Availablen journal on our website. We will now hear from senator Amy Klobuchar on the National Association of manufacturing and siemans usa. Of this is live coverage on cspan. Hello. I am a columnist at the washington post. I write about politics and i want to thank you for joining us this morning for our conversation with senator Amy Klobuchar. Klobuchar is a matter is a member of the subcommittee on manufacturing. She is joining us from a car in wisconsin, where she is traveling with her fellow senator, tammy baldwin, campaigning for joseph biden in the swing states this year. Klobuchar im in the car and parked. The area i are in going to be doing an event at a farm. Im excited to be here today. There is nothing more important besides moving our country forward and focusing on jobs and the economy. And that includes in a big way, manufacturing. We are here today to talk about manufacturing but it feels like we have had 10 years worth of news in the last 10 days. How doto ask you you
Protection program and businesses of all sizes have started to use the tax tools that we provided for their liquidity. But in that time the critics have also done what they do best. They criticize. The need came has seized on an opportunity to perpetuate every negative story that critics can manufacture. You can imagine my surprise when democrats criticized the net operating loss carryback provisions in the cares act. Because oddly democrats previously supported the last three bills where we expanded the net operating loss carrybacks in 2002, 2005, and even in 2009 with all democrat rule. So i dont recall in any of those instances any partisan attacks from democrats about this previously bipartisan, antirecessionary policy tools. So why now . Sadly, that irresponsibility has led our democratic colleagues in the house to pass legislation that would take back important tax tools that we have provided in the cares act to the tune of 254 billion, and thats a tax increase on the american bu
Hopefully recovering from covid19 so i want to take this opportunity to address the plight of an extremely vulnerable population, Political Prisoners abroad. In turkey, syria, china, and a lot of other countries, Political Prisoners remain locked away in crowded prisons without adequate medical care. The spread of covid19 among this population dramatically increases the risk of serious medical consequences or even death. Thor authoritarian regiming risk further stabilization of countries by jailing the innocent. Political prisoners ought to be released and they ought to be released now. At the beginning of march we worked to get ahead of the covid pandemic, an amazing thing happened. Congress came together quickly and developed a broad package of measures to provide relief to families, workers, and businesses to weather the covid19 event and the crisis that it is. Coronavirus aid relief and economic security, those words make up the cares act, included a broad range of tools, direct pa
Hopefully recovering from covid19, so i want to take this opportunity to address the plight of an extremely vulnerable population, Political Prisoners abroad. In turkey, syria,hi china, and a lot of other countries, Political Prisoners remain locked away in crowded prisons without adequate medical care. The spread of covid19 among this population dramatically increases the risk of serious medical consequences, or even death. Authoritarian regimes only risk further destabilization of their countries by jailing the innocent. Levitical prisoners ought to be released and they ought to be released now. Political prisoners. At the beginning of march, we worked to get ahead of the covit pandemic, and an amazing thing happened. Congress came together quickly and develop a broad package of measures to provide relief to families, workers, and businesses to whether the covid19 event. And the crisis that it is. Coronavirus aid relief and economic security, those words make up the cares act, includ
Buffering the outside world from the technical decisions these guys had to make. Part, peoplein like kraft had the same experiences you had, wouldnt you say as a formal as a former flight director he knew . Washristopher columbus entirely appropriate for this guy. Pioneer in Mission Control. He launched each one of the mercury missions. But he was the mentor, teacher and tutor for this young generation who became known as Mission Controllers. He set the mold for everything that would be done thereafter and in particular, he set the and for the flight director the flight director being able to take any action necessary for crew safety and mission success. He had done that in the beauty of the thing was even though he physically had left the console, wase he knew his job now to give them the confidence to make the technical decisions and he was going to broker whatever political fallout might occur. A spectacular man. He was the interface between the top level and politics. I found that