Chart form. It is more in footnotes. Thank you. We can do more with that, i agree. Thank you very much to our andlists from near and far my colleagues from the institute and you all of you who have come here today. It was a very interesting commentary on where we are and what might be in our future. Thank you very much. [applause] cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, Deputy Managing Editor for the Weekly Standard on the latest developments in campaign 2016, including the rift between donald trump and Many Republican leaders, nationwide. She will also talk about womens attitudes towards mr. Trump. Jesse moore from up from rock the vote will discuss their efforts to reach millennial voters and ways to get them to the polls on election day. Will discuss challenges facing the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau following this weeks decision by a federal Appeals Court that the bureaus structure is unconstitutional. She will also talk about what the group was designed to do and where the agency goes from here. Be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Congressmann Michael Fitzpatrick is retiring from congress and his brother is running for his seat in pennsylvanias eighth congressional district. Ryan fitzpatrick meets representative any debate, thursday. We will cover it live, on cspan. Later, North Carolina facing democrat deborah ross. Live coverage starts at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and the cspan radio app. Republican senator mike lee any debate with democratic challenger misty snow. This is courtesy of the Utah Debate Commission. From the campus of Brigham Young university, the Utah Debate Commission welcomes you to the utah Senate Candidate debate. [applause] moderator i am pleased to have been invited by the Utah Debate Commission to moderate this debate. We are live in the kb why you studio on the campus of Brigham Young university for a debate between candidates for the United States senate. We will hear from incumbent republican mike lee and his democratic challenger, misty snow. We begin with each candidate making a 92nd opening statement. Prior to the start of the debate, it was determined that misty snow will speak first. Like to thank the Utah Debate Commission for hosting this debate and thank all of you for hosting this debate. I was born right here in the state of utah and lived my entire leaf entire life here. I have a deep connection to the state and its people, and it and then appreciation for the culture. If elected to the u. S. Senate, i will be the first millennial and the u. S. Senate, making me a voice for my generation. I amk in a Grocery Store, a working class person who understands the needs of working class people and their families. I understand what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck. I understand what average people are going through on a day to day basis. Many people feel that congress is out of touch. I believe if we want a government that represents workingclass people, when he to elect more workingclass people to government. Senator, i will fight to make sure our workers have a living wage, that our children have clean air to breathe and water to drink. I will make sure our mothers have paid Maternity Leave and our women are paid equally. I will fight to get money out of politics. I am not a career politician, not a washington insider. I am someone who will be a new voice in congress, a fresh voice that is needed and is underrepresented, one that will represent workingclass people. Moderator thank you. Sen. Lee i want to thank the Debate Commission for putting this together and i want to when i ranyou 2010, isenate in promise to be a different kind of senator. I made two promises. I promised i would fight every day to protect and defend the constitution of the United States against an increasingly dysfunctional status quo in washington. I also promised not only to oppose that ideas, that but to propose good ideas, better ideas. Over the last six years, i have fought every single day against washingtons dysfunctional status quo in all three branches of government. Over the years, i have helped to overturnsks, two president obamas to overturn president obamas unconstitutional recess appointments. I have also worked with democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives, to develop a new reform agenda to help workingclass families. Big ideas including creating new jobs, growing wages and expanding opportunity for all americans, especially those families in those communities that washingtons status quo has left behind. I look forward to our discussion. Moderator the Utah Debate Commission has established a format that allows each candidate 90 seconds for initial response to a question. Students ande from individuals who submitted their questions to the Utah Debate Commission website. I will begin with this question that goes to miss snow. The least evolved group in politics is College Age Students and probably the most important issue to most of them is being able to afford their education. What will you do to make college more affordable . Ms. Snow as someone who is a millennial, this is an issue i care a lot about because this is an issue that has a big effect on my generation. , andpeople go to college they find that college is almost unaffordable. A lot of people have been skipping it because they determine the costs are not worth it. To know if they go to college, they might get her degree, that they will leave with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. I find that unacceptable. We need to make college affordable, we need to make it accessible. Our nation benefits from a more educated populace. We should try to make the Student Loans have a lower interest rate. Wise the current why is the Current Governor government trying to make money off the backs of students . Why cant we give our students the same bill . We have a lot of grants available for students who want to go to college. Shows that we could make State University tuition free for about 75 billion year 75 billion a year. It would be a plan that makes college more accessible to people who want to choose a career they want instead of being forced into one. Moderator senator leach. Senator lee. Sen. Lee i agree that we are better off as a country when we have welleducated send that citizens educated citizens. I completely agree the federal government should not be in the business of making money off of the spread of the rate at which the government charges students. The fact is, we created a dynamic that has resulted in tuition hikes. The federal government and the u. S. Department of education, big accrediting bodies in the institutions of Higher Learning which collectively restricts entry into the industry. When you restrict entry and simultaneously subsidize people gaining access to the services provided, you hike prices. We need to increase competition in this field where it is solely lacking so lacking. Introduced an act that would create competition in Higher Education, allowing states to a credit on their own so that alternative providers of can dissipate. N one thing we know about increasing competition. , pricesgs always happen tend to go down and holiday tends to go up. Moderator a quick followup question. You agree on much of this, but in light of what senator lee just said, how do you view forprofit education which has experienced controversy . What would you do about the forprofit sector of Higher Education . Ms. Snow the forprofit colleges are less affordable because they are trying to make a profit and when we talk about accreditation, we dont want these forprofit colleges being considered equal to respected institutions like Brigham Young institute Brigham Young university. Sen. Lee the fact that some forprofit schools Arturo Vizcarrondo does not mean they are all bad. So too with nonprofit schools. Just because many are good does not mean they are all good. Should knows, you them and that is as true in Higher Education and as it is, anywhere else. We should encourage competition and that will bring quality up. Moderator the next question is from a student here. I would like to know what specific actions and legislation you would take to address the issue of Climate Change if elected to office. Moderator senator lee, first. There can be no dispute that the climate is changing. It is what they do. They always have and they always will. Some of the greatest debates around whether and in what extent what way and to what extent human beings are responsible for the changing climate, and even more critically, what we can do to change that. What i struggle with the most with this question is that every proposal i have heard of that would try to put the government in the middle of this and have the government fix it would do little or nothing to affect Climate Change, but would simultaneously threatened to devastate the economy. Has president obama himself admitted a few years ago, if we adopt a cap and trade or any of the pros of that proposals i am aware of, it would cause Energy Prices to skyrocket. That is effectively a backdoor invisible tax increase on the poor. It is the most regressive type of expense height you can imagine. This disproportionately affects poor and middleclass americans who would be stuck paying higher prices on everything they buy and would be doing it with diminished wages and unemployment. The best way to get to a cleaner environment is through innovation. It is most likely to happen when we allow our free market economy to prosper, and people will build a better mousetrap and a better car and a better power plant. Moderator miss snow . Ms. Snow the issue of Climate Change is a very important one even if youwhat dont believe it is real, i hear that in the state of you you, we have a problem with air quality. No state is more to satisfy with the quality of its air then utah. Would like to propose that our country starts making investments into clean air cleaner energy, such as solar, wind and greener transportation. The cost of not doing this is negative impacts on the health of our citizens, especially our elderly, our children, and pregnant mothers and the right economic costs to not addressing this problem, including spending a lot of money on health care costs. The cost of not doing something is too high. I dont think it would cost too much to start making these investments. We raise the price of gasoline taxes by five cents a gallon. Most people in the audience only did not know that. It was well observed by the economy, and we could do Something Like that, nationwide. That money could be used to start making investments into solar, wind and greener transportation infrastructure. That we startt making these investments because the price of not doing it is too high. Moderator you have engaged each other on this question, so i will invite a rebuttal. The question is what is the role of government and legislation or regulation . To each of you, what is the role of government in fostering innovation . Other specific roles for government that you think ought to be in balance . Sen. Lee there is certainly a Important Role for the government to play. The government needs to set limits for emissions. One of the things we struggle with in utah is ozone. One of the problems we have is that we have these onesizefitsall rules that apply to broad swaths of the country when we have unique jogger be here that might make our situation difficult. That is one of the reasons why i support legislation that would create in increased flexibility on the parts of the states so they can address the unique aspects of the state. Moderator miss snow. Ms. Snow the federal government can play a constructive role, we can start making investments into solar and wind and we jobs, that is a lot of jobs to be created in these industries. Solar Energies Solar energy is one of the fastestgrowing industries in this country. Investment will create new jobs and spur economic growth. Moderator next question is from another student. Americans have become less and less confident in congresss ability to make laws due to widespread gridlock in both houses. Will you compromise with your opposition to pass laws . Moderator miss snow. Ms. Snow there are a lot of issues that resonate with the majority of people. A number of loss of past with wide bipartisan support. Just because there are certain issues that you cannot find agreement on, there is certainly a lot of issues where you can find agreement. There are a lot of Critical Issues that are very popular, such as the need for payment if you leave paid Maternity Leave. The United States is one of those code new countries in the world that have confirmed to not offer mothers paid Maternity Leave. 86 of people in this country support guaranteed paid Maternity Leave, including 73 of republicans. It is a popular issue because everybody has a mother, Everybody Knows somebody who has given birth and we can finally ensure that mothers in this country have access to paid Maternity Leave like every other country and it just takes people and congress to actually draft legislation and we could pass a bill like that with wide bipartisan agreement because it is an issue that resonates with a lot of people, especially coming from a state like utah which does have the nations highest birthrate. I think we can have 90 Senate Agreement with certain issues. Moderator senator lee . Sen. Lee miss snow correctly notes a lot of areas in which the parties are deadlocked. Be re even as i will they are in conflict. The people they represent have different opinions. People across this country have different visions. She is also correct in pointing out there are areas where that is not the case. This is one of my favorite parts about being a senator. We are constantly looking for places where we can find bipartisan agreement. I was troubled by the fact that the federal government and the nsa was collecting data on your phone calls, everyones phone calls. Called, when you you talk and how long you spoke and they kept it for in a database for five years. Ais bothered me and i found ally and a liberal democrat from vermont. He and i put together a bipartisan compromise, a solution called the freedom act. Initially my party were very reluctant to go along with this. Democrats were overwhelmingly supportive and we got a pass with almost all the democrats and about half the republicans in the senate and president obama signed it into law. This is a good example of where this kind of compromise is possible. Moderator i think you both heard i think i heard you both say you would be willing to compromise. Leaders havelican advocated a total shutdown of islamic immigration or immigration from dangerous areas. What are your views on this policy moderator . Moderator this question goes to senator lee, first. Sen. Lee as a religious minority, myself, a descendent of people who were ordered exterminated by the governor of missouri, i am strongly against any type of religious test. We should shun any approach that says if you belong to religion ask or believe in religious , you cannot come here or you lose access to this or that. We should push back against that anytime it happens. I also think anytime we are talking about who we will allow into this country, whether it is for humanitarian reasons or economic reasons or work reasons, we have to be tried careful that we know who it is we are living in, we have a good idea whether they had the citizens,to be u. S. To abide by our values and respect their fellow americans. Someone in,e take particularly when taking in refugees from a wartorn country, we have to make sure that we have procedures in place to make sure we know who we are taking in. This is especially difficult with syria. In the case of syria, they have no established recordkeeping system. We will have to undertake an extra cautious effort to make sure that we have something to back that up, so we know who is coming in. What i agree with much of what mike lee said. We should not be favoring immigrants or refugees of one religion over another. It is antithetical to the ideas of our nation. We shall not establish or favor one religion over another. I think that should apply to our immigration policies as well. This is something that requires a lot of compassion. People are coming from syria or iraq or anywhere else. These people are trying to escape a bad situation. In many cases, certain death from a lot of the war that is happening, a lot of different forces like isis and other groups unaffiliated with them that are at war with each other. There are a lot of innocent people caught in the middle of that and as a nation, we should show these people compassion. It is ok to accept refugees from syria and elsewhere. The United States has one of the most stringent vetting processes when it comes to bringing people into our nation, and their religion should not matter. Our constitution protects the rights of all people to practice their rel