his america -- that i think america is great. and i want to do what my parents did for me. -- talkingsk you about immigration, trump finally putting out a paper. what are your thoughts on his plan? senator rubio: i have not read his plan. there are a couple ideas he shares with multiple people. i have not a -- i have not had a chance to read his plan. we need to start by enforcing immigration laws. once we do that, we need to modernize, so the people we allowed to come in come in on marriage of building a . and then we have to deal with the reality that we have 13 million emigrants, many of whom have been here longer than 10 years. if there are criminals, they can't stay. lesson from our efforts over the years. >> you were here last night, writing the rise with your family. you are a young senator. a lot of iowans tell me they relate to you. that is why i was so focused on student loan debt. alternative educational plans. that is why we want to increase the child tax credit. that is why we want to cut the burden on small business

and america will remain the greatest country on earth. thank you, everybody, god bless you. ♪ >> today on c-span, washington journal is live with your tweets and facebook comments. later, live president obama holding a town hall in baton rouge, louisiana. and congressional leaders hold a press conference at their party retreat in baltimore. matthew lee of the associated press in 45 minutes on the implementation of the iran nuclear deal. then president obama's economic record with the economic policy institute and george mason university. and bloomberg reporter amin sayed in michigan's water supply and aging water infrastructure in other u.s. cities. do you think the tone on immiio

a strong america, a strong military helps make for a peaceful america, a prosperous america. so we need to take the needed reforms to make sure that these critical retirement programs are there, not only intact for people in the near retirement, but there for those of us who are younger when we hope to retire. we need to get our spenting under control so we cannle balance our budget and pay off debt. we need to commact pro-growth reforms to create -- enact pro-growth reforms to create jobs today. and yielding myself 15 seconds to say, instead of growing government spending at 5.2%, we are proposing to go to 3.5% over the next 10 years. hardly draconian. with that, mr. speaker -- mr. chairman, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from wisconsin reserves his time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. chairman. some things do not improve with age, and we are here one day later in this republican budget -- and this republican budget is just as bad for the country today as it was yesterday. our republican colleagues are going to have to

that is true in latin america. that a true in europe, lot of this fear, the choice that was posed by prime minister lee between independence and self-sufficiency that is not achievable and ultimately rivalry and conflict, those who opt for rivalry are folks who are looking backwards. he talked to people around the world -- you talk to young people around the world a understand that interdependence is the way we will assure peace and prosperity for all of us for years to come. and so that may leave the thing -- that may be the thing that has the most lasting aspect. in a town hall meetings i have had, i suspect our future business leaders that will do great things, and i am glad to be able to be a small part of that. thank you. thank youster lee: very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] prime minister lee went to the state department for lunch. he will be

it is a stain on america's honor. [inaudible] >> the justice department has already said you're going to decline the process -- [inaudible] to our colleagues of yours,

from central america. from the state department and justice department officials along with immigration advocates. bob menendez chairs the senate foreign relations committee. >> good morning. this hearing will come to order. we are here today because we have a humanitarian crisis on our southern border, now a refugee crisis which i would argue rick virus an emergency response -- argue requires an emergency response. just as important that we address this refugee crisis in my view, it is equally important that we don't rush to change our stripn a way that would the children of their rights to due process. in dealing with this crisis, it is imperative that we understand its root causes and why it is not about america ring out a welcome mat. effortbout a desperate by desperate parents to do it any parent would do to protect their child from violence and the threat of death. we have with us to panels of experts who will help us fully understand the factors that have driven nearly 60,000 unaccompanied children

america doesn't owe me anything but i have a debt to america that i will never be able to repay. in may of 1956, my parents arrived here in search of a better life. they had little money no connection. quite frankly barely spoke the language and had a very limited education. less than four decades later all four of their children live the lives and dreams that my parents once had for themselves. for me america isn't just a country. it's the place that changed the history of my family. it's a nation of equal opportunity. the most powerful force for good that the oral has ever known. this is the america that changed the oral. this is the america that you and i are now called to leave behind. and so inspired by the memory of who we have been and are. let's move forward to seize our dest. the sing greatest nation man has known. thank you for having me. god bless you. thank you. thank you. thank you. >> give it up for senator marco rubio. good morning cpac. how are y'all doing? i can't hear you [applause.] >> by the way, if some of you aren't feeling well this morning, you were up lat

safe, to keep america safe. that's the key. that's the key to what the cia and intelligence agencies are all about. the president also asked that i go after bin laden. at that time, the trail was pretty cold. we had a team at langley responsible for the mission and i asked for weekly updates. fall 2009, we learned how difficult it would be in the struggle to try to find bin laden and his leadership. we had a lead on number two, al-zawahiri. we had an asset and we were going to meet along the afghanistan-pakistan border. we were going to meet with him, a doctor who said he could lead us to al-zawahiri. on december 30, that asset arrived at the base and just after getting out of the car, within 30 feet, the asset detonated an explosive vest with ball bearings that tore through the compound and through the agents that were there. he was a double agent and had lured our officers into a deadly trap. it killed seven agents. i met the caskets when they arrived at dover air base. it was a bitterly cold january day and w

the president's plan last year, which he called the grow america act and we say grow america act 2 is $478 billion. that's a lot of money and we put that into the surface transportation. i was thinking about as you were talking about the surface transportation mr. tonko over there and about the new amtrak bill that just passed out of our committee, it calls for a lot of investment for amtrak on the northeast corridor so you can go from washington, d.c. to your home up on the hudson river. there is a rail line that goes up there. mr. tonko: certainly is. mr. garamendi: they call for a big investment there. one of the things we think should be in this bill and is in the bill is a very strong buy america provision. this is a loco motive for the electric line from washington, d.c. to boston. and this locomotive is 100% made. it is made in sacramento, california by a german company, who looked at the american recovery act and there was $700 million in there to build these locomotives and they looked at that and said $700 billion, make it in america, we can do that and they are doing it. an

the kind, i hope, we all hope, america will always have. the kind of leader who always does what he believes is the right thing, the right thing for his country. he puts his country first. so does buck mckeon. so does buck mckeon. as an army grandparent buck has always fought hard to provide or service members and families with the resources and support they need and deserve, and after nearly 20 years on the house armedded services committee he has been among congress' strongest advocates to ensure our military has the capabilities to meet the complex and challenging threats it faces today and will face in the fewer. like carl levin, this retiring member of congress just returned from a trip to israel, jordan, egypt, and morocco. and like carl levin, he is demonstrating his absolute commitment to our country and our military right to the end of his career. over the past year and a half that i've been secretary of defense, i've counted on buck'sed a series, his honest--- -- buck's advice, honest, is insights and his friendship. he is a man o

they believed in america. without a trace of cynicism, they transmitted the central promise of this country on to me to promise that every generation will lead the next one -- leave the next one a little better off than the one before. this is a compact that every generation of americans have made with the one that followed it, and through civil wars and depressions and world wars and strife, we have always made good on it. but as i have traveled through kentucky over the past year, i have since doubts. surenly folks are not so that that compact will survive if we continue down the road that we have been on. they are hungry for new leadership. they want a reason to be hopeful. above all, they want some reassurance that people that run the government are actually on their side. [cheers and applause] so tonight, i pledge you this, whether you are a coal miner in eastern kentucky who cannot find work or a mom who does not understand why the government just took her family's health insurance, i have heard your con

these are america's values. day. values play out every these values are what we are willing to fight for. i want to hear a good strong amen out there. are we willing to do that caps that means raising the minimum wage. we believe people should retire thata committee him and means strengthening social security and we are willing to fight for it. [applause] we believe a kid should have a chance to go to college without getting crushed by debt, and we are willing to fight for it. rightieve workers have a andome together to bargain rebuild america's class. and we are willing to fight for it. inbelieve and can't believe equal pay for equal work. and we're willing to fight for it. [applause] equal believe equal means and that is true in the work lace and in marriage. it is true for all of our families. and we are willing to fight for it. [applause] this is how i see it, we the people decide the future of the country. are our shared values and these are the values we are willing to fight for. this is our moment in history.

of america's future. i know you are going to have a wonderful rest of the conference. thank you for letting me spend a few minutes here with you today. \[cheers and applause] \[cheers and applause] good morning. i'm michael mccaul. chairman of the house humanitarian committee. let me first acknowledge and give our condolences to the victims this last sunday. as we all know last sunday was the deadliest attack on the homeland since 9/11. today, at 3:00 in the capitol visitor's center, i'll be moderating a classified briefing with the f.b.i. director comey. secretary jeh johnson and nctc director rasmussen. we will be pressing the administration for answers as to what happened, to find out what happened and to see what we can do in the future to prevent a situation like that from happening in the future. boston, fort hood, chattanooga, san bernardino and now this event. the homeland is under attack and the highest threat environments i've seen since 9/11. let me just say that the suspect, the orlando shoote

[applause] america did not have been religious freedom amended america. president john adams in 1798 road to the massachusetts militia meant to remind them that our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. it is wholly inadequate to the government than any other unit in 1798, this is simple, commonsense. in 2014, were forced to confront a question that would have been on thinkable to president adams and many others throughout history. what happens when our government decides it no longer needs a moral and religious people? today the american people are mired in a silent war. it is a war against the propositions on the declaration of independence. it is a war against the spirit that motivated abolitionism. it is a war against the soul of countless acts of charity. it is a work as a conscience that drives social change. there is the war against the heart that binds our neighborhood together. it is a war against america's best self and best moments. it is a war. a silent war against religious liberty. this war has been waged in our sports

half of america wants to know the truth. half of america is in denial. and they're fighting each other instead of looking at the enemy who wants to destroy us. this is not healthy. so what with have we done since 9/11? we have hired muslim brotherhood sympathizers in our government. we didn't hire muslims who are rebelling. we are hiring in the white house and homeland security in several of our top government, he's a senior homeland security official. e he tweeted something after egypt had its counterrevolution. and remember this is a man who is a leader in america. he represents america. the muslim brotherhood against the people who took the brotherhood out and he was against the more secular government, and i'm not saying military is good but they are the only ones that can stand up to the tyrants. the only people in an islamic state who can stand up to the regi regime, the only one regime that can stand up to them and it's the military. and this man was the people who took out the muslim brotherhood and he was critical of the christian minority in eg

keep america safe at home. defeat the terrorists. advance america's interest of broad. renew our national security tools. policy steps that we will take to put this into action. that means securing our borders, stopping terror attacks, taking the fight enemy,orism to the developing 21st century military, and strengthening law enforcement tools. it pains expanding america's influence, which means expanding free enterprise and the community of free nations. that is what will restore confidence. that is what we pledge to do. this is what we are seeking with our policies. i'm so proud of the work of our members have put into this. this is just the second part of our six part legend of which we will be unveiling over the next few weeks. you want to learn more about this check of go to our website. .etter.gop with that, i would like to get the conversation started. thank you. [applause] >> joining us now, michael that. and rocco this is a controversial time, and you have talked about the intelligence sharing problems we have. how was this a trend that the you are putting out

it's morning in america. it was morning in america and i was there and worked with ronald reagan to see this country reach new heights, new strengths, new optimism. it didn't happen overnight but it happened. and america's confidence, america's spirit and our american strength was restored because of ronald reagan and i was there to see it. i was there when ronald reagan was able to sit down with tip o'neill and be able to strengthening -- strengthen our social security program. everybody says well, they were great friends. they weren't great friends. they were a couple of irishmen who liked to have a drink. nothing unusual about that. but they decided that they were americans before they were anything else and that program was in so much trouble. they didn't fix it forever because we're going to have to fix it again but they worked together to get it done. you know, i went to the soviet union as a member of the defense committee. i believe it was in early -- might have been early 1989. i met these russian ge

in other words, it gives america

to create an america where there is truly liberty justice for us all. final thoughts, the great barbara jordan once said, " the gap between the promise and the reality of america can one day be finally close." we believe that. barbara jordan grew up amidst some of the harshest segregation in our country. denied everything from the use of a water fountain to admission to her state university. but she never stop believing that we can make the promise of america reality. to begin the first african american in the texas senate since the days of reconstruction, the first african-american from texas ever sent to congress. and there, she fought for voting rights. for human rights, what was right. one of her various bills was to strengthen prairie view and&m. which happened to be the school where sandra bland was to work. she never made it to work. on july 10. barbara jordan was fond of saying, that when it came to justice, people who are right must do battle with people who have the might. and barbara jordan passed away, not yet even 60 years old, the headline

the beginning of big changes in the world in america. and i just want to tell people out there just to be -- don't be blind sheeps. do your own research and find out what's really going on biguse i believe it's all a mockery. that's my opinion. host: to ramon, naples, florida, good morning. on our democrats line. caller: good morning. viva christ our king. i am catholic. i am proud to be an american. i just want to say that the pope -- everybody, we are children of god. what is beautiful about this country, you have this line they have democrats, republican, independents. even though we are not chill plil, we can exercise our choices. be in the street and say we love the country. it host: let you go there. you're breaking up a little bit. sorry. to kentucky on the republican line, rodney. aller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i would like to say jesus christ our king, this is not about the pope being here. even though i honor him being here. this is about the love that we are supposed to show as christians. this is about love

america just wants to take your oil. america is supporting despots to feed their consumerism. what we don't tell, or don't highlight. and i wish we would, is what america really is about. in covering isis, and you look at the number of people that islamic state beheaded or killed, we saw the journalists. it was easy for the leaders of isis to tell the muslim world these guys are spies, so they deserve to be beheaded. but there was a young woman from arizona, who went there, probably against the advice of her parents, to help the people of syria and they killed her. that is something that is an aspect of america i would like to advertise to the rest of the world. to see how many american volunteers are there across the world, selflessly trying to help people in turmoil? how much money do we spend? you know a lot of americans will think that would be boasting this and that but that is america. that is, something about america that local people know. and that is the story that we don't tell them. when we have a confrontation within america about the situation of the gay the black

do you want to save america? they need to hear you all the way to the green rooms of msnbc and all the way over to the white house. will you stand with us to defend your freedom with all of your heart? are you proud of your individual liberty and ready to fight like --to keep it? the nra to restore our american values. never ever back down and always put all of your heart together as americans. let stand and fight for freedom. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome donald trump, chairman and president of the trump organization. >> thank you very, very much. there is no teleprompter. we do not have teleprompters. how many of these people are using teleprompters? they said almost all of them, so we cannot do that. i just left trump national in miami. a great place. millionpent $250 rebuilding it and making it the best resort in the country. i felt harder woods morning, ernie ells, and -- i just saw tiger woods this morning, ernie els, and phil mickelson. they said where a

this is what america is. this is who we are, helping our neighbors in the west, helping a country fighting for its survival, and also helping our own country dealing with the crisis in central america facing our border. mr. president, i think it's time that we pass this legislation, move forward, and come back and deal with the crisis there and also at the same time take a good look at immigration reform and do it in the way i think we can do it. so, mr. president, how much time do i have left? the presiding officer: the senator has 10 seconds remaining. ms. mikulski: with that i really urge the adoption of this bill and hope that we can move forward as a united, bipartisan congress, and i yield the floor and yield back what time i might have. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: mr. president, this is a $2.7 billion bill, all money borrowed. as a result of a crisis that the president has created at the border, money this country does not have and there's zero policy changes in it. m

that's kind of like the america way. that was kind of the american way to see catholic charities learning from the baptists, all concentrating on the welfare of children, knowing that these are all children in god's eyes with human beings, with dignity and then i talked to the legal services people. this goes to those lawyers, the law professors, the law students, university of texas austin, st. mary's college, their services that they were providing was on their own time and their own dime. they were using up their money, their summer time, there was no compensation even for expenses so that they could begin the interview process to determine if any of these children had the right -- had the opportunity to maybe voluntarily return home, because it was clear the coyotes had misled many, that's true, and so on. well, they were doing that. well, we can't keep doing this on this emergency patchwork basis. we need the urgent supplemental, number one, to help the homeland security law enforcement be them, help health and huma

we are going to finally rebuild america. we are going to revitalize america. unite america. we are going to come together as a people. imagine what our country can accomplish if we started working together as one people, under one god, saluting one american flag. [chanting "usa"] we will makegether america wealthy again. we will make america strong again. we will make america safe again, and we will make america, like your cap, we will make america great again. thank you, everybody. god bless you. god bless you. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ you can't always get what you want ♪ ♪ >> coming up in about 20 minutes or so, at 5:45 eastern, hillary clinton is campaigning in akron, ohio. we will have live coverage here on c-span. with mike pence running for vice president, three challengers buying to become the next governor of indiana. we'll bring you the debate among the three candidates, democrat john greg, the republican, and the libertarian, that's coming up at 7:00 eastern. ahead of tuesday's vice presidential debate, we will take a look act at the cand

well, let's make those products in america again. and let's agree to fight climate change, which donald trump calls a chinese hoax. honestly, you know, you heard all the republicans when they were running. part of the reason the republicans have ended up with donald trump is because they could never criticize him about issues because they basically agree with him about issues, right? so when the republicans were asked, well, what do you think about climate change, they always said, oh, i don't know, i'm not a scientist. well, they can go to san jose state and find a scientist and figure out all about climate change. one of the ways we're going to combat climate change is by investing in and creating jobs in clean, renewable energy. i have set two big goals. i want us to deploy a half billion more solar panels by the end of my first term. and enough clean energy to power every home in america by the end of my second term. that will not only put the united states in the lead on dealing with climate change, but it will also create a new

from their point of view should actually come from america. that's the 2nd amendment we considered. but this special-interest project, the keystone xl canadian owned pipeline is going to continue to be the number one dominant issue in the united states senate for days to come. republicans planned to do everything they can to help build the pipeline but they denied want to deny millions of americans access to health care. that's what the house republicans came up with. they want to come up with a plan that will literally take away the coverage of health care from americans. is there anyone in this country that thinks that's the right thing for future? we are trying to reduce the number of uninsured. the republicans say the affordable care act would increase the number of uninsured and increase the number of americans dependent on government sponsored health care. it doesn't sound like a republican idea to me but it is. that's what's coming from the house of representatives. to clear difference in how to help working families. for the senate rep

they started that thing about buy america. the patriotic results of the american consumer -- if you are close in price and quality, if you go educate the american consumer, they will go out of their way to buy american for the reason you are talking about. i remember one specific segment. there was a nail manufacturing company, and a small business that may have had 10 or 12 employees manufacturing nails. they ran a segment and they went back a year later and had 200 workers now. the other thing that can and should be done is more of our corporate giants need to help the way walmart is done. walmart is said we will spend $50 billion over 10 years to buy america, to re-shore american manufacturing. if you have been making toys, ride-around cars, in china, you bring that back, we will give you a seven-year contract. you have a built-in buyer of your manufactured item in wal-mart if you make them in america. we have got to have the re-shoring of some of this manufacturing. we need to do all the things everybody talks about. we ne

policy towards latin america. human to prioritize development. local ent in schools and infrastructure and jobs. change the approach to security. unfortunately every since 9/11 we've taken this radical towards security that s it.itize so we need a system that is more equitable and prioritizes people over free trade and mobility of goods. i'll leave it there. i can kind of talk about what is the ground a little questions.f you have in terms of what they're doing of onally i can also sort answer to that as well as internationally. there.l leave it i don't want to go over my time. >> thank you very much, christina. rich base for discussion. specific t ask a very mentioned stion you the fact that a large number of the children are joining to tives here or they want parents.atives here, first, who is making the for the migration. in other words, is it their here or it is their parents there. is it their relatives. who is doing it? it is themselves or older kids. sense of any good that? anuel, you're exempt from that question. secondly, people making t

president, one american is diagnosed with alzheimer's every 67 seconds in america. one out of every five dollars spent in the medicare system is spent for those suffering from alzheimer's and dementia. the numbers are growing. the cost is growing. the research is imperative. and if we can find a way to delay the onset of alzheimer's, treat it, cure it, for goodness sakes, it not only will spare human suffering, but it will save our budget. so is medical research well spent? of course. and yet, in past years, we've shortchanged it, in the name of budget relief. well, this is a moment where we can keep our promise to the n.i.h. and to the c.d.c. and many other agencies that are responsible for key medical research. thanks to bipartisan support -- and i want to especially note the senator from missouri, roy blunt, as well as the senator from washington, patty murray, we are going to see an increase in funding in the senate bill this year for n.i.h. if the senate number continues, and i hope that it does. but it shouldn't come at the expense of other programs like the c

ismuch of what north america -- the trade in north america is about the coproduction of manufacturing. i think it is important to reflect on what is happening right now the world of manufacturing. we talked about that today already about the changing nature of the global trade in architecture and how that demands that we update nafta. there are changes in the way that we are manufacturing products, in technological advances that demand that we rethink an update nafta. i mean advanced manufacturing, the industry's use of manufacturing in the production cycle. what that means is that of is what arehe pie the different costs? most skilled labor is shaking. we don't need as much skilled labor to create products and more. what is the implication of that? everything else in the pie is more important. if the companies trying to decide where to locate their manufacturing, where to locate their plant, it becomes more important with all the other factors of production. the first of those is energy. where in a great moment in north america with energy. energy is an important input into manufactu

i say america the best bet. america is the gold senator. if you send me to the united every senate i will fight day for u.s. workers. >> thank you. we'll move on. your question. >> the most recent gallup poll approval ongress 20%.ng at with 76% of people disapproving of the job congress is doing. holds a seat in congress so what specifically ill due to improve the trust that people need to have in their lawmakers and what will working prove relationships in the senate? sen. kirk: i would serve as the between the house and senate. would say, i sat for a lot of times thinking about my job and representing the state. if i could analogize, the senate like one big national corral, to give you an analogy, filled 50 different wagons. one named after each state. each wagon is pulled by two horses. wagon is pulled by a horse named kirk and a horse named durban. durban horses are always nipping at each out the illinois wagon won't go very far. insist that i have a good relationship with durban and built that relationship so we a good policy going for

america is changing. reporter: excuse me. senator: when you ask such a question, you are basically saying, why bother. you have had all these other problems. that's not what leaders do. they just don't hide because you may not win the vote. you keep doing it. i'll give you one statistic. in california since the 1990's, we have passed a number of important gun safety laws and over that period of time, we have had a reduction in gun violence of 56%. now clearly what we see is, this is not enough. that's why we need national laws and i look forward to senator feinstein's re-introduction of ome form of her assault weapon ban. sensible gun laws work and we have proven it in california. if you look at the great fights over decades on major social sues, on major, you know anti-pollution years. they take 10, 20 years, you don't give up. reporter: republicans when they had in the minority had some successes with their pet projects trying to dismantle abortion rights. do you have anything to learn from republicans to pursue your gun ag

i know where i want to lead america. i want to lead america to a better day. i know you can't lead by dividing. a lot of politics as people try to put people in groups and pit one group of people against another. you can't achieve what's right for america by dividing people up into camps. i'm a uniter, not a divider. and i know people want to follow someone who sees a brighter day, a sunnier day for america, and i do. it's a huge honor to be with you here today. i'm excited to be involved on day one for what's going to be an incredible journey for laura and me. [ applause ] >> i'd be glad to answer any questions you got. [ inaudible ] >> i support it. >> first amendment and the freedom of speech! >> you're exercising it. [ applause ] >> let somebody else have a chance. we're not exercising free speech anymore. i te i'll tell you a story about my mother. he brought up my mother. we went to -- right after i got elected, we went to fredricksburg, texas. i say "we." there was 30,000 people there. and it was a day to say thanks to the world war ii heroes, the men a

america if it wasn't for america , america save the world. if you think about open-air inner third time. america is working to save the world. go back to world war ii. america stood between totalitarianism and freedom and freedom loving countries. it stood between communism and the free world and now the war on terrorism. we have allies don't get me wrong but it's america taking the lead. where would this world be? where would your beloved european countries be if it hadn't been for america not once, not twice but three times an hour in the bucknell can see your. many of them are our allies but many of them are trading liberty for security. we are a young dynamic running country and we must not make that trade-off. i had a professor at around the told me this and i will leave it does. he was a professor and he said the you're too smart not to be a socialist. [laughter] i said ashley you are too smart not to be her publicans they left it at that. he said fair enough i will he be alone. i want to thank you for having me and i urge you to get "l

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in the other state we call america. not just in the state of mississippi or the south, but around the world. follow the way of peace. follow the way of love. follow the way of nonviolence. bloodied,en, left unconscious. inoncussion on the bridge selma. i am not better, i am not hostile. i believe we can redeem the soul of america and create the beloved community. i tell you one story. it is not about me, it is that you. when i was growing up, i was in alabama, 50 miles from montgomery. i had an aunt. she lived in what we call a shotgun house. at ole miss -- here in the state of mississippi, here in the american south, you have never seen a shotgun house. you don't even know what i'm talking about. she did not have a green, manicured lawn. the lot is beautiful here.. she had a dirt yard. you old shotgun house, could look up at night through the roof, the tin roof, and count the stars. when it rained, we got a pail to catch the rainwater. from time to time, she would walk out into the woods and put these branches together