Tim Kaine: “I rise with my colleagues on Build Back Better, and I just want to emphasize two points that really matter to me. First…”

“I rise with my colleagues on Build Back Better, and I just want to emphasize two points that really matter to me. First, Build Back Better is absolutely critical to combine with the infrastructure bill. If we make an infrastructure investment that will be the biggest since the Interstate Highway System, who is going to build it? Who is going to build it? Open the paper. You can't hire schoolbus drivers. You can't hire truckers. We have a tight labor market right now. What Build Back Better does is massive investments in the American workforce, beginning with the workforce of tomorrow--our children--all the way up through community college, workforce development, and immigration reforms that will expand the Nation's workforce. If we invest in infrastructure but don't think about making sure that we have the workforce to do it, what a missed opportunity. The Build Back Better plan has amazing investments in our workforce--the workforce we need right now and the workforce we will need for decades. The second thing about Build Back Better that I particularly appreciate is what it does for children. If we pass Build Back Better, we will have done for American children what Social Security has done for American seniors. Let me just point something out. Pre-Social Security, you would work your whole life; you would educate your kids; you would be the PTA president or the Little League coach or the Sunday school teacher.…”