The prevalence of online ads that are targeted. So i think that youre seeing that there are many more channels the people are going to have to manage. That is why we went down or pathway with the innovation platform, which is a hub and spoke model, or you can have a hub where we know truck across where you can have a hub where we know across all of these channels, and begin plugin i spoke when there is a new travel. New channel. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Thank you as well. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago, and brought you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Campaign 2014 will be the topic on tomorrows newsmakers. Johns is dawn lee agunesy jones dawn le has tried to neutralize this issue. Was the first Senate Candidate to come out for overthecounter Birth Control. Ther nominees followed suit democrats have not had a good response to that. How should democrats be entering republicans on that . Republican orto democratic, independent women giving garner a second look because of this . The best question is, are these issues working . Airink that the amount of trying to backpedal from the record and find something to say to women on these issues should shows how important and critical and affective they are for this race. Control,counter birth first of all, speaking in the planned parenthood voice. And a legitimate effort to expand Birth Control and access for women, and supports. Supports. Parenthood this feels to me like the red sox rooting for the yankees, it is not believable. What we find with overthecounter Birth Control is that when you combine it with the fda saying it is not repeal ofet and the what covers all womens access to Birth Control and you cannot go to a cbs and get a iud. That could cost women in colorado and across the country, not just hundreds of dollars that thousands of dollars to lose that benefit. Theother issue is that goals that garner supports are aimedvery much and at outlawing a certain forms of Birth Control and the absolutely bad abortion in all cases. Absolutely than abortion in all cases ban abortion in all cases. Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann recently spoke at the Heritage Foundation about the tea party influence on the political process. She is the founder of the house to party caucus. She is set to retire in january after serving four terms. This is one hour. Us. Hank you for joining i hope we will get out before the rain starts and you will not have trouble leaving. We are delighted you are here for the special session today. In Boston Harbor in 1773, about patriots got angry about a bunch of bakers got angry distantxes imposed by politicians. Bunch ofard, a patriots got angry about taxes imposed by this distant politicians and through the politicians overboard. The Tea Party Principles were simple. Tax less, spend less, and get the government out of our homes and businesses. Inir roots, however, late layellectual history in the intellectual history of americas founding. Beyond that snake is a deeper message then dont tread on me. It is a bold philosophical statement. Liberty is of more fundamental importance to Human History then paternalism, and a government former forices the the latter travels on the rights of its citizens. Few have exemplified that ideal more than our speaker today. Represented her district for six years, and she is the Founding Member of the House Tea Party caucus. Which has remained and she has remained a strong force for keeping conservatives true to principles in congress. I believe she ran for president one time a couple of years ago. Although she will soon leave washington, and we will dearly miss her, i assure you of that, and she will return to the real world. At she will always remain shining light of the Tea Party Movement and a testament to what good people can achieve when they get fighting mad. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome representative Michele Bachmann. Thank you so much for that warm introduction. That is the question that everybody is asking the right now. Michelle, will you do when you lose congress . I told him that, number one, i will take an extended vacation. Found a perfect secluded place, it is msnbc primetime. Actually, that is a lie to want to thank you for that introduction. It is an honor for me to be here. I cannot think of anywhere i would rather be to give one of my final speeches while i am an official member of the United States congress then truly the Gold Standard for conservative thought, and that is the Heritage Foundation. It is a thrill to be able to be here. This is a stellar organization. I am thrilled to be here with aei and cato and the Family Research center as well as your forum, concerned women for america. This city is filled with terrific organizations that have stood long and hard and valiantly have fought for american principles and american exceptionalism. And for 40 years heritage has been at the top of the heap. And in many ways, i believe that, as you said, the American Values and principles that heritage has espoused for these years, has provided the framework for the tea party. It is limited government, it is strong families, it is Free Enterprise. There is nothing new here. But just because it is not new does not mean it is not profound. These are not new ideas. They are the same values that have been espoused since the time of the american revolution. But what is that it was time for us we were in desperate need of a reawakening. And that is what the tea party was all about republishing the American Values of american greatness. All the media wanted to talk about was whether the tea party was up or down, whether it was dead or alive. But that missed the point entirely, because the tea party never was, never has been, never will be a political party. Because, you see, it is a movement. It is a movement about returning us and our nation to our founding principles. Front and center, by contending for them in public discourse. Said, theas you patriots through the tea into Boston Harbor, they were not just protesting an unfair tax. I am a former federal tax lawyer. I hate high taxes. That is not with the Boston Tea Party was about. It was also about cementing the soul of our nation and the soul is this. Opposition to an overreaching government and a fierce passion for selfdetermination. And it is the idea of a the declaration of independence that infuses really the meaning and being of what it is to be an american. It is this. It is the idea that there is a creator, and we acknowledge that in the declaration. That a creator created all of us and created us equal. That in itself is profound. As the declaration of independence says, it is not a government, it is not a politician that gives any of us our rights. We were given those rights by virtue of birth, by the fact that a creator created us and gave us these rights. They are inalienable, which means no politician, no government takes them away because only a creator can give them to us. It is a phenomenal philosophy upon which the nation was founded. Those three inalienable rights that the founders enumerated were these the inalienable right to life. Only a creator can give it, and only a creator can take it away. The second was liberty, freedom, the franchise that was intended for every human on the face of this earth. Every human does not enjoy it, but that is what makes this government exceptional. Because we recognize that freedom is yours, not something government can give. And certainly something government should never take away. The third is the pursuit of happiness. That is not just wanton hedonism. What it means, quite profoundly, is you have the right to earn and keep the fruits of your own labor. What a concept . Life, liberty, and the right to earn and keep what you earn. They are not just nicesounding words. When i say to you is this. Our founders gave us the ultimate social compact, that governments were instituted for among men for one reason. Just to secure the inalienable rights that were given to us by a creator. So government cannot interfere with them, and certainly government cannot take those fundamental rights away from us. And that is what makes us an exceptional nation. Said, the modern tea party stands for three very basic things. Number one, we are taxed enough already. Number two, government should not spend more money than what it takes in. And number three, government should live under the constitution. Pretty extreme, right . Pretty radical, right . Last night our Vice President , of the United States joe biden, said that the tea party is crazy and lacks judgment. Well, that is rich, because if these are the principles we stand for, i think whether you are democrat or republican, they are ones that you would agree with, that this is what brings for american greatness. If this is extreme, that is all we need to know about the challenges in the arena of ideas. On each of these three, unfortunately our current president has a failing grade. Every step of the way he has pushed for government with a more intrusive role in our lives. He telegraphed his intentions during his first inaugural address when he said, it is time to begin again the work of remaking america. He went on to say that we should no longer be asking question of whether government is too small or too big. Instead, he offers we should simply pursue government to get the job done. Well, mr. President , the job is not getting done for the American People, and i think we know that all too well. Of course, some of us realize that the question of whether the government has the right to do something is far more important than the question of if government has the ability to do something. There is nothing in the constitution that says that government is a charity. There is nothing that says that government is meant to be our family. It is not meant to be the church. The constitution is clear. And it certainly, government should never be our doctors office. Though the president wants it to be all of the above, including our banker, student loan officer, and even our car dealer, placing government at the epicenter of our life it changes the game of the social compact. You see political liberty and , economic liberty are in peril. They are intertwined, woven together by our creator who provides them both of them to us. You do not get political liberty without economic liberty. And you do not get economic liberty without political liberty. History teaches that people are most productive, happy, and successful when they are free and when they can be independent. If you restrain freedom. If you sap a persons independence, you will lose the vital spark that made the country great. The love affair with Big Government occurred with the bush administration. It occurred long before that, harkening back to the days of fdr and lbj or you can even go back to the time of give me liberty, give me death. Pedro castro was worried about big element. But president obama took the mistakes of his predecessors and hit the accelerator with a quantum leap of unimaginable proportion. It began when i was here with the wall street bailout. I was a freshman member of the United States congress. It was one of my first major votes. I was sitting as a member of the Financial Services committee, in the midst of this very consequential debate. As you recall, this was a blank check for a 700 billion bailout. It has never been seen and never been heard of before in United States history. Sent over from the white house was treasury secretary hank paulson. He came to our republican conference to sell us on the bailout. And i confronted him at the microphone with a few important questions, none of which received an answer. One of my questions was, where did the number 700 billion come from . The second one was what will you use it for . Since we could not get a straight answer to either of those fundamental questions, not only did i vote against him, we put together a great ad hoc group of both democrats and republicans who came together and said maybe this is not a great idea, and we are giving the treasury secretary a blank check for 700 billion. The first vote failed. You could have seen heard a pin drop in the chamber that day when the vote came up. Nancy pelosi thought she had the vote in the bag. She did not. Four days later, i voted no again. But enough arms had been twisted. You could hear bones breaking from here to san francisco, and the vote got rammed through. That so hundred billion dollar 700 billion bailout led the president for bailout mania in washington, d. C. Once again, taxpayers were on the hook to bailout private companies to the tune of billions of dollars. It upset 150 years of bankruptcy law. Worse yet, the government gave pink slips to 3400 privately held automobile dealerships. This was shameful in our history. Many were ordered to close their Stores Within 30 days. Imagine that. You own a private business, and the government sends you a pink slip, shut your doors because we tell you to . You have 300,000 worth of spare parts and inventory in your back office, and you are told we are telling you, close your door . Unconscionable. Next came the trillion dollar stimulus package. You were a politically connected ally of the obama administration, you have a leg up. Socalled Green Energy Companies like solyndra receives hundreds of millions of dollars. Before they went bankrupt, it was cronyism at its worst. The department of energy became the epicenter of loans to obama donors. Then there was obama care, the crown jewel of socialism. It amounted to a government takeover of 1 6 of our economy. And look how that has turned out. Politically connected allies, one after another, got a waiver to obamacare. False promises like, you can keep your Health Care Plan if you like it. Or you can keep your doctor if you like him or her. Or you will save 2500 annually on your healthcare premium. Ell, it is not so funny for the American People who have to live with this abysmal healthcare system. 2 billion were spent on a dysfunctional website. That was not funny, and that does not include all the money that was wasted on state websites either. W, conveniently, the government will not reveal its insurance class for next year until after the Midterm Election is over. The American People watched all this unfold. Fed up, the modern tea party was born in a positive turn of the pendulum. I founded the Tea Party Caucus in congress. Just so every day, real americans can have a voice and a way to share their concerns with their elected representatives. More than anything, it proved to be a listening caucus because ulse of reale poll people who live outside the beltway bubble. This was pretty refreshing for washington, d. C. Americans of all backgrounds organized rallies. They went to town hall meetings. They showed up here at the u. S. Capitol. It was a spontaneous organic uprising. So, of course the left called it , astroturf. It could not possibly be real people would actually stand up and say they wanted to have selfdetermination. A rally to stop obamacare that i called produced tens of thousands of americans, showing up at the capitol. They had less than one weeks notice, no organization, and no one paid them to come. And they came here simply to legislators, not with my health care you dont. One woman from hawaii came and told me she saw me make the call show, andn hannity she said i ordered a plane ticket on the spot so i could be there with you the following noon, thursday at the capitol. People came from alaska. All 50 states, over 20,000 people doctors, lawyers, people from all walks of life saying the country cannot embrace socialized medicine. Well, the Grassroots Energy sent a wave of freedom loving reinforcements to washington, d. C. , in 2010, including the likes of senators mike lee and rand paul. And it took the gavel away from nancy pelosi in the house of representatives, and with the largest number of seat pickups since 1948. I wonder what this election this year will yield. Even the establishment moved toward embracing the tea partys messaging about constitutional principles Like National debt and balanced budget. You know you are effective when Tea Party Organizations were systematically targeted by the irs, which tried to diminish their voice in 2012. The irs admitted they had wrongly asked conservative and faithbased groups for their donor lists and membership lists. Even for the content of the prayers of people who were in Tea Party Organization meetings. All to intimidate and all to slow down applications for tax exempt status before the crucial 2012 election. Ironically, president obama himself once made the case for Less Government intervention in the marketplace. Yes, he did. During a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in 2009, president obama said, i mean, if you think about it, ups and fedex are doing just fine, right . No, they are, it is a post office that is always having problems. Thinkingont of clear rare moment of Clear Thinking from the president. On one side you have president obama, our post office president. Bigger government and more spending is the soluti