For the few. And but it doesnt take away from the fact that we are people and we serve in this institution and we have some areas of agreement one day and the collide scope changes the next day. To the point where people are always surprised when i say to them, i pray for the Congress Every day and on sundays especially, i pray for our colleagues, our republican colleagues, as well as our democratic colleagues, as well as the president of the United States, barack obama, or george w. Bush, or whoever he may be, because the success of the president and the success of all of us is the success for the American People. If we can Work Together to find Common Ground for the public good. And when i pray for all of us, i pray i have wishes for us. I wish that i wish that my republican colleagues could see how successful the Affordable Care act is in california. I wish you could hear the stories of family after family after family being liberated, freed from the constraint, a job loss because a
Founders to justify their own meanspirited, short down, pro shutdown ideology. What senator cruise doesnt understand is the patriots he founded New Hampshire, the patriots he founded maryland did not pray for their president to fail, they prayed for their president to succeed. [applause] delivernt intelligence, they didnt belittle earnings. They actually aspired to it and they hoped others would as well. They did not appeal to americas fears, they brought forward bravery and they would never have abandoned the war on war on to declare a women, war on workers, war on immigrants, a war on the sick, and a war on hungry children. [applause] i know that people like mitch inell and kelly ayotte know they have been trying to distance themselves from the tea party ever since they nearly drove our country into default. But the truth is, sadly, there is very little difference today between the tea party and so called mainstream republicans. Just ask terrell shea porter. Just ask annie custer. Th
Other of us has been contacted about dealing with something when the other of us was with already running a parallel investigation to that kind of activity which provided absolutely critical information to resolving that particular case. The other thing to keep in mind for the American People is these investigations are really hard because of the difficulty in getting asterisks about who finish attribution about whos actually doing it. But with dedicated investigators, we have brought town a number of these bad actors. Can i just add a word, senator . Ive worked a lot of different kinds of investigations in my career, career, and when youre doing a la cosa nostra investigation, you can deconflict by calling up each other or setting up a meeting for next wednesday. When the threat is moving as a foe on the does on the internet, theres no time to make that phone call. So the genius of this is the fbi and dhs person are sitting next to each other, they can respond in the way thats needed.
[applause] brahm resnik is an anchor and reporter for 12 news, the nbc. Ffiliate in phoenix he has reported on politics and government at the local, state, and federal levels, and has covered every policy issue of consequence in arizona from education to immigration. Please give him a very warm welcome. [applause] great to be here. Welcome to you all. Can you hear me in back . Everything working fine . Good. Lets start with introducing the panel. Robert robb became an editorial columnist for the arizona in 1999 and his columns generally appear three times a week. He also serves as a distinguished associate for the su. Rison institute at a robert robb. [applause] weigel,enter, david political reporter for slate. For most of his career, starting at reason magazine, he covered the conservative movement, and was one of the first reporters to embed with ron pauls residential campaign. Yes. Shout out to ron paul. A few of those tonight. [laughter] the rallyorted from in 2009. David weigel. [
Poverty. Now [applause] look to what the Obama Administration is doing on work and marriage. I was campaigning in wisconsin and the state senator came up to me and told me that in wisconsin if you are married and have if you are unmarried and have two children, and you make 15,000 a year, you receive 38,000 in government benefits. If you marry, you lose them all. Do you understand what that and thats not just wisconsin. Its in every state. Its more in some states. You know what that means . That government prohibits, makes it economically infeasible for single moms to marry. It makes it a bridge too far. Because its economically impossible to make it work. And the same thing with work. You heard all the talk about obamacare how its a disincentive to work because the more you work the less your subsidies get. Look at all the welfare programs. Every single one of them, the more you work the lower your benefits get. We have a government right now that is fixated on keeping people unmarrie