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I want to welcome you to another in our wonderful series politics and eggs which goes back many years to 1997, some people are surprised to know that if you ever saw the show, the west wing, if you are student at saint anselm you say ive never seen that. But politics and eggs in the west wing at one point, when president bartlett is signing the x in the oval office, very funny. Hopefully we will have that happen again. A couple of quick things you will see around the room our sponsors, many of you are here, without our sponsors we could not produce the series. It is because of them that we can do this. We can do it often. And it is in my estimation the most Popular Series in america as far as politics goes. We have more political activity in this building and on this campus than any other campus in the u. S. And a lot of it is because of these great Core Partners that we have a couple of other things, about the state and some college, the Senate President here, is here. Remember she is the middle of a budget process with senator del sander who is here as well. They will be, i want to mention something about this quarters magazine as you know, the president is a graduate. Ive been here about nine years and in those years, my best partner is the new england counsel for almost everything that they do and we do, we do together. It is been an absolute fantastic partnership. And my friend who continues to amaze me with the people that they bring throughout new england. To their membership and they are our great partner with politics and eggs so for the purposes of introduction, my great friend. Thank you you said it just the way i wrote it. I appreciate it. Let me also acknowledge the presence of a good friend, a very good friend of mine, and somebody that i have enormous amount of respect for. Barbara cappiello. The first lady of somerville. She is accompanied by her husband, who is a member of the United States congress for almost 20 years, not from the commonwealth of massachusetts and did an outstanding job. We want to thank you for being here, also a very good friend of our guest speaker this morning. I too would like to give a kudo to neil, the entire team here for the extraordinary work they do as well as the team at the new england council. Who organize these events day in and day out. To them i say thank you. Thank you to the sponsors, people always ask me how are you able to provide these forms and they are free and you provide breakfast its because of all of those wonderful sponsors you see, the great corporate neighbors in New Hampshire, and in new england, and if you know anyone who are so used to thank you for providing the politics and ask because its a great opportunity to hear from distinguished candidates running for the highest office in our land. Councilmembers if you are interested, we have them for you. This coming friday, we will be in maine. We will hear from the Senior Citizens are for me, senator susan collins, the following monday we will hear from the newly elected congressman, from the second congressional district. Who will be speaking to the new england councilmembers. On july 8, we will back here. We will hear from the junior senator from the great state here, many more events will be coming. Today we are delighted to welcome congressman tim ryan to our politics and eggs. He is currently serving his ninth term representing ohios 13th congressional district. Which includes the cities of akron and youngstown. As well as other surrounding communities. He got his start in politics after graduating from Bowling State University where he worked as a congressional a capitol hill. Is also, New Hampshire ties. A lottery from the university of New Hampshire school law, where he was known as the Franklin Pierce law center. At the law school he returned to ohio where he briefly served in the state senate, before being elected to congress in 2002. He is the Senior Member of the very influential House Appropriations committee, where he chaired the legislative branch subcommittee. He is the cochair of the congressional manufacturing caucus, where he worked with his colleagues from both sides of the aisle including several members of the new england congressional delegation. To strengthen Manufacturing Base and reform u. S. Trade policies. Is also the author of not one but two books. The first was published in 2012 and is titled, a mindful nation, how a Simple Practice can help us reduce stress, improve performance, and recapture the american spirit. The second was published in 2014 titled, the real food revolution, healthy eating, and the return of the American Family farm. In april he announced his candidacy for the 2020 democratic president ial nomination. And we are pleased to have him join us today to share his vision for the future of our great country as he complains here for the first in the nation primary state. Please welcome the honorable representative tim ryan. Thank you so much. It is a great honor to be here. I went to the Franklin Pierce law center, and New Hampshire really is a second home for me. And through that process i heard about politics and eggs breakfast. I wasnt the top student at Franklin Pierce so i never thought i would actually be speaking here at the politics and eggs breakfast. But im honored to be here and i know how deeply this tradition runs in the country. Congressman, a colleague, but he and i used to be roommates in washington dc so its great to be here with you and barbara, old friends from Franklin Pierce and New Hampshire. Alderman dan oneill, this thank you so much for being here. This is a great honor. I believe we are at an Inflection Point in the countrys history. I come from an area in northeast ohio, halfway between cleveland and pittsburgh, my district includes cities like youngstown, akron, and we are at the at the epicenter of industrialization in the United States. We have seen and i can tell you stories going back 40 years, about my wifes dad who lost his job at youngstown sheet and tube in the late 1970s, it was back in the day where if they closed a factor they did not give you 60 day notice. And say hey in 60 days we are going to close it down. Back then, you would show up to work, and the gate would be locked. And he was off work for 13 months, he had to roof houses and sell insurance and cut down trees, he just bought a house, just had his second kid, which was my wife. Who that had a daughter later. [ laughter ] i could go back 15 or 20 years, telling you a story about my cousin donnie who was a vietnam vet, his last act at the factory was to unbolt the machine from the factory floor, put it in a box and ship it to china. And people from that factory had to do the same thing to mexico. And then go down to mexico and literally train the workers who would eventually take their jobs. And i could go back just a few weeks to the General Motors factory in my congressional district, just outside of youngstown ohio. It used to be 16,000 people in the factory and two days after thanksgiving they laid off the final shift. And the reason i tell you this, is that when these factories close i know who was working in them. They are my friends. They are family. And when these things happen, when somebody dies of an overdose, there is a good chance we know who they are. And i believe it is going to be critically important for the next president of the United States to deeply understand what is happening to the workingclass in the United States of america. We see and hear, the economy is going great, the stock market is up, the Unemployment Rate is down. Yeah. Yeah. People have two jobs. People have three jobs. And the people who used to make 30 or 40 or 50 bucks an hour are now making 15 bucks an hour. It has an effect on our it has it is having an effect on our society. We see the ripple effect. My wife is a first grade schoolteacher. We have three kids. By assistant reminded me he is turning five for a year. We know what is happening. We see it. My daughter called me after the gm factory closed, crying, in tears, because her friend was crying, to her, because her dad lost his job. And they did not know what they were going to do. And they did not know if they had to move. Or if she was going to get pulled out of school. And then we find out a few weeks ago that the poor guy had a stroke. I think it is important and i think it is important for me, running for president , to help other people in this country who are not in that group, the people that are doing really well, to really understand what is happening here. Because the future of our country hangs in the balance and when you sit in northeast ohio and uc the top 1 of the people in the country have more wealth than the bottom 90 , and you see it leads from the coast buying their kids into schools, and knocking other working class families out, when you see the concentration of not just wealth but of opportunity, and then you represent a factory like General Motors and General Motors get the bailout, they get a tax cut. My people get the shaft. The banks get a bailout. And the people who are influential in the banks get a tax cut. And our folks are struggling to make ends meet. There is a level of unfairness happening today and the United States of america that is all of our problem. It is all of our problems. We are all americans, before you are democrat, before you are republican, you are an american. And we have a stiff competition we are in today with the chinese. They are coming at us economically. And we have to figure out how we stop it. But it starts with creating opportunity in the country. So lets compare two,26. If you were born in 1940 and you turned 26 in 1966, you had a 90 chance of doing better than your parents. 90 . If you were born in 1990, and you turned 26 a couple of years ago, you have a 75 chance of doing worse than your parents. So it is not a surprise, you see polling coming out where 73 of the American People dont think the American Dream applies to them. What are we doing . This is not right. And i believe where we come from even as a democrat, we feel forgotten. We feel like we dont matter. And then i start traveling the country and i see this problem happening everywhere. You go to la, there is a tent city of homeless people. You go to the southern border, and babies are literally getting ripped from their mothers breast. If you go to ohio the factories are closing down. You go to lake okeechobee in florida, it is filled with algae. There are all these really big problems that we are never going to solve unless we start coming together. And donald trump went to washington dc to blow it up and quite frankly a lot of my people voted for him to go do that and i think we can all pretty much agree he has done something pretty close to blowing the whole thing up. Now it is time for us to put it back together. I believe somebody that comes from a district of five counties that donald trump won three of them and i got in the mid 60 tile in my election, just me be the person that can do it. And just maybe the person who can go to michigan, wisconsin and iowa and indiana and western pennsylvania and ohio and kentucky and lets reestablish a new center of gravity. Not just for the democratic party. Which is become in many ways very coastal and perceived in our area as elite. But the new center of gravity is youngstown ohio, or akron ohio, maybe we can just start putting this back together. And i tell people all the time when i walk into the oval office in the morning, no one is going to have to explain to me who i am therefore. Or what i am going to do. And that means pulling it together. Business, labor, research, academia, state, local, federal, house, senate, coming together around a few ideas that can move the country forward. And, where i come from, people want solutions. They dont want a bunch of rhetoric, a bunch of politicians talking, they want ideas that are going to solve the major problems in the country. And thats what i want to do. I believe one way to address this economic problem is for us to create an industrial policy in the United States of america, that will actually get us building things again and making things again in the United States. There will be 30 million electric vehicles made and manufactured somewhere in the world in the next 10 years. I want them made in the United States. I want the batteries made in the United States, i want the charging stations made in the united days, you know who controls that market now . China. 40 to 50 of electric vehicles in the United States are made from china. We need an industrial policy, is that a democratic issue . Are electric vehicles democrat or republican . nthings republican or democrat . Not sure. But i know if we do that, and we drive that investment in the communities of color, and old steel, old auto, old rubber communities, old manufacturing, old textile, we intentionally as a government drive the investment to where it needs to go. Drive the investment into those forgotten communities. We should do the same thing with solar panels. Who control 60 of that market . China. Because they intentionally want to. As president i intentionally want to dominate the electric vehicle market. I am going to intentionally want us to dominate the solar market. What does that mean for people in New Hampshire . It means we will get away from this economy where people make 12 or 13 bucks an hour and you can actually have a good job, a good union job, with a good wage, and a good pension, and good security, for you and your family. So you can have weekends off, so you can go on vacation, my people dont want to be rich. They just want a little fishing boat. They want to take their grandkids fishing. Catch a ball game. A couple times in the summer. Or maybe catch a browns game in the fall. You know we have a Football Team now in northeast ohio . Just so you know. Lookout. Tom brady. Coming to get you. Are you the sons name is brady. [ laughter ] when i first started coming up your people said did you name your son after tom brady . And i look them in the eye and i said absolutely i did. [ laughter ] really didnt. But that is what they want. They just want an opportunity to work hard, play by the rules, take a shower after work not before work. They want to do their part. Lets get them excited about what the future of this country is. Because we are building this and building that we are also taking care of Climate Change. We have to fix our healthcare system. When people talk about pragmatic solutions, we got to actually fix the root cause of the problem. And when we talk about healthcare, we need some public option. I have been on the singlepayer bill since 2007 and the next up has got to be some level of a public option for people to buy affordable accessible healthcare. In the United States of america. That should not be too much to ask. And people like my mom, who told me on mothers day she is paying 1000 per month for pharmaceuticals, for Prescription Drugs, and she makes a little over 3000 per month intervention, this is the congressmans mom. This is happening everywhere across the country. And it is not fair. And we have to fix it. But we also need to have another conversation around healthcare that recognizes that 75 of the healthcare cost of the United States are from chronic diseases that are largely preventable. 75 , two to 3 trillion per year. So if we are going to fix the system we have to flip this thing from a disease care system, a sick care system, where we wait till everyone gets sick and we dump a bunch of money into it, and wonder why costs are going up and we spent 2 1 2 times as much as everybody else in the industrialized world and get worse results, lets flip the system, and reward doctors for helping us stay healthy. Reward patients with rebates and refunds for getting or staying healthy. Half the country today, adults, almost half, have either diabetes or prediabetes. And a diabetic cost of Health Care System 2. 3 times as much as a nondiabetic. I dont care if we are single payer, private health, feefor service, outofpocket, ba, i dont care what we are talking about, that system is going belly up. Within years. If half the country has diabetes or prediabetes. Now we are realizing that you can actually use food as medicine. Who knew . Who knew . But there are pilot programs out there where they literally give people healthy food, a couple thousand dollars worth, and the support, and they were first diabetes. Did you hear me . We can reverse it through food. And we are running around trying to figure out some genius way to do it and doctors are figuring it out. So we can free up money to take care of people who really are sick and we can free up money for education, and other Healthcare Programs, and infrastructure, and research, and building a new economy with a healthy more vibrant group of citizens. Weve got to make sure we are addressing the Mental Health issue in the country, with our healthcare system. Same thing with education. How do we beat china . 1. 1. 4 billion people, we have 330 some million. We need to be healthy and educated. And right now we are falling behind. And i will finish, i believe, and i will push and promote and be introducing very soon a robust education reform bill. I will be the education president. And it starts with dealing with the root cause which is our kids come to school in trauma. In trauma. Over 50 of our kids are low income. 50 of our Public School kids are low income. And all of the Adverse Childhood Experiences that come with being low income, it causes trauma. Divorce, job loss, all these Adverse Childhood Experiences, literally prevent your brain from accessing what they call the prefrontal cortex, your executive functions. The area you need to learn, it literally does not work when youre in fight or flight mode. I will be pushing social and Emotional Learning programs, traumabased care programs, in our schools, taking sure every school has a Mental Health counselor to help our kids deal with this. And so, why . Why am i pushing social and Emotional Learning . Because when you look at a robust social and Emotional Learning program, it is shown, studying 300,000 kids, and 11 percentile point increase in test scores. It literally closes the achievement gap, closes the achievement gap. 10 increase in good behavior. 10 decrease in antisocial behavior. Completely shifts the mood of the school. Connects the kids to each other, teaches them about healthy relationships, teaches them how to talk through their problems and deal with conflict in a responsible way. These programs are out there. But the problem is the federal government is broke, the current president has no clue about these things, and nobody is talking about it. I am telling you if you are looking for something different, you are looking to actually get these things that are working all around the u. S. , i am your guy. We are going to do this. We are going to reinvent the wheel and keep pushing it. That is what i am offering in this campaign. Real solutions that get to the heart of the matter. I think that is what the American People want. They want real solutions, the point is to come together and start solving these problems. That is what i want to do. Other quick things to share, when we are looking at the environment, and obviously building electric vehicles, building solar, wind turbines, competing with china, also helps with climate. We are missing an essential piece. And that is our agricultural policies in the United States. A lot of the sickness we see is coming from heavy uses of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, we have destroyed the soil in the u. S. You want to talk about social and Emotional Learning . It has the support of both the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise institution. Rightleaning and leftleaning. Together around social and Emotional Learning. Lets push that agenda. We can get that done in the United States congress. Talking about soil, there are people, farmers, who dont even think the Climate Change is man made, that are promoting regenerative agriculture because it gets carbon back into the soil and it starts rebuilding the soil. I could care less why you want to do that, but the fact that you want to do that and its good for food and the environment, and it reduces all of these pesticides and all of the stuff we put on our food that makes us sick, then we have a coalition that we can move forward with. It also helps with, you know youre going to get an education on soil health, did you know that when you came this morning . Also, when you put carbon into the soil, it increases the organic matter and for every 1 increase in a frantic matter in the soil, that soil can hold another 25,000 gallons of water , the reason we get all this flooding in the runoff that goes into the Mississippi River is because we have destroyed this oil. The carbon content in the soul is low. By the way we need to get carbon out of the atmosphere and into something else, lets put it into the soil. We have a Political Coalition to move it forward. And our farmers are going bankrupt, Rural America is in a recession. Farmers have not made a profit in five years. Pay the farmers to put the carbon in the soil and do regenerative agriculture. And boost their revenues up. The solutions are out there. Im not making this up. I did not drive over here and say i have an idea about soil health. And how it fits into my political agenda. This is already happening. Lets stop all of this fighting, come together around some of these key issues, that we can move forward on. Akron system is killing 220 metric tons of fish die every year in the gulf of mexico because of what we put down the Mississippi River. Does that make any sense . And that is happening all around the world. It is time for the United States to start bleeding on the big issues of the day. Kaman, workers are hurting, people cant find affordable housing, we have a terrible immigration policy, our criminal Justice System is racist, lets admit that and start fixing it. Women are being attacked over their own personal healthcare. Lets stop all the fighting. Lets come together and lets make america what we want it to be. Not what it is today. But what we want it to be. That is our job. Just think how blessed we are in the leg is, we were born here, or immigrated here. Talk about lucky. A putin is not our president. We dont live in a communist country where we are suppressed. But with that comes responsibility. And the responsibility is, im not a savior. Im not a superstar. I have no fairy dust im going to sprinkle over the industrial midwest or New England States and say, its all fixed now. Im not. No one can. But its about us coming together and solving big problems. I want an opportunity to lead that charge. Because where i come from, we have been searching for the solutions and they are out there. And i am not going to sit by and add mesa and dillon and brady and my nieces and nephews and your kids and your grandkids, the current status quo. Im not going to do it. Your from the house of representatives, how many years . I dont care. You think i care about that . You see what we are doing to our kids to our communities . Falling apart . Light everywhere, no one will take down the homes. The citizens in my district are trapped in neighborhoods that have high crime and blight. And lead in the water. Sit on the sidelines, what your turn . No you wager term im not waiting my turn. Because there are more people in the country that feel the way i do, then we should wait and maybe we will take care of it down the line. No way, not me. And i may ruffle a few feathers. And i may have some coastal democrats, ivy league democrats, that may not like what i am saying. But im going to speak the truth as i see it and feel it. And we are going to move forward, together. Business, labor, education, federal, state, local. The best ideas out there we will scale them up. And we will take care of the forgotten people in the United States. They will be forgotten no more. And it is going to be all of us doing it together. And we are going to take care of our veterans, who are still at 22 per day taking their own lives. And again, we will use the most modern techniques and approaches to help them. Yoga, meditation, acupuncture, why . Because it is working. They should not be on 20 Prescription Drugs per day when we have other alternative approaches. So let me just say, to you, lastly, this will not be easy. This will be very hard. Very hard. Very difficult. There will be a lot of fights along the way. I am irish and i dont necessarily mind that. You know the old irish saying, is as a private fight or can anyone get into it . [ laughter ] i dont mind. But we will be fighting for something that will be transformational. Moving out of surviving, to thriving. I will just end with a quote Bobby Kennedy used to use at the end of his a brief campaign. I do not promise you ease. I do not promise you comfort. But i will promise you these, i promise you weariness, i promise you hardship, and i promise you sacrifice. And with these, i promise you victory. Thank you so much. [ applause ] we have time for a couple of questions. If you could just identify yourself. Maybe i can asked the first question, a couple of weeks ago, the white house, congress was all excited, infrastructure, were going to work on something, nancy pelosi, and Chuck Schumer say, 1 trillion maybe 1 trillion and have the president says 2 trillion. And all the sudden it has disappeared. Everyone is acknowledging that bridges, highways and dredging, and broadband needs to be expanded but nobody seems to talk about, i have an idea on how to do it. And i have a solution on revenue and how to address that. You have thoughts . Obviously, it needs to be done and again, how do we come together . We got to find revenue to do it. And, the money, look at the last 30 years, there has been a concentration of wealth that is gone to the top. Now lets lay out a very comprehensive infrastructure bill that includes broadband and obviously all the breadand butter stuff. But that also includes cleaning up our communities, getting rid of all the dilapidated homes and commercial properties. How do we get into our downtowns . How do we renovate theaters . And incentivize and build bike trails and river walks and clean our rivers so we can create in small towns, in midsize towns, a robust and active energetic downtown . I want that to be a big part of moving into the future of the american economy. Where things are going to be decentralize. We have to lay out that vision. Of what it is going to look like. For bringing in people back into the downtowns, bringing young people back to some of these communities that have lost theres been a huge brain drain. And go to the wealthiest people in the country and say, look, im not asking you, im not asking you to pay more because i hate you. I think sometimes democrats come off as hostile to business. You can be hostile to a concentration of wealth or income inequality, but you cant be hostile to free enterprise. You have to save capitalism from itself. We need to ask them to help us. Layout a plan for them. So that they dont feel like they are dumping money into broken systems, like broken healthcare, broken education, and infrastructure, broken immigration. You asked people for money with your 50,000 a year or 50 million per year, fixed the system. That big vision, is something that hopefully we can generate some revenue. Questions . Truckee is a best on you have to call and him. Our deficits are set to hit 1 trillion as soon as next year. These trends affect everything from mortgages to Student Loans to our purchasing power. I want to know what your approaches to these issues . And how are you going to reach across the aisle to achieve change in this matter . Great question about deficits. 1 trillion per year coming up. On top of the 22 trillion debt in the u. S. Again, we just past, not we, i did not vote for. The republicans just past a tax cut for 1. 5 trillion. You pay that back its going to be about 2. 3 trillion. At a time when the economy, the stock market is up, unemployment is low. What we saw was almost 1 trillion in stock buybacks. From companies who took the tax cut and went about their own stock. Stock prices went up and stoppage of ceos selling their stock for 10, 20, 30 50 million bucks. The market people, we have to ask ourselves, was that a smart thing to do . When you need infrastructure, education, healthcare. We have to ask for more revenue. Again put a package together in which we are investing in the future. We have to stop looking at investments in education and Early Childhood education and infrastructure as budgetary line items. They are investments. Look at what rate elia put out a few months ago. He actually accounts for these investments. Early childhood is like a 10 to 15 return on our investment. Infrastructure could be anywhere from 10 to 20 return on our investment. We have to balance the budget in the long run, but the way we get there is by reforming our systems, reforming healthcare, education, reforming your accuracy that is the u. S. Government. It has to get lean and mean. Audit the Defense Department cost weaves all the ways we can out of that. We waste 50 billion per year in the Medicare Program. Thats 1 billion per week even washington dc thats real money. How we squeeze that, at the government running as efficiently as we can, reinvent government . Asked for more revenue, and then make these investments that are going to yield more money to the treasury because they are good for economic growth. You know what else is good for growth . Immigration reform. Most reports say that Immigration Reform can lead to 1. 2 or 1. 3 increase in the gdp. So you have a comprehensive strategy in place of investments, squeezing the government, updating it, and things like Immigration Reform, and criminal justice reform, or you are getting nonviolent people out of the criminal Justice System, getting them trained and into the workforce. Now you are creating an environment where people are contributing, paying taxes, into the treasury, and then over time you start balancing the budget. A friend from arp . Thank you congressman. For taking my question. It concerns Prescription Drugs. Americans continue to pay the highest price for progression drugs in the world. One should not have to choose between buying food and taking their medicine. Do you agree that Prescription Drug prices are too high, and if so, how specifically would you work to reduce the price of Prescription Drugs and costs for all americans . I appreciate the question. As i said, my mom back in ohio is dealing with 1000 per month in Prescription Drug costs. It is criminal. It is absolutely criminal. What we are asking our seniors primarily to pay, but is also insulin, its all of these Different Things where you are seeing huge price spikes. What really frosts me is how much money, is the amount of money that we as taxpayers invested in the basic research. That is taxpayer money that goes to the National Institutes of health. And all of this research is done, because companies by themselves wont make that big of an investment. So it is smart for our economy and our people to make that big investment. And we have. And then the Pharmaceutical Company comes in and take some of that, and then converts it into something else, and charges exorbitant rates for the very people who helped pay for the original research. I think we need to have the Medicare Program negotiate down drug prices. I think that is critical. How dumb is it that the Medicare Program does not negotiate drug prices . Before they start buying drugs . But the largest Healthcare Program in the country does not negotiate. Ou lets talk price. You want all my customers . Any businessperson would do the same thing. We run government like a business, lets do that. And then i think, a lot of these prescriptions, many of the drugs from canada, we should allow into the country. That competition and that negotiation in of itself will help reduce drug prices. Thank you. Yesman. Just waiting for the microphone. Inc. You for coming and talking to us today. Im a recent College Graduate and im lucky my parents were able to put me through college. My father spent the last 42 years working as a mechanic. Many americans need job training in order to adequately perform their jobs, my question is, what would you do to ensure that we are increasing our workforce and ensuring that every american has access to training they need to do their job . A great question. We do have, in the u. S. ,spend a retraining that doesnt necessarily into the jobs we want. I think we got to get this money is close to the local level as possible, working with Community College and local john Training Programs and making sure they are tied into the local community. Figuring out what the Job Opportunities are. And, i talked about building let me say, too. Part of my k12 agenda is going to be to have robust, Vocational Training back in our schools. So, we actually get kids on a track to have a job. Now, telling everybody in the United States for 30 years you have got to go to college or youre a worthless citizen was probably the wrong way to go. That was the biggest farce sold to the American People. And now, we have millions of people in debt for going to college. Which we should allow them to negotiate down, that interest rate, put more money in the pockets or buy down, pay down the principal. But, getting these programs operating efficiently at the local level, working again, working with the Business Community at the local level to figure that out. Having Vocational Training so you can get people on a track to get into those jobs. In ohio we have a program. Welding program. You can literally get 13 credits of the 33 that you need to become a welder before you even get out of high school. So, you are already on the track graduating from high school seo one i get to do . I have 13 credits. You might as will go. You start welding and youre making 75,000 a year with no student debt. We should pay for the training certifications. So, that is what i would do. But it has got to be local. And efficient. And plugged into the local economic ecosystem. Young lady . He sort of stole my thunder with that last question. But congressman, thank you for being here. My name is laura scott. I am with the nhc icon of Community College. I appreciate the answer to that previous question. I knew you wanted to hear that. You are well known for your dedication to mindfulness. I was wondering how you were looking to incorporate that into your different platforms . So, the practice of mindfulness is a meditation practice where you train your mind to be in the present moment. Which is the only moment there really is. Our minds tend to go into the future or in the past. Both of those cause a great deal of anxiety. Our minds, were talking about the kids in schools being in fight or flight mode. So, contemplative practices are being seen and researched. And there is a lot of information, a lot of Scientific Research to back this up. You can literally get your mind out of fight or flight mode. So, what that does, is that boosts your immune system. Reduces your stress, therefore it boosts your immune system. Your body naturally wants to heal itself. With her diet and stress levels, we screw it up. So, mindfulness type practices are showing Great Success in reducing stress, boosting the immune system, and helping with a myriad of problems that we have. Ulcers, heart disease. It really helps with inflammation. If you look at the underlying cause of a lot of rustic this, it is inflammation to our body. That leads to high blood pressure, heart disease, all kinds of other things. By reducing the stress level, it almost acts as a cooling agent for your body to reduce inflammation, and then your body , your immune system is stronger and it can heal itself. So, i would like to continue to do research on practices like this. Also, transcendental meditation, yoga, some of the things that have been around for 20003000 years. How do we continue to research them . And then, find the findings and implement them into our healthcare system, for example. There is a Great Program that was not far from here. Down at the university of Massachusetts Medical Center called mindfulnessbased stress reduction, which i know your organization knows a lot about. That we are actually teaching doctors and medical school to teach patients how to do these techniques so that they dont go on Prescription Drugs, like the default position in the United States is what you give you a pill. We have other ways of approaching it, like in the healthcare system, i think we should lead the world, again, in giving people the tools they need that is going to reduce healthcare costs and increase quality of life. Same with kids. Helps with focus or attention. I dont know if you noticed today, kids are having a harder and harder time paying attention because of the technology, information overload. All of these things. These are great practices to help get them deescalated, sharpen their focus, their minds, so they can look you in the eye, shake your hand, and we can start teaching our kids how to be in the moment. Just lastly, you see all, not all, but many of the top performers, tom brady, are doing yoga and some kind of centering. Kobe bryant, steph curry, phil jackson used to teach this to the chicago bulls. And the to the los angeles lakers. Seattle seahawks have an entire program. They are seeing it in medical schools. It is robustly being researched around the world. And showing great benefits. Were going to continue to pursue it. One final question. I always hate the last question. You know what i mean . It always ends up, congressman, right . That last question is always be nice to me. Will you . I will try. I am tom sylvia and i really enjoy your theme of trying to pull the country together. I think everybody in this room believes in that theme. But it seems like there is almost more energy trying to divide this country apart. And as a leader of the country, where do you see that we need to do, what steps would you take to actually make it so that people who disagree with you and have different views actually come together and work for the greater good . When i first got into congress, i obviously came from an area that was devastated. So, my whole plan was, run for governor, represented. Just a focus in my community. Got on the appropriations committee. Start bringing back some money to try to rebuild the community. And, what we did was we would sit down and listen to each other. Respect each other. Know that if we are putting a deal together, we are all going to sit at the table. We need to agree on is this deal we are doing right now. We dont need to agree on every other thing in our lives. But, we have got to get back to listening and respecting each other. Obviously, the current president of the United States could use some training and mindfulness, deep listening, putting groups of people together. When you hear me talk, its like, were going to sit down for the electric vehicle piece and it will be business and labor and the unions and research. You figure out how to make that happen. There was a great story. President used lincoln used to go. Does a little room right off, it is now statuary hall. In washington dc. In the capital. It used to be the house chamber. Theres a little room off to the side. And a member of congress a couple of years ago, actually theres copy machines in there and everything. He got it renovated and turned it into an office and theres a little fireplace right there. So as the story goes, president lincoln would go to this little room and sit by the fireplace and just talk. To members of the house of representatives. If he was trying to pass key pieces of legislation. Im going to do that. We have got, its not about me. Its not about my ego. Not about me tweeting and shaming somebody. Its about sitting down and doing what is best for the got forgotten people and the forgotten communities. And if my ego was in the way, that is not getting done. Because i am going to be personally slighted about something somebody said. It is not about me. And i think the president can really bring that spirit of cooperation from the white house. Spirit of inclusion of all people recognizing that everybody matters. Diversity is our strength. And your opinions matter. We may not agree, but you have probably got a good reason why you think you do. And i am going to try to convince you. And you are going to try to convince me. And it is called being adults. That is what that is called. Thats what we try to keep our teacher kids. When i talk about social and Emotional Learning in the schools. All the practices are are about how you listen to someone else. How do you recognize differences and had you recognize your similarities. And you teach that in school through social Emotional Learning program. You learn how to listen. So, we build that into educational hopefully the president will try to provide that leadership from the white house. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be here. 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