Ones that provide the breakfast here at no cost to all of us, so if you see any other members, they are all Corporate Leaders here in New Hampshire and new england, and very generous through politics eggs but its the only thing i know where you can go and see the major candidate running for president of the United States at a venue like this, and its free, the breakfast, because its possible because of all these wonderful, wonderful supporters that we have. Speak of supporters i also want to thank the New Hampshire institute of politics for being such incredible partners with the news England Council as we have cohosted the politics eggs for many, many years. You say its been a very busy cycle so far. A very crowded field. We look forward to spending more time i here at st. Anselm in the months ahead. In fact, we will be here tomorrow for a breakfast with another democratic candidate, congressman tim ryan of ohio. New England Council also has several other events that we have planned in the next couple of weeks, including a breakfast in portland, maine, with senator Susan Collins on the 14th of june. On 17 june we have the newly elected congressman from the second Congressional District in maine, jared golden. And then finally on june 27 we have newly elected governor of maine who will be speaking to new England Council. We will have many more events coming up in the weeks and months ahead. We hope that many of you who are members of the new England Council will participate. So now its my pleasure to introduce, i mentioned earlier about the institute of politics, the institute of politics is really Neil Levesque and he is my goodhe friend, executive director picky has done an outstanding job in elevating thj importance in the significance of this program, and he has been a great, great partner with thee new England Council. We are blessed toco have him, so for purposes of introducing, giving a formal introduction to the United Statess senator cottn give a warm, warm appreciation to Neil Levesque. [applause] he said just dont mess up. [laughing] what a great crowd we have this morning. Iire know some of you were up le so its pretty impressive to have a full room here for politics eggs. We have a Great Partnership with the new England Council. Weve been doing a lot of things with them over the years. Larry and jim, and many of the friends who are in this room, we have put on some outstanding really New Hampshire events, and this is one of them obviously. Im very, very pleased today to introduce senator amy klobuchar. Shes serving her third term of course a minnesota. Before that shehe was a county attorney in the most populous county in her state, and the chief prosecutor there. Before that a corporate attorney. Some of you will have that in common with her of course. She and husband john who is right here with her travels the country. They have one child, abigail, and really interesting, i veryht this was interesting, is that the senator into politics when she was released sort of forced out of the hospital after giving birth to abigail, and abigail had a couple complications and it really was not good that she had to leave the hospital. She got very involved in her state. She passed a mandatory 48 hours for new mothers to stay in hospitals in the state of minnesota,y and later bill clinton signed into law that national, federal law, a lot of it has to do with the senator. [applause] regrettably, she did not attend st. Anselmle college. She went to Yale University and the university of chicago where she got her j. D. Shes on the committee, commerce, agricultural and rules where she isnd the ranking memb. I want to make special note before she comes up that at the end of the 114th congress, senator klobuchar had passed more legislation than any other senator. So something in this environment. Senator klobuchar. [applause] all right. Well, thank you everyone. Ive heard all about politics eggs my whole life in politics so it is so great to be with all of you here i actually took photos of mitt romney with the eggs in front of him after in the green room and i already emailed them to him to show. I wish you pick hes been giving me advice here and there, and it is great to be here with you, jim. Thank you and thanks neil for that nice introduction. Lou, where are you . Lew wrote the bible about how to run for president , thank you. Shannon is here. Shannon, shannon, where are you . Right over there, state senator. Attorneyte general, does everyby know its his birthday today . What a great way to celebrate. [applause] his birthday. And then we have former New Hampshire attorney general therel delaney is out somewhere. Thank you for being here. [applause] kathy sullivan, when i first look at financial democratic dinner, thank you, the former chair. Ne it also david who is the council to candidate. Where are you . Since we can see canada from our porch, we love canada in minnesota. I had at the canadianamerican group in the senate, and i go there almost every year. So its great to see you, and the British Council i think its here, too. There she is. Thank you very much. [applause] and also judy reardon. Thank you, the Senior AdvisorCouncil Former to Jeanne Shaheen. My state director my campaign Scott Merrick used to work for Jeanne Shaheen, doing incredie job for me. [applause] his girlfriend mikayla is here. Im only introducing her because she just graduated from law school, so keep her in mind. Where are you . So theyve been dating for five years and so i got the whole story in the backroom about how they met in a very romantic setting while they were both workinget for jeannie and it was during a Martin Omalley speech. [laughing] okay . Some hoping Something Else happened while hes working for me, so thats all good. Were going to keep that in mind. And then of course my husband, john, right here. Thank you. A [applause] we missed the bruins game, although we are very happy for you because we were in iowa and coming back here, but im a big hockey fan of course, state of minnesota. I will note, no there are probably red sox here but perhaps youve noticed the best in baseball is a minnesota twins, so were pretty excited that kind of a cinderella operation and we were excited. I was at those world series when they won and they are really a fun team toie watch. It is wonderful to be here, as i said. I love speaking to people in New Hampshire. I kindea of, forever etched in y memory of what it is like to speak in New Hampshire was when our family spent the weekend easter weekend here and went up to mount washington, just had a really nice family trip, and we were at a church on Easter Sunday in the middle of the service want to get introduced, this kid, 11, comes over and gets my autograph and im like okay. And then hisli name is quan. The next day at peterborough when we hady our townhall, the kid raises his hand. This is a true story. His 11 and is like id like to think it bob mueller testifies if he should go before the house or senate first, and should it be at the Intelligence Committee or judiciary . So New Hampshire. Hes like 11 years old. [laughing] so thats why i love your state. Something else in common, we love the outdoors in our states, and that same weekend we had a great hiking trip. Our family. Manage to go in a state park up a rather i would say is that using the we went on some rocks and ice and i was so happy whats the name of the park . [inaudible] okay, and so we go up there and they say and a very nice New Hampshire way, the road is blocked off, you know, so you might want to be careful there. They blocked the road. O i think what they meant was you can walk on the road but not dry. We take the trail and its like literally i thought i was going to fall over on this ice and everything. We get to the topra and theres the Senior Citizens out there. Why did you take the road . Whats wrong with you . Anyway, we love it. I love your two senators, maggie and jeannie. We are very good friends. We are two of the only state in the country that have both women senators, which is very cool. Yet such as strong history of women. [applause] and my favorite story Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire in the early days was when she got to the senate, we sat next to each other for a long time and i told her the story of how i had requested Hubert Humphreys desk when i got to the city. So excited because we did all these matching desk and people signed their names in them. I remember when i got it before she got there, i opened up the desk to look for Hubert Humphreys name and an accident given me Gordon Humphreys desk. [laughing] so i had to i learned by then pick your battles, ill deal with this later. So when jean came, i tell the story and she goes how do you know it is gordons this . I said because they signed their names in it. I lifted it up, its a new congress, to show her, as a did i realize theyd give me a new desk and had and still have Hubert Humphreys desk. So with a very cool story. The other thing that our state seven, is a strong sense of independent voters, right . If you dont believe me about minnesota 53 words for you. Governor jesse ventura. [laughing]g] to getting to what my endeavor is at this very moment, unhappy by the way to be in a room when no one else is running for president , very cool. But tell me if you are, that would be good to know. But i announced my candidacy in the major blizzard, and we could have taken inside but i decided i wanted to make the point in a New Hampshire fashion that i have great, that im coming from a different place in running for this office. Dont have a lotnt of money. Im some has been underdog in several races but always want every single one. I also want to make the point by announcing iha that river that t is time to cross a river of our divide to get to a higher plane in our politics. To a higher plane of politics and when i first got involved in politics it was about grit and that story of being kicked out of the hospital our daughter was in intensive care and we were up all night for co it was a pretty tremendous experience for some people it is fine but if you have a kid sick and its your first baby it was a ridiculous situation perk after she got a little better i went over to legislatures i was not an elected office advocated for the new rule to have a 48 hour hospital stay and i learned if you talk about things to mostly men at the legislature or episiotomys they said we will pass the law we dont want to talk about this. [laughter] and when we got to the Conference Committee they wanted to delay the implementation by quite a bit of two years so i brought six pregnant friends of mine to the Conference Committee so when this should take effect they said no so they moved it up to the date that governor signed at that was my first lesson of politics. My background is a little different from the candidates and certainly donald trumps. My grandpa was a minor working 1500 feet underground his whole life. He wanted to be in the navy but he had to quit school to go to work because he had nine brothers and sisters as the oldest boy from an immigrant family and his parents died shortly thereafter one kid was taken to an orphanage he had to get her he said he would in two years and he did that married my grandma and raise both kids and then my dad and his brother. Education was their future so he literally saved money in a coffee can in the basement to have enough money to send my dad to a twoyear Community College why am such a believer in those degrees with a different path to success and then my dad finished up at the university of minnesota as a generalist his whole life. He is now 91. My mom grew up in milwaukee also not a lot of money daughter of swiss immigrants and she wanted to be a teacher. She came to minnesota as a strong Teachers Union member teaching second grade until she was 70 and people still talk to me how she was their favorite teacher she had a Monarch Butterfly unit she would dress up as a Monarch Butterfly and said to mexico or boston where that Grocery Shopping afterwards and never understood except she thought it was funny until one week after she died at the visitation a mom came up to me crying with an older son next to her was very disabled and said this is my son he had your mom in second grade he loved her and that butterfly unit so every year after he graduated years later he got a job bagging groceries at the supervalu every moment year your mom taught the unit she would come to the store get her groceries and stand in his line and give him a hug. That was my mom. I stand before you today as a grand daughter of an iron ore miner and daughter of a teacher a newspaperman as a first woman elected to the u. S. Senate from the state of minnesota and candidate for president of the United States. [applause] that is what this country is about no matter where you come from or who you know, you can make it in america we are a country of shared dreams and i am so concerned every single day before i made the decision and after about what this president is doing to fracture that community. If you think of what you have going in New Hampshire you dont always agree politically but you come together for your state and to discuss politics in a civil way you are a model for the nation in that way but yet every way in our civic life the president tweets out mean stuff about immigrants, people of color , people in his own party when they dont agree with him or he sends out a doctored video if you were in politics or teach Political Science understand what this means because he is condoning what we are most fearful of that we will break down on either side not just fake news but literally fake videos of peoples faces at people will believe that is a complete lie. That is one of the scariest things coming our way in politics they get someone in the white house actually sent this out and this is what i am talking about fracturing our civic life. The matter democrats republicans or independents this cannot continue and i believe we need to restore and revive the heart of our democracy heart of our politics and heart of america that is my agenda and the focus of my campaign has been all about. Im talking about the issues i think are challenges coming our way. We had a downturn ten years ago i was just talking to a woman who was delightful about her story how she got divorced ten years ago then decided she would pull herself up. Not only does she have the work with makeup but also real estate and started investing at a good time she was so proud to be a Woman Entrepreneur in you think of the story told over and over in this country from businesses small and Large Businesses willing to hang in and employees we got out of that downturn and now when you are the president of the United States you dont just rest on your laurels and gloat you look at the challenges in front of us right now because then you cannot move ahead to the next challenge if you are not getting ready for it so what are the challenges right now . I believe that this with the major discussion but infrastructure. Maybe not the sexiest thing i was on the cuomo show when i talked about they would pay for it he said generations have cuomos have run on this and lost. [laughter] thats not true they just decided not to run for presiden president. Give me a break but it is a breadandbutter issue where we know our nation is falling behind. Your mayor is here somewhere from manchester. Thank you and we were talking about the capital oil project how important it is to this area and to have the most people of any area in the country that doesnt have Commuter Rail and that is just wrong. We have to be able to respond to what we need and what you need in my state you need more workers to come up to fill the jobs and that is that entrepreneurial spirit that you have in your state and that you have been known for so long and make it easier for people to come back and forth with a great Tourism Industry that could be greater if more access. Gray education institutions. More and more young people that dont want a car to get to their jobs so all of this is about matching the infrastructure sought matches where we are right now. And making my announcement i was a mile and a half away from that bridge that collapsed only eight blocks from our house. The bridge we drive every day with her family then one day the bridge just fell down in 13 people died and you saw the community that came together afterwards but more than anything a story about infrastructure. That is why i lead with the