The former secretary of state in washington, d. C. This is one hour and a half. Almost two years ago, we all signed a letter, and the letter said, run, hillary, run. We promised hillary that when she took up this challenge, we would be with her, behind her, and do everything we could to make sure that Hillary Clinton is the first woman president of the United States of america. [applause] so, im going to make my comments very brief. I have just one thing to say. Doubt, theout a by far,ost qualified, by any person in this race for president , is secretary of state Hillary Rodham clinton. [applause] so, we just need to always remember that. A whole lot of people will be talking about how women are just supporting women because they are women. Ull a bunch of b right . We are supporting Hillary Clinton because she will be one president stest re of the United States of america that we have ever seen. With that, i will introduce a good friend of mine. We used to do this on the circuit when we were both running. They always had me introduce her because quite honestly we have so much in common. Mazie hirono from hawaii. Im from north dakota. She is buddhist. Im catholic. She is japaneseamerican. Im germanamerican. , will tell you, mazie hirono she is a little of the left of me, you may know, but i will ohana,u this, she is my which in hawaiian means my family, my friends. A great senator from the state of hawaii, mazie hirono. [applause] we are hereo because we are ready for hillary. [applause] there is only one person who could have brought this awesome crowd together and got so many of my colleagues together tonight. That is Hillary Clinton. You know, aside from the fact that she is, as far as we are concerned, the smartest person, the most experienced, the most committed, i am supporting hillary because of who she is and who she draws inspiration from. That is her mother, dorothy. Some of you know that i would not be standing here were not for my courageous mother who fled an abusive marriage in japan to bring me and my two brothers to this country so we could have a chance for a better life. It was really tough. She had low paying jobs, no job security, no health insurance. She persevered. That is what hillarys mother dorothy day. She was abandoned at a young age, went to live with her grandparents, began working for other people. She persevered. That is what hillary learned from her mom. Dorothys battle is hillarys. Attle for middleclass families, and all those that want to get into the middle class. Senators aremen the first women to get elected to the United States senate from our respective states. [applause] that was the case for heidi, that is the case for me. When Hillary Clinton becomes our first female president , it will signal to all the girls in this country that they can do and be anything. [applause] of course, when hillary becomes our president. When hillary becomes our president , that will be a first degree. Th i have the privilege of introducing another one of my sisters we all campaigned together in 2012 that is my sister Tammy Baldwin from wisconsin. [applause] tammy is the first openly gay person to be elected to the United States senate. [applause] was asked about this historic first, she said, im not ready to make history, im running to make a difference. [applause] my friends, Tammy Baldwin. Give it up for her. Baldwin what a great crowd everyone here ready for hillary . Whynt to share the reasons i am so proud to support Hillary Clinton. ,ost of them are substantive from her work and earliest days as an attorney with the childrens defense fund, fighting to make sure their children with disabilities have equal access to education. To her days as first lady and secretary of state, putting both womens rights and lgbt wr rights on the global stage, to laying the foundation for the passage of the Child Health Insurance program that we know as chip, and on and on. I want to say something. That is that we focus a lot on the substance, but the symbolism is important also. I want every young woman, every be able toto look at the president of United States, and see someone who looks a little bit like herself. [applause] we have an extraordinary toortunity in front of us elect Hillary Clinton as our next president. I want to introduce you to a colleague, who, in the political world, has coined the phrase for sidelines. The politics is not a spectator sport. Please welcome to the stage, my friend and colleague, hurston hillebrand. Thank you. Lebrand thank you for your leadership and friendship. It is an honor to be here with my senate female colleagues, and an honor to be with you. Thank you for supporting hillary. All of us are here because women in our state support us. Women do so much for our campaigns from knocking on doors, stuffing envelopes, to voting. It is important that women speak out, and use their voices to vote for candidates that represent the values. It is also important for us to in this country from governors mansions to congress, to the senate, and of course, the white house. Lets think about it. If we had more women serving in government, we would have more women leading on issues that we care about, whether it is paid leave, equal pay for equal work, affordable day care. If women made up half of congress, i promise you, we would never debate whether women need to have equal pay for equal work, or whether we would have access to basic contraception. Just imagine what we would have if we had a woman president of the United States. I think we all know how amazing it will be when hillary is the next president of the United States. [applause] it is not just the women who will benefit. E more woment th are empowered and make decisions, we will have stronger ,usinesses, a growing economy and stronger communities. The only way we will get there is if every person in this room works day andrt night to make sure we have the resources to win this election, and make sure we get every single vote out. ,hen women vote, women win and hillary will be the next president of the United States. [applause] it is my pleasure to introduce an amazing leader, senator jeanne shaheen, the only woman that has been a senator and governor in our nations history. She is the next on foreign policy, and an amazing friend, jeanne shaheen. Senator shaheen thank you. Huh . An amazing crowd, [applause] i bring you greetings from the frontlines of the presence of campaign. The New Hampshire primary. [applause] where, last night, we had our Jefferson Jackson dinner. We had 1200 people, which is a lot for New Hampshire. We had all of the president ial democratic president ial candidates there. We had bernie, martin omalley, and hillary. Im here to tell you that hillary rocked the house last night. [applause] their thunder sticks. My favorite line was when hillary said, im not running to make a point, im running to make a difference. That is what her campaign is about. Making a difference for america. I can tell you that hillary will win the New Hampshire primary. [applause] i know that because even though close, theay it is people who are running her campaign are the people who helped me beat scott brown. [applause] we sent him packing. I can tell you, we will send the other candidates for president packing in New Hampshire, and hillary will win the first primary state. We can use a little help though from all of you who want to be out on the trail, making a difference. We have nice, Winter Travel packages available in New Hampshire. Come up, knock on doors, do a hillarykiing, and help become the next president of the United States. [applause] excited that i not only get to be here to talk about hillary tonight, by also get to introduce one of my best friends you think ale franken is the funniest member of the senate, but really it is Amy Klobuchar but she is also the hardest working person for families who has been working so hard to improve the economy of her state and of this country. And she has been traveling all over the Company Country working for hillary. When amy go someplace, the democrats win. [applause] so hillary is going to win. Amy klobuchar. [cheering] [applause] senator klobuchar thank you so much. You may be from the great Granite State of New Hampshire, but im just across the border from iowa. In fact, i can see iowa from my porch. [laughter] [applause] and i can tell you this, Hillary Clinton is going to win iowa. [cheering] [applause] and let me tell you, first of all, i am so excited about hillarys campaign. For me, it is personal. When i first got to the senate, i remember reading all of her agriculture papers because they were not many women that were in states that had major ag areas of her state. Now she is putting those interaction with her work in iowa. The other reason it is personal for me is because my mom is no longer with us, but she was when hillary started running for president and she had one goal. And that was that Hillary Clinton would be president s. I have a picture of my mom and hillary in my office, and we are going to make that come true. [cheering] [applause] the second reason is a reason of substance. Hillary clinton has put out plans for this country, not for the short term, but for the longterm. Thank you, cheering for the longterm. [laughter] sheof my favorite things has done issue has taken on the issue of Substance Abuse. Something that percent fx 50 56 of americans effects 56 of americans know someone who suffers from Substance Abuse. Read her piece from last week. If you need some talking points for the holidays, you read that. Ok. The third and the last reason is her incredible, true grit. Hillary clinton has been so resilient. You look at what you did in the ben ghazi hearing. Right . [cheering] [applause] that is the definition of true grit. You look at her appearances lately, whether it is stephen colbert, jimmy fallon, people have gotten to know Hillary Clinton like so many of us know her. And i think you have seen an amazing shift in the way the American People are understanding the where she is coming from. This is a grassroots campaign. Coming from the state of walter mondale. We will not forget when he put Geraldine Ferrero on the ticket. And coming from the state of hubert humphrey, what said that if we dont write our own history, someone else will write it for us. My friend, we are not going to let those guys on the other side of the aisle write our history for us. Our history is here. It is Hillary Clinton. And she will be our next president. [cheering] [applause] speaking of true grit. I have the great privilege to introduce a woman who knows little bit about true grit. And that is my great friend, Claire Mccaskill of missouri. Claire isu all know one tough cookie. Two toughs won races. Forre has also fought military families. She has taken on Government Accountability issues. The title ofshe is her book to add this, she is plenty ladylike. My friends, Claire Mccaskill [cheering] [applause] ok, that wasskill the senator next door. One pitch deserves another. It is great fun to be here with all of my colleagues. You know, every morning i get up, and i have a cup of coffee early. And i look at the days news. And it seems like almost every morning i read about the leading candidate for president in the Republican Party and i say out loud, he said what . [laughter] [applause] he said what . Are you kidding me . And then compare and contrast. Our leading candidate. Stable. Strong. [cheering] smart. [cheering] substantive. [cheering] there is no irresponsible rhetoric. There is no play into the cheap seats. But there is a lot of hard work. And we have so much hard work in front of us. Because this is a woman who understands shes got to earn the trust of the American People. And so when you think you havent done enough for Hillary Clinton, when you think you have gone to enough event where you have called enough friends or you have made enough phone by then itlup will be on netflix or itunes and watch it again. If you havent seen the movie, go see it. The sacrifices that women have made to come to this moment. Now, she is going to work to earn this. And we are going to be proud of her while she does. But tonight, i think we should treat ourselves and just try something out. And say it out loud for the first time. , on thent you to say count of three, what we are going to call Hillary Clinton in january of 2015. 1, 2, 3. Madam president all right [applause] speaking of substance, speaking of smart, there is a woman in the senate who never elbows anyone out of the way for a camera, who never wants the attention that is and is always doing the hard work. That is why i am so proud to be her friend. Please welcome the very special Maria Cantwell from washington. [cheering] [applause] hear theretwell i are over 1000 people get to support Hillary Clinton for president. Thank you all very much. And as claire said, there are two cans of senators in washington. Those when the tv cameras show of go and fix their hair and makeup, and then there are the women. [cheering] and we are here [cheering] we are here to support one of our own. You know why . Because as president , Hillary Clinton knows that we need to retrain laidoff workers and returning veterans so that they can have a job in the economy of the 21st century. She knows we need to grow the economy from the middle out, and that is why we need to increase the minimum wage. And she knows she will find signed the first bill that says equal pay for equal work. [cheering] [applause] that is what we will get with Hillary Clinton. And that is why we have to work hard. Last time when hillary ran, my mom, literally before the day of the caucus, had her appendix taken out, but showed up for the caucus to support hillary. So i just want us to all know whatever the circumstances, appendix or not, we are going to be there for hillary. We are going to get the vote out. And we are going to make sure that equal pay does become the law of the land. If i can just say a great word about my tremendous colleague from michigan, you know, hillary has fought for health care her entire life, and when senator stabenowow senator was on the ticket, the republicans try to take out basically the provision for Womens Health care. Even one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle said, why do you need Preventative Care . We dont even need to take care of this. Debbie said, and no, but your mom did. Please welcome senator debbie stabenow. Debbie [cheering] [applause] [applause] hello, hillaryw land. We are ready to rock n roll. It is a wonderful being hit with all of my colleagues. I picture january 2017. [cheering] when the door opens, and there walked down the stairs, and Hillary Clinton walks down and puts her hand up and takes the oath. Thats when our children and grandchildren, the grows and our lives, will know they really can be anything they want to be. Anything they want to be. [applause] had the great pleasure and honor of knowing Hillary Clinton for almost 30 years. We were both five when we started. [laughter] at aet on a panel on National Convention in detroit on protecting children. And i heard this wonderful woman, who was there representing the childrens defense fund, also first lady at the time, speak about how critical it was to protect our children from child abuse and neglect. I said, who is that woman checkup i am woman . I am pretty impressed with this woman. And i have been impressed ever since. We have had the opportunity to Campaign Together for her other half, who did pretty good as president , i recall. And i had the great honor of being in beijing in 1995 [cheering] when our Hillary Clinton , despite great controversy, in a huge room much bigger than this people whispering, what she really going to get up and say what they thought she was going to say . We had seen women from tibet who were out marching in protest who suddenly would disappear. We saw all kinds of things happening around beijing at the time. And when Hillary Clinton represented the United States and represented all of us stood up and said, womens rights are human rights, it changed [cheering] [applause] it changed the world. And she has been doing that ever since. And then, it was an honor to come in with her in 2000 to the United States senate. We had the opportunity to come in and, once again, as a colleague, i saw somebody willing to work across the isle when it made sense, kick them in the rear when it made sense, fighting for working families, for choice, for health