MONTAGE OF CONGRESSMAN DANIEL WEBSTER - CANDIDATE FOR HOUSE SPEAKER

MONTAGE OF CONGRESSMAN DANIEL WEBSTER - CANDIDATE FOR HOUSE SPEAKER AMERICA IS NOT BROKEN, WASHINGTON IS! POWER VS. PRINCIPLE Machine transcript.   0:00 I'm running for one reason I want to see a congress that is based on principle 0:04 and every member is is made made a player so we have a member driven 0:10 principal based congress I did that in Florida as speaker of the house they are 0:15 I know it can happen is totally different and that you take that pyramid 0:18 power we're at the top most of the decisions are made by just a few people 0:22 push it down and spread it out so ever 0:26 number has that opportunity to be successful it is a great way it's a 0:30 freeway so amendments that are are heard and are killed by the process would go 0:35 away and that everyone would have an opportunity for animals for bills thanks 0:39 participation in the process it is a great way to run a house and in the end 0:44 and Florida we did that the numbers turned right side up the mayor's had the 0:49 job the last five years Speaker John Boehner says part of the problem is 0:53 they're people inside your caucus with unrealistic expectations he calls them 0:58 false prophets listen to what he says right here are people out there you know 1:03 spreading lies about how much can get done I mean this whole idea of a real 1:11 shot down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 let's play never had a 1:17 chance 1:17 course of the August recess in 2013 the course of September 1:24 a lot of my republican colleagues who knew it was a full they're getting all 1:29 the pressure from home to do so was it a mistake to shut down government to try 1:34 to defund Obamacare 1:37 well I think the point is if you change the process one of the keys is taking up 1:42 the most important issues first not last 1:45 when you push against a deadline you're basically giving them members really 1:50 just one choice if you start early and you had the opportunity to work with the 1:54 Senate work out the differences and come up with something that's actually runs 1:58 what we call regular order in that if we have differences are working out of 2:02 conference long before the date that the deadline comes same with reauthorization 2:07 we get right to three or four days before it and then the only option is 2:10 passing a continuing resolution that we need to take up those issues first not 2:15 last the senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when he came into the power to 2:18 the majority leader's he essentially said no more shutdowns will you as part 2:23 of your campaign to be speaker that there will be no government 2:27 in your watch the president himself vetoes at least I know when Ronald 2:36 Reagan was president that was called to shut down by the president so we do a 2:40 response for are responsible job we get our appropriation bills out early if we 2:45 send them to the present then we have plenty of time to deal with that without 2:48 having to shut down government will you know for instance right now he will veto 2:51 any measure that defund Planned Parenthood so would you be willing to 2:57 shut down the government or your half of the shutdown as it were 3:01 if the president veto such an action but I don't think that's the point I'm 3:06 trying to make fun of trying to make his point that that we need to get away from 3:10 these deadlines where we push ourselves into a corner it's just not the way to 3:14 run a house and to me I think we can do that if we stick up the most important 3:19 issues first then we'll we'll avoid those kind of catastrophes what do you 3:24 say to those forty or so members in your caucus who want to see stronger language 3:30 from the speaker want to see republicans in congress taking on the white house 3:35 even more do you want those voices louder or would you would you warn them 3:41 to you know to calm down a little bit I believe that if you'll let everybody 3:47 have a say early on up front everybody not just them but anybody else and you 3:53 work through a process for the committee's actually hear the bills that 3:56 come to the floor and you vote on it again you take them up first then have 4:01 fun in town for opportunities I believe that most people just want a chance to 4:06 vote on their amendment or vote on a bill and vote on a proposal if they lose 4:10 they lose that's not just speakers or anybody else's problem but it is his 4:14 problem or her problem if those ideas are killed only because they weren't 4:19 allowed to happen we go in every day 4:21 and we passed a rule that circumvents the rules we have every single day and 4:26 it 4:27 shut off debate it it it it takes to system and and innocence to frys to 4:33 membership in the public how many votes do you have lined up right now 4:36 well I'm working on that work every day we'll see I can tell you that sometimes 4:43 their votes and you gotta wait till the vote takes place before you really not 4:47 all right daniel webster florida good luck thanks so much for being with us 0:00 how her hold on your soul well the key is this is a founding member when I pray 0:07 every day but what I said is that the way to give up powers to not grab it to 0:14 begin with and that you begin serving people not having them serve you 0:20 that's number one and then were too I think the most important thing is you 0:24 you adopt there is a an unwritten rule that's a bad rules and that is says the 0:30 leader can never lose the speaker can never lose the guy in charge can never 0:35 lose and I don't believe that and and as long as I can hang on to that I won't 0:40 have this pressure to guide things the way I think they're supposed to do as 0:47 opposed to allowing the free exercise of the votes of the membership of this 0:51 house represents and so I also have this philosophy america's not broken 0:58 Washington is