you enforce the concept of liberty. this brings people together. people will use their liberty in different manners. we did not have to fight over it as long as they assume responsibility. [applause] it also very simply suggest the fact that we have a right to our life and liberty, we should have a right to keep our fruits of labor as well. [applause] so we do not have to reinvent something, we can improve on our past. we agree past and constitution. we had a great middle-class. we've underlined it with

excessive spending and taxation, a monetary system that is logged in for a policy that is flawed. all we have to do is return to our roots, and in the short time we could have our peace and prosperity and our reliance on ourselves with our personal liberty. [applause] not only has this been a great day for the campaign for liberty in this process, but a great week for the campaign. believe me, it has been a great past four years. five or six years ago they did not know what was happening, but with the crisis that has hit, the realization of the significant -- significance of the federal reserve system and the flawed foreign-policy people know about it and are awakening to it. it is up to us to do something about it. [applause]

the message is loud and clear, the enthusiasm is here, but it has to be translated into proper political action. that means attending the caucuses and sending a powerful message that we want our freedom is back. we did not want more government. thank you very much. [applause] ron paul]ngtting

>> gop presidential candidate rick santorum has also moved on to nevada. he spoke for a little less than 10 minutes of his campaign headquarters in las vegas. [applause] >> think you. thank you very much. thank you very much. it is great to be here in nevada. thank you for this wonderful welcome.

the first thing i want to do, we are here in beautiful las vegas with the next primary caucus state will be in nevada where i think we will have a little bit of resolve to what we saw. and i first want to congratulate governor mitt romney. he ran a very smooth grace, and he is to be congratulated for his resounding victory in the state of florida. congratulations to mitt romney. let me just make a side comment. i just want to say to everyone on behalf of karen and oliver family, when we had to jump off the campaign trail to care for our daughter it was a very trying time. this has been a pretty tough campaign, and politics have gotten pretty nasty. on both sides of the aisle and

certainly across the aisle. i have to say on behalf of our family, we've seen outpouring of support from people on both sides towards me and karen and our daughter. i just want to say to everyone, thank you for the support and purse. bella had a tough couple of days but she is turning around and recovering and going to go home. and [applause] >> this is from the volunteers and staff here in nevada. it is a big at the giant, stepped elements. -- big giant, stuffed elephant. thank you very much for that. it is great to be back here on the campaign trail talking about the important issues of the day. if there is one message we got

from the campaign in florida is that republicans can do better. we can do better than the discussion and dialogue and the accusations that were going on in the state of florida. really this campaign went downhill. i went to florida and for dissipated and the debates. i thought we did a pretty good job in those debates. [applause] while we did not get into the thee of the negative thieness, american public does not want to see two or three candidates get into a mud wrestling match where everyone walks away dirty in not in a position to represent the party probably. we will have differences on issues, and we need to talk about those issues. what we saw in the past few weeks in florida is not something that will help win this election.

mitt romney, you of every right to go out and used opportunities you had and make all the money that you can and do it in a way that helps our economy and helps you and your family. i will not criticize you for doing that, because that is how capitalism works. [applause] speaker gingrich went out and took the talent you have, and they are considerable interest and knowledge and experience you got -- experience you got from government, andhighes there is nothing wrong with that, and i congratulate you for the work you did. and i am not going to criticize you.

[applause] let's put those issues behind us, and let's focus on the real issue, which is defeating barack obama. [applause] we're not going to do that by mudslinging, we will do it by talking about the issues. and we will talk about the home screen foreclosed on, jobs that are not available for the opportunity to start a business without the government bringing down their neck. that is what people want to hear about. they want to know how you contrast yourself with president obama when it comes to that. and tomorrow we are going to give a speech on that romney kerry and obama care. ma care.y care and obabm

[applause] we will talk about the states that are up next in the next week. that is what the issues that we need. we need a can of it who can get up on the issues of health care and draw a clear contrast with president obama. and we need someone who can beat up on the issue of environmentalism. we need someone on the issue of wall street and the bailout. here in nevada they have suffered, while the folks and wall street have prospered. the people here who have the loans under water continue to suffer a while those who were selling for profit for bad paper continue to get bailed out by washington, and approved of by

newt gingrich and it romney. and we need someone who can draw the contrast. we need someone to be the conservative nominee. in florida newt gingrich had his opportunity. he came out with the big win and a lot of money. he said i will be the conservative. it did not work. we cannot allow our nominee to be the issue of the campaign. [applause] so i say to the people of nevada and across this country, if you want a strong conservative who will not be the issue of the campaign. that will make barack obama the issue of this campaign -- [applause] thank you. [applause] >> after the south carolina

primary, a new gig bridge lead the polls in florida, but he finished second in the primary. he spoke for a little more than 15 minutes to supporters in orlando. ♪ ♪ [playing "only in america" by brooks and dunn] thank you all very much. i want to start by thanking bill mccollum>> thank you. i want to starts with bill mccollum who has done so much to help us. he has been tremendous. i also want to be those who

cochaired statewide. we are very grateful to all of you. i also want to introduce my daughter kathy and her husband paul. i am very proud. she did a whole series upper spanish language meetings helping is in the miami area and reaching out. jackie and jimmy are the mother and father of by two major debate coaches. it is great to have them here. i want to think floridians. everyone here has been so positive.

we thank all of you for the hospitality and kindness. we think the half million floridians who voted for us. florida did something important. it is now clear that this will be a two-person race between the conservative leader newt gingrich and the massachusetts moderate. the voters of florida really made that clear. you will notice the number of votes are holding up a sign with 46 states to go. this is for the elite media. the same people who said i was will gone after iowa, one now be back sang what is he going to do? -- are now going to be back say what is he going to do that we are going to go to every place

and we will win. we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> [chanting "newt, newt"] true? i will give you the answer. it was stated at a historic moment in 1863 in dedicating our first national cemetery with the lure a and president of the united states abraham lincoln said we have government of the people by the people for the people. we will have people power defeat money power in the next six months. how are we going to do that?

the same way we can back in june and july. we are head and the gala poll with no money. if you have solutions and are ruling positive and can communicate and will a history of doing something, the combination begins to reach the american people. this is the most important election of your lifetime. if barack obama gets reelected, it will be a disaster for the united states of america. if he can have a record this bad comments deficits this bad, will policies this bad, and

still get reelected, you cannot imagine how radical he will be in a second term. putting together a people's campaign, not a republican or establishment campaign or a wall street campaign, and saying to every american of every background and every ethnic group and community we have a better future for you and your family. it is the future of jobs, lower gasoline prices, a balanced budget. it is the feature of a smaller washington. -- future of a smaller washington. we will imposes on both parties. let's talk about the power of ideas. in 1980 i was honored to put the first set of it.

the house and senate came together with president reagan. it is a courageous decision by reagan. of a team. he did something nobody did before. he picked up 33 house seats. in 1994, we have 350 candidates above it to come and to be part of a on the capitol steps. we offered a positive program. we have the largest one party increase in american history, 9 million additional americans voted for a positive vision. we kept our word.

every item was voted on in the first 93 days. there is a core question in the primaries and elections. if you are comfortable with the way america is decaying, and then we do not have to change much. we can manage the decay. if you think that is a terrible thing to do to your children and grandchildren and your country and if you are prepared to do what it takes to change the congress, bureaucracy, judges policies so the entire system get on the right track some american can give us a more prosperous future, and this is how big the gap is.

there are folks in both parties that are managing the decade. we believe it is cheating our grandchildren to not insist on fundamental change even if the establishment of the stock like. -- establishment does not like it. lopezin the next few days we will develop the equivalent of contracts for 1994. this of a personal one between me and you. i am asking you to make me president. it will come in two parts. part one is conditional. it requires your help. part to i can do if i win the election -- two i can do if i win the election. part one only works if we run a

team campaign. that means we have to replace bill nelson with a conservative. if you help us in addition to winning the presidency we elect a republican senate and house, i'll ask them to stay in office. i will ask them to immediately pass the repeal of obamacare. i will ask them to immediately pass the repeal of the dodd/frank bill which is killing housing and small- business and independent banks. i will ask them to pass the repeal of sarbanes oxley which is crippling american benefits

with no net profits. my goal is to have all three bills sitting there waiting so the minute i am sworn in i can sign all three and we're off to a pretty good opening morning. those three promises are conditional. we have to win the senate by a big enough margin to manage it. help me do that. let me tell you some things. we will put this together in a way you will be able to see in writing. there are a series of executive orders that i can issue that congress cannot stop as long as they are within the law. the first executive order will abolish all of the white house czars as of that moment.

we will issue immediately and it said he did order -- all this inaugural address, ok? before we go to the various balls, we will have a work period. i may not get in as much golf as obama, but i will get in as much job creation. i will tell you up front. i am not going to compete with obama in singing. i am not running for entertainer and chief. i am running for president. i would say to him now, you can not seeing your way -- sing your way past the disaster of your presidency.

i forgot your teleprompter. i said to my staff. -- wing this. we are going to sign on that day the authorization for the immediate deployment of the keystone xl pipeline. my message to the people of canada is did not get a deal with the chinese. help is on the way. by january will build the right pipeline -- you will build the right pipeline for the right price. you will see this is what a serious conservative president is light who is old and prepared to change washington despite the screams on both parties.

we will on that day sign an executive order that will instruct the state department that day to open the embassy in jerusalem and recognize israel. about the v two more examples. i will sign the executive order reinstating ronald reagan puzzle master and city embassy. no u.s. money will go to pay for abortion. many of you may have noticed that the obama administration has called war on the catholic church and other religious establishments. on the first day i will sign an

executive order repealing every anti-religious act of the obama moment. the reason i'm comfortable telling you all this is i have been is studying what america needs to do. it has been since the fall of 1958 when my dad was stationed. i have been working for what we need to do i believe it is possible to get this country back on track. my commitment is to unleash the spirit of the american people to find new and innovative and positive things to do then seven days a week, to do them relentlessly and without stop to make sure we have fundamentally that america back on the right track.

i pledge to each and every one if you if you will reach out across the country and use facebook and twitter and phone calls, if you will tell all of your friends in the other 46 states that there is a chance to nominate a conservative knows what he is doing here has done it before and has the courage to get it done, i promise you that if i become the president i pledge to you my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor. did this is about america. thank you. god bless you. ♪ [playing "only in america" by brooks and dunn]

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primary. he spoke to floridians for about 20 minutes. [applause] >> , and up, kids. -- come on up, kids. thank you, florida. [applause]

to all of youful for being here tonight and have great all of you are. this is a very wonderful reception. and this experience of running for president has been extraordinary for our family. it is just hard to express what it means for a wife and mother to see these kids like this and on the stage. i will tell you though, mitt romney does not always take himself very seriously because we of the five boys along on the bus. they keep us humble. only four of them are here tonight. my son is in residency. we are sorry he is not here. we have made friends from here and all across the country. and has been wonderful. you are from aliyah, fantastic. so many people we need to thank.

the list is long so i will ask you not to clap until we get through the list. i will mention the people who have made such a difference. and commissioner adam putnam, our chairman, chief financial officer, pam body, attorney general, ambassador john, senatoror mills assemble sembl, bill martinez in the members of congress that endorsed mitt. ilion arose, and

crenshaw, tom rooney, sandy adams. speaker allen then, speaker designate will weatherford ted neil., our friends and family celebrating across florida. our great grassroots team throughout the state, and finally, they do all so much. now -- [applause] now let me introduce to you my husband, the father of my five sons, the grandfather of my 16 grandchildren, and an ex- president of the united states. [applause]

thank you, guys.yo>> [applause] while. thank you. thank you. they do so much. and thank you to the people in this room and the people all over florida. thank you for this great victory. and there are fewer candidates tonight than when the race began, but three gentlemen are

serious and able competitors and still in the race, and i want to congratulate them for another heart-fought contest in this campaign. primary contests are not easy, and they're not supposed to be. as this primary unfolds, the opponents of the other party have been watching, and they like to comfort themselves that a competitive campaign will leave us divided and weak, but i have news for them, a competitor primary does not divide us, it prepares us, and we will win. [applause] and when we gather back here in tampa seven months from now for our convention, -- [applause] hours will be a united party with the winning ticket for america.

three years ago this week a newly-elected prison on obama face the american people and said if i cannot turn this economy around in three years i will be looking at a one-term proposition, and we are here to collect. [applause] you know the results. it has been 35 months of unemployment above 8%. under this president more americans have lost their jobs than of foreclosures -- and foreclosures than under any other administration in history. in the past 10 days i met with a father who was terrified that this would be the last night his family would be able to sleep in the only home his son has known. i have met seniors who thought this would be the best years of their life, and now they're worried about how to make ends meet. i met hispanic entrepreneurs who thought they would achieve the american dream, and now they're seeing it disappear.

in the state of the union address, the president said let's remember now how we got here. do not worry, we remember exactly how we got here, you won the election. [applause] leadership it is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. in another era of american crisis, thomas paine is reported to have said, lead, follow, or get out of the way. well, you were elected to lead. you chose to follow, and now it is time for you to get out of the way. [applause] i stand ready to leave this party and lead our nation as a man who spent his life outside

washington, i know what it is like to start a business. i know how extraordinarily different it is -- difficult it is to build something from nothing. i know how government kills jobs and how can help from time to time. my leadership helped build bills -- businesses from scratch. y leadership helped save the scandal from the olympics. and [applause] my leadership cut taxes 19 times and cast over a hundred vetoes. we balance the budget every single year and kept our schools first in the nation. my leadership will end the obama era and begins and -- begin a new era of american prosperity. [applause]

this campaign is about more than replacing a president, it is about saving the soul of america. president obama and i have very different visions of america. president obama wants to grow government and continue to amass trillion dollar deficits. i will not to slow the growth of deficit, i will slow the spending. i will not just freeze the share of the total economy, i will reduce it. without raising taxes i will finally get america to a balanced budget. [applause] president obama as you of a free economy is to send your money to

his friends. my vision for free enterprise economy is to return of entrepreneurship in the genius and creativity to the american people. [applause] one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, president obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. he forced through obama care, and i will repeal it. you know, like his colleagues and the fact that they lounge who think they know better and, president obama demonizes and denigrates almost every sector of our economy. i will make america the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, job creators, and unlike the and there -- the

other people running for president, i know how to do that, because i have done it before. [applause] [crowd chanting "mitt"] >> president obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscious. i will overturn regulations that trample on our first freedoms. president obama believes our role in leader as the world is a thing of the past. he is intent on shrinking the military capacity at a time the world is facing rising threats. i will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

[applause] president obama has adopted a policy of appeasement and apology. i will speak out for those seeking freedom, and i will stand shoulder to shoulder with our friends around the world. and president obama wants to fundamentally transform america and make it something we would not recognize. i want to restore to america of the value and principles that made us the hope of the earth, and i will do it. [applause] our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the constitution of the united states.

together we will build an america where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. [applause] let me be clear, but the path i lay out is not one paid with ever-increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance government will always be the solution. if this election is a bidding war for who could promise to those goodies in benefits, then i'm not your president. you have the president today. and if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, and i hope you will join us. if you believe the disappointments of the past few years are detour and not our destiny, that i am asking for your vote.

[applause] i am asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an american. i want you to remember what it was like to be hopeful and excited about the future, and not to dread each new headline. i want you to remember when he spent more time dreaming about where to send your kids to college than how to make it to the next paycheck. i want you to remember when you were not afraid to look at the retirement savings or the price at the gas pump. i want you to remember when the white house reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what europe has become. [applause] that america is still out there. we believe in that america. we still believe in the america that is the land of opportunity and beacon of freedom. we believe in the america that challenges each of us to be bigger and better than ourselves.

this election, let's fight for the america we love. we believe in america. thank you so much. your the best. god bless the united states of america. thank you. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] thank you. thank you, guys. great friends here. we have made such wonderful

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>> congressional budget officer testifies before the house budget committee this morning. he will focus -- focus on the federal budget and economic outlook that was released yesterday. that was live on c-span3 at 10:00 eastern. the house of representatives is back in session at 10:00 for general speeches with legislative business at noon eastern. today's agenda includes for work on a bill that would repeal the long-term assisted care provisions. in 45 minutes we will be joined by tim ryan of ohio, code-chair of the congressional of the congressional manufacturing