Amy Klobuchar in ABC This Week interviews during 2019
On Immigration:
Against open borders & decriminalizing illegal entry
Q: Do you support the idea to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings?KLOBUCHAR: I support different enforcement priorities.
Of course, I'll look at the statute to see if you can make changes depending on the level of a security risk. But no, I don't support open borders and simply getting rid of this statute.
Source: ABC This Week interviews in 2019
Jul 14, 2019
On Immigration:
Administration to blame for chaos at the border
They claimed they were going to show us how great things were down there and all these things they had done, and then you saw people in cages. That's why we have been pushing for standards in place, by changing the asylum process and by stopping this
chaotic policy, because what happens is the traffickers say to the people in those countries, hey, the president's changed the policy again, or a court changed it because the president did a policy that was illegal, and then they start com
Source: ABC This Week interviews in 2019
Jul 14, 2019
On Civil Rights:
Paper ballots allow audits, ensure election integrity
I think the major reason that we need to see the [Mueller] report right now, in addition to getting all of the details, is to know what we should do to protect our elections and to protect our democracy going into 2020.We know that Russia tried to
hack into our elections, they tried-- they did hack into campaigns -- that they spread propaganda. I want to pass my bill with Senator Lankford, a bipartisan bill, to get back up paper ballots. I want to make sure we have audits of our elections.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary
Mar 31, 2019
On Health Care:
For public option, taking on Big Pharma
As president, I would immediately put in a public option proposal to Congress and that could be for Medicaid or Medicare. But that is also a way to get to our goal of universal health care coverage. I would make sure that we have negotiations for prices
under Medicare, that we bring in less expensive drugs from places like Canada and that we stop the practice where big pharma pays off their competitors to keep their products off the market.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary
Mar 31, 2019
On Tax Reform:
Changes in corporate tax would fund infrastructure
Q: What about infrastructure?A: Infrastructure is an economic need. I have the funding, I've shown how I can get this plan done, and as president I will get it done.
Q: You want to raise the corporate tax rate, which the Republicans just cut. That might be a heavy lift.
A: Look at what they did, they went down to
21 percent and every point if even to put it at 25 percent, which is a significant decrease from where it was, we would bring in $400 billion to pay for roads and bridges and levies and schools. That's a lot of money.
Or how about the way they did the overseas income where they took an average rate instead of assessing it for each country. If we went back to each country, $150 billion in savings.
Source: ABC This Week 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary
Mar 31, 2019
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