deliberations. they discussed a variety of issues, including gay marriage and, on the environment, and health care. the meeting is in indianapolis. i want to thank all of the groups to have come before us this weekend and provided testimony. we want to keep the floor open. we want to hear from one of our grass roots activists and leaders. four years ago, we introduced a component to our platform drafting process that recall listening to america. we have reached out to supporters across the nation to solicit input on our party s platform. we continue this out reached in 2012 by creating an online portal for democrats at all levels to submit their testimony to this committee. hundreds have been received over the past few weeks and days. today we will hear from several individuals who are representative of the submissions that have been received. for this section of our meeting, i will introduce our speakers who have volunteered their time to come and share their stories with
struggling in this economy, and strengthening unions will help to make sure that workers let me and our voices get heard. making our tax system fair will top the federal government fully support the work that we do in our communities rely on. thank you. thank you for coming and thank you for the good work to do. are there questions? thank you for travel and hear from wisconsin to tell us your story. you all have had a really rough trip, starting with governor walker s assault on public employees. i really appreciate the importance of letting the bush tax cuts expired. i think those are crucial. can you say little about how the battles and wisconsin really brought out a lot of community support for public employees, not just from unions there were a lot of people who were out at the capitol standing with you all. i was there on the first day trip happened in february of 2011. we were overwhelmed and tumbled and so honored that so many people realize that the work the o
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