Fixing tax increases and mitigating of the harmful obama care. He became a hero for all the constitutional conservative republicans. The critics describe his actions as of the tail wagging the dog. Country born in this and i dont know how this is physically possible. All that i can say is that we are happy that the tale is here, and the dogs are in washington. [applause] said that hes also is whacko and lives on a different planet. Proves Media Coverage int he is a soaring eagle the iowa caucus planet. [applause] hisse welcome our first keynoteeaker, speaker, ted cruz. It is great to be with so many friends in iowa. Very kindfor that introduction, thank you a. J. And david for inviting me here today. For your gracious hospitality. Thank you, to Chuck Grassley for welcoming me into your home state with so many dear friends of yours, and thanks to each of you for coming out tonight. I promise you i will do everything humanly possible to speak for less than 21 hours. You know in nearing the end when i began to read the cat and teh he hat. 21 hours is a long time. That is almost as long as it takes to sign up on the ob amacare website. Grounded ands is we have kept to we are by our families. I am proud to have the opportunity to introduce to each of you, my wife. She is beautiful and brilliant and the mother to my two baby girls, and she is the love of my life. Thank you for being here. Keeping onet family grounded, we have a tendency in the midst of heated battle to think fax that battle is of great importance. But that cannot always perceive that to be quite the same. Last sunday we were in washington with our two girls, we were driving to mount vernon that afternoon to spend some time with the girls. The five yearold lester little sister, what do you want to do when you grow up . She said i want to work with daddy in the u. S. Senate. Said that this is boring, i want to be in a rock band. Be dead bye will then. Is a true story. I was driving the car. She had been talking with republican leadership. If she knew something i didnt. I am here tonight, more than anything else, with words of encouragement, with the words of hope and optimism. What want to talk to you about tonight is that we are facing extraordinary times, the answer to what were facing his only the people can turn us around. But the fight is worth it. Lets start with the extraordinary title. Ins is not a typical moment the political process. We are facing extraordinary threats to the nation, with an administration that seems bent everylating constitutional protection that we have in the bill of rights. They haveow that violated the third amendment, but they may start soon ordering soldiers in peoples houses. If you look at the first amendment, and the complete disregard of religious liberty, telling servicemen and servicewoman they cannot share their faith with others or risk that thee, the idea men and women who risked everything to defend our liberty check their constitutional this isat the door against who we are as a people. Ago andust a few months air force chaplain and alaska, aprimanded, because he posted simple statement that there are no atheists in foxholes. Apparently, chaplains are not supposed to be talking about god. The phrase he was quoting, was president dwight d. Eisenhower. Who had some passing familiarity with the military. We have seen the assault on the Second Amendment. History hasation in tried to come after the Second Amendment like this administration. The president joe biden, nice thing, you dont need to punch line. [applause] you just say his name and people laugh. But Vice President joe biden said, if anyone is attacking your home, the nice just go outside and fire both barrels of a double barreled shotgun into the air. Which is very good and advise if you are being attacked by a flock of geese. Have seen the assault on the fourth and fifth amendment, as this administration has invaded our privacy, seizing phone records and email, of law abiding citizens as the target of their efforts. Hashe way, for anyone who yourself on here, please leave them on. Want to make sure president obama heres everything that we say tonight. We have seen the assault on the 10th amendment has the power has limits andyond the no extension is more of bridges, then that power grab that as obama caracocare. At then if you look fiscal and economic state, were facing an enormous crisis. Ourthe last four years, economy has grown 0. 9 per year. There is only one other four year time since world war ii with less than 1 percent growth. 1979 1982. Coming out of the jimmy carter administration, the same failed economic policies and out of control spending and regulation. Sameproduced the exact economic stagnation. People are hurting all across this country. Fiscalt the edge of a and economic cliff. Im reminded of last fall when we had the opportunity to speak at the National Republican convention and i talked about the National Debt and our two little girls. That night we went back to the hotel room, and i began to look at twitter. Paula poundstone, the comedienne watched the convention, and she sent a tweet. She said, ted cruze just said, National Debt is 16 trillion dollars. What did she do . We laughed so hard we almost fell out of bed. Caroline is five. In her short life our National Debt has grown over 60 percent. What we are doing right now is fundamentally immoral. [applause] if we keep going down this path, our kids and our grandkids will spend their whole lives now working to meet the challenges of the future or their priority, but working to pay off the debt of their parents and grandparents. That to us didnt do and our parents did not their parents did not do that to them. We are here because were not willing to do that to the next generation. That leads to my second point. Growth is that answer. Is one wordhere that every republican should have tattooed on his hand, this is growth. Saysook of ecclesiastes there is nothing new under the sun. I would say the challenges we face right now are very similar to the late 1970s. This president is fond of saying he has the worst economy in the history of that she inherited the worst economy since the history of the universe. He does not seem to have a great memory. Do you remember double digit unemployment, 22 interest across thelines bloc. Do you remember our hostages in iran as the president wrung his hands . The answer we saw in 1980 was a grassroots revolution, the reagan revolution, millions of americans, Many Americans in this room who got involved and said, we will get back to the principles that made this nation great. President Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981, elected the same year that Chuck Grassley was elected to the u. S. Senate. He implemented policies the exact opposite of those that president obama has made. Instead of raising taxes to cut taxes and simplify the tax code. Spendingf exploding here restrained the growth of federal spending. Instead of unleashing toulators, like locusts, destroy a Small Businesses, Ronald Reagan restrained federal regulation. The result was among the most incredible Economic Growth that the nation has ever seen. By the fourth year of reagans presidency, does anyone recall the rate of growth the echo 7. 2 . What does this mean to echo what does this mean in practical terms. Inheriting the same lousy economy implemented the same policy. Hadif those policies produced the same economic 7 million would have new jobs. The equivalent of every Single Person i was unemployed in 46 of the 50 states and having a new job for every one of them. Every other challenge we have, unemployment and the National Debt and maintaining the Strongest Military and the world, if we have growth we can do all of this. If we dont have growth we cant achieve anything. This is an interesting statistic. Do you know that 1 percent of Economic Growth produces a decade of 2. 8 trillion dollars in tax revenue, and 3. 1 trillion in debt and deficit reduction in echo this is one percent. This is the technical term. This is what the Republican Party needs to be about. We need to be about Economic Growth all the time, every day. This is how we turned the country around. [applause] echow do we get this done only the people can turn us around. Facing a new were paradigm in politics. This is a paradigm that is the rise of the grassroots. Official washington absolutely terrified. [applause] but this new paradigm has been beta tested. Unlike the obama care web site this was been tested in 1980 with the reagan revolution, and we pulled this country back from the brink. And if you look at this past year, we have seen, over and over again the power of grassroots. In standing side it is atith rand paul a filibuster against drones. When that started, most of his colleagues did not understand and they thought that this was curious and did not make any sense. People allted to see over the country going on line, speaking out and saying, defend our liberty and our constitutional rights. As a result of your leadership, and the grass roots rising up, the next day, president obama was forced to do what he had refused to do for three consecutive weeks. To admit in writing that the constitution limits his authority to target u. S. Citizens. We saw the new paradigm the second time, on the battle over gun. Following the tragic shooting in new town conn. President obama did not come out as he should have, targeting violent criminals. I think violent criminals, we should come down on them like a ton of bricks. [applause] of that he chose to target the Second Amendment rights of lawabiding citizens. I have to tell you that conventional wisdom was that this was unstoppable. Early on in the first few weeks, we said if this had happened early, this would not have been pretty. Once again the same thing happened. Millions of americans began to speak up at town halls when the senators came home, going on facebook and twitter, speaking out. The lead alternative to the Second Amendment infringing bills, the Law Enforcement alternative, was a bill that was entitled to the grassroots that i was very proud to write, side by side. I was sorry proud to write this with Chuck Grassley. [applause] it received 52 votes, the most bipartisan votes of any comprehensive bill concerning guns. Nine democrats voted for this. But the filibuster prevented this from passing into law. Even though washington was convinced that nothing could stop the antigun agenda of the president , when it came time for a vote, every single proposal of the president that would have undermined the Second Amendment was voted down on the senate floor. [applause] this was the power of the grassroots. Sawthird time that we immigration where the president and Senate Democrats made a push to grant amnesty to those and they push, this through the senate. But the American People rose up an overwhelming numbers and said, we dont support granting amnesty without securing the borders and solving the problem. As a result, that bill into the house of representatives. Of it has stopped because the speaking at your alleged representatives. The fourth example is syria. The president announced to the world that he intended to launch unilateral military attacks against syria. And leaders from both houses of congress came out supporting this. In washington, this was a done deal and there was no stopping it. But then, what happened is the same thing. The American People spoke up louder and louder, and the calls were coming 100 numeral 1. 1. 100 them thereant to put aware of the sad National Security interest is not real. [applause] and as a result of your what was a failed complete, was stopped dead in its tracks. And then the fifth and final example, is the battle that we just went through over obama care. If you read the New York Times that is your first problem. They will tell you that this battle accomplished nothing. I think collectively we accomplished a great deal. [applause] one of the things that we accomplished is that we elevated the national debate, over what a disaster and what a train wreck, how much this is hurting millions of americans across this country. This is called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act. Protection provide and is not affordable, and it denies care to millions. The one word in the title that is true, is patience, because you have to be very patient. Collectively, millions of americans made the case that this is not working, this is the no. 1 job killer in the country. This is causing millions of americans to lose their jobs. Young people are not finding jobs right now. Single moms across this country are being forced to work part time, trying to feed their kids on 29 hours a week. Hardworking families who are struggling to provide for their children. Skyrocketingng Health Insurance premiums because of this. People all over this country many people find their Health Insurance is being canceled because of obama care. As a measure of how far we have elevated those arguments, how many of the use of the season premiere of saturday night live fiasc . The opening was the three on the disaster of obama care. Theleen sebelius went on jon stewart, the show. He ripped apart. Johns. Astor, the president has given an exemption to big business for a year, why not give this to hardworking americans. Is a liberal comedian on television making that argument. And by the way, making it to a lot of viewers who would pretty much never listen to republican politicians. This is a sign of what we accomplished in elevating the debate. We energized the grassroots. In the course of just a few 2 Million People signed not to fund it. The makedclisten has gone out over 1 million times in the last 30 days. Aboutr everyone who talks wanting to win elections in they say that nothing matters more than an energized an active and vocal grassroots america. We may democrats take a lot of stupid votes. Let me highlight one in particular. The polling on that, over 90 percent of americans disapprove of that, and 70 percent of democrats say they would vote against the senator who voted to keep a special exemption for themselves. When the house of representatives funded the government and repealed that marchedn, harry reid all 54 democrats off that cliff. The same rules as the exchanges of those who are obstructing this are facing, it would not surprise anyone in that room is that language is known as grassley. In october and november of 2014, were going to see Television Commercials all over this country. There will be members of the senate to experience the joy of the private health care system. The fourth benefit is that we demonstrated the power, of what the people and what the grass roots do. Every once scoffed at the idea that the grassroots would rise up. 1. 2 Million People signed and then the vote to defund obama care. Profile in courage that stood strong and listened to the American People and lead the caucus. [applause] accomplish our ultimate policy goal. A number of Senate Republicans chose not to stand sidebyside with house republicans. Had we stood together i am sure the outcome of this fight would be very different. But none of us thought that taking on the washington establishment was going to be easy. All of us thought that this was going to be a simple task. We all understood it was going to be an ongoing effort and right now, i am more encouraged than ever if you look at the five instances i talked about, the power of the grass roots, four of the five have been complete victory. This is batting. 800. Double ty cobb. We fifth one that we saw, saw the house of representatives listen. Time the u. S. Senate would listen as well. Tell the stories of the people who are hurting. I would encourage each of you upload your story. Upload your stories in hal obama care is impacting you. How was this impacting you and your job. One of the things that we can do in the senate, is help to tell a story. Make it real, how people are hurting. I am working to continue to energize and mobilize the grassroots to help all of us. The only way we win this is to win it together. How many of you have yourself on. I would ike you to text growth to 33733. The word growth. Try to build ao Grassroots Army across this country, because the way that we will stop obama care, and get back to Economic Growth, is not going to come from washington. It is not going to come from elected officials. I want to mobilize and get this information to our friends and neighbors. This is how it worked in 1980 and this is how it will work now. This leads to my fourth and final point. This fight is worth it. This fight is worth it, because this is the path to victory in the media loves to fly stackup a false dichotomy. The love talking about a republican civil war. How the Republican Party should defend itself, this is like taking medical advice from dr. Kevorkian. But not want the same outcome that you are desirable. Unify and let me tell you, growth and freedom are thatiples and ideals unified the entire republican caucus. They are principles and ideals, that unified the evangelical community. With the liberty movement. With the Business Community. Growth and freedom are principles that bring together main street, and the tea party. If you look at the last for fresh elections, three of the forward disastrous for the public. We got clobber