If you are waiting for the next speaker to come, keep in mind that that people sitting next to you may have come to hear the personal at the podium right now. Faith and freedom and cwa always does masterful jobs of bringing people to those things and people honoring the spirit, i guess, of the program. I will also just say, obviously, you know weve had we had some security terrance. So we have taken some pretty pronounced efforts to keep that to a bear minimum. Thank you for dealing with ininconvenience as you have been coming in. As we begin the program, obviously, we are excited to have each of the participants in the program. But we believe that the most important component of this is really to honor and lift up those precepts that we believe made america great. So i would ask that you join dr. W. A. Merit of the southern Leadership Conference of North Carolina to lead us in prayer. Good morning. Its such a wonderful day that god has given us. And each of us have arrived here safely
In my view, ive changed. Ive supported virtually every trade agreement that has come forward. But i do believe that trade agreements arent serving the American People effectively. [ applause ] i know the ideals and the belief in free markets. But our competitors, our business allies but economic competitors, they dont operate the same way we do. So its not a purely level playing field. When president obama signed the korean trade deal with our good friends in south korea, he promised we would increase exports to south korea about 12, 11, 12 billion a year. Last year, since 2011 when he signed, last year we had a 20 million increase. Weve had no increase in our exports to korea. They had a 12, 15 billion increase to us. The trade deficit with korea doubled. Becauses h s hait is hard with kinds of mechanisms to export to china and korea, but we opened our businesses and it results in a flood of imports, often manipulated through currency to make them more expensive than they are in the U
Streamingllantly and the rockets red glare bursting in air nightroof through the that our flag was still there starspangledat banner yet wave oer the land of the free the brave . [applause] please welcome to the stage from the great state of tennessee, representative marsha blackburn. epresentative blackburn good morning. I am absolutely thrilled to be here with you this morning. How wonderful to see how many ready to bes to get equipped and get ready for the battle. This is a fight that we have to win. Being here, you were laying the foundation for going out there and being the first soldiers. We are conservatives. We know if we focus on personalities, you lose every time. If you focus on the issues and the constitution, we win. We want to bring you uptodate on what would were doing in the house of representatives. Everybody remembers the videos that came out last year. With every video, we got a withe bit more insight abortion. We got a view of doctors who are willing to sell body pa
Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome the National Direct their of the freedom are youill stop encouraged . Are you feeling it . You understand now why we pulled and invited people to participate, at least for me, incredibly encouraging to hear and see and feel and reach out and touched the actual people who carry the very burdens that we ourselves carry and our own hearts and minds. So thank you for those remarks. Making it happen. As the senator just told us. It is a different animal. It is a different skill set. We want quick results. We want fast, urgent, immediate results. He know what . Sometimes the longterm results take a longer game. A longer perspective they had just one congressional cycle. One is election cycle. Next presentation is going to come from a gentleman that understands that intrinsically. The United States senate is a complicated body. The personalities involved are sometimes elaborate personalities. The rules themselves are nuanced and intricate. The poli
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