00:00 - Sen tell us

00:02 - about the significance of today's event

00:04 - getting the senate outside of the chamber

00:07 - and doing something historic like this.

00:09 - Well

00:10 - history to me is very important and the fact that this is only the fourth time in

00:15 - the last hundred years

00:17 - that the state senate has actually traveled outside

00:19 - of the state capital procession

00:22 - but the importance of this is the fact that we're

00:24 - coming back to the birthplace of this republic

00:27 - and the whole.

00:28 - Idea

00:29 - of the constitution

00:31 - and the importance of it it gives us.

00:33 - A sense of.

00:35 - The weight

00:36 - of

00:37 - Bearing the responsibility of being the stewards

00:40 - this commonwealth and the stewards of the

00:42 - health safety and welfare of our constituents

00:46 - and you brought a student with you can you talk about

00:49 - how

00:50 - you

00:51 - picked the

00:52 - person that you are going to bring with you

00:53 - while it was

00:54 - kind of unique we were given the opportunity to bring a student and I work with I

00:58 - have seven counties in my district

01:00 - a lot of school districts

01:01 - and so I put it out there that I wanted to have an essay contest

01:05 - on the character of the foul Saunders

01:07 - and how that was significant in

01:09 - us coming to our constitution

01:12 - and

01:12 - we put it out there I kept myself out of this election process

01:17 - but we had a team evaluate him

01:19 - one was stand out on the essay and.

01:23 - It was unanimous

01:24 - so

01:25 - That helped

01:26 - make it easy and

01:28 - he's

01:29 - he's a very remarkable and I think you're going to find out a very eloquent speaker.

01:34 - And would you write about and what interested you in this.

01:38 - Yeah so the

01:39 - topic of the essay was to talk about

01:41 - what was significant about the character of the American founders

01:44 - and I thought there's a number of things that are significant about the American

01:47 - founders but there's one that stands out more than any

01:50 - thing else and that's the sphere of Liberty that the American founders have.

01:54 - Every other nation on earth has a constitution which tells the

01:58 - people of that nation what they can do but the American constitution

02:01 - is different the American founders went the opposite way

02:04 - they said we the people are going to tell the government

02:07 - what they can can and cannot do

02:08 - and that's the very thing that this great nation was founded on

02:11 - the very thing that started here in Philadelphia.

02:15 - What are you involved in

02:17 - at bald eagle area.

02:19 - I'm involved in a number of clubs I gotta say my

02:22 - favorite is definitely just track and field and cross country and all those

02:26 - amazing sports with my amazing coaches I'm also part of the.

02:30 - Nhs

02:31 - the ff fe and our local sch after that fellowship of Christian athletes.

02:36 - Center one more thing what what other kinds of

02:38 - things are you doing back in your district to

02:41 - commemorate

02:42 - the two fiftieth

02:43 - or the seven counties there are a whole lot of

02:46 - it'd be a long list you've got all day.

02:49 - We have a number of parades we've had the belden

02:52 - dedication the.

02:55 - U s two fifty

02:57 - committee has been around all

02:59 - sixty seven counties

03:01 - so I've had the benefit of being

03:03 - at the belt dedication dedicated copies of the libertyville

03:07 - and

03:07 - all seven of my counties and

03:10 - that's been a lot of fun

03:12 - the parades there are.

03:15 - Museum.

03:18 - Projects that are going on

03:19 - throughout all the counties

03:21 - so it's a lot of fun and it

03:23 - definitely keeps me hopping.

03:25 - Thank you very much.