Agriculture. Across this state, communities are coming together working on Kindergarten Readiness and thirdgrade reading. We had the first tuition raise in 14 years. Today 95 of all oregonians have Health Insurance coverage. Tens of thousands of them for the first time and they dont have to choose between the utility bill and taking their child to the doctor. They are healthier and happier and more productive on the job. Together we have delivered for oregon, but we have more to do. It requires leadership based on values and based on the belief that we are all in this together. Based on the belief that oregon will be a good place for any of us to live. It requires the ability to bring people together to tackle these problems as a community. We have brought our state together over the past four years. We have delivered for oregon. We cannot allow ourselves to return to the divisiveness of the past. This is about values, the ability to deliver. Im john kitzhaber, and im asking for your v
Recently, it has only become much worse. Big government progressives are interested in marginalizing, dividing and silencing critics who provide a different point of view. They believe solutions are found in the federal government. We believe the American People have the answers. There are three institutions i believe in first of all, the family. Second of all, the church, and third, the government. Each one of these institutions play a very significant role and if they are out of balance, things can go wrong. The family has to be strong. We have to have fathers and the home. Divorce rates need to be lower. We need to love and support singleparent families. The church has a Critical Role in our communities. They need to have Community Awareness and involvement, supporting the family, building character in young people. If those two are filling their appropriate roles, the government will fill its appropriate role. National defense, infrastructure, when i think about what xm america gre
I believe washington is taking her country in the wrong direction. For the past eight years, congressman bruce braley has been their voting with nancy pelosi, higher taxes, bigger government, wall street bailout, obamacare. This is his record. He cant defend it so he is running a negative campaign. Washington has failed. I believe in the iowa way. I believe that iowans what is best for iowa, more than politicians and washington, d. C. Our workingclass families deserve better. I will fight hard. Our generation has worked hard for our american dream. As your you next United States senator, i will fight washington to make sure more americans can achieve that dream. Thank you for your opening remarks. We will move on to the questions. In this particular section, each candidate will have one minute 15 seconds to ask answer questions. There will be a chance for a rebuttal. Joni k. Ernst receives a first question. Lets talk about some of the negative things that have been raised in the that y
Tom harkin. They have woken up to a whole that shows joni k. Ernst leading with 44 . We will dig deeper into those poll numbers. A little bit of housekeeping. Our format will change. Toincludes a chance for you tweak us your questions to ask the candidates. Iadebate. Uld use each candidate will get 90 seconds. Our coin toss determined that bruce braley will go first. Thank you for moderating tonight. I want to thank the Des Moines Register and kccitv. I want to thank the viewing audience here. Thank you, senators. I am bruce braley. I grew up in a workingclass home in a small farm town. My mom is a schoolteacher. Elevatorn a grain before dying. For the Des Moines Register. I got my first job in the third grade grade i worked a lot of different jobs to pay my way through law school. Wife and we have been together for 30 years. Senatenning for the because i am going to stand up for eyewitness, which is what ive been doing 30 years. I will work with anyone who has a good idea that is good
For example the fair land fair labor standards act case. I believe they were would unit be unanimous in. Unanimity. Theres agreement, broad agreement on the method of looking statues and you might see more agreement in those areas in the hotbutton issues that have more interpretive play. It ebbs and flows. Other panelists know these cases better than me but in cases involving the Voting Rights act and affirmative action or Campaign Finance the court and justice it brought robbers was able to achieve near unanimity only to find issue basically returned to the court a couple of years later when the court fractures deeply over the constitutional role. I think some of the justices were not pleased with how things played out in the long run. The dynamic changes over time. I agree with some of the legal cases does factor in. People get lawsuits by the frustration but when they take extreme positions that causes the unanimity as to some of the cases they were considering. They tend to unanimo