Its my pleasure to welcome you all this morning to the second Congressional District hosted by the Kurdish Regional chamber of congress. In recognition of the importance of events like this to our democracy, we thought it appropriate to take a moment to recite the pledge of allegiance. Please join me. [ reciting pledge] thank you. We take seriously our responsibility to promote civic engagement. Our student leaders and employees have been working hard this year and both colleges earn gold standing in the all in democracy challenge sponsored by the Nonpartisan Group situation. They had the highest student voting rate in the country. We want to acknowledge there are Student Ambassadors here today. I want to take a moment, we had elected leaders, nice to see you. Thank you. Its my pleasure to introduce the moderator, president of the Dakota County Regional Chamber of congress. Good morning. Thank you. Those wristbands you are wearing, i was hoping the college would open up the brewery aft
Rate. Did we end up throwing too much money at covid . Mr. Malinowski lets remember where we were two years ago today. The American Economy wasnt freefalling, as you correctly put it. Tens of millions of americans were unemployed, through no fault of their own. Virtually every single business, particularly the mainstreet businesses in america was shut down. And mr. Kaine referred to every single economist in america telling us, do something big, do something fast to solve that problem. Had we not done so, this country would today be in a great depression. Those jobs would not have come back. Those businesses would not have come back. Id love to hear senator kaine tell us exactly what we did that he thought was wrong. I make no apology for bringing the American Economy back from what would have been a great depression. What else might we have done wrong. I dont know, he hasnt been specific. In the final bill that we pass, we provided something that i vote for very hard. That was direct