I am the only person who is ever balanced the government budget. You cannot just get there by balancing the budget, you have to grow the economy by putting people first. Real people like you. I did not want my child to grow as the first generation of americans to do worse than their parents. We can do better than that. I ask for your help in doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the debate. I would like to thank our audience of 209 uncommitted voters who may leave this evening committed. Hopefully they will go to the polls on november 3 and vote. We would like you to join us for the third and final residential debate next monday. I am carol simpson, good night. [applause] watch live on cspan. Listen to live coverage of the debate on your phone with the free cspan radio at available on the app store or google play. This debate in 2000 between Vice President al gore and Texas Governor george w. Bush was in format. Hall the moderate the moderator was jim lehrer. This is one hou
I am the only person who is ever balanced the government budget. You cannot just get there by balancing the budget, you have to grow the economy by putting people first. Real people like you. I did not want my child to grow as the first generation of americans to do worse than their parents. We can do better than that. I ask for your help in doing that. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the debate. I would like to thank our audience of 209 uncommitted voters who may leave this evening committed. Hopefully they will go to the polls on november 3 and vote. We would like you to join us for the third and final residential debate next monday. I am carol simpson, good night. [applause] watch live on cspan. Listen to live coverage of the debate on your phone with the free cspan radio at available on the app store or google play. This debate in 2000 between Vice President al gore and Texas Governor george w. Bush was in format. Hall the moderate the moderator was jim lehrer. This is one hou
This is just over 90 minutes. Moderator good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] moderator before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today each of them wrote a question o
This awarded the state electoral votes and presidency to governor bush. This is just over 90 minutes. Jim lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the news hour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] jim lehrer before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. Jim lehrer a reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the commission and the two campaigns. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who were identified as being
[applause] before proceeding tonight, we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of the governor of missouri along with his son and former chief of staff who died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder as we continue now that these debates sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and role worked up by the commissions and campaign. Tonights questions will be asked by st. Louis area voters who identified as being uncommitted by the gallup organization. Earlier today, each of them read the question on a small card like this. The cards are collected and give it to me. My job under the rules of the evening was to decide the order of the question and to call on the questioners accordingly. I also have the option of asking followups. In order to get the more the panels questions, for the record, i plan to do sparingly and mostly as a clarification. The audience participants are bound by the following rules, they shall not ask all of