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From YouTube: Massachusetts Municipal Association Annual Meeting
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Mayors, representatives, aldermen and other elected officials from across the state gather at the Hynes Convention Center in Back Bay for the Massachusetts Municipal Association's annual meeting. Mayor Walsh, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ed Markey offer welcoming remarks to the group.
A
A
We
will
come
to
order
good
morning
and
welcome
to
the
Massimino
Mistral
Association's
annual
business
meeting.
My
name
is
Mark
Hawk,
I'm
fortunate
enough
to
be
the
mayor
of
the
city
of
Gardner
and
the
still
current
for
the
next
hour
or
so
president
of
the
Massachusetts
Municipal
Association.
We
have
a
lot
of
work
ahead
of
us
this
morning,
including
the
consideration
of
two
policy
resolutions
that
have
been
the
subject
of
hard
work
by
our
policy
committees,
but
first
we
are
privileged
to
hear
from
not
one
not
two
but
three
very
special
guests.
A
Mayor
Walsh
is
joining
us
today
after
a
very
busy
start
to
the
new
year
as
the
mayor
of
the
city
of
Boston,
taking
care
of
the
basics
of
leading
our
capital
city
into
the
future.
Mayor
Walsh
has
focused
on
strengthening
the
city's
schools,
including
making
strategic
investments
to
close
opportunity
and
achievement
gaps
he's
also
a
leader
in
statewide
education
reforms,
including
key
parts
of
the
fiscal
and
budget
resolution
that
this
business
meeting
will
take
up
later.
A
Today,
the
mayor's
made
housing
opportunity
a
priority
for
his
administration
and
under
his
leadership,
the
city
has
built
affordable
in
middle-class
homes
and
has
made
great
strides
towards
ending
homelessness.
These
are
truly
great
priorities
that
resonate
in
cities
and
towns
all
across
the
Commonwealth
mayor
Walsh.
We
applaud
your
leadership
and
deeply
appreciate
your
partnership
with
all
of
us.
Please
join
me
in
welcoming
mayor
Marty
Walsh
to
the
podium.
B
Thank
You
mayor,
thank
you
for
that
introduction
and
I
want
to
thank
Jeff
I
want
to
thank
all
my
fellow
mayor's
here
today,
municipal
leaders,
public
servants,
for
all
the
great
work.
Do
you
do
I?
Also
it's
an
honor
to
be
here
with
I'll
choose
the
United
States
senators,
Ed
Markey
and
Sen
Elizabeth
Warren.
B
B
Want
to
welcome
everyone,
obviously
to
Boston,
and
you
know
we're
getting
ready
for
the
snow.
As
you
know,
you
can
see
those
my
colleagues
and
cities
to
the
north,
good
luck
in
the
cities
to
the
town
if
the
power
goes
out,
we're
all
coming
down
to
your
area
tomorrow
at
6:40.
So
I
want
to
thank
you,
but
it
is
important
that
this
conversation
in
these
meetings
that
we
have
are
important
in
the
association
of
coming
together.
B
I've
been
mayor
now
for
five
years,
I'm
starting
my
sixth
year
and
I
realized
that
it's
really
important
and
I
was
talking
to
Jeff
earlier
about
a
Big
Ten
approach
that
we
all
we
all
under
the
same
tent.
We
all
have
to
work
in
a
common
area
common
way
to
get
things
done.
It's
important
that
we
understand
and
learn
from
each
other,
that
we
take
each
other's
ideas
and
that
we
share
each
other's
ideas.
Now
we
keep
an
open
process
on
how
we
move
our
governments
forward.
B
You
know
when
I
was
I
was
doing
some
campaigning
this
summer,
I
would
in
different
places
in
Ohio
and
Iowa
and
in
Indiana
I'm
not
running
for
president
Santa
Warren,
but
but
what?
But,
when
I
was
out
there.
It's
amazing
people
talk
about
the
device
Ernest
to
the
country
and
how
different
we
are
and
I
was
out
there
campaigning
for
some
candidates
running
for
Congress
and
other
things,
and
we
started
talking
to
people
in
the
rooms
and-
and
they
were
talking
about
what's
important
to
them
and
I
said
well.
B
B
It's
important
that
we
continue
to
do
that,
and
my
message
is
just
simply
that
we
need
to
continue
to
work
together
in
all
these
issues.
They're
very
important
issues
to
all
of
us
whether
you
live
in
Boston
or
you
live
in
Gardner
wherever
you
live,
we
have
families
that
that
are,
in
the
same
things,
identical
situations
struggling
to
make
ends
meet,
and
here
at
this
association,
that's
that's
what
we
want
to
do
and
I
want
to
be
able
to
talk
to
all
of
us
about
moving
forward.
B
The
one
thing
I
just
want
to
take
one
one.
Second,
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
education
funding,
it's
a
finance,
it's
a
financial
challenge
that
we
all
share.
We
have
I
I,
got
elected
the
legislature
in
1997
and
they
had
already
done
education
reform
at
that
point
and
changed
the
funding
system
and
the
funding
system
was
done
in
1993
and
when
you
think
about
1993
to
2019
we're
still
using
the
same
funding
system
from
1993
to
fund
education,
and
things
have
changed
since
that
time.
B
Studies
have
changed
the
way
we
teach
our
kids
has
changed.
The
way
that
we
measure
our
kids
have
changed
the
way
that
our
kids
learn
and
have
changed.
Our
kids
have
changed
compared
to
what
the
kids
did
in
1993,
never
mind
when
many
of
us
were
in
school
back
in
in
the
50s
60s
70s.
It's
completely
changed
so
I
bill.
The
bill
that
I'm
working
on
with
a
coalition
of
Mayors
that
is,
is
a
bill
that
will
work
for
every
single
city
in
town.
It's
called
the
promise
act.
B
It
guarantees
a
guaranteed
funding
from
four
districts,
all
districts
across
the
Carmel
to
get
more
money
and
I.
Just
ask
all
of
you
in
this
room
as
we
move
forward.
Well,
let's
not
let
us
get
picked
apart
on
this
education
bill.
It
is
too
important
for
the
future
of
too
many
cities
in
this
room.
It's
too
important
for
the
future
of
our
Commonwealth
in
this
room.
B
It's
so
important
for
the
for
the
future
of
our
young
people
in
this
room
that
we
stay
together
collectively
on
this
and
I've
already
heard
different
people
we're
going
to
do
this
and
put
this
metric
in
there
and
we're
going
to
do
that.
Put
that
over
there.
That's
not
what
we
need
there's
not
many
times.
We
go
to
our
government
and
say
this
is
exactly
100%
United
and
that's
what
we
need,
but
this
is
one
case
that
I
would
suggest.
We
all
do
that.
B
We
say
that
we
need
to
make
sure
we
need
a
difference
here.
We
need
to
stick
together
and
continue
to
push
together,
because
my
most
important
resource
and
asset
in
the
City
of
Austin
is
our
young
people
and
just
for
those
you
in
the
room
that
didn't
clap
to
that.
The
most
important
resource
in
your
city
in
town
is
your
young
people.
The
future
of
your
city
in
town
is
the
young
people.
It's
not
me,
it's
not
you.
B
A
Thank
you,
mayor,
Walsh,
I'm,
glad
to
know
you're
not
running
for
president,
because
we
need
you
right
here
in
the
city
of
Boston,
although
earlier
I
did
ask
him
if
he
was
running
for
the
mayor
of
city
of
Gardner,
because
he
was
campaigning
out
and
Gardner
quite
a
bit
also,
so
thank
you
for
staying
in
Boston
on
all
her
fronts.
It's
now
my
pleasure
to
introduce
the
next
speaker,
senator
Elizabeth,
Warren
Massachusetts,.
A
Someday
I
aspire
to
my
name
being
mentioned
in
spontaneous
applause
occurring
afterwards.
So
Massachusetts
has
a
long
tradition
of
sending
principled
leaders
to
represent
us
in
Washington
and
to
work
for
fairness
and
prosperity
for
everyone
re-elected
to
the
Senate.
This
past
November
Senator
Warren,
has
continued
her
principled
leadership
in
Washington
she's,
a
voice
on
the
pressures
facing
the
middle
class
and
is
an
advocate
for
the
rules
to
protect
them.
A
Senator
Warren
knows
that
economic
prosperity
starts
in
our
communities
and
she's
devoted
to
working
with
all
of
us
to
make
the
federal
government
a
better
partner
to
cities
and
towns.
In
the
last
session,
senator
Warren
served
on
the
Senate
Committee
on
Armed
Services,
the
Senate
Committee
on
Banking
Housing
and
Urban
Affairs,
the
Senate
Committee
on
health,
education,
labor
and
pensions,
and
the
special
Senate
Special
Committee
on
Aging.
We
also
want
to
acknowledge
her
attention
to
hometown
issues.
A
She
and
Senator
Markey
were
there
for
the
people
using
their
power,
the
power
of
their
offices
to
get
answers
and
help
at
where
to
get
answers
and
help
him
at
other
times
more
quietly,
as
fellow
citizens
simply
checking
in
to
make
sure
things
were
going
well.
This
kind
of
connection
means
a
lot
as
we
heard
from
Mayor
aver
earlier
in
a
meeting
we're
honored
that
Senator
Warren
could
join
us
today.
Senator
Elizabeth
Warren.
C
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
It
is
so
good
to
be
here
this
morning
with
so
many
people
in
public
service
and
particularly
good
to
be
here
with
our
MMA
board
president,
both
current
and
future,
and
to
be
here
with
my
good
partner
in
the
United
States
Senate
Edie
Markey
and
with
mirror
I,
couldn't
ask
for
a
better
partner
than
Ed
Markey.
So
today
is
the
29th
day
of
the
longest
federal
government
shutdown
in
history.
Hundreds
of
thousands
of
workers
throughout
the
country,
including
80
200
workers
right
here
in
our
state,
are
going
without
their
paychecks.
C
They
are
turning
to
food
banks.
They
are
being
instructed
to
sell
their
possessions
and
take
on
odd
jobs
in
order
to
make
ends
meet.
Meanwhile,
funding
for
critical
government
programs
is
running
out
with
each
passing
day.
Families
in
Massachusetts
and
across
the
country
are
shoved
closer
and
closer
to
the
brink
of
disaster.
I'll.
C
Take
you
now
a
Boston
resident.
She
works
at
Native,
American,
lifelines
of
Boston
helping
Native
people
in
the
Boston
metro
area,
get
primary
oral
and
behavioral
health
care,
Native
American
eyes.
Lifelines
is
a
contract
sight
with
the
Indian
Health
Service,
an
agency
whose
funding
has
been
cut
off
by
the
shutdown.
A
prolonged
shutdown
could
be
a
major
hardship
for
Janelle,
but
it
could
mean
a
health
emergency,
even
death
for
her
clients.
Another
constituent
dawn
has
been
helping.
The
Coast
Guard
families
on
Cape,
Cod
and
Boston
make
ends
meet.
C
His
organization
has
distributed
thousands
of
pounds
of
food,
but
if
this
shutdown
continues
he'll
have
to
drain
his
organization's
budget,
and
that
could
mean
he
can't
help
military
families
when
they
have
needs
in
the
future.
We
were
just
in
a
meeting
and
Maryland
attire.
Pittsville
spoke
out.
She's
worried
that
they're
going
to
run
out
of
funding
for
free
breakfast
and
lunch
for
the
children
who
need
it
most.
This
is
a
shameful
moment
in
American
history.
C
The
idea
that
people
are
doing
their
jobs
and
not
getting
paid
people
are
being
laid
off
from
their
jobs
that
essential
services
are
not
available
to
our
people.
All
because
the
President
of
the
United
States
is
holding
families
across
this
country
hostage.
While
he
demands
a
border
wall
down
in
the
District
of
Columbia,
senator
Markey
and
I,
along
with
every
member
of
the
Massachusetts
congressional
delegation
in
the
House
of
Representatives,
are
fighting
to
end
this
manufactured
crisis.
C
C
These
are
tough
times
in
Washington,
even
so.
I
come
here
today
also
to
talk
about
the
progress
that
we
have
made
over
the
last
year.
You
know.
Last
year
we
successfully
fought
back
against
president
Trump's
proposed
budget
cuts
to
the
Community
Development
Block
Grant
program,
and
in
fact
we
have
secured
an
increase
in
the
2019
budget.
Can
we
just
have
an
Amen
on
that?
One?
Yes
and
I
want
one
more,
and
that
is
for
the
child
care
Development,
Block
Grants.
We
fought
hard
on
this
one.
C
C
For
anyone
in
here
who
worries
about
student
loans
or
is
working
with
people
who
worry
about
student
loans,
we
got
a
700
million
dollar
allocation
for
the
public
service
loan
forgiveness
program
to
make
sure
that
people
who
are
in
public
service,
our
firefighters,
our
teachers,
our
police
officers,
our
municipal
employees,
our
state
employees,
have
the
student
loan
debt
relief
that
they
are
fully
entitled
to.
So
we're
going
to
keep
fighting
on
that
one
too.
C
Now
those
are
pieces,
we've
gotten
together
over
the
last
year
that
a
lot
of
other
things
to
talk
about
and
I'm
saving,
some
of
them
for
Senator
Markey
here.
But
there's
one
I
want
to
talk
about
that's
aspirational
about
something
that
I'm
out
there.
Fighting
for
and
I
will
get
as
many
people
fighting
for
it
as
possible.
Anybody
in
here
worried
about
the
cost
of
housing,
oh
yeah,
one
or
two
right,
because
we
have
a
real
problem
in
this
country,
and
that
is
new
housing
units
that
are
coming
on.
C
The
market
tend
to
be
at
the
high
end
because
there
are
higher
profits
there,
I'm
not
mad
at
developers
over
it
makes
sense
they
make
better
profits
at
the
high
end,
and
that
means
there's
a
lot
less
housing
coming
in
for
middle-class
families
for
working
families,
a
lot
less
going
in
for
affordable
housing.
In
addition,
the
federal
government-
and
that's
not
just
over
the
last
couple
of
years
for
a
long
time
for
decades
now,
has
not
been
making
the
investments
in
affordable
housing
in
keeping
housing
available
for
working
families
for
poor
families.
C
C
An
independent
analysis
from
Moody's
said
it
would
bring
down
rents
which
seem
to
keep
going
up
every
year
that
if
we
brought
this
online,
it
would
bring
down
rents
across
the
board
by
about
10
percent,
as
well
as
making
more
affordable
housing
available
housing
available
for
seniors
housing
available
that
we
need
in
order
to
be
able
to
build
a
future
for
all
of
our
people.
It
reduce
about
a
million
and
a
half
new
jobs
at
its
peak.
Those
are
local
jobs,
jobs.
C
You
can't
outsource
to
China
good-paying
jobs
and
for
the
people
in
this
room,
I
want
to
point
out
a
particular
feature.
It
has
a
ten
billion
dollar
competitive
grant
program
in
the
middle
of
it
to
help
local
governments,
the
need
to
repair
roads,
parks,
transportation
systems
and
schools
if
they
will
also
build
well
located,
affordable
housing.
So
it's
got
a
lot
of
pieces
to
it
to
try
to
help
get
best
practices
in
housing,
laws
and
development,
get
communities
to
work
together
and
help
us
with
the
infrastructure
to
support
new
housing.
C
It
also
specifically
identifies
work
in
formerly
redlined
areas,
as
many
of
you
probably
know
until
the
mid-1960s,
it
was
the
official
policy
of
the
United
States
government
to
discriminate
in
housing,
so
the
government
was
subsidizing
housing
in
predominantly
white,
neighborhoods
and
redlining,
so
that
in
predominantly
communities
of
color
mortgage
money
simply
would
not
be
available.
That
has
had
a
generational
impact
and
accelerated
the
wealth
gap
between
white
families
and
african-american
families
and
Latino
families.
C
This
bill
specifically
says
that
we're
going
to
target
redline,
formerly
red,
lined
areas
and
actually
put
some
money
in
to
help
first-time
homebuyers,
so
that
more
people
can
come
in
and
own
housing
and
begin
to
build
up
some
family
wealth.
It's
a
modest
step,
but
it's
an
important
first
step
in
dealing
with
problems.
We've
created
in
the
past.
C
It
is
a
great
bill.
It
is
a
big
bill.
You're
all
sitting
there
saying.
How
are
you
gonna
pay
for
this,
and
the
answer?
Is
it's
actually
possible
to
pay
for
this
without
costing
middle-class
families
one
finding?
If
we
simply
went
back
to
putting
an
estate
tax,
a
progressive
estate
tax
in
place
on
the
families
that
were
covered
during
the
George
W
Bush
administration,
then
we
could
fully
fund
3.2
million
new
housing
units
in
this
country
and
infrastructure
to
support
those
housing
units.
I
just
want
to
say
on
something
like
this
to
me.
C
This
is
what
democracy
is
all
about:
yeah,
it
would
cost
the
10,000
richest
families
in
this
country
a
little
bit
more.
They
would
have
to
pay
something
more
in
estate
taxes,
but
the
consequence
of
that
would
be
an
investment
in
families
all
across
our
Commonwealth
and
all
across
our
nation.
For
me,
this
is
what
the
fight
Washington
is
all
about.
The
choices
who
does
government
really
work
for?
Is
it
just
gonna
work
for
a
thin
slice
at
the
top,
or
is
government
going
to
work
for
all
of
us?
C
I
think
this
housing
bill
and
everything
else
that
Senator
Markey
and
I
fight
for
every
day
is
about
trying
to
make
this
government
work,
not
just
for
the
rich
and
the
powerful,
but
trying
to
make
this
government
work
for
everyone.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
being
great
partners
in
this
fight,
we're
in
their
dream,
big
fight,
hard,
take
care.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
You
senator
Warren,
and
we
look
forward
to
continuing
working
together
with
you.
It's
now
my
great
pleasure
to
welcome
our
good
friend
in
one
of
the
nation's
sharpest,
most
cunning
and
best-looking
senators.
I
think
that's
the
way
you
wrote
it
senator
Markey,
a
man
who
first
joined
Congress
in
1976
I
was
four
and
has
been
a
leader
in
Y
and
has
been
a
leader
in
Washington
ever
since
we
appreciate
the
four
decades
of
partnership
that
we've
enjoyed
with
Senator
Ed
Markey
and
for
all
that
he's
done
for
cities
and
towns.
A
As
a
member
of
the
House
of
Representatives
and
now
in
our
Senate,
the
citizens
of
Massachusetts
deeply
appreciate
the
hard
work
that
you've
done
on
energy,
environmental
protection,
telecommunications
and
consumer
protection.
You've
always
been
a
leader
in
protecting
the
health
and
financial
security
of
families
in
Massachusetts
and
in
nurturing
growth
and
life
sciences
and
technology
to
help
build
our
economy.
A
In
the
last
session,
senator
Ed
Markey
served
on
the
Senate
Committee
on
Foreign
Relations,
the
Senate
Committee
on
Commerce
science
and
transportation,
the
Senate
Committee
on
the
Environment
and
Public
Works,
and
the
Senate
Committee
on
small
business
and
entrepreneurship.
He
also
serves
as
chair
of
the
Senate
climate
change,
Clearing
House.
We
want
to
thank
Senator
Markey
for
his
special
focus
on
the
Merrimack
Valley
by
bringing
in
the
US
Senate
Committee
on
Commerce
science
and
transportation
to
Lawrence
for
a
full
panel
hearing
on
the
gas
explosions.
A
The
hearing
focus
on
what
caused
the
September
13th
explosions
and
fires
that
destroyed
homes
injured
dozens
and
killed
at
least
one
person.
It
also
looked
at
the
federal
state
and
local
response
to
the
disaster.
Senator
Markey
is
also
a
leader
in
fighting
the
FCC's
efforts
to
preempt
local
control
and
authority
and
cable
contracts
and
telecom
siting
for
small
cell
deployments.
He's
on
our
side
on
that
one.
It's
my
honor
to
introduce
senator
Ed
Markey.
D
Thank
you,
Thank
You,
mr.
mayor,
so
much
and
thank
you
for
the
greatest
introduction
I've
ever
received
at
any
speech
in
my
career,
and
it's
why
we
continue
to
fight
for
NIH
research
on
retarding
the
aging
process.
We
are
going
to
continue
to
increase
that
funding,
to
make
sure
that
every
American
and
their
family
is
able
to
have
a
Methuselah
like
plan
for
their
families
as
well.
We
thank
you.
Mr.
mayor.
We
thank
all
of
you
for
being
here.
I
think
Jeff
Beckwith
for
starting
to
help
me
to
get
elected
in
writing
in
1976.
D
D
We
Elizabeth
and
I
are
glad
to
be
here.
We
could
not
be
here
last
year
because
of
the
shutdown
of
the
government,
and
surprisingly,
we
are
here
this
year,
but
only
because
of
a
partial
shutdown,
so
we're
here
on
a
Donald
Trump
weekend
work
release
program.
That's
why
we're
able
to
be
here
with
you
today,
and
we
look
forward
to
talking
to
all
of
you
here
today,
mayor
Marty
Walsh,
is
this.
The
greatest
city
in
America
was
just
so
fortunate
to
be
here
with
our
great
mayor.
He
just
got
back
from.
D
He
just
got
back
from
Canada,
but
with
this
crippling
government
shutdown
and
the
snowstorm
about
to
arrive,
and
all
of
the
stores
that
have
now
have
no
more
lawn
chairs
to
protect
hockey's
bases
that
we're
glad
the
mayor
is
back
because
there's
a
looming
potential
crisis
here
over
the
weekend.
So
we
thank
all
of
you
for
being
here.
We
thank
all
of
you
for
what
you
do
every
single
day
and
we
have
a
snow
sum
coming.
D
We
have
the
Patriots
Chiefs
game
to
get
ready
for,
and
the
impending
Super
Bowl
that
we
will
have
to
have
each
of
you
trying
to
figure
out
how
to
handle
all
of
the
disruptions
that
happened
in
your
communities
on
the
night
that
we
win
the
Super
Bowl.
So,
thank
you
all
so
much
for
everything
that
you
do
so
this
is
day
29
of
the
longest
government
shutdown
in
the
history
of
our
country.
D
Approximately
7800
federal
employees
who
live
in
your
communities
are
currently
struggling
without
their
paychecks
and
while
communities
in
Massachusetts
have
stepped
up
to
help
these
workers
of
the
only
way
that
we
can
really
resolve.
This
issue
is
if
Donald
Trump
comes
to
the
table
so
that
we
can
truly
negotiate.
D
You
know
that
better
than
anyone,
it's
not
a
system
based
upon
capitulation,
it's
compromised
and
we
need
a
compromise,
Lyndon
Johnson
used
to
say
when
he
compromised
the
pressures
of
being
the
president
that
he
was
relieved
to
know
that
he
did
not
have
the
pressures
that
mayors
and
selectmen
have
to
deal
with
every
single
day
to
make
sure
that
their
communities
can
work
and
the
same
system
that
you
employ
in
order
to
make
sure
that
your
governments
work.
That's
how
we
have
to
work
down
in
Washington
right
now.
D
That
system
has
broken
down
and
we
have
to
do
our
best
to
restore
it.
So
here's
where
we
are,
and
Elizabeth
and
I
work
every
single
day
down
in
Washington
to
try
to
make
sure
that
we
can
that
we
protect
the
business
plan
of
Massachusetts
number
one
that
we
try
to
draw
the
smartest
young
people
in
the
world
to
move
to
our
Commonwealth
to
come
to
our
universities
to
come
to
our
schools,
and
we
have
been
successful
in
doing
that.
D
The
Trump
budget
attempts
to
cut
the
education
budget
by
20%,
as
the
mayor
has
already
talked
about.
We
have
to
talk
about
increasing
the
budget
for
education
at
the
state
level
at
the
university
level
at
the
community
college
level
and
to
protect
these
kids,
who
are
going
through
school.
That
is
issue
number
one.
So
we
have
blocked
him
from
cutting
education
at
the
federal
level.
D
But
that's
just
an
ongoing
struggle
number
two
that
we
have
to
make
sure
that
capitalism
works,
and
we
then
help
to
get
these
young
people
access
to
the
capital
which
they
are
going
to
need,
because
it's
that
2,000
square
foot
space
that
5000
square
foot
that
eventually
turns
into
the
larger
companies,
but
all
across
the
Commonwealth.
We
know
that
young
people
are
trying
to
start
up
their
businesses
start
up
their
their
enterprises
hire
other
smart
people
so
that
unemployment
rate
stays
where
it
is
in
most
of
your
communities
at
3%
are
at
2%.
D
That
is
our
business
plan
number
three
that
we
want
to
give
them
access
to
the
best,
trained
and
best
educated
workforce
in
America.
That's
what
you
are
doing
every
single
day
in
your
communities
with
your
school
systems,
but
that
is
ultimately
what
our
competitive
advantage
over
the
other
49
states
has
been
and
will
continue
to
be.
If
we
are
smart
about
it
and
fourth,
we
have
to
ensure
that
we
have
a
welcome
mat
out
for
immigrants.
D
30%
of
all
jobs
are
started
by
immigrants.
Those
are
the
companies
that
get
created.
Those
are
the
entrepreneurs
we
have
to
have
a
welcome
mat
for
it.
Diversity
is
our
strength
in
Massachusetts.
We
have
to
make
sure
that
we
continue
to
focus
upon
welcoming
when
the
President
and
some
Republicans
proposed
cutting
immigration,
legal
immigration
in
half.
Well,
that
doesn't
help
our
economy
at
all.
So
what
Elizabeth
and
I
do
on
a
daily
basis
in
Washington?
D
Is
we
make
sure
that
the
NIH
budget
does
not
get
cut,
we're
the
second
greatest
beneficiary
of
a
state
of
NIH
funding?
That's
where
these
biotech
firms
come
from?
In
fact
he
wanted
to
cut
it.
We
increased
it
rather
than
a
10%
cut.
A
10%
increase
same
thing
was
to
for
the
CDC
wanted
to
cut
it
by
10%,
increase
it
by
10%,
we're
the
largest
recipient,
National
Science
Foundation,
one
of
the
cut
it
by
10%.
We
increase
it
by
10%,
we're
the
largest
beneficiary,
the
state
of
Massachusetts.
That's
what
draws
the
kids
to
our
state.
D
That's
what
makes
us
attractive
it's
this
place
where
we're
getting
the
disproportionate
benefit
of
the
Science
and
Technology
programs
in
clean
energy.
We
need
a.
We
need
a
climate
plan
now
in
Massachusetts.
It
is
in
the
top
10
employment
sector,
clean
energy,
a
hundred
thousand
jobs
all
ready.
So
we
need
to
admit
that
the
planet
is
dangerously
warming
off
of
the
shore
of
Boston.
We
have
the
second
fastest
warming
body
of
water
on
the
planet.
D
We
are
the
science
experiment
here,
except
for
the
artic,
we're
second
ok,
so
we
have
to
prepare
for
it
and
we
have
to
build
the
new
job
sector
where
we
save
all
of
creation
by
engaging
in
massive
job
creation,
wind
and
solar
electric
vehicles,
battery
technologies.
That's
what
we
do
in
our
state.
It's
our
young
people
who
come
up
with
these
technologies,
but
we
have
to
fight
to
make
sure
that
we
give
them
the
tools
they're
going
to
need
the
federal
support
that
helps.
D
You,
then,
at
the
local
level,
to
put
out
the
welcoming
mat
for
them
and
in
technology
they've
been
the
president,
has
a
Federal
Communications
Commission,
repealing
net
neutrality.
So,
on
the
floor
last
year,
I
was
successful
in
winning
an
override
of
that
FCC
ruling
on
net
neutrality,
which
is
basically
the
principle
of
non-discrimination.
That
says
that
any
small
start-up
software
internet
company
can
get
access
to
the
Internet
on
a
non-discriminatory
basis.
Here's
the
number,
fifty
percent
of
all
venture
capital
in
America
last
year,
went
to
start-up
internet
and
software
companies.
That's
us!
D
That's
our
economy,
those
are
the
young
people
moving
to
our
city
and
so
when
the
president
tries
to
roll
back
net
neutrality,
it's
a
direct
assault
upon
our
economy
and
to
take
it
further
at
this
FCC,
and
thank
you
for
mentioning
it.
Mr.
mayor
they're,
now
talking
about
rolling
back
the
rules
to
guarantee
that
you
have
public
educational
governmental
channels
in
every
one
of
your
communities,
and
that
is
just
fundamentally
wrong.
That
is
the
deal
which
each
of
your
communities
have
with
your
cable
companies.
D
That's
the
deal
when
Elizabeth
and
I
conducted
the
hearing
up
in
Lawrence
on
those
explosions
and
overthought
the
end.
Oh,
but
Lawrence,
yes,
Channel,
four,
five,
seven,
ten
twenty
five
they
come,
but
then
they
go
away.
But
the
hearing
went
on
for
four
hours
who
continues
to
cover
it.
So
the
people
in
Lawrence,
in
North,
Andover
and
Andover
can
see
it.
The
local
cable
access
channel.
As
people
are
there
with
their
own
local
programming,
they
can't
be
dependent
upon
the
Boston
TV
stations
to
keep
the
focus
on
your
issues,
the
local
issues.
D
So
we
are
fighting
elizabeth
and
I
to
ensure
that
the
FCC
does
not
touch
this
incredible
asset
that
every
community
has
that
ensures
that
your
issues
are
debated
are
seen
that
your
local
football
games,
y'all
local
basketball
games,
each
of
you
have
an
individual
identity.
The
local
cable
station
ensures
that
you
are
able
to
protect
it
to
see
it
to
enjoy
it
and
I
with
Elizabeth.
We
are
gonna
fight
every
day
to
roll
back
anything
that
the
FCC
tries
to
do.
So.
D
Let
me
let
me
just
thank
you:
we're
going
to
work
hard
to
make
sure
that
the
Affordable
Care
Act
is
not
repealed.
That's
who
we,
our
John
McCain,
came
out
at
1:30
in
the
milani
and
put
his
thumb
down
to
repeal
it.
We
would
have
lost
ultimately
billions
of
dollars
here
in
the
state
of
Massachusetts,
which
is
used
by
each
and
every
one
of
you.
We
were
where
we
we're.
D
We
work
together,
Elizabeth
and
I
on
the
opioid
bill
to
make
sure
that
billions
of
additional
dollars
come
in
right
now
and
we're
the
second
worst
hit
by
fentanyl
in
the
country
if
the
whole
country
was
dying
at
the
same
rate
different
we
are,
and
the
mayor
mentioned
this.
There
would
be
a
hundred
thousand
people
a
year
dying
from
fentanyl
that
would
be
to
Viet
Nam's
every
single
year.
That
would
be
a
million
people
every
ten
years
in
our
country
dying
from
fentanyl
okay.
D
So
this
is
a
war
that
we're
in
and
we're
not
happy
with
the
level
of
funding.
We're
not
happy
with
what
is
happening,
and
we
just
have
to
continue
to
focus
upon
this
thing,
because
it
ravages
every
single
city
in
town
and
I'll.
Just
finish,
then,
with
one
other
issue
and
that's
an
infrastructure
bill,
you
all
want.
Well,
we
protected
municipal
bonds
making
sure
they
are
exempt
from
taxation
so
that
you
can
raise
money
so
that
you
can.
That
was
not
going
into
any
tax
bill,
no
matter
what,
but
on
the
on
the
infrastructure
bill.
D
D
So
we're
going
to
work
hard
on
a
bipartisan
basis
with
Republicans
who
we
work
with
in
2015
to
pass
an
infrastructure
bill
which
brought
5
billion
dollars
back
to
Massachusetts
in
2015,
for
infrastructure,
for
roads,
for
bridges
for
other
projects,
we're
going
to
try
to
work
hard
to
do
that,
but
and
that
would
have
to
be
an
infrastructure
bill
was
sustainable.
That
was
green,
that
reflected
the
values
of
Massachusetts
in
2019
what
our
goals
would
be,
but
if
we
continue
in
a
negotiation
like
this,
it's
impossible,
because
a
vision
without
funding
is
an
hallucination.
D
No,
you
can't
have
an
infrastructure
bill
without
funding
that
is
helping
the
cities
and
towns
to
accomplish
these
goals.
So
we
are
down
there.
Every
single
day
and
it's
my
great
honor
to
serve
with
the
lioness
of
the
Senate
Elizabeth
Warren
every
single
day
and
and
we
battle
hard
for
you
and
all
I
can
tell
you
is
that
if
anything
you
need,
you
just
give
us
a
call
and
we'll
be
there
to
fight
for
you.
Thank
you
all
for
what
you
do
every
single
day.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you
all
mayor,
Walsh,
senator
Warren,
senator
Markey.
Thank
you
very
much.
We
understand
that
your
schedules
are
busy.
The
lawn
chairs
are
flying
off
the
shelf
and
we
understand
that
you
may
have
to
leave
to
go
grab
one
of
those
to
save
your
parking
spots.
So
thank
you
very
much
once
again,
a
round
of
applause.