But you can give up. We have to raise the Progressive Agenda to allow a clear organize people around that educate because what we are fighting for is so important is the future of this country. I just want to thank busboys and poets for hosting this. [applause] [applause] now republican candidate for president spoke at the Ronald Reagan library in march 2013. His book is immigration wars forging an american solution. [applause] our beloved president Ronald Reagan passed away almost 10 years ago but as many know, seems nearly impossible to follow political views without hearing a reference to the president. His memory, his name and fortunately his legacy seemed to be ubiquitous as the country grapples with the challenges of our time. For midyears many years after reagan and left office there was a question when there is a problem facing our country. What would reagan to . It is a good question to ask because while times and technology have changed since president reagan was in office sp
Charging of high Interest Rates and the theory is if you dont have a lot of money i should not be charging you so enrages. We have working people with 30 Interest Rates. That is higher than a loan shark. And then to work on that. [inaudible] that is an excellent question. The number of people all over the country and i like very, very much. But he believes that we have the job the this steady with the bac30 so we could have we have cn record obstructionism. In the old days people would require the 60 votes. Is very rare. Now with any significant piece of legislation. [applause] and by the way i think senator demarco will lead the nation but in a way i had no reason at all. But i thought it was important to get it out there. And a republican colleague and that is what they do. I think we should have picked the repinelican agenda in but the American People should sit down and they would take that issue. [applause] [inaudible] spec anybody cared if they want to work but here is what i thi
Where i am and i will read the introduction to a the books then 78 hours after that. [laughter] they did not tell you that . Then we will take some questions at 4 00 in the morning. Im a long as serving independence in congressional history into may say why . That i believe most Political Parties are heavily dominated and making millions of working families dont have the life they should be having with the levels of government and i have chosen to be an independent. The democrats civil least annette and i begin my political career are running for the United States senate on a thirdparty ticket end i received the though back in 1971 iran for the third party with 2 down 01 . [laughter] not the trajectory we were hoping but i may not be very bright but i am persistent came back and ran for the senate again against my now colleague patrick leahy. He wanted and i lost a leg up 4 in the threeway race then two years later iran for governor in elections every two years in vermont and i got 6 p
So i think you have to be judicious about it and i think also whether you choose to run within the Democratic Party or outside the Democratic Party, this i do believe that i think the republican agenda, tax breaks for alien heirs and savage cuts engage the middle class and working families, these guys really do want to take us back to the 1920s where if you are old and poor you are on your own, no healthcare for you didnt matter workers had no rights, do not underestimate, these are serious people, they are not fooling around. They want to take effect to the 1920s to to a darker part of society for a handful of very wealthy people. I think their views, their ideology is way out of touch with what the American People will be. . We did not have the option of not fighting. We can beat them. Nobody believes in the ideology. Nobody thanks that children in america should not have health care, that workers should not have rights. [applause] they are a fringe movement, it is the democrats have
I know the presiding officer of the president would agree with that. The department of internets incredible broad portfolios. It is responsible for managing our nations public lands, our National Parks, our National Wildlife refuges. And overseeing mineral and Energy Development on our public lands and in our federal waters offshore making sure that the taxpayers of the United States owns. Resources that the public, the trust so ensuring also that tribal insular and attending to what are our insular affairs. And the secretary of interior manages a large part of Water Resources in western states, again which another providing officer know so well because s theyre so many issues, the president know so well because there are so many issues related to drinking water, hydroelectric facilities that affect millions of our citizens. So it is a farreaching andes diverse portfolio and it requires the secretary to take into account not only the demands of the extraction industry, the oil and gas