To have a transfer agreement so they target one of the safest procedures they could have in the outpatient setting. The case is submitted cspan is senator ted seibald then go back to that apartment on convention night, in 1984 in wisconsin what is the story . Guest fresh out of college, had yet to land my first job. Beene had barely dried on the diploma with a double major of mathematics and government my whole future was ahead of me my first efficiency apartment sparse lead decorated a sparse television and the mattress on the floor. I watched the dnc to watch Geraldine Ferraro take the stage with my whole life ahead of me into a spider into anything. As a woman for the first time to be nominated to one of the highest positions in the land, in the world. It was a chance formative moment. Host we will watch the video from 1984. As i stand before the American People to think of this Great Convention has bestowed upon me i recall of words of dr. Martin luther king to say occasionally in life the meaning can only be articulated. With the inaudible language of the car. It is such a moment for me tonight. Anybody tell you that you look like her . Not at the moment i was a 22 yearold college grad. Cspan was the inspiration . Immelt for it was obvious but it was an element with the idea that we have never seen so somebody that looked like me in the role such as that for vice president. And i think when you begin to see people have shared Life Experiences especially with glass ceilings and barriers and obstacles that opens up doors of possibilities that it did not exist. We could not open them before. You are in Madison Wisconsin graduating from Smith College but what is the atmosphere at the time . It just graduated from college i took one year off from the university of wisconsin it is the fascinating time because i launched early on dash fully into politics but colada advocacy organizations with the internship in the Governors Office working on issues. With that comparable Worth Initiative to compensate fairly to work side by side but class is that or female or male dominated in dip was fascinating for a math end government major because it was number crunching and Statistical Analysis at the same time calling for policy to create fairness and equity with the county board in that evening. And working on peoples campaigns to mystify the process. To have the tinkling that it had great gyrate joy to better peoples lives but it was not too long after that that i entered law school. And i started to study law and before you know, that the empty county board supervisor who represented a campus district was retiring cspan how long we won the county board . That spans the time 1986 through 1994. I was advised that i should be carefully before i read in moscow all but he got a glimmer in his eye if you decide to do this you have my full support. It was dangerous for a law student because i could write local laws or study law and found the work. Elected to the u. S. House of representatives. 1998. Between that service of local and federal government i did serve six years in the state assembly. The first time iran for the server senate . 2012. This is my first term the then senior senator after many years of Exemplary Service to the state of wisconsin announced his retirement. May 2011 and i cared up cleared up in it was an exciting race. Cspan go back to Madison Wisconsin. You were raised by you . My maternal grandparents. First of all, i am very lucky they were there when i needed them. The mother was 19 and was lucky to have been there for me and my grandfather was a professor is my grandmother during my early years was on staff at the university as a Costume Designer at the university theater. My a grandfather was a biochemist so i would go from costume lab to biochemistry and looked at a fascinating look at each were doing. And i was so lucky to have them there my grandmother was 56 when i was born and then lifland to 94 years old and she could vote for before congress. Cspan what is your relationship with your mother. Issue alive . Guest she is. 3 million years she was in and out after having me she was able to complete a University Education then i was in madison and twoseater of the weekend by a custodial relations i could not imagine that in todays terms. But then in my adult years to have the Employment Opportunity in the twin cities area and that is where she is but is now retired. Cspan how do you describe wisconsin . It is three respects. The hardest work ethic youll find with an Incredible Group of people or descendants of immigrants in the state that makes and builds things that is very impressive and a strong agricultural tradition or those art is a nonsense of dash art isnt methods theres your regions and swiss across the state. I think about the Natural Resources. We are a state that is blessed with fresh water. We have three coast. The east coast is like michigan the north coast is Lake Superior the west coast is the st. Croix and Mississippi River and in lint we have incredible Natural Resources that we cherish. And need to fight to protect in these times. But then i think about the history with the political theaters of great stature and that tradition in the abolishment of people in the up policy legacy for the mark that we made a National Policy to draft the Social Security law that still stands to the day one of the greatest things we ever did. To economists from the university of wisconsin who want to be part of the drafting process think of the education in the civil rights arena to think about those historic figures and i have to say how we lost some of that and it concerns me greatly. I read that wisconsin was responsible for the first state wide primary . Guest for example, bob help touche shepard the change whereby a senators are not by the legislatures but demanded elections. I dont know if it was the first but the party losses who made the decision of who the nominees were but rather the people who would be able to vote in free and fair elections. Cspan the back of the early 1900s this is bob and here is a minute. Citizens men must be aggressive. For those who are aggressive that is for everyone. It is a glorious service. The call comes to every citizen with the unending struggle to keep government representatives each one should have the patriotic duty into the life of the country to do his share in the of making america according to the planned. Cspan he was republican, a progressive 21 yes. He founded the Progressive Movement end up party. When did you first learn about that . I dont know when i didnt know about him as say high school in my home town was named after him. We have lots of ways to remember la follett but i do know about him especially some interesting things when i became a member of the u. S. Senate so i admired his political legacy but something very small that i learned there is a tradition in the senate to make a big deal about your first floor speech you are supposed to wait a few months before you do that many colleagues come and sit and listen which doesnt happen very often. We will use the study what the predecessors talk about before i gave mine and i learned that la follett senior gave his speech on opposing a Railroad Regulation bill because it did not go far enough and he is known for fighting the monopoly at the time. His maiden speech was three days. And he antagonized some of his colleagues by take such a long time he was not filibustering but to make his point the galleries are filled at that time. En to use those populist themes of today i promised my colleagues it would not take three days speesix depressive what does that mean . Give us those major issues. I do think overlap of populism and progressivism about restoring power and voice to the citizenry and how to check on unfettered power and unregulated power with the monopolistic entity. So la follett went after the roads, power plants, though once that it almost controlled washington and at the time madison which is the capital of wisconsin always arguing for a stronger voice for the people of the first primary but do the of bosses decide who they are or do they play a role of deciding who the candidates will be . So i do see that as a mix of populism and progressivism. The other senator from wisconsin today is jobs and at one time the paper says you disagree with each other 75 percent of the time . How can one state have somebody that is a progressive but also a conservative and both be in the senate . Guest we can also add to the mix our governor. Then you can reflect that they have collected overtime my senior senator is a product of the 2010 election. I think that was known as the teapartier revolution. It was a moment where perhaps the most significant achievement of the Affordable Care act recently passed those were struggling town Hall Meetings with the sky is falling. And was swept into office a significant number of people who had backed up what was common among them and was a national election. It was not played out with local or state issues that is the way that you can explain how you can have those who are so strikingly different. But that said there are specific issues that we have worked on to have that partisan element and as a recent example last friday senator johnson and i both said on the Homeland Security committee had a joint field hearing in wisconsin, the opioid and heroin epidemic. We took testimony from a couple of panels of a wide range of perspectives, and we both acknowledge over and over it is the epidemic that sees no partisan lines and we must Work Together to face this as a nation. Backing in 2010 when ron johnson was running it was 2. 1 million votes cast and in yours it was 2. Eight so that is 700,000 votes different how much you factor . No president ial election does that worry you . That is also a Gubernatorial Election so that is interesting from the perspective that another candidate like scott walker teapartier revolution will also be standing for reelection and should he choose. And there are reasons with unusually high numbers of non president ial election. In that exist in every state to be profound and the state of wisconsin. Especially well we have been through as the state in recent years calling now special with funding for the University System and policies that are increasing the level of poverty in this town astounding and frightening way. There is a great interest them participation to fight for the soul of our state. Cspan here is another wisconsin citizen that is very prominent in history, joseph mccarthy. To symbolize of the american political scene. Put but to put it this way, of the suicidal Foreign Policy to fight direction correction and they have the approval of corruption and american interests. And they were voting for joe mccarthy. They were appreciative of great deal. He died very young 49 what impact did he have gone you . Did you know, much about him . He certainly had heard from so many dead carriers were threatened and lives from the witch hunt whether academics or other Community Leaders and there is agreement of the very dark time in the nation and politics but i do sit both in the mccarthy and the la follett seat and now i have the honor its. But i have sat on the subcommittee that he cared where he abused his authorities and privileges in one of the views set to meet subcommittees with subpoena power and he did use that i remember when it came to the senate and walking with a subcommittee chair at battlement as a private meeting between the two of us who with his gavel said i take this responsibility very seriously because i will never oversee that happening again it was a moving moment for me as a brand new senator. Cspan but there were communist in the government. Where do you draw the line . Where does that matter and senator mccarthy but what would you do if communist for working in the state department . I cant imagine the time before i was born. The blackmail tactics were despicable, lives were ruined as they were in a widely cast net illegitimately. There were orderly and better ways to deal with anybody that is not legally serving the country. How did you beat the governor for the use United States senate seat . At all like to think of it as that the other than making my case in 2012 that we needed to address, and we still need to address reviving the american dream. It has really taken a hit because in my mind, the rules are its a rigged and we need to fight for fairness, for economic justice, you know for a set of rules and a level playing field. Cspan both sides though say its rigged. Guest the prescription is different. Cspan heres an ad that you ran during the 2012 campaign. C im Tammy Baldwin and i approved this message. Tommy thompson left wisconsin from washington. Boy, did he working for George Bush Tommy cut a sweetheart deal with Drug Companies making it illegal for medicare to negotiate lower Prescription Drug prices. The cost taxpayers 156 billion have been tommy made millions working for lobbying firm that represents Drug Companies. Tommy thompson, hes not for you anymore. Cspan when did he make the decision to go after him on the basis of him being a lobbyist . Guest well its the issue. Medicaid should be able to bargain for better prices for americas seniors. The va and medicare which covers over 40 million americans doesnt. Seniors need to shoulder these costs and it costs government a lot more money and it costs of medicare a lot more money. I was in the house of representatives at the time that Medicare Part d, medicare modernization act as it was called and the Part D Program was debated and passed. I voted no and i felt very strongly that we should not be for bidding our government from creating huge savings. As you saw 156 billion, huge savings for the American People. Tommy thompson the secretary at the time the bill advanced, and of my mind it is a good example of the system being raped to benefit the Drug Companies and not the people. Cspan why then when president obama had a chance to change this with obamacare that they kept the inability of the government and medicare to negotiate for prices on drugs and this was a onesided vote. Why didnt they change it then . Guest they should have and we still should and we still have to fight for that. I was very involved in the crafting of that legislation on the house side sitting as they did on energy and commerce committee, and we had every intention of advancing a measure that would create opportunities for lower drug prices through bargaining and freestanding legislation i had also supported the right of citizens especially in northern states like wisconsin to purchase from canada. I remember a whole time when people were taking buses to the Canadian Border in order to fill their prescriptions affordably. Now that we are slowly closing the doughnut hole as its called and i assume you know the doughnut hole is this gap in coverage that exists in the Medicare Part d program, i assume that was less frequent an occurrence that i suspect that it still does occur. But i absolutely wish we had a bill that required the government to bargain on behalf of seniors and people with disabilities for better drug rices. I also wish we had a public option. I was very involved in that debate. I think the Affordable Care act has led to the Health Care Coverage for literally millions of americans, especially the most vulnerable americans that were unable to secure that Health Coverage prior to the passage of the law. But its not perfect. We have worked yet to do. Cspan heres an ad that was run against you in the 2012 campaign. Dam right we are making a difference. Tamim all blend is out of touch with wisconsin. She thinks obamacare didnt go far enough in putting government in control of our health care. Medicare spending cuts and supports more taxes on middleclass families. Bigger government in extreme politics, Tammy Baldwin is what is wrong with washington. Cspan and a Magazine Article in the milwaukee magazine back in 2014 there is a quote from somebody that was saying nice things about you and i think it was senator alpha rankin. I always told tammy you are the most serene number of this body. I wasnt very serene. Guest thats right. You know that was, i can talk about that ad for quite some time. How many times he could fit that phrase in that clip into a 30second ad was quite amazing and almost all the ads used it. Its interesting, this was the context for which i said it because i very seldom swear and al franken is right about that, at least publicly you know but i was emphasizing a point as you could tell that i feel very passionately about this progressive and populist point. This was a speech that i was giving during the time that our governor, scott walker, had stripped collective bargaining rights from our Public Sector workers and there were people who were marching and protesting for week