The race for u. S. Senate. Good evening. Welcome to the race for u. S. Senator of illinois. The debate is presented by univison chicago. Our candidates are dick durbin and mr. Jim oberweis. Asking questions of our candidates tonight is charles thomas. Odriguez,r enrique r and lauarra washington. Your responses will be limited to 60 seconds for each question and 30 seconds for each followup. You 11 opportunity to ask a question of each other. We will have one minute Opening Statements and by random draw, we begin with senator gurdon. Durbin. Thanks. It is great to be with you again. I want to say first a good Political Campaign focuses on the future. That is what we need to discuss. Primarily come of the future of working families across the state of illinois. We need to strengthen the families and give them hope for the future which means writing a tax code that will Keep Companies here in america. Also, provide incentives for Good Companies in america to grow good paying jobs for fami
There are times we need to step up and do the right thing, we do the right thing. Thats who we are. Thats what we do. No other nation is doing as much to help in west africa as the United States of america. When i hear people talking about american leadership, and then promoting policies that would have usadership and running in the opposite direction, hiding under the little it makes me a frustrated. Are at our best when we are standing up and taking responsibility, even when it requires us making sacrifices. Especially when it requires is making sacrifices. It is how we help others around the world that is important. It is not just massive to womens of troops and equipment deployments of troops and equipment, as proud as we are of that. Compassion and painstaking effort. Learn fromlity to mistakes that are made, and our ability to work through problems that are really complicated. Through. E something and not lose our heads. To have grace under pressure. And apply ourselves with slow
I got in the race to continue what i have tried to do for 26 years, to try to make a difference in peoples lives by working together and solving problems. I believe that is what we need more of an washington. A collaborative spirit, looking for Common Ground and bipartisanship. Wage. Raise the minimum create an affordable pathway to college for students and can tackle the longterm debt if we work together. I hope you will join with me in working together to live out the andgia state mottos, wisdom justice and ask for your vote. Your closing remarks. Thank you. During the campaign i have traveled all over our great state, traveling and listening to concerns. Clear,sage is very washington is broken. It is affecting your live and your families life. I believe our country is headed in the wrong direction. I believe we need to turn that around right now. Enough with dysfunction and lack of accountability. I am tired from going one crisis to another. I want your voice in the senate to take u
We have to be smart and who we represent as our electives for our congressional delegation. I will put a plugin in for charles, somebody that i think must get elected. Because we need the balance in our congressional delegation also. Just like how many balance in state government. Absolutely. I applaud and appreciate the efforts we have had in the past to have Prepaid Health coverage to ensure that everyone in hawaii can be insured. Every time i hear people express support for that, i wonder why the legislature order to approve the federal funding to start the Hawaii Health connect system. I would ask for an opt out, a waiver. We cannot do a by 2017. Behink we need to see supportive to the companies i cannot provide this because we have had a model and how we take care of people. We pope ebola Insurance Program to help you consider that. This is where the hell is the people on Insurance Programs. A little more on the s uperferry. Expensive for labor islands and my home. Talking about v
1 15. Up until then from this mornings washington journal, senator sanders from vermont. Host senator bernie sanders, senator from vermont, here. Thank you for being here. You served on the Budget Committee. We saw senator patty murray, the chairman, introduce her budget plan. Heres the headline in the Washington Times there are no sacred cows that calls for 1 trillion in new taxes. Whats your takeaway . Guest well, what it does is also call for substantial cuts, but it deals with deficit reduction in a balanced way. What the republicans want to do is do deficit reduction simply by cutting, cutting, cutting. Doing away with medicare as we know it. Right now converting that into a voucher system which we very, very onerous for senior citizens, making devastating cuts in medicaid which means that millions of millions of American People and kids will lose their Health Insurance. Massive cuts in education, in nutrition. Basically every program that in the middle of a terrible recession wor