They are just adding names to this. If there was a way for you or other community leaders, to add to this growing item, because of you know the people, they want to know them also, and nine times out of 10, there is not a there and maybe youppening would be able to influence it by bringing together a group. Getting activeat power often means getting types of power oftentimes mean is that there are a lot of people who have power. In order for new people to have it, other people have to relinquish them and that will take all of us to really come to terms with what that means and i hope that we are all of to the challenge. Just to the comment on the erosion of democracy, i wanted to share that. The elections we see Strong Political participation. President ial elections it is somewhere in the mid 40s. To me that says when we see that we have people who represent us and take on issues relevant to our daily lives than we come out. I think there is a lot that we can do and i think this is a
Though the statute clearly said here is the deadline. There was this backdrop of not trusting the president and immigration was part of it. Part of the aca was part of that whole debate. Going into next year, look, we will not have a big bill. We will not have the senate will again. I look at it as a combination of an everify, Border Security and an ag fix it will be some mix like that. Youve got a train with little caboose on it. The train is moving along but it is split up into different parts. What will go on that versus one big bill like the senate bill was. Maybe its high scale Border Security and everify and some other mix of that. I dont think Border Security first will fly in the senate because the democrats will want more out of of order security there is the fear that once congress does Border Security its another 10 years before they will come back to revisit it. It is substance and policy but also politics. Is ted cruz going to be the next president or will hillary . Or is
Candidate to speak at the iowa state fair. The Des Moines Register political soapbox. They heard from Mike Huckabee earlier. Jim webb here. And later today, democratic candidate Martin Omalley of maryland. Opening up the phone lines to get your thoughts. We expect to hear more from jim webb as he makes his way out of the soapbox area. The numbers are on the screen. He started off his comments talking about his vietnam war. Webb not only served in his vietnam war experience. Jim webb not only served in the vietnam war, but also as the u. S. Navy secretary in the reagan administration. He wrote about his experiences in the beirut war. He is a former senator from virginia serving one term for the commonwealth. He married he is married with six children and enter the race this summer on july 2. We get underway here on cspan with our road to the white house coverage today, this weekend, and into all next week with the iowa state fair. We expect to hear more from jim webb in a bit. Carol,act
Whate of the big issues is would mandatory everify due to the agricultural industry, where even the industry acknowledges that over half of their workforce is undocumented. That does not mean a necessary know it, but it is true. What would that do to the industry . Would it shut it down . There is this issue circulating around that. The long and short is we support mandatory procedures with certain conditions. Theave negotiated with conservative House Republicans on this issue. I still have my job. It is a new mandate on our members. I wanted to ask you a completely different question. Just before the senate votes for , the Senate Majority leader gave a press conference. He mentioned the trust issue, that the president had poisoned the well. Address if you might looking ahead to after 2016. How might a new president proceed on this issue . You have two fronts to concern yourself with, one is trust. The other is policy. How do you feel that might work with a new president . I that is a
Deduction Retirement Plan through work and plan design, automatic enrollment. So, tax reform, i think can compliment those features. But we shouldnt lose sight of that. Those are two key things that we need to continue to push forward with. With respect to tax reform, one thing i would say is that we need to, i think in order to have impact in that debate, we need to talk about what it means for additional savings, what it means in the context of tax reform which is focussed on making tax cuts simpler, making it more efficient, its going to be focused on pro growth and focused on making it fairer. So i think with respect to retirement saving incentives, we can hit all of those buckets. We can come up with a tax system, savings incentive system, that is fair, simpler, and that is progrowth. We need i think thats key argument. Savings is a progrowth proposal, right . It is a progrowth part for the economy. And i think we need to emphasize that. In my case, one thing im interested in is r