Transcripts For CSPAN 20170422

Were going to be very interactive for the next hour or so. I have a few announcements. Aroundse cameras, are the room and they are from cspan television. They are going to take this and show this sometime saturday. Celebritybe a cspan this weekend. Rules about some our townhall. This is a conversation between youth constituents and me, the congressman. This is not a debate between the gentleman in the front row and the lady over there with the american bike teacher. If somebody says something you like, you can apply. Some of you have signs you can hold up saying you agree or disagree, or what ever. Not a problem. This is not a forum to get in a fist fight. You talk to me, and i talk to you. We have a timer. We have everybody who wanted to couponuestion getting a and the duplicate is in this poll. Here, young lady over leslie mcculley, and she is not a paid staffer. We have not prearranged anything. She will pull out the number, i will read it and call it out. You stand up and tell us your name and where you are from and you have two minutes. Then i have two minutes. We will go through as many of these as we can. Cards you handed out can write questions on. Did we do that . Yeah. If you dont feel comfortable standing up in front of god and country and cspan, then you can write your questions. As long as you give us your name, and a way to get back to you. Something like any mel address or street address and we will get you a written answer and within the next two or three weeks. Any questions . I will put this bowl right here. Let me make a brief opening statements. We will get to the fun part. That is the questions and answers. This is my Little Pocket copy of the constitution. I carry one with me when i am on official business in washington and in down here. When i go to schools, give a lot of these away. Amendment number one of the constitution of the United States, which is the First Amendment of the bill of rights. Congress so make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Or abridging the freedom of speech or the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for grievances. That is amendment number one. Mostprobably the important, if not one of the most important. Freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of speech. That is why we are here. I have done over 1000 townhall meetings over the net last over the last 30 years. I learned every time, and most of the time i enjoy them. Tonight will be one that i will learn and enjoy. Im a free market conservative republican. I believe in providing opportunity. I am not a Big Government mandates guy. There are certain conditions where the government does need heregulate, and when regulates i want to be as close to the people as possible. Starting with the city, then county, then state. As a last resort, the federal government. That is my voting record over the last 30 something years. Were going to have a good discussion and, with that as an opening, miss mcculley will pick a number. Did everyone that once to ask a question put your number in the bowl . Looks like everybody did. [inaudible] just the last three digits. 020. If that is your number, hold of your hand and he will bring the microphone to you. Nobody . Mm. All right, 021. The lady in the back there. I was beginning to wonder. Mandy. Ame is my question where are you from . Desoto, texas. My question pertains to the tax code changes that the corporations are going to consider. Ok. 2008 Alan Greenspan spoke before the house, and he said circle span did not work. He apologized to the american people. Why do you guys keep rebranding it and reselling it to the public and taking away from the poor and middle class . [applause] rep. Barton ok. First of all, we dont have an actual bill drafted yet on the tax code, but we do have a general proposal that has been out by kevin brady. Proposal, which we dont have legislative language, it reduces the Corporate Tax rights, individual tax rates, tonges the Capital Gains tax half of your ordinary income tax, it reveals the debt tax, estate tax. Its repeals most of the itemized deductions if you are one to itemize your deductions on your income tax return. Except for charitable deductions and Home Mortgage interest expense. Adjustments it has a border called the adjustment tax. Where you get the money to pay for it . On paper, it generates enough revenue to pay for the tax relief for everybody else. It is revenue neutral. [laughter] rep. Barton well have legislative language yet, but when we get it, it will be posted online and you can take a look at it. Ok . Next one. 030. Rep. Barton 030. Lady right there. Dietayor says he is on the and the doctor says he needs to lose weight, so this would good for him. Tell us your name and where you are from. Im amber george from arlington. Spoke to you in mansfield in the last time hall. I drove again today because, as you remember may be, have a preexisting condition. I have crohns disease. Ive a beneficiary of the aca. I enrolled in 2013. I never lost access to care. Costs paid blue blue cross blue shield. I told you last meeting that i have one prescription that, without insurance, would be 3042. Watching tv today, i see that we acatalking about repealing again. In those talks, have been language that would put me in a high risk pool. Highrisk bulls are not health care. Pools are high risk not health care. We should not be pandering and catering to audiences like big pharma. We should not be catering to insurance companies. [applause] thatan american and i know we use the word patriotism and patriots a lot. I think we could agree that they are all great americans. He defined patriotism by saying it does not mean stand by the president or any other political by which he himself stands by the come country. It is patriotic to officially serve the country. It is unpatriotic to oppose him to the exact extent by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic to not tell the truth whether about the president or anyone else, but to tell the truth about health care, lets talk about what americans need and lets protect the constituents and not the big entrance pharma. Thank you. [applause] rep. Barton that shows we are running a fair townhall, because her number got pulled in mansfield and it got pulled again today. [inaudible] rep. Barton well a number was pulled that you used however you got to use it, that is between you and whoever gave it to you. My answer is going to be about the same as it was two or three days ago. The Affordable Care act isnt working. If hillaryng, won we would be trying to fix it. We are just try to fix it a different way. Undere covered preexisting conditions under the Affordable Care act, and you will be covered under a repeal and replace bill. Preexisting conditions will be covered. [inaudible] rep. Barton preexisting conditions will be covered. It, its my turn to talk, you can listen to me. I listened to you. Youre concerned about having coverage for your drug prescription and you are concerned that you are going to have Health Insurance. It is going to happen. To use thechooses highrisk pool and they put you in its, you probably wont even know it. The only way, the reason they are creating thats pool is because we are trying to create a marketbased system that creates lower premiums with the same or better coverage. You want good coverage, at an affordable cost. Say, in order to make sure the premiums go down, the creation of a high risk full is just common sense. As long as you have coverage and your costs dont go up, in fact if you get more choices because youre going to have more choices. We are probably going to have a vote on a repeal and replace bill in the next couple of weeks. When we get ready to have the vote, we will post the language online. Everybody can look at it. Within three days, we will have a vote. [inaudible] i told the truth as i know its. 001. Rep. Barton 001. [indiscernible] know given the hundreds of millions of dollars that you have accepted from big oil and big polluters, how can we be assured that you are doing anything to protect the environment in our community, and particularly, arlington. The barton first of all, statement you made is false. Dimeent accepted one individually from an oil company. I have accepted Political Action contributions and personal contributions on Political Action committees that represent all the companies. And from the people who work for although the companies. Those go to my campaign. It is not hundreds of millions of dollars. It probably is millions of dollars, over 32 years because i have been in congress for quite a while. I represent texas which is an energy state. Economy is aof any sound energy policy. Free markets and Free Enterprise and i have consistently voted that way. As a consequence, the United States has the most Affordable Energy prices in the world. Where the Number One Energy producer, we have great expectation of increasing that production. In all areas, oil, gas, wind, solar, and all the alternative energies. Own inbably holding our terms of coal. [inaudible] rep. Barton i voted for the Clean Air Act amendments, in the early 90s. I simply dont want to be and cost jobs and create an economic perception by being too negative on the energy sector. Next question. 997. Rep. Barton went from 0012997. 001 all the way to 997. My name is bob. I would like to say that i agree with most everything that President Trump has tried to do so far. We have the house, we have the senate and the presidency. I think it is time we have the same done that need to be done. [applause] rep. Barton i agree with that. Those of us in the majority should be held accountable and responsible. We have already talked about the tax issue and energy issue, healthcare issue. The question is, what are we going to do. On some of that, maybe a lot of it, it hopefully will be bipartisan. Some of it will have to be partisan. The healthcare issue is unfortunately one of them. I couldnt agree more. Be,ve waited a long time to have the house, senate, and presidency, and i could not agree more. 980. Rep. Barton 980. Thats sneaky. We will let that go. Snyder. Me is justin i talked to you at your second town all in milford. Rep. Barton tell us where youre from. [inaudible] i asked you about your tax reform. , do have a detailed question but i looked it up and now i want to go into a different question. That you will consolidate texas and lower the top individual income tax rate to 33 . This income tax rate only affects those currently making over 400 and 13,000 or did 13,000. 3,000 . I would like to motive no i dont about believe we should allow that symbol in america with foreignbased parts to fit into this category. The third bullet point, repeal the best tax so that loss of a Family Member is no longer taxable. It would only benefit those with an estate value over 5. 4 million. I also believe this will not affect the average american. You want to cut taxes on Small Businesses by creating a separate low rate of 25 on many. You want to lower the Corporate Tax rate to 20 and shift the territorial system with more competitive rates. I dont understand why you want to cut rates for 20 or corporate businesses but only down to 25 for Small Businesses. You are now making Small Businesses compete with corporations. Rep. Barton thats a fair question. First of all, there are three individual brackets parried the top bracket would go to 33 . The middle brackets would go to 22 . And the bottom bracket goes to 10 or 15 . There are three different individual brackets. Was not talk brackets, show me where your mindset is. That particular sheet of paper which you referred to was put out by the ways and Means Committee. It is my hound out handouts, but we lowered all three brackets. We lower the corporate bracket from 35 to 20. Manufacturedke our products more competitive by reducing that bracket from 35 to 20. We didnt mention that we changed the way we did Capital Gains so that it is now taxed at half of whatever your normal income raisings are carried to use your example, if you are in the 33 brackets and you had a capital gain, it would be taxed at the 16. 5 . If you are in what i think is capitalbracket, your gain would be taxed at 11 . And the state tax repeal, while not too many people will benefit the hundred percent from its, if you are a family farmer or have a Small Business that is familyowned, there are lots of farms and ranches that are worth more than 5. 4 million. That eliminates the estate tax or death tax on those family holdings. I think that is a good thing, not a bad thing. The controversial part of the proposal is the border adjustment tax. , i willing to support it would like a little more information on it, but almost every other country has something similar to it. If it makes our products more competitive, i will be for it. Yes maam. 000. Rep. Barton 000 . Youre going to pass . Ok. 017. Rep. Barton 017, yes maam. Hello. This, iu for doing appreciate that. I work every day with for patients that need Affordable Care act or Something Like it. Someone that wont have a preexisting condition that gives them more charges for them to pay for the premium, also, another thing was, beforehand there were limitations on how much a person could be out. There were patients waiting to get transplants on the Affordable Care act plan and when it came out, they didnt get the transplant because they had preexisting conditions. They couldnt to do anything about the coverage. I know you have addressed this and i think we have to go to the root of the problem. What got us to the point that we have to. People havehese insurance because of the Affordable Care act. Outcome large corporations such andhat Walmart Walmart why dont they do anything about how many parttime employees they can have. They were teaching their employees how to get on medicaid, and they make millions of billions of billions of dollars. They need to look at the root of the problems and i dont think caution goes on to the individual on trying to buy a health care plan. [applause] rep. Barton ok. First of all, thank you for what you do. If you are in the transplants route. They are one of the best in the country. God bless you for what you do. I dont mind answering questions conditionsxisting but it is not a debate that im arguing with you. The republican alternative before the Affordable Care act covered preexisting conditions. The plan that we are going to vote on, covers preexisting conditions. There may be a few bells and whistles differences on how you do it, but im not arguing about that nor is any other republican. We are going to cover it. , fulltime and parttime. That is a market decision that the Management Team at walmart might make ought to make. I happen to think youre are better off, most of the time, if most of your people are fulltime. There are situations, sometimes the individual can only work parttime. Sometimes the Business Model only allows them to be able to hire people on a parttime basis. It is not a decision the federal government should get involved in. In at the level of whoever is doing the hiring. That is not something we should be involved in in my opinion. [applause] 964. Rep. Barton is that funny, we dont have a thousand people here but we are going from zero to 1000. Were going to get to the microphone here. Good evening and thank you for hosting the town hall meeting. Your honor. Im bob originally from venice. Three simple questions. Rep. Barton we will see about that. [laughter] why didnt the Republican Party have plans set to go in january of 2017 regarding health care, tax cuts for immigration, yet the republicans believe that President Trump would lose the election so they werent prepared. Rep. Barton these are simple questions. [laughter] what would it take to get rid of paul ryan as the speaker of the house . [applause] when watching fox news, it appears tobe he be in league with the democrats and i cant tell with these guys if they are democrats or republicans. [applause] ,epublicans control congress why does it appear that the democrats are in charge. [applause] and, as a followup to the question the person before me likebout walmart, it seems parttime employees may limit minimal amount of money and income so that they forapply and qualify government assistance. And drive those parts up. Rep. Barton i dont know how simple those questions were. I think you had about half a dozen rather than two or three. We will take a pop at it. Why werent the republicans ready to go with the Health Care Bill if they want . If we had wanted to, we could basic decision was that you could move at one pace to just repeal the bill. [applause] that, and some of you did, there are lots of people that depend on the Affordable Care act or Health Insurance that would have been left out in the cold. We didnt want to do that. We wanted to take a little more time. We had a Health Proposal that we , andrepared a last year what the speaker did was give and wayshe committee of Means Committee and the Energy Congress committee which im the vicechairman of. We went through regular order and hearings and put together a bill. Its kind is circulated and we had a markup. It went to the Budget Committee and they sent it to a different committee. That is the bill we are revising rights now. Take a little bit more time, but we are trying to do it in a way, if we are successful in passing something, we have something that can be used in a transition. So thats we dont create chaos in the health care markets. We havent done it yet, but we are trying to do it. On paul ryan is the speaker, what would it take to change him . A majority of the house of motionntatives to move a to not support and have a new election. That is not going to happen. Voted for paul ryan as the speaker, i think he is doing a good job. I think he has a tough job. This is a diverse country. The republican conference is not as united as some might believe. He is the one ultimately who has to bring that together. He is an honest man, a decent man. He has integrity. He will turn out to be a successful speaker. There are people that disagree with that, but right now, he has my faith and trust. My times up. Watching fox news and cspan and a few others, it appears that the democrats are in charge. Rep. Barton you know nancy pelosi, it seems like they are in charge and they didnt get the votes. Rep. Barton he said it seems like the democrats are in charge. It is always easier to beat united when you are in the minority. When you cant make anything happen. It is easier to be united. Plus, if they were really in charge, they would be moving an agenda. They dont have the votes. Maybe next year, they will have the votes. That is why we hold elections for the house every two years. Policy is pretty happy these pelosi has been happy these days because some of the republicans havent been able to deliver. One of these days, we will. One of these days, hopefully the speaker and her will bring policies together that both sides of support. The questions. 028. Rep. Barton 028. The gentleman back there. Richard comrade from cedar hill. My question is along the lines of what you are just talking about. Have oneee that we Republican Party and we havent had one for quite a while. I would like your comments on how you think that this is coming together. Im talking about both houses now. When you go from senate to get the tea partiers, Freedom Caucus, and everything, i dont think if the republicans dont get together and act as he units, we really are like the other side. We are not going to move anything forward. I can see that. If you see something happening that maybe the media doesnt pick up on, i would sure like to comment to have you comment on it. Rep. Barton your observations are valid. While we have 237 house republicans, you dont have 207 237 republicans that have the same philosophy. We represent different regions of the countries so you have regional differences, and some cases, philosophical differences. Caucustioned the freedom. Im a member of the Freedom Caucus which is the more conservative group of republicans. There are about two or three dozen of us. There is a group in that group that is a more moderate group of republicans. I dont think they advise many people. Im also one of the Republican Study Committee and they have been 150 members. Elected,run and get you are responsible to some extent to the Political Parties but you are also responsible to your region and to your personal value system. Haveable people can creations of that. When push comes to shove, its the ponce responsibility to put together a coalition that can be bipartisan that moves the agenda. We have said that we want to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. I think we should do that. I think we will do that. I think we should. [applause] if we get that done, we should look at the tax system. Maybe change the tax codes. We also need to look at photo communication commission. Epa,ed to look at fda, need to reform the department of energy. There are a whole lot of things that need to be done, but since we campaigned to repeal and replace the aca, that is what we are working on right now. When we get that done, go to the next step. It will be an interactive process and you folks will be a part of it. 985. Rep. Barton 95. Right there. We believe you. My name is carl kennedy. One of the things i would like to know, the root cause of a lot of the problems, when are the republicans and democrats Start Talking rather than saying it is my party, we are in charge. [applause] your official title is u. S. Congressman from the sixth district of the state of texas, is that correct . Actually u. S. Representative, but u. S. Congressman is close enough. You represent the state of texas and this distressed in the United States congress and you should be working for the benefit of the United States, not only texas and not only republicans. [applause] , iwhen i listed in the army aot represented representative of just a specific group of people, i represented all of citizens of the United States. When we Start Talking, we hear that some of the ideas of the other side are good, some of ours are good. When we Work Together and get the things that we agree on in a bill, then we can work on the things we are a little bit far apart on. Things we are usually far apart on, we leave those out and try the bill. , and wegive it a try get rid of the stuff that doesnt work, and work on trying to resolve the big differences. That is what working together will get things done. All right . [applause] rep. Barton he says that republicans and democrats should Work Together, i dont disagree with that. He says on the United States representative, and that means i represent the whole country. Correct on that. I am also a representative with this particular district. The whole country is not a dentist identical to the sixth district of texas. This is very simple, and you are going to think it is silly. Lets do a little test right now. Of this group. Say vanilla is your favorite ice cream, raise your hand. Bonilla is your favorite. 7, and i say, 6, 10 people. How many have chocolate as your favorite . Chocolate is a little bit ahead. How about strawberry . We have to Work Together folks. Can we compromise and say everybodys favorite ice cream is neapolitan . That is a simple test and it is silly. But, when you get on the house for floor, there are many members of congress. Texas,alifornia, 36 in montana has one, alaska has one. , some are country lawyers, teachers, veterans,. Ngineers, doctors all walks of life. The country. There are very few issues that everybody in america agrees on 100 of the time. There are a few. And we have passed a resolution that 435 people agreed. Then you get to some of the issues that we talk about today. There is not agreement on health care. There are some members of congress that think we should have one singlepayer government help get system. Im not one of those. [applause] there are other members that think the government should get out of the health care business. [applause] people are somewhere in the middle. It is a congressmans job over time to put that together. Friends thatof have a deal by the name. We work on a lot of bills together. I have a lot of friends that have an r by their name. I worked with them as well. I say 65 of the bills that we vote on will be bipartisan. There will be some that wont be, because there is such a difference of opinion. Health care, unfortunately, is one of those. Debate ont beyond the how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act, we will fda and ament on the lot of other health care issues. My time has expired. Next use my time in the one to continue that one anyway. 966. Rep. Barton 966. Yes or, right here. Sir, right here. The mayor is making yawl walked to him. [laughter] that is real power. , my name is david all around and i went to school here and live here. [inaudible] i became a teacher and have been teaching for 25 years. Im about to retire. [inaudible] emote your office before and havent heard anything lately. Yourthink i have emailed office before and havent heard anything lately. Has our own texas teacher retirement system which is really good. My mother was a school secretary. In theople are covered private marketplace if you are paying your Social Security. There is a federal and the state law that says if you have two different pensions, that are coequal, you get to choose the one that helps you the most, but you cant take both of them. You may get some of the secondary one but at a reduced rate. Yourself,eople, like think that is unfair. There is some justification for saying that it is unfair. Committee,n of the mr. Brady, had a bill that would had not totally fixed it but would have helped. I dont believe he has introduced a bill to this congress, but, if he does and it comes to the floor, i will vote for it. The question you didnt ask, is why havent we fixed this before . Because this is not a new issue. The reason is, when you make a pensions, you get what , and tod a cbo score make a change that would be the simplest, so that you can take both pensions, it is very expensive. That is why we havent done this lady needs a microphone. So many questions. I have been selfemployed most of my life, pretty much paid cash when i went to the doctor because i couldnt afford the insurance. I have been around a long time. In the old days, it was not this expensive. It did not cost a fortune to you could pay cash, no big deal, but since aca came in, i had to purchase it or pay the fine, and it was going to cause my husband , plus a00,000 a month 10,000 deductible. Month, plus aa 10,000 deductible. It has gotten higher and higher each year, something got i dont have to do that anymore, but my question is, i would like to go , haveo paying cash catastrophic insurance, but hey cash. Shopto the car mechanic, around, get the cheapest price, very simple. I dont want to have to deal with insurance, government, any of it, from my what ever. Ith that said, i dont hear about the high cost of medical, forget about insurance, just going to the doctor, getting lab work done, it is ridiculous, and i dont know who is making money on all this. Dont make this money. I dont know where it is going, but i wish that would be addressed along with all of this other health care discussion. Part of what we are trying to do in the replacement bill for the Affordable Care acts repeal all of the mandates. We want to give your choice. We have created Health Savings accounts. Get a catastrophic backup plan for your savings account. We have already passed a bill on the house floor, where we allow groups to create their own group, their own plan. We will not repeal these individual exchanges. I dont have a problem with the , where it exchanges was mandatory that you had to find a plan, because as you pointed out in many cases there werent many affordable plans you could choose from. Recreate ag to true marketplace that gives you lots of options to do what is including not having Health Insurance, if you so choose. If that is your choice and you dont have a Health Savings account, maybe you cant afford it, you will have to depend on medicaid, which is Health Insurance for low income. Mericans you will have to depend on , all kinds of intricacies in the Health Care System as it is today. It is not easy to change, but our goal is more choice, more options that are truly we have not done it yet, but that is our goal. {indiscernible] rep. Barton one of the bipartisan bills i worked on that is an the Affordable Care way to getcreate a new drugs certified and into the marketplace more quickly. We also need to reform the way we do generics, so if you buy a generic drug, it is normally the same drug but does not have the brand name on it and is a lot less expensive. Foreed to shorten the time these Clinical Trials for approval of new drugs appeared stem cells, there is a lot of therapy in stem cells. Under current federal law, you cannot receive Stem Cell Therapy treatment in the United States. You have to go to mexico, the bahamas, or overseas. I think you ought to be able to receive stem cells, especially are your own stem cells. Especially in the United States. We have time for about one or two more. 990. Ight over here thank you very much for being here. I am from innis, texas. Rep. Barton good deal. Super. I have two concerns. From 30 am retired years of federal service at the v a, and have 40 four quarters and Social Security. In 1988, whenever the windfall came, i happened or whoever did it, i can only collect one fourth of my Social Security. Rep. Barton because you get a pension through your federal retirement system. I do. I do have that. The Social Security was cut down to one fourth. That is one concern. The other concern is i became a widow three years ago, and my husband passed away and we had able tome and i was not because i worked in the past, and i understand law on that is that if the spouse has never work, they collect whatever. My thought on that is i did not have my home paid for. Those are two that im concerned about. Rep. Barton we have already talked about the first one, this gentleman here. Hopefully we can address that in some way. On the second one, your husband collected Social Security, but when he died he did not get any of his Social Security . No. Rep. Barton the reason for that is that when we passed the security, this is before i was born back in the 1930s, most families had one wage earner, and in most cases it was the husband, and they wanted to make sure if the spouse did not work outside the home, that that spouse got Social Security if and when the breadwinner passed away, so Social Security was set up from the get go to take care of what we would call the traditional family model, but it for twollow very well people to work outside the home, so in the beginning of the 1960s and 1970s as more and more in most case wives, women, worked outside the home, you begin have that problem, and the answer was because of the cost thought you would get some of your husband Social Security, just not all of it. {indiscernible] is an example of how the system was originally set up. They try to take care of people who did not work outside the home, in most cases now both Family Members do. It doesnt really account for it in the way that it should, so it is something we need to work on. Ok. This will be our last one. 022 and then i will go to this german right there. Good evening, congressman. Thank you for your leadership over the last three decades to i practice at arlington and live in allen. I have a few questions for you skilled Legal Immigration. Rep. Barton ok. I am using specific terms because of not trying to discuss immigration. F i came to the United States when i was 21 years old. Right now i am 30 years old. I pursued my masters and doctorate and practice for the last seven years. , andecialty is pediatrics my question for you is what is your take on current skilled Legal Immigration system . Anduse i was born in india i have seen a lot of people who joined companies and practices before me because they are born from other countries, they got the green card, and a lot of people who joined with me are citizens now, and my green card has been pending from 2011 december to be precise, and current estimate is showing it will take another 45 years to get my green card. Rep. Barton because you are from india and there is such a backlog of applicants. Bills consistently introduced by congressman chafe its from utah from 2011. Ultimately that bill is not getting any voting, and recently that bill came out. It died as of last congress. Now that bill is again 392, and there is support from both sides, democrats and republicans are agreeing on that. There are already taking cosponsors for that bill. That. Arton let me answer our whole immigration system is broken, specifically on skilled, Legal Immigration. There is a quota system based on country of origin. If you were from iceland, you would not have a problem, but being from india, you do, so we need to go back and revisit that. The key component, there are two components, is any system that we replace, if we change a system, is it good for america . Number one, and is a good for the individual question mark . Umber two ban so you have to look at what is best for the United States, and once you pass that test come you have to look at the individual who wants to come to the United States. Obviously some it wants to come, education and practice medicine, we should try to make that possible. On the other hand, if you are trying to come as an unskilled worker with no real skills, you might end up on the welfare rolls, it might not be in the best interest of the United States to let that individual im not saying it would never be in our best interest, but it is taken a look at a little bit differently. In any case, in terms of skilled. Orkers, we can always use more we ought to revise the system. Know we should probably do away with the country of fortune requirement, but just base it on skill sets necessary for the United States. Unequivocally say that will happen, but that would tend to be fairer than a system where come from a country with not many people, and you are almost guaranteed a green card, but come from a country that has a lot of people, it is pretty tough. Offerede been promotions. I can lead different kinds of practices, but the problem is like everything will time i would be accepting a promotion, then my company will call the lawyer can say you guys are giving him a promotion, then his title will change. I need to go to this gentleman over here, but under the current system, even though you are not given a green card, you are reauthorize legally to stay in the country. But the thing is it is costing the company more money. Initially the country will offer a promotion. I will accept that promotion. That company will send the paperwork to a lawyer, and the lawyer will say if you want to change his title and want to give him a different role, it will cost you this many thousands of dollars, and in the company wont tell me, how about we do this. Is. Barton my short answer dont go to a lawyer. You have to go to the lawyer. You have to go to the lawyer. Rep. Barton i dont know. Let me get this gentleman. No, thats it. This one over here. He said he wanted the last question, and he asked please, so i will probably regret that i recognized him, but i will do it anyway. Tell us who you are and where you are from. Walks a hatchet, texas. I have a laundry list of things. Rep. Barton two or three. Voting rights, why do we have such a problem with Voting Rights in the state of texas and a lot of the Southern States could voting should be a privilege, not a right. Everyone should build a vote at 18 without question. [applause] i would like to see us amend the Affordable Care act and do something that will work for all of the spirit we dont have to fight about this. This is something that can be worked out, but for one reason or the other, the right and left dont seem to get along. Billu can see when the just came up to get past recently. 17 days is not enough time. Taxes, we need to see Donald Trumps taxes. [cheers and applause] i feel there is a russian connection there. Im just giving you my feelings about it. Planned parenthood, what are we going to do for the people who are not able to go to the doctor . A lot of men dont know that. Rep. Barton you have asked for questions. Ok, i will stop. We started earlier. I have 30 more seconds. Representation, we expect you do a better job than i think youre doing as a representative at this point. We are the ones that voted you in. If not, i can campaign vigorously to vote against you. [applause] [laughter] all,barton well, first of i agree with some of what you said. I dont agree with some of it, but i am glad you are here. Sneaking suspicion you never voted for me, although you may have, you may have. Had democratic opponents, and modes of my democratic opponents have been good people, so that is ok. On the Voting Rights act. I dont think we have a Voting Rights act problem in texas. [booing] ,ep. Barton when i go to vote the texas voter id law center says i have to provide some sort of identification that i am a citizen of texas. [applause] in most cases, it can be a drivers license, but it does not have to be. It just has to be some sort of government issued photo id. I am a United States congressman. When i shop, i have to prove that i am. When i go through security at dfw, i have to do all that. I dont, i dont, i dont see i dont, i dont, i dont agree that,ou on the premise that we have a voting problem in texas. I dont agree with that. Ok. Ok. all can yell and scream all you want. Its not going to do a lot of good. Weve had a good meeting so far. This is the last question, and you had two or three others. No, no, no, sir. You can ask me private. You can ask me in private. {indiscernible] rep. Barton there will be other meetings. There will be other meetings, ok. Yelling and screaming does not make it happen, folks. {indiscernible] rep. Barton we could not have had a fair system on who got to ask questions. [applause] . Ep. Barton you know i am totally indifferent to who gets to ask questions. I just want to give as many people an opportunity as and i hold myself to the same timeframe that i give so, ok, you so, did. Mr. Trumps taxes, i got no problem if he wants to release. Hem i think that is an issue between the people and him. Ok. All right. Ok. I want to thank the city of loxahatchee. Walks a hatchet. If you didnt get your question answered, write it down, turn it in, and we will get you a written answer. 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