He has a poverty summit. When you talk about using the power of the presidency to try to change and start a debate in this country of what we can do so the situations that are occurring every single day in america because children are abandoned by a system that is not focused on kids, i think we can make some real changes. Weve got about 10 minutes left. Well try to get in three more questions. Paul. Paul senator, four years senator santorum what if i filibuster . Paul senator, four years ago your family played a big role in your campaign. Youre a dad of seven. How have things changed in four years . Is it easier, harder . How do you how do you stay dad . Senator santorum its hard. Seven kids, going through those teenage years and everything its theres challenges out there. Ill be honest with you. I feel first, the biggest issue, if you recall four years ago, was our daughter bella and the Health Problems that she had. Im just were just real excited shes doing better she has ever done and has been for about three years. After the campaign, we you know, we realized we had to look at some things because she was just getting there was a pattern of her getting sick, very seriously sick. And she had that pattern but it was getting worse. So anyway, we dug into some things and we actually found a therapy thats in our book. She takes something to boost her immune system and its just changed her life. Shes doing great. And so i if she was in the same position as she was four years ago, i wouldnt be sitting here. But she is doing great. And so we feel very, very comfortable on that front. We have six other kids. As i said, theyre going through their teenage and college years. I dont need to say any more than that. But its a last time around, it was a family enterprise. And in spite of the travel and other things, it actually in many respects brought the family even closer together. And everybody is excited about it. You know, our kids are its just fighting them off as to who goes to what trip because everybody wants to go and be out on the trail and do things. Its sort of like the Family Business in some respects. You want to go to the store and participate, but its so i feel very good. Our family is well prepared to do it. Not to say we dont have our issues like every other family but if we didnt then you should be worried about it. Paul you would be taking a pay cut if you win, right . Senator santorum yeah. Its pretty good job. Mr. Rappaport from the new york times. Talk about taking on the clinton machine. Is it more or let formidable candidate than president obama . Senator santorum yeah, we took on a machine in 1994 when i ran against harris and we were you believe against carville and begala and bill and hillary came to pennsylvania with great frequency to campaign against us. You know, pennsylvanias not the redest of states. We felt we went up against their best and brightest. Health care was the big issue back in 1994. The guy i was running against was the senate sponsor. In fact, you go back and look at your political reason, kids in 1991 really ushered bill clinton into the 1992 campaign becausecarville made health care the issue of the 1991 special election and went down to little rock, basically took their experiences in pennsylvania in 1991 and applied it to the race in 1992 and the rest is history. They had a lot riding on pennsylvania in 1994. Let me assure you, they threw the kitchen sink at us and we were able to survive. I remind people in 2000, we won by five points in 2000 in the state that bush lost by four. We were the only conservative to win in a state that bush lost. I think we have a good track record of being able to overcome big election odds. I beat two incumbents. I represented a 60 democratic seat and a 70 democratic seat in my first few terms in the congress. I think we have a pretty good track record. When we get to a general election we can be pretty effective. I feel like Hillary Clinton is in some respects tougher than barack obama. In some ways. In some ways easier. I think hillarys going to have a harder time galvanizing her base. I think she probably has a little bit more of an opportunity to appeal outside of her base. The president last time obviously lost independents and moderates, and that would have been an opportunity for me, at least i believe, we could have done better there. I think shell shell have pluses and minuses, but, again we have a track record. Not just gone up against the Political Team but also went up against her in the United States senate on more than one occasion and i think we did pretty well when we did that. So if youre looking at debate performances and how well you can stack up and be effective, i think we have some pretty good evidence that well do very well. Phil, last question. Senator santorum i kept trying to finish up. Phil are we going to see mrs. Santorum this time . Last time she had a pretty tough go at it. What is her role in the santorum 2. 0 is going to be . Senator santorum the least disruptive model possible. Particularly with our daughter whos doing well but she is still 24 7 care. If care is not there, then we got to hire someone to be there. That becomes economically challenging, lets just put it that way. So ill be honest with you. A big part of it is just family economics for us to have nursing care when karens not home 24 hours a day gets expensive and its not covered by insurance or anything like that. So part of it is driven by just the family realities of having a disabled child that requires 24 7 care and the other reality is we have six other kids. Theyre going through teenage years and sort of good to have a parent around. Thats happening. We had some experiences about that in the last year or so. And so karen and i is a division of labor, if you will. While i think karen does an amazing job on the campaign trail, is a huge asset, the most important asset that we have is our family. And while she maybe a great asset on the campaign, she is the indispensible asset at home and thats the way well view all sorts of opportunities on the campaign. Thanks for doing this. Senator santorum you bet it. Appreciate it. Senator santorum appreciate it. What painless. Somewhat. Im glad. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] on todays washington journal, the latest and of elements on the Iran Nuclear Negotiations and how the committee on benghazi lance to continue with its investigation. Member of the energy and Commerce Committee and then later mike pompeo of kangas kansas. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 et on cspan and you can contribute by phone and on facebook and twitter. At 8 00 et on cspan2 nasa promises the biggest planetary unveiling in a quarter century. The spacecraft new horizons is doing a close flyby of pluto. That is live and 00 a. M. Et at 8 00 a. M. Et. At 10 00 secretary jeh johnson on the deportation cases and the benefits of giving certain groups legal status called administrative legalization. Letter today, a look at the europeans future by a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on cspan3. Next up, former Maryland GovernorMartin Omalley running for the democratic nomination discussed issues concerning latino voters. I am so privileged to introduce one of our keynote speakers. Born and raised in the state of maryland, governor Martin Omalley has become one of the states most dedicated and revered public servants. And attorney by profession, governor omalley began his career of Public Service at the age of 28. He was first elected to the Baltimore City council where he spent eight years and was later elected as mayor of baltimore for two terms in 2006 he became marylands 61st governor. A post he held until january this year. Throughout his distinguished career, governor omalley has focused on improving the lives of his constituents. Whether it is advocating for better education, safer communities, or Stronger Economic opportunities. Nowhere is this more evident than in governor omalleys work on behalf of the growing latino population in maryland. He has worked closely with an clr affiliates nclr affiliates for years. He has long risk supported comprehensive Immigration Reform and supports president obamas immigration relief order. It is his record of accomplishments on issues regarding latinos that stands out. In 2007 he appointed tom barrett as marylands first latina secretary of labor. In pioneering effort on immigrants reformation. He issued an order for undocumented drivers which he helped make permanent and 2013 when he rightly noted that the measure protects the safety of all marylanders. In 2012 he shepherded the passage of the maryland dream act. The following year he helped beat back a challenge to that law when Maryland Voters overwhelmingly passed a referendum and support of the dream act. One of his final acts of government was to increase minimum wage, one of his Top Priorities on policy. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to governor Martin Omalley. [applause] thank you very, very much. I want to say a special thank you to janet for your kind invitation and the ability to be with all of you here today. As many of you know, this is janets 20th year at the helm of the National Council of laurents of la raza. Ouncil of la raza. That means 10 years of exceptional leadership. A sane and humane vision for immigration that will uplift our entire nation. [applause] janet and her family are doing great things. Her grandparents moved to the United States to escape the mexican revolution. Neither her mom nor her dad made it past the seventh grade in school. They believe in hard work, family, community, possibility. All of the things that our nation promises. Growing up, the kids in janets family slept dormitorystyle in one big room. But they also shared something else, and that was in unshakable belief in the American Dream. Janet and her six siblings grew up to pursue College Degrees and law degrees. Janet went on to work at the white house to service a top administrator at the university of kansas and of course to lead this fine organization. One of janets others is a federal judge, and one of janets sisters is a judge. And, that is the first time in our countrys history that a brother and sister have served on the federal bench. And that too, is the American Dream come to life. [applause] and now, janet helped lead the fight to make that available and true to every hispanic american family, in fact to every american family. Of course, janet has big shoes to fill after the 30 magnificent years of her predecessor. He made this organization a National Force in pursuit of hispanic opportunity and equality. When he was a child in south texas, his family faced a nightly curfew. In spite of growing up in the face of exclusion, his distinguished resume includes decades of leadership of nclr, American Ambassador to the dominican republic, and a host of other achievements in service of the cause. Along the way, raul benefited from one of the most farcited transformative investments that our nation has ever made in our people and the growth of our middle class. And that is when raul went to college on the g. I. Bill. Millions of americans have been affected by this. Americans had the good sense to invest in him. I know the power of that investment personally. My dad, tom omalley, went to college on the g. I. Bill as well. I think it is fair to say he went to college only because of the g. I. Bill. His dream was set in motion when my great grandparents came to this country from ireland. My great grandfather, whose name also happen to be Martin Omalley, had no money. His first language was not english. But the hopes and these dreams that he had for his children for his grandchildren, were purely american. He started from zero. Just like so many new americans from all over the world come here and start from zero. The americans that he worked beside risked their lives in the mines of southwest arizona. They have the same spirit, the same love of family that builds up our country one person and one family at a time. It is a spirit that has always made us the land of opportunity. For many years, i had very intentionally and repeatedly used in my own Public Service the term new americans. The genius of our country is not so much about where you come from, it is about where you are going and where we are all going to gather. [applause] of course, we know that both the positive and the negative aspects of American History can often repeat themselves. Todays new american immigrants are not the first to face the ugliness of exclusion, fear, or hate. During my service as mayor true story i always kept a sign from the 1890s on my desk. And, it it read help wanted. No irish need apply. Those signs were once very common throughout america. For me, that sign was a daily reminder that not only were we once strangers in a strange land, but more importantly, we are all in this together. We must hold together if we are to succeed. [applause] and, i suppose, this truth is why i have always seen in the eyes of my new american neighbors, the eyes of the great grandparents that i never met. You see, the cause that we share is the cause of human dignity. The work that we share is the strengthening of our common good as one american people. It is the dream made real by families. The dream made real by my family, your family, every family and america who love their children and love their country. [applause] it is the living reality of that dream that lift us all. As governor of a american, i fought to make that dream real every day. How did we do this . We did this by including more of our people more fully in the economic and social and political life of our state. You see, in maryland we did not wait for the federal government to act. We pursued our own dream to make sure more had access to affordable higher education. [applause] after i signed the dream act into law, our brothers and sisters in the Republican Party decided to petition it to referendum and it was a straight yes or no vote. When we started out, we were losing. In fact we were about 10 points down. But instead of following popular opinion, we forged a new consensus. We became the first state in the union to defend the dream act at the ballot box. [applause] after that conversation that we had around the referendum get this we actually won with 59 of the vote. We were good, compassionate, generous. This is not simply a victory for the dreamers, though it was, but it was also a victory for marylins future. For the future we all want for our children. In maryland, the also expanded access to drivers license because people need to get to work safely and obey the rules of the road [applause] and, at the very start of my administration in 2008, i established the new american commissions. Its purpose to highlight and welcomed the schools the skills being brought to our state by new americans from all over the world. That was helped by our first labor commissioner, a name that will be familiar to all of you tom perez, who is now the labor secretary for the United States of america. I regret i have but one cabinet to give to my country will stop during my two terms as governor, we actually increased government contracts to latino businesses by 114 percent. [applause] we were the first to expand the living wage, we raised the minimum wage to 10. 10 per hour. Hundreds of thousands of maryland residents will have gotten a raise. We froze tuition for years in a row, and we did a better job then any other state to help this, of course, helped all of us. But it also particularly help hispanic students win bachelors degrees during my service as governor. We kept marylands Unemployment Rate down to one of the lowest in the nation. What does all of this mean . Anyone can talk about it. But we actually do it. [applause] [speaking spanish] [applause] we created a real opportunity in maryland for all of the people. We did it by investing in our people. We did it by including more people more fully in the economic, political and other together, through these actions, we made the dream real for more and more families. Tomorrow, i will lay out a detailed immigration policy for our nation. And, today, i want to talk to you about what guides my thinking. First, we are and we have always been a nation of immigrants. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one strong nation. [applause] second, we are a strong and enduring people. The symbol of america is not the armed wire fence, it is the statue of liberty. [applause] and, number three, it is in the best interest of every citizen of the United States for us to reform and immigration system that is callous, unjust, and sells our nation short. [applause] you see, our fight for Immigration Reform is not only about our values as american though it certainly is, but it is also about creating an economy that actually worked for all of us. It is about bringing our neighbors out of the shadow economy and into the light of an open and inclusive economy. It is about one of the most important issues affecting kitchen tables all across the United States of america. And that is taking better actions to make sure that wages go up again instead of down for all americans. [applause] and we must begin by providing immediate relief to all of the americans whose hopes of men to gannon it by a whose hopes have been dashed again and again. Many scapegoat and seek every opportunity they can to speak ill of new americans and have fought tooth and nail against Immigration Reform. I know that all of us here today share my disk gust share my disgust with the comments that donald from recent