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Pete Buttigieg

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Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the United States Secretary of Transportation, a position he has held since February 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Buttigieg previously served as the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020. During his tenure as mayor, he focused on urban revitalization, infrastructure improvements, and economic development, gaining national attention for his leadership style and innovative policies.

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May 13, 2021

the president`s executive order this week on cybersecurity, I think, was important, an important step.

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May 13, 2021

the president`s jobs plan is fully funded, while not even raising corporate tax rates to the level that they have been at for most of my lifetime.

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May 13, 2021

That’s why it’s called the American Jobs Plan.

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May 13, 2021

the president's executive order this week on cybersecurity, I think, was important, an important step.

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May 10, 2021

If we can come to an agreement on at least part of what we ought to do, then let’s at least try to do that part together. This negotiation is about seeing how much we can find some kind of common ground. I would like to believe that if…

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May 5, 2021

I just don't know why people in other countries ought to have better train service or more investment in high-speed rail than Americans do.

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May 5, 2021

The U.S. shouldn't be too proud to learn from other countries, especially now that we're out of the top 10 [ranked countries for infrastructure], I always want to see the U.S. No. 1.

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Apr 28, 2021

The President is proposing the policies that will actually make it happen.

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Apr 28, 2021

We have policies that have such extraordinary strong bipartisan support out among the American people. But just because that’s true, doesn’t mean it’s reflected here in Washington.

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Apr 28, 2021

I love it. It`s an interesting job in any season. But right now, when we`re on the cusp of what might be the most transformative thing that`s happened to transportation in my lifetime, it`s thrilling.

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Apr 28, 2021

Having major corporations sometimes making billions of dollars in profits, paying zero in taxes doesn’t make any sense.

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Apr 28, 2021

Doing nothing is not an option, that he wants to see real progress by Memorial Day.

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Apr 21, 2021

Let`s connect where there was a division. Let`s invest where there was a disinvestment, because the truth is, that`s not only the right thing to do for those minoritized groups who have been overburdened and underserved. It also will make…

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Apr 21, 2021

We believe this is the time to go big. And, obviously, we believe the president’s vision is the right way to do it.

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Apr 21, 2021

So, the president is setting very ambitious targets for the United States to cut our emissions in half on the timeline he laid out.

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Apr 19, 2021

We're not going to all this trouble just in hopes of remaining 13th in infrastructure globally.

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Apr 19, 2021

It's in this context that we see the American Jobs Plan as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to meet this consequential moment and to win the future for the country that we all serve.

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Apr 19, 2021

Yes, we think this is especially important to consider, that it's often in rural and more spread-out States where Americans would have the most to gain from the fuel savings associated with electric vehicles.

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Apr 19, 2021

We have a proposal that fully funds these once-in-a-lifetime capital investments on its own terms.

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Apr 19, 2021

We view it as extremely important to make sure as we're making especially these potentially once-in-a-lifetime or once-in-a-generation investments that they be done with resilience in mind.

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Apr 8, 2021

Americans actually like this package even more when you explain how we’re going to pay for it.

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Apr 8, 2021

We are supporting eldercare, caregiving economy, making it easier to age in place and have community-based care because having that kind of care infrastructure in place is part of what makes it possible for Americans to thrive.

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Apr 8, 2021

You can’t separate climate from transportation because transportation is the single biggest sector contributing to greenhouse gases in our economy.

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Apr 8, 2021

As we’ve learned, just because something has huge bipartisan support among the American people, doesn’t mean the same thing is going to happen here in Washington.

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Apr 5, 2021

Well, we`re talking about roads and bridges, rail and transit, airports and ports. I don`t know why anybody would say it`s a mistake to invest in the grid after what we just witnessed in Texas.

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