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11/03/2022 01:58

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>> Thank you, all. Thank you, my friends. Thank you. Hello, Democrats. It is
so good to be here all of you for the first time in over two years, we are all
back together. And my friends, let me be clear. We're not back together by
accident. We've come so far because of the hard work of everyone in this room.
Because Democrats in the White House, Democrats in Congress, in State houses,
in cities across the country, stepped up to meet the challenges facing this
great nation of ours. To make it more plain, we are back together because
democrats delivered. Over 216 million Americans are vaccinated. Why? Because
Democrats deliver. Schools were able to open safely. Why? Because Democrats
deliver. Last year was the best year of job growth on record. Why? It is
because democrats deliver. We're going to repair 1500 bridges, repair 65,000
miles of highway, and modernize our public transitive. Why? Because Democrats
deliver, We're going to get clean water and affordable Internet to every
community. Why? Because Democrats deliver. We're going to put the first black
woman on the Supreme Court. Why? Democrats deliver. My friends, these
accomplishments aren't just about good headlines or scoring points against the
Republicans. Our work has changed lives. It has saved lives. Every vaccinated
American means fewer loved ones lost. Every job created gives another person
the dignity they deserve and the confidence to know that there'll be able to
provide for their families. Every neighborhood we connect to the Internet
means fewer kids doing their homework in the parking lot of McDonald's. The
list goes on and on. And that's why our work at the DNC is so important. We're
on the front line supporting the Biden-Harris administration and Democrats
across the country. We are responsible for making sure that they can continue
to deliver and continue to address the everyday needs of working folks.
Because there's a whole lot left to do my friends. And the Republicans don't
have a plan for any of it. For weeks, President Biden, Democrats in Congress,
yours truly, folks, all over the country. We were all asking the same
questions. What's the GOP plan? How will they bring down costs and address the
needs of regular people? In the states, they're too busy attacking trans and
queer kids. Too busy, taking away your reproductive freedom. Too busy telling
teachers what history they're not allowed to teach, to actually do their jobs.
In Washington is the same old, same old. They're right back on that same old
song about the American rescue plan. Folks, they voted no, and if you vote no,
you can't take the dough. So what do Republicans really want to do if they're
in power? They want to raise taxes on half of Americans. They want to make
people poor. Democrats, we have a better way. We're going to make childcare
more affordable, bring down prescription drug costs, and energy prices and
make more stuff in America with a union workers. And that means no one making
less than $400,000 will pay a penny more in taxes. So those are the options my
friends. One side wants to make you poor, the other side wants to solve the
problems that keep folks up at night. These nets eight months my friends, our
job is to be relentless, relentless in getting that message out to the
American people. We have to make sure that every American knows that we've got
a plan to get stuff done. And a track record to prove that we can do it. Our
job isn't just to speak to people's minds. In this moment of stress, in this
moment of anxiety and pressure, we've got to speak to their hearts. We've got
to let people know that we've got their back and that everything is going to
be okay. My friends, we have the leadership for this moment, and it starts at
the very top. My grandmother helped raise me. She picked cotton and did
domestic work and she's a no nonsense woman. She knows a little something
about hard work. And she loves to tell me. She says, ''Jamie, you can talk all
you want. But what really matters is what you do.'' How are you going to give
folks a hand-up? President Biden is a man who gets things done. He's led us.
The President has led us through this historic recovery. He's brought
lawmakers together and he's helped give millions of Americans that hand up.
He's helped folks know that it's going to be okay. He's a steady presence even
in our toughest times. Especially in our toughest times. And we're seeing it
firsthand as he unites the world against an authoritarian Vladimir Putin, and
in support of Ukraine. And I already know folks, when he gets up here, he'll
be quick to say that I'm being a bit to kind. That this is a group effort.
That humility to tell you everything you need to know about what kind of a
man, and what kind of a leader, President Biden is. He is a true public
servant and a man who will never forget where he came from. Like my mentor Jim
Clyburn said, ''We know Joe. But more importantly, Joe knows us.'' I know I
speak for all of us here tonight. And 81 million Americans all across this
country, when I say it is an honor to follow his lead. So who's fired up? Let
me say it again. Who is fired up and ready for Joe? If you are fired up and
ready for Joe, I need you out of your seat. Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome to the podium, the President of the United a States of America, our
friend Joe Biden. >> Great to see you all. Thank you so much. Jamie just gave
my speech, so thank you. Thank you, Jamie for that introduction and for all
you've done for the party. And thank all of the leaders of the DNC and the
staff. Look to all of you today, there are so many friends here tonight. And
if I mentioned everyone by name, we'd be here all night. But let me start by
saying, thank you. Thank you and excuse me, as we used to say in the Senate, a
point of personal privilege. I want to say thank you to the Delaware
delegation, they run with me. Stand up, the Delaware folks stand up. That's
Maron, chair of the party. Colby Owens, Vice Chair, Sean Finnegan, staff, the
house representatives and my good friend to Bow Sarah McBride who used to work
for Bow, and Marlin McGarrity as well, and a great friend, Brian Macglinchy
who's basically family. And Bonnie Wu, a director of Tom carvers office. Most
importantly, she hepled my son Beau get elected Attorney General. So she's a
place in the heart of everybody. Look, coming out of the State of the Union,
we are the strongest position we've been in in months. We have a record, a
record to be proud of. An agenda that addresses the biggest concerns here in
America people's lives. The message that resonates. And now what we have to do
is we have to sell it with confidence, clarity, conviction, and repetition.
Folks, on Ukraine, Putin was counting on a divided NATO, a divided West, and
quite frankly, a divided America. But he got none of that. In fact, he's now
facing a more united energized, resolute NATO on the west than he ever
imagined. And he's failed to divide Democrats and Republicans. But we need to
be honest with the American people. The battle for freedom has its cost here
at home as well. People are already feeling foods price hikes at the pump. I
think the American people know how important this fight is. I think they know
that it's painful as the price is today, the costs are going to be higher if
we do not act now to deal with this tyrant. So let me be clear on the facts.
We are increasing oil production with a record productivity. By the end of the
year, we will have produced more oil than anytime in the last number of years.
Look, I just want to run, the Republicans are playing a game here. They're
talking about the Democrats having raised prices. They all voted for the same
thing. The CEOs of major oil companies have said, they'll increase investment
and production. They have the capacity to do it. They have over 4,000
opportunities. They say there's nothing the US government needs to do to
incentivize them. My message is, in this time of war, it's not a time of
profit. It's time for reinvesting in America. And they hear it. There's an
impediment to production in the United States. And it's called the bankers on
Wall Street. This crisis is another indication of why we need to get off the
dependency on fossil fuels. This is not a solution to today's crisis. It's
about the future. That's why we need to build a better America. Let's talk
about our record. The American rescue plan. People were hurting. We had to act
and we did, we did it as democrats without a single solitary Republican vote.
And the one-year anniversary that passage to that axis tomorrow. We should be
proud of it. We did so much. People don't even know we did it. Without
exaggeration, few piece of legislation in our history have done more to lift a
country out of crisis. When I took office, only 2 million Americans had been
fully vaccinated. Today, we vaccinated a nation more than 250 million people
fully vaccinated. You all remember the lines of cars that lined up from miles
waiting for someone to put a box of food in their trunk. Because of this law
we passed, 41 million Americans put food on the table today. Because of this
law, we help keep a roof over the heads of 4 million people who were being
evicted. We gave families what my father called a little bit of breathing room
and a work. Twenty million people were out of work just months before I took
office. Job grocers anemic, 60,000 jobs a month leading up to January 2021.
But because we took action, we created 6.5 million jobs just last year. More
jobs than ever created in one year in the United States of America. More jobs.
People got pay increases. And it hasn't stopped. We're now well over 7 million
new jobs. Six hundred and seventy eight thousand jobs last month. Unemployment
down to 3.8%. And the economy grew last year at 5.7%. The best economic growth
in four decades. Lead financial firm of Moody's, and Wall Street estimates of
our record plan created 4 million more jobs and unemployment is 2% lower
because of what we did. And here's one thing that I'm proudest of, our
recovery has lifted everyone. Black unemployment at all time lows, Hispanic
unemployment, youth unemployment, long-term unemployment, all have fallen by
historic amounts. We have more to do. They've fallen by historic amounts.
Poverty for all children, including black children, Hispanic children at the
lowest levels ever recorded in our first year, ever recorded. And that just
didn't happen, it was a direct result of how we design the American rescue
plan. It was very different from how previous administration has designed
their $2 trillion tax cut. Pretty much all that $2 trillion went to the top
1%. And we took the exact opposite approach for the American rescue plan. We
decided we were going to build America from the bottom-up and the middle out.
Because when the middle does well, everybody does well. And our plan didn't
leave a single working person behind, no one behind. Let's be clear, when
America's recovery was flat on it's back and economy was flat on its back, it
was the Democrats. Without a single republican vote, they brought as back.
Let's talk about infrastructure. We pass the biggest investment in physical
infrastructure in the history of the United States of America. Now in this
case, we got some Republican help. We got 12 republicans in the house and a
couple of handfuls in the Senate. But I noticed every new bridge or highway,
you have a Republican who voted against them for standing there taking credit.
As my mother would say, God love them. We got it done though, and we did get
some Republican help and I'm thankful for it. Folks, the fact is this
infrastructure bill is going to transform America. It's not hyperbole. We used
to have the best infrastructure in the world. Now we ranked number eight in
the world. China is number two in the world. We're already starting to do make
great progress. Just this year we've announced 4,000 projects across the
country with 1,500 bridges and disrepair. I was just talking to a good friend,
County Executive out in Pittsburgh. When I went out there to talk to folks
out, there's a day that bridge collapsed. Just flat collapsed, thank God it
was two hours earlier because there would've been school buses on there. No
one was killed, but it was a drop of wall over 100 feet. We have hundreds of
those bridges all across America that are ready to collapse. Look, we need to
be clear with folks about why this is happening. This bill is going to create
millions of jobs. That's not hyperbole, that's literal. Rebuilding America's
roads, bridges, highways, ports, airports. It's going to do something else.
Its going to start to get rid of the poisonous lead pipes that our kids and
our families have been drinking from the lead pipes coming through the water.
It affects over 10 million homes, and 450,000 schools. And there's
overwhelming evidence of the impact of lead on the brain of a developing
child. We're going to invest $65 billion to deliver affordable high-speed
Internet everywhere in America. Urban, suburban and rural and tribal
communities. See that little [inaudible 00:32:38] there clapping, God love
her. I want to meet, is it a boy or a girl? I can't see from here. I want to
see you before I leave, okay? Because folks you know it's not I probe, that's
why we're doing this, folks. We can't be a country where a mother ask to take
her child on McDonald's parking lot to get access to the Internet to be able
to do their homework. This is United States of America, for God's sake. This
law is going to put an end to that so much more and we're going to bring back
something many people thought we had lost. The ability to manufacture products
stamped, Made in America. Just a few years ago, the company is building in
America. Factors in America would have built them overseas. Now we'll bring
them here in America. That's not only great for manufacturing, it's great for
cost. one third of all the inflation in America last year, was a consequences
of automobiles not having access to computer chips to be able to build their
automobiles. We're going to make them again in America. Now here's more one
way to help families reduce their monthly cost as well by the way, that a time
when food and gas prices are rising, if you can lower other major cost or
families, you can help their standard of living. Let's give Medicare the power
to negotiate lower prescription drug. It costs $10 for a pharmaceutical
company to make insulin for those suffering from serious problem if they don't
get the insulin , type 1 diabetes. Look folks, you know what we're going to
do? You know how much people pay now? Some of you do know because you struggle
with it. They pay an average of $647 a month, as high as $1,000 a month. Folks
it cost them 10 bucks to make it. Talk about stripping, not only worrying
about the healthier child, 200,000 of them. But what else is happening? If you
strip a mother or father their dignity, their sense of responsibility, if they
can't do it. Imagine if you have a child, you don't have the insurance, you
don't have the cash. What in God's name do you do? So we're going to cap the
cost of insulin at $35 period. And by the way, they'll still make a healthy
profit. We want to further help working-class and middle-class families that
are dealing with cost of gas and food has gone up. Well, let's cap the cost of
childcare at 7% of a family's income. We can afford to do this. Folks in major
cities is $14,000 a year per child. Mr. Donald [inaudible 00:36:25] can tell
you, I got credit for 36 years from a community in every single solitary day
from Washington to Wilmington, Delaware over a 300 mile round trip. But guess
what folks? I did it because when my wife and daughter were killed, I had two
beautiful young boys. I could not afford childcare. Not a joke. Thank God, I
had a mom, a sister, and a brother who busted their neck to help me. How do
families do it? And by the way, two million women out of work, they will be
able to go back to work. And folks look, for families, it's going to cut the
cost of childcare in half. As I said, you're not going to pay more than for
one child paying $14,000 a year in some places, most places is 7,000. Look, we
can lower the cost of energy with tax credits an average of 500 bucks a year
by giving tax credits to families to whetherlize their homes, so they use less
energy. Folks, this is not rocket science. Even some of the CEOs of the
biggest utility companies came to see me. Nine of them saying that if we
continue the prospect that we get tax credits, we promise you we will lower
the cost of energy. These are public utilities. And by the way, all these
programs and others, I'm not going to mention in interest of time, they're
going to be able to be done without raising the taxes one single penny on
anyone making less than $400,000 a year, not a penny. Because we're going to
raise taxes on the wealthiest among us and corporations. I come to the state
of Delaware more corporations are incorporated there than all the rest of the
United States of America combined. And I got elected seven times as a senator.
I'm not anti corporation or anti people being able to go and make a lot of
money. But everybody should pay a fair share, everybody. And our agenda is not
only supported by the public, it's enthusiastically supported. Seventeen Nobel
Laureates in economics wrote me a letter unsolicited, saying that if we pass
what I'm talking about would actually reduce inflationary pressures. I want to
make two things clear. Again, first, no one making less than $400,000 will pay
a single, solitary additional penny in taxes. And those earning less than
that, as I said, are going to find themselves in good shape. But I'm a
capitalist. I'm not looking to punish anybody. But is time the corporations
and the very wealthy just began to pay just a fair share. Last year, 55
corporations in the Fortune 500 earned $40 billion and didn't pay a single
penny in income tax. Not a penny. It's not only wrong, it's not fair. That's
why I propose a 15% minimum tax rate for corporations. We're going to get it
done. As President of United States, when I showed up to the so-called G7,
where all the major countries in the world are part of. I started to push for
a global minimum tax rate on companies. They get out of paying their taxes at
home, by going to jurisdictions that require very low taxes for profit made by
corporations in their country. So what happens, not only do we lose jobs and
they go overseas, they pay no tax at home even though they're here in the
state of Delaware, the state of Maryland, the state of California. They're
just shipping these jobs overseas. Well guess what? We agreed, 170 some
countries, agreed that they should all pay a minimum tax of 15%. Guess what?
That's going to bring in billions of dollars in taxation here at home again.
That's why I propose closing the loophole for the very wealthy who pay lower
tax rates than a teacher or a firefighter. Look, the bottom line, this whole
plan is paid for. Secondly, I want to point out for those folks who attack us
for being fiscally irresponsible. Let them know this, last year, I cut the
budget $360 billion. While we did these other things, 360 billion. And know
I'm the only president who is on track to cut the deficit by more than $1
trillion in one year, $1 trillion. And folks, our agenda includes, a
bi-partisan unity agenda as well for around four big items. One, opioid
addiction, taking the lives of literally thousands of Americans. We're doing
very little about it especially our children and fentanyl being laced to them.
Second thing we can all agree on, is dealing with mental health, especially
for our kids. There's a serious problem in America today. And a third thing,
on a unity agenda we can all do with veterans, especially those who were
exposed to toxic burnt pits and not getting their needs met. And fourthly, the
only truly bi-partisan thing I know that I've been involved in of late is
ending cancer as we know it. We can do this, we have the possibility of doing
this. But folks, these are all within our reach, let me finish with this.
Unfortunately I can go on for a long time, because I feel so good about what
we're doing. Look, I believe we have a record to be incredibly proud of. An
agenda the public strongly supports, if you look at the polling data. A
message it resonates, build a better America. Now we've got to do the work,
and I've seen what you can do. I saw it in 2020. Nothing was going to stop you
then. We can't let anything stop us now, we need to bring some real
determination, the same work ethic, the same enthusiasm. And if we do that,
we're going to keep the House and keep the Senate and add seats. And by the
way, if we don't do that, it's going to be a sad two years. Think about
Republicans if they had control of the Congress these last two years. Ask your
Republican friends. I mean this sincerely, name me something the National
Republican Party is for. Not a joke. What are they for? Now two people in the
party laid out what they think it's for, they think we should raise the cost
of Medicare. But what are they for? Folks, we'll strengthen our position with
governorships and up and down the ticket. And more importantly, we're going to
change this country. We're going to improve the lives of millions of
Americans, we'll meet the great challenges of our time, voting rights, climate
crisis, gun violence, criminal justice, immigration, and so much more. It's
literally within our power to do this. And we can make sure that this nation
is going to continue to be what it's always been. I've said it before I was in
China with Xi Jinping and he turned to me and we just reach out an interpreter
and he said, can you define America for me? True story, and I said, yes, I can
in one word, possibilities. We can do anything when we decide to do it
together. When we do it at the United States of America. There's nothing
beyond our capacity. So let's get it done. Let's remind people what we've done
and keep it going. God bless you all. And may God protect our troops. Thank
you