He talked about School Choice and the economy. He is running in the 2014 special elections to compete to complete a term of jim demint. He is introduced by mike coffman. Theevent is hosted ay christian university. This is 30 minutes. Thank you. Today,ow conservatives as many of you know, i am the number one target for the democratic companion Congressional Committee nationally. They are going to find out data marineon a United States corps combat veteran will be a lot tougher than anybody ever thought. Me toan honor for introduce a former colleague of scott is the tim epitome of conservative values and principles. He grew up poor in a southparent household in carolina. He learned the importance of faith, hard work, and family. He started from humble of thengs to build one most successful allstate agencies in South Carolina. To theo being sworn in United States senate in 2013, tim scott search in the United States house of representatives from 20112013. He was a member of the house of house leadership assets of debt and set on the influential rules. He had a four terms as council chair. He was a member of South Carolina house of representatives and was elected chairman of the freshman caucus. Today, senator scott works to promote conservative causes. Where he has worked with Senate Colleagues to introduce a balanced a Budget Amendment to power away from congress to spend money that we do not have. Also was an original cosponsor of the bill that would permanently ban the wasteful earmark process. Tim scott agenda will empower america for freedom and education. He is dedicated to working with anyone committed to building a Better Future to develop bold from this break away countrys past failures. Please join me in welcoming and giving a warm colorado welcome to senator tim scott, a true conservative american hero. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Sure that those of you who live in the district will be sending my back to congress. [applause] congressoffin back to coffman back to congress. We need some help in the United States senate. Anybody realizes that . Everybody realizes that. I want to talk about how we can make sure in 2014 we take back the majority in the senate and in 2016, we have an opportunity to make sure theres a republican in the white house. We need a republican in the white house. And when i think about the challenges we face, i always go back to amazing grace. Anybody know that song . I like that song a lot. I once was lost but now i am found. I was blind, but now i see. I thank the lord he saved my soul. Yes, he saved a soul like me. That is my story. I am not sure if it is your story but it is my story. I think about how amazing the good lord is and how amazing america is and how the combination of a strong god and amazing nation makes a guy like me even possible. The grande story of old party. It is the story of the great opportunities party. Let me share my story with you and explain how the conservative visible have made being possible. Want up in a singleparent household, my parents got divorced when i was seven years old. I started drifting. Direction. The wrong by the time i was 14 years old, i was flunking out of high school. I flunked out of high school. Please do not do what i did. As a freshman, i filled world worldphy failed geography. I may be the only senator to ever fail civics. I felt like i was comfortable because a lot of the guys on the other side faied civics. Amazing. I also failed spanish and english. Spanish andl english, they do not call you bilingual, no. Ignorant. You bi i had two major blessings. One was a strong mama. Ive got to tell you, i am a mamas boy. My mother worked [applause] hand. Ll mamas a especially if you are sitting next to the one you are married to. You have to have fun when you are on stage. Thats all the fun i get to have. You might as well join in with me. Was an amazing and is an amazing woman. She worked 16 hours day as a nurses aid making sure we stayed awful welfare. Setbelieved she needed to the example for her boys to follow. She worked hard at it. When i flunked out of high school as a freshman, she was not too happy with me. She believed love had to come after the end of a switch. A switch for those of you do not understand is a southern apparatus of encouragement. [laughter] typically apply from your beltline to your ankles. My mama encouraged me a lot. The Second Blessing that came my way was a Small Business owner. A conservative republican. Time, the it at the chickfila operator was a conservative republican. All i know was that john showed up at the right time. He started telling me some very important lessons. He started saying, tim, you do not have to play football or be an entertainer in order to be successful in america. You cant think your way out of you can think your way out of poverty. I thought the only way out was playing for the dallas cowboys. I know this is denvers territory. I understand that. My chief of staff is from colorado. My deputy chief of staff, colorado. [applause] my director from colorado. [applause] see all of the orange in my office. [laughter] iis is not part of the speech apologize for having a commercial break. Seasoned during football last year to make a bet. This is simply i made a statement. Broncos can beat the cowboys in cowboys stadium, i would wear a broncos top. When tony romo threw the interception and we lost 5148, i told my pastor said i want to know if it was ok to violate my statement. You are a know politician, so you guys do it all the time. However, you have to honor your word. I am frugal, sir. He bought me this beautiful Denver Broncos tie and he is, too, from endeavor. I had to wear the tie. Now the commercial break is over and back to the presentation. That message is brought to you by the western conservative summit. And john andrews. God bless you, john andrews. , my mentor, he was teaching me some very valuable lessons and you started teaching me that if you have a job, you have done well. , youreou create jobs done extraordinarily well. If you have an income, you can support yourself. If you make a profit, you can change the life of your family and your community. And this became the very fabric of my Journey Towards conservatism. Kid learningold these very basic business principles that the free market, four letter word, and, making a profit is an amazing journey and experience in america. I will tell you i bought it full. It took me four years to get it. When i was 19 and john was 38, he died. It is changed the course of my life. Impact a message of hope and opportunity being johns lessons of financial literacy. Business. Ard it can change your life. We grew up living with my grandparents. Me and my mother and my brothers shared onebedroom. I do not like either one today. Otherndparents had the room. John saadi you can change all of that through business ownership. He was so right. Youof the reasons why as uncover my opportunity agenda in washington, d. C. , i focus so much on the entrepreneur is because ive experienced firsthand that when the andrnment steps back entrepreneurs step in, all things change. [applause] good economy makes all things possible. And the question is, what makes a good economy . How do we create a good economy . We all know that tax reform is necessary key ingredient to that good economy. I cannot hire more people and face higher taxes and have higher regulations at the same time. I can do 2 out of the three. If you want me hiring more people, we have to reduce the cost of doing business. I know you are fans of obamacare. [laughter] good, good, good. Obamacare spends too much and taxes too much, and destroyed the best Health Care System in the world. [applause] i like my friends who say about what about a balanced approach. Just look no further than obamacare. Over 800 billion of new revenue, higher taxes, the destruction of the relation between a doctor and a patient look no further than obama care for all of the challenges that we face. In obamacare, we see a couple of things. Not only higher taxes and higher regulation of but we also see this on march towards centralizing the control of all the major decisions. Taking over another part of the economy and presented to the american people, a clear decision. Do you believe in redistribution or do you believe in the private sector . Do you believe in entrepreneurship . Do you believe in the power of 300 million americans . Or do you believe in the intellect of 535 . Let me tell you if youre working for the if you are looking for the answer, it is not to be 535. We will have to have something factsfor as we face the that we are clearly going to have to stand against. Let me do a survey. How many of yall, you can say yes or no, do you think obamacare is a good idea . No. Good. Do you think the president is handling the border situation with the guatemalan kids in a good way . No. He is many of you hank handling the syrian situation in a good way . The economy . The v. A. . All of the things going wrong, we should be winning every single election. We should. [applause] and somebody asked this simple question, why are we not winning elections . Is an important part. People do not care how much you know until they care, they know how much you care. Important key to our success in 2014 and 2016. One of the reasons i am so excited about you bringing cory gardner to the ballot is that you cannot see cory and not smile. He is always smiling. Hi, obamacare stinks. Yes, it does. To success iss making sure that our candidates are likable. That our candidates are armed with the right message. We know what we are standing against. We are standing against spending money we do not have, buying things we cannot afford, and the rest of the world seems to be unimpressed. When you have a 600 billion annual deficit in may see even for us to stand strong against the challenges that the left are bringing to our country. That is the easy part. We have to answer the question, what are we for . As we answer that question, i believe that we will start winning elections everywhere. But cousins standing up and saying, no, is good. It takes us through october. The election is in november. For us to get through november, we have to have a positive policy agenda that attracts a diverse a group of voters to take a second look at the grand old party and start thinking of it as a great opportunity party. Agenda does just that. There are two pillars to the opportunity agenda. The first is education and the second pillar is how do we build a good economy. Lets talk about education. One of my first bills in the senate was the choice act, creating hope and opportunities for individuals and communities through education. A a guy who did poorly as freshman, my mother beat me i mean she encouraged me and to Summer School and helped me catch up with my classes and finish on time and earned a football scholarship. I have done pretty well since then. The foundation of which is education. Centralizationhe of education, we come to one simple conclusion it is not working. A classic example and bedded in the choice act is the notion of School Choice. I am a big believer that parents deserve more choices sunday kids have a better chance. The was asked and choice act helps us to get there. D. C. , the cost per student is 21,000. Id know that sounds like a very low number to some of you. This guy, said wow. I will talk to them, hmm. 421,000 for 21,000, 56 of the students graduate and very few of those gold to get a twoyear or fouryear degree. Dded is ae act embe d. C. Opportunity scholarship that allows for School Choice in d. C. Here are the results of School Choice. I will be right back. Wow factor, the perlarship costs 8500 student. Education. Ical 93 graduate. Versus 56 graduating. 91 go on to a twoyear or fouryear institution. And in 93 of the parents are happy. Towe are looking for a way change the dynamics in who votes for us, the issue of education can not owned by the democrats. [applause] can be owned by the democrats. Do our part, i will tell you, the results are amazing. This agenda and i am telling the truth of a love it. All people love this concept of choice was us so much so, ive noticed a couple of things in d. C. When in the people start liking something, the federal government sues. There seem to be a correlation or relationship. I do not really know what it is. In louisiana, they decided to go forward with the agenda and the department of justice decided, au cannot help poor kids get better education. Unacceptable. As will hurt Public Education. I assume that is what they said. Do not quote me on that one. They said Something Like that as they attacked Public Education because of School Choice. I believe the way you improve Public Education is to decentralized Public Education from washington, d. C. And send the control, decisionmaking, and money back to the states. [applause] think about the fact that the theage employee at department of education makes 1 the averageear and teacher makes 50,000. People keep tony we have a money problem in education. I think every priority problem. People keep telling me we have a money problem and education. We are supposed to spend 700 billion annually on education. We can do better. Demand better. The second part of the choice act, kids with special needs deserve to maximize their individual potential. Everyone in america deserves to understand their own potential. What we say is that if you cannot get in the education your child needs in your zip code, you should make the idea portable just i wouldve School Choice for honor roll kids just like we have School Choice for honor roll kids, we should allow the same thing for kids with special needs. A great story is a young lady, at the time she was five years old and going to kindergarten and she had down syndrome, rachel lewis. Doing pretty well in mainstream classes. The teachers got uncomfortable with her being with other students and tried to push her into special education. After a year and a half, her parents were successful and they realized that ultimately these teachers who fought to get her out of the classroom are now going to be responsible for educating her. They took her to a private school. 20 years later or 18 years later, just now 20 years old and she graduated from Hidden Treasures with a high school diploma. She does not have one job, she has two jobs. If we give people the opportunity to maximize their potential, they will succeed beyond our wildest imagination. One guy is above to do above what we ask for and that is the picture i want for the kids. Thank you. [applause] a bottle of water, thank you very much. This is great. Coming from South Carolina where waking up to 58 or 60 degrees and Colorado Springs the other day and a little sniffle. I am going back tonight when South Carolina and my body is still at adjusting. I will be ok. Thank you for the water. I will tell you this though. The second part of the opportunity agenda is in fact how do we build a better economy . I would to you a couple of things. [indiscernible] i will finish in three minutes. It is simple. If you look at the economic nation, ifound this we did not see success in the energy sector, we would not have recoveryible, anemic we are having today. Hasbalance of our success been driven by our energy reduction. Today, our president is considering whether we should federalize the rules and regulations around fracking, drilling, and taking over. I think it is a bad idea. [applause] yall think it is a bad idea . That is good. One of my bills and my opportunity agenda, i believe there are resources in the ocs,ent it oc atlantic we will discover i believe gas. If we do that, South Carolina 1. 8 billion in revenue. In america are connected to oil and gas and we could double in the next 15 years. We can see unemployment across all of america. Once again, if it starts working right, the president thinks it is wrong. That is a problem we caps off. [laughter] [applause] we can solve that problem. Let me close with this. Over the next several months, you guys and gals will have an opportunity to send help to the United States senate via cory gardner. Corys cousins, are clapping to him. We need cory gthank you. Are going to succeed in 2014, we have to hold onto the 45 we have. I have colorado on the map. We need 51. A realre going to have shot, will want to improve the likelihood of virus success, we leave the house and senate on e