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tv   President Biden Speaks at Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Conf.  CSPAN  April 19, 2024 12:20pm-12:30pm EDT

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them now. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. lamalfa: mr. speaker, i move the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor, say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands
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president biden: in europe or asia or wherever they were and sent the product back home. [inaudible] and we're making those jobs american jobs created here in america where they belong. not that complicated. i really mean it. [inaudible] brought home, home, home.
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that's pretty big stuff. they're talking about chips but all those computer chips we invented with the tip of a finger, the size of it, guess what? i went over to south korea, they said what are you doing that for? i said i'm going to get them to invest in america instead of having to import all that stuff. we have this space between what we needed and what we could get. well, guess what? we created $550 billion in investments. i asked the guy at samsung why. he said to me you have the best workers in the world and the safest place in the world to invest. look, folks, my predecessor and his maga allies have a very different view. he promised infrastructure week every week for four years and never built a damn thing.
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in fact, he's now saying republicans -- this is not your father's republican party, this is a different breed of cat, these maga republicans. now they want to repeal the common law. we've got all those new jobs that were created here in america. my predecessor rolled back protection for american workers and proposed increase in federal minimum wage and was very proud of his $2 trillion tax cut when he was president that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and created the biggest corporation and exploded, exploded the federal deficit. i cut the federal deficit. he exploded it. by the way, there's no exaggeration here, it's going to expired. and if i'm re-elected it's going to stay expired. look, let me close with this.
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there are two different ways of looking at our economy. some folks learned very different lessons than you and i did. they learned and my opponent learned the best way to get rich is inherit it. i can't argue much with that. but they learned paying taxes is for working people, not the superwealthy. they learned when you're told you're fired not to be laughed about. not where i come from or where i was raised. i guess that's how they look at the world on park avenue and mar-a-lago. i grew up in scanton, pennsylvania, and delaware, working class, middle class towns, like many of you did as well. nobody handed you anything. you paid your taxes and being told you were fired wasn't entertainment but a devastating nightmare to a family.
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folks, where we come from it matters. that's why when i look at the economy i don't see through the eyes of mar-a-lago, i literally see through the eyes of scranton where i grew up in grand pops kitchen table and i see it through the eyes like you and the basic values you represent, honesty, decency, hard work, faith that matters, fairness matters and you believe like i do, everyone in america deserves an even shot, not guarantee, just a shot but we're guaranteed to have a shot. in america, we leave nobody behind where we come from. folks, that's the america you all are building. that's the america you're re-creating. let me ask you, are you going to keep doing it? i know i can do this because of you, the american worker.
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and i've never been more optimistic about things than i am today. folks, you just have to remember who the hell we are. we are the united states of america and there's nothing beyond our capacity, nothing, nothing, nothing, god whether he is you all. thank you, thank you. on behalf of america, thank you. you've really done it. thank you, thank you, thank you. [crowd chanting "four more years"] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] >> today watch c-span's 2024 campaign trail, a weekly roundup of c-span's campaign coverage,
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