She is going to way people are and you wont even take responsibility for what youre doing Small Businesses across the state. I think Small Businesses are critical. So is Peoples Health health care. People should have access to health care. If that means that i have to pay 1. 10. Moderator now we come to the end of this debate. Each candidate will have one minute for a closing argument. My priority is keeping our college more affordable for everyone. The wilson has had all the wrong priorities. She supported and voted for the wall street bailout. She voted for the bush tax cuts that exploded our deficit come and now wants to give even more tax breaks to millionaires. Congressman wilson supports the radical plan called cut, cap and balance that would require deep cuts to Social Security and medicare. Let me be clear that i will never balance their budgets the budget on the backs of our senior citizens. I can hold job fairs and i can raise my family. I have always thought about the steps that mattered most to the people of new mexico. If you give me a chance to serve the u. S. Senate from i will continue that fight and i will be honored to have your vote. Moderator go ahead and apply the. [cheers] [applause] moderator lets move on. Heather wilson, you have one minute for closing statement. Wilson over the last four years, we have lost 30,000 jobs. Gasoline is up. College education is through the router in roof. A Household Income has gone 4000. Congressmen Martin Heinrich once you put in a cap and trade system. It will increase the cost of electricity by 1000 per household. It will cost another 11,000 jobs here in new mexico. He wants to raise taxes in the upper income brackets, half of which are Small Businesses, which will cost us another 4300 jobs. Right here in new mexico. He voted for us across the board. It will cost us 4000 new jobs. We need some and will fight for the strong businesses who will struggle with the tough decision to have to make because of the lousy policies put in place and for spending. We need to get back to strong Economic Growth and job creation. That is what i am going to do in the United States senate. [cheers] [applause] moderator thank you, audience, for holding your closet till the end. And thank you for joining us for tonights u. S. Senate debate in 12 days. Make your voices heard. Please vote. Join us on Election Night for complete coverage. In the meantime comest, see you tonight on the news at 10 00 oclock. Good night. [cheers] [applause] the new york 24th district today debated. This debate is part of the central news in new york. Tonight, the debate of the candidates for 24th Congressional District. Here are your moderators. Good evening from the studios here in syracuse. We welcome you to this election, this 2012 debate. This evening we will hear the candidates for the 24th Congressional District debate. The issue is for the first time. We welcome the candidates were debate tonight. Democratic candidate dan maffei and ursala rozum and Ann Marie Buerkle. Moderator each candidate will have 60 seconds to provide an answer. After the third candidate responses from each candidate will then have the opportunity to provide a 32nd rebuttal. Moderator we will deliver followup questions. That order was determined by a draw straws earlier. We begin with opening remarks from dan maffei. Danny . Maffei i think all the stations and thank you so much. Thank you for everyone cosponsoring this debate. I am dan maffei. I was born and raised in syracuse. I went to Public Schools and then in college i worked at my familys Small Business. I have seen the middleclass struggle firsthand. I think in Central New York we have what it takes to make it. We need to make sure that we cut tax breaks. We need to take Oil Subsidies and get enough money. When our treasure is over in afghanistan, nationbuilding there. We need to bring our troops home and instead of building bridges, those bridges and schools here. We absolutely need to make sure Social Security and medicare are safe. We can do a good we have what it takes in Central New York. We just have to go and do it. Moderator Ann Marie Buerkle . Speedreading thank you for hosting this very important discussion. In fact from our Campaign Slogan is be heard in the course of the month, we have posted over 40 town halls, 60 countable units come and we have talked to many people and business owners, farmers, hospitals, and seniors. Womens groups as well. You know what they did . They confirmed that the policies and the things that dan maffei voted for have hurt people here in the state of new york. [inaudible] or that the company, because of the Affordable Care act has to pay 3. 8 tax rate on its passive income, i began to believe that upstate new york cannot go back to these policies. Moderator ursala rozum . Rozum hello, i am trento. My family came here in the 1940s. They came to the United States believing that this is a country where if you work hard for me would have a good life for your family, and unfortunately, that American Dream is just too far out of reach for most people. We have seen skyrocketing unemployment. Yet for too many people. That is what i support, positive progressive solutions. I support a public jobs program. I support medicare. I am running because my poems represent the failed policies of the Major Corporate on the parties. They are talking about dollars for dollars instead of solving problems. Solutions cant wait. Moderator thank you, ursala rozum. Thank you to all of our candidates. It is hard to be a candidate and hard to serve the people. We appreciate all of you being here. So the first question is. It is about the fiscal cliff. It is about the bush tax cuts and the sequestration cuts and the debt limit crisis in august 2012. Both come due in december. Both president ial candidates are recommending that we cut the deficit. Yet a partisan impactor means. 75 of voters polled and nbc wall street journal poll this week that they Want Congress to find a compromise and end up out of debt. What do you think compromised is and what you think it will do as far as undermining voters . We go to Ann Marie Buerkle verse. Buekle you are absolutely right, thank you very much for the end of this year will signal the largest tax increase. We expect it will affect 90 of the American People. I have voted for the simpsonbowles budget. I think there is a lot of opportunity and room for us to make compromised so that we can reach across the aisle. I was one of 38 members of the house who voted for simpsonbowles. It was a bipartisan effort and in the present commission before this plan. I believe, morally, what we are doing to our kids into the future of this country is immoral. We have to stop spending. We cannot address this deficit issue by increasing taxes. We have to put progrowth economic agenda in place. We cant cut her way out of this debt. What we need to do is create a solution. You are not the problem. Moderator ursala rozum . Rozum you can go in any direction. I will support the tax reform balance the budget. Ann Marie Buerkle says we cant cut and spend our way out of this. Well, she hasnt come out in favor of cutting things. Im not sure what she means that we kick our way out of this. In the past 40 years, we have seen peoples incomes stagnate. We have graduating tax income at the top 10 , and i also possess an transport process of Corporate Tax rates and cutting the military budget by 50 . Any Corporate Tax loopholes and giving away and cutting the drug war. Moderator thank you very much, ursala rozum. Dan maffei . Maffei we need to balance the budget, but we need to do it in the right way. Not like Ann Marie Buerkle said, where we need to raise the age of Social Security. The thing about the budget, they are either one side or the or the other. A few tried attacks are way out or cut her way out. But the question is about compromise. I think that is one of the central things that is lacking in our representation today. Ann Marie Buerkle and the tea Party Statute has kept congress from ever finding an agreement on anything. We talked a lot about reducing debt, but the debt hasnt been reduced one pennies and shes been in office. That is because she wont work with president obama. We do need to Work Together across the aisles. Democrats, republicans, and independents. Mono moderator federal deficit reduction is threatening state economies and budgets. States depend on federal grants for 32 of their revenue. Knowing that the cuts flow downhill, knowing that the city of syracuse and many other municipalities may soon face financial insolvency, what would it take for you to consider either voting to help the debt ceiling in the city. Buekle i think it is because of the federal government, federal mandates that the government places on him, whether it is from education or medicaid. That is a shared responsibility. A lot of the problems in our city faces are because of the burden for the federal government places on them. I wanted to go back. I want to go back to this budget issue. And the willingness to compromise. Simpsonbowles is a compromise. It is a discussion of how we will get this country back on a fiscally sound clip that is bipartisan. I was one of 38 who voted for simpsonbowles. To say this is a better way. Lets do this bipartisan approach and what is best for the people in this country. Moderator thank you. Ursala rozum, a followup question for you. If there is a 10 acrosstheboard cut in all federal grants, new york could lose more than 6 billion. According to the rabbits report, states interests should be on the table when federal reductions are being debated. Analyzing the overall impact on the state, if you win this election, do you promise support a mechanism for consulting with states about the upcoming federal changes and their impact on state and local government . Rozum of course, i think that people are affected by the decision. No one wants bureaucrats in washington making decisions that are going to be affecting them. The times that we had a balanced budget, we were talking about this kind of deficits. Talking about compromise, i think compromise is important, but it is also important to take a position and not compromise before the fighting starts. This would allow the bush tax cuts to expire for those making over a Million Dollars. Moderator ague, ursala rozum. A followup question for dan maffei. Counties are crying out for the release of the medicaid costs. A new Health Care Lobby support will increase the cost of medicaid even further. How you justify that on top of the fiscal crisis. The municipality and what its facing in part to Unfunded Mandates and Health Care Costs remapped. Maffei i think we need to combat Unfunded Mandates. The other thing that we must do is work very closely with our counties. When i was in office, i worked very closely to make sure that we havent Excellent First responder on Environmental Issues and et etc. I do think it is important that we do Work Together and compromise. People say those making over a Million Dollars to go back to the clinton era rates. They were doing just fine then. One of my colleague calls out an extreme position. If you dont do that, if youre not willing to compromise there. Where are you . At what point do you Start HoldingSmall Business hostage to tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires . Monarch certainly the big issue in this campaign, all the polls show it, you have all talked at. Ursala rozum, we want to start you with you on this issue. What would your priorities be to increase jobs . What evidence do you have those ideas will produce jobs . Do have an idea outside of the Public Sector creating these jobs . How would you do it for the private sector as well . Rozum that is a very great and important question. My platform is modeled on what we call putting people back to work, transition to a Renewable Energy economy, and Meeting Community needs. Yes, during the campaign, i have been focusing on public jobs. I would focus on 21st century employment and training act. It is along the lines of the wpa. The benefits of the public jobs program is that it would be a puts money in the hands of working people. They can then go out and spend in their communities, which is a stimulus to the private economy. I support a program that has direct government employed employment and that would have an effect on the private economy. People dont have money, they cant spend it as a private business. So then private businesses and have an incentive to hire. Moderator dan maffei, what incentives do you have your ideas would work . B1 welcome welcome you cannot spend your way or cut away at us. We need to balance the budget and the right part of that means making sure they do make investments that will create jobs. Two areas. One of the structure. Particularly transportation. Here in Central New York, it is difficult to even find where. You have to be at the airport extremely early. Even to fly to another city on the east coast. We need another Discount Airline and we can get it. In the long run, we need highspeed rail and we need to put us back on the map. This is 200 years ago, the founders put us back on a map of the erie canal. The other area that i do think will increase Business Research and education. We need to make sure that the other workforce can do the job necessary. This is why education eats away needs to be a National Priority and why it is important that we make sure that we have this position in Research Funding. Even mitt romney said he will modify the Research Funding something by fivefold. Moderator Ann Marie Buerkle, what is your priority to create jobs in the next five years . Buekle unemployment remains high throughout the last 40 months. You know, jfk, reagan, and bush come you could not raise taxes and tax breaks help the economy. That is very important to do that. They voted in 2000 had to extend all of those. What we have done is repealed Affordable Care act. We know that here in the sticks are, therefore will correct is going to challenge small medical device producers, it is going to hurt the economy. So i voted to appeal the Affordable Care act. We voted for bipartisan support. It is really going to aid upstate new york and increasing number of experts from my district. Moderator we have time for rebuttal. Dan maffei, do you regret your vote on that . Maffei i think the recovery act is absolutely essential. First of all, there were lots of tax cuts for Small Businesses and individual families that were absolutely essential to those families. Secondly, it kept police on the streets and teachers are being laid off. In our classrooms from blowing up. And it had firefighters. So we certainly had to do something. The thing that im really confused about is a did the right thing on the taxes, apparently. But now some of the economy seems to be fine for millionaires and billionaires. And doing the wrong thing for asking them to pay their share and yet, we need to balance the budget, but wheres the money going to come from . None of it adds up. Moderator ursala rozum, what are your reactions to appealing the Affordable Care act remapped. Rozum i think it would be immoral at this point. There are too many good parts to it. We need to be moving forward. This would make it much easier for employers to hire workers and to provide health care for them because they will be paying a simple medicare payroll tax. For example. The provision of the Affordable Care act was on medical devices and it hasnt proven to be true because there should be increased demand for medical devices under the Affordable Care act. I am not compelled by representative Ann Marie Buerkles arguments. Moderator Ann Marie Buerkle, what is your rebuttal. Buekle some of the workforce is indicative of the Affordable Care act. How its going to affect jobs and the economy. Our largest employers in our district, and the portal track going to dramatically impact medicare reimbursement to our hospitals and physicians, along with sequestration. If our hospitals are not alive and well, you