senator jeff flake. he spoke in manchester, new hampshire. this is 40 minutes. good evening. my name is anthony, and i m a student ambassador. on behalf of the faculty, staff, and students at the students of new hampshire, i would like to welcome you and thank you for joining us for tonight s event with united states senator jeff flake. the mission of the institute is to educate, engage, empower citizens of all ages to actively participate in the civic and political life of their communities and to strengthen democracy. the institute is nonpartisan and does not endorse political issues or candidates. ladies and gentlemen, i ask you to welcome dr. stephen disalvo, the president of the college. thank you, anthony. good evening and welcome to the new hampshire institute of politics. it is great to have everybody here again. as many of you know, new hampshire has a long tradition of political and civic engagement. we are always very happy to take part in this process. it is m
politics i d like to welcome you and thank for you joining us with tonight s united states senator jeff flake. the institute s mission is to educate, engage and empower citizens of all ages to actively participate in the civic and political life of communities and strengthen democracy. the institute is nonpartisan and does not endorse political issues or candidates. ladies and gentlemen, i ask you now please join me in welcoming dr. steven desalvo, president of saint anselm college. [applause] thank you, anthony. good evening. welcome to the new hampshire institute of politics at saint anselm college. it s great to have everybody back here again. as many of you know, new hampshire has a long tradition of political and civic engagement and we are always very happy to take part in this process. it is my pleasure tonight to welcome united states senator jeff flake from arizona. senator flake was first elected to the senate in 2013 and previously served six terms in the house o
, like to welcome you to tonight s event with the united states senator jeff flake. the institute s mission is to educate, engage, and empower citizens of all ages to actively participate in the political life of their communities and strengthen democracy. i ask thatgentlemen, you please join me in welcoming the president of saint anselum college. [applause] thank you, anthony. good evening. welcome to the new hampshire institute of politics at saint anslem college. as many of you know new , hampshire has a long tradition of political and civic engagement and are always happy to take part in this process, it is my pleasure tonight to welcome united states senator jeff flake from arizona. senator flake was first elected in 2013 and served six terms in the house of representatives. as a member of the united states senate, senator flake sits on the energy and national resources committee, the foreign relations committee, and the judiciary committee. recently, he authored cons
that would be great. there are a lot of people in the audience and if need be, there is an exit here and here. if something like on fire, like a c-span light or a television thing from our friends in the back, those are the exits. place in mys is the nine years of being there, we have had many interesting speakers on a vast array of topics and we have never had a disruption of a speaker. the speaker is here to talk with us. this is an educational speech. it is about them and us listening. i am hoping tonight goes as well as it has in the last nine years. in a few moments, one of our students will be coming up. hold on tight a few more minutes. thank you. [applause] students will be coming up. we will hear from jeff flake, expected here to hear about the brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination process and the senator will hold in a full news conference. informal news conference. thank you. [applause] good evening. my name is anthony and i am a student ambassador. on
has ever paid. his taxes would have been $5 million, not $38 million, if it weren t for the alternative minimum tax. of course he wants to eliminate it. republicans who repeal the estate tax, despite the fact that that, the estate tax is paid by only the wealthiest 5,000 states in the country estates in the country every year. wealthy americans would also see immediate personal benefits from cuts to corporate taxes. this bill immediately and permanently cuts the corporate tax rate to 20% from 35%. it also cuts rates for pass-through corporations from 39% to 25%. once again, republicans claim this will help small businesses. but it simply isn t true. these pass-through corporations are extremely wealthy partnerships and private companies. if you need a good example, i have a great one. just outside my district. it s called the trump organization. which is organized as a pass-through corporation. now, they tell us that middle income businessmen will profit by this. but middle