Senate Proceeding on Sep 27th, 2010 :: 4:26:10 to 4:32:05
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Amy Klobuchar: statements relating to the measure appear at the appropriate place in the record as if read. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. roberts: mr. president, reserving the right to object. the distinguished senator from california said if we choose to proceed, we would have a vote tomorrow at 11:30 to -- to have

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Speech By: Amy Klobuchar

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Amy Klobuchar: a vote on proceeding on this bill, and so i think her actions are premature, and so i do object. the presiding officer: objection

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Amy Klobuchar: is heard. ms. klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota is recognized. ms. klobuchar: i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to five minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: i come in support of the creating american jobs and ending offshoring act, which i believe was well stated by the senator from california, will go

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Amy Klobuchar: a long way toward creating job in the private sector and leveling the playing field for american workers. hourly wages are rising and household debt is at its lowest point in a decade. we have seen some particularly promising bright spots in minnesota where our manufacturing exports increased

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Amy Klobuchar: 19% in the second quarter to to $4.3 billion. minnesota also has one of the lower unemployment rates, 7%, compared to 9.6% nationally. but while the numbers are starting to point in the right direction, too many minnesotans and too many americans are still out of work. as one of my constituents recently put it, unemployment

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Amy Klobuchar: may be 7% in the rest of the state, but in my house, it's 100%. that's what matters to me. he isn't alone. nationwide, there are still 15 million americans out of work and another 6.6 million who have joined the ranks of the long-term unemployed. i received a letter from one of

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Amy Klobuchar: them just the other day, a constituent of mine named john from northfield, minnesota, and i would like to share what he wrote. he says, "i'm 63 years old and i have worked my whole life. i lost my job in january of 2009 and i have applied for every job i have ever seen, even for some that paid half of what i previously earned. what's being done now for the

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Amy Klobuchar: millions of us without work?" mr. president, the bill that we're discussing today is not a silver bullet solution to our economic woes, but it will help answer john's question, a question that is on the minds of millions of americans right now. first, it will create a payroll tax holiday for businesses by eliminating the employer share

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Amy Klobuchar: of social security payroll tax on wages paid to new united states employees. this will be available for two years and applies to any new american worker who is hired to replace a foreign employee. for far too long, we have seen our home-grown jobs shipped overseas. it's time to level the playing field for american workers, and the payroll tax holiday creates

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Amy Klobuchar: a market-based incentive to do just that. it encourages companies that might otherwise hire employees in other countries to create jobs here at home, in places like northfield, minnesota, instead of mumbai, india. second, this bill will close the tax loopholes that have put our workers at a competitive disadvantage, a provision that

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Amy Klobuchar: will also encourage companies to bring jobs back to the united states of america. that's important, but i want to point out that this bill is about more than just job creation. it's about rebuilding our economic foundation. it's about reviving our manufacturing base and moving away from the mind-set of the last decade, a mind-set that

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Amy Klobuchar: glorified debt, consumption and an empty churn of money. what we need now are policies that allow us to be a country that thinks, that invents, that makes things again, a country where you can walk into any store on any street in any neighborhood and purchase the safest product at the best price and turn it over and it says, "made in the united states of america."

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Amy Klobuchar: as tom freedman, the new york times columnist and minnesota native has put it, we need to do some nation-building in our own nation. you know, i think about the opening ceremonies at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing, the ones where they had that perfectly synchronized 2,000-man drumming routine. well, those drumbeats are only getting louder and louder. and while china is building up

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Amy Klobuchar: their solar energy industry, we sadly still have not passed an energy bill despite some that have been reintroduced recently for renewable energy standard. while india encourages invention and entrepreneurship, we need to give our innovators a clear path so that they can invent and be rewarded for it. and while brazil is producing more engineers, we need to pass

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Amy Klobuchar: the stem cell -- the stem reauthorization to finally make -- put some meat on the bones and to get our kids into engineering and science. the world is moving ahead fast but we're not going to let it pass us by. as a country, we've always been home to the most productive, innovative and resourceful workers in the world. i'm talking about the men and women who have mined,

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Amy Klobuchar: manufactured and constructed every great product of american innovation, from cars to airplanes, to solar panels, to satellites. and in other words, the men and women who are doing the kind of work our country was not on, the -- was built on, the kind of work that made america great in the first place. we have before us a bill, mr. president, that makes sure that work is done right here in

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Amy Klobuchar: america, in our factories, in our office buildings, in our manufacturing plants. it is a good step towards not only rebuilding our domestic industry but towards putting more americans back to work, and