Will actually fight for the men and women of america and not simply for the growing growing growing, power of washington, d. C. Thats what this conference is about, so i want to close the way i started by simply saying to each of you, thank you. Thank you for urging. Nb this< majority to earn the mandate weve been given. God bless you. [ applause ]t thank you very much senator cruz, very much appreciate that. Senator cruz has time forc a few questions, before we go to questions, brief housekeeping update. Representative jordan will be here soon, and was actually able to get off his plane earlier, we are going to have representative jordan coc÷ up, hes going to give a speech about conservative action in the next congress in 2015. And then after him, well have our freshman members of congress have a panel. So as awesome as senator cruz is, please also stick around and dont everybody follow him out the door. Because yourexd going to learn a lot from these house membersy2 about the things
Three three times, twice to iraq and once to afghanistan. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, lets give one more nevada thank you for these nevada heros [applause] ladies and gentlemen nevada stands at a threshold. We live in a state that is transforming before our eyes, the 21st century companies, jobs and technologies that place us at the forefront of innovation and the new economy. Yet we still operate with decades old funding systems and an education structure that will eventually grind us to an inevitable halt. I know. I know that we have the ability, willingness and determination to do what is necessary. We all, i know, we all want to tell our grand children that we were the architects of the new nevada that we were here when nevada needed us most. Those before us rose to the challenges of their time and built a foundation of the state we all love. The centennial celebration highlighted those achievements. But tonight as we close the chapter on 150 years of history, this is our time
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From the American Energy point of view, iraq matters. Youve been there many times. The Central Government collapses and the iranians enrich and the world as a whole suffers. The American People its in our National Security interest not to give these guys safe haven in syria and iraq because the next 9 11 could very well come from that region, is that an is that anover statement or is that in the area of possibility . As i have said in other settings, there are several groups the al qaeda ideology has spread as we have seen. Several of the groups are more dangerous than others. Would you put this at the top . I think at this point in time i would probably keep al qaeda on the arabian peninsula. Director of National Intelligence says he thinks the deterioration in syria now is a direct threat to the homeland. Is he right . If he said it, and if he is assessing that its there now, then i would agree with him. Does that make sense to you . It makes sense they will be a threat to the homela