Hampshire, new england and a very generous its the only venue i know where you can go and see the major candidates running for president of the United States at a venue like this and its free because of all of these wonderful supporters that we have. I also want to thank the New Hampshire institute of politics for being such incredible partners with the new England Council as we cohost. You say its been a very busy cycle so far with a very crowded field we look forward to spending more time here in the months ahead in fact we will be here tomorrow for breakfast with another democratic candidate. The council also has several other events that he planned in the next couple of weeks including a breakfast in Portland Maine with senator Susan Collins and on the 17th of june we of the newly elected congressmen from the district and then finally on june 27 the governor. We will have many more coming up in the weeks and months ahead and we hope many of you who are members will participate. So now its my pleasure to introduce the institute of politics he is my good friend and the executive director whos done an outstanding job of updating the importance and significance of this program and hehe has been a great partner r the council we ar council we aro have him so for the purposes of introducing it in the formal introduction to the United States and other, give a warm appreciation to the l. [applause] he saicheeseheads just dont me. What a great crowd we have this morning i know some of your youe up late so its impressive to have a full room. We have a Great Partnership with the council weve been doing a lot of things with them over the years and many of the friends who were in this room we have put on some outstanding events and this is one of them. Im very pleased to introduce senator Amy Klobuchar serving her third term from minnesota and before that she was a county attorney in the most populous county in her state of the chief prosecutor and before that, the corporate attorney so some of you have that in common with her of course. She and her husband who is right here with her travels the country and they have one child, abigail and i thought that this was really interesting to send her got into politics when she was released out of the hospital after giving birth to abigail and she had a couple of complications and it wasnt good but she had to leave the hospital. She got very involved in her state and passed a mandatory 48 hours for new mothers to stay in hospitals an in the state of minnesota and later bill clinton signed into law and a lot of it has to do with the senator. [applause] regrettably she didnt attend saint and some college, she was at Yale University where she got her jd. Shes on the judicial committee, commerce, agricultural and pools where she is a ranking member. I want to make a special note before she comes up at the end of the congress senator klobuchar pass more legislation than any other senator. And who wrote the bible thank you and for that and shannon is here go where are you quick state senator and attorney general does everybody know it is his birthday today . [applause] then we have former New Hampshire attorney general delaney forgot thank you for being here. I first spoke at the New Hampshire democratic dinner thank you to the former chair and also the council to canada we can see canada from our porch burkle actually had up the canadianamerican group in the senate and it goes there almost every year so its great to see you. And also judy, i thank you the Senior Advisor to jean shaheen my Campaign Manager used to work for jean also now his girlfriend is heavily introducing her because she just graduated from law school also keep in mind they were dating five years i got the whole story in the back room how they met in a very romantic setting while they are both working for jeannie and it was during a Martin Omalley speech left so im hoping Something Else will happen while he is working for me and then of course, my husband right here. Thank you. [applause] we missed the bruins game but we are happy for you because we were in iowa and coming back here but i am a big hockey fan of course, coming from minnesota but perhaps you have noticed the Minnesota Twins left so that cinderella operation and we are excited. I was at the world series they are a fun team to watch. It is wonderful to be here as i said i love speaking to people in New Hampshire and to be forever etched in my memory what its like to speak in New Hampshire when their family spent the weekend easter weekend and went up to Mount Washington with a very nice family trip and we were at a church when i get introduced a little kid comes to guess my autograph and then the next day when we had our t1 hall the kid raises his hand he is 11 years old and says i would like to know if you think if bob mueller testify should he go be for the house or senate first should be the intelligence or judiciary . New hampshire he is 11 years old a half that is why i love your stay. Something else in common we love the outdoors and that same weekend we had a great hiking trip. We managed to go instead of using the main road and i was so happy and we go up there and they say in a very nice way the road is blocked off so you might want to be careful i thought that you can walk but not drive so we take the trail literally i thought i would fall over on the i. C. E. And we get up to the top there are Senior Citizens of their why didnt you take the road . What is wrong with you . [laughter] we are two of the only states in the country that have both women senators which is very cool. [laughter] in my favorite story of jean in New Hampshire is when she got to the senate we sat next to each other for a long time i told her the story how i requested Hubert Humphreys desk when i got to the senate and i opened up the desk to look for his name and they accidentally had given me Gordon Humphreys desk. [laughter] i had learned by than pick your battles. [laughter] so when jean came at i tell her the story i say because they sign their name so i left dash i left the thing to give the names and i realize i do have Hubert Humphrey so the other thing they have is a strong sense of independent voters if you dont believe me governor jesse event or a. So getting to my endeavor at this very moment i am happy to be in the room where nobody else is running for president. But tell me if you are. That is good to know. Announced my candidacy in a major blizzard and we could have taken it inside but i decided i wanted to make the point in New Hampshire fashion im coming from a different place running for this office perk i dont have a lot of money i have been an underdog but i have one every single one and i want to make the point by announcing that when its time to cross the river of our divide to a higher plane of politics and when i first got involved in politics it was about grit and that story of being kicked out of the hospital our daughter was in intensive care and we were up all night for co it was a pretty tremendous experience for some people it is fine but if you have a kid sick and its your first baby it was a ridiculous situation perk after she got a little better i went over to legislatures i was not an elected office advocated for the new rule to have a 48 hour hospital stay and i learned if you talk about things to mostly men at the legislature or episiotomys they said we will pass the law we dont want to talk about this. [laughter] and when we got to the Conference Committee they wanted to delay the implementation by quite a bit of two years so i brought six pregnant friends of mine to the Conference Committee so when this should take effect they said no so they moved it up to the date that governor signed at that was my first lesson of politics. My background is a little different from the candidates and certainly donald trumps. My grandpa was a minor working 1500 feet underground his whole life. He wanted to be in the navy but he had to quit school to go to work because he had nine brothers and sisters as the oldest boy from an immigrant family and his parents died shortly thereafter one kid was taken to an orphanage he had to get her he said he would in two years and he did that married my grandma and raise both kids and then my dad and his brother. Education was their future so he literally saved money in a coffee can in the basement to have enough money to send my dad to a twoyear Community College why am such a believer in those degrees with a different path to success and then my dad finished up at the university of minnesota as a generalist his whole life. He is now 91. My mom grew up in milwaukee also not a lot of money daughter of swiss immigrants and she wanted to be a teacher. She came to minnesota as a strong Teachers Union member teaching second grade until she was 70 and people still talk to me how she was their favorite teacher she had a Monarch Butterfly unit she would dress up as a Monarch Butterfly and said to mexico or boston where that Grocery Shopping afterwards and never understood except she thought it was funny until one week after she died at the visitation a mom came up to me crying with an older son next to her was very disabled and said this is my son he had your mom in second grade he loved her and that butterfly unit so every year after he graduated years later he got a job bagging groceries at the supervalu every moment year your mom taught the unit she would come to the store get her groceries and stand in his line and give him a hug. That was my mom. I stand before you today as a grand daughter of an iron ore miner and daughter of a teacher a newspaperman as a first woman elected to the u. S. Senate from the state of minnesota and candidate for president of the United States. [applause] that is what this country is about no matter where you come from or who you know, you can make it in america we are a country of shared dreams and i am so concerned every single day before i made the decision and after about what this president is doing to fracture that community. If you think of what you have going in New Hampshire you dont always agree politically but you come together for your state and to discuss politics in a civil way you are a model for the nation in that way but yet every way in our civic life the president tweets out mean stuff about immigrants, people of color , people in his own party when they dont agree with him or he sends out a doctored video if you were in politics or teach Political Science understand what this means because he is condoning what we are most fearful of that we will break down on either side not just fake news but literally fake videos of peoples faces at people will believe that is a complete lie. That is one of the scariest things coming our way in politics they get someone in the white house actually sent this out and this is what i am talking about fracturing our civic life. The matter democrats republicans or independents this cannot continue and i believe we need to restore and revive the heart of our democracy heart of our politics and heart of america that is my agenda and the focus of my campaign has been all about. Im talking about the issues i think are challenges coming our way. We had a downturn ten years ago i was just talking to a woman who was delightful about her story how she got divorced ten years ago then decided she would pull herself up. Not only does she have the work with makeup but also real estate and started investing at a good time she was so proud to be a Woman Entrepreneur in you think of the story told over and over in this country from businesses small and Large Businesses willing to hang in and employees we got out of that downturn and now when you are the president of the United States you dont just rest on your laurels and gloat you look at the challenges in front of us right now because then you cannot move ahead to the next challenge if you are not getting ready for it so what are the challenges right now . I believe that this with the major discussion but infrastructure. Maybe not the sexiest thing i was on the cuomo show when i talked about they would pay for it he said generations have cuomos have run on this and lost. [laughter] thats not true they just decided not to run for presiden president. Give me a break but it is a breadandbutter issue where we know our nation is falling behind. Your mayor is here somewhere from manchester. Thank you and we were talking about the capital oil project how important it is to this area and to have the most people of any area in the country that doesnt have Commuter Rail and that is just wrong. We have to be able to respond to what we need and what you need in my state you need more workers to come up to fill the jobs and that is that entrepreneurial spirit that you have in your state and that you have been known for so long and make it easier for people to come back and forth with a great Tourism Industry that could be greater if more access. Gray education institutions. More and more young people that dont want a car to get to their jobs so all of this is about matching the infrastructure sought matches where we are right now. And making my announcement i was a mile and a half away from that bridge that collapsed only eight blocks from our house. The bridge we drive every day with her family then one day the bridge just fell down in 13 people died and you saw the community that came together afterwards but more than anything a story about infrastructure. That is why i lead with the infrastructure package because there are so many republicans that want to work on it and i know we can get it done is just an example of challenges we are not meeting that donald trump could have met with that pacs bill. I did not vote for it i had Serious Problems with it but if you could have combined it may be a 25 percent each point what have been a significant reduction with 100 billion think of how much that would have bought the rail project here in further Infrastructure ProjectsRural BroadbandCell Phone Service which i have noticed in parts of New Hampshire there is no service. My husband said try to think of a New Hampshire example last night and he noted this is his joke he can suffer through it he said your state motto is live free or die but if you die at least you want to prevent it from happening by calling on your cell phone if it doesnt work you have a real problem. Okay didnt go over that well. [laughter] the last time we try that one laptop but the point is that there are still issues in this country to be wired for broadband brick i have been there. Thats a vacation for people in minnesota but it is wired everywhere we have to find a way to do that. Im on the Conference Committee and know how to do this by 2022. With income inequality the simple idea that we will not be a Strong Economy if people are able to participate you can manufacture what you want but if you cannot buy them you will have a problem meaning changes to taxes especially the tax bill to make sure we do not leave this debt on the shoulders of those in front of us. It will take a long time but we can do it as angus king said it took 30 years to walk in and it will take us a long time to walk out but there are ways to think about this in terms of our spending and in terms of our taxes. The next big goal is education changes brick of the president talks a good game with Community Colleges and the degrees that you need that is near and dear to my heart with apprenticeships but was such an opportunity from the downturn to make that a priority to figure out to give incentives to the states to make apprenticeships and those one year degrees and certifications to fill those jobs that are open right now that are wellpaying and to incentivize students to go into that work. That is the major thing i want to do my mother got a ged and then a Community College degree than a four year degree and the best score that year in the state of iowa on her accounting exam now gainfully employed as an accountant ever since. There are many paths to success. Another piece is Immigration Reform to make sure again we have enough workers. Looking at the wall as an economic success necessity look at where the entrepreneurs were immigrant 70 fortune 500 Companies Might now are headed by people born in other countries. 25 percent of the west Nobel Laureates were born in other countries. Immigrants dont diminish america they are americana. [applause] comprehension Immigration Reform and even being in the group working with the dreamers compromise we actually had a compromise. Was not easy putting 14 of us in a room for weeks. We could not even get a plan to keep the dreamers there they are popular they didnt come here through no fault of their own but they made it impossible to do. I see that especially in states like yours with low Unemployment Rate looking at the National Employment figures of people are moving , and thats why comprehensive reform is the answer there for those people in New Hampshire if you have learned one thing that the 2013 senate bill from the cbo the nonpartisan cbo brings the debt down by 158 billion in ten years. That is why Grover Norquist made his top priority i called him as a witness to the joint Accounting Committee to talk about the economic benefits of doing Immigration Reform the right way because people come out of the shadows, pay taxes, more workers the unions are for this because people dont just work in the shadows bracket was the way to go and we can still do it now. This is one of the challenges that nobody has done anything about another is health care. Many things you can do right away like costsharing and reinsurance. Jean has a good bill on the costsharing piece and it has worked in states like alaska to help bring down immediately some of the premiums then you can move to a public option what president obama wanted to do in the beginning with either medicare or medicaid to create more competition. Taking on pharmaceutical prices literally have been left on their own to do whatever they want and the results have been escalating to the point where insulin has gone from 18 of ideal that that 1200 a month. A restaurant general manager in the twin cities once he aged out of his parents insurance could not afford his own insulin and he started to ration it and after two months he died it used to cost nothing and you can see those stories over and over in terms of what is happening. I will not go into all of my remedies but i am a lead on medicare negotiation that is my bill since i got to the senate. Sitting with senator mccain we were sadly lost him to bring in less expensive drugs from other countries, thank you canada. And to create competition which is the idea. There wasnt enough competitors in the market maybe they dont raise the prices if they have a trigger that is what you do that with the drug shortage then you can bring in a safe competitor from other countries the third idea is another bill i have a senator grassley to stop off paying off generic to keep the products off the market. I was at the Recovery Center that you have embattled with here with addiction and opioids and to carry the burden way beyond the size of your state. That in my own state with my own life with my dad as an alcoholic with three dwi after such a successful journalist is where he was facing jail time and had to make a choice. Jail or treatment and he chose treatment and in his words because of his faith and family and tough love that came from the government, he was pursued by grayson got his life together now he is 91 and he said to me is a a group still visits a mad assistant living so i make this a major priority and there is a way to pay for this i always talk i will pay for everything if you run for president you better have real ideas and Real Solutions to show how you will pay for it check it out on our website it includes lawsuits and those that are creating the drug and then you can see the funding for Mental Health we have had a big increase of suicide Climate Change this will help in addition to the rising sea levels also the flooding in the midwest with the fires raging like the Colorado InternationalClimate Change agreement today number one. [applause] and bring the clean power rules and other things we need to do in the last challenge is to make sure democracy is working that means doing what we try to do in our state which is make it easier for people to vote and not harder for them and there has been challenges here in the past as well but if you think about georgia were 53000 ballots were held back by the secretary of state running for governor and many of the reasons were because the hyphen did not match or a signature did not match that is not democracy when you go out of your way to deny people the right to vote. In texas so much news that donald trump calling for boycotts and calling the duchess a nasty name but then people miss to the fact that texas secretary of state resigned because of a scheme and a fried to keep people off of the voter rolls. It was that bad. He resigned in so what i would like to do as president is make this a major priority for if you have the right chemistry in congress you can literally pass my bill everybody registers to vote at 18 so how do we bring more people into that democracy they and shut them out . It may take a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United which is what i think we should do. [applause] the last thing we need to do to win what is a priority i win every place every time and everywhere i have run including people that were expected to win and that includes two major races i was out funded. That includes my race in high school for secretary of Student Council where my Campaign Slogan was all the way with amy k but i will not use that anymore. [laughter] as it has been pointed out have 100 bills signed into law as the lead democrat including the big School Safety law we did recently and 34 bills while donald trump was president. But in the end i think we need someone that can win across the country, that understands after democracy has been tormented by someone who doesnt seem to value what brings us together is bigger than what tears us apart and my way of doing work in bringing people together as i have is going to be a big big remedy for that. Not only how i run this campaign not just where i go comfortable but uncomfortable as well which is how i had 42 trump countys last time every counties including michelle bachman. [laughter] not just by going after people but to bring them together and that is the message not just for how you campaign but how you govern. Thank you. [applause]. We have time for a few questions. Senator the president has threatened to put a tariff of 5 percent a month on goods coming in from mexico. Having so much discussions of tariffs or canada with steel, new england number one number two exporter to canada. We have a trade bill in washington that is in getting this much support how do we go forward quick. I am still looking at that trade bill that is the issue of just how this president has handled working with the rest of the world. If you try to isolate yourself with your head in the sand you miss the opportunity that comes knocking at your door and if youre not careful as we have seen with the security issues, they will bang at your door. I dont like how he has handled the world. We should be standing with their allies. It is hard to stop the entire country of canada, that is an exaggeration but with the campaign right after the g7 we went up there to talk to the members of Canadian Parliament and then when canada would be left out of the trade deal arranged for a dinner for us to go over to the Canadian Embassy to talk to the ambassador and those issues to continue to push the white house to include canada in that agreement. And also our top trading partner from New Hampshire also with border issues and access to make sure the border infrastructure with private money to match the public money to make that easier and have commerce go back and forth. That tariffs in general i thought what happened with mexico and the way he used that on the immigration issue is not a good thing. Is not a good precedent it is completely unrelated and what do we find out . In the headline that most of that was made before he tweeted he had gotten this miraculous agreement in response to the crisis he created. I think in general if you step back i dont think having been just been in iowa that the farmers of the midwest or workers of New Hampshire should be poker chips that he is using them in the game for one of his bankrupt casinos. You have got to do trade in a tough way. That is true im not against using tariffs in a targeted way. We had problems with steel dumping in with the Obama Administration they started to up their enforcement of the steel dumping laws and it made a major difference we opened up iron ore mines again because of the fact they took it seriously and they werent before that. Those are very targeted work going on specifically with the specific countries. Yes, china has been a country stealing intellectual property, subsidizing industries creating in an even Playing Field with trade. The answer is of course, to work with our allies not to do everything alone, then go back to the negotiating table to get an answer. Just to bring it back i know there is lobster issues in maine. But the midwestern story of the soybean farmers one from northern minnesota even before the terrorists were in place but he could not make it and committed suicide and in his family for generations because then where they buy the soybeans . Farmers from other countries not just one year but then they get a one or two year contract. That is the concern as this goes on that in addition to that chaos for business and customers that will create different supply chains to have a longterm impact that we cannot measure right now you cannot just keep taxing year after year the better solution is to allow the market and people to sell their goods to market. Senator, from aarp with Social Security benefits cut by 25 percent in 2034. I think it is 2035. What specifically do you have looking at medicare to prevent such cuts quick. Exactly. Thank you i have been opposed to these schemes to privatize and i think both Social Security and medicare have been the best programs that we have and they both have to stay in place. Different things for different programs but lifting the cap or to make sure it has the funds that it needs to make sure we dont raise the Social Security money but also add theres looking at what we just put out to supplement for those it is good for Small Businesses with those savings accounts 49 million americans that have no savings right now and in addition all they have is Social Security. The idea is to adjust where people are working more jobs and combining jobs they have no pension or 4o1k so the idea is to have 50 cents an hour it is opt out and a tax credit paid for by changes to the tax bill so it is easier for Small Businesses to afford it and the first 2500 every single year is taken out for emergency expenses because four out of ten americans right now do not have 400 to pay for an emergency room visit that puts them back then you get in a cycle so then you can take these accounts you decimate you pay 600,000 we need to get some innovative ideas but im sure as we go around if you have any about the retirement issue with this economy but as far as medicare , it is important to keep medicare strong. Some of this is making sure we continue to make her Health Care System work better im all for high quality low cost jeanine took me to hitchcock a few years back to talk to them because they combined with mayo to do a lot of work in costeffective care looking at results as our goal. That was the idea out of the Affordable Care act thats good for medicare and every line if we can do that. And we need to do everything we can to make the Health Care System more affordable. Pharmaceutical prices and 20 percent of Health Care Expenses if you include hospital pharmaceuticals. If you can imagine and for the seniors to negotiate prices. Thank you. We have time for two more questions. I work with the Community Health centers i want to speak up on the soybean farmer and access to world care especially medical and rule on health. So this Community Health care is something we tried to be fat that we put together and now looking at expanding its across the country to have a Mental Health community. That is one thing. Second is the problem we have many states in the country we went from a state based system to a communitybased system and there are real advantages to that it is the right thing to do but as the attorney general knows, we then dont have enough financially in our communities to deal with this i have been in hospitals in my state with a guy locked up in a room they dont know what to do that on over to transfer him. Those things happen every day in america so the idea to have more counselors in the schools , more for rural especially in the ability to have someone with Mental Health expertise out there pushing on the Mental Health parity issue in one of the big authors on the bill is only democrat those are issues how that was implemented so that you should be able to get help one out of five but the increase of suicides in america. It isnt just what you are hearing on the news. And not the excess people should have. But it is a very sad thing and we should be stepping back to figure out how we will reverse that trend. One final question. And then i have a red sox related story. [laughter]. Hello senator. You mentioned Climate Change and the paris accord with those clean power rules that obama put forward which is a many year project to make sure it was realistic we could get it done but trump did not put into plac place. Beyond that do you have specific ideas on your approach quick. Yes the Climate Change agreement and those standards are things i could do first week on the job i put this on my twitter feed the other day dont believe everything but they say thats a joke you have to get the senate to pass a and that is not true. We could sign ourselves back into that agreement and then the other two things i am sure there are comments and then to think those rules were going into effect anyway and they have been preparing and those coops to understand that issue and thats why they did it as an average because not everyone needed it right away and they also have been realizing this comes their way with International Standards that are happening. Beyond that we have to look at a lot of things like building standards Going Forward and more Green Infrastructure. The electric grid putting money toward that that is why my proposal has major components with Green Infrastructure with renewable electricity standards and a number of things for those that have not happened looking how we transition to a clean power economy when it comes to reducing Greenhouse Gases so before there just wasnt the political will but that is what is missing. They are out there but i voted for a cap and trade during the downturn and i wished with the National Renewable industry standards and that is what people wanted to do and then they decided to do cap and trade and then we got nothing not even the electricity standard so the world has changed people seat if it is not 100 years from now but it is happening right now if anybody sees that video of the dad with those wildfires near paradise he is singing her to her to calm her down that is not happening 100 years from now but now. Anybody have a quick question . Anybody have a quick question . Thats a quick question. [laughter] we can talk later but for the reasons of income inequality we have to make some changes. And serious changes i was the one in the group on the budget to increase one year so we can get the report out on the Debt Commission which is a bipartisan group. I dont agree with everything in it but it was left to gather dust on the shelf all of those proposals suggested a combination of spending decreases and that just hasnt been happening and in fact, with a republican tax bill that adding 1 trillion to the debt that we did not need. With the International TaxationCapital Gains if you want some way to reward people but not the way that it is now with the carried interest all the things we have been waiting to do like Immigration Reform with 150 million and then to put together a package it took us 30 years to walk in it takes us 30 years to get out. And so to end my story is that when our daughter graduated from college a few years ago the speaker was theo epstein the red sox general manager and i was like really . He is a speaker . Im a twins fan. But then i got to know him a little bit he gave an amazing speech about the seventh game of the world series they were expected to win he is sitting next to his son it was such a big deal in chicago after their drought of winning that literally people had radios on their handsets all over chicago to hear this. The sun is saying the odds are so great. And then the games go to hell and it is bad and then the clouds come in and then the rain delay and he just has this feeling that they will lose so he talks about standing outside the players locker room the most diverse team they ever had in speaking to a generation of young people about the promise of their generation so he looks in the room normally with rain delays they look at their phones and they are depressed especially if they are losing but this was different so now they all look at each other talking about the season win or lose then there is a moment of hope then they go out and they win the game. There wasnt a political message on it but i will. [laughter] we can spend the next year looking at her phones, not looking at each other complaining whether the tariffs or the debt or the hatred or looking at each other even with differences politically or even in different Political Parties to say this is not the america that we want. We can go out there is a team. 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