WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.000 Welcome to Congress to Campus 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:03.000 alumni and representative panel discussion 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:05.000 I'm honored to be your moderator 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:06.000 today today's discussion 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:07.000 is meant to be more of an 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:09.000 interactive experience so we encourage 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:10.000 you to share your experience 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.000 here on social media accounts 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:14.000 feel free to take your photos 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:15.000 and post what you're learning 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.000 tag Western Oregon University 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.000 using #HowlAboutIt and 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.000 #CongresstoCampus and the handle @WOUnews 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.000 Twitter and Instagram so a little about 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.000 this event Congress to Campus is a 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.000 program designed by the 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.000 Stennis Center for Public Service 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.000 through which -- former U.S 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.000 congressional representatives 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.000 are brought to college campuses 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.000 across the country to encourage 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:41.000 students to consider careers in 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:42.000 public service and to promote 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.000 greater awareness of the 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:45.000 functions of the U.S. government 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.000 this panel represents 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.000 an opportunity 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.000 for Congress to Campus 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.000 representatives Mr. Rod Chandler 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.000 and Mr. Nick Lampson to 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:56.000 join with two WOU alumni 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:57.000 who currently work in public 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.000 service at this point I'd like 00:00:59.000 --> 00:00:61.000 you each to introduce yourself 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.000 and tell us what you do why 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.000 you're here and yeah where you're 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.000 from the congressmen go first 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.000 I'm Nick Lampson I am from 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.000 southeast Texas my hometown 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.000 is Beaumont and Beaumont's about 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:15.000 eighty miles east of Houston 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:16.000 and about forty miles west of 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.000 Louisiana about twenty miles 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.000 north of the coast line is 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:21.000 on the Gulf of Mexico and the 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.000 upper coastal bend -- I got 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.000 interested in -- politics 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.000 because of my involvement 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.000 with student government at 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.000 Lamar University as a student 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:32.000 obviously I became president of 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.000 the student body and -- because 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.000 of some community involvement 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.000 during that time -- of my work 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.000 with student government I had 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.000 the opportunity of meeting 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.000 some -- high political people 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:47.000 within my state including 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.000 John Connally -- who was the very 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.000 charismatic governor of Texas 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.000 was also the person who if you 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.000 remember was wounded when John 00:01:59.000 --> 00:01:60.000 President John Kennedy was 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.000 assassinated in Dallas Kennedy 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:06.000 I mean -- Connally -- encouraged 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.000 me because of similarities in 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.000 our -- in our past to offer 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.000 myself for public service and 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:14.000 thought that public service 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.000 ought to be done at least 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.000 somewhat through elected office 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.000 he said it was the right thing 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.000 for him he was able to -- grow 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:24.000 through the -- goals that he 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.000 set for himself and become the 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:27.000 governor of Texas and then later 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:31.000 ran for president -- I was 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.000 inspired by his challenge to me 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.000 and set my own goals to include 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.000 public office -- at some point 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.000 along the way I happened to have 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:41.000 set a goal of running for my 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:43.000 first office when I was 35 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:44.000 years old and to show you when 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:45.000 the opportunity presents you 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.000 ought to take it I ran for 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:49.000 the state legislature when 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.000 I was 23 I wasn't 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.000 successful but it -- lit 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.000 my fire enough about -- public 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:57.000 service and about elected 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:60.000 office that I literally ran 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.000 for the next forty eight years 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.000 constantly -- almost every 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.000 election it came up I was 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.000 either on the ballot or I was 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.000 already in office I think you 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:10.000 should do exactly the same 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:11.000 thing it's part of the reason 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.000 why we're here take the time 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.000 at some point in your career 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.000 to take a few years at least 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.000 maybe longer to do something 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.000 whether it's as small sounding 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.000 as being a precinct captain 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.000 for your political party or 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.000 being a city council person 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.000 school board state legislature 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:32.000 Congress or even president 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:33.000 of the United States we need 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:35.000 leaders I guarantee you the 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.000 people in this room are more 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:38.000 than likely at least one of 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.000 you if not more heck of a lot 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.000 smarter than I'll ever be and 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.000 we need you to be the people 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.000 that step up next to become 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:46.000 the leaders of tomorrow to make 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.000 sure our democracy continues to 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:52.000 flourish as it has in the past 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.000 I'm Rod Chandler I grew up 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:56.000 over in La Grande -- northeast 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.000 Oregon I was educated one year 00:03:59.000 --> 00:03:61.000 at -- Eastern Oregon College 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:03.000 at that time and graduated 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.000 from Oregon State University 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.000 college I worked at KOAC 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.000 the Oregon public 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.000 broadcasting station they're 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.000 in Corvallis and -- that was 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:19.000 how I worked my way through 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:23.000 school and afterward I went to 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.000 was a TV journalist up there 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:31.000 and I was assigned to cover 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.000 the legislature and having been 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.000 inspired by governor Tom McCall 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.000 from Oregon when I was 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.000 here to be involved and helped 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.000 him when he was working on 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.000 bottle and can -- deposit -- 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.000 legislation -- my -- colleagues 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.000 and I've at OSU worked 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.000 on that campaign -- then I went 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.000 to the legislature to cover it 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:60.000 and realized I really wasn't 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.000 so much interested in watching 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.000 as I wanted to participate in 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.000 it so the first opportunity I 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:09.000 was 31 years old and I 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.000 ran for the state legislature 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.000 and served there for eight 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:17.000 years and then -- ran for 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:20.000 United States House of Representatives 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.000 and served there for 10 years -- the real 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.000 disappointment was I had always 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.000 dreamt of serving in the 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.000 United States Senate -- one of 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.000 my ancestors Zachariah Chandler 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:35.000 was one of the founders of the 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.000 Republican Party -- a 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.000 abolitionist and -- supporter 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 of Lincoln and -- served for 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.000 three terms in the U.S. Senate 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:48.000 later as Secretary of 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.000 the Interior and I wanted to 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.000 follow in his footsteps and 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.000 I did right up until election 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.000 night when my opponent won so 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:60.000 I was out of office and went 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.000 on to other things one of the 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.000 things that I did do that's kind 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.000 of interesting I I had always 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.000 wanted to teach through all of 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.000 this public service involvement 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.000 and -- so at the age of -- not 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.000 quite sixty -- I finished my 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.000 master's degree in education 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.000 at UNLV and then I taught 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:24.000 civics at a high school in 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:26.000 centennial Colorado for two 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:29.000 years and I thought -- service 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 in Congress was hard work I 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:33.000 didn't know anything about hard 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:34.000 work until I was a first year 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.000 teacher are any of you planning 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.000 to be teachers good good 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.000 for you a little -- that first 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.000 year is just awful but get 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:50.000 through that and you'll be fine 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:51.000 good introduction thank 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:52.000 you for that introduction -- you 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.000 mentioned -- your first 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:55.000 year being a teacher I am in 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.000 my first year of coaching my 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.000 daughter's basketball team and it's 00:06:59.000 --> 00:06:60.000 first and second graders and 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.000 it's difficult extremely difficult 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.000 so -- I -- I can kinda 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.000 understand but not really -- 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.000 it's great to be back on campus -- 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.000 my name is Anthony Medina I graduated 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.000 from Western in 2014 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.000 Gervais small little town right 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:22.000 outside of Woodburn so I graduated 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.000 from Gervais High School -- back 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.000 from Gervais first in my family to graduate 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.000 from high school -- that summer 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:34.000 before coming into college I 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.000 wasn't sure what I was going to 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.000 where I was going to go -- and 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:39.000 an adviser at Western reached out 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.000 to me and said hey -- it'd 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:43.000 be great if you came to campus 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:44.000 whatnot so I remember -- 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.000 vividly remember coming to 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.000 for like an orientation day -- and 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:54.000 I want to be on a university 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.000 campus I want -- I wanna 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.000 be a university student and so I 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.000 remember enrolling that summer and 00:07:59.000 --> 00:07:61.000 I lived in Ackerman any 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.000 folks live inAckerman -- 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:04.000 I remember living in Ackerman the 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.000 first year iy was built -- and 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.000 coming to campus and if 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.000 y'all are familiar with -- Gervais 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.000 and Woodburn area it's -- primarily 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.000 it's predominately Latino 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.000 so growing up I didn't know what 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:17.000 it was like to be a minority 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.000 student -- eighty percent of 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.000 my student body was Latino and 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.000 then I came to college I'm like 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.000 hey where did all my friends go 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:26.000 where did all the people go that 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.000 looked like me -- and 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:29.000 that's truly my first experience 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.000 being a minority student and 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:32.000 stepping foot on this campus but 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.000 this campus is amazing -- for 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.000 me it was really transformative I 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.000 remember getting involved -- early on 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:40.000 I tutored through the TRIO 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.000 program if y'all are familiar 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.000 with the TRIO program -- I 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:44.000 tutored with -- through 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.000 TRIO -- all four years as a 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.000 as an undergrad at 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.000 Dallas Central McKay High School and 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.000 we did our rounds we -- tutor 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.000 high school students and about 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.000 the college process and -- and 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:57.000 with their classes and stuff 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:01.000 and university housing I served 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:02.000 as a student body senator 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.000 as a director of clubs 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.000 and organizations in 2013 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.000 -- through the TRIO 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:11.000 program I was selected as the 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:12.000 National TRIO Student of the Year 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.000 every year TRIO selects one 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:15.000 student in the nation -- to 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.000 go to Washington DC -- intern 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.000 for a member of Congress and 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:20.000 study at the Les Aspin Center 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:22.000 for Government in 2013 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:26.000 as -- a student only student of the 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:27.000 nation to receive that scholarship 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.000 Dr. Henkels at the time 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:34.000 schedule while I went to DC for 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.000 two terms and -- was working 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.000 full time -- as an intern 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.000 for a member of Congress while 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:42.000 while also being a full time 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:43.000 student through the Center for 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:44.000 Government that they had there 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.000 in DC it was an amazing experience 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.000 street so I was in his office 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.000 and it was a great experience 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:56.000 being in DC came back to 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:59.000 Western -- finished off my senior 00:09:59.000 --> 00:09:62.000 year I -- graduated and and 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.000 went to Stanford and received 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:05.000 my master's degree in -- 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:06.000 higher education policy since 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.000 then I moved back to Oregon -- 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.000 my first job -- my first job 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.000 out of school was working for 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:15.000 the governor's chief financial 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.000 office -- what what we did in 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.000 in that office was we took all 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:21.000 the money for the state of Oregon and 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.000 said let's create a budget and 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.000 so I worked with the governor's 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.000 office and we took eighty 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.000 something billion dollars and 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:28.000 we spent it down to the last 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.000 dollar -- there's a team a team 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.000 of about ten analysts -- and 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.000 we presented the governor's 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:35.000 budget to the legislature and 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.000 we defended the government's 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:37.000 budget and I had an amazing 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:38.000 time -- going through that 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.000 process and then in 2017 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:43.000 at the state's higher education 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:44.000 coordinating commission 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.000 as the lead policy analyst 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:48.000 for the public universities 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.000 and in 2019 -- last 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:52.000 legislative session I served 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.000 as the director of legislative 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.000 and policy affairs for the 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.000 entire state agency -- also 00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:60.000 in 2017 getting my 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.000 timelines all mixed up -- in 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:04.000 elected to the Woodburn school 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.000 board -- community that I 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 grew up -- right next to -- and 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.000 I moved to after graduating 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:13.000 from Stanford and moved back 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.000 and moved to Woodburn -- and 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:16.000 there was a lot of changes going 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.000 on in the community in 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:20.000 reached out to me and said 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:21.000 hey are you interested in running for 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.000 a school board -- seat and 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.000 if so then we'll fully support 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.000 your campaigns I said okay the 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.000 deadline was in a couple days 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.000 I did door knocking and started 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.000 getting collecting donations 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.000 and started a campaign and -- 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:40.000 it was a great experience -- I 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.000 I'm in my third year now and 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:43.000 currently serve as the vice 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:44.000 chair of the Woodburn school 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:47.000 district we have the highest 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.000 percentage of students of color 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:50.000 in the state but we also have the 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:51.000 highest percentage of teachers 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:52.000 and administrators of color 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.000 in the state we're number 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.000 one in all three -- and -- in 00:11:58.000 --> 00:11:59.000 we were the -- the state of 00:11:59.000 --> 00:11:61.000 Oregon's first majority Latino 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.000 school board in the state of Oregon 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:04.000 that's how it starts y'all 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.000 I need you and I to just 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.000 from him -- what a great 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.000 story and it's stuff that each 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.000 of you ought to attempt to 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.000 emulate its -- congratulations 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.000 thank you you said you 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.000 thought there were people 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:24.000 here smarter than us -- there he is 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:25.000 we're still waiting on one 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.000 alumni to show up so -- we're 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.000 just gonna keep on rolling and we're 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.000 gonna carry on through and see 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:32.000 how it goes it's gonna be great 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.000 so the questions 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.000 you each kind of touched on 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.000 this a little bit already but 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:43.000 does public service mean to you 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.000 difficult family -- my 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:50.000 parents didn't have any 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.000 education my father died 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.000 when I was twelve years old and I was 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:54.000 raised by a single mom who 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:55.000 had six kids one of whom 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.000 was a quadriplegic -- mother 00:12:59.000 --> 00:12:61.000 never worked -- other than in 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.000 a cotton field when she was 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.000 a kid until they got married 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:06.000 when my father died -- she 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:08.000 became a seamstress and made a 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:09.000 little bit of money -- sewing 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.000 other people's clothes if it 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.000 weren't for social security 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.000 survivor benefits my family 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:17.000 literally would not have been 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.000 able to stay together -- so I 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:23.000 really -- and my older sister 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:24.000 contracted polio when she was 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:25.000 twelve years old and lived as 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:26.000 an invalid for the remainder 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.000 of her life -- which was a 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:32.000 very long time -- so 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.000 put all those things together 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.000 and literally if it had not 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:36.000 been for the help of the 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.000 community -- we would not have 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.000 been able to stay together 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.000 as a -- as a family so social 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.000 security helped by just helping 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.000 us survive -- -- and my mother 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.000 was driven toward education for 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.000 us she got her GED 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.000 on her 80th birthday all 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.000 six of her children got at 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:56.000 least one college degree most 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.000 of us got more than one and 00:13:59.000 --> 00:13:61.000 she saw to it that my invalid 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:02.000 sister who wasn't supposed 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.000 to be graduating from high 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.000 school made it almost to the 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.000 completion of her PhD she taught 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.000 school for a number of years 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.000 was told not to marry because 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.000 if she got pregnant she would 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.000 likely die because she had no 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:18.000 muscles to be able to deliver 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.000 a baby she had four she became 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.000 an accomplished artist she 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.000 did everything that everyone 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.000 told her she could not do 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.000 and I think that impacted me 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.000 significantly so I wanted to 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.000 give back something that I 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:38.000 feel like I had gotten from 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.000 my community or my family 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.000 had gotten from my community 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:44.000 as simple a thing as the -- -- 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:45.000 March of Dimes giving her 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.000 a wheelchair to get around 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.000 in or as simple a thing 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:50.000 as a nineteen dollar a month 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.000 check that mother got as 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.000 long as I was a student until I 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.000 turned 21 those things 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.000 impacted me dramatically 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:61.000 and I wanted to be able to 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.000 give something back and like I 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.000 told you earlier John Connally 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.000 inspired me to do my some at 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:08.000 least of my public service 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.000 through elected office and 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.000 when I started to run I found 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.000 out what you can learn about 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.000 your community what the needs 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:18.000 are what the interests of 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.000 your fellow citizens are and 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.000 so it really expanded my mind 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:26.000 a great deal and I knew that 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.000 our community was in need of 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.000 jobs it was in need of -- 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.000 of economic development it 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:32.000 was in need of healthcare it 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.000 was in need of educational 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.000 improvements and those are all 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.000 things that I began to become 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.000 a part of so I think it was 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.000 the product of my experiences 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:45.000 that pushed me into what I 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.000 wanted to do to be able to get 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.000 involved in people's problems 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:53.000 and try to make them better 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:54.000 well I grew up on a strawberry 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:59.000 farm -- small one and -- Dad 00:15:59.000 --> 00:15:61.000 was -- had an eighth grade 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.000 education my mother had an 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.000 eighth grade education my 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:07.000 grandfather was a strawberry 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.000 farmer and Uncle Lloyd was and 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.000 they three of them farmed this 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.000 little place so I learned early 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.000 on what hard work was about 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.000 but I also saw my father who 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.000 had to be one of the brightest 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:21.000 people I've ever known in 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.000 my life reading constantly 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.000 Grange Hall and listening to 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.000 who would come and visit 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:35.000 I do remember the congressman 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:40.000 came one time -- and that got 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:41.000 me inspired then when I was 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.000 at OSU I met Tom McCall 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.000 and -- and that really got 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:50.000 me fired up to pursue public 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.000 office at some point and it 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.000 really wasn't until I was in 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.000 office that I realized what a 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.000 privilege I'd been granted by 00:16:59.000 --> 00:16:62.000 the citizens of my district 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.000 to go and to work on behalf 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.000 of them and try to do what I 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.000 thought was right in terms of 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.000 my philosophy my background and 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.000 all that I believed in and -- 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.000 I can point to so many things 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.000 in which I take great pride -- 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.000 when I was in the legislature I 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.000 headed the effort to construct 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.000 a -- a convention center in 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:31.000 downtown Seattle and that took 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.000 hours and hours and hours of 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.000 my literally personal time and 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.000 that convention center is there 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.000 today continuing to serve -- 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.000 the interests of the people 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.000 of the state of Washington and 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.000 no I didn't do it all myself 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.000 but I was the chair of the 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.000 committee that got the bill 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:54.000 through I was the prime sponsor 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.000 and played a major role 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:60.000 in it so I realized the 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.000 enormous impact that a person 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:06.000 could have -- and the 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:07.000 satisfaction that comes from 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.000 knowing that you went out there 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.000 and that great big heavy ball 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.000 of public policy you push on it 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:16.000 and darned if you can't move 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.000 it a little bit now and then 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.000 public service to me I think it looks 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.000 it looks a little different 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:25.000 mom was 16 when she had 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.000 me -- my dad was deported and 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.000 so -- my grandparents were 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:32.000 the the rock that I had -- 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.000 growing up and so they grew up 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.000 so I remember that was the only 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.000 income my grandparents didn't work 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.000 so they just received social 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.000 security when I was -- all 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:45.000 throughout high school -- and 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.000 at the time but you know those 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.000 social nets and -- and the 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.000 support we received -- in 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:57.000 that aspect but public service 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.000 as I've grown to understand 00:18:59.000 --> 00:18:61.000 to understand it's really been 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:02.000 service leadership I think as 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.000 at the school board level 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.000 when I -- go back to when I 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.000 moved to Woodburn -- after 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.000 graduating from Stanford I knew 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.000 I wanted to be involved and I 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:12.000 knew I wanted to do something 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:15.000 the community and I also 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.000 felt -- and and I'm sure the 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:19.000 folks here on the panel could -- 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:20.000 feel the same way but I also 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.000 felt a sense of I need to do 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:24.000 something I couldn't just not 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.000 do anything I needed to do 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000 something -- so that's -- that's 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.000 what really led me to run for the 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:30.000 for the school board in 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.000 you know organization saying 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:35.000 reaching out to me and saying 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.000 hey we'll help you out we'll 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.000 run your campaign -- we'll do 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:42.000 that stuff -- and in addition 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:43.000 to that public service also has 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.000 my heart too because my freshman 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:50.000 year here at Western I became 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.000 a parent -- my daughter 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.000 was born well my wife became 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000 pregnant my freshman year at 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:56.000 Western but she was -- my daughter 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.000 was born -- my sophomore year 00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:60.000 and so just seeing all the 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.000 all the support we had from 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:04.000 whether it was this campus or 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.000 family or -- you know truly 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:10.000 public public support -- it 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.000 was what really -- what 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.000 drove me at the time -- to be 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.000 a servant leader and -- and 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:17.000 what I see is important in 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:22.000 doing doing public service work 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.000 great thank you -- Anthony this is 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.000 actually for you how did your 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.000 WOU education help lead you 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.000 to your career just curious you 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:30.000 can you said some really great 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.000 things I want you to elaborate a 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.000 little bit on that definitely 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:39.000 phenomenal -- coming out of out 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:41.000 of high school I wasn't -- I was a 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:43.000 decent student -- but no one 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:47.000 me or supported me and said hey 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.000 you know you're a good student 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:50.000 but you can be better and I 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.000 got that you can be better -- 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.000 while I was here at Western 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:58.000 I mentor I'd mentor some 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.000 folks some undergrads and some 00:20:59.000 --> 00:20:61.000 high school students -- around 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.000 the state -- -- through a -- 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:04.000 through a program -- in Woodburn 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.000 the CAPACES Leadership Institute 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.000 so they matched me up 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:08.000 with students around the around 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:09.000 the state and I -- and I mentor 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.000 them and they asked me about 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:12.000 my experience at Stanford and 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.000 no one ever asked me about my 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:15.000 experience at Western and I'd tell 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:17.000 them -- some high school 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.000 students are -- where do I go to college 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:21.000 what do I do I tell him I received a 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:23.000 better education at Western 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:24.000 than I did at Stanford because 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.000 Western was invested in me 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:28.000 Stanford was okay it was great 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.000 I had my time there -- but 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:31.000 Western was where you built the 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:32.000 relationships where I felt like 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.000 I built the relationships where 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.000 I learned a connection to -- 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:39.000 research and -- studying that 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:41.000 was different from from what I 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:42.000 had learned -- in K-12 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.000 in my undergrad -- in 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:47.000 my -- secondary experience 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:49.000 what -- this is for all of 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:50.000 you what opportunities and 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:51.000 challenges have you faced 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:57.000 in a public service career 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:59.000 opportunities were -- in 00:21:59.000 --> 00:21:62.000 my opinion boundless -- to do 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:05.000 things -- the first thing that 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:06.000 I remember working on as a 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.000 citizen I was still a student 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.000 and -- in undergraduate school 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.000 community to -- rebuild -- 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.000 part of our area -- it was 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.000 it had deteriorated to the point 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:22.000 where -- it was dangerous 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.000 community came up with a plan 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:30.000 came to -- the university to 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.000 ask for student participation 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:34.000 to go in and help solve this 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.000 concept of what they wanted 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:37.000 to do -- I became its leader 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:39.000 I organized the students to be 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:40.000 able to go into neighborhoods 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.000 and to begin -- passing out 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:45.000 literature so the opportunities 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.000 can come from anywhere to -- 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:50.000 facilitating the schools to 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.000 change -- a neighborhood -- 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.000 that might have deteriorated 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.000 to lead an effort to rebuild 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:61.000 streets -- to -- do it's almost 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:04.000 unlimited -- kinds of things 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:06.000 that affected me to the point 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.000 where the most enjoyable part 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:11.000 of my service in the Congress 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.000 came to be constituent 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.000 services responding to the calls 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:17.000 that we got from citizens who 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:19.000 needed assistance in getting 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.000 across a border -- assistance 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:24.000 in breaking through to -- the 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.000 Veterans Administration or the 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:28.000 Internal Revenue Service or 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.000 something of that sort and I'll 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:32.000 I can't say I loved it and sat 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:33.000 there and waited for the phone 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:35.000 to ring to pick up the next one 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:36.000 but it was the kind of thing 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:38.000 that motivated me -- it was 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:40.000 a challenge somewhat like what 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.000 my sister faced they told her she 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:44.000 couldn't do it if somebody's 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:47.000 telling my friend they couldn't 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:48.000 do it I was gonna move heaven and 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:50.000 earth and do my best to make 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.000 it happen and it was phenomenal the 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:55.000 success that we had -- when you 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:56.000 can throw your weight around 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:57.000 just a little bit and you do 00:23:57.000 --> 00:23:59.000 it for good for others I think 00:23:59.000 --> 00:23:61.000 it's very appropriate and there 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:03.000 was plenty opportunity yeah 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:06.000 the opportunities are just 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.000 unlimited there's so much that 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.000 you could do -- and of course 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:12.000 you have to prioritize and 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:13.000 and pick the things that you 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:16.000 really want to -- to work on I 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:19.000 did a lot of work on trade -- 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:21.000 I haven't mentioned this yet today 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:22.000 because it just now popped into 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:26.000 my mind but -- I was on -- the 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:28.000 ways and means committee and that 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:31.000 has jurisdiction over -- trade 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.000 share some jurisdiction there 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.000 but -- we worked with the -- 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:42.000 to allow -- Washington state 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:47.000 apples to be -- -- imported 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:50.000 by the Mexican -- -- 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:52.000 companies that wanted them and 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:53.000 that had not been the case 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:55.000 up until those negotiations 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.000 took place and -- I was back 00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:59.000 and forth -- to Mexico City 00:24:59.000 --> 00:24:61.000 a number of times with others 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:03.000 from the administration and 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:05.000 we finally got that worked out 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:06.000 now that isn't something that 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:07.000 happens on the floor of the 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:09.000 House -- or like -- Nick was 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.000 talking about the constituent 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:13.000 services has nothing to do 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:15.000 with votes or anything like 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:17.000 that but those opportunities 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:24.000 in the legislature we passed 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:27.000 legislation to create gifted 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:30.000 and talented programs for -- 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:32.000 gifted children I was really 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:35.000 motivated because my son was 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:36.000 one of those little guys at 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.000 age four he was reading and by 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.000 the time he was in the first 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.000 grade he was at the fifth sixth 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.000 grade level when he was in the 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:45.000 sixth grade he won the 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:47.000 Lake Washington School District 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:49.000 spelling bee it was so cute 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:50.000 they had to put the little 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.000 microphone down so he could 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.000 reach it you know -- but he beat 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.000 all those other kids because he was 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.000 so bright but in the classroom 00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:59.000 he was just bored to tears 00:25:59.000 --> 00:25:63.000 because -- he was way beyond 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.000 at that level so we got 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.000 that through and there -- I could 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:11.000 go on and on with other things 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:13.000 that occurred in that and 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:15.000 that I worked on -- there were 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.000 also challenges where I knew 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:20.000 that -- what I felt was the 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.000 right vote probably was not 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.000 going to be popular with my 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:27.000 constituents a budget balancing 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:32.000 bill in 19 -- 1989 1990 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:35.000 that -- I voted for it 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.000 included spending reductions 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:40.000 in tax increases and nobody 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.000 likes either one of those and 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.000 percentage in my -- victory 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:51.000 in the next election I it cost 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:54.000 me votes and had I been in a 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:55.000 more competitive district it 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:58.000 could've cost me my office but 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.000 it was still the right thing 00:26:59.000 --> 00:26:62.000 to do even though -- it took 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:05.000 away some votes so I'm I'll just 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:06.000 repeat the question for folks 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.000 if they they might have forgot 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.000 it so the question was what 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:10.000 opportunities and challenges 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.000 have you faced in public 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:13.000 service career -- and this is 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.000 difficult for me and I know 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:19.000 it a lot I think the greatest 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:22.000 opportunity I've had -- is 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.000 just the opportunity to change 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:24.000 lives especially within within 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:25.000 my school district within our 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:31.000 school district -- our district 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:32.000 reflects as -- like I 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:33.000 mentioned has the highest percentage 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.000 of students of color in the 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.000 state -- but they're 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:37.000 farm workers they're first 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:38.000 generation students they're DACA 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:42.000 recipients -- and at Woodburn 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.000 where it's at it's really 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:44.000 rural it's a farm working farming 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:47.000 community -- but -- earlier 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:49.000 when I was elected in and going 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:50.000 through this process as a 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:52.000 a school board member and as a vice 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:54.000 chair -- we've built schools 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.000 which has been amazing -- 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:57.000 we've change the curriculum to make 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.000 it made it more effective for 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:60.000 students -- and we've invested 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.000 in students and so that has 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.000 been a real -- motivation 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.000 motivation for me -- and then 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.000 challenges I faced being elected 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:10.000 official isn't easy and 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.000 I'm sure I'm sure folks -- 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.000 here on the panel could could 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:18.000 I was elected -- I think the 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.000 first few weeks I received 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:22.000 hate email saying -- stuff 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.000 about -- about me and my 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.000 family and -- stuff that was 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:29.000 you know race related -- and that 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:31.000 me -- the first few weeks of 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:34.000 being elected and -- 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:36.000 and raising a family as well 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.000 I have three daughters now -- 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:39.000 one is in the in the district's 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.000 second grader -- I have a 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.000 two year old an eight month 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.000 old and so navigating being 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:50.000 member -- and working and 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.000 it's just -- juggling and 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.000 learning life one of the things 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:57.000 I did -- very early on in my 00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:59.000 congressional career to which 00:28:59.000 --> 00:28:60.000 started in 1997 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.000 the -- -- search effort for 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.000 missing child twelve year old 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.000 girl -- who became missing in 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:13.000 between Houston and Galveston 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:15.000 on Interstate 45 area 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:20.000 community event to search for her 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:21.000 lots and lots of lots of 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:23.000 people literally hundreds if 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.000 not thousands turned out news 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:28.000 media was involved and -- so I 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:30.000 came home from Washington to be 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:32.000 a part of that search was the 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:33.000 logical place for a politician 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.000 to do right but when I -- 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.000 happened to be there when they 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.000 found her body in pieces in a 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:41.000 drainage ditch and when her parents 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.000 were told I was so moved by 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.000 what I saw transpired through all of 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.000 that that I wanted to go back 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:52.000 and try to make a difference 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:53.000 so that somebody else might not 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.000 have a similar situation and I 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.000 learned of the existence of the 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:58.000 National Center for Missing and 00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:60.000 Exploited Children and became 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:06.000 them more into a relationship 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:07.000 with Congress so I founded the 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.000 Congressional Caucus on Missing 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:10.000 and Exploited Children and I 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.000 reached out as a freshman and 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:15.000 got a Republican to join me 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.000 as the co chairs of of that 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.000 organization of that caucus 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:21.000 within the Congress and within 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.000 the first year that I served it 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.000 became the largest bipartisan 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.000 issue based caucus in the 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:29.000 House of Representatives it 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.000 was easier than doing something 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:35.000 like solving gun crimes -- 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:37.000 because who's against helping 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:39.000 children but you still have 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:41.000 to be thoughtful enough and 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.000 willing enough to reach out 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.000 pull people together and try 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:46.000 to come up with ideas that can 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.000 start making a difference in 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.000 those children's lives and so 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.000 over the period of the next several years we 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:54.000 passed -- I'm not gonna say it 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:55.000 was a mountain of legislation 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:57.000 but a number of pieces of 00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:59.000 legislation that affected how 00:30:59.000 --> 00:30:62.000 we look for children -- across 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:03.000 the country with our police 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.000 departments it used to be the 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:06.000 police departments would wait 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:07.000 for twenty four hours before 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:09.000 acting on a report of a missing 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:12.000 child today they can't they 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.000 must respond immediately -- 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.000 and it is by law -- there are 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:18.000 things that can and cannot 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.000 be done with the use of -- 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.000 pornography -- with -- websites -- to 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.000 attract children communicate 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.000 law that affected how children 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:35.000 travel within the community or 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:38.000 out of the community -- I'm I 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:39.000 know it's caused some grief 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:41.000 for some parents to be able 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:43.000 to -- have to go through the 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:44.000 paperwork necessary to take a 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.000 child out of the country with 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.000 them even if there's nothing 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:49.000 wrong with the relationship 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.000 with the child but when I saw 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:53.000 that a thousand children a year 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:54.000 were taken out of the United 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.000 States and still are today 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:59.000 through typically parental 00:31:59.000 --> 00:31:63.000 abductions -- it -- it made 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:04.000 a difference in a lot of in 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:08.000 a lot of people's lives so 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:09.000 taking the opportunity taking 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:13.000 the initiative -- to -- change 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:16.000 the way we use parts of -- of 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:17.000 of what we learn within the 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.000 community my best example and 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.000 the one I'll leave you with -- the 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.000 Amber Alert y'all have all 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.000 of you are familiar with that 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:26.000 started in a little bitty town in 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:29.000 Texas near Fort Worth -- I had 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:30.000 nothing to do with it when it 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:33.000 started but it grew and and as 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.000 it grew it became a part of the 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:38.000 plan for our caucus to promote it 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.000 and through the efforts of 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.000 members of Congress it became 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.000 the national program -- that 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:46.000 it is today known as the 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:50.000 Amber Alert so we promised time for 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:51.000 interaction and this seems like a 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:53.000 good time for questions does anybody 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:54.000 have any questions you want 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:56.000 to ask our panelists anything 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.000 you're dying to know anything 00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:61.000 at all can you guys speak to 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:02.000 like some of the challenges you 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.000 faced like maybe working across 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.000 party lines -- and maybe like 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:14.000 examples if you have some yeah 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:17.000 I think the most challenging 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:19.000 issue and the best example 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:20.000 of working across party 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.000 lines I can think of is the 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:25.000 policy toward -- Central 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:26.000 America during the Reagan 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:28.000 administration that I worked 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.000 on where you had a communist 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.000 government supported by Cuba 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:36.000 and the Soviet Union in -- 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:40.000 Nicaragua -- and the contras trying 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.000 to -- -- replace that 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:46.000 government was a democratically 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.000 elected government -- at the 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:51.000 time we didn't think that the 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:53.000 Reagan administration approach 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:56.000 was appropriate and -- a number 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.000 of us spent -- weeks and many 00:33:59.000 --> 00:33:62.000 trips back and forth to all the 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.000 various countries in Central 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:06.000 America and developed a policy 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:10.000 that -- was truly bipartisan 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.000 and -- we were able to get 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:15.000 that through Congress I'll 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.000 tell you too the first one had 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:19.000 to do with energy policy and I 00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:20.000 found myself standing in the 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:22.000 back of the room on the floor of the 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.000 House of Representatives one night 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:24.000 and there was a debate going 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000 on on the government's energy 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.000 policy and instead of really 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:29.000 debating the points that was 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:30.000 with that were within 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.000 the legislation the speakers 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:37.000 tended to bash the other side 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:38.000 so a Democrat we get up and 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:39.000 say something ugly about the 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:40.000 Republican who just spoke the 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.000 Republican would get up and 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:43.000 say something ugly about the 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.000 Democrat that just spoke and 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:48.000 this happenstance bipartisan 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.000 group of people that talked 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:51.000 together were standing in the back of the 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.000 room said this is ridiculous 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:56.000 why don't we go write a bill and 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.000 the thought caught on and we 00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:60.000 decided let's meet on Tuesday 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.000 night when we come back in 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.000 next week -- we'll get a room 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.000 in the capitol and we'd see if 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.000 we can't develop our own bill 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:09.000 but we have to promise we're 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:10.000 not going to use the committee 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:11.000 structure we're not going 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:12.000 to tell the leadership of 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.000 either of our parties we're not gonna 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:16.000 allow lobbyists to come in 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.000 and participate we're going 00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:21.000 to bring only a few staff to 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:22.000 do the research that might be 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.000 necessary in our process we 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:26.000 had twenty six people that began 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.000 to meet -- and we would meet 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:29.000 at least once sometimes twice 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.000 a week -- and for the next 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.000 six weeks we started out by 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:36.000 saying if there's any point 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:40.000 that will be a deal killer to 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.000 you any of us that were sitting 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:43.000 at the table put it on the table 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:45.000 now and let's resolve it 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.000 either take it off or change 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.000 it fix it whatever and if there 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:52.000 is anything that you will not 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.000 continue to work with us on 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.000 if it's not present let's get 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.000 out right now let's get the 00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:62.000 two most the most difficult 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.000 pieces of these things out of 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:05.000 the way and then we can work on 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.000 the on the body of -- of our 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.000 legislation we worked through 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:11.000 that there were some things 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:12.000 that everybody agreed if it's 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.000 included we're gonna lose his 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.000 support her support so take it 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:19.000 off the table and same thing 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:21.000 with with the positive -- items 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.000 that had to be included we came 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.000 out with a twenty six page 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.000 long bill that immediately 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.000 got a hundred and fifty six 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:30.000 members to sign on to it as 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:31.000 soon as they read it because 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.000 it made sense it was logical 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:36.000 it was developed by us from 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:39.000 our hearts -- locally and 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:41.000 and -- and from ideas that we 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:43.000 know came from our districts we 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.000 introduced the bill and it never saw 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:48.000 the light of day the lobbyists 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:51.000 got a hold of it and put enough 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.000 information out that prevented 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:54.000 the leadership from allowing 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.000 even to go to a committee and 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:58.000 it died went nowhere but in 00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:60.000 the meantime the members stood 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:01.000 around patting each other on the 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:02.000 backs said man that's why I came to 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.000 Congress this was fun and it 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.000 is fun when you work to develop 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.000 the the give and take that -- 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:11.000 that that is necessary between 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:13.000 differing ideas you know it's 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:14.000 our diversity that made the 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.000 United States of America the 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:18.000 great country that it is not 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:19.000 our similarities so if we 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.000 make everybody believe like 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:23.000 everyone else we're not going 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000 to accomplish a great deal so 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.000 if we capitalize on that we 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.000 can we we we can move things 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.000 to the point of significance 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:35.000 and that happened with a with a 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.000 science problem that occurred a 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:41.000 man who was a particle physicist 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:42.000 he was at MIT he's now in 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.000 Cern in Switzerland he came 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.000 up with the idea to build an 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:48.000 alpha magnetic spectrometer 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:52.000 an AMS it's a comparable -- the 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.000 particle physics tool like a 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.000 super conducting super collider 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:57.000 for those of you who might be 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:58.000 science majors hopefully you 00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:60.000 heard of it -- there's one 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:01.000 in Cern I think there's one 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:02.000 someplace in the northern part 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:03.000 of the United States but it's 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:05.000 much smaller twenty six mile 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.000 long tunnel that is used to 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.000 fire atoms at each other when 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:11.000 atoms collide they break apart 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:13.000 and -- study the particles that 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.000 conceived of the idea 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:19.000 that these particles already 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:21.000 exist naturally in space and 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.000 so instead of artificially 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:24.000 creating the explosion of 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.000 these atoms why not go to 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.000 where they exist and read 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.000 the data that can be gathered 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:33.000 it in space and so he got 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:35.000 fourteen countries together 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.000 States and got each of the 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.000 countries to agree to spending 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:42.000 a certain amount of money to 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.000 develop their part of this 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.000 alpha magnetic spectrometer 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.000 a piece of equipment about the 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.000 size of a -- Volkswagen Bug 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:50.000 that got built over a number 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.000 of years part of the United States' 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.000 role was to put it on a 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.000 space shuttle and fly the space 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:58.000 shuttle to the International 00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:59.000 Space Station and install it 00:38:59.000 --> 00:38:60.000 what happened to the space 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.000 shuttle program we canceled 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:06.000 it therefore we canceled that 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:10.000 science project Sam Ting came 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000 to me through a mutual friend 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.000 and asked if I would champion that 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.000 in Congress we knew that it 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:16.000 was going to take a significant 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:19.000 bipartisan effort I was in 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.000 the minority then and it was 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.000 going to take -- reaching out 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.000 across party lines to find 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:27.000 support an increase in money 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:29.000 we had to find how to pay for 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.000 this hundred and fifty million 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.000 extra dollars that we needed 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:33.000 it was going to go against the 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.000 policy of the administration 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:36.000 because President Bush had just 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:38.000 canceled the use of the space 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:39.000 shuttle program we were going to 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:42.000 have to fly an additional flight 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.000 we succeeded it took a long 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.000 time to do it we got every 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000 member of the Texas delegation 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.000 together in one room including 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:53.000 its senators minus one and we 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:56.000 got a complete buy in by every 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:58.000 member and from there we went 00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.000 out to the rest of Congress 00:39:59.000 --> 00:39:61.000 and that legislation passed at 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:03.000 the end of 2008 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.000 and -- astronaut commander 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.000 Mark Kelly took that piece of 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.000 equipment to the International 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:14.000 Space Station in 2005 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:16.000 I believe -- no excuse 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.000 me 2009 -- 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.000 and -- it is there today gathering 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:23.000 data hopefully to be able to 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.000 teach us enough about what we 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:26.000 can do with particle physics to 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.000 protect our astronauts as they 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:29.000 go through space for longer and 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.000 longer distances it'll also affect 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:33.000 us here on Earth because these 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:35.000 are cancer causing things that 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.000 are constantly -- traveling 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:38.000 for the universe I'm sorry 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.000 that took so long but it's 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.000 important it was a success -- 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.000 we were able to win the support 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.000 for it and it was hugely 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:50.000 important to our to our future 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.000 so recently in our class we 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.000 kind of learned about state 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.000 pension crisises and this 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:57.000 my question might be geared 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.000 towards Chandler with your 00:40:58.000 --> 00:40:61.000 background but how do we combat 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:02.000 issues with the pension crisis 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.000 going on currently and why is 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.000 it not necessarily being as 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:10.000 discussed in like the media 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.000 you're asking about -- pensions 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.000 provided by employers 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:17.000 by the government yeah 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.000 oh and social security and and 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:24.000 that the I spent many many 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:26.000 hours on this issue and and I 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:28.000 could put you so sound asleep 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:31.000 with everything I know about it but 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.000 I'll be very brief at one time 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:38.000 employers had -- what was a -- 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.000 defined benefit pension plan 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.000 come to work for us and every 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.000 year your pension is vested 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:51.000 and there is a benefit after 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:53.000 a certain number of years that 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:55.000 is set and you can count on 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:58.000 that almost no major employer 00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:60.000 provides a defined benefit 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.000 pension pension plan anymore 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:10.000 passed -- a legislation ensuring 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.000 those pension plans and a 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:16.000 number of them -- -- companies 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:19.000 went bankrupt and never funded 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:20.000 their pension plans and -- 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.000 oh -- United Airlines was 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:26.000 one of them so now what you have 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.000 is a -- the more common 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:33.000 plan where it's called defined 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.000 contribution and most often 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.000 it'll be -- you and your 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:41.000 employer -- contribute a like 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:45.000 amount to a fund and -- 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.000 then that's available to you 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.000 when you retire it's not 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.000 taxable when it goes in it 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.000 is taxable when it comes out 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:57.000 then there's -- social security 00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:60.000 and -- social security by 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.000 itself is almost never going 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.000 to be adequate to provide 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.000 for -- enough income for you 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:11.000 to retire -- comfortably and 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:12.000 the other part of that is the 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:14.000 social security is so poorly 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:17.000 funded that -- we're we are 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:19.000 not collecting enough money 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:20.000 people save all the social 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.000 security trust fund well the 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.000 social security trust fund 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:26.000 is just words on numbers on 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:28.000 paper the money is actually 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.000 been spent already and -- 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:33.000 so there's no fund there 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:35.000 to draw on -- it's just the 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:37.000 credit of the United States 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:39.000 government so -- for the 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:41.000 future the amount of money 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:43.000 coming into social security 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:47.000 from payroll taxes is not 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:49.000 enough to pay all the benefits 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:51.000 of people like Nick and I who 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.000 are retired and that's going 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000 to keep getting worse until 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.000 the baby boomers start to die 00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:61.000 off and -- the the benefits 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:05.000 aren't so great so it's a 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.000 it's a really difficult issue 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:11.000 to -- for government to try 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:16.000 to -- to influence I I guess 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000 suggest is a much better funded 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.000 and a -- greater benefit 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.000 from it but it's going to 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:33.000 take -- more taxes we may also 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:36.000 have to at some point -- and 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.000 this is going to really -- be 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:43.000 difficult politically but -- 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.000 there's a term that won't come 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.000 to me -- this is the problem 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:50.000 with getting old that happens 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:53.000 a lot I was giving a speech 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.000 one time and I couldn't think 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:58.000 of the word Alzheimer's and everybody 00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:61.000 got a kick out of that -- means test 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.000 and the -- and the idea there 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.000 would be if you have a certain 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:11.000 level of income from your own 00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:13.000 investments and retirement 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.000 or whatever then your social 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.000 security benefit would be 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:21.000 reduced -- -- by that 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.000 amount so that's going to be 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.000 just oh hideously -- difficult 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:27.000 to enact but it may be that 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:29.000 that's going to have to happen 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:30.000 so the people who aren't so 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:33.000 well -- taken care of now 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:35.000 what you're going to run into 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:38.000 is -- the opposition that look 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:41.000 I paid into social security 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:43.000 and I also saved and sacrificed 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.000 I didn't have a big boat and 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.000 all the stuff that the other 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:49.000 guy did who doesn't have the 00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:51.000 savings account why should I 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:53.000 be penalized so that you can 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:55.000 take my get the idea so it's 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.000 going to be difficult -- and 00:45:58.000 --> 00:45:60.000 I don't see us going back to 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:03.000 the defined benefit plans I 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:04.000 don't think that's going to 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.000 happen companies just simply 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.000 are not gonna -- fund those 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:10.000 programs -- wasn't wasn't a part 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:11.000 of the problem -- apologize 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:12.000 for interrupting -- but 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:13.000 wasn't part of the problem the 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:14.000 fact that Congress gave the 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.000 ability to the corporations 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.000 who oversaw all these funds to 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:19.000 be able to borrow against them 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:22.000 and use that -- their employees 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.000 money for their own purposes 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:27.000 of of investment -- well I 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:28.000 don't know that that was ever 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:30.000 permitted I I'm not sure that 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.000 but I do know that the 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.000 they just simply didn't fund 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.000 adequately those retirement 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.000 plans and when I was in the 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:41.000 legislature we had to -- hire 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:44.000 an actuary study the amount 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:45.000 of money that it would take 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:46.000 to fund the pension plan for 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.000 the state employees and then 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:52.000 catch up and put enough money 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000 into the plan so that it would 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:57.000 fund those -- retirement 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.000 benefits and cap the old system 00:46:59.000 --> 00:46:62.000 because it was so generous 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:03.000 that there was never going to 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:05.000 be enough money to pay it and 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.000 again bipartisan -- effort 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:10.000 to get that through and I've 00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:12.000 I've played quite an important 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:14.000 role in that effort that's a 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.000 great question boy I don't know 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:18.000 one of the things that happened 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:19.000 in the state of Texas to the 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:21.000 teacher retirement system there 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.000 and as the appointed agencies 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.000 began to change to reflect 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.000 the leadership the elected 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:42.000 leaders decisions about where 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.000 the funding for the money that 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:45.000 was in the teacher retirement 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:48.000 system was going to go -- began 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:51.000 to be made for reasons other 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.000 than the best return on the 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.000 money and one of them that 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.000 still galls a huge amount of 00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:59.000 people in the state of Texas 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:06.000 to invest in Disney Enterprises 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:08.000 which was where a lot of the 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.000 money -- -- that was in that 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:12.000 system huge amounts of money 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:13.000 and teachers by the way 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.000 used to get thirteen payments 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:16.000 a year on their annuity 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:18.000 programs but the reason that the 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:19.000 decision was made to no longer 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:21.000 deal with Disney was because 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:24.000 they allowed gay employees 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.000 see how society can have an 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:28.000 impact on so many different 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.000 things -- in our lives so I'm 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.000 to follow up with my classmate 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.000 in retirement plan what is your 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:41.000 thoughts about the healthcare 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:46.000 plan as we as we speak now 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:47.000 I have a short comment but I'll 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.000 let you do the hard stuff -- 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:51.000 when I was in the Congress 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:55.000 I proposed -- legislation 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:56.000 that would allow access to 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:58.000 our Medicare system at an 00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:61.000 individual's expense so I 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:02.000 thought that if we could begin 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.000 to decrease the age of access 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.000 to it and and and calculate 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.000 the cost to allow a person to 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:10.000 participate in it -- if we can 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:12.000 get a large enough number of 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.000 people to to participate -- 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:16.000 that gave them an opportunity 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:18.000 to have -- if you want to 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:20.000 call it insurance -- 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:23.000 got access to health care 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:24.000 differently than just going and 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.000 buying a -- a private insurance 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:29.000 that private insurance policy 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:34.000 put into place -- there was a 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:39.000 need to -- -- or a desire to 00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:41.000 bring more professionals into 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:42.000 the system and we knew that 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:44.000 there would be more doctors 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.000 if more people began to demand 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:49.000 process what it did just like 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:51.000 social security did it expanded 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:55.000 our life expectancy -- and our 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.000 quality of health and all of 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:60.000 a sudden we -- began to see us 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.000 living past sixty five and a 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:04.000 half years old -- or whenever 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.000 you had to stop working if it 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:07.000 was social security and then 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:08.000 we started getting access 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.000 to higher quality healthcare 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:11.000 because more doctors were 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:13.000 getting more money and more 00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:14.000 people therefore wanted to go 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.000 into those professions -- and 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:19.000 it began to change all of our 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:21.000 society I think that we need 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:23.000 to find ways to expand access 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.000 for the people that have it 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:27.000 I'm not sure I agree with a 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.000 program that would -- cause 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:32.000 large numbers of people 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:34.000 to wait for for free care 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:36.000 unfettered -- -- that I 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:38.000 think we can find ways around 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:43.000 I'll stop short saying universal 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.000 care -- because only it's it's 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.000 a matter of semantics -- but 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:51.000 access critically important 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:53.000 my daughter lives in Australia 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:54.000 she's been over there for 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:56.000 twenty one years she's married 00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:58.000 has two boys and they were born 00:50:58.000 --> 00:50:61.000 over there -- and that's a 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:02.000 pretty good healthcare system 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:04.000 but it's radically different 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.000 from what we have and I think 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:08.000 would be radically different 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.000 from what we would have if 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:11.000 Bernie Sanders is President 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:13.000 and gets what he wants -- 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:16.000 for example physicians in 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:18.000 the United States are paid -- 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:24.000 salaries or incomes than 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:26.000 in the rest of the world that 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:30.000 alone the amount of services 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:31.000 provided by the healthcare 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:34.000 systems around the world are 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:36.000 nowhere near to the level of what 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:38.000 we have here -- Nick makes the 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:41.000 point of -- the extreme 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:44.000 cost of the final -- illness of 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.000 people and we treat very 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.000 very ill -- terminally ill 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:53.000 people right up to the very 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:55.000 end most of the other countries 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.000 in the world do not -- the 00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.000 administration of our system 00:51:59.000 --> 00:51:61.000 is extremely complicated and 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:04.000 costly -- a number of these 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.000 kinds of issues would have 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:09.000 to change now Medicare for 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:12.000 the elderly works really well 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.000 I have a Medicare advantage 00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:16.000 program through Providence it 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:19.000 is super the way it works they 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.000 even pay -- for me to go to 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.000 the gym three days a week that 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:25.000 makes a lot of sense doesn't 00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:27.000 it the old guys in there 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:29.000 working out like we do in the 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:33.000 gym's full of us and -- 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:36.000 discussing politics some kind but 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:37.000 there we are we're working 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:40.000 out and staying healthy 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:44.000 but a huge political problem 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:47.000 for what Bernie Sanders wants to 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.000 do is people who have -- employer 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.000 provided health insurance like 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.000 their employer provided health 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:55.000 insurance and they don't want 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.000 to go on a Medicare type system 00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.000 and I don't blame them because the 00:52:59.000 --> 00:52:62.000 employer provided system is 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:04.000 is better it just simply works 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.000 better for them so it's going 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:09.000 to be difficult I think that 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.000 if we could do something along 00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:13.000 what Nick talked about 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:20.000 the problem now with -- the 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.000 Obamacare is when you remove 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.000 the requirement to participate 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:26.000 I mean you just blew up the 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:29.000 system if you -- in Australia 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:31.000 you have no option but to 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:33.000 pay into the system you don't have to 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.000 use it if you don't want to but you 00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:37.000 have to pay into it and then 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.000 it's available to you and 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:40.000 that's the only way that you're 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:43.000 going to -- make a system work 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:46.000 so how do you create a hybrid 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:48.000 with employer provided on the 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:49.000 one hand and then a public 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.000 system -- on the other that 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:53.000 that's tricky but it can be 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:55.000 done I think how many of you 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:56.000 know that that Medicare is 00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:60.000 run by Blue Cross Blue Shield 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.000 two hands I didn't know it 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:04.000 Blue Cross is the managing 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:07.000 entity for -- from 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:08.000 Medicare it's an insurance 00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:11.000 company -- -- they are very 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:15.000 slow -- at paying why 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.000 would they be slow at paying 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:20.000 they get to use the money it's 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:21.000 an insurance company they are 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:24.000 a for profit insurance company 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:25.000 now there's some restrictions in 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:26.000 there but I think that those 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:27.000 are the kinds of things that 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:29.000 we need to learn enough about 00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:32.000 and begin to study how we can 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:34.000 make corrections and safeguards 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:36.000 to it -- also ask if you're 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.000 considering a managed care 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:40.000 program consider the elderly 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:41.000 gentleman that lives across 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:44.000 from the hospital that I manage 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:46.000 who is on a managed care called 00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:49.000 Well Plan or something in 00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:51.000 in our area of Texas 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:53.000 he cannot come to our hospital 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:55.000 nor can he come to the clinic 00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:58.000 there because they aren't on his 00:54:58.000 --> 00:54:61.000 plan so yes it can be great 00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:03.000 for someone who may have some 00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.000 specific circumstances it could 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:07.000 also be horrible for them he 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:08.000 got sold a bill of goods and 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.000 now this gentleman who doesn't 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:13.000 have a car doesn't have access 00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:18.000 to healthcare and he has a plan 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:20.000 we got to be careful with what 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.000 we do and we're leaving it up 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:25.000 to you to figure out what's 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:27.000 best for you some of us don't 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:29.000 have the ability to do that -- 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:31.000 so be cautious with what with 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:33.000 what you do and what we promote 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:37.000 could bite us pretty hard I 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:39.000 always had in the back of my 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:44.000 mind this phrase -- well I'll come 00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:49.000 up with it later I've forgotten its exact 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:56.000 wait 'til you see the solution 00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:57.000 these are great thanks for your 00:55:57.000 --> 00:55:59.000 questions -- I'm not sure what 00:55:59.000 --> 00:55:60.000 your time is but with the sake 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.000 of what we have today -- will you be 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.000 around afterwards for questions 00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:05.000 we perfect we have -- 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:07.000 a little more discussion -- for 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:08.000 the last part we have today I'd 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.000 like to introduce to you Director 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:13.000 of SLCD Dr. Adry Clark 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:14.000 Adry has some tips and advice 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:15.000 in looking for public service 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:16.000 careers and she wants to share 00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:19.000 them with you lets welcome Adry 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:22.000 applause 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.000 I will I will quickly add 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:25.000 that I worked for SLCD 00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:29.000 and for Adry I worked for Adry as 00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:30.000 an undergrad and she was 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:31.000 amazing and is SLCD 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:34.000 no you are amazing 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:38.000 in 2012 and Anthony 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:39.000 was working there I think it 00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:41.000 was maybe a few weeks into 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:43.000 the you working there when I 00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:44.000 just said you're going places 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:45.000 I think you're going to be 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:48.000 President one day so he's just 00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:51.000 that kind of person so so what 00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:54.000 I was just listening these 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:57.000 wonderful -- men here today and 00:56:57.000 --> 00:56:60.000 it was -- what stood out for me was 00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:05.000 in their lives they all had 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.000 people in their lives that 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:08.000 just kind of woke them up to 00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:10.000 something they they cared about 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:14.000 something that they -- that 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:15.000 they all kind of became aware 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:18.000 of in their lives and -- and 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:19.000 it -- made them want 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:22.000 to get involved and I think 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.000 that's -- such a big part 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:27.000 of thinking about going into 00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:28.000 a public service career in some 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.000 way -- they also had someone 00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:33.000 in their lives that may be 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:35.000 encouraged them to get involved 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:37.000 or connected them to people 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:41.000 just a really big part of 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:42.000 getting into any kind of 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:45.000 career like that and you all had 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:48.000 experiences you had a lot of 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:49.000 you have experienced difficult 00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:51.000 things or become aware of 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:57.000 society so -- so our office 00:57:57.000 --> 00:57:59.000 can help with all the different 00:57:59.000 --> 00:57:61.000 aspects related to kind of 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:03.000 thinking about becoming more 00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:05.000 aware of what do you care about 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:07.000 what's meaningful to you what 00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:14.000 of things related to helping 00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.000 people gain consciousness of 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:18.000 kind of what they care about 00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:19.000 what -- what are they good at 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:21.000 what are their strengths what am I 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:23.000 passionate about -- we do that 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.000 through assessments and just 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:27.000 career counseling in general 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:32.000 connecting people with other 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:34.000 people or groups so whether 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:35.000 that's through informational 00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:37.000 interviews you come talk to 00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:39.000 us and say I'm kind of curious 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:40.000 about this or that I say 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:41.000 oh yeah well have you thought 00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:42.000 about talking to that person 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:44.000 or -- let me connect you with 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:48.000 this person -- so we are very 00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.000 connected to a lot of different 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.000 agencies and people in the 00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:53.000 community we also have events like 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:55.000 for instance we just had a 00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:57.000 nonprofit and government career 00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:59.000 fair so where we had lots of 00:58:59.000 --> 00:58:63.000 different -- state and -- even 00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:04.000 federal organizations there 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:06.000 looking for interns or looking 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:07.000 for people to hire after 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:12.000 graduation -- so that's that's 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:15.000 a really big part of that -- 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:18.000 we have a lot of listings for 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:20.000 opportunities to get involved 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:21.000 that was also a really big part 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.000 of their careers was getting 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:24.000 experience you don't really 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:26.000 know something until you try 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:29.000 it and and I always ask people 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:30.000 you know if they like sushi 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:33.000 who here likes sushi okay 00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:35.000 how do you know you like sushi 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:38.000 I've had it you tried it that's right so yeah it's 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:40.000 it's the same with anything 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:41.000 else you don't really know if 00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:42.000 you care about something or if 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.000 you really understand it until 00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:48.000 you try it so -- we connect people 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:49.000 with a lot of different kinds 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:51.000 of experiences and what I like 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:54.000 about Anthony is that he just dove 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.000 into everything he was involved 00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.000 in everything completely I 00:59:58.000 --> 00:59:59.000 was overwhelmed but -- maybe 00:59:59.000 --> 00:59:60.000 he wasn't overwhelmed but he 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000 was just like involved with 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:04.000 everything and he had a child 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.000 and he had all these things 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.000 going on -- and so I think that's 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:11.000 really really important just to 01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:14.000 connect and try and be involved 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:16.000 with as much as possible so 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:19.000 we have a lot of -- we know a lot 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:21.000 about internships volunteer 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:24.000 opportunities -- and -- and 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:25.000 those kinds of these are really 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:27.000 important to getting involved 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.000 for credit or just a you can 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:32.000 do it for -- for pay or just 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:35.000 to get involved -- also just 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:37.000 to put your best foot forward 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.000 out there whether it's finding 01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:42.000 an internship or job -- you're 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:43.000 gonna need to communicate and 01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:44.000 articulate everything you've 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:47.000 been learning here so -- you've 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:50.000 gained a lot of -- knowledge 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:51.000 through your experience and 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:52.000 and Anthony mentioned that you 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.000 know you you really have been 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:55.000 supported you've learned a lot 01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:57.000 but how do you articulate that 01:00:57.000 --> 01:00:59.000 on a resume or a cover letter or 01:00:59.000 --> 01:00:61.000 an interview those are skills 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:03.000 that are very very learnable 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:05.000 and we can teach them to you 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:07.000 just if if you invest even 01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:08.000 two or three hours with us 01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:11.000 on any of that -- you'll feel 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:12.000 more confident you'll feel 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:15.000 more prepared -- and you'll be 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:17.000 you'll be ready to go out there 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:19.000 and so -- so that's really 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:22.000 important -- figuring out what 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:23.000 you wanna do connecting with 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:26.000 people find the experiences and 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:27.000 then knowing having the skills 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:31.000 to to pursue them so I think 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:32.000 Anthony's a perfect example even 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:34.000 though he didn't need us for a 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:36.000 lot of things I think you did 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:38.000 take advantage of our resume 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:41.000 writing you know service even 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:43.000 other students with resumes you 01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:45.000 had a lot of interaction with 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:47.000 the inside of our office 01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:49.000 I think we did a few mock 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:51.000 interviews and he totally 01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:52.000 took advantage of all of that 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:54.000 stuff so -- use him as a good 01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:57.000 example and then -- you are 01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:59.000 also really engaged with your 01:01:59.000 --> 01:01:61.000 faculty -- you took advantage 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:02.000 you know you have great faculty 01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:05.000 here who are very connected and 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:09.000 and taking advantage of all 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:10.000 of those people who are not 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:11.000 take advantage of the people 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:12.000 but take advantage of the 01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:13.000 fact that they really want to 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:16.000 help you and use 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:18.000 your resources we are great I 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:19.000 think we're a great resource 01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:21.000 we've got your back we we can 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:24.000 help you -- connect and just 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:25.000 confidently go out there and 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:27.000 and try things so good luck 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:29.000 to you and I have some -- postcards 01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:30.000 I'll just kind of have 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:34.000 them go thanks Adry we have a 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:35.000 few minutes do you have anything 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:36.000 any final remarks you want to 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:38.000 add anything you're -- 01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:40.000 I would encourage you to -- 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:42.000 check into the in -- internship 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.000 programs -- Anthony said that 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:45.000 he served an internship in the 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.000 US House of Representatives I 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:49.000 served an internship in the US 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:50.000 House of Representatives in 1969 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:54.000 calling the White House and 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:56.000 asking to speak to -- Tricia 01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:58.000 Nixon I want to ask her out 01:02:58.000 --> 01:02:60.000 on a date -- I didn't make it 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:04.000 past her secretary -- but a 01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:06.000 thrilling experience that gave 01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.000 me the opportunity to I've used 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:10.000 this term before rub elbows 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:12.000 I was in an elevator with Ted 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.000 Kennedy and -- and -- and got 01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:15.000 the opportunity to talk about 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:17.000 the weather with him and and 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:19.000 saw Everett Dirksen for those 01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:21.000 of you who may have read about 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:23.000 him in history he's now has a 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:24.000 building named after him one of the 01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:25.000 office senate office buildings 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:27.000 it's named after -- raspy voice 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.000 Everett Dirkson but that these 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:31.000 were people that have done 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:32.000 great things for the course 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:35.000 of -- -- of our the history 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:37.000 of our of our government and 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:40.000 to realize early on that you 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:43.000 come from the same cut as each 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:46.000 of them do -- and have 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:47.000 the confidence to know that 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:49.000 you can step into their shoes 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:51.000 and do at least what they do 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:52.000 if not more the sooner you 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:54.000 realize that the sooner you act 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:56.000 on that the better off you're 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:57.000 going to be and the better off 01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:58.000 your community is going to be 01:03:58.000 --> 01:03:61.000 because of it campaigns are 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:03.000 a great experience as well -- 01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.000 you'll have -- -- congressional 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:08.000 campaigns I can't remember do 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:09.000 we have a Senate campaign this 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:12.000 year in the state we do -- 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:15.000 it won't amount to much but -- at 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:17.000 the congressional level state 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:19.000 legislatures level there are 01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:21.000 all kinds of opportunities to 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:23.000 volunteer and to be involved 01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:25.000 and I can tell you it's a lot 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:29.000 of fun to work on campaigns 01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:30.000 and you meet people and you 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:31.000 meet people lots of people 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:33.000 networking cool campaigns are really 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:34.000 helpful and you meet people 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:35.000 and I think my biggest piece 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:38.000 of advice would be -- ask 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:39.000 like Adry mentioned talk to your 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:41.000 your faculty you work with 01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:42.000 work with staff you want to get 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.000 involved on a volunteer in a 01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.000 campaign -- ask someone questions 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:48.000 but the worst case scenario 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.000 is they're gonna say no and 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:51.000 that's okay that's 01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:53.000 can happen but a lot of the 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:55.000 times -- they're gonna work 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:57.000 with you one example I'll give 01:04:57.000 --> 01:04:59.000 is -- I'm working 01:04:59.000 --> 01:04:60.000 right now with a student who 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:01.000 is a senior at the 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:04.000 University of Oregon and he really wants 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:06.000 to do it I met with him over 01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:07.000 coffee they introduced me to them and 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:09.000 he says -- I wanna run for 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:10.000 for United States Senate and I 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:11.000 said okay have you ever been 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.000 to DC he said no I'm like okay 01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:14.000 well maybe you should maybe should do 01:05:14.000 --> 01:05:15.000 a congressional internship and 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:17.000 find out he's a senior at the 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:19.000 U of O said he doesn't have 01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:20.000 anything to do the last term 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.000 and I said have you talked 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:22.000 with your your faculty have you 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:23.000 reached out to any of the members of 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.000 Congress and see if you can do 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:26.000 an internship spring spring 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:28.000 term -- he said he hadn't but 01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:30.000 I shared with him -- how I 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:31.000 worked with Dr. Henkels 01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:34.000 at the time I was going to to 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:35.000 do the congressional internship 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:37.000 in DC but I was also receiving 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:38.000 numerous scholarships here 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:40.000 at Western and Western told me 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:41.000 like hey it's great you're receiving the 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:43.000 Presidential Scholarship and 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:44.000 all these scholarships but if you 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:46.000 leave for two terms essentially 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:47.000 you're gonna lose all those scholarships before 01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:49.000 you come back for senior year 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:52.000 into Dr. Henkel's office and 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:53.000 talking with him and saying I don't 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:55.000 know what to do I received this 01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:56.000 once in a lifetime opportunity 01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:58.000 but I I also need to keep my 01:05:58.000 --> 01:05:60.000 scholarships for senior year 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.000 flexible he said well how 01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:05.000 about let's no particular plan 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:06.000 let's talk about your experience in 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:10.000 in DC and -- we could do -- and 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:11.000 what we ended up doing was a research 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:13.000 a research study -- and when I 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:14.000 was in DC I wrote a I wrote a 01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:15.000 few papers about my experience 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:17.000 and received credit for it -- 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:18.000 but I wouldn't have had that 01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:20.000 opportunity if I didn't ask and 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:22.000 the worst case scenario you ask 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:23.000 they say no majority of the 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.000 time they'll work with you and they'll 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:26.000 be flexible ask and you shall 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:28.000 receive seek and you shall find 01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:32.000 knock and it will be opened 01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:34.000 are there any final questions 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:35.000 from anybody anything you're 01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:39.000 dying to know okay what 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:41.000 should new employees what 01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:43.000 characteristics make them 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:45.000 stand out as people that the 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.000 employer wants to invest in 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:51.000 self confidence is critically 01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:54.000 important -- degrees in 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:58.000 specific areas not so much 01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:02.000 saying what what -- I think 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:04.000 I got as far as my education 01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:07.000 was concerned for what -- it 01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:09.000 helped me do later in life yes 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:11.000 the fact that I had a degree 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.000 in biology and -- and training 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.000 in education caused me to be a 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:18.000 decent teacher when I taught 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:20.000 biology and physical science 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:23.000 of beans a difference when 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:24.000 I started running for public 01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:27.000 office it was what I learned -- 01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:29.000 and my ability to interact with 01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:32.000 people -- to be able to connect 01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:36.000 my fraternity believe it or 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:37.000 not was important I wish 01:07:37.000 --> 01:07:40.000 I had had someone helping me 01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:42.000 study a little bit more rather 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:43.000 than play the amount that I 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:45.000 did but it helped me with my 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:48.000 people skills -- and to be a 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:50.000 well rounded -- -- -- person 01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:53.000 to come into most of the jobs 01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:56.000 now registered nurses -- nurse 01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:58.000 practitioners some positions 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:03.000 to have very specific knowledge 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:05.000 about the areas of their work 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:07.000 for the greater part is how do 01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:10.000 you conduct yourself -- I want 01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:11.000 somebody that is of high moral 01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:13.000 value somebody that's not gonna 01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:16.000 show up to pronounce a death 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:20.000 drunk -- -- are something of 01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:23.000 of of that sort these -- these 01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:24.000 these are key things that are also 01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:28.000 governed by law -- so maybe 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:29.000 that's what I would focus 01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:32.000 on my brother and I own a small 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:34.000 manufacturing company with 01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:36.000 plants in Washington state and 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:39.000 in Virginia we hire everything 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:42.000 from -- literally laborers 01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:44.000 right up to our general manager 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:48.000 of the entire company and the 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:50.000 I'd say that the the one thing 01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:52.000 that's most important for us 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:54.000 that we're looking for is a 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.000 commitment to make our company 01:08:57.000 --> 01:08:61.000 better and what is such a turn 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:03.000 off is how much am I gonna make 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:06.000 how much vacation do I get -- 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:08.000 what are all the -- we'll get to that 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:10.000 later what do you think you 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:12.000 can do to help our company grow 01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:15.000 and be a better place and a guy 01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:18.000 like Anthony would just he just 01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:20.000 lights up a room and that's 01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:22.000 the kind of person that I think 01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:23.000 we're looking for out there 01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.000 no I don't have to tell you I'm an old guy 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:27.000 but somebody walks in covered 01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:29.000 with tattoos all of a sudden 01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:30.000 I'm not too interested anymore 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:33.000 sorry that's just where I come 01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:35.000 from so it's something to think 01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:37.000 about as you make a decision am 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:39.000 I gonna put ink under the skin 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:42.000 of my body who's going to react 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:43.000 and how are they going to react 01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:47.000 to that so but I think that 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:48.000 the most important thing is 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:51.000 that -- you're interested 01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:53.000 in what that company does and 01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:55.000 you want to make it a better 01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:59.000 place two things quickly one 01:09:59.000 --> 01:09:62.000 I think you enter the company 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:04.000 or the organization -- willing to 01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:06.000 learn be open minded and 01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:08.000 be ready to learn on on day one 01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:11.000 the second thing oh my goodness I 01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:14.000 now I -- I had it I should've wrote it down 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:15.000 what was the second thing I was 01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:17.000 gonna say are you in your seventies too 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:19.000 it's rubbing off it's 01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:21.000 it's rubbing off -- the second 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:22.000 thing I was gonna say here -- 01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:23.000 the second thing I would say 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:24.000 come in open minded ready to 01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:28.000 learn -- make sure that the 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:29.000 the person who's gonna be 01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:30.000 supervising you is invested 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:32.000 in you that's very important 01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:34.000 critically important especially 01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:35.000 early on in your career 01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:36.000 you want someone who is going 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:38.000 to be -- there for your best 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:41.000 interest and and there to help 01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:42.000 you grow professionally and 01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:44.000 help you develop oh I mention 01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:49.000 probably forty percent of 01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:51.000 the applicants we have are -- 01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:54.000 eliminated from consideration 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:56.000 by drug tests that's tragic 01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:58.000 we're not gonna hire anybody 01:10:58.000 --> 01:10:60.000 that's using drugs of any kind 01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:03.000 and so that's something to 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:04.000 keep in mind too I don't know 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:05.000 what other employers are doing 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:08.000 but that's TruckVault's policy 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:09.000 well thank you everybody for being 01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:11.000 here today hope you learned a lot 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.000 and had a great conversation 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:14.000 thank you to our panelists we've 01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:16.000 really enjoyed hearing from you 01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:18.000 let's give a round of applause 01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:22.000 applause 01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:23.000 thanks again for coming 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:25.000 and have a great day everyone