Than 29 hours a week. Think about how ridiculous it is to say stay small. That means, dont hire, dont expand the inventory dont put more stuff on the shelf, and fewer people have jobs. The Unemployment Rate is less than it was a lot of people that used to have one good paying fulltime job member of work to fulltime or parttime jobs now have to work two parttime jobs. That is not economic advancement, my friends. [applause] endorsement and congressman keene mentioned that i am an advocate of the fair tax. It is fair and familyfriendly and flat, and the only plan, a and well researched plan, that does something that more than ever we must do to save the Great Republic and that is get rid of the Internal Revenue service. End the irs. [applause] this week, the president said that his proposal is to start taxing people that stated for their kids education. I am scratching my head. You took it to a new government sanity when he said that she told see it to a new level of insanity when he said he wants to give free college to everybody. Does anybody else get the disconnect here . Will distribute somebody elses money and punish people that did not get a boat or a Vacation Home because they put that money in a savings account for their kids or grandkids to go to college while saying they want more people to vote in college. With the people that made sure. We punish the people that made sure. When they dont about the minimum wage when they talk about the minimum wage, why would you propose that americans that were hard wood best have a wage that would be called minimum. Why are we not talking about getting people not to win minimum wage for a maximum wage . Here is how this works. We need to get the minimum wage to 10, the ceo says it will close a halfmillion jobs but say that is not the worst. Can anyone live on 10 an hour . No. When people asked me if i support the minimum wage, i support Something Better than that, the maximum weight. That wage. And here is how it works. I asked him what he would like to make it our . An hour . Lets find what jobs pay 50 an hour and get you train to take those jobs and instead of a minimum wage you will be making a maximum wage and we need to talk about how to get people who reach for the stars instead of diet for the floor. Dive dive for the floor. [applause] if we really want to make some sausage, one of the critical things is to redistribute our because the founders never intended that so much power would be centralized in washington in the federal government. I got your many people saying this do not hear many people saying this, but they like it and they want tuesday. To stay. Washington, d. C. Has become a moto. Check in the roach. Motel. People check in but they dont check out. [applause] washington would have been a king but he went too far. M. It is time to the leadership in this country and we say that if we have to limits for the executive branch, we need to limits for the legislative branch so that you cannot stay in the congress a career and make congress a career. You will go, you will serve, and you will go back home and move under the laws that you pass for the rest of us. Welcome to america. And by the way, i think we ought to have i know this will be controversial but i will stand and tell you why it will work. We determine limits not only for the need term limits for the judicial because no one to where a black ought to wear a black robe for the rest of their lives and believe they are unaccountable. [applause] let me say thank you for iowa because you had some judges that the door you and you sent the home that that would ignore you and you sent them a home. We need to move the power to the states. The founders that only established it in the constitution, they were so afraid someone would mess it up that the edited 10th amendment saying that if there they added the 10th amendment saying that if there is not a power specifically of the constitution, it resides with the states. Why is the federal government getting involved in an issue where there is no mention in the constitution education . There is no federal role in education. [applause] and instead of common core, we need to apply some common sense and a good dose of constitutional law and andend it. Some of you of her huckabee supports common. May have heard it that might huckabee supports common core. What common core might have been, it has worked into a awrped into a frankenstandard and anyone who tells you that i support common core is being dishonest. And that is ok. But the artist because i have written it 100 times be honest because ive have written it 100 times and him saying it to you. Education is not a federal function, it is a local function. It should be the decision of mom and dad and not the government and your choice whether you want to homeschool, send to government schools, or private schools. [applause] and i cannot say strongly enough that we need to return to that simple understanding that the constitution frames for us in the process of our government. I got into trouble was week, not for the first time this week, not for the first time. Because i said that one branch of government does not reserve the other two usurp the other two. Ninthgrade civics for those of you who took it. There are three branches of government and all are equal. One does not override the other. How many of you are unhappy when the president says i have a phone and a pen . Well, i have a constitution, and it says you cannot act independently. It is tough work, it is sausage making, but you have to go to the legislature and persuade the people to pass a law that you can sign and enforce and the drug. You if it the judge will tell you if it conforms to the constitution. And if the law does not conform to the constitution, it does not immediately be calm the law of the land become the law of the land because the court cannot make a law. They are the supreme court, not the supreme being. That means they are the highest court but they have to work in concert with the legislative and executive branches. That should not be hard. If you think i am pessimistic about america, i am not. I am optimistic. And it part of it is because what i see happening in this room today. Hundreds of people gathering to hear speaker after speaker and still having enough energy to put hands together and clap. [applause] [laughter] i find it amazing. What amazes me even more is the dedication that fellow americans have protect and preserve our freedom. [applause] last week, my wife and i were in the atlanta airport. Were having a bowl of soup. A gentleman came up and not beside the table and gave me an artist knelt besides the table and give me an earnest look. He says that he wants to thank me. He says, i am a soldier. I am a green beret. And he says, a lot of my friends appreciate you standing up for us and speaking out for us. And i listened to him and i said, young man, you cannot understand. Do not understand. You should not be thanking me. I am thanking you. Every breath of free air i enjoy is because of folks like you that put on the uniform and dodge bullets and bombs. I have not done anything. You are the one. [applause] i talk on television. It is not that hard. I have run for office, that is kind of hard. I have gone, that is really hard governed, that is really hard. What the men and women in uniform do every single day is not just hard. What they do is the impossible. If we all anyone our owe anyone our profound thanks, it is not like me or the others that came on the stage. While i appreciate the applause and accolades, i want to tell you something. We need to all remember that the real american heroes are not politicians. They are the soldiers, sailors marines, the members of the coast guard, the members of the air force, will keep us free and keep this country the greatest land on doctors. Gods earth. Thank you and it is an honor to be with you tonight. [applause] you want more . There are not any more. The is literally there is literally no one left. I am overwhelmed by green day and hope most of you by today and hope most of you are as well. This was an unprecedented event in iowa and the United States, there has never been an event with as many people speaking in one day. It is a testament to the iowa caucus and two steve king. To steve king. [applause] i am so honored to be standing here with him. I am going to do a couple of pieces of housekeeping. I want to thank everyone who came to spend the day with us, we could not have done it without you. I want you to take what you learned today and put it to us e. I want to thank the staff, they worked unbelievably hard. Julie, who is here somewhere. Julie, you did an amazing job you when your team did an amazing job. The Citizens United staff, the crew exemplify professionalism in putting Something Like this together. I am honored that the cosponsors helped us out. Tom cole media, red state alcohol media, red state. Thank you for supporting us. We look forward to seeing you again next year. Maybe just before the caucus again. I want to say one last thing Mike Huckabee will be doing a book signing in the hallway. Go out and turn right, he would love to have you come and visit and have a chance to look at his new book god, guns grits, and gravy. Which i do not need any of what i love them. But i love them. I would reiterate the things that dave said. But put in more four dave. This does not happen without dave and his organizational ability. Whatever i may do, he laid the schedule at and make sure we stay on it. The speakers came a long ways to deliver a message, most are coming back to iowa again and again and again. And so i asked you a question this morning from this stage and it was, you believe the next president will be speaking from the stage . My question is, do you believe the Vice President did speak maxed president did speak from the stage . [applause] jubilee the next Vice President spoke from the stage do you believe the next Vice President spoke from the stage . What about the cabinet . Is it a hard choice . It is a hard choice but you get to weigh in. Lets take this seriously and get candidates there do and opened the doors their due and opened the doors. Lets pull this together so that we can boldly country together. Whole the country together. Thank you very much. [applause] the iowa Freedom Summit wrapping up a short time ago. On the bottom of the screen we are enjoying your thoughts on the event. We have asked you to weigh in on facebook on candidates you would like to see. Cindy writes, still waiting on someone inspired but no cruz or rubio. Stephanie says, there is no republican that will for the middle class work for the middle class. You will have another chance to see senator cruz at the event in iowa and other featured speakers tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern when we will reair portions of the event on cspan. On tomorrows washington journal, we continue to look at the 2016 president ial race with steve and fergus. They will discuss potential gop candidates and how iowa and New Hampshire factor into the process. Then we will hear from a democratic strategist will discuss who will discuss beehives these seems moves. The scenes moves. There are a few of the comments we have received on the state of the union address. I heard a lot of great things talking about science and nasa. As a scientist i can appreciate the president s position on expanding nasas role. There are great people who do good science. It is exciting to look to the future. A couple of points i wanted to raise. I thought the rebuttal he gave to the republicans off the golf was really spectacular cuff was spectacular. I am happy to see that after 50 years of doing something the wrong way, were opening up trade with a nation that has been important in the hemisphere since the inception. But the same thing with foreign policy, we have been doing the same thing in afghanistan and iraq and the middle east as a whole and have been getting the same results. Every 10 years be going away country and there is a repercussion we go into a country and there is a repercussion. And he said that he is using drones responsibly, and the idea that he has killed hundreds or thousands of people without congressional authority. Christ a few things if you things about the state of the union address. I actually have to argue the opposite because they have said that unemployment has gone down, the economy is improving. I do not thin that is the case because people have to remember, with unemployment, you can only have your extension for so long and then you do not qualify, so when those people get dropped they are no longer counted as unemployed. That is not really an indicator of the economy going up, it is just people falling through the cracks. If you look at it from thatperspective, the rate of unemployment is probably 10 point something percent higher than it is estimated at as far as the figures continue to let us know what youre thinking. Call us, email us, or send us a. During the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Christ cspan, created by Cable Companies and brought you as a public service. Of the eye is the senior republican on the federal Communications Commission and he is our guest. Welcome. The debate on that neutrality is a moving target right now with hearings on the hill and the sec getting ready to do something. What has the debate work into it this point . First, thank you for having me on. You picked a good time. The agency is embroiled in highprofile issues. The Net Neutrality debate has morphed into a political football which is unfortunate because it obscures common ground, mainly that everyone believes in a free and open internet. And i embrace the internet freedoms the freedom to access lawful content, the freedom to use applications of ones choice, the freedom to attach personal devices to networks, and the freedom to of transparency. Have transparency. The question is how to embrace that is regulation . With regulation . I believe that the bipartisan system has served well, the Clinton Administration decided it would be a Communications Service and not telecommunications. It was the germans that recognized chairmen that recognized that the light touch was good for broadband deployment. I stand with those that realize that light touches the best way to go. We now stand poised to consider what is called title ii or common carrier regulations. In my view, that kind of heavyhanded regulation would be a tremendous mistake for the american consumer. For one thing, it would impede investment and innovation. And you can compare america to europe to get a sense of that. Secondly, it would disturb broadband deployment in some of the most employment areas, underserved and unserved areas. That is why you see rural advocates, minority advocates saying that title ii is not the best way to connect to digital opportunities. Whatever the chairman proposes and me about 40 on, my dog will go back to a free and open internet that reflects the four freedoms. During the conversation is howard joining the conversation is how word. It is basically a done deal, you see any way it will not happen . It is unclear as the chairman has not made a formal proposal and the devil will be of the details. The question is not just do we apply title ii, he says there is a quantum over for parents use considering a of forbearance the is considering applying as well. The announcement has led some to believe this is a foregone conclusion but i believe we are not a rubberstamp, we arent independent agency. Our and and are an independent agency. On these big issues, there is been dissent and they have had little effect. Do you anticipate having much effect on that neutrality . It depends on what the chairmans proposals are. I have been outspoken about title ii. But if they decided to retain the independence and chart a course different from the one the president suggests, there is a flexibility that we can take advantage of. President obama and his statements you talked about president obama and his statements. Do you feel he went too far . I strongly believe it] that the independents is something that is prized and rightfully so. Believe that the independence is something that is prized and rightfully so. It is in flux and we make decisions based on a sober reflection of the facts in front of us and not political considerations. I think that is jeopardized the extent that you have an elected official not just suggesting a policy course but prescribing a particular legal course. The perception will be that we are just another Political Agency like a cabinet department. That will be truly longterm detriment of the agency, the industry, and the consumer regardless of the political affiliation. Was this unprecedented . As is been an unprecedented move on the president s part . Can you think of another issue . Without question. I looked for one and could not find one. Would a light touch lead to litigation . If you just pick and choose certain aspects . It depends on the particulars but what we do know is that the title ii regulation will lead to litigation for a number of different reasons. Number one from an administrative aspect, the administration has not see that the questions necessary to build record see all the questions necessary to build the record. There are questions about which to forbear from in the Legal Standard for granting it or not renting it. That not granting it. There are issues that have gone unexplored from a legal perspective. The wireless industry, the wireless marketplace is competitive. If we were to apply title ii to the industry, there is a section of the Communications Act that prohibits the fcc from classifying private mobile services as title ii services. How do we get around that . There will be briefs in the courts of this country and it will create uncertainty that again will not be good for the advocates for Net Neutrality or the consumer. In meeting with the companies and interest groups, are you getting the sense that they are resigned to this light touch approach . I do not think so. There is some optimism that the agency will take an independent look at the question. In addition to that, there are legislative efforts underway as we speak to cry and find a legislative solution. The ryan and find a legislative solution. When they struck down the attempt to regulate the internet management, i said instead of trying to fit a square