Friday to offer our weekly congregational prayers. Its a great honor to host its a great honor to host our neighbors and guests from our Congressional Districts today for this important discussion with our representative in congress. Please make yourself comfortable. This is our main prayer of all our sanctuary. Note that the doors please forgive us for any shortcomings. Let us know if you need assistance. There will be several volunteers wearing badges like me. Id like to invite our director here at the Islamic Center to welcome our congresswoman. I serve as the religious director here at the Islamic Center of irvine. This is beautiful. Ok. Well, i lost my words. You know, i like your tshirt, stronger than hate. I am from pittsburgh, actually. I would like to welcome all of you here in our humble facility. How many of you are here for the first time . Almost everybody. Well, your dream has come true. We actually invite all of you and will have our annual open please, come and join us and learn a little bit about us. And i say, without further ado, i would like to introduce our representative katie porter. We are so humbled and honored to have the townhall meeting here. Thank you so much, god bless all of you and your family. May you always be a source of love and compassion to everybody. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Thank you, everybody. I want to give huge thanks to the Islamic Center of irvine for hosting this event. This is my third or fourth trip here, this is one of my very favorite venues to have events. And in addition to bringing new people and making new connections in our community, this is also the only event where i dont have to wear uncomfortable shoes. So i am a super fan of the Islamic Center of irvine. I just want to say i hope you will take the offer to come back and visit. I have been really honored to get to work with the folks here. I do a lot of Committee Service and do a lot of Public Events for homelessness, for the environment. To, illy every event i go see the bright blue tshirts of the Islamic Center of irvine as they are out and our community volunteering. So im just delighted to be here today and i thank you for your hospitality. I want to give a special shout out to the Police Department for making sure everyone is safe. Today here today. We have a number of former city officials, particularly our current sitting congresswoman and irvine. Thank you for being here. Congresswoman, i met caps on. Its a habit. Congressman. Aid i say congressman katie porter manytimes the content how for how many of you is this your first town hall with me, tosome if you havent been one before, i run this town hall so that your voices get heard i talk for five minutes and then we will drop. Questions. If we dont get your question, know that we do see all of them and i respond in written form. So you and if i dont get your question today, know that you are being heard. So i want to talk about what we do in congress and what we need to do in congress. ,n terms of what we have done very happy that we have been able to pass important background checks and government prevention bills, but we need to do more. Those bills are sitting in the senate and we need to press of the senate to pass those bills to save lives. [applause] there is nothing partisan about saving lives. Nobody moves to irvine for the nightlife. We moved here for the quality of life and safety. We needed to pass those bills and i am pleased my colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee will go back to washington. Can everyone still hear me . In terms of Financial Services, i serve on the Financial Services committee. I serve on the Financial Services committee, it was my first choice. Wanted toof people get congress to work on credit but what we i did need is capitalism that creates opportunity for every single american family. My exchangeave seen with my now penpal jamie dimon, ceo of j. P. Morgan chase. Chase is a big employer here in the 45th Congressional District and they provide loans to help people and that is important work for but we also need chase to make sure the work theyre doing and the profits they are working our shared with those creating value. The business roundtable, which is the ceo of the nations Largest Corporation came together and announced that corporations have a duty to stakeholders, not just shareholders. That means they treat customers fairly, are you listening to my wells fargo are you listening, wells fargo . That means being fair to suppliers, so that Small Businesses are able to make ends meet. That means taking care of our communities, which i hope will mean a fair tax system in which everybody chips in the collective good. To this a huge step forward and i hope my conversation will help promptness prompt this. I will keep pushing. We need an economy that works for stakeholders including shareholders. Longterm, shareholders win when stakeholders went. Specifically, managers and a bill to mandate the credit reporting agencies maintain reasonable data privacy standards. Right now, they got her all of that data. That needs to change. Also working on hearings on abusive Debt Collection and the student loan crisis. I founded the College Affordability caucus. Plusve 1. 5 trillion dollars in Student Loans and that is a huge problem for the economy. But does not do any good salt Student Loan Debt of yesterday we dont make the Sticker Price of College Affordable tomorrow. Whos working hard in this country should be able to save enough to send their child to at least two years. We have to really pair those two things. We cannot forget the student because we will have the exact same problem, but there are things we can do to make it accountable. Theyre pulling the exact same traits the Mortgage Services paul. Pull. Its the same bag of checks. Tricks. We will make sure our Student Loan Program is solvent, and i mean a rainy day solvent. With what the president is doing, we could be headed towards a tough economic time, if not a recession. It should not be a source of profit. Andation is an investment nobody knows that better than those of us here in Orange County who have come here in part because of the quality education our kids get. Kindergarten all the way through post secondary. So im working on that. Im also doing work in terms of Mental Health. We need to defend the formal care act, and to be clear, it is under attack. But it is also important student knowledge that some of the promises and the Affordable Care act we are struggling to make a reality. One of those is Mental Health parity. Meeting that Mental Health coverage is treated the same as physical health problems. Anyone who is looking their insurance and try to locate a Psychologist Network knows there are not very many, they are not taking the patients, and it is very difficult to get the coverage. Im proud to report to you that we have truly best in the nation services. So i will be thinking about how to report that going forward. I also have a bill on affordable childcare. All of the bills im talking about our bipartisan. They want me closer, so if it squeals, its your fault. All of these bills are bipartisan. Mental health bill i mentioned, working on formal childcare. Who thinks Childcare Costs 5,000 a year . Because it doesnt. What this bill does is it would allow working families to keep more of the money they earn taxfree to pay for child care or senior care. Making choicesbe about whether to stay home with the career or his children. Not based on inability to afford quality child care for. A lot of these bills are bipartisan and there is more to be done. The senate is not moving on this. Mportant legislation including as robert and support in the house for some instances in the house and the senate in some instances. The American People deserve solutions to their problems. If congress had a motto, it might be Something Like solving yesterdays problems tomorrow, maybe. We needed to demonstrate through hard work and forward thinking that we are doing the work the American People need today . Today. We won run for election every two years in the house of representatives and the idea is that it would keep us very connected. Back when congress started, people would go to washington, be there for a year and half them and come back to get reelected. I come back all the time but the ideas that we are connected to our community. Tackling longterm challenges. One of those longterm challenges is our budget deficit which has grown tremendously under president trump. Is makingis deficit sure we are coming up with a fair system of taxation in which every Large Corporation pays its fair share. That has been a problem and has unfortunately gotten worse. The deficit has gotten worse under the president. We need to be working on those issues. I am a leader on trying to change the trump tax law that limits state and local tax deductions. This was a radical change to tax policy and the president has been pretty clear that he did it to be punitive to certain people. And our tax system should never be used for Political Part in strip partisanship. Up and try tond reverse those changes. Those are some of the things im working very hard on. Ive been doing a lot of going into businesses and going into schools and working with the faith community. You have not visited our District Office in irvine, please do. I have several step numbers here, please raise your hand Staff Members here, please raise your hand. We have wonderful staff. We have been able to work on veterans issues. These are hard winds to get a we got a win for a constituent to allow them for being able to see the family they are family. We also got a better and 200,000 in denied benefits and they were facing homelessness until they were able to come to us. So if you are having problems with the federal agency, please call. It is my honor and my job to serve you. With that, i will stop and take questions. This is the executive director, what is your title . The outreach director at the center and i will ask her to draw the questions and hand them to me so im not moving away from the microphone so much. So i will read the questions and then answer. I believe the impeachment of donald trump is a realistic, he must be defeated at the ballot box. Any page and effort will merely play into his hands. Any impeachment effort will really play into his hands. The question is where do i stand on the impeachment of donald trump. Ofi came out in favor impeachment donald trump impeaching donald trump because i believe [applause] american that no especially in democratically elected president , can be about the rule of law. He made a video about this and was one of the first people who flipped a seat to come out on this they said that this might be risky and i said im here to do whats right. He needs substantial evidence that he broke the law, obstruction of justice. Its in the Mueller Report and we ought to hold him accountable. The question asked command says he must be defeated at the about , wein november 2020 absolutely know what the senate is going to do. We need to move forward on his legislative agenda. I am more than capable of donald trump is being held accountable the same time and is doing hard health care,er on gun violence prevention, projection jugs drugs, and all of the questions we are facing. I urge you to take a look at the Mueller Report. I think it is just a to mike problem two mic problem. Is it on . Ok. Ok. Apologies. Ok [laughter] [applause] i do have a license to supervise children. Considering how much this administration uses their power wea bully pulpit, how do raise our power . The answer is democracy. The constitution gave us a choice. [indiscernible] when we read the constitution article one . Article two, the congressional and legislative branch. What we are seeing is the ,resident trying to do things were seeing it with international affairs. We are refusing to put in place duly enacted laws that congress has passed. Democracy. N here is that is really how we will solve is scary, and it is hard. Democracy is like that, but it is also the greatest political system. We held the president accountable for every single one of them. You have the same amount of power as citizen as i did. So vote, vote your values. Learn about the issues. Call my office. To do every thing you can. To stand up. [indiscernible] [applause] [indiscernible] rep. Porter we need to be proactive as a society. Two parts to that, one is about the terrace. The other is the changing nature of job opportunity in this country. You cannot make effective trade policy by tweet. [laughter] [applause] rep. Porter by definition, mr. Trump is about negotiation. It is about doing business together. Is about coming together for a mutually beneficial deal. Though his tariffs that he announced yesterday, or an effective tax on everything american. For many of our Small Businesses, particular here in Southern California come over you a lot of trade with china and asia, it will be devastating. So these, we need to empower our United States trade representative, who is ready for this, a really quite good from official. Really quite good. To do his job. And the president needs to allow people like the trade representative to negotiate. The real trade issues with china around intellectual property, around the enforcement of an environmental standards, around protection of workers. We should be tackling those in a longterm Strategic Alliance that allows us to continue to grow a bilateral, productive relationship with china. The president does not get to order anythingby is country. It is disrespectful to the Business Owners who are working so hard to build a successful business in our community. With regard to the changing nature of jobs, were going to see a transmission of work, with retail, absolutely. The changing nature of work. Were seeing it with the transition from fossil fuels to we need to be making investment in training the workers of tomorrow. Where doing it here in irvine with a strong Public School system, a strong Stem Education program, excellent Affordable Community colleges with a terrific transfer and success rate. An amazing fouryear university in our backyard in uc irvine. So making sure that our educational system is strong and we are finding it is however funding it is how we are going to produce the workforce that is ready to take on the jobs of tomorrow. But we are going to need to stand ready to help people who need to make that transition. So being ready to do that and able to do that is something we need to be thinking about. One of my frustrations is that the twoyear nature being in congress, causes some people to only thing about what they can get done in two years. The biggest problems facing this country, Affordable Housing in order county. In Orange County. A fair tax system. Prescription drug costs. We do not get those into years in two years and were not going to take care of them in two years. So i think about what i can do today and also what we can do for 20 years from now. That is what we have to think developing the nextgeneration workforce. [applause] rep. Porter how do we do with deal with the hate that is growing and dividing our country . Orange county has one of the highest rates of hate crimes in the country. Which is shameful, given that we have one of the most beautifully diverse and successful populations in the country. We should, we live in a place where we should be salivating celebrating each other everyday. [applause] im so proud of the diversity of our community. There are a lot of solutions on hate crimes. Part of it starts with each one of us. Living the kind of values we believe. Speaking up when we hear hate speech. When we see people engaging in hateful or disrespectful acts. Part of it comes with making sure that our department of justice is enforcing the hate crime laws. That people feel empowered to call our police when hate crime occurs. And making sure we elect leaders who model respect for the diversity that makes this country the most beautiful, powerful, and strongest nation in the world. So theres no easy fix to this one either. Some of what we are seeing in terms of hate, was under the surface, and is now coming out. So we have to look this problem squarely in the eye. And we have to be brave enough to say, i do not want to be treated that way. I believe in respect. I respect you. Please respect me. We have to have those kinds of conversations. And we have a wonderful, among other Orange County organization, we are so blessed to have an amazing Interfaith Community that is doing a lot of important work in this regard. Amazing advocates for immigration, for immigrants, trying to make sure that we are recognizing that we are stronger because we respect each others contributions. I wish i had an easy answer for this. I came to the Islamic Center a few months ago, we had a town hall where the children were allowed to ask the questions. Every single question was a story about a hateful act. In irvine. So, we have to look this problem in the eye. It is happening in irvine. Is happening in our Public Schools. Our Police Officers know what is happening. Our faith leaders know it is happening paired our parents know it is happening. It is on all of us. I will not i will lead us much as i can on this. And i will stand up to hate and condemn it. But we are also in one together. Because that hate that is cropping up, it is not just cropping up in congress. It is coming up across our country. And then is manifesting itself in the United States congress. So, we have big work to do on this. But it starts by coming together in a respectful way in places like this, to have conversations. [applause] rep. Porter this is the question, how can we label food grown with oil field wastewater . Can you introduce legislation . Im happy to take this back and think about it. Generally labeling food and making sure that we have a healthy food supply, is something that is really important. So im happy to follow up on this one. I will say one of the things that we talk about having border protections and strong borders, people sometimes ignore the customs aspect. Of what the border and customs Patrol Service does. And we do not want adulterated food, products that will hurt us, coming into our country. So there is an Important Role here both internationally and here, in terms of leading on clean water and clean air and a safe and healthy food for this country. The second question was, how can we get more people to drive electric cars and trucks . The answer here is extend the tax incentives that have been in place. And make sure that owning and driving electric or low emission vehicle, is feasible for people, even in areas with long commutes, like Orange County. So ive introduced legislation along with commerce and harley rouda, the clean corridors act, that would put into place more fueling stations, so people who invest in electric vehicles are able to get throughout our area about knowing they are going to be able to get the charge that they need to continue to get going. We have to make sure that when we work on transportation and we work on infrastructure, this fall, that we are building for the future. We are building the infrastructure that we need 50 years from now. Not the infrastructure that we needed 50 years ago. So that is a big part of the debate we need to be having about transportation and infrastructure. How are you . Ok. Will i commit to placing clear restrictions on the department of Homeland Security funding to avoid reprogramming of funds toward further inhumane practices . We are working hard to hold the department of Homeland Security accountable, including ice and how people are been treated. This is an issue of not just humanity with which we treat each other, but also an issue of where our tax dollars are going, and whose pockets are being lined. And the facts of this kind of inhumane treatment. The bills we have seen come through have not had adequate oversight. I did not like the senate bill that came before me. I wanted the house version paired the house version allowed us to make sure that the money we are authorizing to provide for families on the border is being used in a way that is productive and consistent with our beliefs and our values. And those provisions were not in the bill that ultimately passed the congress. So my colleague veronica escobar, who represent el paso, commerce min ruis, they have been working on bills and making sure that money we spent actually is put toward the border. I think we meet to spend a lot need i think we need to spend a lot more time talking about how to improve the quality of life and people come to the study from guatemala and her doors and el salvador and other places. They have every right to seek asylum and we made that commitment as a part of international law. Many of those families travel here at great risk and great hardship. We need to ask ourselves what we can be doing to improve quality of life and safety and opportunity in those countries. And trump tweeting away foreign aid has only exacerbated the situation. So, i want to see us working not just at the border, but also being a really good partner to our neighbors in central america, to make sure they are thriving and a safe societies where they are. There are real problems with corruption in those governments, real problems with violence. We expert guns to those countries paired our gun with our gun manufacturers. We have a role to play in these countries as well as making sure people who come here are treated humanely and in accordance with international law. The work here, the bills we have site as taxpayers and citizens. There is more to come on this issue. We know our work is not done. [applause] rep. Porter what will you do to prevent toxic chemicals being sprayed by ground up in public places, parks and schools . This is a big issue at our state level. A level as well. We have seen local bands on this. We need a better Scientific Understanding of the longterm effects of exposure to pesticide. For the people who enjoy those parks and the workers. Of not onlyssue protecting those who enjoy the green space but also those who helped create it. I will always defend making policybased science. This has not been easy to do. We have seen the president attempt to roll back clean water act, the clean air and the endangered sees species act at a moment in time when the science tells us we could not be moving forward aggressively enough. The nih and other Public Research institutions make sure we understood the health risks. I support people taking action to make sure we are banning and limiting use of pesticides. One of our biggest opportunities to address the Climate Crisis is to move in partnership with business and agriculture. A lot of people think that what , butns with the climate the things were doing on the Agricultural Committee is doing our part. Natural Wildlife Corridors and protect other kinds of species. The answer is sciencebased policy. We also want people to be locally active. California has led the way on environmental issues. We have leadership in the governors office. I encourage you to speak up and make your voice heard and also to be healthy and safe at school. In our parks and in our public spaces. [applause] questioner this is a about the city council. Says, will you help us find a great part. Our children will be listening. ,his is one of the few issues with all the problems donald trump creates, not my problem. I support a veterans cemetery. I dont think there should be any real debate about that. With ald honor them place of rest in Orange County. We will large veteran population and they need a place to be armed. The question here is how will we allocate our local lands and how will we do this . This is a question for local government to work at. It has been ongoing for a long time. Have a history of trouble making broadly supported political decisions regarding landuse in our area. This will be a challenge. I look forward to try to provide funding at the federal level. This is something that needs to be done. At the local level. The federal government is not in charge of everything. It should not be. Its appropriately in the hands of our local officials. Please state your position on the disposition of dr. And the dreamers, immigrants in Orange County. Should they be u. S. Citizens were gathering cards . We made a promise to dreamers. You may or may not agree with that, but we should be a country of our work. We promised them that if they came forward and identified themselves, got into school and were paying taxes and contributing, that we would provide them with a path to citizenship. That is what we need to do. We needed to keep that promise. [applause] we have a lot of dreamers in our district. They are a diverse group. Theyre coming from all over. And they children represent one of the best and brightest opportunities we have. Support hr six, which was the dream act. That died in the senate. That bill combined two different things. Protection for dreamers, along with addressing the status with temporary protected status. We have the Political Support for dreamers which is a little bit broader. I think we have to take another crack at this in the house and see if we can get the senate to keep up their end of the deal. We live in a community. I have worked at seven or nine universities. I never seen students as hardworking and lovely and delightful as uc irvine students. To have thoseport People Choose to make the right in their country. Thats what we need to do. We need to provide them with certainty. Its not too fair to them or their families. This is a straightforward issue. [applause] rep. Porter are you willing to keep our immigrant community we need to, how . Make sure the department of justice and civil rights is doing its job. Laweed to make sure enforcement is reporting hate crimes when they occur. Making sure immigrants understand it is safe for them to report crimes to Law Enforcement. I had a very difficult conversation with sheriff because we disagree on many things. He told me he would protect and defend anyone who is at risk of a crime or has been harmed by in a crime in our community. We have to hold him accountable to that promise. Inare living in a situation which many immigrants are suffering crimes. Criminals are being allowed to get with things and we will continue that. Its important that each of us feel safe to make that phone call to Law Enforcement and ask for help and reinforcements. Recognizing that our immigrants are is a part of our society. This is a challenge in the trump era. This is continuing to make sure we continue getting funding. This is the same question as before. Dhs fromut restricting reprogramming funding. Brett kavanaugh assaulted dr. Ford and appeared in congress during his cover mission hearing. Is there anything that can be done to investigate into perjury or should we affect the fact he will be on the Supreme Court for decades to come . You should accept the fact he will be on the Supreme Court. One of the things most challenging about our democracy is the burden it puts on each of us to accept the consequences of democracy that we disagree with. When people say, what about honest, a lot of people voted for him. Americans. Our neighbors. Some of them friends, some of our families. We have to address the fact that we will be dealing with brett kavanaugh. Burden ona heavy congress to be passing legislation to protect rights that we cannot count on the court to be a safeguard for in the ways they have in the past. , ourmeans our duty constitutional duty as Congress People on the need for a president not only follows the constitution but cherishes it and lifted up is even more important in this era. [applause] believe we do you are close to having enough support to impeach donald trump . One thing to note here is impeachment, it is a twostep process. Impeachment occurs in the house of representatives. We would vote on articles of impeachment. It would then go to a trial in the senate. With the conviction president be removed. Senatee cannot get the to pass things like background checks that have the support of 90 of republicans, i dont think we will see it happen. That doesnt mean we get to be silent. I have spoken up about them but injustices. Sometimes im not hurt, but you dont need to stay silent. Its important to stand up and speak out if what you are seeing is people who are disobeying the rule of law and engaging in chemical activity or if there is a political battle we can win. There is a different story. To be honest, it is the only time that i got out of bed that something i would vote on would pass the senate, i would have bedsores. We are in this for our fight and values. We are at this because the patriots and we believe in this country. We do what we think is right. Not what we think we should do to be reelected. I must do our best to be the change we want to see when democracy gives us our next opportunity next year. [applause] rep. Porter two questions. One is about Holding Trump accountable. No one is above the law. Second question, what we would be doing about Climate Change. If we fail, nothing else matters. We have enacted permanent funding for the land and Wildlife Trust fund that passed the state in fall. That will help fund preserve land. Hr nine, would set the United States should honor its commitment to the pairs accord. We voted to restore Bears Ears National monument as part of the Antiquities Act to protect the land. We have done some things, but we have not done the big fundamental building blocks. More that lot Congress Needs to be doing. The hard part about this is you have a president who at every opportunity is isolating himself on the climate, rather than partnering with those who want to find solutions. China is by many multiples at stripping us in investment in clean energy. Are they doing it because they love trees . Theyre doing it because they know to be economically strong in the future, they will need to have sustainable energy. We have a select committee on the Climate Crisis my representative in orange serves on that. It had its first meaningful hearings on Climate Change and i dont know when. We dont have two years to spend on a committee. Scientists think we might have as little as 11 years. To make dramatic changes. Before we have seriously irreversible damage. As weill be a huge issue elect our new president. It will require everybody pulling together. The state, local, business, environmentalists, the president , everybody. We need to hold our global partners. This president is isolating us internationally exactly as we face in International Crisis of epic proportions. It. Annot afford we need china to be a partner. Even if we hold them accountable for unfair trade. The answer is, what have we done . Not enough. The answer is not resolutions. Ordeals or words. The the answer is to take pass good legislation. Its to make sure the epa is doing more research, not less. This is going to be tough. A long year for our planet and the people that live on it. We are trying hard in the house to have a discussion and develop a solution so we can move quickly because we cant move quickly enough to get something done we have the Political Forces behind it. [applause] [laughter] rep. Porter this is a question about a particular family and a problem they were having. The family is named. I dont know if the question came from the family, so i will not read it aloud. I will tell you the general thrust. People being separated. What can you do and how can you sadore . Heres one of the realities of immigration. . The executive has a lot of authority over immigration. We try, but our office does not toe the unilateral ability do anything. We make requests and make sure they are acted on. We dont have the ability. I will give you the most poignant examples. We have a constituent, a father of four, a stayathome dad, his dad is a surgical nurse here in Orange County. He has been held in vietnam for one year and a half, not allowed to see his children or have any contact with his family. He was sentenced without any rule of law and said, what can i do . I write letters. I am pressing on this. We have a limited amount we can do on some of these cases. Morew that nothing tears at each one of you than your relationships with your family. Wanting to have loved ones close and to know they are safe. These are excruciatingly difficult cases. We want to try to help. There are limits on what we can do in any individual case as a congresswoman. Need to pass meaningful immigration reforms that create sensible and 21st century immigration. Theres more that we need need to and must do. Its often difficult to have those conversations. The question here is, there are a few Public Services that provide safe, reliable, affordable Public Transit. Are there any longterm goals for Public Transportation for yes. E county . This is where federal, state, county and local cooperation has to occur. It doesnt do any good for me to fight at the federal level and have local government turn its back. Our county should be working on this. Our region needs to work on this. I need some regional people to talk about Public Transit. I met with the Orange County tort association. The total to 30 told me everyone loves toll roads. That was a long meeting for them. We need to keep working on this. This is a big challenge. This is a related question. Andeed to invest in transit Public Transit and infrastructure. We also need to be creating more opportunities for people who want to live close to where they work. Or 90 orre driving 60 two hours to get to work, that is bad for your health. Your taking time away from your family and your enjoyment of life. There are jobs being created in irvine that are important. This is not about transit alone. Its also about housing and creating different models of housing so we can have people live and work close to their communities. Yes, there are longterm plans. Some of them, i disagree with. Moreould be building publicly funded roads. There is no such thing as a free month or a free highway. We have to commit to finding this. Its an opportunity to invest in jobs, infrastructure, opportunity, connecting communities and attracting businesses to Southern California. How many moved to Orange County for the traffic . A lot of people moved here because of the traffic in los angeles. That is how we grew. We now face a big challenges in this regard. If we are going to continue to see this committee attract the best and braces by this, we have to get transit to get people to get to work. I will have to have the hard conversations with the transit authorities and regional people to try to create a Transit System that provides the opportunity for a buddy to get to and from work and school. We have a lot of work to do to make that happen. [inaudible] this is the same question, which is restricting dhs. [inaudible] rep. Porter what do you recommend about that our government does about White Supremacy and terrorism. The House Judiciary Committee will be taking this issue up and looking at whether or not it is appropriate to limit gun ownership for people who have been convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes. We will be having hearings about this. Theill be thinking about cooperation between different brains is of Law Enforcement with regard to domestic terrorism and wait White Supremacy. A renewed energy to take a look at this problem. Its a hard problem to deal with in our country. The Judiciary Committee is coming back to take a look at what we can do quickly so we dont put wives lives at risk. [applause] rep. Porter i was try to end these on an upbeat note. You guys arent cooperating. [inaudible] another upbeat topic. The deficit. Was the president , republicans were concerned about the debt. And now no one talks about this. Everyuld be a concern for single american. Republicans, democrats, voters, is going tonobody benefit from an outofcontrol deficit. We have no foreseeable plan to address it. Made by the president about his tax plan have not come true. If theyed out today they willm in 2020, do nothing about taxes. You dont get a reboot. You passed taxes that blew up our deficit. Politically punished certain states is making it hard for local governments to find the money they need. Taxeed an issue of a fair system that addresses the longterm deficit. We are absolutely backwards. Our debt ballooned. His suggestions about what he will do, we was saw what happened. It hit californians and homeowners hard. It blew up our deficit. Those of us who are opposing trump need to Work Together to start a conversation about what it means to be responsible. That should be an issue we all agree on. We cant do it without a president who admits that his policies have been a part of the problem. [applause] rep. Porter i just want to say thank you again to everyone who was here today. Its a beautiful sunny day. Thank you for coming and asking your questions. Thank you for being respectful. Thank you for being engaged and listening so politely. I look forward to seeing you at other events. Something like 49,000 letters or phone calls the first eight months. You are making your voices heard. We really encourage people to keep reaching out. Stay engaged. We are in this together. Thats how we will move things forward. Thank you all. 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That is followed later in the day by a discussion of the trumpet administration and the state of american democracy. On cspan2 in the morning, the u. S. China trade Business Council reads the result of a recent survey regarding the Business Climate in china and the impact of trade tensions with the u. S. The center for, strategic and International Studies outlines a new report on irregular migration, including refugees and migrants michael. In 1979, a Small Network was with an unusual name b idea. The doors to washington policymaking for all to see, bringing you unfiltered content through congress and beyond. Today, that big idea is more relevant than ever. Online, cspannd is you unfiltered view of government so you can make up your own mind. But he was a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Next, a debate on libertarianism versus conservatism between interns from the Cato Institute and the heritage foundation. Topics include the role of marriage, pornography, and the governments responsibility to restrict and regulate certain drugs like marijuana. Was hour to have debate edited by charles koch. Moderated by charles koch. Thank you all for joining us this evening for the libertarian versus conservative debate. And the student Programs Coordinator at the Cato Institute. Honored to institute tonight, as the heritage interns go head to head with the cato interns to debate is libertarianism or