You can watch the entire conversation on the future of representative so mark democracy tonight at 9 30 eastern. In the wake of the recent shootings in el paso texas, the House Judiciary Committee will return early from summer recess to mark up gun violence includeon bills which banning highcapacity ammunition ,agazines, restricting firearms and preventing individuals convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from purchasing a gun. Begins wednesday, september 4. If you are on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free cspan radio app. Amy klobuchar campaigned in New Hampshire. She talked about her qualifications for the third round of debates next month. After opening comments, she spoke with voters in the crowd. New hampshires first primary is held in february. [applause] [laughter] ms. Klobuchar hi everybody. Bill and i have the great pleasure of having senator Amy Klobuchar here today. Because we are running late, im going to suggest that perhaps you look at her website which contains an extraordinary number of policies that she can deliver on. I want to tell you a couple of things about why i am supporting senator klobuchar. I in the child of immigrants peered my parents came to this country with nothing after world war ii. Ofave been the beneficiary the ideals, aspirations, hopes and dreams of most americans. I want that to be for every american. [applause] i am the product of a Public School education from a midwestern state. [applause] illinois. Public education is the great equalizer. Public education is what helps everyone benefits from economic prosperity. Senator klobuchar makes the point of her policies being she ensures being that that being what they are about is access for everyone. That no one left behind. Currently, our policies have not brought everyone else along. Senator klobuchar someone who can deliver. Senator klobuchar is the most successful democratic senator. She delivers. Except for jeannie and maggie. [laughter] oops. We all love jeannie and maggie. [applause] klobucharism. She is going to give credit where credit is due. She has sponsored and been part of passing 34 bills that have gone through this current administration, which is hard to do. When you are democrat. [applause] candidatesany good running for president. Senator klobuchar is a proven deliverer. B i am supporting senator klobuchar because not only does she understand what it means to govern, she would govern with the humility and the compassion that is necessary for president of the united states. We would never be embarrassed with her as president. [applause] ms. Klobuchar thank you, helen. This is the best backyard ever. Thank you. You wonder what is in my hand . I walked into helen and bills kitchen, and it was too good not to bring out. Rbg action notorious figure. [laughter] it moves. [applause] wel put it for good wishes, will put it right here. Watching over us. Happy, the news that she came through yet another health scare and has a clean bill of health. [applause] i had never seen such a thing. Pignatelli over here. [applause] i am so proud to have her support as well as joe foster. Thank you. Here. E both hillary this is our Third National outdoor event here. Deborah had one, it is so great to have 70 people here. O, state senator shannon , where are you shannon . Melanie levay caceres well. Another state senator. Ok. Could all the other representatives stand up, see your name so we include everyone. Yes. Ok. Your name . Vale. Anne ms. Klobuchar thank you. [applause] were threeernible] aldermen. [applause] ms. Klobuchar thank you. Ward seven. Ward seven. [applause] ms. Klobuchar i love how everyone is always selected here. My favorite was in i did a townhall and the moderator was there, he introduced himself and he said he had the town moderator. I made a joke, i said i suppose you were elected too . He said, i am. [laughter] ms. Klobuchar we were on the coast just now, quite a day to be there. Talking about Climate Change at the Science Center. It is an amazing thing. Kind of a climate seen these next two days going into were going to have a 10mate townhall with the candidates who qualified. I am one of them i tell people it is like i have made the playoffs. It is a big deal. A lot of you had a role in that. Excited because as the field narrows, it is going to be a better chance to make my case. You know that i announced in the middle of a snowstorm because i knew that would be popular in New Hampshire. They said come on, snow. I wanted to show i had the grits not to go inside. There in part because i wanted to make the case that we need to cross the river. I believe that more than i did then. As the president seems to escalate every single week with his negative attacks, and his chaotic rhetoric. I was on this morning i did face the nation and fox news sunday. On both of them, i was able to talk about his trade policy, and the economics of what is going on. Month, onn of this august 1, he announced tariffs of 300 billion. Later, heweeks reversed themselves himself. On august 20, he announced he was going to reduce taxes because of a potential recession. The next day, he changed his mind. He did that on top of the fact that he is now given us trillions of dollars in debt and taken us to a place where we continue on this course. If we continue on this course we will be in the worst that we have had since right after world war ii. He is treating this country like one of his bankrupt casinos. We have to talk about that as well as the need to go back to the negotiating table with china as well as the target investment. Things like infrastructure. Crying out here with the potential for Commuter Rail to this area. Congested areat in the country that does not have Commuter Rail going to it. That is just an example of some of the Green Infrastructure and things that we should be doing. Allowing for the independent of the Federal Reserve. Was thember of years i democratic share of the joint Economic Committee with the house. I got to know the Federal Reserve chairs including got to have a long lunch with her once. We had many hearings devoted to this. Im a big believer of the independence of the federal when my family and i came here for two days off and easter, we went up to the North Country and yes we took the , Bretton Woods tour, ok . I would like to point that out, to add that to my street credit when it comes to financial policy. But in any case, i really am concerned about the chaos. One of the things that i remembered this morning as i was talking about it, we have a lot of tribes in minnesota, and there is an old saying that i actually used at the National Prayer breakfast when i was giving the prayer once at that big event, and that is this great leaders make decisions not just for this generation, but for seven generations from now. [applause] sen. Klobuchar we have in place a president that is not even able to keep a decision seven minutes from now, much less seven generations from now. That especially comes into play not just with the longterm view of the chinese and what you have to be able to do to be able to compete with them on the world stage, when you are watching every single thing he does and they have this long view, which we also have to have this long, strategic view. One of the things we have on our side is our democracy, our incredible innovation, we have the fact that we bring people in from all over the world, something he keeps trying to turn his back on all of these things have given us economic strength in our country. One of the things they asked this morning about economics is, well , hey, the economy is still hanging in there. I said yeah. That is because this was on fox that is because of our workers and our businesses, including many here in this great eight, in this great state who helped get us out of this downturn, right . It was tough. They were resilient. They got us out of the downturn, and then when you are a leader and you come in as resident, you do not just gloat about the work of others and like, stop the whining every day. It is just blaming someone else. The Federal Reserve chair, the city of baltimore, Jewish Democratic voters, and then the ultimate, the entire country of denmark. Who can piss off denmark . Stop the whining. The gloating, then things go wrong, then it is the whining, instead of meeting the challenges of our day. That is what i really want to talk about today. This is a state that has a long haul view, where people think about, what do we need to do next to move us ahead . The first thing i will start i will start with is the challenges. I was here in the Science Center this morning to talk about Climate Change. It is a longhaul challenge, but it is not, because it is here right now. You see it in the rising sea level, the weird weather events, and the president had the audacity to make fun of me for talking about Climate Change in a snowstorm. I wrote back Climate Science is on my side, donald trump, and i would like to see how your hair would fare in a blizzard. [laughter] ms. Klobuchar i think humor is a very important thing to use against this guy. Strategically, yes but humor he is not going to think this is funny. [laughter] the science is on our side, but it is a way you explain it to people so it makes sense to them, especially in the middle of the country. That is something i bring to this, as the leader of the ticket, which not many other people could bring to it. That is being from the heartland and being able to have said yes, i have been to the Greenland Ice sheet. I was there with a group of people, senator sanders was with me and it was a bipartisan group, and we went on a tour, basically in these little boats and we saw the icebergs, and the captain said, i will try to be careful here, because if we hit an iceberg, we die in 30 seconds. [laughter] i was like, ok. But it was an incredible mass that we saw. And now with the news that we are losing in one day enough water from that ice sheet to fill over 400 million olympic olympic size pools. The fact that you see a changing of our ocean i was learning today at the Science Center about oyster fishermen and how if they are commercial, they have had to change the water they are using from the ocean, because it has gotten too acidic, and they have to make changes to it. These are the kinds of things these things might sound small it might be one oyster fishermen, but it is not when it is cumulative with your whole world. And in the middle of our country, it is so important that we talk about this in a different way, right . That is the raging fires we have seen in places like colorado and arizona, where they sadly lost both firefighters, or when you think of Northern California and paradise and the dad driving through the lapping flames with his little girl, with their neighborhood burning behind them singing to her to calm them. It is a one minute video, but it really says it all. As you see the fire over their car. Or the flooding we have seen in places like missouri and nebraska and iowa just this summer. There is a woman named fran who showed me her binoculars, and she said, look through these. This is my house. I bought it with my husband. We are going to retire in his house. We lived there with our fouryearold. She said this house has been here for almost a century, it is so sturdy, there is still horsehair in the plaster. She said, i love my house, i love the way the light comes through the kitchen. Then i said, where is the kitchen . She goes no, no. It is all underwater. Half of the house is under water. I say, where is the river . The water is raging by us. She said no, those are two roads. The river is two and a half miles away and has never come that close to our neighborhood before. That is Climate Change. That is Climate Change in the middle of the country, where in our nation, Homeowners Insurance has gone up 50 by the way, that is an economic argument to make to people. I think it is important that when people are seeing it right in front of them, we make the case for them. Yes, it is about science and the temperature numbers and all of that, but it is also about what they are seeing and how it is going to change their lives, whether they are a farmer in the middle of nebraska or whether they are oyster fisherman off the coast of maine. These things are happening right now, so that is the first challenge. You know what the answers are. Day one as your president , i will get us back into the international Climate Change agreement. [applause] sen. Klobuchar when the president first announced he was taking us out of that agreement, there were only two countries not in it. Nicaragua and syria, and now they are both in it. That leaves us. Day two bring back , the rules president obama had worked on for years, and that is the clean power rules, as well as the gas mileage standards, which the Car Companies were ready to comply with anyway. They want them, a number of them, and trump just threw them out. Those are things, these first three things i mentioned, you can do without congress hey. Not right away. That does not mean i will do things like he does, that are illegal, but there are a bunch of things you can do in the first 100 days. And i believe in 100 day plans. Fdr is the first one that put one out. We were in an economic crisis, but he did it for another reason as well, because people had lost institutions and their government. He wanted to jumpstart it and make a very quick, different attitude and a different quality of our government and make very clear to people he was going to be a different kind of president. That is why you do 100 day plans, especially right now. I would start out with a promise that i would do no mean tweets, ok . And then we have Climate Change. Legislation. And there is all kinds of things you can do there, from the investment in research and development, which we will need so dearly if we not just wants to get to the goals that we have for the year 2050, but there will be still co2, there will be problems even if we make dramatic changes, it will remain in the air. We will have to think through how we do that, appliance standards, one of my only Climate Change jokes i can give you is that we will build a fridge to the next century. [laughter] sen. Klobuchar as well as a number of other things we have to do when it comes to putting a price on carbon and other things. I think this is doable. We have had these opportunities one of them was after 9 11. Bush was president , people were ready to do something. They knew where the terrorists had come from and that we wanted to be not dependent on those nations, those arab nations that were involved in that. But we did not do it. Remember what he asked us to do . He asked us to go shopping, you know . We got through 9 11 as a country in a big way, but to me, that was an opportunity where if he had said, we as a nation are going to come together and we do not want to be dependent on saudi arabia and we do not want to be dependent on some of these other countries, we could have done it. But we lost that opportunity. Then there was another opportunity, right before president obama won, we were one vote short in the senate. I was standing with Maria Campbell in the back, getting a renewable electricity standard which i had long supported for the whole nation. You can do regional differences. We lost by one vote, then president obama came in. I remember we met with him and i raised my hand and was the third person to speak, about doing a renewable electricity center. He said yes, he wanted to do it. So the decision was made to go , to cap and trade first, and i supported it strongly, but the problem is we did not cap the vote, so we did not do either. So we missed that opportunity. The next opportunity is now, and we are not going to have another one like this. That is the 2020 election. And so, i actually am excited about this, because i feel the change, the same change we are seeing there. You have a low Unemployment Rate here in New Hampshire, that is a blessing in some ways, but it also is a challenge because you want to have more incubators, more small businesses, more people here, more entrepreneurs, but you have a low Unemployment Rate. So how do you get at that . To me, the answer is workforce training. Make sure people are getting trained in the jobs we have now. We do not have enough people going in the trades and a whole bunch of other things that are actually pretty well paying, and looking at how we make it easier for people to go to college. I figure if millionaires can refinance their yacht, then students should be able to refinance their Student Loans at a better rate. [applause] sen. Klobuchar so that is everything from free one and twoyear degrees, something that president obama wanted to do, which is the fastest area of jobs right now. And you can do that right up front with community colleges. And then doubling the pell grants. There are 6000 a year now. Imagine the difference that makes. Double them to 12,000 a year and make it so that it goes up to income levels of 100,000 from 50,000. You double both sides of it. That is a significant investment and that way, the money goes to the people who most need it, which is what i really want to do, and it will just make it better for all of us, especially in a state that has high student debt, like you do. That is one thing. And more with tax credits and other things you can do by the way, i would pay for this, i pay for everything that i put out there, because i will not be another donald trump presidency, ok . I am going to be much more careful about how we do this stuff. I would pay for this with the buffet rule, which is,