In every be engaging possible way to get this under control. Hezbollah is tied up in this. The future of israel is tied up in this. We want israel to survive and ross burke for everything that it stands for. We want to bring a peaceful solution for the palestinians in the area. What is going on in syria affects that. Lex i believe that if the United States is to maintain its position as a world power and dominates as a world power dominates as a world power, we nate as a domi willpower, we need to Pay Attention to syria. It is unfortunate that we did rwanda. Rvene its in we have to recognize that this is a sensitive region of the syriaand what we do in or, what we do not do, may be a lack of u. S. Response to save lives. I do believe that International Allies need to be engaged. The United States should end straight leadership. Our allies should provide support to the people of syria. Thank you. Obamase in resident cautious approach. I think that assad has to go all stop i do not think that we should push for democracy. He is a dictator. He has to go. We have a question of chemical weapons being used and the Human Rights Violations that are going along with that. Thisd to make sure that requires certain action but United States. Because of this cautious troops, someground arms to rebels, figuring out who is prodemocracy. Arming international organizations, like we did in libya. We should reject the United Nations and we have, to some extent. Russia has a potential veto and could use the veto in the security council. I would take caution. I would respect the president for what he is trying to do because he understands what needs to be done. I think there is a lot of agreements tonight. I want to make a few more points. Assad must go. Andust be done in a sober deliberate way so that we do not cause more problems in the long andlike we saw in the early immediate. We need to make sure that we do everything we can to support other nations that have been destabilized from refugees and others going into their country. That means looking at lebanon, turkey, as well as israel. America does not need to act alone. We have learned this the hard way in our history that if we go it alone, we put ourselves in jeopardy. When asked in a community of countries that share the same values, we can be a lot more effective. We can bring back stability to a region that is way too unstable. Thank you. An important factor to be with the next senator of new jersey is who has the experience and sophistication to deal with international questions will stop i talked about the complicated situation in that part of the world. If you pull on one, it pulls through jordan, saudi israel,egypt, palestine, and a rant, anorak, andurkey and iran iraq, and turkey. I sent a letter to the president saying that he should ask the new iranian president if he is good to his word. He did appoint someone i know from their time at the United Nations as foreign minister. And gives us time to work with a ran on these competent matters it gives us time to work with matters. Hese important on capitol hill, in the last notle of sessions, we have seen a lot of experience or sophistication. I think our next senator should be someone who has the ability to examine a broad range of issues. Internationally, to weigh out the sensitivity of these issues. Protecting our National Interests and understanding that we pay a dear price in not investing in domestic challenges. At the same time, maintain our position as the world leader. And theour challenge responsibility of the next u. S. Senator. For our next question, i want withend the domestic foreign relation issues. There is no better place to do that than china. A rising power. A true economic superpower. Many wonder how the United States should position it self going forward. The chinese show an inclination to challenge American Military forces around the world in some measured fashion stop is the United States wellpositioned to deal with the reality of a rising and competitive china . Our position and stance with the chinese . I have confidence in the American Worker and the American Economy is number one in the globe. I know we can continue to lead in that manner. We have to make sure that we are all played by the same walls and there is fairness. Back to the issue of china, it is not a bad thing that they are rising. Im telling you, what were seeing with china is that they are often not willing to play by the same rules. Whether it is with their currency. Whether it is with their copyright infringements if america. Whether it is about paying their workers a fair wage that reflects humanitarian interests. Feel very area i strongly about. We can compete and this. We need to turn our attention, as a country, to making our domestic economy stronger. We invest in research and development. There are real things that we can be doing to grow our economy and make it stronger. Congressman whenever we sent a trade agreement with another country, like we did with china, we should not ask what are the for products entering and leaving the ports. What is acceptable behavior. And workers rights. In human rights. We did not do that with china. With tradeo that agreements elsewhere. Negotiating with them on their currency manipulation and making a little bit of headway. Their currency manipulation has hurt us badly. Our outsourcing has hurt us badly. In just in lost jobs, but, an inferior merchandise and dangerous merchandise. Dangers of equipment that we have been getting through the chinese shoddy manufacturers. We have to stand up to their adventurism around the oceans and the world. China has emerged as an economic power because senators and members of the u. S. House of andesentatives enacted laws influenced the regulatory process to permit our commerce, our manufacturing, and our jobs. That we haveecades turnover products in our homes and seen made in china on the bottom. There are places around the world with a can bolster investment. Individual investors look to china as a way to grow their wealth. That is how we got to the situation with china. When you look at the pollution that hovers over many of the large cities, to the detriment of the people who live there, chinas policies as they relate to women and the inhumane. Reatment of women that having the legal system dealing with women. We created that on capitol hill. We have to be worried about the unfairness of china. Not open up their markets to american goods. It is an unfair trade practice. They put up barriers, and various ways, to our exports and make it difficult to export. They constantly subsidize and make it easy for their manufacturers to produce things and send them to the United States. The best example is renewable resources. I believe that we should be Manufacturing Solar panels and Wind Turbines here. The marketrnering because they subsidize those industries and make a cheaper for export. We have to get tough. They are working over us, when it comes to the economy. We have an obligation in the United States senate. We have jurisdiction over treaties. We have to make sure that these treaties operates in a fair way. I hear a lot of the fair a lot of the same views. We have to make sure china plays by the same rules. Humaneht, trade, treatment of workers. We need to look at home. We have an incredible nation where we said that we can build our local economy strong. People tell me that manufacturing is dead in america, we showed, in newark, that with the right strategy manufacturers can grow jobs and grow exports. If we be done in america have a congress that makes more investments in workforce training and education. Research and development. Investments these revised huge returns for the American Economy. If we focus on growing strong and home, america will thrive. Thank you. Point. Pick up on that america is a strong nation. The strongest in the world. The wealthiest in the world. We are not second in manufacturing. China has caught up. We can prevail around the world. Throught have to do it military force, although we must make sure that we check chinas projection of military force. Working with india and southeast asia, working with our own strong workforce and our reduction capabilities production capabilities, we can prevail. And besthe strongest educated workforce in the world. We have a great production the ability. We should be aggressive in going around the world and not letting china by up all of the rare earth its. Elements. Arth i go to decision on capitol hill. Everyone looked in awe when chinese investors bought the Chrysler Holding in new york city. We now know that a significant amount of real estate in manhattan is owned by the chinese. Acquire somelt to of the most critique and real estate that exists. The reason we have a situation with china is because of the backslapping that goes on on capitol hill between and amongst members of the congress who would rather cut a deal, make some investments, instead of looking out for the benefits of the citizens that live in this country. I think it is time for the senate to reflect a different kind of a standard. The only winning you do that is to the unitedple States Senate who are going to change the paradigm. That there are lessons they can be learned from china, in terms of our domestic economy. They are making huge investments. One of the problems in washington is due to the tea party. The tea party wants to have a sequester an acrosstheboard cuts. With to stop that mentality. We are investments to infrastructures we have to stop that mentality. We have to make investments to infrastructure. Development, we have used our strack structure our tax structure to bring back jobs from overseas. Chinese used cap structured and subsidies to encouragement and faxing. Manufacturing can come back to unite states, but we have to encourage it. Companies cannot move their money overseas. Companies will stay here and ofufactured here because transportation cost. Were not doing that. We have to make a difference. That let me to where i want to go. There are those who say that it is time for america to do something to jumpstart our economic recovery. 162,000 jobs disappointed wall street. We had to do something with our tax code to reflect the need of a modernday economy. I harken back to the days when i was a young reporter covering bill bradley who came up with the fair tax. Tax code thate people were paying in the 1980s. As a time to tear apart that tax it timeisnt care is to tear apart the tax code . We are not a poor nation. The mentality in washington has become, we cannot do this or that. All we can do is provide the village to the fortunate p rivilege to the fortunate. The high jobless rate that we infrastructureng , we can afford to take care of all those things and we cannot afford not to. It requires making sure that those who can pay, those who have benefited from our economy, and their fair share. That is not happening. Take the a gentle of Social Security, were talking about how Social Security is going to go bust. Im saying that millionaires and billionaires should pay the same be rate and we will not talking about Social Security solvency. It will be solid and we can raise benefits. We absolutely need to simplify the tax code in this country. It is to consultative. And, workingclass and middle class families bear the brunt of the burden. We have a lot of things through the tax code to provide incentives and writeoffs to large corporations. Those corporations do not reinvest in our economy. Discussed the practice of an international company, a National Chain in the United States that is significantly present in new jersey. A order to get around loophole they claim their tax credits, they hire people and an hour. 8. 25 they retain those workers until they solidify those tax credits and then they lay them off. This is possible because of our tax code. We need to jumpstart the economy. Effort to tea party cut across the federal government and it is killing us and slowing growth. Ok . Funds byring in more reforming the tax code. I believe that Everyone Needs to pay more and it should not be on the backs of working families. Corporations need to make it more every contribution. President obama suggested that we may be able to lower the cap the Corporate Tax rate if you reform the tax code. They pay more, even though they are paying a lower rates. They do not have all the loopholes. Take the companies that are spending money overseas and reform the tax code. Given encouragement to manufacture here. Give them encouragement to manufacture here. The citiesey back to to prevent layoffs of the police and firefighters. We need to do this again. You,dont have hair like but issues like this make you want to pull it all out. We have incredible growth, how do i know that . Because we did in new york newark. Creating thousands of jobs in newark. Wethe manufacturing sector, knew we had strategy to make it grow. Even super bowl even for small businesses, we had to increase the access to the capital pool. That helps 50 or 60 is this is growth. Congress doing the obvious things that we need to grow our economy . Yes, we need to fix the tax code. We need to make it simpler. We can in best in research and development. We can do the things that i noted to happen. Even moreing can grow robustly. Thank you. Need to invest. Invest has fallen in di sfavor in washington. There is such a thing. If we invest in infrastructure, nation. Be a weathier that is the way it was with the g. I. Bill. It paid back many times over. Need to be doing now. Invest in our Public Schools. Making them accessible for motivated and prepared students to go to college. I am working with elizabeth we haveo make sure that the lowest possible Interest Rates for Student Loans for prepared students to go to college. We can do that. We do not need to have the Interest Rates that we have now. Yes. Something that is a concern to me is that when you look around the country, we have significant numbers of aging suburban communities that once had stabilized tax rates and tax renewables. Those things are gone. It is time for the federal government to work with the president and governors of states to move forward a economies of crosses country. I use new jersey as an example. Despite what you read about the bureau of labor statistics and what you hear about job ofation, significant numbers people in newark, trenton, asbury park, people continue to be unemployed in the state. The jobs being created here are not jobs that are providing livable wages and one of the highest wage states in the country. References to congress being broken. I mentioned in my opening remarks will stop i believe that we can get things done in congress. Remarks. I believe that we can get things done in congress. Not the tea party. I believe they are the problem. But, there are mainstream republicans and we have to reach across the aisle. Majority inare the the house. Find the moderates and explain to them that we have to get rid of the sequester. This is with the president was talking about in his speech. A grand bargain, or deal, we must do things to affect the tax rate. We have to get rid of these tax loopholes. We would invest money in the economy grow jobs that have good benefits. We can make cuts. Rational cuts. Not across the board cuts. Final word. Congressman pallone is a noble person and has worked hard to do the things that he said. Im telling you that we need to act. The media do a deed of point. 33 of all the fromopment in the state the commercial developments going on in newark right now. That is because we have a speaker that helped out with that. Thats because the government a governor, will i disagree with on most issues, who helped. Were bringing Community Activists together and extending apprenticeships for our kids. What im saying is that we can get this done. We need to have people who can bring people together in washington and bridge divides. We can do this. It is not time for excuses. There are too many people suffering in a tough economy. It is time for action and getting things done. The next question will go to madam speaker. To stay on investment. Rather than taxes, lets talk about education. View the most important investment in the future as educating our children. It is something that is talked about. However, changing it from washington has not been affected. No child left behind has left a lot of children kind will stop behind. We need a National Agenda. System. Ic educational the Community College system. The university system. Leadership is required at the federal level. The challenges presented do not have the expectation that washington weeks away. The demographics are different. The profiles and economies of the states are different. The federal government cannot craft a National Agenda that is going to reflect the needs in each particular state. Without question, one of my references to science, technology, engineering, and math. We need to make broader investments. We need to make sure that our correct loans curriculums reflect those investments. Advocated aen School Modernization program where towns and counties can apply for grants to repair schools, like transportation. We should be sending money back to schools. We did this a few years ago after the recession. We did this in 2000 and nine 2009. In terms of no child left behind, it has misfunctioned in many ways. The rating ofd schools. We need to invite teachers with skills and provide Better Qualified teachers. That is where the government can play a role. I do have to say, and our istrict, with