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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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Nov 30, 2023

It's 2023. I guess 2022 when the book came out. We're still talking about people this way based on who they are, and who they love? America, most of America at least has moved on from this kind of thing.

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Nov 30, 2023

He seems fixated on it. And it's really troubling for millions of Americans, including me and my husband. And you know, this is, again, not just some fringe, radical member of Congress, although I'd argue these positions are certainly…

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Nov 30, 2023

It seems like they just can't think of anything else, right? There's no discussion of what we actually did.

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Nov 2, 2023

I will admit, it's a little bit difficult, driving the family mini van to drop our kids off day care, passing the dome of the Capitol, knowing that the speaker at the House sitting under the dome doesn't even think our family ought to…

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Nov 2, 2023

I will admit it's a little bit difficult, driving the family minivan to drop our kids off at daycare, passing the dome of the Capitol knowing that the Speaker of the House sitting under that dome who doesn't even think our family ought to…

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Sep 23, 2023

Winning the election was the beginning, not the end, of President Biden's achievements.

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Sep 23, 2023

We're making sure that that is a made in America EV revolution.

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Sep 23, 2023

President Biden is proud to be the most unapologetically pro-worker, pro-union president we've had.

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Sep 23, 2023

What the president said is that when you have record profits in this industry, there ought to be record pay and record benefits going to the workers who are creating that value.

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Sep 23, 2023

The economy needs to grow from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.

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Sep 23, 2023

This is no way to run the government in the most powerful nation on earth.

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Sep 19, 2023

That is also under active consideration and part of what will be addressed in the rulemaking.

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Sep 19, 2023

We know it's going to be a lot of private-sector work, too, but we've got to make sure we're doing our part with public policy.

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Sep 19, 2023

We know that that personal net worth cap puts many business owners of DBEs in the position of being, as one business owner said to me, too big to be small for Federal purposes, but too small to be big and grow the way that you're supposed…

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Sep 19, 2023

We care a great deal about community input and, yes, we believe that's an important consideration in these noise discussions.

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Sep 19, 2023

Either the EV revolution is going to be made in China, or it's going to be made in America.

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Sep 19, 2023

This is a very important policy. It also represents the most comprehensive changes to date for the DBE program.

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Sep 19, 2023

The Safe Routes to School funding was an important part of how we were able to improve the way that many kids were able to get to where they were going.

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Sep 19, 2023

We are enthusiastic about passenger rail in general, high-speed rail in particular.

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Sep 19, 2023

Some of what I have seen in the runup to this debate has included provisions that would cut railroad safety inspections.

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Sep 19, 2023

There is no doubt that a shutdown would negatively impact U.S. transportation.

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Sep 19, 2023

Climate change is real, we've got to do something about it.

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Sep 19, 2023

That is nonsense, Representative.

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