Government is always a step behind. Oddly enough, it is the progressives who are stuck in the past. And this is the one thing they miss. More bureaucracy means less opportunity. [applause] i will tell you why. Because Big Government and big business, they dont fight each other as much as they feed each other. This is how it works. Governmente go into thinking the only way to fix a complicated problem is with complicated laws. That only the people like themselves can understand. They make your bureaucracies. They put up all kind of red tape. Then they go into the private sector and help businesses navigate the very maze they created. [laughter] if the Insurance Industry does not understand how obamacare works, why not hire the person who ran it . [laughter] this works out great for them. What about the rest of us . What about the people who cant get ahead because costs are too high . What about the people who dont create jobs because the laws of too confusing . So round and round the revolving door goes, all the while the people are standing on the sidelines. That is how todays experts becomes tomorrows become tomorrows cronies. And that is why we dont think government should vote up your accuracy, we think it should break up bulk up bureaucracy, we think it should break it up. Dont leave it up to their discretion. Set clear, firm rules that all of us can live by. Rules that tell us what is expected and what is off limits. And then let the people go to work. To me, that is the conservative insight. Dont outsource to the bureaucracy. Crowd source. That kind of government would not only preserve equal opportunity, that kind of government would protect the dignity of the individual. Bad government tries to blunt what makes each of us unique. Good government defends it. Bad government tries to tie us all down. Good government frees us to be our best. And so, his government important . Absolutely. It is essential. But there is no mistaking the field for the game. What the government is supposed to do is create a environment where the individual can thrive and communities can bloom. In other words, government makes things possible. But the people make things happen. Only government that sends power back to the people can make government and can make america competent again confident again. [applause] and we House Republicans we will do all that we can to give us a government, give us that government, even if the president disagrees. Even if you want signed them into law, we will put out specific proposals and give the people of real choice. [applause] and i dont mean just undo what the president has done as if we could time travel back to 2009. I mean sure what we would do, what are ideal policy would be looking forward to 2017 and beyond. We await to the country we owe it to the country to offer a bold, pro growth agenda. And that is what we are going to do. [applause] my first item is creating jobs and raising wages. We know it is standing in our way. Instead of a tax code that all of us can live by, we have a tax code that none of us can understand. We all know how hard it is to keep up with the competition overseas. And where i come from, overseas means lake superior. [laughter] well, the canadians are taxing their successful Small Businesses at 15 . Our top tax rate on successful Small Businesses in america is effectively 44. 6 . How can working families competes like that . The only way to fix our tax code is to simplify, simplify, simplify. The loopholes and use that money to cut tax rates for everybody close the loopholes and use that money to cut tax rates for everybody. [applause] take the seven tax rates we have now and collapse them into two or three. I know people like many of these loopholes, and they have their reasons. But there are so many of them that now the tax code looks like a huge to do list. The washington but washington has no business managing peoples lives. I know many of these loopholes will be fiercely defended. All i can say is we will not be cowed. [applause] we are not here to smooth things over. We are here to shake things up. I know our ways and means chairman cannot wait to get to work. And this is the point we want a tax code that rewards good work instead of good connections. When people know, they will keep more of their money, when they understand they will enjoy the fruits of their labor, they will work more, they will save more, they will invest more and create more jobs for all of us. And when there is more work to go around, more people will see their wages go up. But there is not much upside to getting raise the cost of living goes up. There are many things to do, but most urgent is to actually repeal and replace obamacare. [applause] you know, when people ask me what is wrong with the law, i usually say, how much time do have . [laughter] but if i had to point out one thing, it would be the restrictions, all the red tape. How do we know this has failed . You notice that we dont talk about lowering premiums anymore. We were supposed to be happy. We were supposed to be happy these days if they dont go up by double digits. This is the problem. The other side thinks that the lower the cost for some people, you have to raise them for others. Like this is one big zero sum game. They know that people wont buy pricey insurance, so their solution is dont give them a choice. We say lower costs for everybody by giving them a choice. Instead of forcing you to buy insurance, we should force Insurance Companies to compete for your business. [applause] why dont we just let people find a plan that works best for them and their families. Yes, help people pay for health insurance. I have longed believe we should offer a tax credit to help people pay for premiums could premiums. There are a lot of other ideas out there, but when all conservatives can agree upon is this we think government should encourage personal responsibility, not replace it. We think prices are going up because people have too few choices. And we think this problem is so urgent that next year we will unveil a plan to replace every single word of obamacare. [applause] there are millions of people in this country who are stuck in neutral. Have no choicee but to work parttime. 45 million of our fellow citizens are living in poverty. Conservatives need to have an answer for this. Because we do not write people off in this country, we just dont. But this is what happens. The federal government says, look, if you are going through a rough patch, we will pay for your food, your housing, your medicine, your heat, and on and on and on. You add them all up and we have Something Like 82 different programs to help the people in need. And we are thinking all of these benefits are going to lift people up. But the end of Holding People back because under the law the minute you start making real money, the minute you start climbing that economic matter, these benefits start to disappear. Yes, you are making more money. But you are losing . 80, . 90 on the dollar. Say you are a single mom with one kid. You are making minimum wage. You are on food stamps, medicaid, housing assistance. And you hear about a job that pays you more. Should you take that job . The answer in this country should always be a resounding yes. But can you really blame someone for thinking no . Good, theions may be results are really clear, we are trapping people in poverty in this country. We have to make sure that it always pays to work. In 1996, we created a work requirement for welfare. That was just one program. We have to fix all the others now. I combine a lot of them and send that money back to the states for better poverty fighting solutions. Recover require everyone who can to work. Then test the results. I have found that the poorest neighborhoods often are the most creative. They are full of entrepreneurs and innovators. Full of people who really know how to fight poverty, i to eye, persontoperson, soul to soul. Eye, persontoperson, soul to soul. This is the difference between the left and the right. They look at people in need and they see a burden to bear, people to take care. We look at people in need and we see potential. Push wages up. Push the cost of living down. Get people off the sidelines in this country. I could think of no better way to restore confidence in the american economy. As we grow more secure at home, we will grow stronger on the world stage. Are absolutelyo and directly related. If we want to create good jobs, we need to make more things in america and sell them overseas. Lets never forget 96 of the worlds people dont live in the united states, they live in other countries. And we will not sell them as much as we could if we dont negotiate good trade agreements. Other countries will not stop taxing and blocking our exports unless we negotiate with them. Look at it this way if you add up all the countries that we do not have a trade agreement with, we have a big trade deficit in manufacturing. But here at of other countries that we do have a treaty agreement with, we have a surplus. Before we sign up with any trade agreement, we have to make sure it is a fair deal. I am thinking of the Transpacific Partnership in particular. We have to engage, we have to lead. Only an active forward leaving america can tear down barriers for our jobs. This is more than a negotiating strategy. It goes to the core of our philosophy. We believe in free enterprise. We believe that if you have a good idea, you should have a fair chance to make it happen. That means that americans should not have to wait to pay unnecessary costs or to wait ju