To virginia and some scrufffi looking individual shoved a pamphlet at me, kind of like you had no choice but to take it and you and i are old enough to remember mimeograph, the ink came off on my hands and i was getting annoyed but i looked at it, and it said, el salvador, another vietnam. My first protest was against vietnam, and so when i saw el salvador compared to vietnam, i was interested. I ended up going to a meeting, and i volunteered, shoving those same mimeograph sk ed pamphlets into peoples hands trying to elingt people. Who handed out those pamphlets . The committee for solidarity with the people of el salvador, i worked with them for a few months, but then i thought since the Reagan Administration was taking a regional approach to south america, i thought their approach should be regional and they disagreed. Where did the money come from . I wasnt paid. But for the organization . I think it was all donations. But im not sure, i was just a volunteer. Who cared about el salv
Water project. It has been authorized for quite some time that would actually bring water to the Missouri River to the red river valley to the larger communitiesment we have gone through the process at length but we still need to complete the record of decision, the record of decision. Will you look into this . Will you help me work through the bureaucracy to complete that, again, it has been congressionally authorized, but we still have to go through all of the bureaucratic steps to get the record of decision. I believe the dor is supportive. Will you work with me to look into it to see if we can get the record of decision signed which would come to you . I would happy to be work walk on that. Thank you. Again, thank you for coming by my office as well. While the senator from north did a cotes here. I would like to take note of the fact that in our first hearing on gas and i referenced a couple of times in the course of the morning. I was particularly struck by the question thats the
Days and democrats to the same position as republicans that we already had 1. 50 trillion in cuts plus the sequester, that means 2. 50 trillion at the sequester continues, that we have had enough guts and it is only revenues. Where would we be . You have republicans saying only spending cuts, no more revenues. That has to change. There has to be balanced. The Republican Leadership has made a mistake by cementing themselves and saying we will not touch revenue. There have to be revenues in order to address this problem. How do you the republicans to crack on that when theyre not showing any willingness to do that . All democrats want that. How do you get republicans to buy into it . I was a thing over clips from the county i represent. About 8000 employees will get notices that they will be reduced 20 in income. 30,000 meals for seniors are going to be eliminated. And people understand what the consequences are of their absolutely determined position do not have one dime of revenue. Tha
System, and we have found many everything from drug gangs to others who have used guns that the gang members could not have bought but the straw purchaser has. Straw purchasing is done only to get a gun in the hands of somebody who is prohibited from having one. I think we need a meaningful solution to this problem. As substitute we include suggestions, senator gillibrand, to require those that traffic in firearms by wrongfully obtaining two or more firearms, and well give Law Enforcement more effective tools. The substitute also incorporates a number of changes, the result of suggestions from senator grassley and his staff. We have been working on this since january. Tried to be responsive to the ranking members concerns and suggestions, and have reached across the aisle to other senators. As a a. T. F. Whistleblower, senator grassley has been the lead senator in whistleblower legislation, was a a. T. F. Whistleblower, who testifiedlaws are toothless and they can help Law Enforcement
Senator from florida, i know he and i both know, as i hope does every member of this body, just how precious and fragile the freedom is that we enjoy in this country. As president reagan continued in that speech, if we lose freedom here, theres no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. And this idea that government is beholding to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of mans relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for selfgovernment or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan for our lives better than we can plan them ourselves. You and i are increasingly told that we have to choose between a left or right. Well, id like to suggest theres no such thing as left or right. Theres only up or down. Up, mans old age dream, the ultimate and individ