harvard. on paper this reads as elite. what today 2019 informs your policy-making for a party, for a country that is so racially and economically diverse? look, i totally get that. i even rode in college, the resume looks terrible. i am still paying my college loans. but the bottom line is that i had a lot of great opportunities in my life. i did. but every american should have those same opportunities. and i saw this most of all when i was serving in the marines. when i served with people from all over this country, people with different religious beliefs, different political beliefs, people who were rich, people who were poor. but we all came together to get united behind a common mission, to serve our country. and i had to earn every one of those marines trust, whether they came from a background like
plague in america. . [ applause ] and what we re talking about here, folks, isn t that crazy. the vast majority of americans, democrats, republicans, independents, agree we should have universal background checks on guns, there shouldn t be loopholes. i had the two most bipartisan gun bills in the last congress. one to to ban gun stocks, the nra baned from their own headquarters. and the second was, be prepared, this is a little controversy. was to prevent terrorists from buying guns. okay. this isn t that crazy. and we ve even already banned weapons of war, just different ones. you know, in addition to those two guns, i carried two grenades on my chest every single day i was in iraq. i never blew myself up. i was very safe. i would feel comfortable having two grenades on me tonight. but would you feel comfortable? no. okay so we ve decide as a
energy. i looked at the numbers and although that s a great goal and we need to get there, there s no one that believes it more than me, it wasn t going to happen right away. we were importing gas to massachusetts from russia, where there are no climate protections whatsoever. i got a lot of heat for that from my own party. i was trying to make a decision based on the facts. another was these are the tough issues in congress when we had an issue on gmo labelling for example. and a lot of people gave me heat to agreeing to a compromise deal, because they wanted better gmo labelling. i said, it s better to have some gmo labelling than nothing at all. that s what i did. thanks. thank you. there s also on the issue of marijuana legalization, there s the marijuana justice act that was proposed in the senate, five senators who are running for the nomination have approved it, you ve signed on as co sponsor,
the goal is to just make it routine that you get mental healthcare, just like you go and get an annual physical, regardless of whether you are sick. you should get a mental health check-up. just like the doctor says, hey, are you eating well? are you exercising? there are things you can do to be mentally healthy, too. i have learned about meditation andrea ga and by the way, these are practices that are now being used by our most elite troops. because they realize it makes them stronger. so the three things that i will do with my mental healthcare proposal are, one, set an example with our active duty service men around women and our veterans. by making sure that everybody on active duty gets a mental health check-up every year. that if you went to a combat zone, you get a checkup within two weeks of coming home. it s a check-up and then we re
inappropriate. . [ applause ] it s going to affect everyone in this country. and that s why under my administration, my department of justice will fight relentlessly to ensure that there are not two sets of laws, one for black, white, one for rich, one for poor, but that everyone in america is subject to the same law laws. the president talks about law and order. that s real law and order. congressman, you say that your administration will fight. let me ask you about your biography here. you represent massachusetts s 6th district. which is about 75% white, 4% african-american. you graduated from a prestigious boarding school where tuition and boarding is currently around 6500. have you three degrees from