Like equal pay, equal work, paid leave expanded child care it also good for our economy. [applause] sing is with me, people. When women succeed, america succeeds. [cheers and applause] but the most fundamental power, the most fundamental power our party and our country has is the power of our moral principles. Triangulatain is not a profile that will move our country forward. This day and each day we must be unashamed and unabashed defenders of that American Dream we share and the better choices necessary to pass it on to our kids. The dignity of every person tells us that the right to marry is not a state right. It is a human right. [applause] and when refugee children arrive on our doorstep fleeing starvation and death gangs, we do not turn them away. We act like the generous, compassionate people we have always been. [applause] the enduring symbol of our nation is not the barbedwire fence. It is the statue of liberty. This is what we believe, and this is who we are. [applause] we are americans and in god we trust. [applause] yes. You and i are proud to be members of the democratic party. And let the tea party measure their success by how many times they can shut down our government. We measure success in jobs, and opportunity for all. And let them speak for the sad yesterdays that were. We speak for the better tomorrows that can be. [applause] make no mistake about it. The American Dream is what makes america exceptional. Fear and anger never built a great nation. Our country is built by the compassionate choices that we that we make together to live lives guided by our better aingeles. We love our country. We love what our country is. And whats more, we love what our country can become. So take pride. Take pride. [applause] take pride in your work as diems democrats. Take pride in what you believe. The next time when somebody asks you after an election who you voted for, dont be shy. Tell them. I mean it. If a child asks you who you voted for, i want you to tell that child i voted for you. When you see someone sweating through another long shift and they ask you who you voted for i want you to tell them i voted for you. When you see someone with Health Insurance fantasy football now for their family who did not have it before, and they ask you who you voted for, i want you to tell them i voted for you. And when you see someone who wants nothing more than to have their family treated with dignity and respect under the law, i want you to tell them i voted for you. And when you see someone who hungers for opportunity and a good job i want you to tell them i voted for you. We are democrats for good reason. Because ours is the party of opportunity. Ours is the party of optimism. Ours is the party of the people. Ours is the party of the better future. And ours is the party of the American Dream. And together we will make that dream true again. Thank you, scott county. [cheers and applause] thanks a lot. It was fun. Thank you. That was fun. Nice people. Nice having you here. Thank you guys. You hit it out of the ballpark. Thank you. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan2s book tv, tonight at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, on after words, Pulitzer Prize win are historian, eric foner, and the formation of the underground railroad. Sunday night at 10 00, the rise of isis in the middle east starting at 9 00 eastern on cspan tv, auments at Abraham Lincoln symposium. And then a visit for the National Museum of health and medicine, it to view artifacts related to president lincolns assassination. Let us know what about you think about the programs you are watching. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. The house and Senate Return next week with the 2016 republican budget plans. One of the Top Priorities is increased defense spending, for more on that. We talked to a capital hill reporter. How much would they add to defense . They would both add about 40 billion to defense next year. The Senate Proposes to off set that increase by reducing defense spending later in the decade starting about 2022. The house has a different plan. The house would offset some of that increase, but it is possible that that plan will be changed and that they will remove the requirement to offset that. But this increase in the defense spending is all through this o. C. O. , this overseas contingent operations. Explain that a bit to us. Both budgets would stick with the sequester caps, the caps that are in law. That allows 523 billion of defense sticking next year. So they are sticking with these caps, but to provide more money for defense, they are using basically war fundsing, funding for the war against terrorism. They are increasing that. That funding is outside the caps. That is how they get around the caps. Cspan and the cspan networks covered the markups in the senate and house Budget Committees this week. Late in the session in the house markup, the majority leader came in to help them work out some difficulty over the defense spending. What was the issue, and how did they resolve it . Well, i am not sure they resolved it yet. The plan from house leaders was to add a couple of billion dollars more to defense spending and also to remove the requirement that the defense spending be offset. Some of the defense hawks in the house are concerned that if that money has to be offset it, it may be impossible to offset it, and then they wouldnt get it. It looks like they are looking at putting something in the rule to remove the offset requirement. You tweeted about the Supreme Court ruling, the ruling that may be ahead that the g. O. P. Wants. It could complicate the budget. How would it dough that . This is one of the interesting things about this. The Supreme Court is expected to rule in about june on this challenge to the Health Subsidies in the Affordable Care act. If the Supreme Court rules those Health Subsidies are illegal, then republicans are going to want to have a plan to temporarily replace those subsidies. One way they could pass that plan without democratic support is through the budget reconciliation process. So they wrote reconciliation instructions into these budgets which are very general and will give them the flexibility to write a replacement plan responding to the Supreme Court decision after the Supreme Court decision. More broadly, how do the senate and house plans answer the president s request for increased domestic spending . They dont. They dont. Both plans keep nondefense spending, domestic spending, at the statutory cap levels. The president proposed increasing both defense and nondefense and paying for it with a combination of spending cuts and tax increases or closing of tax breaks. The republican plans do not increase domestic spending. It seems there was a good deal of chafing over the spending caps. The appropriations chair who will rogers said he would absolutely like to see those caps lifted legislatively. Is that likely to happen . There is a good chance that could happen. I think what a lot of republicans foresee is that after these budget resolutions are passed, republicans, democrats and the president later in the year could reach greenbeckham on another budget deal similar to the one put together by paul ryan and patty murray which would actually raise the caps for defense and nondefense. And you would have to pass a law to do that. In a best case scenario, the house and senate finish their work on their budget resolutions by the end of the coming week. What is the deadline to get a final version out of congress . Well, the deadline is april 15 for the house and the senate to agree on a common budget resolution, and they are shooting to meet that deadline, but they dope have to because there is no penalty for not meeting the deadline. They could pass it after the deadline as well. Paul krawzak covers the budget for kg. Com. Thanks for the update. Thank you. The Republican National lawyers storks hosted its only policy conference yesterday in washington, d. C. Members of congress were a part of the event, including scunebrukes. We will bring you her remarks nems policied by rob portman and bob corker. The Republican NationalLawyers Association held a policy conference in washington, d. C. They included indiana representative susan brooks. She is a former prosecutor. She talked about the committees work as well as some of the recent actions taking by the president regarding immigration and foreign affairs. This is 40 minutes. Let me start by welcoming our friends from cspan and noting that unlike stephan, my name is tom s edward wheeler. When the new fcc commissioner was appointed i receive a lot of congratulations. When you google my name you will get him. We have a panel with the republican commissioners. I may join them. When we talk about this program, it was important to us to discuss what we saw as a fundamental change in the relationship between the three branches of government. We are seeing that. There is a tension going on because of what this president is doing between the executive branch and the judicial branch. He is willing to bypass those branches and do it alone. As you see in the netanyahu speech. There is a tension going on. We want to address that with this program. And have the people in the midst of this speak today. Particularly, i like to do that starting with our first speaker. Our first speaker is no stranger to me. Congresswoman susan brooks. She is my congresswoman. It is an honor to introduce her. Im going to talk about introducing her by talking about someone else. For those of you who know me, my son is in the military. He is an officer in the navy. [applause] i wasnt doing that for class. Our mutual friend, my governor, mike pence, his son is being sworn in as a lieutenant in the notice states marine corps. We get it as parents of kids in the military that are risks that go along with that. The one thing when we think if god for bid something happens to our kids, what i want to know is it wasnt in vain. There was a reason for what happened. And, for me that is why it is so important that susan is also a member of the House Select Committee on benghazi. That committee, the press is playing it as a political witch hunt. That is not what it is about. It is about getting to the truth, getting answer for those parents, parents like me, what happened to their kids . Did they die in vain . That is all we are asking. We get that those things may happen. We just want to know that it wasnt in vain. For me, that is why having susan there is so great. She is the United States attorney Southern District of indiana. She knows how to get to the truth. She is not getting to the truth as part of a political witch hunt. She gets to the truth doing that for the parents. She is doing that as a trained attorney. Not somebody seeking the spotlight. A lot of you probably dont know susan yet. She served on that committee. I am confident her years as a u. S. Attorney will allow her to do what it takes to get to the truth and find out whether those people died in vain. I know for a fact that susan based on her experience as a u. S. Attorney, she is going to do everything that it takes to get to the truth even if that goes to Hillary Clintons private server. My congresswoman, my friend, susan brooks. [applause] rep. Brooks they are all leaving me. Thank you. Good morning everyone. Great to be here. I was just going to turn to my right and left, and think the Feller Hoosier the fellow hoosier, tom wheeler. And i wanted to thank randy your chair, and kim read, for hosting me this morning. I do have a quick announcement. Just because of what has happened. The executive committee has asked me to make an announcement. I know how important those are. They just wanted to me to make sure you know attendance may be taken this afternoon if you are not present because you are watching march madness. Dont worry, im kidding. If youre going to be watching the hoosiers like i might be watching them at the airport, we hope to see it at indianapolis at the final four for anyone joining us there. I do want to congratulate all of you for being a part of the 30th year, 30th anniversary as an organization, and to thank all of you for your efforts to ensure that we have fair, open and honest election process in our states. My own husband, david brooks does election laws well. Usually not at the federal level. He is involved in recounts and challenges. I know about the kind of work that you do. Certainly when i was in the Justice Department i learned of the work that you all do. It is often work that is done behind the scenes. It is often work only the candidates and their families and their teams know what you do. I just want to thank you for that work that you do to prepare our candidates, to make sure they are in the balance, and make sure we have an open and Fair Election process. It is critical to our constitutional system. I am grateful for what you do. I am not sure, are there any former u. S. Attorneys in the room . Can i see a show of hands . Outstanding. It is wonderful to have you here again. Attorney general ashcroft is going to be speaking with you today. We were with the attorney general and indiana. He was keynote speaker at an event i participated in. He is a treat. He is such a powerful speaker. You are in for truly a wonderful time listening. He is such a powerful messenger. I was proud to be on his Advisory Committee when i was a u. S. Attorney. Before i get to an overview about our work on the select committee on benghazi, i wanted to address the theme of your conference. I understand i am the only house member to be addressing you today. That is because we ended the session yesterday. As most of you may or may not know we are on the first planes out of town. To get back to be with our constituents, to be with families, to be in the district, i happen to have had an event last night. It was good fortune. When tom asked me to be here i thought this was a very Important Group to come and meet , and to talk with you about your topics, the theme of the day. I want to outline a little bit for you, touch on a few highlights of what the presidency looks like from a second term member. I am still a fairly new member of congress. However, if you are at home, you would say i am actually now part of washington establishment, so they say. Not too terribly long ago i was balancing the job, i was general counsel for our States Community college system. I was getting ready to send my son to college. Some of you may be able to do that this spring or in the fall. I had never run for office before. I had not worked on the hill. I had paid attention, and come here as the United States attorney for many meetings. I have never been a legislator. Id never served in the legislative body. But like you, i have been an attorney 30 years this year. Our first duty as a lawyer is to defend the rule of law. Im going to talk to you about the imperial presidency as a lawyer. Hopefully with facts, not too much rhetoric. And what to give you the facts and what we are dealing with. I do feel passionately about this issue. It is not what i thought it was going to be like when i got here. Like many members of congress. Both republican and democrat, we ran for office because we wanted to make a difference. We wanted to be a voice for our constituents. I have another reason to run. That is because of the time i was running, i am the mom of an 18 year old the time i was running, talking with them and a lot of their young friends young adults, high school and college kids, they truly have lost faith in our system. They had lost faith in government. I wanted to restore some faith in our government. Particularly, the faith that our young people are willing to restore for them. They certainly are our future and we always talk about them being our future. I thought something needed to be done. They shared with me and many of them did that they were tired of the gridlock in washington. They thought it was incredibly dysfunctional. They thought that we needed more bipartisanship. I talked with a lot of young people and i explained that i would give that my best shot, that i do give it my best shot. It was depressing, quite honestly, to talk with young people. If you talk with young people about what their views are of government you will find very much of the same type of opinions i found. A have given up. When i ran in 2012, it is the costimulus that had artie past. Post obamacare. When i was running in 2012, all of us, particularly those in this room, had hopes mitt romney was going to be our president. But i was going to be coming into a republican led house with a new leader in place. I knew even then that it was going to be tough. I even knew then that in order to get anything done we would have to reach across the aisle. I tell kids, there is an il in the house chamber. You do have to walk across the aisle to talk with people on the other side. People are surprised to see that. Of course, when i got to washington, the president was elected again. I was given an opportunity to work across the aisle early on. He in the Vice President push that they wanted to renew the violence against women act. That was one of my first votes that we worked on when we came into congress in 2013. For a lot of reasons there were jurisdictional reasons, some republicans were opposed to the rain and large because there was language that caused issues on jurisdiction. I wasnt one of those that necessarily agreed the most important part. I am a former deputy mayor, i had been on too many right alongs with Police Officers who were called on Domestic Violence calls. I know how serious a problem that is in the country. I felt strongly if we didnt pass the violence against women ac