Transcripts For CSPAN South Carolina Senate Debate 20141029

Debate. The main senate at 10 00 it is the texas Senate Debate. On thursday it is the illinois governors debate. At 10 00 the New Hampshire Senate Debate between senator Jeanne Shaheen and scott brown. The New Hampshire governors debate between governor maggie havenstein. Alt at 10 00 the south dakota Senate Debate. Cspan campaign 2014, 100 debates for the control of congress. Carolina senator tim scott is running against Joyce Dickerson and jill bossi. Scott was appointed to the seat after the resignation of jim demint. This is courtesy of South Carolina educational tv. Program is made possible by aarp South Carolina. The greenville news, florenceon with the morning news, the sun news of myrtle beach, the herald of rock hill. , rock candidates for u. S. Senate. And now your moderator. Good evening. Welcome to tonights debate for the senate term. We want to welcome our radio listeners. Joining us, andrew shane of the state newspaper. The candidates are tim scott, the republican senator from charleston. Joyce dickerson, the democrats and jill bossi. Have 90didate will questions. Respond to if necessary i will out a 32nd rebuttal. Names with the candidates arrived for the order. Good evening. Thank you for hosting tonights debate. I am grateful the people of South Carolina afforded me the opportunity to serve them from county council to the statehouse, and now the United States senate. It is one of the greatest honors of my life. Im here tonight because life has not always been easy. I have learned important lessons and met remarkable people, and have benefited from the strength and blessings of the great state of South Carolina. Our nation faces many challenges today. I prefer to see them as opportunities. I believe the best is yet to come. My commitment to you is simple. I will work day, afford South Carolinas opportunities to succeed. I focus on education and jobs. I believe we will have the tools necessary to succeed. God bless you. Thank you and good evening. Y name is jill bossi i am not a democrat, i am not a republican. I am an american. Out of manym, one. We need to take control of our government from career politicians like my opponents to take their orders from special interests and big money. Tonight you have the opportunity to interview all three candidates and determine who is the best candidate for the role of u. S. Senator. I hope to demonstrate that i am not bound by party, money, radiology. And i public servant, hope to demonstrate my ideas of what is broken in america. I want a better america for our future, a strong economy, Strong Military, term limits, Campaign Finance reform, and tax reform. Im asking for your vote and i hope tonight you will make a decision on the person and not the party. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you for having us. We are so grateful. I am running for the United States senate because i believe that this is a humbling opportunity for me to present to the people of South Carolina a new idea, new person who will always be there for them, who will stand for them, who will want to serve them in every way they possibly can. I am focused on our seniors, i am focused on our veterans, and i am focused on womens issues. Those are the main issues i will be focusing on tonight. I believe this is the greatest opportunity for me to represent the people of this state and the nation. I am here tonight to ask for the people of South Carolina for your vote and for your support on november 4. Thank you. Let me start with you senator scott. You have a free pass to the senate. You didnt have to run the state and now you are running statewide for the first time. Why should you have the benefit of incumbency . I dont think i should have i dont think the benefit of incumbency is what it used to be. I have spent monday through thursday in washington, i come back home every weekend to go to my own church, hanging with my grandfather, take my mom to lunch. These are the reasons why i serve. I look at my nephew and say to myself i can prepare a future for him. Up with thei came opportunity agenda that focuses on education, skills in the workplace, and focuses on allowing people to earn while they learn. People that Like Washington are very few. It wasnt for relatives are not sure we would be popular at all. The truth of the matter is incumbency has major negatives. To not running on the fact that i am in Office Running on the fact that i love South Carolina. I have benefited from being a n. Uth carolina me, anding strong with forcing me to look in the m irror and take responsibility. I am running because it is an opportunity to continue to serve from my days on county counsel, being elected twice to congress, and now having opportunity to ask you for your vote to the United States senate. Let me ask a different version of what is essentially the same question to the two of you. Senator scott has the tenuous hold on incumbency. But he does have one thing to experience that you dont. Why should South Carolina voters give that up . I think what we have to understand is that a lot of the voters these days dont like what is going on in washington. They are asking for something to change. It doesnt matter whether they are on the right or left. I think the majority of americans are somewhere in the middle. What we have seen the one in washington with the gridlock, with hyper partisanship, with of fighting, it is not short untenable for us as citizens to accept that this is what we are paying our representatives to do. But we want our representatives to do is go to washington dc, sit down, negotiate, talk, find withto fix what is broken america. Weve got a 17. 6 trillion debt. Weve got an economy that is struggling along. We need to restore the middle class. They have been eviscerated by the great recession. We have got to work for our veterans. We have to work with our military. I have three of my four children served in the military or are serving in the military. We have a lot of work to do. I have two sons who are still in active duty and could be called at any time. There is a lot of work that needs to be done. Much on hows too long they have been there. I am a big supporter of term limits and Campaign Finance reform. That is why i am here. Same question. I am here because i believe in the people of South Carolina. I believe it is time for change and people are looking for a person that will have their interest. I am here because people have asked me as i have traveled all 46 counties in, this state, i have listened to the people, i have heard them talk around their kitchen table, saying how they are having a hard time making ends meet. Im hearing people say they are kicked off their insurance. I am hearing people all over this county talk about what they need and how washington is broken and how we need to fix it. For new peopleg with new ideas, to go there, to help them be their voice, someone who will listen to them and take their interest to heart. This is why i am here. This is a great opportunity to go to washington. Is a great scott person but it is time for a change. It is a challenge i look forward to and im happy to be here tonight. I believe that i will be the best choice to be the voice of the people that the state of washington,na in and that is what im here to make sure their interests are being served. I thank you for the question. Ive heard each of you allude to the notion that washington is broken. A lot of americans have that perceptive and perception. I have not heard how you would approach fixing it or correcting it, changing that perception that a lot of americans have. Could you address that . That this doesnt work terribly well and you are running for an office that may not be held in particular high regard. Thank you. One of the reasons why i am running as a member of the American Party of South Carolina is that unlike Many Americans i felt disenfranchised. I felt like both parties have left me. I was almost ready to go on the towel. I found that term limits addressed my desire to see things change. As i looked into that more i came across the American Party and the census project. If you think about it, if there 37anywhere between independents in the senate, the u. S. Senate is the only body still elected by voters directly. If the majority is denied to both democrats and republicans and there are enough independents backing caucus separate from the democrats and republicans they can begin to create a dialogue that will move us toward what can be compromises, negotiation, and discussions so we can start to fix the problem and come up with justions instead of fighting and kicking the can down the road. I have four grandchildren. I dont want to leave them worse off than im am. I want to make sure that we do what our parents and grandparents did for us. Therefore i think that part of the reason why we should change. They should all go home and we should start over. It could be any worse. The fact that at we used to have between democrats and republicans, there was a Good Opportunity for dialogue. 2009 when the tea party rolled up and when that tea party rolled up, they began to stand in the middle of democrats and republicans and basically what happened was the democrats and republicans could no longer sit down to the table. There was a divide which hindered us from having a dialogue. If we delete the Tea Party People that are there, i believe we will have a better opportunity to sit down and have a great dialogue again between democrats and republicans. I dont believe in term limits. Im saying that i am hoping that i will be able to open the door so that many other people can come through and have the greatest opportunity that i am having to say to South Carolina i believe that, they want me to vote, to take a womans perspective from South Carolina, which at this point we do not have, and im looking to represent this state and this nation, and do it from the perspective of a woman. I believe i am a very strong woman to do it. Thank you. Washington is broken. The fact of the matter is what we do is work for you, the people. It is not about democrats or publicans. It is about putting americans first. We can see the brokenness of washington. 17. 6 trillion debt annual deficits of 700 billion. In that environment we come up with something that will not work, obamacare. Newbury regulations like dodd frank that only create more pressure on those who would create jobs. They are paying the highest Corporate Tax rate in all of the world. Washington is broken. Sense offer is common from South Carolina. Common sense starts with personal accountability to the voters here at home. That is one of the reasons why every weekend i come home to spend home spend time talking to voters so that i can understand issues that impact folks today. I went through and did many jobs. I went on public buses. I also waited tables. I took the time so that i can understand and appreciate what people are going through todays that i could take their ideas, my best ideas are mine. Find its way to washington dcs we can fix a broken system. Yankee. Thank you. How should the United States conduct itself in the World Affairs . Should we have a more handsoff approach . I think knowing the situation that we are dealing with 2d today, that our borders and to be protected at all times, it is important and it is that we have handson with the national. I am comfortable with the fact that we should have people to contribute, and we should be handson nation so that we can have the greatest dialogue between these countries where we can Work Together so that we can feel safe in our respective nations. I believe that we should have a handson approach. What we have seen and what we need to see from america is america first. We should involve ourselves in the world as long as it includes our national interest. The back of the matter when you look around the world, and america is the only superpower left on earth, withdraws itself from the world, we seeing absolute fertility we see absolute volatility. Iran, the middle east, the push towards a nuclear weapon, we should stand strong and use our influence to help the world find order and structure. We do that by looking at our allies. I start with israel. I believe it is very important es understandably are with them and our enemies fear us. We should not spend money we do not have buying influence we are not doing well with and doing things inconsistent with their best interest. If we are one to be successful and effective at helping the need to focus, we on what is our national interests, how do we impact the world for our own best interest. How do we recognize and protect our allies who have come to the table with us. How to we make sure our enemies respect us if not fear us . If we dont do those things, our involvement will only lead to more chaos. But we have seen so far is leading from behind, red lines that dont count. Thank you senator. Thank you. For me this is personal. Thatnternational decisions refers to isis or isil could impact my children. I want to make sure we are using diplomacy first before we ever talk about using any other kinds of means. America is the greatest nation on the base of the earth. I agree with america first. That is the slogan of my campaign. We need to take a new look, a containment much like the truman doctrine that was done doing world war ii. As the debt with communism. With thekless radical islamic terrorists we have to do the same containment and begin to require that the minimize and we have to ask all of the countries in that area the most impacted by these issues to stand up and take their rightful place in the forefront. Whether it be iraq, iran, syria, turkey, egypt. They do take their rightful place and take care of the problems that are existing in their area of the world. I agree with senator scott. We need to stand with israel. Womans always be there ally and protect them no matter what comes. At the same time want to make sure that we are following a path of diplomacy and we are using our economic might. As we become Energy Independent we are going to be able to do so. Isis atould you tackle this moment of the ministrations response . I will tell you that all of us have relatives that are in the military. It is important. You see three dedicated americans that care about this country. Y brothers served. My dad retired air force. I believe that when we look at isis, what we have to do is assess our responsibility and create and coordinate a coalition of forces that starts with those who are most imminent danger among living in the middle east. I think we have done well in our airstrikes. We have done well in the collaboration, the Coalition Building we have seen from countries around the globe, seeing isis as a global threat to all nations. This has been an important step. But we must continue to do is make sure that the boots that are on the ground are the boots that live in the middle east. It is very important for us to make sure that our middle east. Artners are leading the way we can provide air cover. We can provide the intelligence said that we know exactly where to strike and how to push back. That has been effective. But we cannot do, what we have lead from behind. As i said before, i will say it again. I agree with some of the things scott said. The people in that area of the world are the ones taking the responsibility for the boots on the ground. I applaud his brothers service. As a mother of an activeduty marine and the mother of somebody who served in the International Guard i want to make sure i am not sending my in harmsybody elses way. We have done that before and america cannot be the world policeman. We need to use our diplomatic might. We need to use economic might. We need to use airstrike strategically and our strategy and technology to format that strategy within that region, to help them battle. I go back to the idea of a doctrine of containment. We need to work very carefully with the countries in that area. We are starting to see that in the way that turkey is beginning to stand up and take on a greater role in the area. I think we need to insist that happened. There is a lot of work that needs to be done before we would ever consider going any further than providing the strategic airstrikes. As far as what the Current Administration has done, i think. Hat it is too little, too late we need to keep a focus on it and we cannot let it go. We cannot let that stand. I do agree with both senator scott and ms. Bossi. I am the wife of a veteran. Am very concerned about the situation in the middle east. Israel is our strongest ally, but i believe those nations need to take more responsibility for their own actions. We have been over there for a long time great almost 14 years. , theyns in the military have been there, and it is time for our troops to come home. I think airstrikes are the best way to resolve this at this point in time. I refuse to have more troops on the ground in those countries because we are putting our troops in harms way. Our borders need to be protected. The only way we can is to have a very Strong Military presence in the world. Yet we are a superpower. We are looking at as one of the leaders in the world. We need to continue that dialogue showing that we are a strong nation. I do support my president because he is doing the job that he was put to make sure our borders are protected. One of the things we have to understand from my perspective, i do not have the privilege of having the intelligence that president obama has. I want to change to the economy. We have the 1992 president ial campaign to think for one of the political catchphrases. The economy, stupid. It is about the economy. It is all about the economy. What are your priorities . How do you achieve them . Thank you. Aristotle said the most perfect Political Community is one in which the middle class has control and outnumbers the other two. I believe that is a very accurate statement. As i said earlier the middle class has been in this rated. They are the most important part of our economy. We need to bring good jobs back home to america. I believe we can do that. There are initiatives going on now in Corporate America that can bring good jobs back here that will create middle class jobs that provide good pay and benefits to those people that are qualified and have the training necessary. We have to have a lot better education system, not only for prek12 but into our post secondary education so that we are training people to take those jobs on. We have 4 million jobs that go unfilled because we are lacking that experience. We have a lot of opportunity to create jobs, to innovate and america, to look on a global scale and make sure that were doing what is important not only from america but to create the answers that we need in the Business Community that will address our Health Care Issues and ola dress our economic issues, and that will address our immigration issues. As we look at those things a sound Economic Policy can help bring us back out of the doldrums we are currently in. Economic priorities . To strengthen the middle going around been the state, sitting down at tables, talking to people who are suffering, who have lost their jobs. Speaking to students who are have higho student that. I believe that if we can strengthen our middle class, bring back jobs, open the markets of people can go back and get those jobs that have gone overseas because we have given some a tax credits to people to take those jobs overseas and cause the middle class to decline, if the middle class declines the world is on the decline. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If we do not sustain our middle class i believe this country is going to have a great downfall. That is the backbone. The middle class is the backbone of america. When you remove that status you are going to have problems. Ways throughat education, one of the main things, to make sure we retrain workers to go into the workforce. That is most important thing, educating our workforce. Senator scott. Our economy needs two things for it to grow and prosper. We need certainty in the workplace and predictability. Business owners will hire people when those things are there. They can deal with that policy. I was an employer. I was ceo for 13 years. If i had certainty and predictability i hired more people, invested more equipment, and brought back an economy. Do, ahe government can couple of things. Cut taxes and regulations. We have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the world. We have seen burger king and other Companies Looking to move their businesses out of our country so they can avoid the highest tax rate in the world. Regulations, dodd frank, obamacare. They added pressure that reduces the number of employees that could be hired. If we want to see a robust economy we have to deal with certainty and predictability. We have to reduce taxes to make ourselves competitive. When you think about it that the Corporate Tax rate is 10 points higher than the rest of the world, i would say my opportunity agenda focuses on education, on skills in the workplace, provided people who want to go into the workforce the skills to do so, we would have done it well. From bowling to michelin, South Carolina is a great place to do business. Regulators and taxes are right. I rebut . Er but may i hear this all the time. As i travel around the state i have heard people say i dont want that obamacare. What we need to understand is that bill is not obamacare. It is the Affordable Health care. We need to make sure that that is the message that is taken and not say that it is obamacare great that is not what that bill is. I would like to rebut on the issue of taxes. One of the problems we have with our tax code is that it is so highly complex, it allows for companies to look at we had apple moving to ireland. The irish have changed that law. We had burger king looking to move to canada. But we have to do is simplify our tax system. I agree when he to bring taxes down. Not only for corporations but also for individuals. Flat taxo get a fair that simplifies the tax code, reduces the amount of our iressa allows business to generate a lot more jobs. Ive heard you talk about helping the middle class. Presumably even the working class. What about the minimum wage . What would you do to change that . To try and perhaps contract the wealth gap between the wealthy and the less so . Likes that is a very personal thing with me. I stated earlier, i heard our center is a selected senator and not the elected senator. I heard him say earlier that he went around to various places doing minimum jobs. Did he ask them whether or not seven dollars 25 cents an hour was a good wage for them . Class are declining because people have to work 23 jobs, 20 hours a week just to try to make a balance wage so they can put food on their table, educate their kids, and take care of their families. We are living in a crisis when a person loses their job, their whole livelihood goes down the tube. Supportwe should raising the minimum wage from 7. 25 to 10. 10 an hour. Im hearing that is going to cause us to lose jobs trade we stats to prove that. Raising the minimum wage, i will stick with the fact that we need to seriously raise the minimum wage so that our people can have a decent lifestyle. Like senator. Absolutely. When i talked to the folks i the one common denominator that was glaringly obvious is that the Educational Achievement has major impact on your lifetime earnings. When i was struggling in high school as a freshman, about to drop out, if the kid dropped out as a freshman in high school they lose more than 1 million in income. What i learned was that so many of our folks are begging, interested and hungry looking for ways to improve their education. I have suggested in my agenda we do it two ways. On the is to focus fouryear college. The other one, shop. Giving people real work skills so they can go into the workforce. I visited companies in South Carolina who have done that so well. If the program were they can earn and learn the same time. What i would suggest that we do is make sure that we focus on poverty. We can eradicate poverty, the best way to do so is through increasing the Educational Achievement. This will actually help us have the same challenges on the topend as we are talking about today on the minimum wage. Weve had Great Success stories. They are almost set full employment. The wages are going up. That is very important. One of the things that jesus said is we will always have the poor with us. Always be there. Wage, im in between. I believe the minimum wage has not been raised since 2009 and our economy has faltered and stumbled. It is an important thing we need to reassess. Will being jobs back we able to create jobs that the middle class workers that are trained and have the skills can take, that will create a supply younger people who want to supplement their income, for people who would not. Fulltime to support their families. Minimum wage is not a living wage. We need to recognize that. I also believe at the same time, as the look at the Educational Opportunities it is important to recognize its not just hyperbole. It is not just what we talk about, it is about what we do. We have to be able to support our educators from prek through high school. We have to create trade and technical schools. All of those things are going to be important to help us adjust the minimum wage here. Senator scott. You voted against the Immigration Reform. What solution do you have for the immigration issue . The reality of immigration is it is important for the workforce and we should find ways to make sure we have the workers we need to come and build the best economy in the world. First, the Legal Immigration process, my sisterinlaw who came here from korea and spent 10 years getting her citizenship. She learned about this country, she focused on the success and the opportunities, and she seized upon it. For us to create a system that we reward folks in a way because of the way that they came here, it would be inconsistent with what we want to accomplish. The ways we start a process of Immigration Reform starts with our borders. We must secure our borders. By doing so we need basic parts, more Human Capital on the border. We need physical obstructions to stop them from a crossing, and technology we can use 24 7. They are today a National Security issue. Imagine if you saw terrorist coming across our borders. We would find ourselves in a serious position. You fix the visa system. I believe after we secure our border we can absolutely increase visas. In order to make sure we have the workforce we need in the future. How would you address immigration . The first thing is we have to secure our borders. We have a big problem. We have 11 Million Immigrants that are illegal in the country. We have to address that longterm. We have to redo our immigration legislation. And make sure that the requirements we have our sound and strong so that the people that should stay here are able to work their way toward legal citizenship or legal alien status. I think it is important to note that not only have senator scott voted against immigration, but he voted against the budget, infrastructure, equal pay, minimum wage, military justice. So many things he has voted against. Little he has focused for. That is part of the problem were facing. We have to work on solutions. Whatever the solution is there are very smart and intelligent people that can sit down together and come together, and to find a solution that will create a good plan and policy for the United States level secure our borders and will not end up costing billions and billions more, and at the same time create that pathway to citizenship that so many people strive to have. If i go back to the idea of building the middle class backup, if we do that we can potentially create global jobs which will keep the people at home because that is why they are coming here. Mrs. Dickerson. We first of all have got to protect our borders. That is one thing we are going to agree on tonight. Senator scott, i think we would have had a better economy if senator scott knew the word yes on some issues. As she has stated, he has voted show up he did not for the vote when labor talk about refinancing Student Loans. I know this is not a border issue, but i know that when we talk about securing our borders, we have got to make sure the immigration persons that are here, that we make sure they go through the process, and that we make sure that they get legalized and go through that process of they can become legal citizens in the United States. There are costing american jobs. Because they are taking away jobs from america i think it is reported that we make sure that they get this process straight like we all have done. Go through the process, get legalized, and work for it. I believe we had a better working congress with people working together to try to resolve problems rather than create problems, then we will , and ourre secure immigration problem will be taking care of. I want to make sure i clear up the fact that i voted to reduce the Interest Rate on Student Loans when i had an opportunity to. We have two women, what is your stance on reproductive rights and ensuring equal pay for equal work . Ms. Bossisat is term. Quite honestly i think the issue of reproductive rights has been addressed in america. I wish that we would stop pushing that so hard. And start dealing with the problems that we do have. We talk about reproductive rights and yet we dont take care of our children. How many children do we have that are hungry, that are theless, that are lacking . Asic needs that they have we have to do with the issues that we have and stop worrying about what people are doing. I am a woman and i stand for a womans right to choose prei know that my god has given me the right to choose whether or not to believe in him. Therefore i believe he is give me the right to choose on anything that i do with my life and how i conduct my life. I have to believe if the creator of the universe is give me that choice he has also given me the ability to make the choice on reproductive rights. When it comes to equal pay, this is something that is personal for me. As somebody who work their way up, i started as a single parent in a minimum wage job. I worked on my life to get my College Education and take on new and harder jobs. I knew every single job but there was a man earning more than i was. I believe it is . 82 on the dollar. We have to correct that. It is not an easy answer. Much an issuey close to my heart. God gave us a choice from day one from the garden, when he said that he put all those trees in the garden, of all those trees that you could eat of it except one, so god gave us a choice. I believe in choice. I believe that a woman should have the right to choose. I had a series problem series problem when the five justices voted in favor of hobby lob by, and it is an insult to charge women more for insurance just because they are a woman. Women and girls deserve to have the same opportunity as men. They did that with contraceptives but didnt say a word about viagra. I feel strong about that. I support choice. I think a woman should have the right to choose and that should be between her husband, her god, and her doctor. As long as those three are in agreement that i think that is the best choice. As for wages and equal pay, i think the problem herein lies, we talk about . 82. Some are different. Hispanic, it is cheaper. Africanamericans is lower. There is a big span. Ix this to f issue. I am prolife and i think the y lobby decision was i will tell you what she has taught me about the issue of equal pay. 1962 itnow that since has been illegal to discriminate but it hasnt stopped. In her research, a very important conclusion. The seniority system as we know it today actually benefits men and discriminates against women. The fact of the matter is when a woman decides to leave the workforce, to have a family, what happens is when she comes back into the workforce because of the signatories system, because of longevity, that people get paid more. No matter how hard she works, no matter how well she performs, she does not catch up from where she was. If we eliminated the seniority system in america and went to a meritocracy where we pay people based on how well they did their job, women with their much better in the workforce. This is a silver bullet. I look forward to focusing much of our time in the future on addressing the challenges that we face. I am thankful that she was willing to come to south florida. I have two hands up. Thank you. As a woman, im very glad that senator scott has finally decided to investigate the issues that women deal with. I will be very honest in terms of saying that it is not just the fact that women go out to raise their children. That kind of equal pay discrimination happens. Im the breadwinner for my family. I never stated home with my children. That is something my husband did for our family. I was discriminated against job after job after job. It meant moving positions to increase my salary. Do not go with the old wives tale, or old husbands tale that it is because women have to leave their jobs to have families. That is malarkey. I would like to concur with what she said. When i seesturbs me a woman who is having a baby, who worked almost to the day she had the baby, and after she had the baby she is back on the job within a matter of a few days. For someone to use an excuse that women have to leave the workforce, we do more work while we are there than the average man because we are always there 24 7. I have a problem they say we leave the workforce. We do. It is the balance between federal and state responsibility , the specific thing in mind is something that is relevant to South Carolina. The split is 40 federal and 60 stake if i have that right. I would like to know are you for down is this a fair break between state responsibilities, and what youre willing to do to achieve that. Idea. S is a wonderful that is one of the reasons why i am so against drilling on our shores. Expanding our shores has been the greatest thing for South Carolina. It is going to expand tourism. South carolina is one of the greatest economic things that we have in South Carolina, that we have great tourism. Our borders are so important. I am all in favor of expansion. I know it is going to bring more revenue into our state. It is going to assimilate our economy to have more jobs coming here. Good news. Ery i support 100 . I do think this is a great thing. I will not be in favor of anyone drilling on our beautiful shores. I support it. I think it is a great idea for the economy. The balance between federal and state responsibilities . Im not sure if i agree with the split. But the fact the matter there is a split. Aside 300 million to have the money necessary to the water bypassed for provided more money to help that happen as well. There are 40 million need to figure out along the way. The good news from my days on one out of every seven jobs in South Carolina is connected to the port system. It is a Major Economic engine. One of the things that we celebrated, the success of the inland route that provides more ways to get the goods from upstate to the port which is very important for us. When i was in the statehouse come when we were recruiting, one of the things that we saw that was a major asset for us was the port. The good news for South Carolina is america support is in South Carolina. There is the Harbor Maintenance be used to fund the charleston port, the jackson port, the georgetown port, and would allow us to have a vibrant competition and meet our goals of doubling exports from this country. I agree with both senator scott and ms. Dickerson at the Charleston Harbor project is absolutely essential. I am in favor of it. The 6040 split is what we have to live with. Obviously the state has plans for a. The federal government has plans for it. Lets get it done. The longer we hold off higher the cost go. The cost of going high while we have been talking about it. I havemake sure we traveled all over the state. Our highways sting. My brains have been rattled by how many potholes we have on 77 and 95 and 20. We have the more money into our infrastructure all over. That is our ports, harbors, roads, bridges. They are all essential. We need to find a way to do it. Not only will that help us as citizens, but able start the people back to work in good, middleclass jobs. That is important. Im it i am a big supporter of the harbor. Abelieve the split is fair one. The that investment is down return on the cruise line through shipping lines, through trade that comes in, they are going to pay off handsomely for the state. The hour is waning. Im going to ask for a shorter response to this question. Things on folks minds is medicare. Had we keep it going, how do we sustain it . No doubt, for your grandchildren. How do we sustained for the future . Thank you. One of the first ways we sustain is to keep a look at obamacare. Billions of dollars siphoned from medicare to encourage people to buy insurance. I dont think they should be subsidizing the young americans. The other thing, you look at medicare. Four waste, fraud, and abuse is 9 . If we look for ways for us to reduce waste and fraud and abuse, we would see a path forward. The Health Care Costs thank you. As far as health care in general, we need to protect medicare. 1915 inarents were 1922. They were depend on medicare. It is a good program. When you to strengthen it and keep it going. I think that we need to look at the holistic issue of health care in america. Whether you call the aca or obamacare, we need to look at that. We need to look at our veterans. They deserve not to be homeless, to be hungry, to have health care that they deserve. When you look at it holistically, bringing everybody together, bring the experts to the table and come with a plan that provides the kind of insurance that all america needs. Lot have been hearing a about medicare. One of the things im hearing is the privatization of medicare. This is something i dont think is on my mind. I believe that we have got to really make sure that we protect our seniors can protect them. Some people call the entitlement. Entitlement,all it but i believe when i got my paycheck, when senator scott got his paycheck, we saw that they deducted that from our paycheck. How can you say that is entitlement . You arent it. You deserve it. I will support medicare and make sure we protect it. This is the last question. You get one he seconds to answer. If elected you only get a twoyear term, the unexpired term that senator jim demint lepton. What have you learned about the process that you would address differently next time . Term limits and Campaign Finance reform. Million, from the student South Carolina and all the rest from outside. Our country is being bought and paid for. We have to change that. That is what i would focus my first two years on to implement term limits and Campaign Finance reform. One dollar for every registered voter. My lesson is term limits is not a good thing. When you are in office, some people it takes a lot of time to get projects taking care of. Term limits would not work for me. I dont know about Campaign Finance reform but it is going to take a lot of money to be me with none. Common ground. Our nation is the greatest on earth. We are exceptional. If we do what we are supposed to do we will see the most amazing thing happened. I have learned quickly that working together creates major opportunities for success. I have for my conservative friends, and we have one thing in common. We put america first. Thank you to all of the senate candidates. Thank you to andrew shane for being with us pray for more information on all the upcoming debates, keep tabs on what is happening process and dont forget to vote next tuesday. Good night. Cspan is bringing you 100 debates for the control of congress. Stay in touch and engage. Follow us on twitter at cspan3 join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan. More Live Campaign 2014 coverage tomorrow night. Senator landrieu is running against two challengers. Live at 8 00 eastern tomorrow. We spoke to reporters out that race. 0 joining us from louisiana, the Capital News Bureau to talk about the senate race between Mary Landrieu and bill cassidy. There is also the independent candidate who is running as well. Several other candidates on the ballot. , the latest race is headed for a runoff. Do you agree . 0 that is what it looks like. The game plan that the cassidy campaign is taking. He is running and incumbents race. Date is tomorrow night. It is going to be very interestin