Program. You can see this or any of our programs in their entirety at our website cspan. Org. Earlier today Vice President joe biden announcing his decision not to seek the democratic nomination for president. Heres a quick look. As my family and i have worked through the grieving process, ive said all along what ive said time and again to others, that it may very well be that that process by the time we get through it closes the window on mounting a Realistic Campaign for president. That it might close. Ive concluded it has closed. I know from previous experience that theres no timetable for this process. The process doesnt respect or much care about things like filing deadlines or debates and primaries and caucuses. But i also know that i could do this if i could do this if the family wasnt ready. The good news is the familys reached that point. But as ive said many times, my family has suffered loss, and i hope there would come a time and ive said this to many other families that so
After the divisive speaker election. The last point, it is personal. I cannot and will not give up family time. I may not be on the road as often as previous speakers, but i try to make up for it with more time medicating our vision, armitage our message. I said if you can agree to these requests and be a unifying figure, i will gladly serve. Unifying, that will be fine as well. I will be happy to stay where i am at the ways and means committee. Heres how i see it. Thes our duty to serve people the way they deserve to be served. To make the tough decisions this country needs to get the nation back on track. The challenges we face today are too difficult and demanding to turn our backs and walk away. Global terror. War on multiple fronts, a government grown out of touch. Persistent poverty. A scout sluggish economy. Flat wages. A skyrocketing debt. We cannot take on these challenges alone. Now more than ever we must work together. All of us are representatives of the people, all people.
I want us to become the solution. One thing i have learned from my upbringing is that nothing is solved by blaming people. We can blame the president. We can blame the media. That is fun sometimes. We can point fingers across the aisle, blame each other, dismiss our criticism as unfair fire. People dont care about blame. People dont care about effort. People care about results. Results that are measurable. Results that are meaningful. Results that make a difference in their daily lives. I want to be clear, i think we are still an exceptional country with Exceptional People and a republic clearly worth fighting for. The american idea is not too late to save. We are running out of time. Make no mistake. I believe the ideas and principles of results driven commonsense conservatism are the keys to a better tomorrow. A tomorrow in which all gods thanren will be better off they are today. The role of the federal government is not to create dependency but an opportunity for everyone. The idea
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Support. I want to give the congressman a chance to respond. The American People are ned concerned. I think when incidents like what happened in San Bernardino, americans are frightened and they like to their leaders for answers. Ane i think the initial response, my republican colleagues was to go after the refugee program. Thats the panacea, denyingun women and children and old men i and women fromng coming to the United States, who are looking for refuge. That really is not addressing the issue. Getg i think what democrats are focusing on and we had from the get go is a visa waiver program, which weve taken action on in a bipartisan way, a more he thoughtful way and i think also the issue of addressing the issue of access to weapons by terrorists. Weapo by keeping them from getting those weapons the terrorism watch list by a means as to who can purchase weapons. People i recognize the feelings there. The first reasonability of the president and congress is to protect the American Peo