[ cheers and applause ] we are live on siriusxm Satellite Channel radio channel 25. We are broadcasting coast to coast all 50 states. Your voice will be heard by millions upon millions of people listening to the radio right now. Lets begin the program with our friend, president and ceo of freedomworks, adam brandon. Adam brandon, lets give it up for adam i think the wind chill is clocking in at about 13 degrees. I appreciate everyone for being here. So i just wanted to start. I saw there is a vietnam vet. Are there any other vets here . Are there any other First Responders . Police, fire . Thank you everybody. I am going to jump up very quickly. We have senator rand paul who will follow me. Was anyone here in 2009 when we had the first march . Are the topic was repealing and replacing obamacare. Now we have to finish it. Im a big football fan. We are at the 5 yard line. The game is not over. We have a score. This is our time to repeal obamacare. But it is not going to happen unless you guys are doing what you are doing today and you are going and telling them in person. So over there is where Mitch Mcconnell works. When Mitch Mcconnell was running for reelection his Campaign Theme was we are going to tear up obamacare root and branch. So i am looking at this crowd right now and i believe we are here to help him keep his campaign promise. So please, folks, i appreciate you coming here. I appreciate you taking the time. I appreciate your hard work. Please remember obamacare is not going to go down unless you guys help put it across the finish line. With that, we are going to be bringing up that is what you broad me here for. Thank you for coming and braving these temperatures. I have been doing events with freedomworks for about six years. One of the heroes of this movement has been a man who holds conservative, libitarian principles and unlike these guys waiting to be told by paul ryan what to do he came up with his own plan. Without further ado, senator rand paul. Hey, guys you know what they are saying . You know what they are telling us . They are telling us that you campaigned for obamacarelite and that you want partial repeal. They are telling us that you want to keep some of obamacare taxes. Theyre telling us that they want you that you want to keep the obamacare subsidies. Theyre telling us that you want to keep the individual mandate. But its worse. Its worse. They are telling you that instead of paying the government the mandate, they want you to pay a penalty if you lose your job or lose your insurance, they want you to pay a penalty to a billion dollar Insurance Company. This bill is riddled from top to bottom with problems. Basically, they admit that they are not going to fix the problem of rising insurance premiums and that when the premiums continue to rise the government will continue to pay you money to pay the Insurance Company money. This is not about you. Its about reimbursing a billion dollar Insurance Industry. So there is a way that we completely change the equation. Right now if each of you want to go and buy insurance and you are in a Small Business when you get to the Insurance Company what is the first thing they tell you to do . Kiss my boots. They tell you take it or leave it. You know how we give you the power . We give you the power to join a group where you can get your insurance through a large buying group. How many people are in the nra . There is probably five, six, seven, maybe ten Million People in the nra. What if we let you buy your insurance through the nra . What if you had the head of the nra call up the Insurance Company . Instead of us kissing the boots of the Insurance Industry they are going to bow down and going to give us what we want, good prices. When you get sick you get kicked off, that only happens if you buy insurance as an individual. Lets let everybody join a group. We will get lower prices. It wont be a government mandate. It would be the market place working. It would be all of us joining together and we would have the power to do this. The problem is this, though. The leadership in the house is weak kneed and they are afraid to lead with freedom and capitalism so they are giving you something that is half as much as obamacare but doesnt fix the problems. What we have to do is the Freedom Caucus 40 of the best conservative members. You will hear from some of them. You need to tell them you want them to stand firm. You want to bring down the paul ryan plan and then what we want is freedom. We want to be free of obamacare completely. The battle is just beginning. This is the very beginning of the battle, not the end of the battle. But i promise you they will not negotiate until they discover they dont have the votes. When they discover they dont have our votes and do not have your votes. So when you go home activate your email network, call your neighbors, tell them to call any of the weak kneed republicans that every damn one of us got out there and worked for that we were not campaigning for obamacarelite. We dont want any of it. Thank you for everything you do. I will never forget that the First Campaign rally, the First Campaign rally that i ever went to was a tea party rally in my town of kentucky and 800 people showed up. You have the power but you have to be more vocal. They have forgotten how they got here. We won the house. We are in charge in the house because of you. They need to not forget that it was the tea party that put them in power. We dont want anything to do with obamacare subsidies, taxes, mandates. We dont want to bail out the insurance companies. We want freedom to get lower prices and buy the insurance we want for our families. I will keep fighting. Hang in there. Senator rand paul you know what is funny about the tea party. I was there in 2009. The tea party was born on Kitchen Tables across the country. And not that i would, but if i had worked for Hillary Clinton i would have been in the field position on the ground when bill clinton said obamacare is the craziest thing. You got all of these people that too much to be subsidized and not enough to afford. He was right. He was absolutely right that what the government had done was make something unaffordable to people who were affording it. The people who do their check books at the Kitchen Table, who run their Small Businesses at the Kitchen Table, Tea Party Patriots is a Kitchen Table tea party organization. So let me bring up cofounder and president Jenny Beth Martin. Thank you so much for being here. It is so cold today. I am from atlanta and this is cold. Guys, it was seven years ago next week that we stood on that lawn and then on the other side and we told them not to pass obamacare. How many of you were here that weekend . When we found out that congressman was caving, not that we were completely surprised. When we found out it was sunday afternoon and i told those of you who were left on the other side of the capitol that we would repeal this law. I didnt know how. I knew we were determined and we were going to do it. And it is funny. I didnt say we were going to repair it. We never wanted the government to take over our health care. We Want Health Care freedom. Thats what we stood for then. Thats what we stood for in 2010, in 2012, in 2014, in 2016 and again here today. When we helped and our values helped congress on the house side get the majority, they came back and told us we cant repeal obamacare because we only have one half of onethird of the government. So we rolled up our sleeves and got back to work. And in 2012 obamacare and the repeal of obamacare was not a center piece of the campaign for the president ial candidate and we didnt have the results that we had later and in 2010. But in 2014 we helped again with our values deliver the senate with the intention to repeal obamacare. And then they said, well, we only have onethird of the government so we still cant repeal obamacare. Now we help them get President Trump in the white house. Hes the man who made Campaign Promises and working to keep Campaign Promises. And somehow now congress from both the house and the senate side are telling us that an unelected paid Senate Staffer can determine what goes in the reconciliation bill. Now they are saying we may not be able to repeal because we dont control the parliamentarian. We have learned that is not correct. First, reconciliation which requires only 51 votes to pass in the senate has to do the things to do and must do with the federal budget. I contend anything having to do with Insurance Company mandates which are driving the cost of insurance up around the country and will continue to do so will have to do with the federal budget especially if you are giving up tax credits to pay for those insurance premiums. Fwr they need to repeal that. They need to repeal obamacare. It effects the budget. They need to fight for it. They need to explain why it effects the budget and they need to remember that they are fighting for the forgotten man or woman in the country who has been left behind time after time by washington, d. C. Thats why we are here today 7 1 2 years ago i was with adam brandon on the front lawn in september of the capitol. Just mentioned how we said that day can you hear us now. They made fun of us, mocked us, maligned us and sicked the irs on us and we are still standing. We have someone who is willing to fight for our values who isnt afraid to fight for our values in the white house. We need to help him keep his promises and we need to make sure that Congress Keeps theirs. Today they want to copy us and imitate us because we are successful and have made a difference. Today we cant stop. We must continue. We must continue to make our voices heard. Apparently the leadership in both the house and senate has not quite heard us yet. Apparently they did not get the message in november when donald trump became President Trump against all odds. Were making a difference. We are going to continue. Go in these buildings, talk to your congressmen, talk to your senator. Remind them we expect them to repeal obamacare. We want to help them replace it with a framework based on free markets that will lower the cost of Health Insurance premiums and not cause them to continue to sky rocket. While you are at it, the Senate Republicans look, our philosophy is stand with people when they do the right thing. Hold them accountable when they dont. There is something we can hold the Senate Republicans. We can thank them for and encourage them. They helped last year keep the Supreme Court seat open until the election. The American People spoke. Thank them for that. Tell them to confirm neil gorsuch. We have post cards and petitions back there. As you look at the cameras to the right if you want to pick any of those up to deliver. And if you will, if you are able to i know it is cold, but if you are able to text full repeal to 388873 ill make sure freedomworks gets your names and numbers. You will get a reply and enter your email address. We appreciate everything you are doing. We are going to make sure that Congress Keeps their promises. Thank you for making your voices heard for the last eight years. Congress, keep your promises keep your promises keep your promises keep your promises thank you so much Jenny Beth Martin. Now,t ted cruz is on his wa. And again we are broadcasting live on sirius xm Satellite Channel patriot channel 125. One small thing i thought would be a good idea before we bring up ted cruz because he is on his way. You see how rand is moving. We rarely ever ask doctors what they think of obamacare. Do they think they are functions of government, functions of the establishment of either parties . I would say most of them say no. Freedomworks actually has its own doctor. You want to hear from a doctor . Dr. Chad mathis please tell everyone what it is like to be a doctor with obamacare. Hello. I got a quick question. Any of yall forgot to tell the Senate Majority leader that we won . No . Okay. Like i said, like he said, i am a doctor in birmingham, alabama. Like so many of my fellow doctors, we like taking care of patients. We like taking care of our families. Back in 2007 we put our heads up and realized that something was going on in washington. Cash for clunkers, bailouts. It was terrible. We rolled up our sleeves, all of you did, and got to work and elected republicans and won on the house. And then we won in the senate. And now we elected donald trump president of the United States. It is time for leadership. And while i do agree that it is a three pronged approach with reconciliation, repeal, rolling back regulations and new Health Care Legislation like rand pauls legislation, well, in the house they have had a lot of practice on the first step and practice makes perfect. Almost 60 times they passed some form of repeal. But in 2015 they got all the way through the senate and got it to the president s desk and he vetoed it. Well, they are not going to see it again because they are afraid of the parliamentarian. I think they are more afraid of the parliamentarian than they were of president obama. This swamp needs draining. The muck and mire of this place with special interests and bloated bureaucracies has got us legislation that talks about individual mandates that are now insurance mandates, continuing medicaid subsidies and taxpayer funded subsidies to individuals. These are new entitlements. This is crazy. We need real leadership. So listen. The fundamentals of seeing a patient havent changed. We still see the patient, take a history, do a physical exam, diagnostic testing and come up with a plan. But the more government is involved the more expensive it gets. The more expensive it gets the more of your hard earned dollars dont go to things you want and that keeps our economy from growing. It hurts the people the most that our president wants to help, the working families of america. So go talk to your legislators. Tell them it is time to lead. It is time for bold action. Ask them to repeal and replace obamacare with patientcentered forums. Thank you so much. God bless. Look, we have special snow flakes. Im actually surprised there are no counter protesters but then again its cold out here and, you know, how many of you have heard of the Freedom Caucus . My friends in the Freedom Caucus stopped by. How many of you have actually read some of these cbo reports . They are pretty boring but based on a huge amount of speculation and theory. This effect that if this happens that will happen and all dominos go down and this is what something will cost. On the air the other day we read aloud the revised 2014 cbo story of obamacare and it didnt save 1. 5 trillion, it spent 1. 5 trillion over ten years. Not medicaid, not medicare, not other welfare programs. The subsidies alone according to the cbo spent 1. 5 trillion. This is our last opportunity to stop establishment care or what i like to called radar the Freedom Caucus is the group that can stop this bill. Please welcome my friend representative mark meadows. Hello deplorables. It is so good to see you i even have a meadows for congress sign way back there in the back. I thank you guys for coming out. I know the cold weather its either extremely hot or extremely cold when you get here. For all of you guys that came from North Carolina, i tell you what, thank you so much. We appreciate it. We are standing in the fight with you. This is about you. Its not about any member of congress or any senator. Its really about the American People and all of you fighting for what is true, what is right and truly for freedom. So thank you so much. You know, there is a whole lot that is to be said about the forgotten man or forgotten woman. And the Freedom Caucus is here to make sure that those forgotten men and women, the forgotten factory workers, forgotten construction workers, forgotten teachers, that we are here to stand with them to make sure that we take back this country for the constitution for our god and for our freedom. I thank you so much for being here. And im here to tell you that your Voice Matters because just a few days ago they were saying that there were going to be no amendments to this gop plan. But all of a sudden now because the voice of the American People has truly been heard they are going to start to see it and will start to reform it in a way that really repeals and really replaces obamacare every single bit of it. Now, i would also say that when we are here today, when we were campaigning and we talked about repealing obamacare we didnt say we were going to keep part of it. We said we were going to repeal it all. Dont you think now is the time to do that . So i would encourage you to thank the president for keeping his promise because in the end we are going to repeal it. We are going to repeal it all. Now, i also want to say this. When the going gets rough there are only a few people that are willing to stand and take it in the chin. And you know what . When you do it may send you back home to North Carolina or ohio or virginia or wherever. If we do the right thing even if it sends us home it is the right thing for the American People. It is the right thing for our country and now is the time to stand up. Well be judged on one thing and it is not a cbo score. It is really not on even keeping our word even though we will be judged on that. It will be if premiums dont come down then we will have found and that is the only number that matters when you open up your insurance bill if it is lower ten years from now substantially lower then we will have succeeded. But i am going to introduce a dear friend of mine, a guy that is a twotime National Champion wrestler who knows what it is like to get on the mat and really fight it out, a man who is not afraid to say how it is, one of my best friends in congress, the gentleman from ohio, the previous chair of the Freedom Caucus, jim jordan. Thank you. Thank you so much. You know, the left is having protests around the countries but the protests that matter the most are the ones you are all involved with in 2010, 2014 and 2016 where you spoke loudly and clearly time to get rid of this law. So i just came here to say thank you for your attitude. Thank adam and the entire team for all the good work you have been doing for six years now. Six years we have been fighting this. The time is now to get it done. You have the attitude. Every day the philistine giant issued the challenge who will fight goliath. The israelites response was he is so big we can never defeat him but davids response was he is so big i cant miss. That has been your attitude. A focus on freedom, a focus on liberty and now is the time to get it done. I just thought of one other story. How many of you ever seen the musical 1776 . Great show. One of the shows we love. There in Independence Hall when the founders decided they were going to declare to the world why it was appropriate to do what they were going to do. And adams is the driving force behind it. The scene that i always remember is jefferson has written the declaration. They are doing what congresss are supposed to do. They are marking it up and amending it and changing it. They are marking it up. One member says we need to change this section. Because when king george sees this it might be offensive to him. Adams rolls his eyes. Another member stands up and says in this particular section we need to change it. We need to amend this. Adams rolls his eyes again. A third member says this paragraph has to go all together because this could jeopardize our deep sea fishing rights off the coast. Adams says it is a revolution and we are going to have to offend somebody. That has been your attitude. Our job is to stand for the truth. We make our job way too comp licted. Our job is simple. Do what you sent us to do. Now is the time to get that done. Thank you and god bless you. Representative jim jordan. So we got the eta on ted cruz being approximately five minutes. They said can you fill some time in . I said this is clearly not a problem. By the way, one of the things we are leaving out somebody asked me what is that green line flag you are wearing on your head. I said it is the border patrol. We have not mentioned amnesty and open borders and Immigration Reform as it relates to health care. I pointed out to you before i brought up mark meadows that the cbo in revised scoring showed subsidies would cost 1. 47 trillion. When the cbo scored senate bill 744, the amnesty bill, they made the assumption that a bigger workforce automatically meant higher tax revenues. And then the assumption in washington became if we are going to spend 1. 4 trillion we have to get more people working. Except how can the cbo know what the workforce of ten years from now is going to look like or 20 years from now is going to look like . If the cbo is scoring a bill related to whether or not the government should give everybody a telephone in their home, could they even know what telephones would look like 20 years later . They would have no idea. There would be a thing called an iphone or Samsung Galaxy or whatever it is. If this bill isnt stopped, if the government continues to run health care which, by the way, is of course mentioned in the constitution. Its in the good and plenty clause, i think. What is Health Care Going to look like if the other factions get their way and there is amnesty . That assumption that every Single Person that comes here from wherever they come from in a nonmerit based system we have to take a break . As far as radio world goes we are taking a break. We are broadcasting live. We will be back in two minutes. Good. We want to make sure we get that break out so ted cruzs whole speech gets on the air. What will the Health Care System look like after amnesty . Donald trump says no amnesty and there is going to be a wall. I dont know, how long until paul ryan gets his hands on that one . Because if you remember 11 years ago under president bush the republicans passed a law that bush signed that was supposed to build a wall 11 years ago. Is there a wall . So funny thing happened on the way to the senate, right . Before we bring up oh, boy. Thank god we are in break because all you would be hearing is wind in this microphone. Throughout the campaign i referred to rand paul and ted cruz as intellectual constitutional conservatives because they are. Its not mean spirited, narrow minded, angry none of you are angry, right . You are passionate, not angry. To say the word health care doesnt appear in the constitution. The word education does not appear in the constitution. Were not asking for anything extreme when we say give us a constitutional government. Now thrks funny thing is, if i can get inside Donald Trumps head, i would say that paul ryan is trying to pass a bill that is going to be called trump care. And if paul ryans bill fails they are going to blame you. Notice the Medicaid Expansion sun sets in 2020, not when so many republicans will be running for reelection but when the president is running for reelection. If we were to go back to the tenth amendment, if donald trump said i dont want to own this thing, you states are going to run this, you are going to own this. You governors are going to handle this. You state assembly men are going to handle this, we are coming back live on the air in five, four, three, two, one. We are live broadcasting live fr from upper senate park. We have been storming congress. In front of me you cant see this on the radio, obviously, is an ocean of people in red baseball caps that say storm congress. Back to what i was saying during the break. The states could easily run Health Care Systems and the president wouldnt own anything meaning they couldnt saddle his name, his legacy, his reelection with a bill they designed thats going to work just like obamacare. We got some really big differences here. The penalties will be collected by the Insurance Company. Excuse me. The 30 penalty will be collected by the Insurance Company. Thank you. I dont want to start a speech to have to cut off a speech. We are waiting for ted cruz. Whats the eta now . Hes going to be 30 seconds . You know its cold out here, right . Im working it. Im filling. Wait, you mean the states are going to expand their medicaid . You mean the government is still going to play mother may i . How is that any different than obamacare . If you can look me right in the face. I love how they say it is a conservative bill. I am sorry. I looked under its skirt. Its not a conservative bill. How on earth what is the old saying . If it walks like a and quacks like a its a i guess in a crazy world when you have a bill created by republicans that works exactly like a bill created by democrats you say thats a democrat bill. You can tell me that it self identifies as a republican bill, but you know what . I saw its parts and i dont want to go on a date with it. I dont want to live with it. I dont want to marry it. I dont even want to look at it. The amazing thing is that they keep telling us this is conservative yet it still puts health care in the hands one more point. Does anyone believe that if the democrats take the house or the senate in 2018 that they arent going to oblit rate whatever little differences there is between the aca and the aha . If Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi get their way that 2020 Medicaid Expansion will go to 20 whenever. Those penalties will go from 30 to 60 . And you know what they will say . We have to have single payer. If you think we arent on the way to single payer if this bill passes, you are out of your mind. In cedar rapids, iowa i did an event with rick santorum, Carly Fiorina gave great speeches. I never saw the kind of crowd reaction, the thunder and the passion that i saw when we brought up the next speaker who is making his way here. When i said the name senator ted cruz it sounded a lot like that. So without further ado, senator ted cruz. [ cheers and applause ] god bless each and everyone of you. Now, let me say, we have provided for our friends in the media definitive proof that the election of conservatives across the federal government has ended Global Warming. Of course, that is liable to make the media more ornery because if there had been a democrat we would have had Global Warming and they would have been in shorts enjoying the hot weather. I want to say to you guys thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for braving the cold and thank you for standing up and fighting for freedom. Pr everyone of you, this victory is your victory. In november, democrats were shocked, the media was shocked although i repeat myself and millions of hard working men and women across this country rose up and said enough is enough and we have a mandate for change. And i stand here today incredibly optimistic and energized. We have the opportunity to do an enormous amount of good. Now, we could screw it up. We could very easily screw it up. But i believe we are poised for this to be the most Productive Congress in decades. And there are four big things on the agenda for 2017, the first and most important is we must honor our promise and repeal obamacare. For six years republicans have campaigned over and over and over again saying if only you give us the house we will repeal obamacare. If only you give us the senate we will repeal obamacare. If only you give us the white house we will repeal obamacare. You know what . We are out of excuses. The time for talk is over. Now is the time for action. And i got to tell you i think failure is not an option. If republicans take this opportunity and blow it we will rightly be considered a laughing stock. So we cant do that. Ill tell you, the leaders who have been here, the leaders who have been addressing you today have been on the front lines fighting to take the house plan which has a lot of problems and to try to make it real repeal that lowers premiums that gives you control over your health care. I believe we can get it done. I can tell you in the last week, four days i have been at the white house meeting with the president , with the Vice President , with the administration, with house members, with senators saying we have got to get it done. With your support yall are here to talk to your elected representatives. The most Important Message for all of us to hear from you is we have to deliver on our promises. We need real repeal. And the test for success is going to be premiums. You look at why people are frustrated with obamacare, there are a lot of reasons but the biggest reason is that premiums have sky rocketed and people cant afford their health care. Barack obama promised the average familys premiums would drop 2,500 a year. In fact, the average familys premiums have risen 5,000 a year. Thats what i hear over and over again from texans. We cant afford Quality Health care for our kids for our family. The test for a republican repeal of obamacare is do we drive down premiums . Do we make health care more affordable for the American People . We can do that but only if we repeal the obamacare insurance mandates. The mandates are what are driving premiums through the roof. We have to repeal them and we have to repeal them now. A second critical element before us in 2017 is regulatory reform. Just about every cabinet member i met with among very first numbers have been rate reform. I believe this administrations commitment on reform is real, genuine. If there is one thing to agree on about this president , he wants to be bold. And i will tell you of all of the issues i am perhaps most optimistic about reg reform. We have seen the beginnings of it. I think over the rest of the year we will see job killing regulations that are hammering Small Businesses repealed and taken off the books. A third critical issue is tax reform. I believe we will pass fundamental tax reform either this summer or this fall. Now, the details of that are still up in the air. I will tell you what i am urging the president. I am urging two words, bold and simple. There is power in bold simplicity. Ideally i would like to see a simple flat tax and abolish the irs. Now, some people in washington say thats a little extreme. They say shouldnt we just maybe decrease the top marginal rate to 37. 95 . Let me ask you something . Is that anymore radical or extreme or anymore surprising to washington than electing donald trump as president . The voters have given us a bold mandate for change. We have a republican in the white house. We have republicans in every agency of government. We have republican majorities in both houses of congress. How about we act like it . The fourth major issue we are going to tackle is we are going to confirm judge neil gorsuch to the u. S. Supreme court. The confirmation hearings start next week. I fully expect to see democrats lighting their hair on fire. They may actually literally light their hair on fire. I expect them to scream and yell and do everything they can to impugn the good judges integrity. But i expect next week, also, the American People are going to see a judge, a principled constitutionalest who will follow the law, who will uphold the bill of rights, who will uphold free speech, who will uphold religious libertiy and Second Amendment right to bear arms and keep his oath to the constitution and defend the people of the United States of america. You know what . If we do all of that, if we repeal obamacare and see fundamental reg reform and tax reform and confirm a strong conservative to the Supreme Court 2017 will be a blockbuster year. So everyone of you can turn to your neighbor and say thank you because it is each of you that got us here to where we are today, that put us in a position to recapture the country. And it is each of you that is Holding Us Accountable to keep our promise to defend liberty and defend the constitution and to defend the United States of america. Thank you and god bless you lets get a picture. Senator ted cruz hey, is eric cantor speaking today . You know, they say that you cant primary these guys out. They are the only people that can run governments. It happens. Its live radio. I love the fact that ted cruz is literally walking through the crowd right now shaking hands. Thats why you love him. The establishment always laughs. It will never happen. You will never vote him out. Who are these nobodies that think they are going to come in here and challenge us . I have two words for you, dave brat. I dont this can i need more introduction than that. Representative dave. All right how are we doing . It figures i got to follow senator ted cruz. He is brown nosing. Thanks for doing all you do. I thought he was in the hockey warming hut grab s hot cocoa. I went to high school in minnesota. This is like a spring day. This is nothing. We are tough. We got it made. Its an honor to be here. Senator mike lee is getting ready to clean up. So im here with all the heroes of the freedom movement. I want to he just said everything i was going to say. So im going to go back to basics a little bit. Who is here from virginia . All right. Who is here from the 7th district of virginia . Thank you, guys. Thanks for coming out. Thats my district. In my view three things make this country great. First and foremost the christian tradition without which you dont get anything else. Out of that you have the rule of law. Paul ryan looks out as moses. If you get lucky i wore my adam smith tie, what do you get at the end of the tradition . Free markets and freedom and all the guys that made us great, most of which come from virginia. I will brag a little bit. Thomas jefferson, james madison, et cetera. What are we really here fighting for today . We are fighting for our freedom. Right now who is in charge of your health care . You or the federal government . Thats the issue. Thats what we are fighting for. And so when you go back and talk common sense to the average person back home, when you say you are going to repeal of obamacare does that mean federal government is in charge of your health care . That is what we are fighting for. Ted cruz was just up here, rand paul has been on every tv show the last two weeks. You turn on the tv senators are fighting for us. Senator ted cruz is breaking the china in the china shop. The rest of the senate is telling us we have this parliamentarian and they make the rules and we cant put what we want over to the senate. What do we got to say about that . Who do we want in the chair that day . Vice president pence. Lets put him in the chair. Heres what we got to do. What is driving the prices . Obamacare the prices are going up by 25 right now. Under the new bill underneath the house bill they say the cbo says prices go down by 10 . Let me see if we have math majors. Prices going up by 25 . If we reduce it by ten how much are prices still going up . 15 . Is that good enough for you . That price reduction came from getting rid of insurance regulations, one of them thrks bronze, platinum, silver thing. You think we ought to get rid of a few more . Thats it. So that is called bucket two. Thats what leadership is promising comes next. First we make government bigger. And then we promise you free markets later. Do you think we ought to do socialism first and then work in free markets . Or do you think we ought to start with free markets and then take care of those truly in need which this country always does . Im with you. They told me four minutes. Im probably already over. Its an honor to be with you guys. Thats the main thing we got to do is keep it straight, keep it simple. You have to get the federal government out of health care. Thats the issue. So keep it straight. How many of you are writing letters in the newspapers . How many of you are lying right now . We need you. You are the voice of america. Your freedom. By the way, has anybody here thanked adam brandon lately . Adam in freedomworks puts this all together. These are the heroes behind the scenes. Keep lighting it up. Spread the good word and god bless you all. Thank you for letting me say hey. God bless. Representative dave brat. I have to take that mic back. You know what is amazing having freedomworks invite Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots. There is another organization here in washington, d. C. Doing this how you all doing . Youre cold, yeah . I do need a hat. Im going to be real quick. Mike lee is coming up next, and hes going to be awesome. But i want to tell you something that dave didnt tell you. Speaker ryan was right about something. He didnt know he was right, but he was right. We have a binary choice. We can either get rid of obamacare or basically keep it in place. The bill in the house basically keeps it in place. We reject that choice, right . Its really important, though. Its not just right now. We need to look at history. We can learn from history. Back in 2003, the chairman of the rsc, republican study committee, went to the house floor, and stood up and said, you know what, despite the best efforts of my leadership, i cannot vote for this bill. Its the largest entitlement expansion in 65 years, and i will not do it. That guy, that was mike pence. Hes the Vice President of the United States now. Mike pence is beacon of hope for all the conservatives in 2003 when republicans were expanding the entitlement state. We need new leaders in washington right now to stand up. We saw mark meadows, jim george, dave brandt, mike lee whole be up here. Ted cruz. They are leading this fight and our congressional leaders need to follow them so we can actually repeal obamacare. We can do it, they need to hear your voice to make it happen. Its not just what happens up here, its what you all want. They need to hear that. Thank you for being here, and we can do this, we can repeal obamacare. Once again, we are broadcasting live on sirius xm satellite radio. The patriot channel, channel 125. I was actually going back over to the broadcast position to do the top of the hour. But i figured i would just do it from this mike. When i use the frayed intellectual constitutional conservative, i apply that to very few people. There are very few people that i call intellectual constitutional conservative because its tough. It means understanding how the government works. It means sometimes believing in something but saying loudly, hey, this is not for the government. There are very few people who can separate their opinions from what it is they believe about government. Whether they are talking about samesex marriage or abortion or Wealth Redistribution or whatever it is, its very tough for people to separate their opinions from their knowledge of the constitution. Im almost geeking out now with our next guest. Because senator mike lee is one of those people that when it comes to adherence to the constitution, i can think of few who are more intellectual, more passionate and more understanding about how this government is is you posed to work. Please give it up for senator mike lee. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. My name is mike lee, i come from the state of utah. And its snowing. We dont technically call this snow in utah, but well let it pass for that. I ran for the United States senate a few years ago. Elected in 2010. And i decided to run for he is not rate because the government has become too big and too expensive. Anyone agree with that . And it has become that way specifically because it forgot about the reason why it was created in the first place. It forgot about the rules that are designed to keep you, we, the people, in charge of our own government rather than the other way around. Bad things happen when you let too few people run the system. People make mistakes. They are redeemable but they are flawed. They tend to abuse power when they come up with it. Thats why we have this brilliant compromise, the u. S. Constitution. I happen to have a copy of it right here. Right there. By the way, the only reason i know anything about it is because i read it. I encourage you to do the same. These words are still simple. I read it a lot yet i keep it with me all the time just so i can refer to it when i need to. Every once in a while i encourage you to read it. I also read the constitution but this is the most important part. That constitution defines power in two ways. Divides power along the vertical access saying most of the power is supposed to stay close to the people at state and local level, with you, right . And then it says within washington. Weve got three branches. One that makes the law. One that enforces the law. One that interprets the law. You know what weve seen over the last 80 years, under the leadership of both political parties. Weve seen both of those protections ignored. Weve seen both of them weaken. We have seen power taken away from you, the people, in two steps. First the power is taken from the people. From the 50 states and move to washington, then within washington, its been transferred to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. Has this been good for you . No. Has this been good for government bureaucrats . Has it been good for a small number of entrenched elites . Yes. Do we need to turn that around eand refer to the constitution . Yes, we do. Yes, we can. And yes, we will. You want to know Something Interesting thats happened and we have taken power away from the people and the two steps from people within washington over to the executive branch bureaucrats. Very few people have gotten really rich and very powerful off this arrangement. You want to know Something Interesting, 6 of the 10 wealthiest counties are suburbs of washington, d. C. This is an area that manufactures nothing. This is an area that is not a banking hub, not a home to any vast source of natural resources. Not a technological innovation hub. No. The power is here and the money is here and the only reason the money is here is because the power is here. The power needs to be turned back to you, the American People. Which brings us to why were here today. Seven years ago next week, Congress Passed the Affordable Care act, Patient Protection and Affordable Care act. [ crowd booing ] i know. What it does is exactly the opposite. Has it made your Health Insurance more affordable . Weve seen Health Care Prices skyrocket. Now its been really good for handful of insurance companies, hasnt it . Its been really good for handful of bureaucrats, hasnt it . But its hurt everyone else. So thats why the story of obamacare is consistent with the story of the rest of the constitution. Weve got to return power back to the people. You know Something Interesting, Franklin D Roosevelt used to refer to the forgotten man. He wanted to be the friend to the forgotten man. He borrowed that term from someone else who wrote about it in the late 1800s. The forgotten man is someone like you and me. Forgotten man and forgotten woman, the hardworking taxpayer, who wants to put bread on the table for his family. Not the target of any government program. He just wants to be free, he wants to prosper. And he does best when the government allows him to do what he does best, which is work hard to provide for his own family. Its the forgotten man who suffered most under this program. The forgotten man thats been punished even as corporate and government elites in washington have been made richer and more powerful by more growth of government and its time for us to turn that around. Starting a couple ef years ago, after we got the majority, the republicans got the majority in the senate. We already had the majority in the house of representatives, partly because of obamacare. We started passing about an Obamacare Repeal bill. We were told by a few in the house of representatives that all we could pass is a watered down version of obamacare. One that didnt get rid of a lot of program. They werent right. We passed something much more aggressive than that. That can be the case here too. Its time for us to make a decision. Are we going to repeal obamacare . Are you going to encourage each of your is not tors and your representatives to do the same . Will you stand with me in putting the American People and their doctors in charge of their own Health Care Decisions . We can do this, folks. Together we can, we must, and we will. Thank you very much. Senator mike lee. All right, so here we are. You guys have been out in the cold. Ive been out in the cold. This is the part now where you guys go and again storm congress. So what im going to do is im going to go back over to the broadcast position and bring up the director of events for freedomworks whos going to wrap this up and in you guys go. Give it up for noah wall. Hello, team. Now we have to go storm congress. I need you guys to split into your teams that you came with. Most of you came by buses. I need you guys to raise up, the team leaders to raise up your placards. I need you to join up your teams and talk to your members of congress and tell them why we need to repeal obamacare. Tell them why they need to keep their promises. We have to make this happen. So join with your team, lets make this happen. Thank you, and im going to pass it back to our good friends. Thank you so much. Hey, guys, one last thing. Text full repeal to 388873. 388873, full repeal. Ill make sure freedomworks gets all of your Contact Information so we know who was here today. Thank you all right, guys. Lets get it done. If you werent a member of a group, join me right around here, and we will get you guys taken care of. Set up and go to talk to your members of congress. Thank you guys, again
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