Joe Biden: (23:13)
For administrative of the small business administration I nominate, Isabel Guzman. Isabel grew up in California, working alongside her dad in a small veterinary business that he built. She devoted an early understanding and developed an early understanding of what small business means to their employees and to the neighborhood they support, and to the families who dreams they represent. She dedicated her career to creating jobs, to supporting entrepreneurs as a senior official on the Obama-Biden small business administration.
(23:49)
As director of California’s office of small business and a small business advocate, she worked tirelessly to ensure that everyone with an entrepreneurial spark had a fair and equal shot at getting off the ground and succeeding.
(24:03)
The Biden-Harris administration will be locked in on helping small businesses recover, rebuild, and remain the engines of our economic strength. And as head of the SBA, Isabel will be leading the critical mission, not only to rescue small businesses in crisis, but to provide the capital to entrepreneurs across the country, so they can innovate, create jobs and help lead us into recovery. I’m grateful that she accepted the call to serve in Washington.
(24:34)
For deputy commerce secretary I nominate, and I have to admit to you good loyal great friend, Don graves. Don is a long time and trusted advisor. He was there at the treasury department during the depths of the great recession, helping small businesses weather the storm and stay afloat.
(24:54)
When President Obama asked me to lead the effort to get Detroit out of bankruptcy, and off its back and on its feet again, he said, I can take anyone in the administration on my team to do it full time. So I went to the treasury department.
(25:09)
I tasked Don to come over and work for me and work on full-time. It was the best decision I ever made in that effort. I’m not sure how he thinks about that, but I think it was the best decision I’ve ever made. And did a great job working with the city officials, state officials on its road to recovery.
(25:28)
And by the way, it’s the little things, it’s getting to know what’s happening on the ground. Remember how we went through the issue about the number of buses and lights, street lights and light. It gets down to the nitty gritty of what has to be done. We found out that Detroit had a lot of qualified people, but during the great recession, almost everyone who knew how to program anything left. And when we finally got it back on it’s feet again, we found out there wasn’t anybody left to know how to turn on the street lights.
(25:59)
Literally, run the sewer department. So we went out and we got an outfit to come in and we said, find us some high-tech people. They came back, what was it, 53, 55 people, they all happened to be women. Most were minority, none had more than a high school degree, and a quarter of them only had a GED. And I remember even our very liberal friends we told them we were doing this. They said, “You’re not going to do this.”
(26:27)
Well, guess what? In a 14 week, was it 14 week, program, they were taught how to program. They were taught how to do it all. They ended up putting the city back on its feet. Every one of them left after that time, because we went to the graduation, with the lowest starting salary if my recollection is correct, was $49,000, the highest $104,000. Point is, give people a chance, Americans can do anything, given a shot.
(26:57)
It also helped me lead our national strategy to equip workers with the skills they need for good paying jobs in the 21st century and healthcare, IT, clean energy, advanced manufacturing and so much more. He was there to help me launch the National Cancer Moonshot, and marshall a full resource of the federal government to help end cancer as we know it.
(27:18)
A cancer survivor himself, diagnosed and treated while he was working on this for me. Don knows about hope and he knows about resilience. I’m grateful to him. And it was a wonderful family. For once again, answering the call to serve.
(27:34)
I want to thank you all. Thank your families. And I don’t want to embarrass them. There’s one guy up in the gallery here, Tommy, who’s my buddy, who is the son of the governor. Thanks Tommy for supporting mom doing this. And to American people, I know these times are tough, but I want you to know that we’re going to get through this. Help is on the way. These people know what they’re about, they know what it’s like.
(28:03)
May God bless you all, and may God protect our troops. Now what I’d like to do is turn this over to the team, starting with our next secretary of labor, Marty Walsh, and after all said and done, what I’ll do is I’ll come back and answer some questions. Thank you. Marty, the platform is yours pal.
Governor Roimondo: (28:55)
Thank you. Good afternoon? Good afternoon. Mr. President elect, Madam vice president elect, thank you for this chance to work for the American people. I begin by thanking my amazing family, my wonderful husband, Andy, my daughter Ceci, my son Tommy who’s here in the balcony, thank you for your endless love and support. We’ll do this as a family.
(29:29)
The mission of the commerce department is a very simple one. To help spur good paying jobs, to empower entrepreneurs to innovate and grow, to come together with working families and American businesses to create new opportunities for all of us. It’s a simple but vital mission.
(29:55)
It’s the same mission that’s driven my own life and the path of my family across generations. My grandfather was 14 years old when he came to this country. He got on a boat by himself at 14 years old from Italy. He came to America in search of new possibilities. He taught himself English late at night in the Providence Public Library, the library was open late at night. He started a family, and the first chapter of our family’s new American story.
(30:43)
My father was the son of another Italian immigrant, a butcher. A butcher who helped found the Meat Cutters Union in Rhode Island, which is now the UFCW local in Rhode Island. And after serving in the Navy and going to college and the GI bill, my father went to work in manufacturing, spending most of his career at the Bulova Watch factory in Providence.
(31:17)
Now, I was the youngest of three kids, and there were six of us, including my grandfather, all in a small house, sharing one bathroom. Now we didn’t have a lot, but we had everything that we needed, until one day my dad came home and he said the factory was going to close, and the jobs were going overseas.
(31:47)
And so after 28 years of dedicated work, he was pushed unceremoniously into early retirement in his mid 50s. I have to tell you, it was a very difficult time for my family. And like so many American families across this country today, we had to cut back, cut back to make it through. But my mom kept our family together and we did get through.
(32:26)
And I went on to college, and I started to chase my own dreams, starting business, and creating jobs for hardworking people. Because I knew exactly what those jobs would mean. What those jobs would mean for families who had fallen on hard times, for communities where the factory had shut down, and for a state that needed a shot in the arm to get back on its feet. When I announced my run for governor, Rhode Island was in the midst of an eight month streak as the state with the highest unemployment rate in the nation. But over the last six years, we’ve worked hard, we fought back and we’ve grown our way back, achieving a record number of jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in over 30 years.
(33:37)
Now, we did that by bringing together our workers and businesses, working together, coming together in common cause. We invested in our people, in their skills, their opportunities and their dreams. We helped new businesses launch, and we sparked others to hire and grow responsibly. That’s the same vision, the same faith in American workers in American entrepreneurs that I see in the Build Back Better agenda.
(34:23)
It’s a vision for an inclusive recovery, that lifts up those who’ve been left behind. It’s a vision for a national effort that provides skills, training and wraparound supports to get Americans back to work.
(34:48)
It’s a vision for rebuilding American manufacturing and bringing back jobs to America from overseas. And that’s why I am ready to get to work. I am excited to get to work on a national scale to help realize the vision of the president elect and vice president elect to help more hardworking families in every community write the next chapter of their own American stories. So thank you for this opportunity to serve the American people.
Marty Walsh: (35:21)
Thank you, governor Raimondo and I look forward to working with you in my role as well. Mr. President elect, Madam vice president elect, I want to thank you for the opportunity to serve the American people.
(35:58)
The word labor means everything to me. As you mentioned earlier, Mr. President elect, my mother and father came to this country as immigrants from Gallway, which is an Island, but from a part of Galway called Kanamara.
(36:12)
They brought with them, their willing hands, their honest hearts and hopes to the American dream. But all they needed because my father joined the Labor’s Union in Boston, was that opportunity. And that’s why my parents were able to raise my brother, John and myself, with dignity and security, and in multi-ethnic, multi-racial working class neighborhood of Dorchester in the city of Austin.
(36:37)
I followed my father into that union. I learned what it took to turn an honest day’s work into an honest day’s pay. I saw it fighting for good jobs, good benefits, a safe workplace does for the lives of hardworking men and women and their families. And I fought for working people every single day of my life since then.
(36:58)
Today we’re at a crossroads in America. It’s a time of great hardship. Working people are holding the country together right now. I’ve seen it up close as mayor of the city that I love Boston. Health care workers, first responders, grocery store workers, delivery drivers, postal workers, sanitation workers, custodians, coming through for us, under impossible conditions. But this isn’t just because of the COVID crisis or the economic crisis that threatens their wellbeing.
(37:32)
Working people have been struggling for a long time under the erosion of their rights in the deep inequalities of race, gender, and class. For the last four years, they’ve been under assaults, attacks on their rights, their livelihoods, and the unions that built the middle class.
(37:50)
We are facing hard times, but nobody’s tougher than the American worker. And now, we have the opportunity to put power back in the hands of working people all across this country. And that is a good thing for our economy and for our country.
(38:08)
We can defend workers rights. We can strengthen collective bargaining. We can grow union membership. We can create millions of good paying jobs with investments in infrastructure, clean energy, and in high-tech manufacturing, along with the workforce training to help get those people into those good jobs.
(38:28)
This team, the Biden-Harris team has the plans to make this happen. Mr. President elect, we spent many memorable days together in my hometown, at a rally to support grocery store workers fighting for their rights, and my inauguration as mayor. And on a day that I will never forget, at the Boston Marathon Memorial, where you lifted out our whole city spirits. So I know that from Dorchester to Scranton, Wilmington to West Virginia and all across this great nation, your home in your heart are with the working people.
(39:04)
I look forward to working with you to deliver good jobs with dignity, security, prosperity, and purpose to all American families. And I look forward to working with this entire administration shoulder to shoulder, with American workers to build back our country better. Thank you once again for this incredible honor, may God bless the American worker and may God bless the United States of America.
For administrative of the small business administration I nominate, Isabel Guzman. Isabel grew up in California, working alongside her dad in a small veterinary business that he built. She devoted an early understanding and developed an early understanding of what small business means to their employees and to the neighborhood they support, and to the families who dreams they represent. She dedicated her career to creating jobs, to supporting entrepreneurs as a senior official on the Obama-Biden small business administration.
(23:49)
As director of California’s office of small business and a small business advocate, she worked tirelessly to ensure that everyone with an entrepreneurial spark had a fair and equal shot at getting off the ground and succeeding.
(24:03)
The Biden-Harris administration will be locked in on helping small businesses recover, rebuild, and remain the engines of our economic strength. And as head of the SBA, Isabel will be leading the critical mission, not only to rescue small businesses in crisis, but to provide the capital to entrepreneurs across the country, so they can innovate, create jobs and help lead us into recovery. I’m grateful that she accepted the call to serve in Washington.
(24:34)
For deputy commerce secretary I nominate, and I have to admit to you good loyal great friend, Don graves. Don is a long time and trusted advisor. He was there at the treasury department during the depths of the great recession, helping small businesses weather the storm and stay afloat.
(24:54)
When President Obama asked me to lead the effort to get Detroit out of bankruptcy, and off its back and on its feet again, he said, I can take anyone in the administration on my team to do it full time. So I went to the treasury department.
(25:09)
I tasked Don to come over and work for me and work on full-time. It was the best decision I ever made in that effort. I’m not sure how he thinks about that, but I think it was the best decision I’ve ever made. And did a great job working with the city officials, state officials on its road to recovery.
(25:28)
And by the way, it’s the little things, it’s getting to know what’s happening on the ground. Remember how we went through the issue about the number of buses and lights, street lights and light. It gets down to the nitty gritty of what has to be done. We found out that Detroit had a lot of qualified people, but during the great recession, almost everyone who knew how to program anything left. And when we finally got it back on it’s feet again, we found out there wasn’t anybody left to know how to turn on the street lights.
(25:59)
Literally, run the sewer department. So we went out and we got an outfit to come in and we said, find us some high-tech people. They came back, what was it, 53, 55 people, they all happened to be women. Most were minority, none had more than a high school degree, and a quarter of them only had a GED. And I remember even our very liberal friends we told them we were doing this. They said, “You’re not going to do this.”
(26:27)
Well, guess what? In a 14 week, was it 14 week, program, they were taught how to program. They were taught how to do it all. They ended up putting the city back on its feet. Every one of them left after that time, because we went to the graduation, with the lowest starting salary if my recollection is correct, was $49,000, the highest $104,000. Point is, give people a chance, Americans can do anything, given a shot.
(26:57)
It also helped me lead our national strategy to equip workers with the skills they need for good paying jobs in the 21st century and healthcare, IT, clean energy, advanced manufacturing and so much more. He was there to help me launch the National Cancer Moonshot, and marshall a full resource of the federal government to help end cancer as we know it.
(27:18)
A cancer survivor himself, diagnosed and treated while he was working on this for me. Don knows about hope and he knows about resilience. I’m grateful to him. And it was a wonderful family. For once again, answering the call to serve.
(27:34)
I want to thank you all. Thank your families. And I don’t want to embarrass them. There’s one guy up in the gallery here, Tommy, who’s my buddy, who is the son of the governor. Thanks Tommy for supporting mom doing this. And to American people, I know these times are tough, but I want you to know that we’re going to get through this. Help is on the way. These people know what they’re about, they know what it’s like.
(28:03)
May God bless you all, and may God protect our troops. Now what I’d like to do is turn this over to the team, starting with our next secretary of labor, Marty Walsh, and after all said and done, what I’ll do is I’ll come back and answer some questions. Thank you. Marty, the platform is yours pal.
Governor Roimondo: (28:55)
Thank you. Good afternoon? Good afternoon. Mr. President elect, Madam vice president elect, thank you for this chance to work for the American people. I begin by thanking my amazing family, my wonderful husband, Andy, my daughter Ceci, my son Tommy who’s here in the balcony, thank you for your endless love and support. We’ll do this as a family.
(29:29)
The mission of the commerce department is a very simple one. To help spur good paying jobs, to empower entrepreneurs to innovate and grow, to come together with working families and American businesses to create new opportunities for all of us. It’s a simple but vital mission.
(29:55)
It’s the same mission that’s driven my own life and the path of my family across generations. My grandfather was 14 years old when he came to this country. He got on a boat by himself at 14 years old from Italy. He came to America in search of new possibilities. He taught himself English late at night in the Providence Public Library, the library was open late at night. He started a family, and the first chapter of our family’s new American story.
(30:43)
My father was the son of another Italian immigrant, a butcher. A butcher who helped found the Meat Cutters Union in Rhode Island, which is now the UFCW local in Rhode Island. And after serving in the Navy and going to college and the GI bill, my father went to work in manufacturing, spending most of his career at the Bulova Watch factory in Providence.
(31:17)
Now, I was the youngest of three kids, and there were six of us, including my grandfather, all in a small house, sharing one bathroom. Now we didn’t have a lot, but we had everything that we needed, until one day my dad came home and he said the factory was going to close, and the jobs were going overseas.
(31:47)
And so after 28 years of dedicated work, he was pushed unceremoniously into early retirement in his mid 50s. I have to tell you, it was a very difficult time for my family. And like so many American families across this country today, we had to cut back, cut back to make it through. But my mom kept our family together and we did get through.
(32:26)
And I went on to college, and I started to chase my own dreams, starting business, and creating jobs for hardworking people. Because I knew exactly what those jobs would mean. What those jobs would mean for families who had fallen on hard times, for communities where the factory had shut down, and for a state that needed a shot in the arm to get back on its feet. When I announced my run for governor, Rhode Island was in the midst of an eight month streak as the state with the highest unemployment rate in the nation. But over the last six years, we’ve worked hard, we fought back and we’ve grown our way back, achieving a record number of jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in over 30 years.
(33:37)
Now, we did that by bringing together our workers and businesses, working together, coming together in common cause. We invested in our people, in their skills, their opportunities and their dreams. We helped new businesses launch, and we sparked others to hire and grow responsibly. That’s the same vision, the same faith in American workers in American entrepreneurs that I see in the Build Back Better agenda.
(34:23)
It’s a vision for an inclusive recovery, that lifts up those who’ve been left behind. It’s a vision for a national effort that provides skills, training and wraparound supports to get Americans back to work.
(34:48)
It’s a vision for rebuilding American manufacturing and bringing back jobs to America from overseas. And that’s why I am ready to get to work. I am excited to get to work on a national scale to help realize the vision of the president elect and vice president elect to help more hardworking families in every community write the next chapter of their own American stories. So thank you for this opportunity to serve the American people.
Marty Walsh: (35:21)
Thank you, governor Raimondo and I look forward to working with you in my role as well. Mr. President elect, Madam vice president elect, I want to thank you for the opportunity to serve the American people.
(35:58)
The word labor means everything to me. As you mentioned earlier, Mr. President elect, my mother and father came to this country as immigrants from Gallway, which is an Island, but from a part of Galway called Kanamara.
(36:12)
They brought with them, their willing hands, their honest hearts and hopes to the American dream. But all they needed because my father joined the Labor’s Union in Boston, was that opportunity. And that’s why my parents were able to raise my brother, John and myself, with dignity and security, and in multi-ethnic, multi-racial working class neighborhood of Dorchester in the city of Austin.
(36:37)
I followed my father into that union. I learned what it took to turn an honest day’s work into an honest day’s pay. I saw it fighting for good jobs, good benefits, a safe workplace does for the lives of hardworking men and women and their families. And I fought for working people every single day of my life since then.
(36:58)
Today we’re at a crossroads in America. It’s a time of great hardship. Working people are holding the country together right now. I’ve seen it up close as mayor of the city that I love Boston. Health care workers, first responders, grocery store workers, delivery drivers, postal workers, sanitation workers, custodians, coming through for us, under impossible conditions. But this isn’t just because of the COVID crisis or the economic crisis that threatens their wellbeing.
(37:32)
Working people have been struggling for a long time under the erosion of their rights in the deep inequalities of race, gender, and class. For the last four years, they’ve been under assaults, attacks on their rights, their livelihoods, and the unions that built the middle class.
(37:50)
We are facing hard times, but nobody’s tougher than the American worker. And now, we have the opportunity to put power back in the hands of working people all across this country. And that is a good thing for our economy and for our country.
(38:08)
We can defend workers rights. We can strengthen collective bargaining. We can grow union membership. We can create millions of good paying jobs with investments in infrastructure, clean energy, and in high-tech manufacturing, along with the workforce training to help get those people into those good jobs.
(38:28)
This team, the Biden-Harris team has the plans to make this happen. Mr. President elect, we spent many memorable days together in my hometown, at a rally to support grocery store workers fighting for their rights, and my inauguration as mayor. And on a day that I will never forget, at the Boston Marathon Memorial, where you lifted out our whole city spirits. So I know that from Dorchester to Scranton, Wilmington to West Virginia and all across this great nation, your home in your heart are with the working people.
(39:04)
I look forward to working with you to deliver good jobs with dignity, security, prosperity, and purpose to all American families. And I look forward to working with this entire administration shoulder to shoulder, with American workers to build back our country better. Thank you once again for this incredible honor, may God bless the American worker and may God bless the United States of America.
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