Amy Klobuchar: “I am proud to be here with my colleague from Washington State, Senator Cantwell. She and I both worked in the private…”

“I am proud to be here with my colleague from Washington State, Senator Cantwell. She and I both worked in the private sector for years before we got into politics or government. And I learned a lot from representing companies. I learned a lot from representing companies that did work all over the world and got a really good understanding firsthand of the virtues of working with the rest of the world and the virtues of capitalism when it goes well and it is done well. So much of America's success has been our ability to bring people in from other countries that become our next doctors and become our next police officers but also to have those customers around the world. Ninety-some percent of our potential customers in America are in other countries. No better example of that is Canada, which is directly to the north of Minnesota. As I like to say, we can see Canada from our porch in our State. For my State, Canada--No. 1 trading partner--is actually bigger than the combination of the second, third, and fourth trading partners for our State. Yet this President has been messing around with Canada from the moment he got into office, mocking them and saying they should be the 51st State. I hope Americans understand the result of this. It is not just retaliatory tariffs that wiped Kentucky bourbon off the shelves in certain provinces; it is also that tourism from Canadians is now down 70 percent in our Nation.…”