1 00:00:05,438 --> 00:00:06,272 >>> WELCOME TO THE IDAHO DEBATES. 2 00:00:06,272 --> 00:00:09,542 A LOOK AT THE CANDIDATES ON THE 2014 BALLOT.DAHO DEBATES IS A 3 00:00:09,542 --> 00:00:12,345 COLLABORATIVE PROJECT OF THE IDAHO PRESS CLUB, THE LEAGUE OF 4 00:00:12,345 --> 00:00:16,182 WOMEN VOTERS OF IDAHO, AND IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION. 5 00:00:16,182 --> 00:00:19,352 THE IDAHO DEBATES ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY BOISE STATE 6 00:00:19,352 --> 00:00:22,255 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE, DEVOTED TO BUILDING 7 00:00:22,255 --> 00:00:25,625 FUTURE CIVIC AND COMMUNITY LEADERS THROUGH 8 00:00:25,625 --> 00:00:29,029 INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEM SOLVING, REAL WORLD RESEARCH AND 9 00:00:29,029 --> 00:00:31,464 POLICY STUDY, AND HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE YOU CAN ONLY GET HERE 10 00:00:31,464 --> 00:00:33,767 AT THE STATE CAPITOL. 11 00:00:33,767 --> 00:00:36,670 THE IDAHO DEBATES ARE ALSO BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOUR 12 00:00:36,670 --> 00:00:39,472 CONTRIBUTION TO THE IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION ENDOWMENT. 13 00:00:39,472 --> 00:00:40,940 THANK YOU. 14 00:00:42,375 --> 00:00:44,678 >>> HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE IDAHO DEBATES AT THE IDAHO 15 00:00:44,678 --> 00:00:46,579 PUBLIC TELEVISION STUDIOS. 16 00:00:46,579 --> 00:00:49,749 THIS IS THE LAST OF SEVEN DEBATES WE'RE HOSTING BEFORE THE 17 00:00:49,749 --> 00:00:50,950 NOVEMBER 4th ELECTION. 18 00:00:50,950 --> 00:00:53,753 TONIGHT THE TWO CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT TWO TAKE 19 00:00:53,753 --> 00:00:56,056 THE STAGE TO ASK FOR YOUR VOTE. 20 00:00:56,056 --> 00:00:58,692 IDAHO'S CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT TWO STRETCHES FROM EAST BOISE TO 21 00:00:58,692 --> 00:01:01,995 THE WYOMING BOARDER AND INCLUDES TWIN FALLS, IDAHO 22 00:01:01,995 --> 00:01:02,629 FALLS, AND POICT. 23 00:01:02,629 --> 00:01:05,799 I WANT TO WELCOME THE CANDIDATES, MIKE SIMPSON AND 24 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:08,435 RICHARD STALLINGS. 25 00:01:08,435 --> 00:01:10,437 CONGRESSMAN MIKE SIMPSON WAS ELECTED IN 1998. 26 00:01:10,437 --> 00:01:13,373 HE IS ON THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, THE 27 00:01:13,373 --> 00:01:16,443 CHAIRMAN FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND WATER DEPARTMENTH 28 00:01:16,443 --> 00:01:16,910 DEVELOPMENT. 29 00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:19,713 HE SERVED AS SPEAKER OF THE IDAHO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 30 00:01:19,713 --> 00:01:22,349 AND PRACTICED DENTISTRY. 31 00:01:22,349 --> 00:01:24,818 RICHARD STALLINGS SERVED IN CONGRESS FOR EIGHT YEARS AND WAS 32 00:01:24,818 --> 00:01:28,655 THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WASTE NEGOTIATOR FROM 1993 TO 1995. 33 00:01:28,655 --> 00:01:31,391 HE ALSO SERVED IN THE IDAHO LEGISLATURE. 34 00:01:31,391 --> 00:01:33,193 STALLINGS TAUGHT HISTORY IN COLLEGE. 35 00:01:33,193 --> 00:01:37,030 I ALSO WANT TO THANK OUR REPORTERS WHO WILL ASK THE 36 00:01:37,030 --> 00:01:44,771 CANDIDATES QUESTIONS. 37 00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:47,674 I'M MELISSA DAVLIN, COHOST OF IDAHO REPORTS HERE ON IDAHO 38 00:01:47,674 --> 00:01:49,209 PUBLIC 2E8 VISION. 39 00:01:49,209 --> 00:01:52,545 I'M MODERATING AND TO REMIND THE CANDIDATES HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN 40 00:01:52,545 --> 00:01:55,682 TALKING IS GAIL WILD VOLUNTEER TIMEKEEPER FROM THE LEAGUE OF 41 00:01:55,682 --> 00:01:56,316 WOMEN VOTERS. 42 00:01:56,316 --> 00:01:59,352 EACH CANDIDATE WILL BE GIVEN ONE MINUTE FOR OPENING COMMENTS AND 43 00:01:59,352 --> 00:02:00,320 90 SECONDS FOR CLOSE. 44 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,690 WE FLIPPED A COIN TO SEE WHO WOULD GO FIRST AND CONGRESSMAN 45 00:02:03,690 --> 00:02:05,258 SIMPSON YOU HAVE THE HONOR. 46 00:02:05,258 --> 00:02:06,793 >> THANK YOU. 47 00:02:06,793 --> 00:02:09,529 THANK IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION AND THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 48 00:02:09,529 --> 00:02:14,000 FOR HOSTING THIS DEBATE AND THANK YOU ALSO FOR AGREEING TO 49 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,003 DELAYING IT FOR A WEEK FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS SO I COULD BE 50 00:02:17,003 --> 00:02:17,237 HERE. 51 00:02:17,237 --> 00:02:20,740 I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH. 52 00:02:20,740 --> 00:02:23,009 I'M RUNNING FOR REELECTION FOR TWO REASONS. 53 00:02:23,009 --> 00:02:26,646 ONE IS BECAUSE OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS I'VE BEEN ABLE 54 00:02:26,646 --> 00:02:28,748 TO ACHIEVE FOR IDAHO AND THE THINGS WE'VE DONE. 55 00:02:28,748 --> 00:02:31,651 AND I HOPE WE'LL GET INTO THOSE ISSUES DURING THE DEBATE. 56 00:02:31,651 --> 00:02:34,921 THE SYED REASON I'M RUNNING AND THE MORE IMPORTANT REASON IS 57 00:02:34,921 --> 00:02:36,723 THES BAWFTS CHALLENGES THAT LAY AHEAD. 58 00:02:36,723 --> 00:02:41,261 THIS COUNTRY FACES SOME VERY DAUNTING CHALLENGES WHETHER IT'S 59 00:02:41,261 --> 00:02:44,297 THE DEBT AND DECH IT IS, TRYING TO FIX THE HEALTH CARE LAW, 60 00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:48,902 WHETHER IT'S REFORMING THE TAX CODE, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THE 61 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:51,738 ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS ARE THERE FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE YOUNG 62 00:02:51,738 --> 00:02:55,675 PEOPLE STARTING TO ENTER THE WORK FORCE, SO WHEN THEY RETIRE 63 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:56,910 THOSE PROGRAMS EXIST. 64 00:02:56,910 --> 00:02:59,612 THESE ARE TOUGH CHALLENGES AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE PEOPLE 65 00:02:59,612 --> 00:03:02,682 WILLING TO TAKE DIFFICULT VOTES TO ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES. 66 00:03:02,682 --> 00:03:04,517 THAT'S WHY I'M RUNNING FOR REELECTION. 67 00:03:04,517 --> 00:03:06,519 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS, YOUR 68 00:03:06,519 --> 00:03:07,354 OPENING REMARKS. 69 00:03:07,354 --> 00:03:09,155 >> THANK YOU. 70 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:12,992 TO THE IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, I'M 71 00:03:12,992 --> 00:03:14,094 GRATEFUL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. 72 00:03:14,094 --> 00:03:16,429 FOR THE RECORD, DISCRIMINATED NOT SERVE IN THE LEGISLATURE, I 73 00:03:16,429 --> 00:03:20,000 HAVEN'T BEEN PAINTED, I'M STILL PURE. 74 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,871 I DID SERVE ON POCATELLO CITY COUNCIL WHICH WAS MUCH MORE 75 00:03:24,871 --> 00:03:28,375 GRATIFYING THAN THE IDAHO LEGISLATURE. 76 00:03:28,375 --> 00:03:31,544 THIS IS BY FAR THE STRANGEST CAMPAIGN I'VE EVER BEEN INVOLVED 77 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:34,547 N I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN A NUMBER. 78 00:03:34,547 --> 00:03:38,184 USUALLY THE CAMPAIGNS ARE WHICH THE TWO CANDIDATES TALK ABOUT A 79 00:03:38,184 --> 00:03:39,452 VISION FOR THE FUTURE. 80 00:03:39,452 --> 00:03:42,989 THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR -- THE PROBLEMS OF THE NATION, BUT 81 00:03:42,989 --> 00:03:45,658 THEY ALSO TALK ABOUT SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS. 82 00:03:45,658 --> 00:03:50,096 WE TALK ABOUT THE KIND OF THINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE IN THE FUTURE, 83 00:03:50,096 --> 00:03:52,098 LIKE THE DIRECTION WE'D LIKE OUR NATION TO GO. 84 00:03:52,098 --> 00:03:56,102 THIS CAMPAIGN THAT HAS NOT BEEN AT ALL PART OF IT. 85 00:03:56,102 --> 00:03:59,873 I HAVE CAMPAIGNED CONSTANTLY ON THE FACT THIS IS THE WORST 86 00:03:59,873 --> 00:04:03,043 CONGRESS EVER, AND MR. SIMPSON HASN'T SEEMED TO DISAGREE. 87 00:04:03,043 --> 00:04:07,414 BY FAR THE WORST CONGRESS OUR NATION HAS EVER EXPERIENCED. 88 00:04:07,414 --> 00:04:08,348 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 89 00:04:08,348 --> 00:04:14,054 THE FIRST QUESTION IS FOR CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON. 90 00:04:14,054 --> 00:04:17,057 >> YOU'VE TBHEN D.C. FOR 16 YEARS I BELIEVE IT IS. 91 00:04:17,057 --> 00:04:22,429 AND YOU'VE SEEN THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNING GO FROM BEING ONE OF 92 00:04:22,429 --> 00:04:25,899 WHERE THERE WAS SOME LEVEL OF COMPROMISE TO INCREASING 93 00:04:25,899 --> 00:04:28,001 GRIDLOCK ALL THE TIME. 94 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:32,272 WHY SHOULD -- WHY CAN'T PEOPLE IN CONGRESS 95 00:04:32,272 --> 00:04:33,873 REACH AN AGREEMENT? 96 00:04:33,873 --> 00:04:35,175 THEY'RE GROWN MEN AND WOMEN. 97 00:04:35,175 --> 00:04:38,645 WHY CAN'T THEY REACH COMPROMISE AND WHY SHOULD WE TRUST YOU TO 98 00:04:38,645 --> 00:04:40,447 FIX THE PROBLEM? 99 00:04:40,447 --> 00:04:43,550 >> WELL, THINGS I'VE BEEN WORKING ON, AND I'VE WORKED IN A 100 00:04:43,550 --> 00:04:46,553 BIPARTISAN MANNER, I CAN TELL YOU THE LEGISLATION THAT I'VE 101 00:04:46,553 --> 00:04:49,289 HAD BEFORE CONGRESS, THE ISSUES I'M WORKING ON, WHETHER IT'S 102 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:53,927 FIXING THE DEBT AND DEFICIT, I'M THE COCHAIR OF THE GO BIG 103 00:04:53,927 --> 00:04:55,462 COALITION TO TRY TO ADDRESS THAT. 104 00:04:55,462 --> 00:04:59,766 I'M THE COCHAIR, THE COSPONSOR OF THE WILDFIRE FIGHTING BILL 105 00:04:59,766 --> 00:05:02,502 THAT HAS BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS WORKING TOGETHER TO 106 00:05:02,502 --> 00:05:03,570 TRY TO SOLVE THAT. 107 00:05:03,570 --> 00:05:06,139 THERE ARE THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON, BUT WHEN RICHARD SAYS THIS 108 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:09,509 IS THE WORST CONGRESS EVER AND THAT I HAVE NOT DISAGREED WITH 109 00:05:09,509 --> 00:05:11,411 HIM, I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH HIM. 110 00:05:11,411 --> 00:05:14,314 WE HAVEN'T HAD PEOPLE FIST FIGHTING ON THE FLOOR, WE 111 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:18,518 HAVEN'T HAD ANYBODY THAT'S BEEN CANED, WE HAVEN'T HAD HAD THE 112 00:05:18,518 --> 00:05:22,055 SPEAKER RESIGN BECAUSE OF ETHICAL VIOLATIONS, WE 113 00:05:22,055 --> 00:05:26,059 ADOLESCENT A SCANDAL, A HOUSE POST OFFICE SCANDAL OR ANY OF 114 00:05:26,059 --> 00:05:26,693 THOSE THINGS. 115 00:05:26,693 --> 00:05:30,497 SO ACTUALLY, THIS HAS BEEN A CONGRESS THAT HAS TRIED TO GET 116 00:05:30,497 --> 00:05:32,732 THINGS DONE BUT WE'RE DIVIDED. 117 00:05:32,732 --> 00:05:35,268 THE REPUBLICANS CONTROL THE HOUSE, THE DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE 118 00:05:35,268 --> 00:05:35,702 SENATE. 119 00:05:35,702 --> 00:05:39,639 THE HOUSES HAS PASSED 370 PIECES OF LEGISLATION THAT ARE NOW 120 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:41,808 SITTING ON HARRY REID'S DESK IN THE SENATE. 121 00:05:41,808 --> 00:05:43,710 HE WILL NOT BRING UP FOR CONSIDERATION. 122 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:46,112 BILLS THAT WOULD HELP OUR ECONOMY, AND HELP GROW OUR 123 00:05:46,112 --> 00:05:46,446 ECONOMY. 124 00:05:46,446 --> 00:05:50,250 IF WE CAN'T GET THOSE -- THE SENATE'S TAKE OFF 125 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:54,187 LEGISLATION WE'VE PASSED, HOW MANY SENATES BILLS HAVE THEY 126 00:05:54,187 --> 00:05:56,022 PASSED THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGHOUT HOUSE? 127 00:05:56,022 --> 00:05:57,657 ONE, THE IMMIGRATION BILL. 128 00:05:57,657 --> 00:05:59,959 THE SENATE HASN'T BEEN DOING ANYTHING. 129 00:05:59,959 --> 00:06:04,130 THE HOUSE HAS CONTINUED TO DO OUR WORK AND AS SOON AS WE GO 130 00:06:04,130 --> 00:06:07,567 BACK WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO OUR WORK. 131 00:06:07,567 --> 00:06:08,702 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS? 132 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:14,407 >> THIS IS REALLY KIND OF A SAD RESPONSE, BECAUSE THIS CONGRESS 133 00:06:14,407 --> 00:06:18,411 HAS WORKED A TOTAL OF I BELIEVE 92 DAYS THIS YEAR. 134 00:06:18,411 --> 00:06:22,315 FOLKS, THAT'S ONLY THREE MONTHS FOR 174,000, YOU'VE GOT A 135 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:27,420 PART-TIME CONGRESS, 52 DAYS OF THAT THEY SPENT REPEALING 136 00:06:27,420 --> 00:06:27,687 OBAMACARE. 137 00:06:27,687 --> 00:06:30,724 YOU HAVE TO ASK, HOW MANY TIMES DOES ONE HAVE TO REPEAL 138 00:06:30,724 --> 00:06:33,159 OBAMACARE BEFORE THEY GET MESSAGE THEY DON'T LIKE THIS 139 00:06:33,159 --> 00:06:33,993 PARTICULAR HEALTH CARE BILL? 140 00:06:33,993 --> 00:06:36,329 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THEY'RE NOT DOING. 141 00:06:36,329 --> 00:06:39,733 THEY'RE NOT DEALING WITH ISSUES LIKE MINIMUM WAGE IN WHICH THEY 142 00:06:39,733 --> 00:06:45,171 KEEP 176,000 PEOPLE IN IDAHO IN IDAHO BELOW THE POVERTY LINE. 143 00:06:45,171 --> 00:06:49,075 WHERE A SIMPLE UP OR DOWN VOTE WOULD CHANGE THAT JUST ALMOST 144 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:49,442 INSTANTLY. 145 00:06:49,442 --> 00:06:51,711 THEY HAVEN'T DEALT WITH IMMIGRATION REFORM AS 146 00:06:51,711 --> 00:06:53,013 MR. SIMPSON HAS ALLUDED TO. 147 00:06:53,013 --> 00:06:55,815 THE SENATE PASSED A GOOD BIPARTISAN VERSION. 148 00:06:55,815 --> 00:06:58,318 I'M NOT TOTALLY THRILLED WITNESS, BUT WE COULD DO BETTER. 149 00:06:58,318 --> 00:06:59,219 I WOULD ACCEPT THAT. 150 00:06:59,219 --> 00:07:02,455 THEY HAVE NOT DEALT WITH ISSUES ABOUT WOMEN BEING PAID 151 00:07:02,455 --> 00:07:06,026 CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN MEN AND MOST OF ALL, I KNOW OF NO OTHER 152 00:07:06,026 --> 00:07:09,863 CONGRESS THAT'S DONE SOMETHING SO STUPID AS TO CLOSE DOWN THE 153 00:07:09,863 --> 00:07:10,697 GOVERNMENT. 154 00:07:10,697 --> 00:07:13,867 MR. SIMPSON HAS SAID HE DIDN'T VOTE FOR THAT CLOSURE. 155 00:07:13,867 --> 00:07:14,134 HOGWASH. 156 00:07:14,134 --> 00:07:16,603 HE VOTED FOR IT JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE REPUBLICANS DID. 157 00:07:16,603 --> 00:07:21,675 AND AS A RESULT WE SPENT $240 BILLION WITH 16 DAYS IN 158 00:07:21,675 --> 00:07:22,876 WHICH GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN. 159 00:07:22,876 --> 00:07:26,946 AND THE TRAGEDY OF IT IS, THE TRAGEDY IS THAT WE HAD SOME 160 00:07:26,946 --> 00:07:31,051 PEOPLE DIE, WHEY TWO WOMEN LOST OUT IN THE DESERT BY THE CRATERS 161 00:07:31,051 --> 00:07:34,054 OF THE MOON AND WHEN THEY CALLED TO GET HELICOPTERS, THE 162 00:07:34,054 --> 00:07:36,089 GOVERNMENT WAS SHUT DOWN SO THEY COULDN'T DELIVER. 163 00:07:36,089 --> 00:07:39,492 I DON'T KNOW IF THESE FOLKS EVER CONSIDER THAT KIND OF LOGS OF 164 00:07:39,492 --> 00:07:39,726 PEOPLE. 165 00:07:39,726 --> 00:07:42,262 BUT TWO WOMEN DIED NEEDLESSLY. 166 00:07:42,262 --> 00:07:46,266 BUT GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN, SO THESE GUYS COULD SHOW THEIR MASH 167 00:07:46,266 --> 00:07:50,503 0NESS AND MR. SIMPSON SAYS I VOTED TO REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT. 168 00:07:50,503 --> 00:07:54,174 I'LL TELL -- IF HE'D TOLD HIS FRIENDS NOT TO 169 00:07:54,174 --> 00:07:56,009 SHUT IT DOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE. 170 00:07:56,009 --> 00:07:57,377 >> WE HAVE A FOLLOW-UP. 171 00:07:57,377 --> 00:08:00,113 >> DO I GET TO RESPOND TO THAT? 172 00:08:00,113 --> 00:08:01,214 >> PLEASE DO, ACTUALLY. 173 00:08:01,214 --> 00:08:02,582 THEN WE'LL GET TO THE FOLLOW-UP. 174 00:08:02,582 --> 00:08:04,384 >> THAT'S A BUNCH OF NONSENSE. 175 00:08:04,384 --> 00:08:10,557 IT DIDN'T COST $240 BILLION -- >> EXCUSE ME. 176 00:08:10,557 --> 00:08:15,028 >> THE REALITY IS THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL THAT FUNDED ALL OF 177 00:08:15,028 --> 00:08:18,131 GOVERNMENT, ALL OF GOVERNMENT, IT DID NOT FUND OBAMACARE 178 00:08:18,131 --> 00:08:18,932 BECAUSE GUESS WHAT? 179 00:08:18,932 --> 00:08:21,401 WE DON'T LIKE OBAMACARE AND WE DON'T THINK IT'S GOOD FOR THE 180 00:08:21,401 --> 00:08:21,668 COUNTRY. 181 00:08:21,668 --> 00:08:25,305 WE TOOK AT THIS TIME OVER TO THE SENATE, AND THE SENATE DECIDED 182 00:08:25,305 --> 00:08:26,840 THEY WEREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT UP. 183 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,843 I PRETTY MUCH KNEW THAT FROM THE START AND WE TOLD THEM IT WAS 184 00:08:29,843 --> 00:08:30,777 NOT A GOOD STRATEGY. 185 00:08:30,777 --> 00:08:32,479 WE WEREN'T GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THAT. 186 00:08:32,479 --> 00:08:36,316 THEN WE SAID, OK, IF YOU WON'T TAKE THAWP, HOW ABOUT JUST 187 00:08:36,316 --> 00:08:40,987 REPEALING THE MEDICAL DEVICE TAX AND WE WILL FUND ALL OF 188 00:08:40,987 --> 00:08:41,321 GOVERNMENT? 189 00:08:41,321 --> 00:08:43,089 HARRY REID WOULDN'T EVEN GO FOR THAT. 190 00:08:43,089 --> 00:08:47,260 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ALIKE AGREE THAT REPEALING THE MEDICAL 191 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:49,963 DEVICE TAX IS IMPORTANT AND NEEDS TO GET DONE AND IT WILL 192 00:08:49,963 --> 00:08:51,231 GET DONE. 193 00:08:51,231 --> 00:08:53,700 SO WHO CLOSED THE GOVERNMENT DOWN? 194 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,702 HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS OR HARRY REID AND THE SENATE? 195 00:08:55,702 --> 00:08:59,639 >> YOUR FOLLOW-UP? 196 00:08:59,639 --> 00:09:02,208 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS, WE'VE HEARD YOU LOUD AND CLEAR ABOUT 197 00:09:02,208 --> 00:09:04,110 YOUR CRITICISMS OF THE CONGRESS. 198 00:09:04,110 --> 00:09:07,480 YOU'VE CONTINUED TO HAMMER AT THAT POINT. 199 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:11,217 BUT WHAT CAN YOU REALLY -- REALISTICALLY DO IF WE -- 200 00:09:11,217 --> 00:09:16,222 IF IDAHOANS REMOVE CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON FROM OFFICE, AND YOU'RE 201 00:09:16,222 --> 00:09:20,193 PUT THERE IN HIS PLACE, WHAT CAN ONE PERSON REALISTICALLY DO TO 202 00:09:20,193 --> 00:09:24,931 SORT OF CHANGE IT ALL? 203 00:09:24,931 --> 00:09:28,134 >> I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT I HAVE THE ABILITY TO REACH ACROSS 204 00:09:28,134 --> 00:09:28,501 THE AISLE. 205 00:09:28,501 --> 00:09:31,871 WHEN I WAS IN THE CONGRESS FOR THE EIGHT YEARS I PASSED A 206 00:09:31,871 --> 00:09:32,672 NUMBER OF BIPARTISAN BILLS. 207 00:09:32,672 --> 00:09:37,877 WHEN I PASSED THE BILL THAT CREATED HYDROPROJECTS ON HENRY'S 208 00:09:37,877 --> 00:09:41,081 FORT, IT -- [BLEEP] REACH ACROSS A DEMOCRAT 209 00:09:41,081 --> 00:09:45,518 WITH REPUBLICAN OF MR. CHENEY'S CALIBER, THAT SHOWS SOME REAL 210 00:09:45,518 --> 00:09:45,785 EFFORT. 211 00:09:45,785 --> 00:09:48,788 I THINK THERE ARE ENOUGH LIKE-MINDED REPUBLICANS THAT 212 00:09:48,788 --> 00:09:52,158 WOULD BE RESPONSIVE TO MY ISSUES OF MINIMUM WAGE IMMIGRATION 213 00:09:52,158 --> 00:09:54,160 REFORM, THAT I WOULD REACH ACROSS TO THEM. 214 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,530 AND I THINK THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS IS THESE GUYS DON'T GET 215 00:09:57,530 --> 00:10:02,102 THEIR ACT TOGETHER, THEY'RE GOING TO BE DELIVERED A 216 00:10:02,102 --> 00:10:04,237 BLOODBATH LIKE NOTHING WE'VE SEEN BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FED UP 217 00:10:04,237 --> 00:10:06,806 WITH THIS WHOLE SYSTEM MR. SIMPSON IS TALKING ABOUT. 218 00:10:06,806 --> 00:10:10,643 WHEN YOU HAVE ONLY 10% APPROVAL RATING, WHEN 90% OF THE 219 00:10:10,643 --> 00:10:13,546 POPULATION THINK THESE ARE A BUNCH OF BUFFOONS THAT ARE NOT 220 00:10:13,546 --> 00:10:16,816 DOING THEIR JOB, NOT DOING WHAT THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO, YOU'VE 221 00:10:16,816 --> 00:10:17,350 GOT PROBLEMS. 222 00:10:17,350 --> 00:10:20,020 ANY ONE OF YOU FROM YOUR NEWSPAPER, OR YOUR TELEVISION 223 00:10:20,020 --> 00:10:22,922 SHOWS, IF YOU HAD ONLY 10% RATINGS, THEY WOULD BE LOOKING 224 00:10:22,922 --> 00:10:24,290 FOR NEW MANAGEMENT. 225 00:10:24,290 --> 00:10:27,727 SO I THINK THERE IS A WAY TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. 226 00:10:27,727 --> 00:10:30,530 I HAVE DONE IT BEFORE, I HAVE A GOOD TRACK RECORD. 227 00:10:30,530 --> 00:10:34,000 I KNOW HIS PARTY IS SORELY DIVIDED, IT'S NOT JUST DEMOCRATS 228 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,636 AND REPUBLICANS, IT'S REPUBLICANS AND TEA PARTY 229 00:10:36,636 --> 00:10:37,003 REPUBLICANS. 230 00:10:37,003 --> 00:10:40,273 BUT THERE'S STILL A MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS THAT ARE 231 00:10:40,273 --> 00:10:42,942 DISINTERESTED ENOUGH THAT WOULD HELP US, BECAUSE I THINK -- 232 00:10:42,942 --> 00:10:45,545 WE CAN NOT LET PEOPLE CONTINUE TO STAFER TO MINIMUM WAGE. 233 00:10:45,545 --> 00:10:49,683 WE CAN'T LET WOMEN CONTINUE TO TRY TO RAISE TWO KIDS ON $7.25 234 00:10:49,683 --> 00:10:50,316 AN HOUR. 235 00:10:50,316 --> 00:10:52,919 IT'S CRIMINAL FOR WHAT THESE GUYS ARE DOING FOR THE PEOPLE 236 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:55,488 THEY WERE ELECTED TO SERVE. 237 00:10:55,488 --> 00:10:56,690 >> CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON DID YOU WANT TO RESPOND? 238 00:10:56,690 --> 00:10:56,856 IT. 239 00:10:56,856 --> 00:11:00,627 >> WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE MR. STALLINGS GO BACK AND WORK 240 00:11:00,627 --> 00:11:03,063 IN CONGRESS WITH THE REPUBLICANS HE'S CALLING CRIMINALS AND 241 00:11:03,063 --> 00:11:03,630 EVERYTHING ELSE. 242 00:11:03,630 --> 00:11:05,632 THAT'S NOT HOW YOU REACH ACROSS THE AISLE. 243 00:11:05,632 --> 00:11:09,803 I'VE BEEN DOING THE HARD WORK OF REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE, I WAS 244 00:11:09,803 --> 00:11:13,640 ON A COMMITTEE THAT WORKS IN A BIPARTISAN FASHION TO FORM THE 245 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:14,107 APPROPRIATION BILLS. 246 00:11:14,107 --> 00:11:17,077 WE TRY TO ADDRESS THE CONCERNS OF DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. 247 00:11:17,077 --> 00:11:18,812 IT'S THE MOST BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE IN CONGRESS. 248 00:11:18,812 --> 00:11:21,281 AND IT'S ALSO THE COMMITTEE THAT'S ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK, 249 00:11:21,281 --> 00:11:23,717 THE HARD WORK OF TRYING TO ADDRESS THE DEBT AND DEFICIT IN 250 00:11:23,717 --> 00:11:24,651 THIS COUNTRY. 251 00:11:24,651 --> 00:11:27,354 WE'VE REDUCED SPENDING OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS WE'VE BEEN IN 252 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:29,255 THE MAJORITY. 253 00:11:29,255 --> 00:11:33,026 SO I KNOW HOW TO WORK IN A BIPARTISAN MANNER AND I HAVE 254 00:11:33,026 --> 00:11:33,360 DONE THAT. 255 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,996 AND I KNOW HOW TO STAND UP FOR THE PRINCIPLES THE PEOPLE OF 256 00:11:36,996 --> 00:11:38,398 IDAHO ELECTED ME FOR. 257 00:11:38,398 --> 00:11:42,002 >> WE HAVE A RELATED QUESTION. 258 00:11:42,002 --> 00:11:45,105 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS, YOU SAID THE PRIMARY CAMPAIGN 259 00:11:45,105 --> 00:11:50,043 BETWEEN CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON AND BRIAN SMITH WAS THE NASTIEST 260 00:11:50,043 --> 00:11:52,579 YOU'VE SEEN, BUT YOU'VE ALSO SAID THINGS THAT PEOPLE COULD 261 00:11:52,579 --> 00:11:54,848 TAKE AS NASTY. 262 00:11:54,848 --> 00:11:58,051 LIKE SAYING REPUBLICANS ACTIVELY WANT TO PUNISH POOR PEOPLE, 263 00:11:58,051 --> 00:11:58,852 THINGS LIKE THAT. 264 00:11:58,852 --> 00:12:03,056 WHY IT IS OK FOR TO YOU LOBBY THOSE GRENADES AT CONGRESSMAN 265 00:12:03,056 --> 00:12:06,493 SIMPSON BUT NOT FOR HIM TO LOB THEM AT BRIAN SMITH? 266 00:12:06,493 --> 00:12:09,262 >> I HAVE NO MALICE TOWARDS CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON. 267 00:12:09,262 --> 00:12:12,365 I JUST THINK HE NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 268 00:12:12,365 --> 00:12:15,802 I'VE HAD A COUPLE PEOPLE TEXT ME AND SAY I WAS TOO MEAN TO HIM 269 00:12:15,802 --> 00:12:16,636 LAST TIME. 270 00:12:16,636 --> 00:12:19,172 I WANT IT CLEAR DISCRIMINATED NOT PUT HIM IN THE HOSPITAL. 271 00:12:19,172 --> 00:12:20,373 KIDNEY STONES DID THAT. 272 00:12:20,373 --> 00:12:23,810 I DON'T THINK THERE WAS A -- >> OK, LET'S -- 273 00:12:23,810 --> 00:12:28,081 LET'S MOVE ON FROM THAT. 274 00:12:28,081 --> 00:12:32,452 >> I BELIEVE MY COMMENTS HAVE BEEN ABOUT THE PRODUCT, NOT 275 00:12:32,452 --> 00:12:33,353 ABOUT INDIVIDUALS. 276 00:12:33,353 --> 00:12:40,093 WHEN MR. SIMPSON REFERS TO BRIAN CLARK AS A DEBT COLLECTOR OF 277 00:12:40,093 --> 00:12:43,196 WIDOWS AND VETERANS, THAT WAS NONSENSE. 278 00:12:43,196 --> 00:12:43,463 NONSENSE. 279 00:12:43,463 --> 00:12:44,097 IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 280 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:48,668 YET WHEN I SAY CONGRESS PUNISHES POOR PEOPLE, I THINK YOU CAN 281 00:12:48,668 --> 00:12:53,306 BUILD A TREMENDOUS CASE, WHY ELSE WOULD YOU DENY 176,000 282 00:12:53,306 --> 00:12:54,207 PEOPLE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES? 283 00:12:54,207 --> 00:12:57,043 WHY WOULD YOU KEEP THEM LIVING IN THAT KIND OF SQUALOR HAVING 284 00:12:57,043 --> 00:13:00,980 TO WORK TWO JOBS, HAVING TO SPEND MOST OF THEIR LIFE GOING 285 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:03,883 TO AND FROM WORK AND PUTTING THEIR KIDS IN DAY CARE? 286 00:13:03,883 --> 00:13:08,888 WHEN A SIMPLE VOTE OF WHICH THERE ARE THE VOTES TO DO, 287 00:13:08,888 --> 00:13:11,224 MR. SIMPSON AND MR. BOEHNER WON'T THREAT COME TO THE 288 00:13:11,224 --> 00:13:13,693 FLOORMENT WE COULD RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE IN A MOMENT. 289 00:13:13,693 --> 00:13:17,630 I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO CALL THEM OTHER THAN CRUEL AND 290 00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:19,899 INFLICTING PAIN AND SUFFERING ON THE PEOPLE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO 291 00:13:19,899 --> 00:13:20,367 SERVE. 292 00:13:20,367 --> 00:13:23,436 >> HE'S BEEN THE ONLY INDIVIDUAL IN THIS CAMPAIGN, THREE TIMES BY 293 00:13:23,436 --> 00:13:28,274 THREE PAPERS BEEN CRITICIZED FOR USING LANGUAGE THAT WAS PROBABLY 294 00:13:28,274 --> 00:13:28,641 INAPPROPRIATE. 295 00:13:28,641 --> 00:13:30,610 WHEN YOU SAY THE REASON I VOTED -- 296 00:13:30,610 --> 00:13:34,280 THAT I HAVEN'T VOTED TO INCREASE THE MAJOR MY OPPOSITION TO IT IS 297 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,117 PROBABLY BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT'S -- 298 00:13:37,117 --> 00:13:39,185 I'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT. 299 00:13:39,185 --> 00:13:40,086 THAT'S OUT OF BOUNDS. 300 00:13:40,086 --> 00:13:44,924 HE SAID THINGS LIKE THAT REPEATEDLY, THAT FRANKLY AREN'T 301 00:13:44,924 --> 00:13:45,525 TRUE. 302 00:13:45,525 --> 00:13:49,362 >> THE NEXT QUESTION IS FROM BRIAN CLARK FOR CONGRESSMAN 303 00:13:49,362 --> 00:13:50,830 SIMPSON. 304 00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:53,033 >> CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON, YOU'RE CLOSE WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL 305 00:13:53,033 --> 00:13:56,369 LEADERSHIP, NOTABLY WITH JOHN BOEHNER, THE HOUSE SPEAKER. 306 00:13:56,369 --> 00:14:00,974 I IMAGINE IF WE CHECKED YOUR PHONE YOU'D HAVE HIM ON SPEED 307 00:14:00,974 --> 00:14:03,209 DIAL, HE WOULD PROBABLY BE UNDER JOHN. 308 00:14:03,209 --> 00:14:06,312 DESPITE IN THE MAJORITY OF IDAHOANS DON'T TRUST CONGRESS OR 309 00:14:06,312 --> 00:14:09,215 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THEY DON'T BELIEVE YOU AND YOUR 310 00:14:09,215 --> 00:14:11,785 FRIENDS CAN SOLVE THE BIGs PROBLEMS FACING THIS COUNTRY. 311 00:14:11,785 --> 00:14:15,055 HOW DO YOU AND SPEAKER BOEHNER PLAN TO GET THE TRUST OF 312 00:14:15,055 --> 00:14:15,889 IDAHOANS BACK? 313 00:14:15,889 --> 00:14:19,359 >> THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE MISTRUSTFUL OF CONGRESS AND THE 314 00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:20,894 UNABILITY TO GET ANYTHING DONE. 315 00:14:20,894 --> 00:14:23,329 FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, FOUR YEARS IT'S BEEN VERY, VERY 316 00:14:23,329 --> 00:14:26,232 DIFFICULT TO GET ANYTHING DONE IN CONGRESS. 317 00:14:26,232 --> 00:14:29,002 AS I SAID, WE'VE PASSED -- WE CONTINUE TO DO OUR WORK IN 318 00:14:29,002 --> 00:14:29,703 THE HOUSE. 319 00:14:29,703 --> 00:14:34,174 WE PASSED 370 BILLS ON THE SENATOR'S DESK THAT THE SENATE 320 00:14:34,174 --> 00:14:35,008 WON'T PICK UP. 321 00:14:35,008 --> 00:14:38,244 WE'VE PASSED APPROPRIATION BILLS THAT I SERVE ON, WE'VE PASSED 322 00:14:38,244 --> 00:14:41,348 ALL OF THE APPROPRIATION BILLS THROUGH THE FULL COMMITTEE, AND 323 00:14:41,348 --> 00:14:42,649 SEVEN OF THEM ON THE FLOOR. 324 00:14:42,649 --> 00:14:44,651 GUESS HOW MANY THE SENATE'S DONE? 325 00:14:44,651 --> 00:14:47,187 GUESS HOW MANY THE SENATE APPROPRIATION BILLS HAVE PASS IN 326 00:14:47,187 --> 00:14:48,621 THE LAST FOUR YEARS? 327 00:14:48,621 --> 00:14:49,389 ZERO. 328 00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:50,357 THEY'RE NOT WORKING. 329 00:14:50,357 --> 00:14:55,095 IT IS HARD TO GET A PRODUCT OUT AND TO DO OUR JOB WHEN THE 330 00:14:55,095 --> 00:14:57,564 SENATE IS FRANKLY DYSFUNCTIONAL. 331 00:14:57,564 --> 00:14:59,332 >> DID YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO THAT? 332 00:14:59,332 --> 00:15:02,869 >> I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT WE HAVE A SENATE TO BLAME. 333 00:15:02,869 --> 00:15:06,773 THE FACT THAT 52 OF THOSE BILLS WE SENT TO THE SENATE ARE BILLS 334 00:15:06,773 --> 00:15:08,508 TO REPEAL OBAMACARE. 335 00:15:08,508 --> 00:15:12,045 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO REALIZE THAT'S NOT 336 00:15:12,045 --> 00:15:14,881 GOING TO PASS THE SENATE, AND IF IT DID, THE PRESIDENT WOULD VETO 337 00:15:14,881 --> 00:15:15,048 IT. 338 00:15:15,048 --> 00:15:17,050 HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO REPEAL SOMETHING LIKE THAT? 339 00:15:17,050 --> 00:15:20,487 I THINK THERE'S A NUMBER OF BILLS TO ELIMINATE EPA, TO 340 00:15:20,487 --> 00:15:23,957 CHANGE SOME OF THE REGULATORY AGENCIES, SO THEY'RE KINDER TO 341 00:15:23,957 --> 00:15:26,359 THEIR BUSINESS FRIENDS, TO DEAL WITH THE TAX STRUCTURE SO YOU 342 00:15:26,359 --> 00:15:28,328 GET MORE MONEY TO THE RICH. 343 00:15:28,328 --> 00:15:30,330 AFL THOSE ARE ISSUES THEY PASSED. 344 00:15:30,330 --> 00:15:32,632 AND YET NONE OF THEM ARE GOING TO PASS THE SENATE BECAUSE THAT 345 00:15:32,632 --> 00:15:35,635 IS NOT WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT. 346 00:15:35,635 --> 00:15:39,906 AND THERE ARE SOME DYSFUNCTION IN THE JALAL TALABANI BUT 347 00:15:39,906 --> 00:15:43,009 NOTHING LIKE WHAT WE HAVE IN THE HOUSE, WHEN YOU HAVE A MAJORITY 348 00:15:43,009 --> 00:15:45,812 OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD SUPPORT RAISING MINIMUM WAGE, THAT WOULD 349 00:15:45,812 --> 00:15:48,648 SUPPORT IMMIGRATION REFORM, WHEN YOU HAVE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE 350 00:15:48,648 --> 00:15:54,020 THAT WOULD VOTE TO GIVE WOMEN EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK, AND 351 00:15:54,020 --> 00:15:55,755 YET THEY WON'T DEAL WITH THOSE. 352 00:15:55,755 --> 00:15:58,692 I WISH THAT THIS GROUP THANE STEAD OF LOOKING AT THE SENATE 353 00:15:58,692 --> 00:16:02,395 AS THEIR PROBLEM WOULD LOOK IN HOUSE, BECAUSE AS LONG AS YOU 354 00:16:02,395 --> 00:16:06,866 LET 40 TEA PARTY REPUBLICANS FIGHT THE STUFFINGS OUT OF THESE 355 00:16:06,866 --> 00:16:09,302 GUYS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET ANY KIND OF LEGISLATION BECAUSE EACH 356 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:13,306 ONE OF THEM, I CALLED A FRIEND OF MINE THAT BOTH OF US KNOW, I 357 00:16:13,306 --> 00:16:16,409 ASKED FOR HIS SUPPORT AND HE SAID I CAN'T, SIMPSON IS TOO 358 00:16:16,409 --> 00:16:18,144 GOOD FOR MY BUSINESS. 359 00:16:18,144 --> 00:16:21,414 AND I SAID THIS IS THE WORST CONGRESS EVER, AND HE SAID I 360 00:16:21,414 --> 00:16:21,681 KNOW. 361 00:16:21,681 --> 00:16:24,884 SIMPSON IS BETTER THAN HIS RECORD REFLECTS, HE'S JUST 362 00:16:24,884 --> 00:16:25,151 AFRAID. 363 00:16:25,151 --> 00:16:28,722 I WOULD NEVER STAND STILL FOR THAT KIND OF CALLING OF ME, 364 00:16:28,722 --> 00:16:31,958 BECAUSE I'M NOT AFRAID, I'M NOT INTIMIDATE AND I DON'T WORRY 365 00:16:31,958 --> 00:16:34,694 ABOUT A PRIMARY ELECTION BECAUSE I HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS 366 00:16:34,694 --> 00:16:36,996 THAN TO WORRY ABOUT REELECTION. 367 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:40,600 >> THE NEXT QUESTION -- IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON. 368 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,535 WE HAVE TO -- IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON. 369 00:16:42,535 --> 00:16:48,274 THE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON FROM MARCIA 370 00:16:48,274 --> 00:16:48,808 FRANKLIN. 371 00:16:48,808 --> 00:16:52,012 >> ASK ME THE SAME QUESTION, I NEED TO RESPOND TO THAT. 372 00:16:52,012 --> 00:16:54,647 >> YOU'LL HAVE TO COMPROMISE I GUESS. 373 00:16:54,647 --> 00:17:01,121 BOTH OF YOU TALK ELOQUENTLY, WAX ELOQUENTLY ABOUT YOUR ABILITY TO 374 00:17:01,121 --> 00:17:04,758 WORK IN A BIPARTISAN FASHION AND TO COMPROMISE. 375 00:17:04,758 --> 00:17:08,495 CAN YOU GIVE US A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE WHERE THAT WAS REALLY 376 00:17:08,495 --> 00:17:13,833 HARD FOR YOU, WHERE YOU REALLY HAD TO YESES WEST NILE YOUR OWN 377 00:17:13,833 --> 00:17:18,238 IDEALS IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT COMPROMISE? 378 00:17:18,238 --> 00:17:22,042 I'M THINKING OF THE REAL BIG ISSUES HERE. 379 00:17:22,042 --> 00:17:23,209 >> VOTING ON TARP. 380 00:17:23,209 --> 00:17:25,945 THE REST OF THE DELEGATION VOTED AGAINST TARP. 381 00:17:25,945 --> 00:17:29,349 TWO OF THE DELEGATION VOTED AGAINST BUT LARRY CRAIG AND I 382 00:17:29,349 --> 00:17:30,150 VOTED FOR IT. 383 00:17:30,150 --> 00:17:33,253 WHEN YOU LOOKED AT THE ECONOMY AT THE TIME AND WHAT ECONOMISTS 384 00:17:33,253 --> 00:17:36,222 WERE TELLING US, THE ECONOMY WAS GOING THROUGH THE FLOOR 23 WE 385 00:17:36,222 --> 00:17:37,223 DIDN'T DO ANYTHING SOMETHING. 386 00:17:37,223 --> 00:17:40,260 WOULD IT HAVE BEEN THE GREAT DEPRESSION ONLY MANY TIMES WORSE 387 00:17:40,260 --> 00:17:41,161 FROM WHAT EVERYBODY SAID. 388 00:17:41,161 --> 00:17:43,096 IT WAS NOT A POPULAR VOTE. 389 00:17:43,096 --> 00:17:46,366 I'VE BEEN WILLING TO TAKE VOTES THAT I THINK ARE IN THE BEST 390 00:17:46,366 --> 00:17:51,604 INTEREST OF THE STATE AND THE COUNTRY AND HAD THE COURAGE, 391 00:17:51,604 --> 00:17:54,341 CONTRARY TO WHAT MR. STALLINGS SAID, TO TAKE SOME OF THOSE 392 00:17:54,341 --> 00:17:58,378 TOUGH VOTES THAT SOMETIMES GO CONTRARY TO MY PARTY. 393 00:17:58,378 --> 00:18:00,580 BECAUSE I THOUGHT THEY WERE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE STATE 394 00:18:00,580 --> 00:18:01,214 AND THE COUNTRY. 395 00:18:01,214 --> 00:18:03,183 I CAN -- THERE ARE OTHER EXAMPLES OF 396 00:18:03,183 --> 00:18:06,653 THINGS I'M WORKING ON THAT WILL -- 397 00:18:06,653 --> 00:18:11,491 THAT A LOT OF MEMBERS IN MY PARTY DON'T AGREE WITH. 398 00:18:11,491 --> 00:18:15,195 THERE ARE MEMBERS OF MY PARTY THAT DON'T AGREE WITH ME BECAUSE 399 00:18:15,195 --> 00:18:18,765 WE HAVE TO RAISE REVENUE THE WAY YOU RAISE REVENUE IS BY LOWERING 400 00:18:18,765 --> 00:18:20,767 TAX RATES AND EXPANDING THE BASE. 401 00:18:20,767 --> 00:18:21,768 THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT. 402 00:18:21,768 --> 00:18:24,237 YOU CAN'T HAVE THE HIGHEST CORPORATE TAX RATE IN THE WORLD 403 00:18:24,237 --> 00:18:26,206 AND BE COMPETITIVE. 404 00:18:26,206 --> 00:18:27,607 SO -- AND THERE ARE PEOPLE ON THE 405 00:18:27,607 --> 00:18:30,944 OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE THAT DON'T LIKE IT BECAUSE IT 406 00:18:30,944 --> 00:18:32,512 INVOLVES ENTITLEMENT REFORM. 407 00:18:32,512 --> 00:18:35,415 SO I'VE BEEN WORKING IN A BIPARTISAN WAY AND ANYONE THAT 408 00:18:35,415 --> 00:18:39,986 SAYS THAT RICHARD NEEDS TO CALL HIS COLLEAGUES BACK IN 409 00:18:39,986 --> 00:18:41,488 WASHINGTON. 410 00:18:41,488 --> 00:18:45,625 >> FIRST OF ALL, I THINK I CONGRATULATE HIM FOR THE TARP 411 00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:45,892 VOTE. 412 00:18:45,892 --> 00:18:46,860 WOULD I HAVE DON'T SAME THING. 413 00:18:46,860 --> 00:18:50,163 THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS, TARP WAS REQUESTED BY MR. BUSH. 414 00:18:50,163 --> 00:18:55,535 I WOULD BET $100 THAT IF OBAMA HAD ASKED FOR TARP HE WOULD HAVE 415 00:18:55,535 --> 00:18:58,204 BEEN FLIEG FLEEING FROM THAT VOTE AND SAID ABSOLUTELY NOT. 416 00:18:58,204 --> 00:18:59,639 REGARDLESS OF THE STATUS OF THE ECONOMY. 417 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:03,009 BECAUSE THIS IS NOT ABOUT PRINCIPLES, THIS IS ABOUT 418 00:19:03,009 --> 00:19:05,011 PARTIES AND PARTISANSHIP. 419 00:19:05,011 --> 00:19:08,214 AND IF OBAMA SUGGESTS IT'S NIGHT, THEY'LL VOTE IT'S DAY. 420 00:19:08,214 --> 00:19:09,582 >> WHEN HAVE YOU COMPROMISED? 421 00:19:09,582 --> 00:19:11,851 >> I HAVE COMPROMISE ORDER VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE LEGISLATION 422 00:19:11,851 --> 00:19:13,653 I WORK ORDER WHEN I WAS IN CONGRESS. 423 00:19:13,653 --> 00:19:19,926 WHEN I DID THE -- I HAD TO WORK WITH THE STATES, I 424 00:19:19,926 --> 00:19:23,296 THISH TO WORK WITH THE INTERIOR COMMITTEE AND WE HAD TO 425 00:19:23,296 --> 00:19:23,596 COMPROMISE. 426 00:19:23,596 --> 00:19:26,332 JIM JONES, WHO HAS BEEN ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID THESE ARE THE 427 00:19:26,332 --> 00:19:27,033 THINGS WE NEED. 428 00:19:27,033 --> 00:19:29,035 I DIDN'T LIKE THEM. 429 00:19:29,035 --> 00:19:33,306 BUT SITTING DOWN WITH JIM MCCLURE, WE IRONED THEM OUT AND 430 00:19:33,306 --> 00:19:35,508 CAME OUT WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT IS PRECEDENT. 431 00:19:35,508 --> 00:19:38,678 IT BECOMES A WAY THAT MANY STATES ARE LOOKING AT HOW TO 432 00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:43,049 DEAL WITH WATER RIGHTS IN WHICH YOU HAVE TRIBES, STATE, WATER 433 00:19:43,049 --> 00:19:45,885 USERS, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVED. 434 00:19:45,885 --> 00:19:49,989 YOU CAN MAKE COMPROMISES BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GO INTO THE SYSTEM 435 00:19:49,989 --> 00:19:52,325 UNDERSTANDING YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET THE WHOLE PIE. 436 00:19:52,325 --> 00:19:57,797 AND IF YOU GET JUST A PIECE OF IT, THAT'S MOVING THE SYSTEM 437 00:19:57,797 --> 00:19:58,064 FORWARD. 438 00:19:58,064 --> 00:19:59,599 THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO. 439 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:03,536 >> THERE WERE OTHER ISSUES LIKE THAT, ON THE PAY RAISE BILL, 440 00:20:03,536 --> 00:20:04,871 LIKE SOME OF THOSE THINGS. 441 00:20:04,871 --> 00:20:08,375 BUT I VOTED FOR THEM BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS IN THE BEST 442 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:10,176 INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF IDAHO. 443 00:20:10,176 --> 00:20:11,644 >> FOR CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS O. 444 00:20:11,644 --> 00:20:15,348 IMMIGRATION FROM MARCIA FRANKLIN. 445 00:20:15,348 --> 00:20:18,551 >> WELL, I'M PICKING UP ON THIS THEME. 446 00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:20,754 ASIDE FROM THE FACT BOTH OF YOU AGREE SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE 447 00:20:20,754 --> 00:20:23,723 DONE, LET'S STAY ON THE COMPROMISE THEME HERE. 448 00:20:23,723 --> 00:20:29,195 WHERE DO YOU BELIEVE THE TWO OF YOU HAVE AGREEMENT ON 449 00:20:29,195 --> 00:20:31,097 IMMIGRATION REFORM? 450 00:20:31,097 --> 00:20:34,467 WHERE IS AN AREA YOU TWO CAN COME TOGETHER AND COMPROMISE? 451 00:20:34,467 --> 00:20:37,837 >> IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR ANSWER BRIEF. 452 00:20:37,837 --> 00:20:41,307 >> I THINK WE DO AGREE WITH A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS. 453 00:20:41,307 --> 00:20:45,745 I THINK WE BOTH AGREE THAT WE SHOULD NOT TRY TO DEPORT 12 OR 454 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:48,281 13 OR 14 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS. 455 00:20:48,281 --> 00:20:52,052 THAT IS INSANE, IT WOULD DESTROY A BIG PART OF IDAHO'S ECONOMY. 456 00:20:52,052 --> 00:20:55,288 I THINK YOU WILL NOT GET ANY RESISTANCE FROM HIM ON THAT. 457 00:20:55,288 --> 00:20:58,258 I THINK WHERE WE DIFFER IS I WANT TO PASS THE CITIZEN 14EU7. 458 00:20:58,258 --> 00:21:01,327 HE SAYS HE WANTS TO KEEP THEM HERE AND LET THEM CONTINUE TO 459 00:21:01,327 --> 00:21:04,698 WORK AND STAND IN LINE FOR ANOTHER 15 OR 20 OR 25 YEARS FOR 460 00:21:04,698 --> 00:21:04,998 CITIZENSHIP. 461 00:21:04,998 --> 00:21:07,600 WE DON'T HAVE TWO CLASSES OF CITIZENS IN THIS COUNTRY. 462 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,171 WE DON'T HAVE THOSE WITH POWER AND THOSE RESTRICTED AS WORKERS 463 00:21:11,171 --> 00:21:12,706 ONLY. 464 00:21:12,706 --> 00:21:13,807 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 465 00:21:13,807 --> 00:21:16,276 SAME QUESTION FOR YOU, CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON. 466 00:21:16,276 --> 00:21:20,246 >> I SUSPECT WE AGREE ON BORDER SECURITY BUT FIRST LET ME SAY 467 00:21:20,246 --> 00:21:23,450 WHEN HE SAYS THAT I PROBABLY WOULDN'T VOTE FOR TARP IF 468 00:21:23,450 --> 00:21:27,253 PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT, I VOTED TO OVERRIDE PRESIDENT 469 00:21:27,253 --> 00:21:28,888 BUSH'S VETO OF S-CHIP. 470 00:21:28,888 --> 00:21:32,826 SO I'VE WORKED IN A BIPARTISAN WAY AND HIS STATEMENTS TO THE 471 00:21:32,826 --> 00:21:34,828 CONTRARY ARE BULL. 472 00:21:34,828 --> 00:21:38,031 BUT I THINK THE BORDER SECURITY IS WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO DO FIRST 473 00:21:38,031 --> 00:21:40,000 AND WE PROBABLY AGREE WITH THAT. 474 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,037 BUT THE REALITY IS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DEPORT 14 MILLION 475 00:21:44,037 --> 00:21:44,838 ILLEGAL ALIENS. 476 00:21:44,838 --> 00:21:45,939 THAT'S THE REALITY. 477 00:21:45,939 --> 00:21:47,774 WE WOULD BE DEVASTATED TO OUR ECONOMY. 478 00:21:47,774 --> 00:21:49,275 WHAT DO YOU DO IN THE MEANTIME? 479 00:21:49,275 --> 00:21:53,480 I WOULD SAY YOU GIVE THEM GREEN CARD STATUS SO THEY CAN STAY AND 480 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:58,251 WORK AND THEN YOU ALLOW THEM IF THEY CHOOSE TO BECOME CITIZENS, 481 00:21:58,251 --> 00:22:01,254 TO APPLY TO THE REGULAR PROCESS, THEY DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE THE 482 00:22:01,254 --> 00:22:04,791 COUNTRY TO APPLY, BUT THEY APPLY THROUGHOUT REGULAR PROCESS. 483 00:22:04,791 --> 00:22:08,795 YOU CANNOT GIVE SOMEONE AN ADVANTAGE FOR COMING ILLEGALLY. 484 00:22:08,795 --> 00:22:12,899 YOU CANNOT REWARD ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR OR YOU WILL JUST 485 00:22:12,899 --> 00:22:17,604 ENCOURAGE MORE ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR JUST AS HAPPENED IN 1986 WHEN 486 00:22:17,604 --> 00:22:21,975 MR. STALLINGS VOTED FOR SIMPSON ME SOLELY THAT LEGALIZED ALL 487 00:22:21,975 --> 00:22:24,344 THESE PEOPLE AND WE GOT MORE AND MORE. 488 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:26,613 THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. 489 00:22:26,613 --> 00:22:27,113 IT DIDN'T. 490 00:22:27,113 --> 00:22:29,649 BECAUSE WE REWARDED ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. 491 00:22:29,649 --> 00:22:33,086 >> WE HAVE A FOLLOW-UP ON THAT, THE SAME QUESTION FOR BOTH OF 492 00:22:33,086 --> 00:22:34,888 YOU. 493 00:22:34,888 --> 00:22:37,390 START WITH CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON. 494 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:42,262 >> SO HOW DO YOU FASHION AN IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT IS FAIR 495 00:22:42,262 --> 00:22:48,001 BOTH TIME GRANTS WHO CAME HERE LEGALLY BUT ENSURES A SUPPLY OF 496 00:22:48,001 --> 00:22:52,305 WORKERS FOR AMERICAN BUSINESSES WHILE AT THE SAME TIME STOPPING 497 00:22:52,305 --> 00:22:56,109 THE ABUSE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO LET'S FACE IT, SOMETIMES 498 00:22:56,109 --> 00:22:58,878 THEY'RE UNDERPAID AND THEY HAVE NO VOTING RIGHTS. 499 00:22:58,878 --> 00:23:02,148 >> WELL, AS I SAID, I THINK YOU NEED TO BRING THEM OUT OF THE 500 00:23:02,148 --> 00:23:02,415 SHADOWS. 501 00:23:02,415 --> 00:23:05,251 THEY HAVEN'T BE IN FEAR OF BEING DEPORTED EVERY DAY, AND PEOPLE 502 00:23:05,251 --> 00:23:09,889 CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM IF THEY ARE UNDER THOSE SORTS OF 503 00:23:09,889 --> 00:23:10,256 CIRCUMSTANCES. 504 00:23:10,256 --> 00:23:12,859 SO I THINK THAT YOU GIVE THEM GREEN CARD STATUS SO THEY CAN 505 00:23:12,859 --> 00:23:15,895 STAY AND WORK, PAY TAXES, THEY CAN DO ALL OF THAT KIND OF STUFF 506 00:23:15,895 --> 00:23:19,165 AND THEN IF THEY WANT TO BECOME CITIZENS THEY GO THROUGH THE 507 00:23:19,165 --> 00:23:22,168 REGULAR PROCESS LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE HAS TO DO. 508 00:23:22,168 --> 00:23:24,337 BUT YOU DON'T REWARD ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. 509 00:23:24,337 --> 00:23:24,871 I THINK YOU. 510 00:23:24,871 --> 00:23:27,240 >>> REACH A COMPROMISE, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL SEE 511 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,076 WHEN THE NEXT CONGRESS TAKES UP IMMIGRATION REFORM, AND THE 512 00:23:30,076 --> 00:23:32,178 HOUSE IS GOING TO TAKE IT UP. 513 00:23:32,178 --> 00:23:32,879 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS. 514 00:23:32,879 --> 00:23:35,815 >> FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS NO REGULAR WAY OF EMIGRATION -- 515 00:23:35,815 --> 00:23:39,285 OF IMMIGRATION TO GET CITIZENSHIP. 516 00:23:39,285 --> 00:23:41,354 IT REALLY DOESN'T EXIST THERE. 517 00:23:41,354 --> 00:23:44,257 ARE DIFFERENT STEPS AND PHASES BUT FOR THESE UNDOCUMENTED 518 00:23:44,257 --> 00:23:46,760 FOLKS, IT CAN BE ANOTHER 20 YEARS. 519 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,929 IT'S JUST A HODGEPODGE OF STUPIDITY. 520 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:52,999 MOST OF THE PEOPLE DON'T COME ACROSS THE BORDER SO BORDER 521 00:23:52,999 --> 00:23:55,468 SECURITY IS TALKING ABOUT REALLY IS NOT A MAJOR ISSUE. 522 00:23:55,468 --> 00:23:58,672 THE SENATE PUT TOGETHER ONE THAT'S NOT BAD, MOST OF THE 523 00:23:58,672 --> 00:24:02,242 UNDOCUMENTED COME HERE ON STUDENT VISAS OR WORK VISA, AND 524 00:24:02,242 --> 00:24:03,243 JUST DON'T GO HOME. 525 00:24:03,243 --> 00:24:05,712 I THINK WE NEED A BETTER SYSTEM FOR TRACKING. 526 00:24:05,712 --> 00:24:10,583 I DON'T THINK PUTTING IN MORE BORDER GUARDS IS GOING TO MAKE A 527 00:24:10,583 --> 00:24:10,884 DIFFERENCE. 528 00:24:10,884 --> 00:24:15,155 I THINK YOU NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF TRACKING THEM. 529 00:24:15,155 --> 00:24:17,791 BUT WE'VE NEVER DONE THAT, NOT AS THOROUGHLY AS WE SHOULD. 530 00:24:17,791 --> 00:24:24,097 THE IDEA WE LET THEM STAY AND WORK IS A BOOM TO THE 531 00:24:24,097 --> 00:24:24,864 AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY. 532 00:24:24,864 --> 00:24:28,902 THEN THEY CAN WORK THEM TO DEATH AND NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM 533 00:24:28,902 --> 00:24:29,703 HAVING POLITICAL CLOUT. 534 00:24:29,703 --> 00:24:32,906 HE'S RIGHT, THEY HAVE BROKEN THE LAW, BUT THE LAW THEY BROKE WAS 535 00:24:32,906 --> 00:24:36,976 A MISDEMEANOR AND THERE ARE NO JAIL SENTENCES FOR MOST 536 00:24:36,976 --> 00:24:37,344 MISDEMEANORS. 537 00:24:37,344 --> 00:24:41,014 SO YOU HAVE A PENALTY, IT MIGHT BE A FINE, IT MIGHT BE A TWO OR 538 00:24:41,014 --> 00:24:43,650 THREE-YEAR WAITING PERIOD, A YEAR OR TWO OF PUBLIC SERVICE. 539 00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:46,653 I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT BUT THE FIRST GROUP YOU HAVE TO 540 00:24:46,653 --> 00:24:50,457 DEAL WITH ARE THE DREAMERS, BECAUSE MR. SIMPSON WHO CLAIMS 541 00:24:50,457 --> 00:24:52,092 TO BE IN SUPPORT OF THE DREAMERS, THESE ARE THE FOLKS 542 00:24:52,092 --> 00:24:57,297 WHO CAME OVER AS CHILDREN, HE VOTED TO CUT THE FUNDING OF THE 543 00:24:57,297 --> 00:24:59,499 AGENT STAY THAT HANDLES THEM AND AT THE SAME TIME INCREASE 544 00:24:59,499 --> 00:25:00,834 FUNDING FOR DEPORTATION. 545 00:25:00,834 --> 00:25:03,770 SO I THINK WE'RE SEEING A LITTLE BIT OF A SOFT SHOE IN WHICH HE 546 00:25:03,770 --> 00:25:07,974 SAYS I'M FOR THIS, BUT I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR SOMETHING ELSE. 547 00:25:07,974 --> 00:25:09,976 >> CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON DID YOU WANT TO RESPOND? 548 00:25:09,976 --> 00:25:14,948 >> THE REALITY IS THE EXPANSION OF THE DACA PROGRAM OBAMA 549 00:25:14,948 --> 00:25:17,784 ADMINISTRATION DID, DID IT WITHOUT CONSULTING CONGRESS, 550 00:25:17,784 --> 00:25:19,319 JUST LIKE HE SAYS AFTER THIS ELECTION. 551 00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:21,521 WHY WOULDN'T HE DO IT BEFORE THE ELECTION? 552 00:25:21,521 --> 00:25:24,691 BECAUSE HE KNOWS PEOPLE WOULD REJECT WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO BUT 553 00:25:24,691 --> 00:25:28,595 LET'S GOING TO LEGALIZE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE AS SOON AS THIS 554 00:25:28,595 --> 00:25:32,799 ELECTION -- USING HIS SKEETIVE POWER AND -- 555 00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:36,069 EXECUTIVE POWER AND CHALLENGE CONGRESS TO TRY AND STOP HIM. 556 00:25:36,069 --> 00:25:38,505 AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A FIGHT AS SOON AS THE ELECTION IS OVER. 557 00:25:38,505 --> 00:25:40,807 >> YOU HAD A FOLLOW-UP GHE. 558 00:25:40,807 --> 00:25:44,811 >> CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND YOU 559 00:25:44,811 --> 00:25:48,181 CLEARLY, ARE YOU PROPOSING THEN THAT FOR PEOPLE WHO ENTERED THE 560 00:25:48,181 --> 00:25:50,650 COUNTRY ILLEGALLY WHRRKS THEY HAVE A JOB HERE OR WHATEVER 561 00:25:50,650 --> 00:25:54,087 THEY'RE DOING HERE, THERE WOULD BE SOME SYSTEM FOR THEM TO GET A 562 00:25:54,087 --> 00:25:58,191 GREEN CARD WITHOUT ACTUALLY LEAVING THE COUNTRY AND THEN 563 00:25:58,191 --> 00:25:59,025 REENTERING LEGALLY? 564 00:25:59,025 --> 00:25:59,693 >> RIGHT. 565 00:25:59,693 --> 00:26:00,326 >> OK. 566 00:26:00,326 --> 00:26:06,666 ANY OTHER SPECIFICS YOU CAN TELL ME ON AN IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT 567 00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:09,035 WOULD ALLOW -- HOW WOULD THEY GET TO THE 568 00:26:09,035 --> 00:26:09,402 CITIZENSHIP? 569 00:26:09,402 --> 00:26:12,572 THAT'S A BIG STEP. 570 00:26:12,572 --> 00:26:15,608 FROM GOING TO A 10-YEAR GREEN CARD TO GOING TO CITIZENSHIP. 571 00:26:15,608 --> 00:26:18,678 >> YOU WOULD ALLOW THEM TO APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP -- 572 00:26:18,678 --> 00:26:21,047 NOW F. THEY APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP TODAY THEY'VE GOT TO 573 00:26:21,047 --> 00:26:22,082 LEAVE THE COUNTRY. 574 00:26:22,082 --> 00:26:24,784 AND APPLY IN THE COUNTRY FROM WHICH THEY CAME. 575 00:26:24,784 --> 00:26:26,886 AND GET AT THE BACK OF THE LINE. 576 00:26:26,886 --> 00:26:30,357 REMEMBER, WE HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THIS WORLD WANTING 577 00:26:30,357 --> 00:26:33,059 TO BECOME AMERICANS AND THEY'RE DOING IT THE LEGAL WAY. 578 00:26:33,059 --> 00:26:36,062 THEY'RE APPLYING THROUGH THEIR COUNTRY, AND SO FORTH. 579 00:26:36,062 --> 00:26:40,266 SO WHY ARE WE GOING TO DISADVANTAGE THEM BY GIVING AN 580 00:26:40,266 --> 00:26:43,169 ADVANTAGE TO PEOPLE WHO CAME ILLEGALLY? 581 00:26:43,169 --> 00:26:45,005 THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. 582 00:26:45,005 --> 00:26:47,273 YOU'RE REWARDING ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR. 583 00:26:47,273 --> 00:26:50,977 WHAT I WOULD DO IS SAY, OK, IF YOU WANT TO BECOME A CITIZEN, 584 00:26:50,977 --> 00:26:54,247 AND NOT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WANT TO BECOME CITIZENS, I'VE TALKED 585 00:26:54,247 --> 00:27:00,387 TO A LOT OF THEM WHO SAY I JUST WANT TO WORK, TO NOT FEAR BEING 586 00:27:00,387 --> 00:27:00,687 DEPORTED. 587 00:27:00,687 --> 00:27:04,024 BUT WHAT YOU WOULD DO IS SAY IF YOU WANT TO APPLY FOR 588 00:27:04,024 --> 00:27:06,760 CITIZENSHIP YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE, YOU CAN STAY HERE UNDER 589 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,031 YOUR GREEN CARD STATUS, BUT YOU APPLY JUST AS IF YOU WERE IN 590 00:27:11,031 --> 00:27:13,133 THAT EXPUN GOING TO COME THIS THIS COUNTRY. 591 00:27:13,133 --> 00:27:14,968 >> THE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS FROM 592 00:27:14,968 --> 00:27:19,205 MARCIA FRANKLIN. 593 00:27:19,205 --> 00:27:22,042 >> I'M -- THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN IS 594 00:27:22,042 --> 00:27:25,311 SUPPOSEDLY OVER, THE WAR IN IRAQ, NOW WE HAVE POTENTIAL 595 00:27:25,311 --> 00:27:30,884 THREAT FROM THE SO-CALLED ISLAMIC STATE RISING. 596 00:27:30,884 --> 00:27:36,790 WE COULD BE ON THE PRECIPICE OF YOU KNOW, ANOTHER WAR AT LEAST 597 00:27:36,790 --> 00:27:38,692 MILITARY ACTION. 598 00:27:38,692 --> 00:27:43,897 TAKE US THROUGHOUT STEPS THAT GO THROUGH YOUR MIND IF YOU WERE 599 00:27:43,897 --> 00:27:48,635 CALLED UPON TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT ENGAGE OUR TROOPS AGAIN. 600 00:27:48,635 --> 00:27:51,438 >> I WOULD BE GRATEFUL IF CONGRESS WOULD DEAL WITH THIS 601 00:27:51,438 --> 00:27:53,340 ISSUE IN WHICH THEY HAVE FAILED. 602 00:27:53,340 --> 00:27:56,643 THEY FLED WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID PLEASE DEBATE THE ISSUE AND 603 00:27:56,643 --> 00:27:58,745 GIVE US SOME AUTHORITY. 604 00:27:58,745 --> 00:28:01,481 THE PRESIDENT OFFERED TWO POSSIBILITIES. 605 00:28:01,481 --> 00:28:05,819 HE SAID FIRST OF ALL WE'D LIKE TO SELECT THE GOOD SYRIANS AND 606 00:28:05,819 --> 00:28:06,386 ARM THEM. 607 00:28:06,386 --> 00:28:09,823 AND THEY DID DEAL WITH THAT. 608 00:28:09,823 --> 00:28:15,028 I'D PROBABLY HAVE VOTED THE SAME WAY. 609 00:28:15,028 --> 00:28:17,497 THE SECOND ONE TO GIVE THE PRESIDENT AUTHORITY TO DO WHAT 610 00:28:17,497 --> 00:28:21,134 HE'S DOING IN SYRIA, WHEN THE BRITISH DECIDED TO MAKE THAT 611 00:28:21,134 --> 00:28:25,138 DECISION THEY CALLED PARLIAMENT IN TO DEBATE IT AND THEY HAD A 612 00:28:25,138 --> 00:28:25,405 POLICY. 613 00:28:25,405 --> 00:28:26,706 OUR GUYS WENT HOME. 614 00:28:26,706 --> 00:28:29,309 THEY DIDN'T STAY AROUND. 615 00:28:29,309 --> 00:28:33,046 THEY'VE GIVEN THE PRESIDENT NO AUTHORITY TO DO WHAT HE'S DOING. 616 00:28:33,046 --> 00:28:37,217 HE'S OPERATING UNDER LAWS PASSED IN 2001-2002 DEALING WITH IRAQ. 617 00:28:37,217 --> 00:28:41,321 >> I'M CURIOUS, ASIDE FROM YOUR CRITICISM OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED, 618 00:28:41,321 --> 00:28:46,259 HOW WOULD YOU PERSONALLY MAKE YOUR DECISION SHOULD YOU BE IN 619 00:28:46,259 --> 00:28:47,227 THE SAME SITUATION? 620 00:28:47,227 --> 00:28:49,529 >> WOULD I DEMAND A CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. 621 00:28:49,529 --> 00:28:53,967 WOULD I DEMAND CONGRESS DO WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED TO 622 00:28:53,967 --> 00:28:54,167 DO. 623 00:28:54,167 --> 00:28:55,702 THAT IS DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES. 624 00:28:55,702 --> 00:28:57,604 CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION DEALS WITH WAR. 625 00:28:57,604 --> 00:29:02,909 AND I WOULD HAVE JUST RAISE HELL TO GET CONGRESS TO COME TOGETHER 626 00:29:02,909 --> 00:29:05,011 AND DECIDE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS. 627 00:29:05,011 --> 00:29:07,847 MAYBE THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT, MAYBE HE'S WRONG, I DON'T KNOW. 628 00:29:07,847 --> 00:29:10,383 UNLESS WE HAVE A FORMAL DEBATE IN WHICH WE'D BRING IN THE 629 00:29:10,383 --> 00:29:13,920 EXPERTS AND LISTEN TO THE BEST MINDS IN THE COUNTRY, GIVE US 630 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,023 INSTRUCTIONS, I WOULD BE VERY RELUCTANT TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT 631 00:29:17,023 --> 00:29:19,059 TO CONTINUE WITH THIS POLICY. 632 00:29:19,059 --> 00:29:19,859 I THINK IT'S WRONG. 633 00:29:19,859 --> 00:29:22,562 I THINK IT'S ILLEGAL AND I'M CRITICAL OF THE CONGRESS OF 634 00:29:22,562 --> 00:29:26,032 MR. BOEHNER AND MR. SIMPSON OF BREAKING AND RUNNING RATHER THAN 635 00:29:26,032 --> 00:29:28,868 DEALING WITH M THIS MASSIVE ISSUE OF WAR AND PEACE. 636 00:29:28,868 --> 00:29:31,604 MR. BOEHNER HAS SAID MAYBE WE NEED BOOTS ON THE GROUND. 637 00:29:31,604 --> 00:29:33,039 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S EXCITING. 638 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:35,675 I DON'T KNOW IF MR. SIMPSON AGREE WAS, THAT BUT I WOULD 639 00:29:35,675 --> 00:29:39,245 TOTALLY OPPOSE BOOTS ON THE GROUND OF AMERICANS IN THAT 640 00:29:39,245 --> 00:29:41,247 BATTLE, BECAUSE THAT IS NOT OUR FIGHT AT THIS POINT. 641 00:29:41,247 --> 00:29:44,417 >> LET'S FIND OUT WHAT CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON THINKS. 642 00:29:44,417 --> 00:29:47,420 >> FIRST OF ALL, PRESIDENT OBAMA NEVER ASKED US TO TAKE IT UP AND 643 00:29:47,420 --> 00:29:49,489 GIVE HIM AUTHORITY. 644 00:29:49,489 --> 00:29:53,059 EVERY PRESIDENT HAS BELIEVED THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY UNDER 645 00:29:53,059 --> 00:29:55,061 THE AUTHORIZATION TO USE MILITARY FORCE. 646 00:29:55,061 --> 00:29:59,599 UNDER THEIR POWERS AS THE SUPREME COMMANDER TO ENGAGE IN 647 00:29:59,599 --> 00:30:00,533 THESE THINGS. 648 00:30:00,533 --> 00:30:03,970 CONGRESS HAS OFTEN TIMES PASTED AUTHORIZATIONS FOR USE OF 649 00:30:03,970 --> 00:30:05,905 MILITARY FORCE AND THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR 650 00:30:05,905 --> 00:30:09,175 YOUR SUPPORT BUT I DON'T NEED THIS, I CAN DO IT ON MY OWN. 651 00:30:09,175 --> 00:30:10,744 I THINK THAT'S A QUESTION OF DEBATE. 652 00:30:10,744 --> 00:30:13,013 I THINK CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE DEBATED IT AND CONGRESS SHOULD 653 00:30:13,013 --> 00:30:17,283 DEBATE WHEN IT WE GET BACK AND THE AUTHORIZATION TO HELP THE 654 00:30:17,283 --> 00:30:21,388 FREE SYRIAN REBELS WHOEVER THE HECK THAT IS, RUNS OUT ON 655 00:30:21,388 --> 00:30:23,089 DECEMBER 11th. 656 00:30:23,089 --> 00:30:25,025 SO THAT -- >> WHAT'S GOING THROUGH YOUR 657 00:30:25,025 --> 00:30:27,660 HEAD RIGHT NOW -- >> WHAT WOULD I DO. 658 00:30:27,660 --> 00:30:30,663 >> WHAT FACTORS ARE YOU CONSIDERING? 659 00:30:30,663 --> 00:30:36,302 >> FIRST YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER ISIL IS A TRUE THREAT TO 660 00:30:36,302 --> 00:30:37,203 THE UNITED STATES. 661 00:30:37,203 --> 00:30:38,738 ARE THEY BAD? 662 00:30:38,738 --> 00:30:40,206 THERE'S BAD PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. 663 00:30:40,206 --> 00:30:42,308 DO WE NEED TO GET RID OF THEM? 664 00:30:42,308 --> 00:30:43,376 YEAH, WE DO. 665 00:30:43,376 --> 00:30:47,013 YOU CAN'T HAVE PEOPLE BEHEADING AMERICANS AND OTHER PEOPLE TODAY 666 00:30:47,013 --> 00:30:51,685 THEY KILLED, I DON'T KNOW, 50 PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WERE MORE 667 00:30:51,685 --> 00:30:52,919 SUPPORTIVE OF THE UNITED STATES AND STUFF. 668 00:30:52,919 --> 00:30:54,421 WE NEED TO GET RID OF THEM. 669 00:30:54,421 --> 00:30:57,490 HOW DO YOU AS A PRESIDENT GIVE A SPEECH AND SAY THESE ARE BAD 670 00:30:57,490 --> 00:31:00,160 PEOPLE, THESE ARE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES AND 671 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,896 WE'RE NOT GOING TO PUT ANY BOOTS ON THE GROUND. 672 00:31:02,896 --> 00:31:05,999 WE'LL BOMB THEM AND WE HOPE SOMEBODY ELSE COMES IN WITH 673 00:31:05,999 --> 00:31:09,703 BOOTS ON THE GROUND F THEY ARE INDEED A THREAT TO THE UNITED 674 00:31:09,703 --> 00:31:12,339 STATES, AND THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES, THEN DO YOU 675 00:31:12,339 --> 00:31:14,808 WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO GET RID OF THEM. 676 00:31:14,808 --> 00:31:19,112 >> IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON, THE NEXT QUESTION IS FROM BRIAN TO 677 00:31:19,112 --> 00:31:21,381 CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON. 678 00:31:21,381 --> 00:31:25,452 >> CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON, YOU AND OTHER CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS 679 00:31:25,452 --> 00:31:30,190 HAVE PUT A LOT OF FOCUS ON THE DEBT AND DEFICIT IN RECENT 680 00:31:30,190 --> 00:31:30,457 YEARS. 681 00:31:30,457 --> 00:31:33,526 RUNAWAY SPENDING, THINGS LIKE THIS THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 682 00:31:33,526 --> 00:31:36,663 OFFICE THIS YEAR PROJECTS THE BUDGET DEFICIT WILL BE LESS THAN 683 00:31:36,663 --> 00:31:42,836 3% OF GDP AND LESS OF A PERCENTAGE THAN OVER THE AVERAGE 684 00:31:42,836 --> 00:31:44,104 OF THE LAST 40 YEARS. 685 00:31:44,104 --> 00:31:46,306 IT'S EXPECTED TO BE LOWER NEXT YEAR. 686 00:31:46,306 --> 00:31:49,943 WHY SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE DEAF IT? 687 00:31:49,943 --> 00:31:56,116 >> BECAUSE AT $17.5 TRILLION, WE SPEND $250 BILLION EVERY YEAR 688 00:31:56,116 --> 00:31:58,051 JUST PAYING INTEREST ON THE DEBT. 689 00:31:58,051 --> 00:32:00,086 WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO FIX THE ROADS AND BRIDGES IN 690 00:32:00,086 --> 00:32:02,422 THIS COUNTRY, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO DO OTHER THINGS 691 00:32:02,422 --> 00:32:06,359 IN THIS COUNTRY, AND WE PAY $250 BILLION IN INTEREST. 692 00:32:06,359 --> 00:32:08,328 WHO'S GOING TO BE SADDLED WITH THAT? 693 00:32:08,328 --> 00:32:09,996 YOUNG PEOPLE. 694 00:32:09,996 --> 00:32:14,334 WE CAN'T CONTINUE DOWN THIS ROAD OF SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE 695 00:32:14,334 --> 00:32:17,237 BORROWING IT FROM CHINA TO DO OTHER THINGS. 696 00:32:17,237 --> 00:32:22,175 IT IS AS COMMANDER HAYDEN SAID, THE BIGGEST NATIONAL SECURITY 697 00:32:22,175 --> 00:32:24,377 ISSUE THAT FACES US IS OUR DEBT AND DEFICIT. 698 00:32:24,377 --> 00:32:30,350 WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TODAY IF A WORLD WAR II SORT OF 699 00:32:30,350 --> 00:32:33,353 SCENARIO WERE TO BREAK OUT, WE WERE ABLE TO MORE LIES THIS 700 00:32:33,353 --> 00:32:35,889 COUNTRY AND USE THE RESOURCES BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE DEBT 701 00:32:35,889 --> 00:32:38,124 AND DEFICIT WE HAD AT THAT TIME. 702 00:32:38,124 --> 00:32:40,527 THAT WE HAVE AT THIS TIME BACK THEN. 703 00:32:40,527 --> 00:32:44,664 WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO MOBILIZE THOSE FORCES AND THE 704 00:32:44,664 --> 00:32:47,300 AMERICAN ECONOMY BECAUSE OF THE DEBT AND DEFICIT. 705 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:50,570 IT IS THE BIGGEST THREAT FACE 24-G EXPUN OUR FUTURE. 706 00:32:50,570 --> 00:32:51,771 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS? 707 00:32:51,771 --> 00:32:57,143 >> I'M SORT OF A JOHNNY COME LATELY ANSWER THAT WE'VE HEARD. 708 00:32:57,143 --> 00:33:00,347 BECAUSE WHEN BILL CLINTON LEFT OFFICE, WE NOT ONLY HAD MOST OF 709 00:33:00,347 --> 00:33:03,850 THE DEBT REDUCED BUT WE WERE STARTING TO LIVE WITH SURPLUSES. 710 00:33:03,850 --> 00:33:09,356 AND MR. BUSH AND MR. SIMPSON GOT AHOLD OF THAT AND BLEW THAT 711 00:33:09,356 --> 00:33:10,623 RIGHT OUT OF THE WATER. 712 00:33:10,623 --> 00:33:14,527 SO WE TBRENT A SURPLUS TO MESSY DEBTS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND 713 00:33:14,527 --> 00:33:16,062 GEORGE BUSH TERMS. 714 00:33:16,062 --> 00:33:20,066 THEY FIRST OF ALL PASSED TWO MASSIVE TAX CUTS THAT DIDN'T 715 00:33:20,066 --> 00:33:23,636 BENEFIT YOU AND I, BUT IT WAS VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE RICH. 716 00:33:23,636 --> 00:33:25,005 MR. SIMPSON DIDN'T FLINCH. 717 00:33:25,005 --> 00:33:26,439 VOTED FOR THOSE. 718 00:33:26,439 --> 00:33:31,177 THEN WE FOUGHT TWO WARS, DECIDED WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM, 719 00:33:31,177 --> 00:33:34,280 THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE BUDGET RELATED SO YOU FIGHT TWO WARS IN 720 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,284 AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, AND DON'T COUNT THE COST OF THAT. 721 00:33:38,284 --> 00:33:42,088 AND THEN YOU PASS UNDER BUSH'S MISLEADING RHETORIC THAT THIS 722 00:33:42,088 --> 00:33:46,826 THING IS NOT GOING TO COST AS MUCH AND IN FACT THE REPUBLICANS 723 00:33:46,826 --> 00:33:51,998 REFUSED TO EVEN DEBATE THE COST OF THIS PLAN OR PART D OF 724 00:33:51,998 --> 00:33:58,405 MEDICARE, THE DRUG CONNECTION TO IT, AND SO NOW WE TURN A SURPLUS 725 00:33:58,405 --> 00:34:00,874 BILL CLINTON LEFT TO A DEFICIT NO. 726 00:34:00,874 --> 00:34:03,977 KIT CRISP ABOUT HOW THIS IS GOING TO HURT US, BECAUSE THEY 727 00:34:03,977 --> 00:34:11,151 BLEW UP THE SURPLUS AND TURNED THIS PATHWAY INTO PROSPERITY 728 00:34:11,151 --> 00:34:15,221 THAT WE'RE ON, INTO THIS MASSIVE DEFICIT. 729 00:34:15,221 --> 00:34:18,258 WHEN BUSH LEFT OFFICE HE LEFT US IN A MASSIVE 40E8 IN WHICH HE 730 00:34:18,258 --> 00:34:21,594 SAID WAS SIMILAR TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND SO WE PASSED 731 00:34:21,594 --> 00:34:23,863 TARP AND CONTINUED TO SPEND TO GET OUT OF IT. 732 00:34:23,863 --> 00:34:28,001 WE ARE TURNING IT AROUND AND IT IS SERIOUS, BUT WHEN HE PONTIFF 733 00:34:28,001 --> 00:34:32,005 INDICATES ABOUT HOW THE DEFICIT IS KILLING US, HE JUST NEEDS 734 00:34:32,005 --> 00:34:35,709 LOOK IN THE MIRROR BECAUSE HE IS AS MUCH RESPONSIBLE AS THAT 735 00:34:35,709 --> 00:34:38,645 DEFICIT AS ANY MODERN POLITICIAN. 736 00:34:38,645 --> 00:34:39,979 >> CONGRESSMAN DID YOU WANT TO RESPOND? 737 00:34:39,979 --> 00:34:40,647 >> OH, YEAH. 738 00:34:40,647 --> 00:34:41,348 OH, YEAH. 739 00:34:41,348 --> 00:34:46,019 THAT'S PART OF HISTORY, AND IT'S -- 740 00:34:46,019 --> 00:34:50,123 FOR BEING A HISTORY TEACHER YOU SURE FORGET ABOUT HISTORY. 741 00:34:50,123 --> 00:34:52,092 WHEN CLINTON WAS STARTING TO LEAVE OFFICE AT THE END OF HIS 742 00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:54,361 TERM THE ECONOMY WAS GOING THROUGH THE FLOOR AND THEN WE 743 00:34:54,361 --> 00:34:58,965 HAD A LITTLE EVENT, WE HAD A LITTLE EVENT, IT'S CALLED 9-11. 744 00:34:58,965 --> 00:35:02,569 AND OUR ECONOMY WENT REALLY THROUGH THE FLOOR. 745 00:35:02,569 --> 00:35:05,038 AND WE -- AND CONSEQUENTLY WHEN THE 746 00:35:05,038 --> 00:35:07,607 ECONOMY GOES THROUGH THE FLOOR WE DON'T TAKE IN AS MUCH 747 00:35:07,607 --> 00:35:07,874 REVENUE. 748 00:35:07,874 --> 00:35:11,978 AND WE HAD PASSED TAX CUTS PRIOR TO ALL OF THAT HAPPENING. 749 00:35:11,978 --> 00:35:15,482 I ACTUALLY VOTED AGAINST THE EXTENSION OF THE TAX CUTS AT ONE 750 00:35:15,482 --> 00:35:18,518 TIME BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO FOR 751 00:35:18,518 --> 00:35:22,322 OUR ECONOMY, BUT HE HAS A TENDENCY TO FORGET ALL THESE 752 00:35:22,322 --> 00:35:22,622 THINGS. 753 00:35:22,622 --> 00:35:25,625 I SAT ON THE BUDGET COMMITTEE WHEN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND 754 00:35:25,625 --> 00:35:31,164 HE'S RIGHT, NEVER PUT THE COST OF THE WAR IN THEIR BUDGET WHEN 755 00:35:31,164 --> 00:35:32,332 THEY CAME TO US. 756 00:35:32,332 --> 00:35:33,700 GUESS WHO CRITICIZED HIM? 757 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:34,601 I DID. 758 00:35:34,601 --> 00:35:37,704 AND EVENTUALLY THEY STARTED PUTTING COSTS OF THE WAR IN 759 00:35:37,704 --> 00:35:38,638 THEIR ANNUAL BUDGET. 760 00:35:38,638 --> 00:35:41,341 BUT THEY ALWAYS SAID THAT WAS SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING THEY COULD 761 00:35:41,341 --> 00:35:42,542 ASK FOR. 762 00:35:42,542 --> 00:35:49,716 SO I'VE BEEN CONSISTENT ON IN, AND IT HAS BEEN BOTH REPUBLICANS 763 00:35:49,716 --> 00:35:52,719 AND DEMOCRATS THAT HAVE CREATED THE SITUATION WE'RE IN, AND WE 764 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,555 NEED TO GET OUT OF A SITUATION AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE TOUGH 765 00:35:55,555 --> 00:35:55,989 VOTES. 766 00:35:55,989 --> 00:35:57,023 >> IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON. 767 00:35:57,023 --> 00:36:00,760 THE NEXT QUESTION IS FOR CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON. 768 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,931 >> SHIFTING GEARS A LITTLE HERE, WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW WITH 769 00:36:04,931 --> 00:36:10,870 ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES IN FACING IDAHO SPECIFICALLY, 770 00:36:10,870 --> 00:36:13,506 WASHINGTON, DC WEIGHS IN ON QUITE HEAVILY AND THAT'S THE 771 00:36:13,506 --> 00:36:14,974 ISSUE OF WOLVES. 772 00:36:14,974 --> 00:36:17,344 HOW MANY -- WHERE DO YOU THINK WE'RE AT WITH 773 00:36:17,344 --> 00:36:20,613 THIS AND WITH THE WOLVES -- THE NUMBERS OF WOLVES WE HAVE 774 00:36:20,613 --> 00:36:24,718 HERE AND SHOULD THE STATE BE CONTINUED -- 775 00:36:24,718 --> 00:36:27,420 SHOULD THE STATE OF IDAHO BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE MANAGING 776 00:36:27,420 --> 00:36:31,157 WOLVES AS A GAME SPEES ?IS HOW MANY WOLVES SHOULD WE MANAGE DO, 777 00:36:31,157 --> 00:36:32,625 WE HAVE TOO MANY OR NOT ENOUGH? 778 00:36:32,625 --> 00:36:37,330 >> AS YOU KNOW, WHEN THE WOLF REINTRODUCTION, AND THEY WERE 779 00:36:37,330 --> 00:36:40,900 REINTRODUCED AS A NONEXPERIMENTAL POPULATION, NOT 780 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:45,972 AN ENDANGERED SPECIES. 781 00:36:45,972 --> 00:36:49,642 WHEN THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT WHEN THEY GOT 30 BREEDING PAIR THE 782 00:36:49,642 --> 00:36:50,643 STATES COULD TAKE OVER MT. . 783 00:36:50,643 --> 00:36:54,914 WE HAD FAR MORE THAN 30 BREEDING PAIR BUT A JUDGE IN MONTANA 784 00:36:54,914 --> 00:36:59,219 SAID, WELL, IT'S GOT TO BE IN IDAHO, WYOMING, AND MONTANA. 785 00:36:59,219 --> 00:37:01,021 MONTANA AND IDAHO WERE DOING THE RIGHT THING. 786 00:37:01,021 --> 00:37:05,392 SO I ASKED ACTUALLY THROUGH LEGISLATION PASSED A PROVISION 787 00:37:05,392 --> 00:37:09,662 THAT RETURNED THE WOLVES TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO 788 00:37:09,662 --> 00:37:14,401 AS THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE HAD ORIGINALLY INTENDED. 789 00:37:14,401 --> 00:37:18,672 IF THE NUMBER OF WOLVES FALL BELOW A CERTAIN LEVEL, I'M NOT A 790 00:37:18,672 --> 00:37:21,508 WOLF BIOLOGIST, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LEVEL OUGHT TO BE, BUT 791 00:37:21,508 --> 00:37:24,077 IF IT FALLS BELOW A CERTAIN LEVEL, THEN THE FEDERAL 792 00:37:24,077 --> 00:37:27,781 GOVERNMENT WILL STEP BACK IN UNDER THE ESPERANCA AND TAKE 793 00:37:27,781 --> 00:37:31,084 CONTROL -- UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT 794 00:37:31,084 --> 00:37:34,220 AND TAKE THE MANAGEMENT OVER. 795 00:37:34,220 --> 00:37:35,989 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESPOND? 796 00:37:35,989 --> 00:37:39,159 >> I DON'T DISAGREE, I THINK HE'S ESSENTIALLY RIGHT, THE 797 00:37:39,159 --> 00:37:42,328 STATE IS IN THE BEST POSITION TO MANAGE THEM, HOWEVER I THINK 798 00:37:42,328 --> 00:37:44,798 THERE'S GOING TO BE OVERSIGHT BECAUSE OF THE NUMBERS GET TOO 799 00:37:44,798 --> 00:37:46,599 LOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL STEP IN. 800 00:37:46,599 --> 00:37:49,636 BUT I BELIEVE THE STATE IS IN THE BEST POSITION TO MANAGE IT. 801 00:37:49,636 --> 00:37:51,237 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 802 00:37:51,237 --> 00:37:53,606 NEXT QUESTION FOR CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS. 803 00:37:53,606 --> 00:37:56,509 >> THERE'S BEEN A WELL-DOCUMENTED RISE IN 804 00:37:56,509 --> 00:38:00,914 INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES ESPECIALLY IN RECENT DECADES. 805 00:38:00,914 --> 00:38:03,283 ACCORDING TO CENSUS DATA THE INCOME AFTER FAMILY IN THE 806 00:38:03,283 --> 00:38:07,287 MIDDLE HAS INCREASED BY LESS THAN ONE-FIFTH IN THE LAST HALF 807 00:38:07,287 --> 00:38:07,587 CENTURY. 808 00:38:07,587 --> 00:38:11,491 BUT THE INCOME OF A FAMILY IN THE 95th PERCENTILE THAT'S 809 00:38:11,491 --> 00:38:14,828 RICHER THAN 95% OF OTHER FAMILIES HAS GROWN BY TWO-THIRDS 810 00:38:14,828 --> 00:38:15,662 IN THE SAME PERIOD. 811 00:38:15,662 --> 00:38:17,764 IS GROWING INEQUALITY A PROBLEM? 812 00:38:17,764 --> 00:38:19,199 WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? 813 00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:21,601 >> FIRST YOU NEED TO STOP THE GROWTH. 814 00:38:21,601 --> 00:38:24,604 THIS CONGRESS, WHICH I'VE CONTINUED TO ARGUE IS THE WORST 815 00:38:24,604 --> 00:38:29,409 EVER, HAS DONE NOTHING BUT -- THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO MAKE SURE 816 00:38:29,409 --> 00:38:32,612 THE RICH GOT EVERYTHING THEY WANTED, WE CONTINUE TO GIVE 817 00:38:32,612 --> 00:38:37,350 SOCIALISM TO THE RICH BY HANDOUTS TO BIG OIL LIKE EXXON, 818 00:38:37,350 --> 00:38:39,719 WE DON'T FORCE G.E. TO PAY ANY TAXES. 819 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,889 WE LET A NUMBER OF THESE BIG COMPANIES GO OVERSEAS AND GIVE 820 00:38:42,889 --> 00:38:45,992 THEM TAX BREAKS FOR MOVING JOBS OVERSEAS. 821 00:38:45,992 --> 00:38:49,262 IT'S BEEN A CONSTANT BARRAGE OF BEATING ON THE MIDDLE AND LOWER 822 00:38:49,262 --> 00:38:53,333 INCOME CLASSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE VERY RICH. 823 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:54,267 YOUR NUMBERS ARE RIGHT. 824 00:38:54,267 --> 00:38:57,637 THE RICH HAS DONE VERY WELL UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. 825 00:38:57,637 --> 00:38:58,471 UNDER THIS CONGRESS. 826 00:38:58,471 --> 00:39:01,541 AND I CAN SEE WHY THEY'VE INVESTED SO MUCH IN THEIR 827 00:39:01,541 --> 00:39:03,209 REELECTION BECAUSE THEY'RE ON A GRAVY TRAIN. 828 00:39:03,209 --> 00:39:05,912 BUT THEY ARE ELIMINATING THE MIDDLE CLASS AND WHEN THAT 829 00:39:05,912 --> 00:39:13,687 HAPPENS THIS ECONOMY WILL SURE ECONOMY WIL L SUFFER. 830 00:39:13,687 --> 00:39:16,956 IT'S NOT THE RICH THAT CREATE JOBS, IT'S THE CONSUMERS. 831 00:39:16,956 --> 00:39:19,926 THE RICH BUY YACHTS AND EXPLEANS TAKE LONG VACATIONS. 832 00:39:19,926 --> 00:39:24,964 9 MIDDLE CLASS BUY CLOTHES, AND FOOD, CONSUMER GOODS, AND THAT'S 833 00:39:24,964 --> 00:39:26,066 WHERE THE JOB CREATION IS. 834 00:39:26,066 --> 00:39:30,570 WHEN YOU CONTINUE TO ROB THESE PEOPLE OF MONEY, TO ACTIVELY 835 00:39:30,570 --> 00:39:33,039 INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN THIS ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY IS HEADED 836 00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:37,677 OVER A CLIFF AND I THINK UNTIL MR. SIMPSON AND MR. BOEHNER GET 837 00:39:37,677 --> 00:39:42,148 THE MESSAGE YOU'VE GOT TO QUIT PANDERING TO THE VERY RICH AND 838 00:39:42,148 --> 00:39:46,686 DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE WHO -- THEIR PROPOSALS HELP TWO OR 839 00:39:46,686 --> 00:39:52,092 THREE REPUBLICANS IN IDAHO WHILE 176 -- 840 00:39:52,092 --> 00:39:54,961 AND PEOPLE CONTINUE TO LIVE IN POVERTY. 841 00:39:54,961 --> 00:39:58,064 >> CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESPOND? 842 00:39:58,064 --> 00:40:01,701 >> OH, YIERKS THAT'S JUST SILLY WHAT HE SAYS. 843 00:40:01,701 --> 00:40:04,537 I DON'T THINK HE MEANT YOU'VE GOT TO STOP THIS GROWTH WHEN HE 844 00:40:04,537 --> 00:40:05,271 SAID THAT. 845 00:40:05,271 --> 00:40:08,074 THE REALITY IS GROWING THE ECONOMY IS IMPORTANT. 846 00:40:08,074 --> 00:40:11,611 AND WE'VE DONE THINGS TO TRY TO HELP GROW THE ECONOMY THAT ARE 847 00:40:11,611 --> 00:40:15,448 AS I SAID EARLIER, SITTING OVER ON HARRY REID'S DESK. 848 00:40:15,448 --> 00:40:18,918 WHEN HE SAID EARLIER THAT DURING THE BUSH TAX CUTS ALL WE DID IS 849 00:40:18,918 --> 00:40:23,556 GIVE TAX CUTS TO THE WEALTH REE, DO YOU NOTE WEALTHIEST 10% OF 850 00:40:23,556 --> 00:40:26,760 THE AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY PAY THE HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF THE 851 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:33,566 TOTAL TAXES PAID THAN THE LOWER 20% AFTER THE BUSH TAX CUTS? 852 00:40:33,566 --> 00:40:35,902 >> THE NEXT -- >> THEY PAID A HIGHER PERCENTAGE 853 00:40:35,902 --> 00:40:37,303 OF THE TAXES. 854 00:40:37,303 --> 00:40:39,105 >> I DO GET A SHOT? 855 00:40:39,105 --> 00:40:40,373 >> YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS. 856 00:40:40,373 --> 00:40:45,311 YOU DON'T MAKE THE WEALTH -- YOU DON'T MAKE THE POOR WEALTHY 857 00:40:45,311 --> 00:40:48,548 BY TRYING TO RESTRICT THE GROWTH OF WEALTHY PEOPLE. 858 00:40:48,548 --> 00:40:52,218 AND DO I THINK WE NEED TO RORMT TAX CODE? 859 00:40:52,218 --> 00:40:53,219 YOU BET WE DO. 860 00:40:53,219 --> 00:40:57,123 DO YOU KNOW WHY WE'VE -- WE GOT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS 861 00:40:57,123 --> 00:41:00,627 SITTING OVERSEAS BECAUSE WE'RE THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT HAS A 862 00:41:00,627 --> 00:41:01,494 REPATE RATION TAX. 863 00:41:01,494 --> 00:41:04,164 THEY CAN'T BRING THAT REVENUE BACK INTO THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT 864 00:41:04,164 --> 00:41:06,266 BEING TAXED AGAIN ON IT. 865 00:41:06,266 --> 00:41:08,368 THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN TAXED ON THE COUNTRY IT'S IN. 866 00:41:08,368 --> 00:41:10,904 WE NEED TO 58 LOU THEM TO BRING THE MONEY BACK. 867 00:41:10,904 --> 00:41:12,539 DO WE NEED TO DO OTHER THINGS? 868 00:41:12,539 --> 00:41:15,642 I THINK THE TAX CODE IS FUFL THINGS THAT OUGHT TO BE 869 00:41:15,642 --> 00:41:18,745 REPEALED, THAT HAVE BEEN PUT THERE OVER THE 200 YEARS, THE 870 00:41:18,745 --> 00:41:21,614 HUNDRED YEARS WE'VE HAD A FEDERAL INCOME TAX. 871 00:41:21,614 --> 00:41:23,283 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS? 872 00:41:23,283 --> 00:41:25,885 >> DURING THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION, THE TAX ON THE 873 00:41:25,885 --> 00:41:28,355 WEALTHY WAS 90%. 874 00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:30,757 WE'VE CUT THAT DOWN TO DRAMATICALLY. 875 00:41:30,757 --> 00:41:33,827 TODAY MITT ROMNEY PAYS LESS TAXES IN PERCENTAGE THAN HIS 876 00:41:33,827 --> 00:41:34,461 SECRETARY DOES. 877 00:41:34,461 --> 00:41:37,731 IF THAT'S FAIR, ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THINKS THAT'S FAIR, 878 00:41:37,731 --> 00:41:39,366 SUPPORT MR. SIMPSON. 879 00:41:39,366 --> 00:41:42,836 I THINK IT'S OUTRAGEOUS THAT WE PUT PEOPLE IN THE WORKING CLASS 880 00:41:42,836 --> 00:41:46,840 THAT SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME TRYING TO KEEP AHEAD OF THE 881 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,477 BILLS AND THE SAME TIME TURN AROUND AND GIVE THE RICH THESE 882 00:41:50,477 --> 00:41:55,749 ONGOING BENEFITS THAT THEY DON'T NEED, THEY ARE IRRESPONSIBLE AND 883 00:41:55,749 --> 00:41:58,785 THEY'RE DEALING WITH THE MIDDLE AND LOWER CLEAS, AND I THINK -- 884 00:41:58,785 --> 00:42:00,520 THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE SHOULD STOP. 885 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:04,257 >> I HAVE TO -- THE ORIGINAL QUESTION IS THE 886 00:42:04,257 --> 00:42:07,060 GROWING INCOME DISPARITY A PROBLEM NEW BET. 887 00:42:07,060 --> 00:42:09,629 IT'S HAPPENING UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION. 888 00:42:09,629 --> 00:42:11,898 THIS ADMINISTRATION HA WAS GOING TO CLOSE THAT, THAT WAS GOING 889 00:42:11,898 --> 00:42:15,368 BRING US TOGETHER, THAT WE WERE ALL GOING TO BE ONE, THE OCEAN 890 00:42:15,368 --> 00:42:16,970 WAS STOP RISING, ETC. 891 00:42:16,970 --> 00:42:20,006 IT'S BEEN THE MOST PARTISAN ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY. 892 00:42:20,006 --> 00:42:22,742 AND THIS INCOME GROWTH HAS GROWN UNDER THEIR -- 893 00:42:22,742 --> 00:42:24,377 HIS ADMINISTRATION. 894 00:42:24,377 --> 00:42:27,647 >> DID YOU WANT -- >> YES, I THINK ANY TIME YOU 895 00:42:27,647 --> 00:42:30,183 GIVE THE TAX BREAKS TO THE RICH DURING THE BENEFICIARY 896 00:42:30,183 --> 00:42:33,186 ADMINISTRATION, NOT ONCE BUT TWICE, YOU START THIS ON THE 897 00:42:33,186 --> 00:42:35,088 DOWNWARD TRAJECTORY. 898 00:42:35,088 --> 00:42:37,390 AND SOMEHOW HE BLAMES IT ON THIS ADMINISTRATION. 899 00:42:37,390 --> 00:42:41,828 THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN STOPPED EVERY TURN BY THIS 900 00:42:41,828 --> 00:42:50,036 PARTISAN NONSENSE. 901 00:42:50,036 --> 00:42:51,738 THEY DIDN'T -- THEY DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING 902 00:42:51,738 --> 00:42:55,475 THAT WILL DAMAGE, THAT WILL TAKE REVENUE AWAY FROM THE VERY RICH, 903 00:42:55,475 --> 00:42:57,844 BECAUSE SOMEHOW THAT IS THE FIRST CONSTITUENCY. 904 00:42:57,844 --> 00:42:58,978 >> IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON. 905 00:42:58,978 --> 00:43:04,684 THE NEXT QUESTION IS FROM MARCIA FRANKLIN. 906 00:43:04,684 --> 00:43:11,524 >> FOR CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS, I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW, HARKENING 907 00:43:11,524 --> 00:43:16,062 BACK TO THE ISSUE THAT YOU MENTIONED ABOUT CONGRESSMAN 908 00:43:16,062 --> 00:43:19,232 SIMPSON ABOUT HOW HOUSE HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK BUT A LOT OF IT IS 909 00:43:19,232 --> 00:43:22,235 SITTING WAITING FOR ACTION IN THE SENATE SOR BEING STALLED IN 910 00:43:22,235 --> 00:43:28,708 THE SENATE, YOU'VE GOT REVAMPED PROPOSAL FOR THE BOULDER WHITE 911 00:43:28,708 --> 00:43:34,280 CLOUDS, AND SOME PEOPLE EVEN ON THE FURTHER LEFT THAN YOU HAVE 912 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,917 SAID DON'T DO IT, IT'S NOT GOING TO GET THROUGH THE SENATE. 913 00:43:37,917 --> 00:43:42,288 I'M CURIOUS FIRST FOR YOU SINCE I'M TO ADDRESS YOU FIRST 914 00:43:42,288 --> 00:43:46,192 CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF CONGRESSMAN 915 00:43:46,192 --> 00:43:48,461 SIMPSON'S LATEST ATTEMPT TO DO -- 916 00:43:48,461 --> 00:43:52,198 MAKE A WILDERNESS DESIGNATION AS OPPOSED TO A NATIONAL MONUMENT 917 00:43:52,198 --> 00:43:54,834 FOR THE BOULDER WHITE CLOUDS? 918 00:43:54,834 --> 00:43:57,370 >> I THINK -- IN THE BEGINNING IT WAS A GOOD 919 00:43:57,370 --> 00:43:57,837 POSITION. 920 00:43:57,837 --> 00:43:58,838 I DIDN'T DISAGREE. 921 00:43:58,838 --> 00:44:01,841 I THOUGHT HE WAS TAKING IT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 922 00:44:01,841 --> 00:44:03,777 UNFORTUNATELY WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO REACH ACROSS 923 00:44:03,777 --> 00:44:07,614 THE AISLE, HE CAN'T REACH ACROSS HIS OWN DELEGATION, BECAUSE HIS 924 00:44:07,614 --> 00:44:10,216 OPPOSITION IS NOT COMING FROM DEMOCRATS, IT'S COMING FROM HIS 925 00:44:10,216 --> 00:44:11,418 OWN PARTY. 926 00:44:11,418 --> 00:44:16,956 MR. IRISH SAID ON THE DEBATE THAT HE HAD WITH NELS MITCHELL 927 00:44:16,956 --> 00:44:20,427 BECAUSE SIMPSON HAD ALLOWED THIS TO BE WATERED DOWN, HE COULD NO 928 00:44:20,427 --> 00:44:21,528 LONGER SUPPORT IT. 929 00:44:21,528 --> 00:44:24,064 MR. SIMPSON SAID THE OTHER DAY THAT'S NOT TRUE, IT'S NEVER BEEN 930 00:44:24,064 --> 00:44:24,731 WATERED DOWN. 931 00:44:24,731 --> 00:44:27,500 ONE OF THESE TWO GUYS IS NOT TELL US THE TRUTH. 932 00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:30,170 >> WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE PROPOSAL? 933 00:44:30,170 --> 00:44:33,006 >> I THINK IT'S -- I THINK I WOULD HAVE DONE MORE 934 00:44:33,006 --> 00:44:35,742 TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS IN CUSTER COUNTY. 935 00:44:35,742 --> 00:44:39,546 THEY'RE GOING TO GET THE SHORTENED OF THE STICK. 936 00:44:39,546 --> 00:44:42,182 >> DO YOU SUPPORT A WILDERNESS DESIGNATION? 937 00:44:42,182 --> 00:44:42,449 >> YES. 938 00:44:42,449 --> 00:44:44,918 I DID WHEN I WAS THERE BEFORE AND IN THE FUTURE. 939 00:44:44,918 --> 00:44:47,253 >> IF PRESIDENT OBAMA DECIDED TO MAKE IT A MONUMENT -- 940 00:44:47,253 --> 00:44:50,523 >> MR. SIMPSON'S REELECTED HE'S GOING TO TRY AGAIN. 941 00:44:50,523 --> 00:44:52,926 HE'S ASKED FOR ONE MORE TRY. 942 00:44:52,926 --> 00:44:56,663 HE'S DONE IT FOR -- HOW MANY, 16 YEARS NOW? 943 00:44:56,663 --> 00:44:58,598 HE'S TRADE IT AND FAILED EVERY TIME. 944 00:44:58,598 --> 00:45:02,235 HE'S GOING TO TRY ONE MORE TIME AND IF HE'S SUCCESSFUL OBAMA 945 00:45:02,235 --> 00:45:06,606 SATISFIED WE'LL GO -- WE HAVE A NATIONAL MONUMENT IF 946 00:45:06,606 --> 00:45:08,308 MR. SIMPSON IS REELECTED. 947 00:45:08,308 --> 00:45:11,978 >> HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET PAST YOUR OWN PARTY ON THIS, YOU -- 948 00:45:11,978 --> 00:45:16,516 AS MENTIONED EVEN AT THE FRANK CHURCH CONFERENCE YOU SAID IT'S 949 00:45:16,516 --> 00:45:18,518 GOING TO BE TOUGH. 950 00:45:18,518 --> 00:45:19,352 >> IT IS TOUGH. 951 00:45:19,352 --> 00:45:22,088 IF IT WAS EASY RICHARD WOULD HAVE DONE IT WHEN HE WAS IN 952 00:45:22,088 --> 00:45:23,256 CONGRESS, BUT IT'S TOUGH WORK. 953 00:45:23,256 --> 00:45:26,059 WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR 12 YEARS. 954 00:45:26,059 --> 00:45:28,895 AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON IT, AND I WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH 955 00:45:28,895 --> 00:45:32,599 FOR A WILDERNESS THE HIGHEST DESIGNATION YOU CAN. 956 00:45:32,599 --> 00:45:33,266 CAN I GET IT? 957 00:45:33,266 --> 00:45:36,436 I THINK I CAN GET IT THROUGH THE HOUSE NOW. 958 00:45:36,436 --> 00:45:39,439 >> YOU'VE MENTIONED, THAT BUT HOW DO YOU GET IT THROUGH THE 959 00:45:39,439 --> 00:45:39,706 SENATE? 960 00:45:39,706 --> 00:45:42,275 >> I GOT IT THROUGH THE HOUSE WITH A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY. 961 00:45:42,275 --> 00:45:45,812 AND ACTUALLY IT FELL APART IN THAT LAST DEAL AT THE END OF A 962 00:45:45,812 --> 00:45:48,982 SESSION AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. 963 00:45:48,982 --> 00:45:51,351 THE DEMOCRATS TOOK CONTROL, AND I COULDN'T GET THE DEMOCRATS TO 964 00:45:51,351 --> 00:45:52,652 DO IT. 965 00:45:52,652 --> 00:45:57,557 AND I COULD GO INTO WHY, BUT THEN WE HAD A REPUBLICAN 966 00:45:57,557 --> 00:45:59,859 CHAIRMAN OF THE RESOURCES COMMITTEE WHO DOESN'T LIKE ANY 967 00:45:59,859 --> 00:46:02,395 WELDNESS AND THEY HAVEN'T DONE ANY WILDERNESS BILLS IN THE LAST 968 00:46:02,395 --> 00:46:02,962 FOUR YEARS. 969 00:46:02,962 --> 00:46:07,133 BUT WE WILL THIS YEAR GET IT DOFNLT I'VE MADE IN ROADS WITH 970 00:46:07,133 --> 00:46:10,236 THE COMMITTEE AND I THINK ONCE IT GETS TO THE SENATE WILL THRB 971 00:46:10,236 --> 00:46:13,306 A CHANCE, WILL IT BE A NATIONAL MONUMENT OR WILDERNESS? 972 00:46:13,306 --> 00:46:14,974 THAT'S THE REALITY. 973 00:46:14,974 --> 00:46:18,578 >> IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON. 974 00:46:18,578 --> 00:46:19,713 >> EVERYBODY -- I DON'T THINK THE MONUMENT IS 975 00:46:19,713 --> 00:46:20,613 THE WAY TO GO. 976 00:46:20,613 --> 00:46:21,981 >> WILL YOU SUPPORT IT? 977 00:46:21,981 --> 00:46:22,248 >> NO. 978 00:46:22,248 --> 00:46:23,483 I DON'T THINK IT'S THE WAY TO GO. 979 00:46:23,483 --> 00:46:25,585 >> IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT QUESTION. 980 00:46:25,585 --> 00:46:29,055 IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON. 981 00:46:29,055 --> 00:46:31,524 CONGRESSMAN -- [TALKING AT ONCE] 982 00:46:31,524 --> 00:46:34,794 >> IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT QUESTION FOR CONGRESSMAN 983 00:46:34,794 --> 00:46:35,895 SIMPSON. 984 00:46:35,895 --> 00:46:39,866 >> CONGRESSMAN, YOU COSPONSORED A BILL THAT WOULD RELAX EPA 985 00:46:39,866 --> 00:46:43,069 STANDARDS FOR ARSENIC IN DRINKING WATER IN SMALL TOWNS 986 00:46:43,069 --> 00:46:48,508 THAT HAVE TROUBLE AFFORDING VERY EXPENSIVE NEW WATER SYSTEM 987 00:46:48,508 --> 00:46:48,908 INFRASTRUCTURE. 988 00:46:48,908 --> 00:46:53,546 WHY NOT FIGHT FOR MORE FUNDING INSTEAD FOR THOSE -- 989 00:46:53,546 --> 00:46:58,651 SOME OF THOSE TOWNS SO THEY CAN AFFORD THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, AND 990 00:46:58,651 --> 00:47:03,123 DON'T PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN SMALL TOWNS DESERVE JUST AS GOOD A 991 00:47:03,123 --> 00:47:04,958 WATER AS PEOPLE LIVING IN OTHER BIG CITIES? 992 00:47:04,958 --> 00:47:05,925 >> YOU BET THEY DO. 993 00:47:05,925 --> 00:47:08,461 THE DIFFERENCE IS IN IDAHO AND A LOT OF THE WEST WE HAVE 994 00:47:08,461 --> 00:47:12,332 COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE NATURAL OCCURRING ARSENIC IN THEIR LEVEL 995 00:47:12,332 --> 00:47:15,301 AND THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION DECIDED THEY WERE GOING TO 996 00:47:15,301 --> 00:47:20,507 REDUCE THE STANDARD OF 50 PARTS PER BILLION THAT EXISTED FOR 997 00:47:20,507 --> 00:47:23,143 CENTURIES -- EVER SINCE EPA DID IT, FROM 50 998 00:47:23,143 --> 00:47:27,681 PARTS TO BILLION DOWN TO 10 PARTS PER BILLION. 999 00:47:27,681 --> 00:47:31,084 I'VE FOUGHT FOR FUNDING FOR THOSE COMMUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO 1000 00:47:31,084 --> 00:47:35,422 MEET THOSE STANDARDS, CASTLEFORD WAS GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE THE 1001 00:47:35,422 --> 00:47:38,692 DECISION DO WE MAKE THE STANDARD OR DO WE GET RID OF OUR ONE 1002 00:47:38,692 --> 00:47:39,693 POLICE OFFICER? 1003 00:47:39,693 --> 00:47:44,531 THAT'S THE DECISION YOU'RE MAKING THESE SMALL COMMUNITIES 1004 00:47:44,531 --> 00:47:46,733 PAY. 1005 00:47:46,733 --> 00:47:49,269 AND THOSE ARE -- THEY HAD A TOUGH CHOICE. 1006 00:47:49,269 --> 00:47:52,639 I GOT FUNDING, SO THEY COULD MEET THAT STANDARD BUT THERE'S 1007 00:47:52,639 --> 00:47:55,642 HUNDREDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT ARE ALSO HAVING VERY, VERY 1008 00:47:55,642 --> 00:48:00,113 DIFFICULT TIMES MEETING A VERY AGGRESSIVE EPA. 1009 00:48:00,113 --> 00:48:02,015 >> YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN. 1010 00:48:02,015 --> 00:48:05,218 I THINK HE WAS WRONG, I THINK WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO 1011 00:48:05,218 --> 00:48:05,852 REDUCE ARSENIC. 1012 00:48:05,852 --> 00:48:07,754 I THINK IT'S HARMFUL TO CHILDREN. 1013 00:48:07,754 --> 00:48:10,857 BUT I THINK THIS WHOLE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW IT'S OK FOR KIDS IN THE 1014 00:48:10,857 --> 00:48:14,694 RURAL AREAS TO SUFFER WITH MORE ARSENIC IN THE WATER, THERE ARE 1015 00:48:14,694 --> 00:48:15,328 OTHER WAYS. 1016 00:48:15,328 --> 00:48:17,864 IT'S NOT JUST THE CITY HAS TO DO THAT. 1017 00:48:17,864 --> 00:48:20,934 IN POCATELLO WE HAD A NUMBER OF ISSUES IN WHICH WE WERE ABLE THE 1018 00:48:20,934 --> 00:48:22,302 RESOLVE WITH FEDERAL GRANTS THERE. 1019 00:48:22,302 --> 00:48:25,772 ARE FEDERAL GRANTS AVAILABLE AND I ANY MR. SIMPSON WAS DOING HIS 1020 00:48:25,772 --> 00:48:31,611 JOB HE WOULD -- I THINK CHILDREN'S HEALTH IS 1021 00:48:31,611 --> 00:48:34,247 MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE DO YOU IN A COMMUNITY F WE 1022 00:48:34,247 --> 00:48:37,417 KNOW ARSENIC IS DOING DAMAGE TO THEM, WE DISCOVERING WE CAN. 1023 00:48:37,417 --> 00:48:40,620 AND IF SMALL TOWN CAN'T AFFORD IT, YOU FIND ADDITIONAL 1024 00:48:40,620 --> 00:48:42,722 RESOURCES TO HELP THEM TOMORROW ME THAT'S THE JOB OF THE 1025 00:48:42,722 --> 00:48:43,056 CONGRESSMAN. 1026 00:48:43,056 --> 00:48:46,059 NOT TO SAY, WE'LL JUST LET THESE KIDS SUFFER BECAUSE THEY CAN'T 1027 00:48:46,059 --> 00:48:47,794 AFFORD IT. 1028 00:48:47,794 --> 00:48:49,729 WHY DO YOU WANT TO PUNISH PEOPLE LIKE THAT IT? 1029 00:48:49,729 --> 00:48:53,700 SEEMS TO ME THE SOLUTION IS TO FIND SOME RESOURCES SOME 1030 00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:54,801 ADDITIONAL RESOURCE,. 1031 00:48:54,801 --> 00:48:58,004 IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE FOLKS PUTTING THAT IN THE WATER, THEN 1032 00:48:58,004 --> 00:48:58,938 HAVE THEM PAY. 1033 00:48:58,938 --> 00:49:02,108 IF IT'S NATURALLY OCCURRING, FIND OTHER SOURCES FOR THE 1034 00:49:02,108 --> 00:49:02,308 MONEY. 1035 00:49:02,308 --> 00:49:03,476 THERE ARE SOLUTIONS. 1036 00:49:03,476 --> 00:49:09,382 THESE ARE NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, THE MONEY NEED SECOND DEGREE NOT 1037 00:49:09,382 --> 00:49:11,384 HORRENDOUSLY SIGNIFICANT. 1038 00:49:11,384 --> 00:49:12,452 YOU CAN SOLVE IT. 1039 00:49:12,452 --> 00:49:13,853 IT'S VERY EASILY DONE. 1040 00:49:13,853 --> 00:49:16,756 >> -- NATURALLY OCCURRING ARSENIC IN THE WEST. 1041 00:49:16,756 --> 00:49:20,493 DO YOU TO NEW DALE, IDAHO, THEY KEPT TRACK OF THEIR ARSENIC 1042 00:49:20,493 --> 00:49:24,764 LEVELS, IT WAS EIGHT, NINE, 10 PARTS PER BILLION, SOMETIMES 12. 1043 00:49:24,764 --> 00:49:26,833 YOU COULDN'T BELIEVE THE ADDITIONAL COST IT -- 1044 00:49:26,833 --> 00:49:30,136 BECAUSE OCCASIONAMLY IT JUMPED TO 12 BUT THEIR AVERAGE WAS LIKE 1045 00:49:30,136 --> 00:49:30,603 A 10. 1046 00:49:30,603 --> 00:49:32,072 THAT DIDN'T COUNT FOR THE EPA. 1047 00:49:32,072 --> 00:49:35,241 THEY HAD TO REDUCE IT SO IT WAS BELOW 10 ALL OF THE TIME. 1048 00:49:35,241 --> 00:49:38,845 ASK THE PEOPLE OF NEW DALE IF THEY THINK IT WAS WORTH IT. 1049 00:49:38,845 --> 00:49:42,048 ASK THE PEOPLE OF CASTLEFORD IF THEY THINK IT WAS WORTH IT. 1050 00:49:42,048 --> 00:49:45,685 >> WE HAVE LESS THAN THREE MINUTES LEFT. 1051 00:49:45,685 --> 00:49:49,589 ONE QUICK QUESTION FOR CONGRESSMAN STALLING. 1052 00:49:49,589 --> 00:49:52,258 >> MANY OF THE JOBS IN THE LABORATORY AND DESERT SITE ARE 1053 00:49:52,258 --> 00:49:55,061 LINKED TO THE CLEAN-UP OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE THAT'S BEEN 1054 00:49:55,061 --> 00:49:55,595 LEFT THERE. 1055 00:49:55,595 --> 00:49:58,998 WHEN THAT TASK IS FINISHED THE JOBS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT 1056 00:49:58,998 --> 00:50:00,166 CLEAN-COUP GO AWAY. 1057 00:50:00,166 --> 00:50:04,004 WHAT ARE SOME NEW VISIONS FOR INL THAT YOU CAN SEE IN THE 1058 00:50:04,004 --> 00:50:07,240 FUTURE THAT COULD HELP STEM ANY JOB LOSS ?ES. 1059 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:12,278 >> LET ME FIRST POINT OUT IT WAS MYSELF AND GOVERNOR ANDREWS WHO 1060 00:50:12,278 --> 00:50:15,015 PUT PRESSURE ON 2K-6789OE TO CLEAN THAT FACILITY UP. 1061 00:50:15,015 --> 00:50:18,718 WHEN I WAS THRT BUDGET WAS OVER A BILLION DOLLARS FOR INL. 1062 00:50:18,718 --> 00:50:22,655 WHEN I WAS THERE THEY HAD 13,000 EMPLOYEES OUT THERE. 1063 00:50:22,655 --> 00:50:26,393 UNDER MR. SIMILAR SEASON AND MR. CRAPO'S STEWARDSHIP THOSE 1064 00:50:26,393 --> 00:50:29,195 NUMBERS DROPPED 6789 I THINK THIS CLEAN-UP IS GOING TO GO ON 1065 00:50:29,195 --> 00:50:31,631 FOR ANOTHER YEARS AND I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, IT WILL BE AN 1066 00:50:31,631 --> 00:50:31,931 ISSUE. 1067 00:50:31,931 --> 00:50:34,734 THE OTHER POINT I FIND FASCINATING IS THAT MR. SIMPSON 1068 00:50:34,734 --> 00:50:37,370 IS PROBLEM IT WILL ONLY MEMBER OF THE DELEGATION FIGHTING FOR 1069 00:50:37,370 --> 00:50:37,570 THEM. 1070 00:50:37,570 --> 00:50:43,276 THE OTHER THREE, CRAPO IS HOT AND COLD, THE OTHER TWO OPPOSE 1071 00:50:43,276 --> 00:50:43,476 IT. 1072 00:50:43,476 --> 00:50:44,678 I THINK THIS IS WHY. 1073 00:50:44,678 --> 00:50:51,051 I THINK IT'S BECAUSE THE OTHER ROLE IS ALTERNATE ENERGY, AND 1074 00:50:51,051 --> 00:50:53,920 ALTERNATE ENERGY IN THE DOE'S MIND IS TO DEAL WITH GLOBAL 1075 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:54,154 WARMING. 1076 00:50:54,154 --> 00:50:55,755 THESE GUYS DON'T BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING. 1077 00:50:55,755 --> 00:50:56,956 IT DOESN'T EXIST. 1078 00:50:56,956 --> 00:50:59,325 MAYBE THEY'RE RIGHT NATASHA WHEATLEY IN OPPOSING IT, BECAUSE 1079 00:50:59,325 --> 00:51:02,996 WHY SHOULD YOU SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON AN ISSUE THAT DOESN'T 1080 00:51:02,996 --> 00:51:03,263 EXIST? 1081 00:51:03,263 --> 00:51:05,899 THAT'S THEIR ARYAN NATIONS GLIEWMENT WE'RE ALMOST -- 1082 00:51:05,899 --> 00:51:09,436 >> I'VE NEVER DENIED GLOBAL WARMING IS OCCURRING. 1083 00:51:09,436 --> 00:51:11,705 THE QUESTION IS WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT. 1084 00:51:11,705 --> 00:51:15,175 THAT'S RIGHT, RICHARD IS RIGHT, THERE WERE 13,000 EMPLOYEES OUT 1085 00:51:15,175 --> 00:51:17,277 THERE BUT THERE WERE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE THAT 1086 00:51:17,277 --> 00:51:21,748 WORKED FOR THE PONY EXPRESS WHEN YOU WORKED IN CONGRESS BUT 1087 00:51:21,748 --> 00:51:23,249 THEY'RE NOT THERE ANYMORE. 1088 00:51:23,249 --> 00:51:26,886 >> I'M -- >> THAT'S A JOKE. 1089 00:51:26,886 --> 00:51:29,022 I'M TRYING TO BRING LEVITY. 1090 00:51:29,022 --> 00:51:32,892 THE REALITY IS, WHAT WE'VE DONE IS FOCUS A MISSION FOR THE 1091 00:51:32,892 --> 00:51:33,360 LABORATORY PART. 1092 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,831 WHEN THIS CLEAN-UP IS DONE, THOSE EMPLOYEES GO AWAY BECAUSE 1093 00:51:37,831 --> 00:51:39,733 YOU'VE CLEANED IT UP. 1094 00:51:39,733 --> 00:51:41,301 THEY'RE WORKING THEMSELVES OUT AFTER JOSH. 1095 00:51:41,301 --> 00:51:42,369 THEY KNOW THAT. 1096 00:51:42,369 --> 00:51:44,204 WE'VE CREATE ADMISSION FOR THE SITE. 1097 00:51:44,204 --> 00:51:46,539 IT IS THE LEAD NUCLEAR LAB IN THE COUNTRY. 1098 00:51:46,539 --> 00:51:50,543 AND IF YOU GO LOOK AT THE SITE TODAY, AND THE LABORATORIES 1099 00:51:50,543 --> 00:51:53,580 THAT ARE OUT THERE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO ATTRACT THE BEST 1100 00:51:53,580 --> 00:51:55,949 SCIENTISTS YOU GOT TO HAVE THE RESEARCH FACILITIES OUT THERE. 1101 00:51:55,949 --> 00:51:59,252 WHEN RICHARD WAS IN CONGRESS THEY WERE WORKING IN THE 1102 00:51:59,252 --> 00:52:02,489 STOREFRONT OF OLD ALBERTSONS STORES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 1103 00:52:02,489 --> 00:52:06,626 WE'VE ACTUALLY FOCUSED ON REBUILDING THE LAB WITH A 1104 00:52:06,626 --> 00:52:06,893 MISSION. 1105 00:52:06,893 --> 00:52:09,529 THEY WERE TRYING TO ACTUALLY BUILD -- 1106 00:52:09,529 --> 00:52:12,265 >> ALL RIGHT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO CUT YOU OFF, WE'RE OUT OF 1107 00:52:12,265 --> 00:52:14,367 TIME -- >> A WIND TUNNEL -- 1108 00:52:14,367 --> 00:52:18,905 >> IT IS TIME FOR CLOSE REMARKS AND CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON YOU ARE 1109 00:52:18,905 --> 00:52:19,105 FIRST. 1110 00:52:19,105 --> 00:52:20,006 >> THANK YOU. 1111 00:52:20,006 --> 00:52:22,909 AGAIN, THANKS ALL OF YOU FOR BEING HERE, THANK THE LEAGUE OF 1112 00:52:22,909 --> 00:52:29,082 WOMEN VOTERS AND THE IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION AND THE 1113 00:52:29,082 --> 00:52:31,017 CAPITOL CORRESPONDENTS FOR HOSTING THIS DEBATE. 1114 00:52:31,017 --> 00:52:34,354 I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT DEBATE AND I DON'T THINK I HAVE 1115 00:52:34,354 --> 00:52:36,389 TO GO THROUGH THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RICHARD AND I. 1116 00:52:36,389 --> 00:52:40,093 YOU'VE SEEN THOSE HERE TODAY. 1117 00:52:40,093 --> 00:52:44,764 I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR VOTE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4th. 1118 00:52:44,764 --> 00:52:49,102 LET ME SAY IN CLOSING, RICHARD AND I HAVE RUN AGAINST EACH 1119 00:52:49,102 --> 00:52:52,472 OTHER THIS, IS TWICE NOW, IN 1998, AND I THINK WE DEBATED 1120 00:52:52,472 --> 00:52:57,377 THREE OR FOUR TIMES, THREE TIMES DURING THIS DEBATE. 1121 00:52:57,377 --> 00:53:01,681 IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME RICHARD AND I EVER 1122 00:53:01,681 --> 00:53:04,150 DEBATE EACH OTHER REGARDLESS OF HOW THIS ELECTION TURNS OUT. 1123 00:53:04,150 --> 00:53:06,619 AND NOBODY KNOWS HOW IT'S GOING TO TURN OUT UNTIL THE VOTERS 1124 00:53:06,619 --> 00:53:07,420 HAVE SPOKEN. 1125 00:53:07,420 --> 00:53:11,257 I DO WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PERSONALLY THANK 1126 00:53:11,257 --> 00:53:13,993 RICHARD FOR HIS SERVICE FOR EIGHT YEARS AS A UNITED STATES 1127 00:53:13,993 --> 00:53:18,698 CONGRESSMAN AND FOR HIS SERVICE ON THE POCATELLO CITY COUNCIL. 1128 00:53:18,698 --> 00:53:22,068 I RESPECT ANYONE WHO IS WILLING TO THROW THEIR HAT IN THE 1129 00:53:22,068 --> 00:53:25,505 AREBOUND WRAW AND SUFFER THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF SOMETIMES 1130 00:53:25,505 --> 00:53:26,072 OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE. 1131 00:53:26,072 --> 00:53:28,508 YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY. 1132 00:53:28,508 --> 00:53:30,643 BUT RICHARD KNOWS THAT, AND HE'S BEEN THROUGH IT. 1133 00:53:30,643 --> 00:53:33,279 SO I RESPECT THAT AND I THANK YOU FOR THAT, FOR THOSE -- 1134 00:53:33,279 --> 00:53:36,082 THAT SERVICE YOU'VE GIVEN TO THE STATE OF IDAHO, RICHARD. 1135 00:53:36,082 --> 00:53:39,886 AND YOU OUT THERE LISTENING, MAKE SURE YOU GET OUT THERE AND 1136 00:53:39,886 --> 00:53:40,920 VOTE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. 1137 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:41,721 THANK YOU. 1138 00:53:41,721 --> 00:53:43,923 >> CONGRESSMAN STALLINGS. 1139 00:53:43,923 --> 00:53:46,292 >> AGAIN, LIKE CONGRESSMAN SIMPSON, I APPRECIATE THIS 1140 00:53:46,292 --> 00:53:49,629 OPPORTUNITY TOKES PRESS MYSELF AND TO LAY OUT MY ISSUES. 1141 00:53:49,629 --> 00:53:53,199 I GAMBLED WHEN I GOT IN THIS ELECTION THAT FOLKS THAT WERE 1142 00:53:53,199 --> 00:53:56,536 GETTING MINIMUM WAGE WOULD BE RESPONSIVE TO MY PLEA TO RAISE 1143 00:53:56,536 --> 00:53:57,470 THAT MINIMUM WAGE. 1144 00:53:57,470 --> 00:54:02,475 I GAMBLED ON THE FACT THAT HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF 1145 00:54:02,475 --> 00:54:07,514 LATINOS, HISPANICS ARE DENIED CITIZENSHIP AND ARE KEPT UND IN 1146 00:54:07,514 --> 00:54:08,415 THE SHADOWS. 1147 00:54:08,415 --> 00:54:13,153 AND I THOUGHT MAYBE IF I MADE AN APPEAL TO THEM WE COULD ATRIENG 1148 00:54:13,153 --> 00:54:15,255 GET SEVERAL THOUSAND MORE REGISTERED AND VOTING. 1149 00:54:15,255 --> 00:54:19,059 I GAMBLED THAT WOMEN WHO ARE MAKING LESS THAN MEN WOULD BE 1150 00:54:19,059 --> 00:54:21,995 RESPONSIVE TO MY -- AND I MAY LOSE THAT GAMBLE, I 1151 00:54:21,995 --> 00:54:22,328 DON'T KNOW. 1152 00:54:22,328 --> 00:54:23,863 I THINK WE MADE A GOOD CASE. 1153 00:54:23,863 --> 00:54:25,432 I THINK THE DESCHUTES ARE ON MY SIDE. 1154 00:54:25,432 --> 00:54:29,002 I THINK PUBLIC OPINION IS ON MY SIDE. 1155 00:54:29,002 --> 00:54:32,639 BY MORE THAN 70% IDAHOANS THINK MINIMUM WAGE SHOULD BE RAISED. 1156 00:54:32,639 --> 00:54:37,077 BY MORE THAN 50% IDAHOANS BELIEVE IMMIGRATION REFORM 1157 00:54:37,077 --> 00:54:39,446 SHOULD INCLUDE A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP. 1158 00:54:39,446 --> 00:54:40,714 I'M ON THE SIDE OF THOSE ISSUES. 1159 00:54:40,714 --> 00:54:44,918 I'M OPPOSED BY VERY FORMIDABLE WELL FUNDED CONGRESSMAN SITTING 1160 00:54:44,918 --> 00:54:47,721 ON HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, MOST OF IT CAME FROM 1161 00:54:47,721 --> 00:54:52,192 THE PACs, AND YET I HAVE BEEN COMPETITIVE IN THIS RACE BECAUSE 1162 00:54:52,192 --> 00:54:58,765 MY ISSUES ARE HONEST AND TRUTHFUL, MR. SIMPSON SAID THE 1163 00:54:58,765 --> 00:55:01,968 DIFFERENCE TO ME AND MR. SIMPSON IS I'M HON OWES AND I TOOK THAT 1164 00:55:01,968 --> 00:55:05,672 AS A HIGH COMPLIMENT AND I BELIEVE STRONGLY PEOPLE HAVE A 1165 00:55:05,672 --> 00:55:08,141 CHOICE THEY CAN CONTINUE THE MISERY OF THE LAST TWO YEARS 1166 00:55:08,141 --> 00:55:12,345 WITH MR. SIMPSON, OR THEY CAN HOLD OUT HOPE FOR THE FUTURE FOR 1167 00:55:12,345 --> 00:55:14,948 ME. 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