Corporate funding is provided by. Support for this episode was provided by viewers like you. Thank you. Thats Elise Stefanik from upstate new york on her victory night in 2014, to congress at the time. Elected full disclosure stefanik has been endorsed this election cycl by a Political Group in which i am an officer that supports republicans who advance lgbt equality, american unity pac. I believe deeply inhe constitution. I believe deeply in liberty and freedom. The principles of peace i focus on foreign policye way and National Security issues. She learned about the importance of Small Businesses from her familys company. Al we are a plywood whol distributor. The trucks have to be on the roadive days out of the week and the Economic Impact of upstate new york is felt Small Businesses. So inderstood from a child up to high school how integral Small Businesses are to our local economy. Stefanik was the first in her family to graduate from college at harvard and worked in the white hous
Security and who we are as a country. Trey we understand why people want to come to this country, to escape persecution, to taste freedom and liberty, to no hard work and education and a level playing field, can combine forces to transform lives. Escaping a country rife with conflict is one thing. Picking a new home is another. And america is picked more than all the countries combined because we are a country that embraces justice, we reward fairness, and we are a nation of laws. In fact, if you look at the oath new citizens take criminal law is mentioned different times. Six times. In one paragraph. Six times, these new citizens swear allegiance to this thing we call law. Is irate we can break this thing we call law and bring allegiance to this thing we call the law. It is ironic to say the least that you would reward people who do not follow the law by administering an oath to follow the law. President obama used is that he wanted a country where everybody plays by the same rules. W
Of course the daughter of Vice President , but your life and going in at a washington certainly dates back further than when your father became Vice President. Of course he was a chief of staff during the Ford Administration and then, like you, served in the congress. What hasnt been like, kind kind of a lifetime almost, coming in and out of washington with Public Office, either youre in Public Office or a Family Member and then going back to life outside the beltway . Well, i feel like its really been an incredible, incredibly blessed way to grow up. And to have the had the opportunity to sort of see both worlds but certainly many of my earliest memories have to do with my mom and dad and the public service. When my dad was chief of staff for president ford back in the early 70s, my sister and i were young and he would take us down to the white house on saturday mornings to have breakfast with them, and, because you can imagine his schedule was very busy, and we would sit on the floor
It was just a year and a half ago that the president of the United States put in his state of the Union Address that we are going to launch american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. He looked at me and said you are going to make that happen. Here we are a year and a half later. And the help of elon musk the spacex team, we have delivered. But of course, the president s agenda is just beginning, there is so much more. He turned around and recreated a moon program. He said we are going to go to the moon for a purpose, because we as a nation are going to get to mars. Agency we call nasa is excited about it. I want to tell you a quick story. Im here to introduce the president , but i have to take a moment. It was about nine years ago. The Space Shuttle atlantis landed right here for the last Space Shuttle mission in the history of the u. S. The next day, 2000 pink slips went out. Over the course of the next two years, this area went from 15,000 jobs down to 7500 jobs. Dev