Amy Klobuchar in ABC This Week interviews during 2020
On Government Reform:
Protect voting rights with early voting, mail-in ballots
While President Trump was in the White House ordering a mail-in ballot people in Wisconsin are standing in garbage bags with masks, standing in line having to choose between their health and their right to vote. Now nearly 20 of them are sick, including
a poll worker. We can't let that happen in November. That's why Ron Wyden and I are pushing for our bill with the support of Michelle Obama, the civil rights groups, to keep pushing to make sure that we have both vote by mail and early voting.
Source: ABC This Week on 2020 Veepstakes
Apr 26, 2020
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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