Says a lot about how his colleagues viewed him and valued his input and counsel. In may two thousand nine, he announced he would run for the United States senate 2009, he announced he would run for the United States senate. He won the november, 2010 general election. Rubio has earned a reputation as an outspoken advocate on issues he believes will streamline the federal government, eliminate the federal debt, and promote job creation. He has called for a number of reforms that he believes will restore the American Dream including reforming Social Security, medicare programs, reserving them for future generations. Making College Affordable for Young Americans and spurning Economic Growth policy. The senator has also been an advocate for updating our nations broken immigration system. An issue for the new england council. As it relates, highly skilled stem workers, science, technology, engineering and math. The council has been very supportive of the immigration innovation. This bipartisan bill, which is cosponsored by new englands own senator blumenthal would increase. It would advocate a portion of those visas to the Stem Education initiative. It is a common sense solution to the shortage of our stem w orkers. I hope and i know we are looking forward to hearing from the senator about his vision for the future of the country. Please join me in welcoming and giving a very long, warm welcome to the honorable senator marco rubio. [applause] thank you. Thank you for having me. From the outset, let me say that any time i see the word new england together it connotes all sorts of horrible memories for me like tom brady beating the dolphins. I know. When is he going to retire . I hope soon. We hope to have a Division Championship once for my kids to see. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you and for all of you having me here today. I told my kids this weekend that i was speaking at an event called politics and eggs breakfast. They said is it called that because they throw the eggs at you . I saw that they were made of wood, and i became very worried. I thank you for the opportunity to be here today at what i think is a critical moment in american history. I will make a proposition to you tonight. The 2016 election has nothing to do with what party we want in office. As much as anything else, 2016 will be a referendum. It will be a referendum on our identity. What kind of country do we want america to be in the 21st century yucca i can tell you what america was in the 20th century, and exceptional one. I have seen it in my life. Imagine being warned in a society where what you are going to be is decided for you. Imagine growing up in a society where no matter how hard you work, how talented you are, how big your dreams are, none of it will matter because you do not come from the right people. Your family is not politically connected. You do not run in those networks. Imagine growing up in a society like that. It is hard for us to imagine. I was born and raised in this country. It is easy for us to take for granted how special this country is. For all of Human History most of the people who have ever lived have lived in a place like that. Two of them were my parents. I parents grew up in a developing country in the 20th century in cuba. My father went to work at nine years of age. He would work for the next 70 years of his life. My mom was one of seven girls raised by a father who was disabled. He was struck with polio as a child. He struggled to provide in an Agrarian Society in the early part of the 20th century. They met and got married in havana. They had big dreams. I mother wanted to be an actress and my father wanted to be a businessman. They felt that no matter how hard they worked, it was difficult if not impossible to succeed. In 1966, they made a decision that change their lives and the course of our family. They came to the United States of america. Life in america was not easy either. Their first few years here were difficult. They struggled. They were discouraged. At times they thought about going back to cuba. Thank god they did not. They persevered. My father found work as a bartender at a hotel. Primarily at miami beach. My mom was a maid a clerk at kmart. My parents were never rich. They never owned more than one car at a time. He did not save enough money to pay for us to go to college. Working as a bartender and a made our parents were able to provide us a safe and stable home. Our parents never make a lot of money, that they fully live the American Dream. The American Dream has nothing to do with how much money you make or how many things you own. The American Dream is about living the kind of life that you want and achieving it. Millions of people have been able to do what my parents did. Fastforward to today. We have millions of people in our country that are starting to doubt whether it is true. They are reading the newspapers saying that the economy is doing better, and on unemployment is down, the stock market is doing great. They are working hard and persevering and living paycheck to paycheck. They are one broken car away from disaster. These are hardworking taxpaying americans who did everything that they were told you need to do to succeed and they are not getting ahead. There is a great concern in this country and a growing perception that we are no longer the place where hard work and perseverance alone is enough to succeed. That is a definitional challenge for us as a nation. It not only hurts our economy it deprives us of what makes us different. It deprives us of what makes us exceptional. Why is it so hard to do in the 21st century what so many did in the 20th . The answer is that the world around us has changed and we have been slow to change with it. We do not live in a National Economy anymore. Globalization israel. There are more people than ever that buy the things that we make and event. There is also more nations that are competing. Many of the jobs that once sustained our workingclass have gone overseas. We have not done a good enough job at replacing them with better jobs. The jobs that once sustained our middle class have one have been replaced by machines. My mother was a cashier. The next time you go to a grocery store, notice how many are machines, that never work. That is a different point. Now i will get a letter from the National Cashier machine association. My point is that automation israel. It has automation is real. It has replaced a lot of the jobs that sustain the working class. There is extraordinary opportunity. We are 5 of the world population. The fact that we can sell to 95 of the rest of the world that can afford to buy the things that we invent, that is going to create better prosperity. It is true that automation has replaced many jobs. Creation and some of this innovation. The first step to solving this challenge is to make america the best economy in the world to invest in and innovate. That is to make our tax code simpler and more affordable. A Regulatory Reform that requires a costbenefit analysis before we fought throw yet another regulation on the job creators. That means bringing under control our National Debt that threatens our longterm viability and security and discourages people from investing in americas future. That means only utilizing our energy resources. It will make it more costeffective to manufacture in america, creating more jobs along the way. That is the first step. We have to be the most globally competitive economy in the world. If i have one fault to criticize my party, it stops there. Often times the republican speech ends with Economic Growth. It is the most important thing we can do. It cannot be the only thing that we do. We have to equip our people with what it takes to succeed in the 21st century. In the 21st century, it takes a higher level of skill acquisition than ever before to achieve the American Dream prosperity that my parents dreamed of. My parents had my parents come to america in 2006 instead of 1966, there is no way they could have lived the life that they did the in a bartender and a maid. My father would have had to become a mechanic or electrician or mechanic or machinist. I mother would have had to become a dental hygienist or a registered nurse. That is the way forward in the 21st century. Those jobs require more education than ever. We have a onesizefitsall Higher Education system. You get a fouryear degree or you get nothing. That is no longer responsive. The solutions that come from the left are to pour more money into the Higher Education system. That will not work. We need a new system. One that graduates more people from High School Ready to work. Ready to go to work as a plumber or mechanic or medical technician. You can teach people to do this when they are 17 or 18. They can graduate making 45,000 a year to start. We need to have a system to help people that are working full time and help a family to get the skills that they need to get a better job. Imagine a single mother raising two children working as a receptionist at a law firm making 12 an hour. The only way she is ever going to get ahead is if she acquires the skills she needs to become a paralegal. Here is the problem. She needs to wake up every morning at 6 00, make her kids breakfast, rush to work, put in eight or nine hours, rush back to pick them up after after terror closes. By the time she is done at 11 00 at night, she is exhausted. She cannot drop all of this and go to school for four or two years. For most americans facing those circumstances, there is no flexible or Affordable Program for them to get ahead. We need to create the conditions for that. We need to stop discriminating in our Financial Aid programs that allow her to get College Credit for what she has already learned. If she has been working for a law firm, i am sure she has learned something that she should get credit for. Let her take courses at night at her own pace. Package that into the equivalent of a degree that allows her to go from a receptionist making 12 an hour to a paralegal making 55,000 a year. That will change her life and her childrens life. I am not saying that the fouryear degree will not matter. It will continue to be a viable choice. We cannot continue to graduate people with fouryear degrees that saddles them with student loan debt. I know about student loan debt. I owed over 100,000. I was only able to pay it off with the proceeds from my book that is now in paperback. [laughter] it is not a joke. You are now paying my childrens loans. All kidding aside we cant continue to do this. Every student, before they take out a student loan, this is how much you can expect to make when you graduate from our School Without degree. You are still allowed to pursue it. You have to understand that the market for greek philosophers are tight. It truly is a free country. Before you saddle yourself with loans, you should know what your job prospects are. Student loans do not just hurt you financially. Student loans keep you from entrepreneurship, they keep you from homeownership. In the realm of empowering people and what it takes to succeed in the 21st century there is something it has always taken, and that is certain values. Hard work, discipline, selfcontrol, respect for others. If you do not have those values, you cannot succeed now or ever. The problem is that no one is born with those values. These values have to be taught and reinforced. You see what a devastating impact that the breakdown of families has had on our economy and society. I cannot pass a law to make somebody a better husband or a better wife. If i could pass a law to make me a better husband, my wife would run for office. We cannot pass a law to make us better parents. I propose the familyfriendly tax code that helps working families with the cost of living. I support school choice. I believe that low income parents have the right to send their kids to the school of their choice. We need to eliminate the marriage penalties that exist in the tax code and in our safety net programs. We have a Record Number of People Living in poverty today. Our poverty programs do not cure poverty. They treat its symptoms. The alleviate the pain of poverty that do nothing to extract them. The best cure for poverty is a good paying job. It should be about people acquiring the skills they need to acquire a good paying job. The federal government will never be able to do that. No onesizefitsall federal program will ever be able to do that. I propose pooling all of the federal Antipoverty Fund to go to the local communities. They can speak to the root causes of poverty in their locations. They are different in different places. Even in my home county. Urban poverty in cities has different causes and solutions than rural poverty in the agricultural areas. If we do these two things, if we empower people with what it takes to succeed in the 21st century with education and strengthening amylase and we make america the rest place in the world to innovate in, the American Dream will not just survived, but it will reach more people than ever before. None of this will be possible if we do not do a third thing. Is to provide for national security. A nation that is not secure cannot be prosperous. There is no one that can argue that we are not more safe than we were five years ago. A simple quick tour around the world points that out. In asia, china is acting aggressively on its territorial claims. They claim to own all sorts of chains of islands that give them control over the south china sea. 50 of Global Commerce goes through there. In latin america after two decades of democratic progress we see democracy eroding in ecuador, venezuela, and to but that has not had it in almost six decades. In europe we see putin challenging the Eastern European border. The war in chechnya. Not only to mention the murder plots carried out in russia and around the world. In the middle east, it has never been more unstable than in recent memory. We have the threat of the Iranian Nuclear program. They continue full steam ahead on that. It is not just enriching uranium. It is the fact that they have already bought a bomb design. Longrange rockets can reach parts of europe and likely our homeland. Al qaeda and boko haram. Radical jihadists that find themselves on multiple continents. The new threat of homegrown extremists including people who have never left the United States that became radicalized online. The threats are real. All of them must be confronted. The question is, what is americas role in confronting these . I do not suggest that america should be involved in every conflict on the planet. In the absence of American Leadership none of these problems can be solved. None of these can be confronted. The absence of American Leadership leaves behind a vacuum. No other nation or institution can leave behind the role we fell. Not the United Nations and certainly not russia and china. No other nation is capable of rallying the peaceloving people other than the United States. When it does not play that role, that is when chaos ensues. You cannot have a safe and prosperous World Without strong American Leadership. You cannot have strong American Leadership without being backed up not just by strong diplomacy but with the Strongest Military power on earth. The rapid decreases in military spending are threatening our ability not just to defend our country, but remaining the Strongest Military power on earth. It makes no sense. Military spending is not the caused of our longterm debt. Because of our debt is Entitlement Programs that are structured in an unsustainable way. I believe in these programs. If these programs go bankrupt they bankrupt our nation. That is the cause of longterm debt. Every time we have radically slashed defense spending, we have had to come back and undo it. At a time when china endeavors to build a 300ship navy and russia is acting aggressively and is increasing their defense spending despite the fact there economy is in shambles, we cannot afford to lose the technological high ground. If we do, the world will be less safe and less prosperous. This is the choice before us. We must decide now, whatever generation before has had to decide. Are we going to do what it takes to keep america exceptional . If we make us the healthiest economy on the planet, empower people with 21st skills, abilities, and values and make america the most powerful on the global stage, then the 21st century will be the most prosperous era we have known. If we fail, we will be the first generation to leave the next generation worse off. That is unacceptable. What me close with this observation. America does not go me anything. Owe me anything. If my parents did not come here in 1966, america was not the nation that was 90 miles off the shore of cuba, i would not be standing here today. I might be a really good bartender or Something Else relate to it in the hotel industry. Or is no way i could have the same dreams or the same future as the son of a president or a millionaire. God blessed me and my family to grow up in the most free and prosperous nation ever. It is a deeply personal story. I often speak at events like this. It is early for a bartender. Who knows what is in those eggs. At many events there is usually a bartender at a portable bar. It reminds me of my father. He worked at events like this for decades. The new years eves he wishes he was us instead of them. The thursday nights he stayed until 2 00 a. M. He was grateful for the job that he had, but that is not what he wanted for us. Why did he do it . Was it to pay the bills . No. He stood behind the bar every day so i could stand behind a podium. The journey from behind the bar to this podium is the essence of the american jury. In this country people can accomplish anything they set their mind to. Do not ever take that for granted. Those of us who have lived that, which is all of us, those of us who have seen that experience in our own lives have a unique and special obligation not just to protect it, but to expand its reach to more people than ever before. Even as i speak to you now there are people trying to make the same journey that my parents made and your parents made. This story is your story too. It is the story of your mother who worked odd jobs so that you could enter school. Your father did everything he could do to ensure that all of the things that he could not do in his life, you could do in years. That is the unifying principle of our nation. The idea that we could lose that is unacceptable and unimaginable. That is what we will do if we continue on the path we are on now. Every nation in the world has rich people. What makes us different is that we have millions and millions of people who have achieved happiness by working hard and persevering. That is the chance before us. That is the unique and exciting opportunity of the 21st century. I thank god every day that i am alive at this time right now. I believe we are on the verge of yet another american century. The American Dream will not just survive, but reach more people than ever before. To do so, we must turn the page. We must be proud of our history and excited for our future. We must understand that the 20th century is over and it is never coming back. We must boldly move forward into a new century with new opportunities. If we do we will do what every generation did before us. Confront the challenges of our time. You and i will leave for our children what every generation of americans before have left, the single most exceptional nation that man has ever known. Thank you for the chance to talk about it today. Thank you. [applause] i know the senator has a tight schedule, but he has been gracious and will stay a few minutes to answer any questions. I think we have some movable mics. If you have questions, please identify yourself, especially if you are a resident of the state. President obama earlier this month submitted a resolution to the United States congress and senate. There were some members of congress that feel as though it limits them too much in the language. There are others that feel that maybe he will use this to commit troops down the road. Will it pass . Will you support it . One is the use of force and one is the strategy for the use of force. The strategy for use of force is something in which congress can exercise oversight during authorizing use of force is a congressional action. They should not intermingle with one another. In the history of the United States, only on two occasions have we authorized use of force with restrictions. I believe the authorization should be that we authorize the president to destroy isis, and then it is up to our commanderinchief and the next one to destroy them. We can conduct oversight on the tactics. There is the reverse of that. You have authorization for use of force that authorizes them to fight for three years. That means that if isis is around after three years, they are there to stay. You just told us, moved to someplace that is not authorized. I think that congress should authorize the use of force to defeat isis. The president should come up with a strategy to achieve that. The combination of american air power and local ground forces. Egyptian ground forces, jordanian ground forces, Turkish Ground forces, durd armed forces the armed forces of the gulf kingdoms. They could send 100,000 from those local countries to confront idsis on the ground and we will provide logistic and air support. I think that is the first step. That is the ideal at this step in this process. I think it is the right one. It is not just about not entangling america in a ground war. I believe those local forces have the best chances of success without triggering any action that we have not into zepeda. Anticipated. A pleasure to be with you and a great presentation. My name is bob. I live here in New Hampshire. Getting to a domestic problem. I noticed in a news article that you are looking at ways to help low income buy prescription drugs, jugs that could go into 100 per month. Would you support the u. S. Negotiating for drugs with pharmaceutical companies . Brand name prescription dru gs, the same way the rest of the western world does. Would you authorize the importation of prescription drugs from other countries . We are always open to other drugs if we can vouch for the safety of the supply chain of those drugs. I think it was well be you to an that was withdrawn from the marketplace not just for being unsafe, but for being an effective. While the Regulatory Framework is often frustrating and overly complicated, at other times it keeps us safe from medications that could harm people. It is ensuring that the chain of custody has not been contaminated along the way. Even in the United States there are many pharmaceutical prescription drugs that people buy on the black market. It is not what they say it is. It is all sorts of things that can be damaging. In the state of florida the Medicaid Program does negotiate with Drug Companies to get the lowest prices to buy in bulk. The biggest challenge comes in the commercial plans. The cost of pharmaceuticals is significant because the research and development that goes into these drugs and the limited patent time a have to make a profit. I only have x number of years to make a profit and that we subsidize the world. They charge American Consumers more than anywhere else on the planet because they can. Once the drugs go generic, he prices stabilize more. Some remain costly. Those are options we are open to. They are not silver bullets for solving this problem. Lenny from boston. First of all, a fantastic presentation. I am glad your folks decided to come across the caribbean. I wanted to bring up an idea that our ceo proposed a number of times. If we are concerned about the shrinking of the labor force and people not participating and we want to have people hired and we are concerned about stagnant wages, why dont we consider some kind of refundable tax break to companies that show from one year to the next that they have grown their fica payroll. The only way you qualify for that is by hiring americans are giving them raises. Nobody intends it, but that tax is effectively a tax on hiring people and giving them raises. Could we rebate to the firms that have created jobs and raises . I will cut you one of the details i have outlined in my book. That is called the wage enhancement credit. He currently have the earned income tax credit. That is on the basis of how many children they have. It is a program that has helped a lot of people. It encourages work, but it has a lot of fraud. The way wage enhancement woodwork is that it would be open to all workers. It would incentivize work. I would rather you be working for 10 an hour and supplementing the difference than having you not working at all and collecting the equivalent of six dollars an hour or five dollars an hour in government benefits. It saves the taxpayer money. When you are out of work for a long period of time, it is hard to reenter the workforce. It stigmatizes you to employers and demoralizes you. There is a lowlevel level of Labor Participation today. We have a large number of people that are not participating in the marketplace. A lot of people will not take the work because if they can take six dollars an hour from the safety program, why would i work for nine dollars per hour . I would rather enhance your income with the replacement from the income tax credit than i would have you sitting at home and not working . There is no such thing as a deadend job. There are jobs that are not where you want to wind up at the end of your life. Every single job that you has has value and merit. You learned skills, you pick up discipline you acquire experience that will be useful to you in the future. I would encourage as many people as possible to enter the workforce. Our Labor Participation is far too low. The longterm implications will be too damaging to the economy. Thank you for being here with us today, senator. I appreciate it very much. You referred to a clean authorization for the use of military force. Why would not Congress Declare War on islamic terrorism included, but not limited to isis al qaeda, and others and wouldnt that resolve some of the problems that we have putting these terrorists on criminal trials . If you are engaged in hostilities, you can do tame them. We do not do that under this president anymore. That is on the legal front. As far as a declaration of war is concerned, we only declare war on nationstates. Isis is not a state and i do not want to elevate them to that. It is an armed insurgency terrorist group. They are not a state and we should not elevate them to that. They want to be recognized as a caliphate. I think we can achieve the same goal without elevating them the way they want to be elevated. They have spent so much money producing these videos. That is why they present spent so much money on the propaganda. It is professionally produced things that you never saw from al qaeda. We are the most successful and inevitable Jihadist Group on the planet. A are desperate for us to elevate them beyond what they really are. They are a significant threat to the world and they need to be destroyed. I fear that declaring war on them by name would elevate them to a status that they desperately want that they do not deserve. An authorization to use force reaches the same legal parameters but without the symbolic victory that isis is trying to achieve. Thank you, senator. I am donna from salem. Thank you for sharing your personal story about the future of the country. The future of our country is in doubt if we continue not to fix the debt. You mentioned the debt, but could you tell me how you will get bipartisan support to deal with entitlement reform, which democrats are trying to preserve. How do we deal with this major threat to our country which is an 18 trillion debt. Lets the quick dash the issue is not how we will deal with the debt. We can wait until we have a debt crisis and have to do so in an extremely disruptive way. The cost of the longterm debt, it is not foreign aid. The way our Entitlement Programs are structured. I support medicare. My mother is on medicare. My mother is on Social Security. When i am talking about these programs, i am talking about for me. Our Social Security and medicare will still be the best thing of the world, but it will be different than our parents. Those were designed at a time when there werent as many as 16 workers for every retiree. Now there are only as three. We need leadership that pushes us in that direction. This president has never invested any Political Capital in reforming those. When paul ryan his proposal to save medicare, the president was responsive, not with a plan of his own, his response was to raise a bunch of money to attack republicans. This issue is going to be. With one way or another area the longer we wait, the more disruptive that reform will be. If we deal with it now, we can reform it in a way that will not impacted people that are retired. That is something we should not allow to have happen. Proposals are out there. Paul ryans proposal comes close to what we actually need for medicare. Social security proposals are out there. The political willingness of what we can do. I have talked about Social Security and medicare reform since i was a candidate in a state that has a very large amount of people on Social Security and medicare. If you can succeed in florida talking about it, you can succeed anywhere. It is demagoguery. Anyone who says they want to leave medicare the way it is forever is in favor of bankruptcy. Anybody who says we do not need to do anything for medicare is in favor of encrypting the program. That is where we are heading. Not 50 years from now, but in a little bit more than a decade. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for coming and speaking with us. You mentioned a couple of things that i think are particularly important that i want you to highlight. First of all, the u. S. Tax code compared to the tax code of other nations, we certainly are in a competitive environment. Corporate tax rate of 37 . Corporate tax rate in asia is typically around 17 . As much as three dollars trillion is captured outside 3 trillion is captured outside the United States and does not come home. It has no place to come to. What do you suggest we do about that . On the corporate front, the vast majority of American Business opportunity is happening on the personal side of your taxes. That includes businesses. The limited partnerships, etc. On the corporate side, that tax rate is too high. We are the highest combined Corporate Tax rate in the world. And needs to be Something Like 25 . Then you talk about repatriation. What that means is that you will only be taxed once wherever the income is generated. If an American Company is generating profit in france they pay french tax. They do not pay it again in america. They will keep it over there. Estimates of upwards of 2 trillion in American Cash is sitting in overseas accounts because of this. 2 trillion is the size of the russian economy. 2 trillion is the size of the italian economy. Much of it would return to the u. S. To expand and hire and create opportunity over here. The territorial taxation would make us more competitive. For too long the attitude of our policy leaders is that it does not matter. We are america. We are america, you have to be here. It is not true anymore. There are many businesses that can be headquartered anywhere. There are examples or versions of that every day. More and more americans are buying Foreign Companies and moving their headquarters abroad to escape the tax companies. Those are the ones that we know about. Not to mention the new businesses that are being opened over there. It all goes back to us being or globally competitive. It would generate more revenue for the government, not through more taxes, but through more taxpayers. It will expand productivity and create new hiring and you will create new taxpayers and the revenue that we need to bring our debt under control. Two more questions. And two more long answers. You spoke clearly about your ideas for Higher Education. I wonder about an Entitlement Program that would train people at the lower levels. A lot of that funding is already in place. It is not available for people to use. A lot of it is a state responsibility. I am not suggesting the u. S. Government takeover the high schools of this country or anything like it. We do need our Senior Leaders in washington to talk about the need for more vocational and training programs. The real role that federal government plays in Higher Education is the payer. If i decide to take a course in Microsoft Outlook from microsoft, i could not use federal Financial Aid for it. If i decide to take that same course from an accredited school, it would pay for it. We can only use Financial Aid for accredited institutions. They are accredited by boards that control the schools. I am not saying that the standards are not good, but that cannot be the only system that we have. I am saying we need an alternative accreditation system. Those already exist with things like udacity that allow you to come forward with your portfolio of learning. I work 10 years at a law firm. That is worth 15 credit hours. They would have to make sure that you picked up some knowledge during that time. If you are deficient in one place or another, and you know the courses you need to take. The problem now, no matter what you need to know, you need to sit through 120 hours of classroom instruction. Many people cannot afford it. I propose an alternative accrediting process. We are having conversations about alternative ways to credentialed people to come into the workforce as costeffectively as possible. One final question. You had mentioned obamacare. Most of your republican colleagues stop at repealing. You mentioned replacing. I think the ultimate and best solution is to allow every american to control their own health care spending. Most americans are insured by their employer. Your employer tells you, this is what your Insurance Plan is. The only choice you get is your primary care physician out of a book. You can accept your employer plan or you can take that money into a Health Savings account or some protected account where that money is now available to you to spend on your own behalf. You can make choices on what to do with that money. You can pay outofpocket for primary care. That makes sense for my 28 euro brotherinlaw who is healthy and single and thinks he is never going to die. He does not really go to the doctor. If he does, it could be something bad. The catastrophic plan for 200 or 300 a month. He puts the rest of way in an account. Alternatively, maybe myself father of four need more coverage. I can take my Health Care Money whether i am selfemployed or it came from my own savings and use it to buy any Health Care Plan that makes sense to me. No matter what state they are located in. I should be able to choose what kind of health care i want. Maybe i want to choose one that has a high copay but less of a premium. Maybe i want to choose this one because it has a Better Network than that one. Once you empower the consumer to control their dollar, the private sector will respond. You control the health care dollars, not your employer and not the government. That competition will drive quality and pricing. That is where i want us to grind up wind up. What does not work is putting the government in charge. The idea of an exchange by itself is not a bad idea. The idea where you can know to a place and shop amongst Different Companies is not bad. What is a bad idea is the mandates and subsidies. Many of these changes are nothing more than a high risk p ool. The people who have signed up are sicker and older. You need a pool that is more sound insurancewise. They have had to raise the dr. Bowles, raise copayments and raise deductibles raise copayments. They thought they were covered. They went to the hospital and they got a bill. I do not have 3000. Then you are not insured. They are having a tough time finding a specialty doctor. There are people saying that i cannot find an oncologist. I cannot find a gynecological oncologist in my coverage area. The only way these companies can control prices is by limiting networks, cutting down on reimbursements for the providers, and increasing your skin in the game. I have been working with paul ryan on outlining. That is where i hope we end up as a country. This week Homeland Security agency is going to run out of money on friday. What are you going to purge your colleagues in the senate to do . Homeland security will continue to function. Border patrol agents and tsa agents and others will not be paid, which will not make flying a pleasant experience. They will be paid once it is open retroactively. It will function. The bigger problem is that the democrats are filibustering the house bill. They do not like something that is in the bill. They refuse for us to begin debate on it. Lets start debating this bill. Stop your filibuster. Lets debate. I believe we should stop the executive action for three reasons. Number one, it is unconstitutional. The president said 22 different times that he did not have the authority for this action. As far as i can tell, the constitution has not been amended in the last two years. I do not know how he acquired the power to do this. Even tax credit. We have not budgeted for it. I think it makes it even more difficult to achieve they sort of Immigration Reform our country needs. The real solution to immigration is a series of pieces of legislation that deals with this issue. This begins with proving to people that we are going to enforce our immigration laws varied the hardest lesson of the last few years is that people are willing to be reasonable about immigration, not until you prove to them that future illegal immigration will be controlled. We have to modernize our immigration system. No nation on earth is as generous on immigration as we are. One Million People permanently emigrate to the United States every year. No other nation is close. It is based on whether you have a Family Member living here, not whether you have a special contribution to make kerry we need to move towards a merit taste system. After you have proven to people that you are enforcing the immigration laws, i think that people are willing to be reasonable on how to deal with somebody who has been here for 15 years and has not otherwise violated our laws and wants to be here. I think people will be reasonable with it. That is the problem that happened because of decisions that were made when i was in high school. People are not prepared to do anything about it until it is proven to them that we will not have another migratory crisis that will put us in the same place 510 years from now. We want to thank the senator for coming by. [applause] thank you very much. I again want to thank the senator for finding time out of his busy him a busy schedule for stopping by for politics and eggs. We think we might see more of him here in the granite state. When he makes an announcement, we hope he makes an announcement at politics and eggs. We look forward to seeing you at a future politics and eggs event. Have a great day and stay warm. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] on the next washington journal retired general wesley clark talks about the strategy against isis and allies. Bishop talks about the latest in funding for the Homeland Security department and talks about border security. With Congress Still looking at a longterm solution for the hs funding, we will look at how the department operates. We will give you an opportunity to weigh in by phone facebook, and twitter. That begins live at 7 00 a. M. Here on cspan. With the Homeland Security department currently funded until friday, the house and senate will continue work for additional funding to avoid a shutdown of the dhs. At 2 00 they will consider two bills, including one providing longterm care for veterans. There will be a motion to go to conference in the house to work out differences about Homeland Security funding. The senate is expected to begin a debate about the president s veto on the keystone pipeline. A two thirds majority would be required. Both the house and senate will be welcoming israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to speak before congress. We will have his live address here on cspan. The Political Landscape has changed with the 114th congress. Not only are there 43 new republicans and 15 new democrats and 12 republicans and 15 democrats in the senate, there is the first africanamerican republican in the house. Keep track of the members of congress using congressional chronicle on cspan. Org. There is lots of useful information including Voting Results on each session of congress. That is on cspan, cspan2 cspan radio and cspan. Org. Coming up next on cspan, our conversation with Baltimore Police commissioner Anthony Bates on q a. That is followed by Prime MinisterDavid Cameron taking questions from the house of commons. And then a recent event with senator markey oh rubio in New Hampshire marco rubio in New Hampshire. This week on q a, Anthony Batts talks about the challenges of policing baltimore, and the u. S. Department of justice coming in to review the practices. He also speaks about baltimores lower crime rates in 2014 and his upcoming initiatives. Brian lamb when did you start