Booker and heres in the senate, developed in conjunction with Congressional Black Caucus and house democrats. The bill represents comprehensive strong andef enduring reforms to police department, the most forceful that a change in decades. This morning in the Senate Republicans have put forward a separate proposal led by the senator from South Carolina. Weve only had the bill for a few hours and are reviewing it but what is clear is that the Senate Republican proposal on policing does not rise to the moment. B the democratic bill has a bent on noknock warrants in federal drug cases, while thell republin bill only requires data on noknock warrants. The democratic bill has a a publicly available nationwide database on misconduct so that Abusive Police officers who were fired cant simply go to another Department Summer else in the country and get hired. The republican bill would keep such information almost entirely shielded from public view. The democratic bill bans choke holds and other
Assistance. And we didnt take away that program. We actually just raised the barometer to 20, and it saved taxpayers 8 billion in the program. Thats 8 billion that we can put towards making sure that those who need benefits the most are going to get them. Ial believe that we ought to implement i also believe we ought to implement some kind of work requirement that was common place under the clinton era welfare to work program thats been changed during this administration. And i, for the life of me, cannot understand why america should be satisfied with a program that doesnt require an ablebodied adult who has no dependent children, who is not enrolled in a training or education program, who doesnt take care of an adult dependent, who doesnt meet a plethora of other exemptions, i dont know why we cant pair them with a job. And if a job is not available, why cant we pair them with Community Service or volunteer Service Opportunities where they can learn skills that will get them the best
Rodney davis faces ann callis. The race leans republican. Up next, a debate between the candidates. [applause] welcome to the 13th Congressional District candidates debate. We wanted to make this debate different from others youve seen. We are going in depth on a few topics to get to the heart of what these candidates believe. There are no podiums, just two people who want to represent you in congress. Let me introduce them now. Republican rodney davis and democrat ann callis. Asking the questions tom case sis. My role is asking for clarification when need, making sure things keep moving for you and our studio audience. Were going to take questions for the candidates from our viewers and listeners on twitter and facebook. Lets get to it. Its been about a year since the launch of insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care act. We drew straws and quongman davis gets the first question. Congressman davis you pivotted from wanting to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. What has
Are in. Its a terrible bill. It is a terrible bill. The league of conservation voters called it a radical attempt to destroy safety and environmental regulation. Right now we are in need of putting whole new regulations in place to count ter ebola crisis. The bill she supports would sthaubt to a vote in congress. If you think congress is working, great, you should listen to her on this. Its a way to let the most radical people in congress veto l kind of progress on safety and health that keep your food safe and allow us to respond to crisis like the ebola epidemic. Its a radical attempt. I passed a bill with chris gibson to stop this energy price hike and we got it passed through the house that. Is more than anyone has ever done on this. We started from behind because she left a mess and we are trying to clean it up and we are going to win this thing. Lets move on to Foreign Policy specifically in the middle east. We are engaging in air strikes in iraq and syria to combat the Islamic S
Be considered a cut. If we can get away from that process, you will not have things like across the board cuts and sequestration. He will let a rankandfile member of congress who is a freshman to have a say in spending and make sure the college is affordable. I am proud that i actually voted to stop the student Loan Interest rates from doubling in june and july of 2013. This is something that should never have happened because, at that time, that is something that should never have happened because, at that time, congress was in the business of setting student loan rates. Congress should not be in the business of setting student loan rates. Sam is should be able to take advantage of student loan rates that are at historical lows. We have to change the debate for how much a student will pay for for everincreasing debt at the end of College Education and what Interest Rate it going to be because we stopped them from doubling. And we need to do what i have been doing is a member of colleg