This is just a great country and you want us to do well. The president has said some things that i wish he hadnt said. He said, if you like your dr. , keep it. I joined with andrew. Its not because i am a democrat or republican. I just said, that is fine. Lets grandfather in. If you want to get that first . Dont you think you ought to let me keep it . From Health Care Policy experts, what send senator landry is opposing, some people say could endanger the solvency of the of portable care act the Affordable Care act. You think a 95 fine is going to make all these people join and pay monthly or do you think we will say, you take care. Give me an incentive to want to be healthy. Give me a reason. Dont tell me youre going to find me. Youve got to pay for your grandmother or your aunt or uncle. There has got to be a way to fix this. Dont hunker down and protect yourself full attic late yourself politically. To the politics of congress, you have both mentioned that your former governors. I think there are 10 or 11 former governors the good old days. Governors get things done. It is where the rubber meets the road. How frustrating is it to be in the senate where you work your tails off to get a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill root bill reformed and john boehner says were not even going to let it out. We will tell you it is frustrating. As governors we really bring a problemsolving approach. That is what drives us. I think we add that element to the debate and process. We have a big, wonderful country. To get everyone on board with a solution that works is tough. That is the very point as we are talking about with health care or even as we approach this very challenging budget battle and debt ceiling agreement. We have got to find a way to create bipartisan support. If one party or the other tries to do something unilaterally or ricky much unilaterally pretty much unilaterally, i dont think it will be successful, particularly when we talk about such important things Like Health Care which is about 1 6, 1 5 of our economy. Or the fact that we have to address our mandatory spending programs, our entitlement programs. We have to address the deficit and debt. We are at that point now where we recognize that we have to come together. We need to figure out not only but the administration. The president must join and lead on the situations. If were going to get the support of the american public, is i would agree with all that. My question is, things are not getting done. People are saying that this will be a success if we can keep the government open. The bar has dropped so low that it is of the rocked so low that it is in the basement. He has assured me that he is going to fix that. Our good friend chris christie, he is love him. He said if he had to be in congress, he would kill himself. [applause] [laughter] i called him up and said, hey buddy. There arent any of us that of gone that far. There are a few of us that are on suicide watch. Every now and again you see a glimmer of hope where you can see an opportunity to make a difference in our country. I didnt have that opportunity as governor. We have a caucus now. There are 11 of us. Almost evenly split, ds and rs. Can you imagine if we come to an agreement on what the deal should be and we hang together and we have leadership on both sides . Can you imagine the difference former governments can make saying, it wont work that way. We can change the whole complexion. We hope to do that and bring them to their senses. Every problem that we have in this country, we have created it and we can fix it. We definitely can fix it. I get the skepticism and understand it. I believe we are going to fix it. It is not easy. Not everyone is going to be happy. But i believe we are going to fix it. If you dont have that attitude, what are you doing here . What have been your proudest moment in the senate so far . Getting to work. Getting to the traffic to get to the capital. [laughter] that is the answer we expect but i processed my proudest moment Prescription Drug abuse is a killer in this country. I have been trying to get the fda, for three years, to reclassify schedule three drugs, as far as hydrocodone, to schedule two. The fda would not move. Finally tom harkin and some of my republicans friends. I said, tom, let me show you the problems. We both got on the phone and called everyone from the president s office all the way to Kathleen Sebelius to the fda and they finally agreed. I know we are going to save hundreds of thousands of lives throughout america. That is a pretty proud moment when you can make a difference such as that. I was proud of that. [applause] actually, mine relates to something that joe has worked on two and that is what ive done to support our men and will afford men and women and uniform. The work ive been able to do on behalf of the military and some thats the comeback disabled, those kinds of things we worked on student loans. It was former governors have set down a worked together. We can tell you the solutions. We have made all the mistakes we can make thomas so why dont you take some of our experience. What you mean we made all the mistakes . Come on. We are growing and we need to come together. I see, sometimes, politics, more than not, trumping what is good for our country and government. When politics trumps country, when a democrat or republican is more important than being an american, it have a problem. We had to work with democrats and republicans. We had to work across the aisle. It wasnt, it this is good for your party or my party. It is good for our state. It is good for our country. You can play politics another day. As governors, we never let the government is that the legislature agenda. Whether it is the Affordable Health care act or many things, right . That is right. I emphasized earlier, as we approached the deficit, the administration has a very Important Role to play there. It has to level with the American People that we need to make these changes. For the longterm solvency of programs like medicare and social security. Do you think the president can make that case to the republicans . Can you make any case to the Republican Party at this point . Absolutely. I think we can help and i think we can play an Important Role. That is not going to be devoid of leadership in the house or senate or the administration or in we are not going to be effective in getting something done unless we convince our leaders we are on the right track. You still have to work through the leadership of the senate, the leadership of the house, and the administration. We are human. We are going to make mistakes. All you have to say is, im sorry, we were trying to fix things. He wants to Fix Health Care . That is a laudable goal. Some people hunker down and want you to fail. I think theres more good and bad and we have to bring that out. I think we can help. We are human. We will make mistakes but we can fix things because we can because we are here for the right reasons. We have to realize that there is a divide in the country about how we shout how we approach these challenges. More government, less government. Somehow we have to work with the American People so they become part of what compromise it is, whether we are talking about the deficit, health care, immigration reform, any of these issues. We have to bring the American People in in a way where we start to bridge that divide in the country. It is not just a divide in congress. We have to make sure that we have that dialogue with the public where they see, ok, this is the kind of compromise we want and support. Elected officials will respond to that. Wifes we had better get our financial house in order. I think we are exactly. If we do not fix the finances of this country, you can forget about anything else. Get your financial house in order. That is where we come from. We cant give everything to everyone in the world. That we agree on. Thank you for your service. We wish you both the best of luck. I cant wait to be a former governor so i can join your club. [applause] monday, the Senate Homeland Security Committee will examine digital currencies. Biitors will include the tcoin general counsel. Watch on our companion network, cspan 3. Think of the information facebook has on over one billion people. A know your political preference, your sexual preference, all of these sorts of things. If security analyst said, the government had asked you for that sort of information, it would have taken money. It would have taken lawyers. It might have taken guns to get you to cough up that information. We continually do so on social networks. We do not think about the fact that our google searches are tracked. I also write mystery books. I have put the white house and one. My google searches would be very intimidating. Different things for my mysteries. People sitting there with a with their computer inc. They are engaged in a secret activity not knowing there is a big eyeball on the other end keeping track of the things they do. Laurie andrews monday spanthe communicators on c 2. Roomspan puts you in the on congressional hearings, briefings, and conferences, and offering you gavel to gavel coverage. We are cspan, created by the cable tv industry 34 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Now you can watch us in hd. Next on cspan, our series on first ladies looks at the life and legacy of jacqueline kennedy. Followed by white house coverage with Martin Omalley at the jefferson dinner in new hampshire. Then paul ryan in iowa at a friend riser a fundraiser. I think every first lady should do something in this tradition to help the thing that she cares about. I just think that everything in the white house should be the best. The entertainment that is given here. Children are the same the world over and so is our feeling for children. I think it is good in the world, there is quite enough to divide people, so we should cherish the language and the emotion that unites us. Jacqueline kennedys 1000 days as first lady was defined by images, young mother, advocate for the arts, fashion icon
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