Economy for our neighbors, to really rely on our neighbors knowledge and assets to develop communities we all desire to live in. Im going to allow us to enjoy and continue the work for wisconsin needs the energy. We need to know that all that we are, that we have lived through, now i talked about the sunrise. You dont see the sun, it is still there. We are now leading into the new administration to hear us and provide an actionable platform we can all move forward with. Im thankful for this moment. Im thankful for your time and im happy to be in your presence. Thank you. Sen. Harris i want to thank all these leaders. I want to start with the Lieutenant Governor for your leadership and the work you have been doing during these most difficult times around the country, including here in wisconsin. Thank you for your leadership in bringing this group of Business Leaders together this afternoon. Weve had a very important discussion. It is actually a discussion that continues a discussion ive been having throughout my visits today in milwaukee. It is about talking about the dignity of work. Beings dignity of human and the importance of leadership to tap into that dignity in a way that we grow capacity. Thats about capacity of individuals, capacity of community, and ultimately about growing the capacity of our country to be strong and to be healthy. We have had an extensive conversation about the fact that if we are going to have safe communities, we must invest in Healthy Communities because Healthy Communities are safe communities. One of the attributes of Healthy Communities is that there is access to capital for the Small Businesses that are the heartbeat of those communities, that are part of the fabric of those communities. What we know about Small Businesses and small Business Leaders is, they are not only leaders in business, they are civic leaders. They hire locally, they understand the jewels that exist within their community and the need to then encourage all the good things that can happen in those communities. We talked about that. There have been a number of issues that have been raised, including pointing out that during this pandemic, covid, it has been an accelerator in many ways. One way we talked about in particular is highlighting the disparities in Technology Based on race. Those who have access to technology. Thinking about things like the fact that families now are sending their children back to school virtually, and whether that family has access to broadband, whether that family has access to the knowledge about how technology works, that has everything to do with the capacity of the children of that family to actually survive through this moment, much less thrive. We have talked about the importance of building an entrepreneurial class, meaning having our government, as our priority, it is part of joe biden and my priority, investing in entrepreneurship and investing not only through the work we will do that is about access to capital through Small Business administration, access to capital, putting money into opportunity zones is one part of it but 150 billion in new capital in opportunities around investing in private Venture Capital as well as what the government can do. This is about an investment in not only those specific communities, but in our country, understanding that some of the greatest sources of wealth, intergenerational wealth, come about through that kind of focus. We have talked about the importance of community banks. During the course of this crisis, up to 90 of minority and women owned Small Businesses dont get the benefit of the ppp. In large part, because unlike how donald trump has been concerned about the wealthy, the people who are working every day and trying to raise their families dont have the access to those kinds of relationships and havent received the benefit of Something Like the ppp. We talked about the need to make tax credits permanent and doing that, through doing that, increasing funding to as much as 5 billion annually provide credit for Equity Investment in Small Businesses that benefit low and moderate income areas. These are some of the conversations we have had this afternoon. It is also in the context of a pledge that joe biden and myself are making to Small Businesses throughout our country, including here in milwaukee, that we see you, we understand the significance of what you are in terms of the health and wellbeing of communities, and we see the benefit to the entire country to invest in our Small Businesses and our small Business Leaders. So that is why we are here today, and i couldnt be more thankful for this, for the Business Leaders who took time out of your days. Today is labor day, of course. So, part of the work we have been doing today is to honor the men and women of labor, including, we talked about this, the pride milwaukee and many of us have in organized labor. The Lieutenant Governor talked about that. And what we must do to always support the working man and woman, to be able to engage in collective bargaining and have all of the wages and benefits that come with a hard days work and the acknowledgment of the dignity of work. With that, Lieutenant Governor, i will pass the microphone to you. Thank you so much. I want to thank you for being here. I want to remind people that this is the senators very first trip so we are excited that you are able to participate and i think i speak for everybody because we know how crucial wisconsin and milwaukee will be in the election. It is an important thing to have leaders that care, who will show up and listen to the concerns, especially with so many black Business Owners here at the table right now. You juxtapose that with the white houses recent decision to cancel all trades related to race, that is unfortunate at a time when we have many disparities in milwaukee and wisconsin and across the country the donald trump wont respond to that crisis. We are proud and lucky to have senator, soon to be Vice President harris with us today. I will pass it back to you. Congress is about to return from summer recess with a the senate back in session this tuesday. They will start with nominations, live tuesday at 3 p. M. Eastern. The house returns for business the following week with work expected on condemning antiasian bias during the covid pandemic. Decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level. And reauthorizing u. S. Intelligence agencies. Two items not in the official schedule, but we could see by the end of the week a pared down covid package from republicans and a deal to fund the government past september 30 when current funding levels expire. Watch the senate live this week on cspan2, the house when they return on cspan. Aflcio president Richard Trumka spoke to reporters about the economy, the Labor Movement in the president ial campaign. This event was hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Hello, everybody. I am linda feldman, the Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Today is Richard Trumka, president of the aflcio. This is his 12th appearance and our annual prelabor day tradition. This is also our first zoom breakfast so be kind, be gentle and welcome, everybody