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Good evening, and welcome to iowa. Gton, tonight marks the second of three debates in the race for Iowa Governor. To bring it to you with our partners, the andington hawkeye newspaper the greater burlington partnership. Incumbentxt hour, Governor Terry and jack hatch, his democratic challenge, will chance questions from our panelists. Kenneth, danielle, and the managing editor of the hawk cay, dale allison. Getting questions from you, our viewers, and readers, through twitter and facebook, live throughout this program. Use the hashtag iowagovernordebate. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome republic Governor Terry and Democratic State senator jack hatch. [applause] the overall theme, if you will, economy. S on the from jobs to job creation to infrastructure. On job ....
Created and developed the avenue of the saints. Thats whats going to create the opportunities in southeast iowa and all over the state, by our ability to focus on developing Job Opportunities for Small Businesses in this state. Lets move now on to the topic of minimum wage. Danielle has a question for senator hatch. Senator hatch, in your campaign, you talk about growing Small Businesses and also increasing the minimum wage. Now, many of the Small Business owners weve heard from say theyre worried about how an increase in the minimum wage would affect their business. How can you be in favor of both . Well, you know, good question. [laughter] but youre assuming that all Small Businesses pay below the mi ....
Just with construction, with the numbers for 2013 . Um you can get back to me in writing. Yeah. Im going to let tom look this up for me. [laughter] all right. And how about veterans unemployment . Be do we know where that is . Yes. Okay. Um, okay. Gulf war era veterans had an Unemployment Rate of 7. 3 in december, and this is down from 10. 8 a year earlier. Uhhuh. In december of 2013, there were 2. 9 million gulf war era veterans, and they served anywhere in the world since september 2001. Okay. In december 2013 the Unemployment Rate, the Unemployment Rate for veterans aged 1824 was 15. 6 which is little different because these sample sizes are so small. This is little different from the 11. 4 Unemployment Rate for nonveterans of that age. Uhhuh. Veteran ....
Try to passntons healthcare reform, the complaint was that they had handed the law down on high, and they had ignored the prerogatives of congress, and so the approach this time was different. Framework, a bipartisan framework, largely because it had been built on the republicanrom the alternative to hillary care, and they thought that if the details were worked out, they would be able to do something in a bipartisan way than if it were a president handing things down from on high. Theink they underestimated degree of resolve on the part of republicans. Republicans came out scorched earth against the stimulus at a time when the economy was in freefall. I mean, this was the bill to prevent us from going into a depression, and not only was it the bill to keep us from going into a repression, it was part infrastructure spending, which is what democrats wanted, but also more than one third tax cuts, which is what republicans wanted. I look back on the bush era, and i do not remember gettin ....
Of what is around the corner if they make the effort. You were positive on their intent. Youve taken us through Family Planning and the nuclear deal. We really appreciate the work that was done with the wilson center. We look forward to tomorrow as well. I think your parents will be very proud. Very proud. Thank you very much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] the white house says the president will announce next friday results of his review of National Security agency surveillance programs. The president has been meeting with lawmakers and officials and is considering more than 40 recommendations from a Residential Commission that will from a president ial commission. He ....