Ok. All right. [laughter] [applause] [cheering] [applause] good afternoon everybody. Hello. Behalf of the center of Civic Engagement hearing new england college, it is my pleasure to introduce you to president ial candidate and United States senator, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] amy is the first woman to be elected to the United States ,enate in minnesotas history and she has a wellknown reputation of getting things done while she is there. A recent study has actually ranked her the most effective democratic senator in the last United States congress. [applause] committed to improving the lives of families in the heartland, ensuring that kids that grow up in Rural America can stay in Rural America. And without spreading lies or spreading the blame, amy is focused on getting things done and making sure that families lives are improved every day. When she first came to congress her number one ask was to be on the Senate Agricultural committee. She understands that this country has to support our beginning farmers, funding for rural Energy Programs and conservation. [applause] she is also fighting for issues we all care about in New Hampshire, infrastructure, health care, public schools, Mental Health and addiction. She understands the challenges and opportunities we face and is taking action to make a real difference for our families. Know sheof all, we all can bring democrats up and down the ballot with her. She has won every Congressional District in minnesota and all 3 in all three of her statewide elections. Last year she 142 of the rural 42 rural she won counties that trump won and 2016. With amy at the top of the tickets, democrats took back the house, got to congressional seats and one every state lied statewide election. Now amy is fighting for every american. Please help me give a warm welcome to the senior senator from minnesota, and candidate for the presidency of the United States, Amy Klobuchar. [applause] wow. Klobuchar oh yes, there ago. Look at that. Thank you. Its a good time to be named pilgrim. Im going to put this over here, thank you, and i want to thank, first of all, trevor. Hes actually a fellow with our inice, which he did not add our introduction, but we have appreciated his work while he is a student here. Thank you. And where is wayne . Thank you so much, thank you for watching that whole debate two days ago. I appreciate that. Here, hes ar state director and we are proud of his work. Big event since the debate. We were in new york yesterday and we did some things in new york but its great to be back in New Hampshire. , afterned a little bit that debate in columbus where we got on a plane, i had three hours of sleep and we came to New Hampshire and we did 10 counties and 30 hours. That was a great plan. But this time, we are trying to do a little differently, it is fun to be here and see all the good work you are doing. And especially with thanksgiving break coming up, there are teachers and students, thank you for coming in on this rainy day. What a great crowd we have. I love this state. Minnesota and New Hampshire have a lot in common. We have a lot of lakes and forests, you have mountains that we dont have, but we do have one really cool thing in common, we are only a handful of states that had the wisdom to send not one but two women into the u. S. Senate. Maggie are actually some of my best friends in the senate. A few of you have heard this, but maggie and i compete for the crossword puzzle every morning. When she gets a really good time, sometimes i see in email, that she gets a dozen and 28 seconds. This before i even see the puzzle. Person, andcredible you have the only two women in the history of the United States out of New Hampshire that served as the governor and senator. , you all know shes up for election. We go way back, i got to know her when she was campaigning nationally for various president ial candidates and we stayed at their house, on vacation with their family. Memoriesf my most fond is sitting next to her when she first got to the senate and she said to me, we were talking about the gaps and she said senator Sherrod Brown wrote a book and i just started reading 88, and called desk about the people who had had that desk. I told the story about how i had requested Hubert Humphreys desk , and she said how did you know whose desk it is common i said they signed it but heres what happened, i asked and in a few months they all look alike. And im excited and i open it and it says gordon humphrey, from New Hampshire. They gave me the wrong desk, but even by that time in the senate, i learned that you your battles and i just decided that i will read up on gordon humphrey. I was telling jean that story and she said let me look at it. So i opened up the desk, what i did not know when the new congress arrived, which included her, they changed my desk and i then and still have Hubert Humphreys desk, which is a great thing. He was this incredible happy warrior, i have his picture in our front office. Its a reminder to me and maybe to all of you that no matter how hard things get, as they were this week with that impeachment hearing and thinking of those public servants, a fiona hill yesterday, oh my god. , read somewhere this week strong womens leadership, which you can see on display with fiona hill as well as an bast or , ambassador Marie Yovanovitch with their words and lt. Col. Stories abouttold how his immigrant father had brought over their family, talking to his dad and he says dont worry, this is a country where its ok to tell the truth. So through this week, and i will get to this in a minute. I think its important to remember that there are a lot of good people standing up for america. Including those who testified this week, that believe in what my friend john mccain always used to say, there is nothing more liberating than a cause greater than yourself. Thats what they did when they testified. And i think its also good to remember that there is a whole lot of citizens out there who, when you look in his next election and you put it in this electionfor them, this is an economic check and im sure we will have some good discussions about that, and policies like he saw like at the debate this week, but it is also a patriotism and values check on this president as we go into this election. When you look at those who previously voted for donald trump and then voted for the new governor of kentucky, so now Mitch Mcconnell has a democratic governor. Or you look at what happened in virginia, where we put up a slate of diverse candidates all over the state and we switched the house and the senate, something is going on. So my message to you, right from the start, is very profound. We cannot screw this up. We cant. We have this opportunity to put together this team across the country that truly believes in their hearts that what unites us is good and what divides us. A group of people bigger than donald trump, bigger than any of those people that show about his rallies and hell mean things. Its much bigger than that and it gets to the heart of america. And if we want to move on these bigticket items like Immigration Reform and Climate Change and finally doing something about College Affordability since we are at this Great College and doing something when it comes to health care in bringing the cost victory cannot eek by a at 4 00 in the morning with just one state, even if its New Hampshire. We have to win big and we have to win across the country so that people are going to be able to sit across each other at a thanksgiving table again and talk, and not just get mad at each other. Because this president has really fueled these divides. He does it all the time. He goes after immigrants and entries in my political ponds, he goes after people of color, people who dont agree with him, he makes mincemeat of our democracy and allows others to make meat of our democracy. When you think of this patriotism, that at its core, this state knows about that. You produce a lot of incredible veteran through the years, ambassadors, you have given us some incredible political leaders, including the ones you have in congress right now, which have always seen their role as a little bigger than what they have to do for their own neighborhood. They see a bigger neighborhood, that includes our country and world. And i think that is really on display right now. I was thinking about this the other day when i thought about how fiona hill, after last night, how she was making it very clear that this whole theory that ukraine was somehow trying to interfere in our elections wasnt just wrong. Its wrong, that didnt happen, we know the facts are there in the fbi director and President Trump zone President Trumps own National Security team said russia interfered, every single one of them said under oath, we know its wrong. But what she said yesterday was so important. Its not just wrong, they are furthering a hoax. They are furthering something that russia wanted us to believe , and still wants us to believe its not true. That gets to the patriotism piece of this. You think about the fact that thousands of people from New Hampshire have died fighting for democracy. Hundreds of thousands of americans died fighting for democracy. Four innocent girls died at the height of the innocent the height of the Civil Rights Movement at a church in alabama, they just commemorated the anniversary of that tragic bombing. Those four little girls died as innocence because people were trying to pull back on democracy, they would not extend the rights of our democracy. This has always been about a more Perfect Union. It was never a Perfect Union, thats what they said in the constitution we strive for a more Perfect Union and we cannot afford to go backwards. So when we get into the details of the issues that you all know are important and you are so good at in New Hampshire, my favorite New Hampshire story was this 11yearold boy named quinn , who i met on Easter Sunday at came up in walpole, who to me during the service, and i said no, we will talk later. But i met him at the social and he continues to appear at mine and other candidatesevents. Hes an incredible kid and one of the questions he asked when the mueller testimony was going on he said you think it would be better for him to test in the house or senate first and should it be before the intelligencer Judiciary Committee . So im well aware of the detailed knowledge of New Hampshire voters, but i think we cannot forget what this is about. I was reminded when we were in berlin and we did an event like economici led with points about what we needed to do economically to help their town and help your state and they had some closures up there and i think they heard a lot of that and we started doing questions and it went off the rails in a really good way. Their questions were all about how does the impeachment proceedings work . What should we do . What happens in the house . And it was one of those moments where i thought these people, a lot of them have fallen on hard times, some of them are out of work or retired and there they so muchy still cared about this. It was not a gotcha moment, they were trying to figure now. One of them said to the other, its kind of like the lawn order tv show, the first have to gather the evidence and the second half its the court. , said ok but its not criminal and that is the way to think about it. I want us to remember this moment in time. And as i mentioned, the only way we will get this done is if we win big. , what we we win big want to do . One thing i have done is put out a hundred day plan, because i think its important given with this president has done that we immediately switch over to another way of thinking as citizens. And when you look at the first hundred day plan for an american president , it was fdrs and we were in the middle of an economic crisis. But he understood the trust crisis we were in, people did not trust their leaders, business, government leaders. Thats why he thought it was so important to shake things up right away. Shouldou have time, you look up on our website and we should pass these around, we have found over a hundred things and we added things, 130 can you tell me . Thats really weird that you know the exact number. Do inings that we could the first 100 days. Some of it is proposed legislation, which i had committed to, some i have committed to strongly getting done in the first year area but a lot of the things are things we can do without congress. I love congress, im going to work with Congress Certainly better than this president and i will have a unique way of working with congress because i have been able to work across the aisle, passing over hundred bills. But there are some things we can get done right away. That includes the issue of Climate Change. The existential crisis of our time, this president has not only not helped us, hes gone backwards on it. California was trying to get those gas mileage standards that President Trump had that president obama had proposed, and those Car Companies working with california, including sword ford was going to get to it and then the Trump Administration literally stop what Car Companies wanted to do, and then slapped him with antitrust violations for working with california to get this done. So what can we do without congress . Get ourselves back into the international Climate Change agreement. When the president took us out of this agreement there were only two countries not in it, nicaragua and syria. Now they are both in the agreement. We are the only one. The clean power rule, it was something that was well negotiated over the years during the Obama Administration and it ended up on the cutting room floor, when the Trump Administration came in, and a president can get the gas , onege standards herself of my messages from the debates was that we had to think about things differently. When i suggest we play the game whats your favorite woman president. Im kidding. Its really important that people envision this differently. So gas mileage standards, sweeping legislation to put carbon price out there. I think one of the things that has happened is that people start thinking that this will be expensive and a carbon price the help us pay for any of economic dislocations we will see. There will be some forms of energy that will be phasing out and we want him coming in. I dont think you can expect that all the Green Energy Jobs will go to one place which is why i suggest incentives for manufacturing of any kind and other types of jobs for areas that was the job changes, as well as making sure people can afford energy. We can do this but we have to be smart about how we do it. I think of things with my head and my heart and for me this is important. My family came from northern minnesota we have our iron ore mines, and i have been working hard to keep them going and those are still going strong. At one point when they were closing down, there was a billboard outside of duluth that said the last one to leave, turn off the lights. And now duluth is thriving, because of tourism, the port, like thoseacturing cutting boards, epicurean. They make all huns of things. Adapt, town was able to its not a huge town that they were able to do it. Thats why i have helped when i see those things and i believe we can make us work with Climate Change and the kinds of the kind of changes we will see. Big challenge and the second challenge we have is health care. I personally believe the best way to get our premiums down is ,ith a nonprofit public option that is something president obama wanted to do from the beginning, it creates competition with insurance and it is estimated that 13 Million People will see their rates go down. One example with my plan is a a hundredfour making thousand dollars seeing their premiums go down by 50 . I think when we look at that we have to actually look at the numbers and how we get there and make sure we do no harm. Right now the Affordable Care act is 10 points more popular than donald trump. It was a major reason that ,eople voted in kentucky because of that republican governor having aligned himself against the Affordable Care act, medicaid, and those kinds of things. And it made a big difference when our candidate was campaigning on the protections you get with the Affordable Care act. I think trashing it dismantling the Affordable Care act is a bad idea. Secondly, pharmaceutical prices skyrocketed. Common drugs like insulin and things like that