Colleague, Speaker Pelosi, mayor nan whaley from dayton. Good to have you here. And i want to thank my colleagues senators brown and stabenow and representative escobar from el paso, texas and representative thompson, for which shares a gun Violence Convention task force. We are here today for one simple reason, too Many Americans are losing their lives to gun violence. Too many families are just weeping because they have lost loved ones. I was at the airport today. A gentleman came over to me and i didnt know who he was. He said, thank you for what you are doing. I lost my nephew to gun violence last year. Americans are suffering from the abundance of gun violence in america. Last month, Mass Shootings claimed 51 lives in el paso, dayton and odessa, to say nothing of the hundreds of lives lost my daily gun violence throughout america had enough is enough. Congress is returning to session. Our first order of business in the senate should be to pass the housepassed legislation backgroun
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Announcer president ial candidates have been speaking at the iowa state fair for the last couple of days. Here is kristen gillibrands remarks. It is about 30 minutes. Senator gillibrand hello, everybody. I want to introduce the director of fun, henry gillibrand. This is the driver of the rv, jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand they have made the trip amazing. We have loved it. Henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing. I dont know. Anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother, she was a woman who loves politics. She started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the support staff were women. So she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured out the voice of all the women
One of the first positions im going to create is a chief manufacturing officer that will report directly to me. Let me give you a few examples. The electric vehicle industry, somewhere in the world we are going to make 10 million electric vehicles in the next 10 years. I want half of those built by American Workers in the United States of america. [applause] rep. Ryan my chief manufacturing officer will sit down with the department of energy, the department of transportation, venture capital, private sector, investors, we will sit down with maybe the big three, maybe emerging automakers and sit down and figure out how to be dominate the electric vehicle market. How do we make 5 million vehicles . How do we drive that investment into the communities like the ones i represent in ohio . Old steel, pulled auto, old coal, coal textile. Rural areas they used to have a Manufacturing Base to fund local schools. How do we drive this industry that is growing into these communities of color . For
Jonathan gillibrand. Hi, everyone. Senator gillibrand henry loves your state fair, so thank you. Henry won that, no joke, it was a little frisbee thing, anyway, it is such a pleasure to be here. I cant tell you how exciting it is. I got my start in politics in a community not unlike this. My grandmother was a woman who my grandmother was a woman who loved politics, started working at age 18 as a secretary in our state legislature. 75 years ago, she looked around, all the legislators were men, all the staff were women, so she wanted to have a voice. She did not know how, she knew her voice was important, but she figured the voice of all the women was even more important. So she learned to work on campaigns she learned to organize, she taught women had to go door to door, how to stuff envelopes, how to make phone calls, and my first memory on a campaign was when i was henrys age, it was a hot august day, the women were wearing dresses not unlike mine, sleeveless, cotton dresses to keep c