Transcripts For CSPAN Texas Senate Debate 20141030

Dr. Alameel and all of you the choices that lie ahead and the opportunities that lie ahead to pursue the American Dream once again. Mr. Cornynen, your time is up. Dr. Alameel. Thank you. A young man, i started my career in gas stations. My wife and i struggled many years to make ends meet. I used my g. I. Bill after serving in the army to go to college. We have been able to achieve the American Dream because the education i received was practically free and our economy was the envy of the world, but today that American Dream is out of reach for most American Families because wall street has taken over washington by spending billions of dollars a year to buy the whole Republican Party and a group called wall street democrats and over the last 35 years they shipped all of our manufacturing jobs overseas and put trillions of our dollars into safe havens and nearly destroyed the middle class. John cornyn is one of the leaders of that establishment. His policies have left our country broke and without jobs. He is turning our country into a minimum wage nation, and we say enough is enough. We want to send john cornyn to an early retirement and see how he survives on minimum wage. Friends, i know how to build business and create jobs. I know the value of hard work and educational opportunities. I know how the move our country forward and i will be honored to serve as your next u. S. Senator. Were going to move forward with the first question and Angel Pedrero will ask that question. Thank you, wendy. Good evening, dr. Alameel and senator cornyn. The first question is to senator corning. Officials released some to immigrants who have faced charges such as kidnapping, sexual assault, drugs, trafficking and homicide. If you will be reelected what l be your priority getting Immigration Reform or finding additional funding to capture and send back to the countries the criminals that were released . I am a strong supporter of Immigration Reform because i believe there is no one, regardless of their position on this sometimes contentious issue who believes that our immigration system is working the way it should. I support an immigration system that reflects our values and also protects our interests as a nation. Right now, our system is one of chaos. Largely controlled by the criminal organizations that get rich off of ferrying people in and out of our country. These are the same people who traffic in drugs and traffic in human beings and basically their business is misery, human misery. We need to restore our immigration system to a legal one, because we are the most generous country in the world. We naturalize almost 1 Million People a year. We need to shut down cartels of n misery and restore the question is for you actually. Now that those releases by customs and immigrations fors are known, immigrants who have some criminal background, if you elected as a senator, what would you do to event this type of error from happening again . Of course although i am a very supporter of Immigration Reform, it is for people who are hard working and lawabiding. People who commit crimes should be deported immediately and sent back to their country. And i dont believe that we should tolerate any criminal activity or any people who commit a criminal act. But most of the at linos here who are undocumented are people who have been here for many, many years. People who are very hard working. God fearing. Pro family. These people, some who have been here many, many years, are married and have children and grandchildren and i believe they deserve a path to citizenship and i believe that they deserve the same path to the American Dream as every other community and i will fight with tooth and nail to let them have that. Fromd now next question is ms. Hernandez. This question goes for both. The immigration and nanlt act allows for the United States to allow 175,000 visas each year. Do you believe increasing the amount of visas each year will benefit the country and if so, how many visas would you be willing to approve for this program . As was decided on the coin toss, mr. Cornyn will answer first. We shouldnt set a hard cap on the number of visas. It depends frankly on how well our economy is doing. If it is doing well and we have full employment for american citizens then we could look at a more flexible cap that would reflect the demand for legal workforce here in the United States. But we do have, as i said earlier, an immigration system, that does not protect our national interests. We educate at colleges like Mountain View college and other colleges across the country, people who have skills and taments that we need in the s that states sh talent we need in the United States. About half of our engineering students are foreign born and it makes no sense whatsoever given the demand we have in our country for these highly skilled individuals to send them back to their country of origin because we put some sort of artificial cap on that. Of course we need to increase but that will never take care of our Latino Community. We have 11 million undocumented workers who have been here more many, many years. Immigration reform should give them permanencey. We need that now. Cornyn would take us 100 years to give us the relief our latinos deserve. This question goes to senator cornyn. According to the new york times, about 200,000 parents of children who are american citizens were deported between 2010 and 2012. In foster care because their are in foster care because their mother or foffer were deported. What would you do if you were one of of them . We know that the people come to the United States for opportunities and for the American Dream that we already spoke about before. What ive always said is we need a nobody storrs the status quo on our im supports the status quo of our immigration system. I dont think anybody is happy with it. The issue is how do we find some consensus. The way we do that is to find a way to break this down into smaller pieces, because frankly there is so much distrust in washington, d. C. These days, it is hard to pass a comprehensive bill that does everything. As we have seen the delay, i think makes my point. If we had been able to do it, we would have already done it. I introduced a comprehensive Immigration Reform bill in 2005 with senator jon kyl of arizona but like all of the other comprehensive bills, they have not gone anywhere. Lets find parts of it that we agree on. The children who came with their parents. Your time is up, sir. If mr. Alameel doesnt want a rebuttal were moving on to the next question. I do. It is inhuman to separate kids from their parents. Thats why Immigration Reform is needed as of yesterday. As of last year. As of 10 years ago. The only way to solve this problem is to stop deportation and keep these Families Together until we figure out exactly what Immigration Reform is going to look like. Next question, pedro rojas. Dr. Alameel, as a veteran of the u. S. Army, are you in favor of the deployment of the Texas National guard to the texas mexico border and if so, why . I think it is a joke. We need to secure our border for many reasons, but it is not the National Guard who should take care of our border. Federal government. Texans should not have the cost of securing our border. It will not take very long they start figures out our southern border is wide open for terrorists to come in. I believe it needs to be secured. What rick perry did is just a political ploy. It is not going to work. They dont have any authority to arrest anybody. They dont have authority to do anything. I think it is time for our federal government to take care of our border. Given the fact that the president refused to visit the Rio Grande Valley during this crisis, my visits down there showed that the patrol officials were overwhelmed by the flood of unaccompanied children, 62,000 2,000 alone. One man we asked and he was border in ned at the squalid conditions. I asked him how old he was, he said he was 13. I asked him where his parents were. He said they are dead. That young man could qualify for an immigration vis nay the United States if he was able to visa in the United States if he was able to appear before a judge and make that claim. I work for a democrat in texas to try to offer a bipartisan citizen for this little piece of this broken immigration system. We could not get a vote from the majority leader senator reid in the United States senate. That is not a way to solve the problem. Senator cornyn, you have supported student loan reform. Do your future education policies include advocating for the federal aid for low income students that have benefited from the dream act . Well, i believe that education is the key is the way out. I have indicated earlier that for children who came with their parents and into the country and did not comply with our immigration laws, they are guilty of nothing other than coming with their family and we ought to provide them an opportunity, not only to go to school but to eventually serve in the military or complete a College Education and earn an american citizenship. I believe that. And i believe in the process, they should be treated just the same as we would any other student based on need. It makes so much for sense for us to have these young people here in texas and here in america as productive citizens. It makes absolutely no sense to condemn them to minimum wage jobs for the rest of their lives when they could produce so much more and they could be so much more and we will they would benefit. Their families would benefit and our nation would benefit. Our Federal Reserve has given 1. 32 trillion in the past five years at 1 quarter of 1 . Y. E. Yet our children have the burden of Student Loans and they are playing anywhere from 5 to 7 . When Elizabeth Warren introduced the bill to reduce the Interest Payment on our students john cornyn voted against it. If he really cares about education, he should tell the country that our education should be practically free and our students should not have to have loans, much less pay 7 . At least they should pay only. 25 just like wall Street Corporations do. Next question is from Angel Pedrero. Thank you, wendy. This question is for dr. Alameel. According to the dallas morning you about 10 years ago gave money to the senator cornyn campaign. What did senator cornyn have at that time that you say he no longer has . He was only two years into his office and had no record. And of all the things that i have to live with in my life, and i stand by all of my mistakes. This is one terrible mistake i have to live with. Well, i would say dr. Alameel, he was an traffic supporter of mine and of an enthusiastic supporter of mine and governor perries. He decided for reasons im sure e can explain and switched parties. Spent 4. 5 million of his own money. He decided to selffinance this race. I enjoy the support of 17,000 texans who have contributed to my campaign. Dr. Alameels primary Campaign Contributor is dr. Alameel. So he has that right and im glad he is here tonight making his case for election to the American People, but i would say people can judge for themselves whether he is being consistent or inconsistent. His actions match his words. I would suggest they do not. Next question is from pedro rojas. This question is for both. Senator cornyn and dr. Alameel, what would you do to secure the border and avoid a human crisis like the one we saw in the summer . How can reprevent a massive amount of children coming in . I already stated exactly how i would like to secure our border. It is a federal government job. I would fight for that as your senator. These people are coming because they have strife in their countries. They are killing their parents. One of the things we have to do is when we give them Financial Aid, we have to put conditions on them. We cant allow the leaders of that country to go and squander the Financial Aid that we give them. We do business with them. We can put pressure on them to stop the quilling the cartel in their country and to stop the abuse and the corruption in their government to provide a better life for their country. As far as the vote is concerned, it has nothing to do with crisis on the border. It has to do with our national security. Mr. Cornyn. You have one minute. We know how the do this. We just havent had the political will to do it. Actually this is one of the problems with a socalled comprehensive approach. That it is viewed as everything is connected to Everything Else. When you insist on everything your way or nothing, most of the time you get nothing. And so what we need to do is to make the commitment in terms of federal resources. Im talking about people, technology, but mainly it is a matter of national will. We know how the do this, but we also need to separate the people who are the cartels and the drug running and the Human Trafficking from the legitimate traffic and trade. We benefit into the tune of 6 million jobs in america from trade with mexico but we havent funded our portses of interest and staffed them in a way to separate the legal and beneficial from the illegal and the harmful. Once we decide what sort of legal guess work or program your time is up, sir. Excuse me. This question is for both. If elected as a texas senator, what concrete action will you take to make your office more accessible to student population and to motivate those students to get involved and express their needs . This time mr. Corn listen begin. You have one minute. One reason im happy to be here at Mountain View College Tonight is because i think a lot of students who havent been as involved in the political process get a chance to see first hand what it is like and hopefully this will be the beginning of their active engagement over the course of their lives. We have a unique form of government and because the government is us. We are the ones who decide who gets elected what happened the policies will be based on how we vote and if we vote. So i think students have a vested interest. Unfortunately your generation has not been treated very well by the Current Office holders. There is plenty of blame to go around. But right now there is absolutely no discussion about the 17 trillion in debt that is going to have to be paid back and the unsustainable Social Security and medicare systems that we know how the fix and how to keep those commitments to our seniors and future generations, but there seems to be absolutely no commitment under the current leadership to fix them. I would like to make a question to both of you. This time mr. Alameel will answer first. We have been hearing a lot about ebola. What would you do differently at the legislation to deal with the ebola crisis . Uld you favor legislation to stop stricken nations to come to the u. S. . It is a problem that he said there is no political will in washington to fix. Retirement, education and Everything Else that we need. He doesnt have an open door policy. He didnt answer that question. The reason ebola is a big problem is they keep cutting funding that every agency that we need. C. D. C. Was not ready to handle an epidemic. Our hospitals were not ready to handle an epidemic and we totally bungled that whole incident and we have doctors and nurses and patients going around with fluids infected and they are allowing them to fly and to sit in rooms. Yes, we have to restrict the flow in and out of that epidemic area. Start to fund our emergency healthcare response is more important than anything else and making the screening more strict at airports will help that. Your time is up. Mr. Cornyn, what would you do . I know we all celebrate with the family of nina pham, her od diagnosis, being cured of the disease. She was with the president this afternoon in the oval office. Call for a travel ban n those west african nations as we wonderful ccine from world class medical facilities that we have. Unfortunately dallas was not prepared primarily because they were looking for guidance from the federal government and the center for Disease Control was giving inconsistent or inadequate incomplete advice on the protocol to use to protect themselves. Theaflly the people who came in casual contact were not infected. The people we thought were at the lowest risk were because there was no leadership from the white house and the federal government. This question is for both. Children in texas use to get better. Their parents get a would you legalization medal Medicinal Marijuana in texas . We see experimentation taking place all across our country where n places like colorado where it is being openly sold as a recreational drug with no real knowledge of what the results of this experiment will be in terms of Public Safety and public health. As we know now, underaged individuals, children, get access to alcohol, even though we know it is not legal for them to do so. So i dont think it would take a great speculation to say this will, if approved for adults, will make its way to children, who its impact on their growing and forming brains and their productivity is really unknown. So i do not support the legalization of marijuana. Mr. Alameel . Well, of course, many christians thought alcohol was satan. They had the same argument in the prohibition era. I think medical marijuana should be available to patients who need it. Second, i think most ome of the people who have been arrested and going to prison are africanamerican and latino kids even though anglo population are using it much more. I believe it is time to have those kids go back to their family and it is time to decriminal lies marijuana and i think that will go a long way to allow the Africanamerican Community and the Latino Community to unite. Im sure as well to deal with our young people the way we do with alcohol but having prohibition like we did before did not work. I think marijuana should be decriminalized so people either pay a fine or do a community service. Your time is up, sir. Pedro rojas, do you want a rebuttal . No. This question is for both senator cornyn and mr. Alameel. This ebola crisis at the texas Presbyterian Hospital here in dallas. If any of you get elected as senators of the state of texas, would you promote any changes in the senate to make Hospital Management more accountable to their patients, their employees and the public . Mr. Alameel, you will answer first. Of course our hospitals, like Everything Else in our Healthcare System is for profit. Sometimes people go too far with profit. They start cutting corners. The dallas hospital that had this outbreak did not have proper equipment. Even after our their patient went to be treated, they still did not have the gear necessary to take care of them and they tried to muzzle from complaining. I think everything has to do with us having a plan. We have four centers in the country to handle ebola and the total number in the country is nine beds. If we have an epidemic, the first nine parktses will be taken care of the 100,000 will die. Mr. Cornyn, please . I visited with judge jenkins and mayor rallings about this. What struck me is that they were waiting for guide france the white house, from the federal government and it took president three weeks before he appointed a liaison officer, sometimes called a czar, but we dont need any more czars. What we need is somebody to coordinate the care between federal government, state and local government to make sure that the emergency resources we had were available and they were acting on the best possible information. So texas Presbyterian Hospital and the county did the best they could but they were handicapped by a lack of help and useful guidens from the federal government. The center for Disease Control has world class epidemiologists and doctors but they are not the kinds of boots on the ground needed to guide and direct people trying to save the life of people like mr. Duncan, who are real heroes. We to have move forward to the next question. Senator cornyn, according to the center of Disease Control, 27 of young adults did not have Health Insurance in 2012. Part of your effort has been to put an end to obama care. What would you do to increase the percentage of Young Americans without insurance . It is true that the Affordable Care act or obama care was supported by its advocates as a solution to our broken Healthcare System. There were many people like me who were skeptical that the federal government had the competence or the ability to change the law, especially using the tools they did, that would actually cover more people. In fact, there are still today 42 Million People who lack healthcare insurance even now four years into obama cares passage. And we found that all of the promises that were made, if you ke your doctor, you can keep them. That has proved not to be true because whaufrl the federal government did is made Health Insurance more expensive. Not less expensive and more affordable. So i have a plan to put in place an alternative that would let you choose your healthcare and would bring down prices by increasing competition and making it more transparent. Well, of course, obama care is no different than romney care which john cornyn didnt have a problem with. It is a good step in the right direction. It has helped five Million People get insurance. It also changed our healthcare. For the tirs first time in history, an Insurance Company cannot drop a patient when he gets sick. If they have preexisting conditions, they have to cover him. For the first time they allow kids to remain on their parents policy. It is not perfect but it is a step in the right direction. It is the law of the land and republicans need to stop saying no and how to help fix it. The next question. Thank you. Dr. Alameel, you say increasing the minimum federal wage to 10. 10 is a good proposal. Would you be willing to apply that increase in your business before it becomes law . Well, minimum wage in my company that i sold in 2009 was 10 an hour. We used to pay latina and latinos straight out of high school 10 an hour. It was great for my business. They became good consumers for my neighbors business and became very loyal employees and also became people who stayed there and we didnt have to train other people. The more employees make the more consumer makes. The more consumers make, the more Small Business will profit. I think it is a silly argument that minimum wage hurts business. Next question from pedro. Senator cornyn, would you support changing gears here, would you support u. S. Groops to he ground in iraq to fight isis . If so, how many would be deployed . Im waiting for the president to decide how many to defeat the islamic state. It is a threat not only the peace in the middle east but as we with learned on september 11 2001 what happens over there can have a direct impact on our safety and security here, but i dont believe the president s current tactic s of air strikes alone are adequate. Dont take my word for it. You can ask martin dempsey, chairman to have joints chiefs of staff, the secretary of defense, leon pennetta. Allies to be the boots on the ground, we should do that. But the fact of the matter is we in america have capabilities that no one else has. If we dont stop it there, then we could be well defending ourselves here. Your time is up, sir. Of course john cornyn is saying he wants boots on the ground since this crisis started. I say our president is doing right by bombing them to degrade them and before we put boots on the ground and end up like another iraqi war, we need to have a Foreign Policy vision. We need to have a plan and decide what our goals are in the middle east. It is a domino effect type of region. We dont need to create another war. If we have a good plan, i will support our military to take care of them because they are a threat to our country. Next question from ms. Hernandez. Do you support funding for Higher Education . Yes, maam. [applause] ok. Mr. Angel pedrero. Thank you, wendy. Senator cornyn, of all the decisions that you made in your 12 years, which one do you regret the most or would you rather say you have never made a mistake in your tenure . Well, i would never say that i have not made any mistakes. My wife is in the audience. She would disagree if i said that. Of course we all make mistakes in life. And hopefully we learn from them. One of the things i regret is that when we passed the Prescription Drug program for medicare to make Prescription Drugs available for seniors, that we didnt insist that it be paid for. That was a mistake. Because what with ve seen there is a bipartisan tendency to want to do things but not to pay for them. This is this has happened over a period of time to where now we have 17 trillion in debt and someone is going to have to pay that back. Unfortunately it is going to be the Nextgen Vegas going to have to pay that back and that is immoral for us to be spending money today and giving them the bill to pay it back in the future. Thats why i support a balanced Budget Amendment to the United States constitution. To force the congress to do what states do and what we all should do. Time is up. I learned more from my mistakes than i learn from my success. That is why im successful today. You have to turn every stumbling block into a steppingstone to reach higher. I think i have made many mistakes. One of them was john cornyn. [laughter] but there is nothing wrong with making mistakes as long as you learn from it. We all have to learn. I still learn. Im already 62 years old. Every day im learning something new. It is ok to make mistakes. This question is for dr. Alameel. You have trouble throughout the state promoting your political platform. I was reading about it. I read that you would like to have big pay their share in taxes. Can you explain more in detail about those ideas . Remember that establishment in washington . They passed special legislations so that company can hide profits overseas for deferred profits and they dont pay taxes until they bring it home. They have trillions and trillions of dollars that hay hide overseas and they also have the ability to do production oversneas china and produce a project for 5 and sell it to a subsidiary in the kaman islands for 95 and then they will sell to us for 100 and claim 5 profits. There are many ways that big corporations are scheeting the cheating the system. They have incentives to take our jobs overseas. It is very simple. We reverse those policies and we will get our jobs back. Do you see these possibilities, you have been around this congress and senate for the last 12 years. Is it possible to overturn this . We need to change the status quo because its hurting american jobs and investment here. We have the highest corporate rate in the world and i was at the Dallas Hispanic Chamber today at lunch, a Small Business woman told me she is at the 30 tax rate but large Multinational Corporations have lawyers and accountants and basically can manipulate the Current System and end up paying zero in effective tax rate. That is wrong and we should not be forcing her in her Small Business here in north texas to subsidize the activity s of a Multinational Corporation that has a team of lawyers and catants. I support a acountants. Unfortunately the Obama Administration told us it will take not 1 trillion in new taxes for them to agree to come to the table. That is not acceptable. Our student that is next question. This question is for both. Would you support a federal abortion law similar to the new borgs law recently enacted in texas mr. Cornyn, you will answer first. I believe that personal i will tell you i am pro life. That is my view. Those are my values, but i believe that Womens Health is important. If they are seeking abortions lawfully and that the steps that texas took were to improve the clinics to make sure that women did not suffer malpractice and poor treatment there was a step in the right direction. The problem we saw in pennsylvania, for example, is when the doctor, he was basically a human butcher. Women died seeking otherwise lawful abortions at his facility. We cant let that happen here. I believe that the steps that the Texas Legislature took were steps in the right direction. Mr. Alameel, you one minute to answer. In case you didnt notice, the first question last time he made my case about my economic platform. Second, his answer just now, he just declared he is pro choice so im catholic like him. We dont believe in abortion but we respect the others and we want them to have the facilities like he said he would. So we agree on this. [applause] Angel Pedrero has the next question. Thank you, wendy. Can you explain your position about samesex marriage . Can you support a constitutional amendment to debehind this marriage is . Define what this marriage is . I believe it should be defined at the state level by the people of our state. The people of texas have made that judgment. We should not have unelected judges force different policy other than that chose twin people of our state. I would say i am pro traditional marriage, i believe that is good for the families and for the people of the countries but i understand the Supreme Court said this matter should be decided at the state level and i believe that the verdict of the people of intersection favor of traditional marriage should be respected. Do you want to add something mr. Alameel . Yeah, if i have a rebuttal. You cannot make any noise or applaud. Lameel, you have yes. Im catholic. I love every human the way god loved us and the constitution always said that everybody has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and i believe that lesbian and gays have the same right as everybody else and we should move on from this devicive issue. Next question. Pedro, please . This question is for both. Should english be declared the official language of the United States and should other languages be mr. Alameel . You will answer first. Im always leary when somebody starts saying something ought to be the official language. In the a way it is the official language but were allowing people to have time to learn the english language. I think nobody can become successful in america unless they learn the english language. Every immigrant, every undocumented worker should learn the language. I will encourage everybody to learn english. Until they do, we ought to help them and gear them toward that path. Mr. Cornyn . I agree with dr. Alameel. Should other language be used for a document or Lease Agreement . In places where it is needed, sure. We dont want to abandon millions of people the right to participate just because they have not learned the language yet. We have always had that problem. With the irish, with the germans, with the italians. Now we have it with the latinos. It is up to us to help them until they learn the language. I dont agree with that the same. Because we have to understand that we are a Common People with a common language. And we can all come from different places. We can speak other languages too. I know governor at the time george w. Bush used to talk about english plus being a good policy. Every immigrant policy understands as the doctor said, in order to be successful in america, english is a language you need to learn and speak. That doesnt mean we disrespect people who come from other countries who also speak other languages, but we encourage them to assimilate. America is really not just a place. It is an idea. It is a place where people come from many different backgrounds and different parts of the world and we become americans. English is our common language. That doesnt mean we forget about who we are or where we came from. We have to show due respect to that and also ack nooij english is the language in which business is done and the lang people people need to learn in order to be successful. You 60 seconds. I said what i need to say. It is not how much you say. It is what you say. I say what i mean and mean what i say. Ok. Were going to move on to the next question. And this question is for both of you. Assuming you are really interested in a comprehensive Immigration Reform, why should we believe that you will be the one able to break the deadlock surrounding it in congress . This time, mr. Alameel, you will answer first. Well, of course, my wifes family is from mexico. Im an immigrant. My children are children of immigrants. Ive been living in the latino communities all my life and i know this is very important to them and to me. It is very important for us to recognize that immigrants make our country stronger and i will, like i said, i will fight tooth and nail for Immigration Reform. I can tell you one thing. That the republicans are never oing to do Immigration Reform. They tell them to go home. I have talked to republicans many times when i used to help them years ago about Immigration Reform and each and every one of them say send them home and make them stand in line in their country. Thank you. Mr. Cornyn . I dont agree with the characterization of dr. Alameel about my position or the position of most republicans. But i support, as i said earlier, emigration reform. But i think we do have a crisis of confidence in washington and that is because of the promises made by the Current Administration in healthcare, on the economy, on national security, on so many fronts. And people are really beginning to wonder can we believe what you say . Will you actually, if we pass a law, will you actually enforce law the way Congress Passes . This president has taken extraordinary liberties saying i have a pen and a phone and im going to do it myself and im going to go around congress. Im not going to work with congress. That is not the way our constitution was written. Our constitution was written to force us to Work Together on a bipartisan basis to build consensus. So it cant be my why or the high way. That kind of attitude will yield absolutely zero povement yes, sir . John cornyn voted against dream act and Immigration Reform. John cornyn never stood up to his republican friends when they demean, ridicule and bash the Latino Community on a constant basis. I dont recall him defending the community when he said they had ig because of drug mules. Oklahoma. This question is for both of you. Should the term limit be reduced for members of the senate as much as the house neabs have to be elected every two years . This time mr. Cornyn will answer first. Well, the reason why senators are elected statewide and for a sixyear term is presumably to give us the opportunity to make longer range decisions and policies for the American People. I think it serves the American People well. Every six years, we get to vote on our candidates for office. We can vote for them or kick them out of office if we dont think they are doing a good job. I think the term limits that are provided by elections are the best kinds of term limits. I wouldnt do something that would empower the lobbyists or the staff, the permanent staff because that would they would not be responsive to the will of my constituents, the 26. 5 Million People that live here. I am, because i work for them. I work for you. And thats the reason why i believe that sixyear interprets are appropriate. Otherwise youre going to have senators scurrying around the state every two years that would never have time for anything else. I agree that election is a term limit process. Unfortunately im beginning to realize more and more that the longer people stay in washington, the more beholden they are to big lobbyists who spend so many billion s of dollars a year to buy our government. If we cannot get this big money ought to ington, we make term limits. How will you address the need for undocumented immigrants who are not qualified to receive benefits the opportunity to receive affordable Health Insurance . This time mr. Alameel will answer first. Well, we have to do Immigration Reform. It is one of the best ways to solve most of the problems that the Latino Community has. Every Latino Community has either a relltave or a friend that they care about who is suffering from not having documentation. Unless we do that, i dont think there is a way to really legally help them and thats why i believe that as long as republicans are obstructing Immigration Reform, they are hurting the Latino Community. It is about their families. It is about their health. It is about putting food on the table. It is about their education. We have to do Immigration Reform. It solves most of the Latino Community problems that they are suffering from. I agree with that we need to deal with the issue of Immigration Reform. That would be the best approach of this particular problem be access to health with access to health care. Right now anyone who goes to emergency room of a hospital is entimed to be treated basically without any compensation. We all know that is not the best way for them to receive care. Many times they wait too long they get sicker than if their condition were to be addressed sooner. I hear the doctor talk about doing this and he lambastes the other party, but the you cant get anything done in washington unless you do it on a bipartisan basis. It is impossible. That is the way our system is constructed. I would look to work with democrats that i have worked with on immigration issues and we need to get some things done fix. That we are approaching the toned the program. I ask for David Alameel to give us your closing statement. You have two minutes, sir. Ok. The san Antonio Express news recently wrote that john cornyn has never led as a senator. The Houston Chronicle added that john cornyn could not cite a single accomplishment in all of his 12 years in the senate. Wow. Talking about a donothing senator. Our country burns while cornyn fiddles. We need to provide a first class education for all of our children. Not just a privileged few. We need to rebuild our own industrial economy right here in america. Not in china. We need to make wall Street Corporation pay taxes on the trillions and trillions of dollars they hide in offshore accounts. We have to eliminate unfair trade agreements that punish the american economy. We have to eliminate the outsourcing so we can finally bring our manufacturing jobs back home from overseas. It is time to put America First and put our own families back to work. If he loves wall street and china so much maybe he and his wall street buddies ought to move to china and leave us alone to rebuild our own economy to benefit the people of these United Statesor america. Our party, our party, Democrat Party that pulled us out of the Great Depression gave us 50 years of the best education, the best economy and the best middle class in the world, needs to distance itself from wall street and go back to its roots so we can restore the American Dream. The American Dream for all people. It is time for changing america. And as your senator, i will lead that change. Im David Alameel. Tonight i humbly ask for your support. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Cornyn. You have two minutes for your closing statement. Thank you. To the panel and unavision for sponsoring this exchange of views and Mountain View college for providing us the venuened that wonderful opportunity. I hope those listening on line and wholl watch the unavision broadcast tomorrow night or the cspan replay next week, will get useful information out of this. It has been an honorary privilege for me to serve in the United States representing all texans, whether they voted for me or not. It is my responsibility and privilege to do so. Nd i think that dr. Alameel is exactly wrong when he says that the American Dream is oufert reach. He is an example of the American Dream working. Somebody coming into this country with nothing. Working hard and becoming very wealthy in the process and creating jobs. I think that American Dream should be available to everyone. But right now on the path that were on in washington, d. C. , nothing seems to be working the way it should. Thats the reason why congress and the president s Approval Ratings are in the tank. Because nothing is getting solved. I believe we need a new direction. We need new management. We need new leadership. And i think the American People are ready to give republicans a chance to lead because clearly under if status quo over the last few years under harry reid and president obama, the country is not better off. We are worse off. We are only a few decisions away from i think the sort of opportunity and growth in our economy and jobs that we need in this country to keep the American Dream alive. Unfortunately, washington has goten in the way and it is time for washington to get out of the way and they need to look no further than the state of texas for the sorts of policies and the type of governance which has created prosperity and caused people to vote with their feet and come in here at the rate of more than 1,000 a day. Thank you very much. Thank you to both of you. Ladies and gentlemen this marks the conclusion. I would like to invite the candidates families to compton stage and thank you so much. Have a good night. [applause] cspans campaign 2014 coverage includes more than 100 debates for the control of congress. Stay in touch and on top of the debates and engage. Followous on twitter and cspan d like us on facebook. Com cspan. Tonight on cspan, president obama speaks about efforts to stop the spread of the ebola virus and then chuck hagel and members of congress discuss the midterm elections at the ashington ideas forum. This weekend on the cspan networks. Friday night starting at 8 00 eastern on cspan, our campaign 2014 debate coverage continues in primetime. On saturday night at 8 00, the funeral for former Washington Post editor ben bradlee. And author harold holser on his latest book, lincoln and the power of the press and author Chris Tomlinson on the story of two families. One white and one black and the slave plantation that bears their name. James mcpherson on the confederacys president , jefferson davis. And our threehour conversation with author michael korda. And friday at 8 00 on American History tv, on cspan 3, one of the first africanamerican labor unions. And saturday night at 8 00 on lectures and history, propaganda and americas view of the japanese during world were ii and on real measuring, a film on uberculosis. Email us at comments at cspan. Org or send us a tweet at cspan hashtag comments. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. President obama spoke today about the governments evidents to prevent the spread of the efforts to prevent the spread of the ebola virus. His is 20 minutes. [applause] in december of 2013, a young child in a remote part of guinea became the first unfortunate soul to suffer the scourge of ebola virus disease in west africa. Since that time, more than 10,000 people have contracted the virus and more than 5,000 have died in eight countries. The medical professionals of the three nations hardest hit by this epidemic, liberia, guinea and sierra leone have fought with valiant effort against menace, but they need the help of the International Community to turn the tide of this devastating outbreak. Many members of this audience have already offered themselves n sacrificial sfers to the people west africa and others preparing to go. It is my distinct honor today to thank these braver individuals for the gift of their lover to their fellow human beings for putting the needs of others above their own. The world owes them a debt of gratitude. But the struggle sl far from over. More medical personnel are desperately needed. At this time, perhaps more than any other, we feel the impact of our position as citizens of not only the United States of america, but as stoinches world, we must strive together for the good of all mankind to put an end to this disease. In timeses of worldchanging tragedy, we have often recognized the office of the president of the United States of america as not only the leader of this, our own country, but as an International Leader representing the best interests of us all as global citizens. It is my privilege at this time barack duce president obama wholl share some remarks. [applause] good afternoon, everybody. And thank you, dr. Brantley, not just for the introduction, but for your extraordinary work to help save lives in africa and here at home. As many of you know, i welcomed cant kent and his beautiful wife amber to the white house last month