If you are waiting for the next speaker to come, keep in mind that that people sitting next to you may have come to hear the personal at the podium right now. Faith and freedom and cwa always does masterful jobs of bringing people to those things and people honoring the spirit, i guess, of the program. I will also just say, obviously, you know weve had we had some security terrance. So we have taken some pretty pronounced efforts to keep that to a bear minimum. Thank you for dealing with ininconvenience as you have been coming in. As we begin the program, obviously, we are excited to have each of the participants in the program. But we believe that the most important component of this is really to honor and lift up those precepts that we believe made america great. So i would ask that you join dr. W. A. Merit of the southern Leadership Conference of North Carolina to lead us in prayer. Good morning. Its such a wonderful day that god has given us. And each of us have arrived here safely. And its a blessing. Ive travelled quite a ways to be here with you today. Buttine honored and blessed. And i want to share that blessing with you. If we could bow our head for a word of prayer. Heavenly father, we ask for your guidance, for your blessings that we can do your will. Help us to be strong and to fight the negativity that is upon our country. Give us the faith. Give us the grace. And by all means, lord, let us do their will. We know that there are trials and tribulations that we will have to face. But we know with the strength of the lord that we can overcome any obstacle that may be upon us. We want to thank you, in jesuss name for all blessings, and we ask for continued blessings as we move forward through this conference n. Jesuss name we pray. Amen. Please welcome for the pledge of allegiance new jersey ffc president , brenda roems. Im honored to be here this morning to lead you in our pledge of allegiance. All rise. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please stand as ffc director of marketing and events joy creaseman sings the national anthem. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . [ applause ] please welcome to the stage, from the great state of tennessee, representative marcia blackburn. Good morning i tell you what, i am absolutely thrilled to be here with you this morning. How wonderful to see so many conservatives here together clipped and ready for the battle because this is a fight that we have to win and being here, you are laying the foundation for going out there and being the foot soldiers. We as conservatives, we know if we focus on personalities we lose every time. If we focus on the issues and focus on the constitution, we win. I want to bring you up to date on some work that we are doing in the house of representatives. Everybody remembers the videos that came out last year, and with every video we got a little bit more insight into what was happening with the big abortion. We got a view of doctors who were willing to sell baby body parts for money, a view of clinics as middle men that were marketing body parts on line, a view that exploits young women and sees their babies as a Profit Center. Many of you said what are you going to do about it . And the house of representatives is doing something about it. We cant hear you. The microphone is not on. Lets see. Can you hear me now . All right. Well do it this way then. The videos is what everybody saw. And you wanted us to do something about it. On october 7th, 2015, the house passed a resolution. It established the select Investigative Panel on infant lives. And we were directed to investigate the issues related to acquisition and transfer for resale of fetal tissue to Research Institutions and related manners. Look at the core language of the resolution. Its not the usual congressional inquiry. This is about exacting detail, evidence, accounting practices, business records, bank records. Its about subpoenas and depositions. Let me give you a snapshot of the abortion biz and the fetal tissue industry. There are currently 512 surgical Abortion Clinics. 218 are u 486 clinics. 1018 doctors who perform abortions. There are eight procurement businesses that we have under scrutiny, companies that pay money for tissue and resell it. These companies have hundreds of customers, and the transactions and when i say transaction, this means individual sales of baby body parts for money. Those transactions number in the thousands. The average price paid to the Abortion Clinic for tissue is 50. The average resale price is 700. Sometimes higher. The investigation must be exacting because selling baby body parts for a profit is a violation of federal law. It is a tenyear felon. This statute was passed as A Henry Waxman amendment in 1993. Its a basing accounting statute. Sell the baby body part for a profit and you are in violation of the law. Donate the body parts, you are within thelaw. This is one of the reasons we have issued subpoenas. 36 subpoenas to date. And weve had very little cooperation from big abortion. We get documents that are redacted. They are missing also. There has been little complyians from the middle man. People have said to you had, we will not comply with a congressional subpoena. Some people have said start the contempt process. And i plan to do exactly that. [ applause ] these subpoenas will be enforced. At our first hearing on the bioethics the democrats agreed that nobody should sell a baby body part for a profit. Their star witness admitted that outside of a few early vaccines, no cures can come from fetal tissue research. They agreed that no one should be able to get pregnant for the purpose of making a fetal tissue donation. The witnesses, including a democrat, all agreed that the consend form used is very m misleading. They agreed it would be a legal and ethical violation for an Abortion Clinic and a researcher to deceive the board, called an Institutional Review Board that, by law, reviews fetal tissue research. At our second hear hearing which was on the pricing of fetal tissue, two former u. S. Attorneys agreed that our investigation had produced evidence that Abortion Clinics and the middle men were profiting from the sale of parts. All the panelists agreed that we needed the Accounting Records and bank records from the middle men. Thats the reason for the subpoenas. I want to show you a business brochure that is absolutely bone chilling. Take a good hard look at this. This is a stem express offered to the Abortion Clinics to add a Profit Center to their clinic. We got the language highlighted there. And you can see they add the selling of baby body parts for profit. Now take a look at the website that goes with the brochure. This is the place where stem express sells the baby body pargts, the drop down box with everything listed, brain, heart, lung, liver, tongue, scalp. Click on what you want, click on the gestation period you want, kplik on the date you want it, and then proceed to check out to pick your form of shipping. It really is baby parts on demand. This is big abortion today. Long gone is the lie of legal safe and rare. In big abortion, the baby is a Profit Center, whatever the cost. Look at these invoices. Money paid to the clinics for each body part. Money paid to the procurement company. And there are many Procurement Companies besides stem express. Its all about the money. Does it matter that abortion business exploits frightened young women facing a lifechanging decision . Does it matter that Abortion Clinics and stem express violate hippa privacy . Does it matter that everyone of these actions degrades the rules and the dignity of our Organ Donation . Yes, it does matter. On the screen, youve got copies of letters that ive sent to the Inspector General of health and human services. Over 70 payments of documented evidence of violations. You can wreath read them all on our website. Im not alone in this effort. I chair the select investigationive panel, and it is full of some wonderful members. I want to introduce you to our team. Weve got doctors, a former nurse a prosecutor. Were a strong prolife team. You have joe pits from pennsylvania, diane black from tennessee, larry boo chon from indiana, shawn duffy, dr. Andy harris, vicky hartzler, and mia love. Strong, prolife members. [ applause ] their efforts matter to me, and i know that they matter to you. And knowing about what we are doing in the house is all part of your equipping for the fight. This year matters. I want you to remember that on april 3rd Hillary Clinton said she said this on meet the press that the, quote, unborn person, end quote, doesnt have constitution rights. Think about how strikingly callous that is. The unborn person doesnt have constitutional rights. The analytical coldness with which she dismissed rights for unborn children reveals a hardened core that is shocking. Abortion restrictions are in place. They are in law specifically because unborn children have constitutional rights. [ applause ] what is even more troubling to me is that her comments may signal her intention much the same way president obama has used executive orders on immigrations to use executive action to block even minimal protections of life at its most vulnerable stage. So here is our website. I want each of you to get involved torque tell others, to write letters, write an article. I want you to get on our email list, go to our website. Pull down these documents that i have shown you today. And i want to offer to you a call to action. One of our founding fathers, dr. Joseph warren, who is president of the massachusetts assembly, the militia, gave the charge, and the command, as they headed to bunker hill where he lost his life. Heres what he said. On you depend the fortunes of america. You are to decide the important questions upon which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves. For us today, as conservatives stepping up in this election season, equipping for the task at hand, focusing on the issues and making certain that we are there to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, thats our charge in this election season. May god bless you. May he bless your weekend, and equip you for a winning a victorious months ahead. Thank you so much. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome to the stage from the great state of west virginia, congressman alex mooney. Thank you. Its such a pleasure to be with you. You are here bright and early. Congratulations for your efforts in being part of this effort to take this country back from the far left who is attempting to ruin it making it a socialist utopia. Im alex mooney. On my first term in congress from the great state of west virginia. Ive been passionate about the political process my swir life. My father served in vietnam as an army captain, received the bronze star, was political and raised me to believe in fighting for our country. My mother, when she turn 20d years old, was sitting in a prison cell in Fidel Castros cuba. She was born and raised in cuba. When the bay of pigs invasion failed they locked everybody up that wasnt a communist and she was forced to be able to flee and was accepted into this country. She saw a entire country taken from her by a despotic dictator, an evil person. There is good and evil in this world. Some would have you believe its gist differences of opinions and there is not objective truth and its subject of and there is right and the wrong for every person. That is not true. There is good in this world and evil in this world. This is evil in this world, like the killing of unborn children. We are passion add about fighting back against this as are you because you are here. But my parents raised me to get involved in the process at a young age. I believe its everybodys duty to get involved some way or another. For example, as an absolute minimum, everybody should vote. Everyone seems to agree with that. Everyone should vote but we all know people in our family, our friends, our neighbors, in our church that dont vote. Even in president ial years some people dont vote. As a absolute minimum, people should vote. You are here at a conference, i applaud you for that, its desperately needed. Frankly, i think right now what we are naysing if this country is close to a constitutional crisis. We have a president , an executive who thinks he can make the laws and thats not the way the system works. The founders of our country wisely set up a system of three coequal branches of government. The president of the United States enforces the laws, he does not make up the laws himself and go around congress to do so. This has become quite a difficult battle in the congress right now. My state of west virginia, the coal is our number one product. It drives our economy. This president decided he is going to declare a war on coal. He is going to use the Environmental Protection agency, the department of interior or any other means at his disposal to try to shut down the coal industry because of a radical environmentalist agenda thats not even based on science. He has been prosecuting this war for a long time unnecessarily putting people out of work, costing good paying jobs for families just for a political agen agenda. One of my first battles in congress im in my freshman year. Ive been there a year and a half. You may recall february of last year president obama decided to declare executive amnesty by executive order, Illegal Immigrants were told they can stay which is against our law in this country. He did that by executive order. One of the things thats so scary about that is president obama himself had said no fewer than 22 times that he lacked the authority under the constitution to do that by himself. When he was speaking to different groups, he would go speak to left wing groups im here speaking to a conservative group. When he would speak to liberal groups when he was asked why dont you do illegal amnesty by executive order he said i dont have the authority to do it. He would use terms like i am not a king. I am not a dictator im not the emperor of the United States of the United States of america. He himself said it no fewer than 22 times. Everyone knew the president lacked the authority to do that. And he did it anyway. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a scary thing. The president does not have that power. So part of the battle weve been seeing, and i know you have been watching it is in congress simply to assert ourselves and stand up for the constitutional powers that we have. Ive gotten very familiar with article one section seven of the United States constitution. Which simply says the power to raise revenue, the power of the purse, known as the power of the purse, lies specifically with the United States house of represent tiffs. So when the president of the United States gets out of control and starts going around congress and making up laws through the rule making process of his departments and through executive orders congress was empowered by the founders of our country to stop him through the power of the purse. We simply need to do that. [ applause ] thank you. There has been a lot of talk about having study commissions and how to do a task force to examine how to control the president and maintain the power of congress. We dont need all. That its right there. We have it. We simply have to do it. Someone is essentially being a bully. This president is being a bully. This isnt a partisan comment. The president doesnt have the power to did these things. Even the new president , doesnt have the power to go around congress. S that constitutional issue for the separation of powers. We just need to assert ourselves. We have differences on tactics in congress but not differences on the principles. What has been interesting for me to so whats been happening, which is so frustrating and i know its frustrating to you, is when the house passes bills and we have the largest conservative majority. 247 republicans and 188 democrats. Thats the largest republican majority in over 80 years. Its been frustrating to see us pass bills that have u. S. Senate abuse the filibuster rule. The u. S. Senate the Minority Party the Minority Party in the United States senate led by harry reid filibusters everything. You need 60 votes to pass something over there. We need to put that on the floor and make them filibuster it and make them see the destructive tactics they are using. They are trying to shut down government and blame the Majority Party for that which is of course unfair. Thats something thats been a battle for to us push back against. When we pass our bills in the house of representatives, we should wait until the senate acts and appoint a conference committee. But for us to pass good bills, bills that reign in we are passing appropriation bills one at a time with writers, thing that defund planned parenthood. Things that stop obamas war on coal [ applause ] thank you. And various other they are called riders but those are policies so we say you cant take the money and go against the American People. What congress was elected to do. What i want to say is if the people of this country wanted everything barack obama is going unchecked he would have put nancy pelosi in charge of the house. The voters asked for that check and balance. We