Eastern. Gloria steinem will speak at the National Press club. She helped found the womens action alliance. Watch her remarks at 1 00 eastern on cspan3. Mrs. Johnson as first lady loved to show off her home. The guests would often formally gather here in the done. In the den. Various heads of state came to visit. We have various things, one of the things she wanted to highlight was the native here. An heritage we have a collection of arrowheads. She had an eye for copper and collected items and had gifts from friends. Mrs. Johnson gave a tour of the house in 1968. She featured the china from mexico picture here. She spent a lot of time at the provided a respite from the turmoil in washington, particularly later in the presidency. The johnsons could come home and make that connection back to the land and this place that they valued so much. Bird johnson, tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan and c span3, also on cspan radio and cspan. Org. Wisconsin congressman paul ryan was in altoona, iowa, his first visit to iowa since the 2012 election where he was mitt romneys running mate. Representative ryan called on iowans to be more skeptical of politicians. We will show you his 20 minute address, he talked about problems with the health care love rollout and how Republican Health care law rollout and how Republican Values can appeal to mainstream voters. [applause] thank you so much. Thanks, jim, appreciate it. Thank you. Hey, everybody. It is nice to be back to see each and every one of you. This is our first time back since the campaign and jan and i left off kim, we say wisconsin through the nose. [laughter] it has been a year. A lot has happened. Jen and i got to come, see old friends, see good memories. Maybe we should come back and do this more often. People are really friendly here, i tell you. [applause] i got this invite for the event in the mail and i thought the mustache thing was pretty interesting. At first, i thought it was an invite from dr. Phil. [laughter] seeing that this is terry s birthday, i wanted to bring something from wisconsin that i thought was appropriate [applause] a little slice of wisconsin with some bransted on top. The packers are pretty popular in iowa, correct . [applause] more so than the vikings, i would like to think. Yeah, ok, maybe not. Sorry. I also want to sit here as i look out, i see three people. I want to talk about terry a little more. I see a guy that has been a workhorse where i work, in congress. I see tom latham who has been working hard. He is one of those guys whos in there fighting every day for the conservative common principles between us, wisconsin, and iowa. I want to thank tom for what he does in congress. Send him back. [applause] the hardest working guys we have. I also want to talk about our good friend Chuck Grassley. We have been seeing a lot of each other recently because we are on the Budget Committee together. We keep making the same argument and because we keep making the arguments we do not have we are not where we need to be right now. Chuck and i think the money that comes through the government is not the governments money, it is your money, the taxpayer cost money presented to the government in the first place. Money that wass sent to the government in the first place. [applause] i want to thank chuck for all the is done. This is a man who has so much respect among congressional republicans. Chuck grassley, i want to thank you for your service. We are indebted to your gratitude. [applause] some people say that president ial campaigns are wrong families. That they are rough, they are ringers. That is not the experience that jenna and my three kids have. We had a delightful experience. Some of the good memories we had were traveling with tim reynolds through iowa. We went down to clinton, iowa, where janets mom is from. We went into the house janet learned to walk in. They had in the kitchen in pencil where jenna and her Three Sisters as she grew up the homeowners kept that there. Is that not good Iowa Cultural values or what . [applause] we are excited about march. One of jennas distant relatives is going to have a statue in his honor put in the capital this year. This is a state that only shares the same kind of values but when we have great memories with. I want to thank each and everyone of you. I want to thank kim, tom, chuck, and all the iowans that it so much for us the last campaign. I want to thank those of you who worked so hard. We didnt quite deliver but on behalf of mitt and myself, thank you very much for everything you did for us. Thank you very much for that. We appreciate it. [applause] we are not here simply to celebrate your governors birthday, we are here to celebrate your states success. Look at what Success Stories we have right here. Terry branstad and kim reynolds came into office over a little more than two years ago. They came in with a split legislature, huge deficit, high unemployment sound familiar . Look what they faced. They faced all these problems and look at what they have done. Iowa is running a surplus. Your Unemployment Rate is down. They passed the biggest tax cut in history. These are leaders this is a man who did not have to do this. He served his state honorably. He served it well and then went and served in another venue, in higher education. He saw liberals come in and do things to his state that he didnt like. So what did he do . He stood back up and went back at it to fix his state and he is done that. That is an example that is wonderful that people in washington can learn from. Thank you, Terry Branstad, for doing this. [applause] for this leadership. Thank you for putting the uniform on again and getting back in the game and scoring some touchdowns. By the way, did you see the wisconsinindiana game today . [laughter] he put principle ahead of pride. He has put prudence ahead of pride. He is putting our principles in practice. You know what, people in washington could use a few pointers, they can learn a lot. I dont know if you have noticed this, but obamacare has had a couple of hiccups. [laughter] dont you remember, we were told we had to pass this bill in order to find out what was in it. Well, here we are. I seem to recall maybe tom can jog my memory here. If i recall, one of the guys who is fighting hard for this law was bruce braley. Do you guys know who that is . Look, this law is doing real harm to real people. This law is taking people and disrupting their lives. Millions of people are getting cancellation notices. Families are seeing premiums go up. The crowd that brought us this website where they had three years to prepare, 500 million to spend, is the same crowd that is poised to take over 16 of our economy the health care sector. President obama said he did not know any of this stuff was going to happen. He said that he had no idea that these problems were coming. We had Kathleen Sebelius come to the committee and say that everything was ready to go. Here is the issue if you outlaw the kind of insurance people actually have, they wont be able to keep those plans. They passed a law three years ago to outlaw the kinds of insurance that people have in their surprise that people dont have that . We talked about that in the 2010 elections. We talked about it in the 2012 elections. We knew all of this was happening at the time. We heard all of the soaring rhetoric and all of these problems and now we see what is happening. The way i see it, there are only two explanations. Either they were being dishonest or they are just incompetent. Frankly, i dont know which one is the worse. I think the left i think they are learning a pretty valuable lesson here. I think the valuable lesson that we are learning here, unfortunately, with all the human Collateral Damage with the obamacare spectacle is that you dont shut out the opposition. You dont cram a bad bill into law. You do not say one thing when you know it is another. And then, when it all blows up in your face, im sorry is not going to cut it. That is the lesson i think they are learning. So, the next time you have a famous politician coming through iowa, breezing through the towns talking about Big Government lets be a little more skeptical. You know, when you take a look at the arguments that were made to sell this law, they were attractive arguments. When i look back at this campaign and believe me, it was a tough loss. It was tough for all of us. We were in a funk for a good six months because we knew the stakes. We knew what we were going to do. We know what we believe. We know what needs to happen to get things done. It did not go our way. That is obviously very frustrating. As i look back at the campaign, i think one of the problems that mitt and i had was arguing against Big Government. In theory. , president obama passed his program in the first two years of his presidency. Nancy pelosi and harry reid were in charge. Those programs did not take effect until this year, things like doddfrank and obamacare. We had a campaign against Big Government in theory. The empty promises. Here is the difference now we have got government in practice. What we are realizing is that the results are nothing like the rhetoric that was used to sell them. We are realizing that this was not always cracked up to be. I wonder if people who know know what they know now what they would rehire these people again . What do you think . When you take a look at these issues honestly, that is where i see optimism. That is where i think we have a chance. This is where i think we have a real opportunity. We are no longer looking at Big Government in theory anymore. We are seeing Big Government in practice. We are seeing the hollowness of these promises. We are seeing these issues as they come forward and we dont like it. Im not talking about we as republicans, but americans. Everyone. What we have to do is that we have to show the country that we are not the Opposition Party but the proposition party. We have to show truth of power, we have to expose these ideas for how hollow they are but we also have to show who we are and what we believe in. I tell you what we still believe in the american ideal in this country. We still believe, as our founders did, that our rights come before government. The declaration says it best, they come from nature, natures god. We still believe that if you work hard and play by the rules in this country, you can get ahead. Thats the american idea. We still believe in that American Dream but the problem is, millions of people dont see it. They dont know they have a crack at it. They dont think their kids will be as well off as they are. I think we understand something that the left does not understand. The people who are really focused on selling Big Government understand. What we understand the american is that the American People dont just want comfort they want dignity. They went the dignity of being a selfgoverning people. Obamacare is just the opposite. I remember all the debates. Chuck grassley can say the same thing. We were in all the debates and they said, it is a new governmentgranted right. Heres the problem. If government is the guarantor of our rights, the government decides how we get that right. Who, from where do we get that right . That is what we are seeing with this Health Care Law. We are seeing choices go down, prices go up, and we have not even begun to see what will happen to the hospitals and the providers. I think next time people will be more skeptical. We are seeing Big Government in practice. And so while they have made it easier to expose these ideas, we have to do even more to make sure they understand who we are and what we believe in. You know, unlike the left, we need to have an mandate that is an honest mandate. We need a mandate and honest competition so that we can have victories, so that we can resuscitate the american idea. We look at this, we are confident in our ideas. We know what fiscal responsibility actually looks like. All you have to do is look at Terry Branstad. Dont spend money dont have, and if you are, get it under control. We know what patient centered health care looks like. Dont wait for the government to tell you what to do. Dont tell the government tell you who your insurer is or what dr. You have to go to. That should be you making that decision. We want all those Health Care Providers competing against each other for our business, not government favoritism. We know what tax reform looks like. Stop picking losers and winners in washington. Lower our taxes for families and businesses so we can keep more of what we earn. [applause] the way it works these days is that you have really high tax rates. Nine out of 10 businesses and i was businesses in iowa and nine out of 10 businesses and wisconsin pay their taxes as individuals. Like all those businesses with 50 to 75 people in industrial parks. The top tax rate now because of obamacare and the other obama taxes is 44. 6 . You know what it is on canada . 15 . 25 in china. Going to 20 in england. We have this tax code where our tax rates are really high. Toyou send your money washington but do some things that we in washington approve of, you we will let you yet some of it back. I have a better idea keep it in the first place. You decide what you do with it because it is your money. [applause] that is what real tax reform looks like. Those are the kinds of things we have to propose an show. We also know what a real war on poverty looks like because it is not the one that has been waged for the last 49 years. Next year is the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty. 15 trillion spent on it and the highest level of poverty ever. 46 Million People in poverty. Washington has gummed up the works. It has made it harder for people to get ahead. The idea of upward mobility is slipping farther away for people who have not seen in generations. We can do better than that. We can restore america as the party of equal opportunity to show how these ideas prevail. We have had Big Government in theory. A lot of people voted for that. We have it in practice. It does not work. One of my favorite economists, it is a fatal conceit to borrow his works. We have these examples. Look at what Terry Branstad has done here. If we follow these examples, if we highlight our ideas, we are going to do this. This is why i am optimistic. This is why i think were going to turn things around in the state and country because we now know what is going to take it is going to take people of courage, conviction, people like Terry Branstad. It is going to take you to keep sending people like Chuck Grassley give chuck somebody else and then the guy who voted for obama care. [applause] i have every confidence that we are going to do this. This is a packed room of people who care about their country that are here to thank the governor for doing what he has done for you. You know what . I am not going to sing a song like that wonderful young man who sang in the beginning of the program here. If they told me i had to start by singing happy birthday. Please all join me to our governor, Terry Branstad. 1, 2, 3. Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear terry happy birthday to you [applause] lets hear it for our governor. Happy birthday. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] paul ryan is from wisconsin, that states kevin or says the idea of president ial nominees should governor says the idea of president ial nominees. Volcker dismissed ryan. Ndidacy of paul Governor Walker says none of those republicans have taken on big reforms. Maryland governor and possible president ial candidate Martin Omalley was in New Hampshire. He was at an annual fundraiser in new Democratic Party hampshire, which traditionally hosts the first president ial primary. His comments are about a half hour. Thank you so very, very much. It is really great to be with so many good friends in New Hampshire. Company of be in the so many good friends in New Hampshire, but so many good friends who are marylanders who have come to New Hampshire. [applause] governor haslam, shaheen thetor shaheen, speaker of house, senator minority leader sylvia larsen, chairman ray buckley, happy birthday, ray. [applause] chair fuller clark, second vice chair solomon, it is an honor to be with you here in the granite state. A place that is very special to me and very special to the people of our country. It is a bedrock staying in more in moren one state ways than one. It is a special honor to be here tonight. [applause] last year, i had the honor to serve as the chair of the democratic governors association. The dgi had atrophic year the no win a terrific year, was as sweet as helping you im governor hassan w and governor hassan win in New Hampshire. [applause] a fantasticould be governor. I am more impressed with how much she has gone done in such a short period of time. Less than one year. You mean people together, a great idea, to create good jobs. Doubling the r d tax credit, strengthening public safety, increasing funding for mental health. Passing a bipartisan, fiscally responsible budget. Making College Education more affordable for more families by freezing instate tuition. All of that in one year. [applause] none of us should be surprised, we know that she had the benefit of following in the tradition and the footsteps of another great governor who served you so very well i