MONTAGE OF CONGRESSMAN DANIEL WEBSTER - CANDIDATE FOR HOUSE SPEAKER

AMERICA IS NOT BROKEN, WASHINGTON IS!

POWER VS. PRINCIPLE

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I'm running for one reason I want to see a congress that is based on principle

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and every member is is made made a player so we have a member driven

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principal based congress I did that in Florida as speaker of the house they are

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I know it can happen is totally different and that you take that pyramid

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power we're at the top most of the decisions are made by just a few people

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push it down and spread it out so ever

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number has that opportunity to be successful it is a great way it's a

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freeway so amendments that are are heard and are killed by the process would go

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away and that everyone would have an opportunity for animals for bills thanks

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participation in the process it is a great way to run a house and in the end

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and Florida we did that the numbers turned right side up the mayor's had the

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job the last five years Speaker John Boehner says part of the problem is

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they're people inside your caucus with unrealistic expectations he calls them

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false prophets listen to what he says right here are people out there you know

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spreading lies about how much can get done I mean this whole idea of a real

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shot down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 let's play never had a

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chance

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course of the August recess in 2013 the course of September

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a lot of my republican colleagues who knew it was a full they're getting all

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the pressure from home to do so was it a mistake to shut down government to try

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to defund Obamacare

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well I think the point is if you change the process one of the keys is taking up

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the most important issues first not last

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when you push against a deadline you're basically giving them members really

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just one choice if you start early and you had the opportunity to work with the

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Senate work out the differences and come up with something that's actually runs

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what we call regular order in that if we have differences are working out of

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conference long before the date that the deadline comes same with reauthorization

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we get right to three or four days before it and then the only option is

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passing a continuing resolution that we need to take up those issues first not

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last the senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when he came into the power to

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the majority leader's he essentially said no more shutdowns will you as part

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of your campaign to be speaker that there will be no government

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in your watch the president himself vetoes at least I know when Ronald

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Reagan was president that was called to shut down by the president so we do a

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response for are responsible job we get our appropriation bills out early if we

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send them to the present then we have plenty of time to deal with that without

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having to shut down government will you know for instance right now he will veto

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any measure that defund Planned Parenthood so would you be willing to

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shut down the government or your half of the shutdown as it were

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if the president veto such an action but I don't think that's the point I'm

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trying to make fun of trying to make his point that that we need to get away from

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these deadlines where we push ourselves into a corner it's just not the way to

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run a house and to me I think we can do that if we stick up the most important

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issues first then we'll we'll avoid those kind of catastrophes what do you

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say to those forty or so members in your caucus who want to see stronger language

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from the speaker want to see republicans in congress taking on the white house

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even more do you want those voices louder or would you would you warn them

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to you know to calm down a little bit I believe that if you'll let everybody

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have a say early on up front everybody not just them but anybody else and you

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work through a process for the committee's actually hear the bills that

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come to the floor and you vote on it again you take them up first then have

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fun in town for opportunities I believe that most people just want a chance to

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vote on their amendment or vote on a bill and vote on a proposal if they lose

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they lose that's not just speakers or anybody else's problem but it is his

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problem or her problem if those ideas are killed only because they weren't

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allowed to happen we go in every day

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and we passed a rule that circumvents the rules we have every single day and

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it

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shut off debate it it it it takes to system and and innocence to frys to

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membership in the public how many votes do you have lined up right now

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well I'm working on that work every day we'll see I can tell you that sometimes

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their votes and you gotta wait till the vote takes place before you really not

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all right daniel webster florida good luck thanks so much for being with us

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how her hold on your soul well the key is this is a founding member when I pray

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every day but what I said is that the way to give up powers to not grab it to

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begin with and that you begin serving people not having them serve you

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that's number one and then were too I think the most important thing is you

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you adopt there is a an unwritten rule that's a bad rules and that is says the

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leader can never lose the speaker can never lose the guy in charge can never

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lose and I don't believe that and and as long as I can hang on to that I won't

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have this pressure to guide things the way I think they're supposed to do as

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opposed to allowing the free exercise of the votes of the membership of this

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house represents and so I also have this philosophy america's not broken

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Washington is

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