Without freedom or liberty. May they be instruments of justice for all americans. May your spirit live with them and with each of us and may your grace around us and those we love that in all things we may be the people you would have us be in service to this great nation. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. P senator santorum the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from california mr. Mcnerney. Mr. Mcnerney i ask everyone to join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Senator santorum the chair will entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Mr. Wilson to revise and extend. Senator santorum without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Wilson mr. Speaker, recently president obama struck another blow at destroying american jobs with his new proposal to raise the salary threshold for overtime. This topdown burdensome regulation will inhibit job creation burden Small Businesses, and penalize hardworking americans by increasing the wage threshold, businesses in South Carolina and across america will be faced with difficult choices. Reducing hours for workers and cutting jobs. This change will hurt hardworking employees who will face a lack of flexibility limit opportunity for advancement within their jobs and lower base salaries. The new mandate joins other Administration Regulations including mandatory wages and fix Work Schedules destroying jobs. The failed liberal welfare state policies of the last 50 years have produced increased poverty. And we should change policies to promote a limited government of expanded freedoms, creating jobs. In conclusion god bless our troops and may the president by his actions never forget september 11 and the global war ontry. On terrorism. Senator santorum for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Mcnerney to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend. Senator santorum without objection, the gentleman Virginia Tech for one minute. Mr. Mcnerney mr. Speaker homeownership is one of the corner stones of the american dream. Yet since 2007 housing crisis millions of americans have lost their homes through the foreclosure process and many more continue to struggle, addressing foreclosures and short sales is critical. Accelerating the short sale process for homeowners would be part of the solution. Unfortunately, in california and across the countryf the most significant factors that slows down the short sale process takes place when a homeowners second Mortgage Lender delays final negotiations on the short sale. And too often second mortgage lernsd use stonewalling tactics to delay payouts from the First Mortgage lernsd. This unfortunately delays and hurts the homeowners, willing buyers, and the economy at large. After further investigation on this issue, i will be introducing a bill to address short sales and ask the federal Housing Finance agency to provide an update on what it is doing to facilitate short sales and protect homeowners. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield back. Senator santorum the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend. Senator santorum without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today in support of h. R. 2898, the Western Water and American Food security act. Mr. Lamalfa this is by a representative from california. I appreciate his hard work and bipartisan efforts on this. Californias drought is having devastating effects on agriculture and our food supply nationwide. Last year drought related water cutbacks cause the an estimated 400,000 acres to be fal lowed, costing thousands of jobs and leaving consumers less food choices in the United States. While the solution is certainly not going to be all encompassed in one bill, this will be great start towards getting california back where we need tore drought relief. We cannot stand by and watch families suffer and Small Businesses leave the economy when we should have the jobs in the valley. It end the blame came and advances commonsense policies to fix the situation long term. It would update federal laws. Streamline water permitting and indeed it also ensures sound and real time science and water delivery methods so we dont have a situation where we are releasing 15,000 acrefeet twice the benefit of 30 steelhead fish. Lets get on with getting californias water supply back on track so that this important legislation is not stalled by the usual suspects on the environmental left. Indeed, the proof will be in the pudding. I yield back. Senator santorum the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition . To address the house for one minute. Senator santorum without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker i rise today to recognize two young constituents, Connor Hanson and sky lar elaine fraser, for being among the top students to place in the National Shooting sport foundations annual essay contest. Mr. Emmer connor took the top honors and sky lar placed in the top 15 and also received a learning for life award. In minnesota, hunting is a way of life. These traditions are often passed down from one generation to the next and teaching many life important life lessons along the way. Connor depicts this in his essay, describing the bonding experience with his father, the spirituality of the hunt, as well as everything that the hunt has taught him about life. Connor writes that the quote, hunting season allows me to see and experience the truth through gods creation, close quote. I want to congratulate connor and sky lar on not only placing in this competition but accurately portraying how important hunting is to our culture in minnesota. Welldone. I yield back. Senator santorum the gentleman yield back. For what purpose does the gentleman from North Carolina seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend. Senator santorum without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. As a result of the shale energy revolution, the United States is benefiting from the economic and Energy Security and i might add environmental benefits of a natural gas abundance. However, the e. P. A. Is threatening to take this Energy Advantage and make it a disadvantage. The e. P. A. Is currently trying to further regulate the byproduct of natural Gas Production, that of methane gas. The e. P. A. Unthe Obama Administration is at its worse. The Obama Administration mission is clear, if it is not a Green Energy Source that he likes, it should not exist. Mr. Meadows and obama has proven he la use the e. P. A. To do all he can to make it more difficult and expensive for American Families to utilize this incredibly wonderful source of natural gas that we have here in america. Lower Energy Prices for americans. And we have also helped the environment. So i would urge all of my colleagues to join me in opposing the burdensome mandates that will unnecessarily hinder the natural Gas Production of the United States and thereby dismantling and diminishing the Energy Advantage that we have today. I yield back. Senator santorum the gentlemans time has expired. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Mr. Burgess to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend my remarks. Senator santorum without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Burgess thank you, mr. Speaker. Friday afternoon of last week this house passed what may well be the most important piece of legislation that will be passed in our lime times. Im talking about h. R. 6, cures for the 21st century. This is legislation that is to improve and enhance the discovery, development and delivery of new medicines new devices, lifesaving efforts that can bend the course of someone who is trapped right now in an intractable disease. We all know what they are. Alzheimers, diabetes, recalcitrant cancers, heart disease. What if we were to be able to solve one of these riddles . What a boon that would be to the federal budget because as we can see in the out years of expenses for health care its nothing but up. In may of 2012 Glenn Campbell and his family came to the library of congress and came and testified before the senate. They gave a very moving presentation on why it was important to deal with diseases such as alzheimers. In fact that night when Glenn Campbell gave a concert at the library of congress you can see him here with his daughter, as they were playing on stage. It was a wonderful reminder just whats at stake here. What if we could provide one more time for a daughter to smile at her father because we found finally the cure for this intractable disease. Its time to get the senate to move and get this done. I yield back the balance of my time. Senator santorum the gentlemans time has expired. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. Sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on july 10 2015, at 12 53 p. M. That the Senate Passed without amendment h. R. 2620. That the Senate Passed senate 143. Senate 1180, senate 1359. Signed, sincerely, karen l. Haas. Senator santorum pursuant to clause 12a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until appr this weekend on cspans road to the white house, two Major Political events from iowa and we are the only place you can watch and listen to these events in their entirety. Friday night at 8 00 eastern well be live in cedar rapid for the Democratic Party hall of fame dinner. It will be the first time all five president ial candidates share the same stage. And all day saturday beginning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern well be live in ames for the family leadership summit where nine leading republican president ial candidates are scheduled to speak. On cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Cspans road to the white house, 2016, we take you there. Republican president ial candidate Rick Santorum spoke this morning with the Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. He answered questions about his campaign, running for president a second time, and the issues this time around. This is about an hour. Mr. Cook our guest today is former pennsylvania senator and current president ial candidate Rick Santorum. His last visit with us was in july of 2005. We are glad to have him back. He was born in virginia but moved to pennsylvania when he was 7. Hes a graduate of penn state. Earned a m. B. A. At the university of pittsburgh, and has a law degree from dickenson law school. In 1990 at the age 32, our guest ran for the u. S. House, defeeth an incumbent who outspent him almost 3is. In 1994 at age 36, he beat another incumbent for u. S. Senate seat and won a second term before being defeated in 2006. Hes currently making his second run for the white house having been the last conservative challenger standing against mitt romney in 2012. The senator and his wife are the parents of seven children. Thus ends the biographical portion of the program. Now on to the ever so compelling recitation of ground rules. As always we are on the record here. Pleas no live blogging or tweeting. In short no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when the session ends. To help you curve that selfy urge, well email several pictures of the session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. And as regular attendees know, if you like to ask a question, please do the traditional thing and send me a subtle nonthreatening signal and ill call on as many reporters we can in the time we have with the senator this morning. Well start off by offering our guest the opportunity to make some opening comments and then questions around the table. With that thanks again for doing this, sir. Appreciate it. Senator santorum thank youall for coming this morning. Appreciate it. Look forward to your questions actually not. Ill do my best. I would just say that i think this is as someone who ran four years ago, this is a very different election. For me one thats a much more satisfying election as a candidate because this is an election, at least from my perspective, the republican primary, four years ago the election was about who was the conservative alternative to mitt romney. The entire justification as a candidate was establishing yourself as a foil for what seemed to be the establishment pick for the nomination. This is a race thats obviously a wide open rice race. Its a real opportunity to go out and talk about the important things that confront this contry, important issues that confront this country and why what your vision is and why you believe youre the best person to be able to tackle the problems that americas facing right now. So in that respect its a more interesting race for me as a candidate because its a race about issues, its a race not about who your opponent is. I think if you look at most of my comments, its certainly in the last few months, i dont talk about my other folks in the race. To me its not relevant. There are so many faces out there that paying any attention to any one is isnt necessarily important from the standpoint of the success. I dont think its relevant. What the voters are trying to figure out right now is who is on my list. I dont think they are looking for any help from the candidates in trying to take people off their list. I think they are looking to see what candidates are potential viable president ial candidates Going Forward. I look at that as a real opportunity to make the case as to why we are we are the candidate that is has the right solutions for the country right now and has the best possibility of success in the general leaks. Thats really the focal point of our campaign so far and will continue to be. Thats exciting for me because its about how we can help the country, what we can do to make things better for to the people who are struggling in this contry, and country, and why winning is not as important as winning something thats worth winning. Its not just about winning the election. Its actually winning for this country in a way that we havent seen in my opinion, in several elections. Im excited about the message we are delivering. Thats why i announced from a factory floor in western pennsylvania. I believe that message. Looking at the people in America Today who are not succeeding. Looking at the middle of this country that needs to be filled with policies and values that are going to make america a much more top to bottom successful country Going Forward. I think we have some very unique ideas in that regard that separate us from the pack. Thats when i travel around the country we do a lot of manufacturing events. Well be in identify way probably 19 out of the next 33 days well be in identify way. Iowa. Well be doing a manufacturing event almost every single day we are there because that to me is one of the real big keys of help making america stronger from top to bottom. Making things and creating the jobs and opportunities that are available to people who are not succeeding through a resurgence in that sector of the economy. On the other side, we have the National Security which has become really important issue in this election which was not at all important four years ago. Again we believe that our message is different. We have experience that nobody else in the field has. An a track record that certainly distinguishes ourself from Hillary Clinton, but the experience to go up against a Hillary Clinton. Thats an important part of this race is how what are you going to do for america . But also how you juxtapose that with the likely democratic nominee. I think a lot of fronts we match up very well because we have matched up well in the past. I think im the only person in the field that has any real experience having gone toe to toe with the clinton machine and Hillary Clinton specifically when i was in the United States senate. I think that if experience matters, i think theres a lot of folks who believe now experience is more important than it once thought it was, that recommends me to the electorate as time goes on. Ill be happy to stop there. Mr. Cook one or two and move around the table. Let me ask you about fundraising. As you know jeb bush has raised an enormous amount of money, 114 million. And the estimates are that cruz raised and allies raised 51, and rubio 45 million. Cruzs folks say tha