Everything happening in washington subscribe now using the qr code or visit cspan. Org connect any time. Today u. S. Surgeon general dr. Murphy will discuss how covid19 has the increased need for Youth Mental Health services watch live on cspan3 30 eastern 3 30 eastern. Or online at cspan. Org. Coming up next, arkansas senator tom cotton has remarks about republican 2022 Health Target he addresses the fbi raid in the maralago and that would be owed epidemic ovulate epidemic and inflation. [applause] but heres the trouble, we are letting the federal issues and frankly, the complete discussing this, if you will, complete with owner he of the Democratic Party in washington dc. We are planning that into our local election and state election. We do not win and lose on what happens in washington. We win and lose on what happened on what we represent. Theres a reason of 400 members of the house of representatives because we can and must and our citizens deserve go door to door and we look them in the eye and we talk not what they are about but what they want to see. Our campaigns are not about us it is about them. It shows that we carry that message to congress and get that stuff done. We had messages in 2020 and the last budget was not easy. I had a lot of people saying governor this is a great budget this will never password never happened. School choice, we talked about it for 40 years youve got to get rid of that thing. And all these tax cuts in dividends tax, you cannot get rid of that. Yes we did. Gone absolutely it is going to. Income tax, sales tax, how are you going to do all of that and cut the room and meals tax . What did it. We did that too. Everything is possible but we didnt not because we got caught up in the political what we see nationally, we did it because we Work Together as a team as republicans. Did i agree with everything in the budget . No. Did not everybody in the house agree with what was in the budget . No. But when you come around 80 or 90 of things that affect peoples lives every day that is what wins. If you take that, and carry that through to november that is what wins. When i mean is this, this election is about Kitchen Table issues. It is about the price hikes. We like to call it inflation but lets call it what it is the democrats have hiked prices in everything on this country and we have to be accountable for it. They have to be accountable accountable for it. It determines whether they go out for dinner you can it is tied across the country. Gas prices are getting a little better but it does not matter. Because the problem in the first place. Do not talk about what is happening nationally talk about how it affects people here. School choice. The brilliance of the School Choice bill was this. We did not try to get everything will choice acrosstheboard because that would not ask. So we focused we it would not pass. So we focused on 300 or below. Families of color, low income, families that were never told what do you want for your kids were finally asked what do you want for your kids . We listened and said you can take this money and do what you please because it is about you not us. Our elections are won by the individual. Treat them as individual businesses, families, kids, it is their issues we are carrying. That is the funnest part of the job. You go out and listen to a story, we are politicians. At the end of the day we do not it does not matter. When you listen and connect to families they get excited and that is what they actually walk away from. We can talk about issues for 20 or 30 seconds then we got to give them three times as much time to tell us what is affecting them. Public safety i hear all the time you see it nationally and there is a lot of fear out there of what is happening nationally about defunding the police and we see what is happening nationally of in big cities and republicans are standing up and pushing back saying we support Law Enforcement every single time. We support making sure that folks can defend themselves and their families and will have a process to do that. Weve been doing it 50 years and it worked really well. I cannot tell you how many governors have come to me saying how are you doing this if you have no taxes . I remind them because it about me. It is not about the government the government is not here to ceballos sawyer problems. Solve your problems. We will keep opening more in more doors. We are always thinking forward. That is how we separate ourselves from the democrats. Making sure we put individuals first. Everything can be one. Do not assume that because washington has screwed up and biden he is going to get lunch before he is getting worse every day. But do not assume that this is going to carry republicans into a wave election in november. You have to earn it. You have to earn every vote a big thank you to all the soccer sponsors and the folks that are sponsoring this. The money is important. You get the best product in the world but if you do not have the money to sell it nobodys going to buy it right . You have to go advertise it. This is not charity these are investments you are making an change in the republican party. They ensure that taxes go down and families investigate in you to ensure that families still have School Option choices for them. But do not forget the core, it matters knocking on doors. These are the kind of things that one on one get signs. This is New Hampshire. We do it here note locally. And that is what the race is at the end of the day. All opportunities are on the table we got to close the deal. We have 75 days until closing the deal. People start paying attention to the primaries the next weeks. We see where that starts out and there is an absolute sprint. We will talk about the federal i love this one, senator hassan has 42 the she has spent 25 million and her Approval Rating is 42 . I hope she spends a hundred Million Dollars on the democrat funding. It is useless. Because the people in the state know when they are getting from senator hassan nothing. Someone who tries to come back inside on tv it could be something that is not real maybe that would flying in 49 other states that this is New Hampshire got to be here and part of the communities and she has done nothing but do not take it for granted. We still have to have the right candidate to win on the federal and eight side. And by right, i mean people and that engage with the public and their neighbors and dissent and carry the message forward. I am very hope will and always positive you know that. Is that when i go in this and but it all works out. I also honor today of introducing somebody i am a big fan of arkansas. Issa and i get on he said i get along very well we have a little competition and it is friendly competition but arkansas is doing very well. Theres a lot of excitement down there with what they are doing the steel and production and factories coming in down there. Arkansas is not exactly like New Hampshire but we share a lot of similarities but senator cotton is not thinking about 2024 he is thinking about 2022 none of that matters if we do not close the deal in 22. None of that matters at all. We have folks like senator cotton being able to come up here and talk about what is in New Hampshire and help our candidates get over the finish line in november. And we have someone here that supports the nation crime rate. There are democrats that the nation primary. Absolutely blowing it. But not the republicans. This is real campaigning. This is about the individual. This is not about the money markets or that kind of stuff. We need help financially we like to get people to come and but the person you have here is to go. I am talking to you cspan and cnn i dont know who is in this room, but it is critical. I will remind you of something. In 2022 i think they are still counting the copies votes in iowa at this point they had ipads and it was a complete mess. The whole country looked at New Hampshire and said is the primary thing working anymore . People lost faith in the whole assess and republicans got together, myself, one of my will gardner, and we got this thing right. No questions asked and we did. On the first of the nation primary night we counted the votes and got the winter and try to or in the country that joe biden came in fifth. We tried to warn everybody that he was not not up to the task. [applause] sen. Cotton thank you all so much. Thank you for the kind introduction. It speaks very well for New Hampshire whenever your democrats know that joe biden is no better than a fifth place finisher. Its great to be back here. As the governor said, we have a lot in common for your state and our state. One thing we have in common is this kind of weather, and midaugust. In midaugust. I am so grateful that you all came out today, for the republican party. Thank you so much, for what you are doing for the party. Youve been a great chairman. Thank you for your leadership at the party as well. As the governor said, this is a critical election, a key time. Not everyone understands just how important it is pure would have got to confess, my little fiveyearold son, daniel, he was not so enthusiastic about me leaving yesterday, he latched onto my leg and said, daddy, please dont go, i said ive got to go work, he said, cant someone else beat the democrats . [laughter] and i said, there are lots of people who can beat the democrats, but it takes all of us working together to beat the democrats. And in New Hampshire, in particular, since you are still in the primary phase, we all have to Work Together right now, what you are doing teddy is making sure that all of our great candidates whether its the nominee that beat maggie, for your state legislature, for your local races are going to be in a strong position to Carry Forward our banner in a month here in the granite state. Which is once again the center of the universe. Your Senate Election can make a difference, whether we are in the majority in the senate or not, the races can make the difference whether the house is in republican hands are not. Whether we begun to hold the democrats accountable for some of the outrageous abuses that we have seen in recent years. A lot of you are deeply concerned about what happened last week with the rate at maralago. By the department of justice. That we had a lot more questions then we have answers right now. That what they have done so far has not justified the actions taken in our history. But the concerns go much broader than that. It breaches our fundamental liberties and the right of all of us to be protected under the laws, with evenhanded enforcement, irrespective of our politics. Just look at what else Merrick Garland has done in his 18 months in office. You may remember last october he stick to feds on parents of School Boards across america because they didnt like their schools masking policy or curriculum choices, the most classic example of local government at the grassroots level. And Merrick Garland likens most parents to domestic terrorists, suggesting some of the same legal tools that we used against al qaeda and i says we should do use against them. Or a few months ago when you had leftwing agitators protesting outside of the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices. This is not something that is a question of legality. It is a clear violation of federal law. To go protest at the home of a judge to try to influence the outcome of a pending case. There is not a single arrest at any time. Not a single arrest. It ended with a lunatic flying to california to washington to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh to try to change the outcome of that case. The fbi director, by my committee, was asked, where are the arrests . They are committing a crime on tv. You dont have to be a master detective to figure it out. All you have to go is go arrest them, they said they had higher priorities. Speaking of double standards, speaking of crimes committed, it seems like hunter biden cannot help himself but record himself every time he commits one of his numerous felonies. But where was the Democratic Party in 2020 . I know where they were. They were colluding with big tech, trying to suppress that evidence. And russian disinformation. Trying to keep it out of our political debate at a time when it shouldve been the centerpiece of the debate. With whom the father, it appears, was in business with him in the u. S. Or consider some of the other examples of unfair, uneven enforcement of our laws. Look what happens in the obama administration. Remember when lois lerner and the irs saved their agents on conservative grassroots organizations . Who wanted to advocate for conservative principles . Auditing them, denying them their nonprofit status. Why do you think maggie voted to give the irs 80 billion last week . That money is going to fund 87,000 new irs agents. Who do you think they are going to be auditing . Hunter biden . Or hardworking granite staters . Small businesses . People trying to grow their businesses and help their communities . Families like many of yours. Thats what they are going to be doing. Thats why they gave the irs more money than the entire budget of our marine corps. Ive got to tell you, i would much rather have 87,000 new marines than i would 87,000 new irs bureaucrats. [applause] so, it is not just about the way they enforce the law against republicans and conservatives. It is also how they dont enforce the law out in the streets across our country. Remember, the blm riots from a couple of summits ago summers ago . Mostly peaceful protests . As people stood in front of burning buildings . The bidengarland department of justice has brought almost no charges against those rioters and arsonists, people who were attacking federal courthouses and other federal buildings, who were laying siege to them and attacking federal lawenforcement officers, like the deputy marshals that were defending those courthouses. Democrats excuse it. Look at what they do at local levels. The elect radical prosecutors, who refuse to enforce the law. Sometimes, the locals wise up to it. In san francisco, of all places, they just recalled one of these radical prosecutors. Someone who was one of the first prosecutors funded by george soros to try to take over Law Enforcement in america. What happens in a lot of other places as well, like los angeles, and chicago, and philadelphia, and in boston. A woman named Rachel Wallace again who cared more about criminals than she cared about their victims, what did they do with rachel . Rollins . Rachael rollins . They made her the first prosecutor that got elevated to higher office, the u. S. Attorney for the state of massachusetts. And who voted for her . Maggie hassan. It is undisputed fact that crime and drugs is directly linked to gangs running out of massachusetts. And even though this was a major debate in the u. S. Senate, we almost never vote on u. S. Attorney nominees. In fact, its been decades since he had since we have voted on one. I insisted this time we had a recorded vote on Rachael Rollins a nomination. Because every democrat needs to be on the record whether they are a federal prosecutor, who refuses to enforce laws that she doesnt like, refuses to impose sentences that are required by the law, and that is exactly what maggie h. Voted for. But you see it all across america. Excusing criminals, thinking that really there are no criminals, there are two victims of every crime, the actual victim and then theres the criminal who was a victim of society or circumstances or what have you. Releasing felons from prison early. Not arresting them in the first place. Eliminating bail systems so they can turn around and commit more felonies. To intimidate the witnesses of their crimes. You see it in the drug trade all across america. With a tragic tool for so many families. Here in the granite state, you have had hundreds diet of opioids every year, year after year. In america for several years, its been over 100,000 Overdose Deaths every year. Think about that. More than 100,000 deaths. That is almost twice what we lost in the entire vietnam war. Every year, after year, after year. And the democrats do nothing about it. In fact, they make the problem worse, by opening our border and creating the worst crisis we have ever had on our southern border. Now, i was going to say here, i know you are not a border state, what you already border state, with canada, but you know what . Whenever we have 100,000 Overdose Deaths every year, every state is a border state, and every town is a border town. And you deserve better from your government than what we are getting on the southern border right now. [applause] the vast majority of illegal aliens crossing our southern border are coming here because they think they can get in. This is not speculation. I know this. I have been there. I have talked to them. You asked them why they are here, its not because they are being persecuted because of their religion or political views, americas always accepted refugees like that, it is because they want to get a better job. Ive asked them, why did you come . I want to get a better job, they say, i can get in no. Or most simply, joe biden. Thats why they were wearing shirts that said biden, let me in, the obliged and let them in, but in that huge influx of foreign nationals, there is also a large number of gang members, cartel members, and the drugs they bring with them. It almost all comes from mexico today, we have it in our power to stop it, not just by defending our border, but also cracking down on these criminals and these cartels. And frankly, on taking the fight to them in mexico. Ask yourself, what would you do, if you thought isis or al qaeda was setting up shop in tijuana or monterey . What would you do if you thought they had designs to kill 100 1000 of our fellow 100,000 of our fellow citizens every year from the outposts . I would say that whatever that is, that is exactly what we should do with these cartels. We should put them out of business in mexico, dead or alive, to protect our citizens. [applause] but, you know what . Unfortunately, im joe biden the democrats, crime is not the only thing surging in our country, prices are surging across america as well. As a governor talked about, it is bad here in New Hampshire and arkansas. A lot of you are enjoying the nice hot dogs that we had served earlier. I was talking to a grocer a couple of months ago and arkansas and he said they saw a sharp decline in the month of june of hotdog buns and a sharp increase in the sale of white bread. Why is that . Because families were getting ready for the fourth of july, they had to make the choice, and they could have paid three dollars for a pack of eight hotdog buns when they could substitute a three dollar pack of white bread. About families struggling that much to make ends meet think about families struggling that much to make ends meet. What they are going to do on the fourth of july. About the small enjoyments in the small luxuries that you may remember from being a child, that you hope for your children and your grandchildren. Families struggling to make ends meet at the end of the month, because of the price of gas, the price of food. Looking ahead to the winter and wondering if they will be able to keep their homes warm aroundtheclock. Wondering what they will have to forgo for their kids, whether it is a piano lesson, braces for the kids, that is the kind of stress that biden and the democrats have put on our families. And it is their fault. It is solely their fault. Joe biden wants to blame everyone else in the world for inflation, when it is only his fault. In march of 2021, when the economy was finally opened and back, even in democratic states, they spent 2 trillion more. Even democrats, like larry summers, bill clinton, the secretary of the treasury, admits it was 2 trillion of whistle spending that caused this inflation. They said at the time. We said at that time. In the democrats ignored us. Because they put their ideology ahead of your families interests. Joe biden blends a pandemic. He blames everyone. We had a pandemic for a year without inflation. He blames putins price hike. We had inflation before putin launched his war of aggression on ukraine. It is the democrats and their radical tax and spending bills that caused this inflation. And the only way to stop it is to pick the democrats out of office. Kick the democrats out of office. But what have they done . [applause] what have they done now . Theyve gone on a spending binge the last two months. I would say they are spending like drunken sailors, but i dont want to insult drunken sailors. Maggie h. Just cast the deciding vote for 700 billion a 700 tax and spend bill for irs agents are going to come harass you at your workplace. For all kinds of tax credits to buy electric vehicles for rich people. In reality, they are not electric vehicles, as you probably know, they are coal powered vehicles. Or maybe Nuclear Powered vehicles or Something Else that plugs into, because it does not just come out of the air. They spent billions and billions of dollars on a bill that they called a china competitiveness bill, when in reality it was just giveaways to most of their supporters and most of their friends and allies. It is only going to fuel more inflation. And the only way to stop it is to stop the democrats from being in charge of the agenda in washington. Finally, i will say one last thing that we need of why we need to be the democrats this fall, like i said with china, it is time that we elect republicans so that we can beat china once and for all, in this competition they launched against us, stealing our jobs, our factories, threatening our friends, now threatening even senior officeholders of the u. S. Of the United States of america. Its not very often that nancy pelosi is the tough one in the Democratic Party. But look at what happened just last month when she announced she was going to travel to taiwan. Joe biden was worried about some kind of work, even though senators and congressmen, republican senator markets alike for years have been traveling to taiwan. It is not unusual. What was unusual as you had the chinese communists threatening to shoot her plane out of the sky. Or attacked taiwan while she was there. And joe biden put pressure on her not to go. Kowtowing to the chinese communists. In the exact same way that he has been doing for decades. It didnt start last january. Hes been doing it for decades. His son only got in on the action when he was vice president. Joe biden has been appeasing and coddling the chinese communists since he was a senator. He did it as vice president. Now he is doing as president. All of that money the Democratic Party just spent on the socalled green energy . A lot of it is going to go straight to china. All those coal powered cars, the 8000 pound batteries . A lot of of those components are only made only made in china. The tens of billions of dollars of handouts . Two universities and companies to universities and companies that can engage in advanced manufacturing, research, and technology . Almost no safeguards that it will be done in china or it will not be stolen by china. A report out today just said that Bidens Administration has approved almost every single transfer, license for technology to china since it took office. It should be the reverse. It should be almost all of them are denied. Almost none of them are granted. But he doesnt take this threat seriously, the Democratic Party doesnt take this threat seriously. They never have and they never will. And if we want to stand up to china, if we want to protect our jobs and our factories, if we want to protect our freedom and our safety, we have to elect republicans to turn the tide in washington. I know these are all big asks, i know theres a lot to do. As the governor said, talking about how fiscally conservative maggie is when she spends trillions of dollars in one year but as he also said, she has not moved at all. In the same thing could be true if you are to members of congress as well. Even when it seems like it is toughest, we can still turn it around, if we act together. It would tell my fiveyearold son as i told him, yes, other people can beat the democrats, but will have to do it together. I just want to leave you with one final story from my time in the army that is hopefully an inspiration as we go forward towards november. People used to ask me, why the flag on our uniform blew backwards. The flag is reversed. The bluefield is on the right, not the left. I see some of you nodding your heads, if you are a veteran you may know these things. It harkens back to the age of cavalry charges, one someone would carry the colors on horseback, as a charge into enemy lines. If you are standing on the right side of the formation, you would see the flag flying in reverse as it went in the wind. Even though we long ago got off our horses and got into tanks, we still have that heritage on our soldiers uniform as a reminder that our army never retreats, it always advances. And at a time when it can seem like america is under assault, and conservatives, and our view and our way of life is under attack, that is an important lesson for us to go forward with. We will never retreat. 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