WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.160 Please welcome the Vice President of 00:02.160 --> 00:04.560 the United States Kamala Harris . 00:31.990 --> 00:35.020 Hello , good afternoon . Good afternoon , 00:36.350 --> 00:39.320 please have a seat . Well , it is good 00:39.320 --> 00:42.510 to be back in pennsylvania And to be 00:42.510 --> 00:44.960 with so many incredible leaders , 00:44.970 --> 00:47.780 members of our administration , members 00:47.780 --> 00:50.440 of Congress , the workers of ask me 00:50.440 --> 00:54.010 local 33 and 47 and of course 00:54.020 --> 00:56.740 Pennsylvania's own Joe Biden . 00:58.030 --> 00:58.740 Yes . 01:01.870 --> 01:05.210 So before I begin , if I might just 01:05.220 --> 01:08.030 refer to the governor's concern about 01:08.030 --> 01:09.780 my attendance today , 01:12.340 --> 01:16.250 you worry a little too much . But 01:16.250 --> 01:18.860 as a proud 40 niners fan , 01:18.900 --> 01:21.620 congratulations to everyone here and 01:21.620 --> 01:25.370 the Eagles and good luck in the Super 01:25.370 --> 01:25.890 Bowl . 01:29.470 --> 01:32.150 So philadelphia , the president and I 01:32.160 --> 01:34.890 are here to address a critical issue 01:35.480 --> 01:38.100 that affects every person in America 01:38.790 --> 01:42.070 clean drinking water . Few 01:42.080 --> 01:45.670 resources are more basic and more 01:45.680 --> 01:49.230 essential without reliable access to 01:49.230 --> 01:52.440 clean water . People can simply not be 01:52.440 --> 01:56.160 healthy . Communities cannot grow and 01:56.160 --> 01:59.920 our nation cannot prosper no 01:59.920 --> 02:02.900 matter where they live , every person 02:02.910 --> 02:06.470 in America should have a right to clean 02:06.470 --> 02:09.880 water . And yet today 02:09.890 --> 02:12.600 across our nations , far too many 02:12.600 --> 02:16.300 americans do not today . Across the 02:16.300 --> 02:19.280 west , historic droughts have forced 02:19.290 --> 02:22.580 millions to endure water shortages , 02:22.590 --> 02:25.730 wildfires and billions of dollars in 02:25.730 --> 02:29.290 economic damages . Today , millions of 02:29.290 --> 02:32.020 americans live in places where even 02:32.030 --> 02:35.740 moderate flooding can overwhelm sewage 02:35.740 --> 02:38.780 systems and contaminate drinking water . 02:39.400 --> 02:41.950 We have heard too many stories of 02:41.960 --> 02:45.860 people who after storms have pools of 02:45.860 --> 02:48.960 sewage water under their floorboards 02:49.760 --> 02:51.740 and as a result in particular in 02:51.740 --> 02:54.410 communities across the south , we have 02:54.410 --> 02:57.690 seen a rise in infections like hook 02:57.690 --> 03:01.430 warm and diseases like zika And 03:01.430 --> 03:03.960 across our nation up to 10 million 03:03.960 --> 03:06.990 homes and thousands of schools and 03:07.000 --> 03:09.710 childcare facilities receive their 03:09.710 --> 03:13.700 water through lead pipes to be 03:13.700 --> 03:17.250 clear , lead is a poison drinking 03:17.250 --> 03:20.650 water contaminated with lead causes 03:20.660 --> 03:24.060 serious health issues especially for 03:24.060 --> 03:27.810 our Children . It stunts growth , it 03:27.810 --> 03:30.400 causes damage to the brain and it 03:30.400 --> 03:32.580 affects a child's ability to learn . 03:33.480 --> 03:36.000 Last week . For example , I met a 03:36.010 --> 03:38.830 bright young leader , he's nine years 03:38.830 --> 03:41.940 old . His name is Aiden Aidan lives in 03:41.940 --> 03:44.107 Milwaukee with his mother , Deanna and 03:44.107 --> 03:47.090 his brother Jaden . Today . Aidan is 03:47.090 --> 03:50.450 healthy and he is full of energy but 03:50.450 --> 03:53.370 that was not always the case because 03:53.370 --> 03:56.110 you see when Aiden was two years old he 03:56.110 --> 03:58.440 was hospitalized for lead poisoning 03:58.450 --> 04:01.830 twice for drinking 04:01.840 --> 04:04.720 water out of the tap at the kitchen 04:04.730 --> 04:07.990 sink . Deanna told me 04:08.000 --> 04:11.110 that before Aiden's hospitalization , 04:11.120 --> 04:14.420 he experienced severe mood swings . One 04:14.420 --> 04:16.531 minute he was happy . The next minute 04:16.531 --> 04:19.330 he was sobbing . Deanna told me it was 04:19.330 --> 04:23.090 terrifying . Well I think we all agree 04:23.100 --> 04:26.830 no child in America should ever have 04:26.830 --> 04:29.650 to endure and endure that kind of 04:29.650 --> 04:32.970 experience and no parent in America 04:33.590 --> 04:36.820 should ever have that experience . And 04:36.820 --> 04:40.410 so together with the leaders here today 04:40.420 --> 04:43.660 and with leaders across our nation , we 04:43.660 --> 04:47.060 have made access to clean water a 04:47.060 --> 04:49.770 priority of our administration's 04:49.780 --> 04:51.290 national agenda 04:59.510 --> 05:02.390 and with and with the largest 05:02.400 --> 05:05.240 investment in America's water 05:05.250 --> 05:08.270 infrastructure in history , we are 05:08.270 --> 05:10.437 going to see this through and get this 05:10.437 --> 05:13.480 work done specifically . We invested 05:13.480 --> 05:15.313 billions of dollars in flood and 05:15.313 --> 05:17.258 drought resilience for communities 05:17.258 --> 05:19.800 across our nation In water treatment 05:19.810 --> 05:23.790 plants like this one in removing every 05:23.790 --> 05:27.370 lead pipe in America . And just last 05:27.370 --> 05:30.280 week at the White House I convened 05:30.290 --> 05:32.790 union leaders and utility providers and 05:32.790 --> 05:36.120 state and local elected officials to 05:36.120 --> 05:39.010 strategize about what we will do to 05:39.020 --> 05:41.870 implement these investments to make 05:41.870 --> 05:45.210 sure that we move as fast as 05:45.210 --> 05:47.790 possible to get this work done 05:49.070 --> 05:52.980 and all of this progress is possible 05:53.000 --> 05:56.570 because of the vision , the purpose 05:56.580 --> 05:59.800 and the incredible leadership of our 05:59.800 --> 06:03.380 president . Joe biden for two 06:03.380 --> 06:04.290 years 06:10.560 --> 06:12.504 for the two years that he has been 06:12.504 --> 06:14.504 president and and many years before 06:14.504 --> 06:18.100 that joe biden has fought to make sure 06:18.110 --> 06:21.020 that Children like young Aiden have the 06:21.020 --> 06:24.390 opportunity to grow up and to be 06:24.390 --> 06:27.910 healthy and to live up to their god 06:27.910 --> 06:31.510 given potential . So we have a lot to 06:31.510 --> 06:34.220 be thankful for in our president and 06:34.220 --> 06:36.680 now before he speaks it is my honor to 06:36.680 --> 06:39.960 introduce a leader who knows firsthand 06:39.980 --> 06:43.010 the impact of our hard work . The 06:43.010 --> 06:45.220 mother of an incredible daughter , a 06:45.220 --> 06:48.380 mother whose advocacy and bravery has 06:48.380 --> 06:50.990 helped Children around our country . 06:51.600 --> 06:54.770 Families around our country be safe and 06:54.770 --> 06:57.860 healthy . Please welcome Janna 06:57.870 --> 06:58.800 Curtis . 07:14.090 --> 07:17.700 Good afternoon . My name is Jonah and I 07:17.700 --> 07:21.080 am a proud philadelphia . I was drawn 07:21.080 --> 07:24.810 to the city by its rich history but 07:24.810 --> 07:27.740 eight years ago that history poisoned 07:27.750 --> 07:31.010 my baby girl at just 12 months old , 07:31.020 --> 07:34.570 she had a blood lead level of 14 that's 07:34.570 --> 07:36.790 four times the action level set by the 07:36.790 --> 07:39.310 C . D . C . Today . The first phone 07:39.310 --> 07:41.450 call with the pediatrician was 07:41.450 --> 07:44.290 terrifying . Damage from lead is 07:44.290 --> 07:47.130 permanent . She said irreversible 07:47.140 --> 07:49.640 potential loss of I . Q . Low weight 07:49.640 --> 07:52.560 gain sleep disturbances , speech delays . 07:52.570 --> 07:54.570 And when the public health official 07:54.570 --> 07:56.800 told me that lead poisoning was 100% 07:56.810 --> 08:00.500 preventable . I was heartbroken . Now 08:00.500 --> 08:02.722 since that day we've done everything we 08:02.722 --> 08:05.360 can for our little girl blood tests , 08:05.370 --> 08:07.910 speech therapists , early intervention , 08:07.920 --> 08:10.390 endless appointments . And while we 08:10.390 --> 08:12.340 will never know what potential was 08:12.340 --> 08:14.820 stolen from her today , she is a 08:14.830 --> 08:17.350 thriving beautiful little girl 08:22.610 --> 08:25.380 with the help of advocacy groups like 08:25.390 --> 08:28.060 Children . First I transformed my guilt 08:28.070 --> 08:30.830 into action by helping to pass lead 08:30.830 --> 08:32.886 safe rental laws , improved building 08:32.886 --> 08:35.630 codes and fight for universal testing . 08:37.010 --> 08:39.190 The real solutions prevent lead 08:39.190 --> 08:42.160 poisoning before it happens . The real 08:42.160 --> 08:45.620 solutions take leadership For 08:45.620 --> 08:48.380 decades . We have told parents and 08:48.390 --> 08:51.710 let's face it mostly moms that to 08:51.710 --> 08:53.932 prevent lead poisoning they should pick 08:53.932 --> 08:56.154 up a mop or put a water filter in their 08:56.154 --> 08:59.840 home all that time . We have known that 08:59.840 --> 09:02.890 to truly stop lead poisoning . We have 09:02.890 --> 09:06.350 to take out the water pipes or the dirt 09:06.360 --> 09:10.300 or the paint as a country . We accepted 09:10.310 --> 09:12.890 the lost potential of generation after 09:12.890 --> 09:15.430 generation because no leader was 09:15.430 --> 09:18.090 willing to act until now 09:19.060 --> 09:21.890 after decades of little action 09:21.900 --> 09:23.900 president biden and Vice President 09:23.900 --> 09:26.700 Harris signed legislation that will 09:26.700 --> 09:29.110 bring new funding and a commitment to 09:29.110 --> 09:32.150 tackle this challenge . Head on our 09:32.150 --> 09:35.510 kids will be safer . Our communities 09:35.520 --> 09:38.530 stronger . Thanks for their leadership . 09:39.480 --> 09:42.420 And that is why it is my great honor to 09:42.430 --> 09:44.780 introduce a leader who said enough is 09:44.780 --> 09:48.360 enough a leader willing to act . So no 09:48.360 --> 09:50.527 parent has to get a phone call telling 09:50.527 --> 09:53.010 them to fight an invisible poison on 09:53.010 --> 09:55.770 their own . Please welcome President 09:55.770 --> 09:56.370 Biden . 10:28.750 --> 10:29.750 Right . 10:46.840 --> 10:50.370 I want you all to know . I want you to 10:50.370 --> 10:54.070 know baby . You did so much 10:54.080 --> 10:57.710 for so many kids . Think about it . But 10:57.720 --> 10:59.776 you went through your changes in the 10:59.776 --> 11:01.664 life of thousands and thousands , 11:01.664 --> 11:04.390 millions of kids in America . So we owe 11:04.390 --> 11:06.057 you a big round of applause . 11:13.530 --> 11:17.520 I love your earrings . Thank 11:17.520 --> 11:21.260 you . Well folks , uh , 11:21.960 --> 11:25.910 hello philadelphia , I'm joe biden's 11:25.910 --> 11:29.680 husband , she's a Philly girl . 11:30.430 --> 11:32.730 So the first thing I'm gonna say is go 11:32.730 --> 11:34.410 eagles , fly eagles fly . 11:38.750 --> 11:41.083 Now the good news , I happen to mean it . 11:41.083 --> 11:43.306 But even if I didn't , I'd say you know 11:43.306 --> 11:45.417 why otherwise I'd be sleeping alone . 11:46.250 --> 11:49.180 She is . Everybody sit down as the 11:49.180 --> 11:51.290 mayor knows she is one 11:53.170 --> 11:56.220 self assured Philly fan . No matter 11:56.220 --> 11:58.560 what . My wife hates violence . She 11:58.560 --> 12:00.980 says , I told bobby Casey this , we 12:00.980 --> 12:03.202 went to a flyers game a couple of years 12:03.202 --> 12:05.990 ago and the fights and the Secret 12:05.990 --> 12:08.070 Service is in a box and next to us 12:08.100 --> 12:11.070 Anyway , and there's a fight breaks out 12:11.080 --> 12:13.302 and my wife hates violence goes and I'm 12:13.302 --> 12:15.490 getting here jumping up the Secret 12:15.490 --> 12:17.712 Service looking where the heck did that 12:17.712 --> 12:19.950 come from . But anyway , thank you 12:19.950 --> 12:22.172 Kamala , thank you very much . You guys 12:22.172 --> 12:24.394 don't have to stand up here . Come on , 12:24.394 --> 12:25.394 don't you go , 12:30.060 --> 12:32.227 You've been a leader in this issue for 12:32.227 --> 12:34.338 a long time because you know how much 12:34.338 --> 12:37.520 it matters . Mayor Jim Kenney thanked 12:37.520 --> 12:39.853 for the passport back into the city man , 12:39.853 --> 12:42.760 you know , uh , for years and years . 12:42.770 --> 12:46.170 Uh , when Delaware didn't have its own 12:46.180 --> 12:48.420 television station before , everybody 12:48.420 --> 12:51.420 was philadelphia , I was as popular in 12:51.420 --> 12:53.531 Philly as I was everywhere else . You 12:53.531 --> 12:55.864 know what I mean ? They had to cover us . 12:55.864 --> 12:57.976 You know , I mean , I don't know what 12:57.976 --> 13:00.142 it's still in , but , but I'm happy to 13:00.142 --> 13:02.309 be here with the new governor , josh , 13:02.309 --> 13:04.642 josh . You're gonna be a great governor . 13:08.380 --> 13:11.600 And uh , I'm mildly partial to bobby 13:11.600 --> 13:15.070 Casey . Uh , he's , he's from Scranton , 13:15.080 --> 13:18.830 not Scranton , Scranton . And uh , he , 13:18.840 --> 13:20.870 uh , we lived not very far from one 13:20.870 --> 13:23.037 another when I was up there as a kid . 13:23.037 --> 13:25.420 And uh , I still go home . I don't want 13:25.420 --> 13:28.210 to thank you . Uh , we're gonna make 13:28.210 --> 13:30.980 sure Bobby that rail line goes back 13:30.990 --> 13:34.370 like it was in 1970 from Scranton to 13:34.370 --> 13:36.980 New York . We're gonna make sure that 13:36.980 --> 13:39.910 happens . And john Fetterman , you've 13:39.910 --> 13:42.021 been a great partner , pal and you've 13:42.021 --> 13:44.243 only been there exactly one month , but 13:44.243 --> 13:46.299 you've been a fighter , not only for 13:46.299 --> 13:48.466 Pittsburgh , but for the whole country 13:48.466 --> 13:50.577 and Dwight Evans , you've been a good 13:50.577 --> 13:52.250 friend and a great supporter 13:52.250 --> 13:55.440 representing the community . And look , 13:55.450 --> 13:57.394 we let us work of other members of 13:57.394 --> 13:59.672 Congress helping make so much progress . 13:59.672 --> 14:01.728 I want to thank our ep administrator 14:01.728 --> 14:04.530 Michael Regan . He is a , doing a great 14:04.540 --> 14:08.440 job . We were down 14:08.440 --> 14:10.551 doing a great job in north Carolina . 14:10.551 --> 14:12.496 We went and stole them . Just flat 14:12.496 --> 14:14.551 stole them . But uh , you're doing a 14:14.551 --> 14:16.607 great job . Michael , thank you very 14:16.607 --> 14:18.773 much . And thanks to the folks who run 14:18.773 --> 14:20.773 this plant and fix our water system 14:20.773 --> 14:22.829 here in Philly asked me plumbers and 14:22.829 --> 14:26.130 pipefitters laborers all helping to 14:26.140 --> 14:29.500 deliver clean water . And by the way , 14:29.510 --> 14:31.710 all this money we're spending . It's 14:31.710 --> 14:35.140 gonna hire union workers , union 14:35.140 --> 14:38.830 workers . But 14:38.830 --> 14:40.941 before I begin , I want to say a word 14:40.941 --> 14:43.600 about the jobs report we talked about 14:43.600 --> 14:45.900 this morning next week . We're 14:45.900 --> 14:48.011 reporting on the state of the union , 14:48.011 --> 14:50.122 I'll be doing that from the capital . 14:50.122 --> 14:52.344 And , but I reported today on the state 14:52.344 --> 14:54.400 of the economy . Uh , this morning's 14:54.400 --> 14:56.890 report showed that we added the economy 14:56.890 --> 15:00.250 strong . We added more jobs over half a 15:00.250 --> 15:03.860 million jobs this last month . And 15:03.870 --> 15:06.820 the real react the recap 15:06.830 --> 15:10.290 calibration of last 15:10.290 --> 15:12.457 month was another half million . We've 15:12.457 --> 15:16.370 created 12 million jobs . 12 15:16.380 --> 15:18.510 million jobs since we took office . 15:19.270 --> 15:21.650 That's the strongest two year growth in 15:21.650 --> 15:24.660 the history . And by a long shot and I 15:24.660 --> 15:26.771 want to thank the members of Congress 15:26.771 --> 15:28.993 here were the one who supported that my 15:28.993 --> 15:31.049 initiatives and made this possible . 15:31.049 --> 15:32.716 Look , my dad used to have an 15:32.716 --> 15:34.660 expression , he said Joey the jobs 15:34.660 --> 15:36.882 about a lot more than a paycheck . It's 15:36.882 --> 15:39.104 about your dignity . It's about respect 15:39.104 --> 15:41.271 to be able to look at kidney and say , 15:41.271 --> 15:43.327 Honey , it's gonna be okay . There's 15:43.327 --> 15:45.438 now 12 million more Americans who can 15:45.438 --> 15:47.549 look at the kid and say it's gonna be 15:47.549 --> 15:49.438 okay . And what is done mostly is 15:49.438 --> 15:51.382 provide dignity for those families 15:51.382 --> 15:53.493 dignity to be able to do that because 15:53.493 --> 15:55.660 there's nothing worse than not be able 15:55.660 --> 15:57.827 to provide for your family as a mother 15:57.827 --> 15:59.827 or a father . And it gives people a 15:59.827 --> 16:01.993 sense of self worth . We're here today 16:01.993 --> 16:03.938 to talk about the progress , we're 16:03.938 --> 16:03.410 making the rebuilding America's 16:03.410 --> 16:05.680 infrastructure with the help of this 16:05.680 --> 16:08.000 delegation . I signed the bipartisan 16:08.000 --> 16:10.480 infrastructure law once in a generation 16:10.480 --> 16:12.702 investments , putting Americans at work 16:12.702 --> 16:14.480 to rebuild our nation's roads , 16:14.480 --> 16:16.758 highways , bridges , railroads , ports , 16:16.758 --> 16:18.813 airports , high speed internet , our 16:18.813 --> 16:20.980 water systems and so much more . I was 16:20.980 --> 16:23.147 given a copy of the speech that I made 16:23.147 --> 16:25.210 about 30 years ago saying we need an 16:25.210 --> 16:27.570 infrastructure bill to deal with water . 16:27.570 --> 16:29.820 I'm not joking . I had forgotten that 16:29.820 --> 16:33.250 they just , they dug it up for me . But 16:33.260 --> 16:35.427 the point is , we've been needing this 16:35.427 --> 16:37.538 for a long time . This is not new . I 16:37.538 --> 16:39.704 remember starting off and working like 16:39.704 --> 16:41.538 hell on the lead pain initiative 16:41.538 --> 16:43.704 because that was such a problem . I've 16:43.704 --> 16:45.760 traveled the country in recent weeks 16:45.760 --> 16:47.649 and seeing this law in action . A 16:47.649 --> 16:49.816 massive new bridge over the Ohio river 16:49.816 --> 16:52.040 between Kentucky and Ohio . A huge 16:52.040 --> 16:53.818 tunnel along the Amtrak line in 16:53.818 --> 16:55.762 Baltimore and new york billions of 16:55.762 --> 16:57.880 dollars pennsylvania loan's gonna get 16:57.880 --> 17:01.810 818 point we got $8.1 billion . So 17:01.810 --> 17:04.400 far as the governor can tell you just 17:04.400 --> 17:08.300 outside Pittsburgh because of the 17:08.300 --> 17:12.210 senator , we just spent $850 17:12.210 --> 17:14.480 million to replace 100 year old bridge 17:14.490 --> 17:16.657 and the Montgomery lock and dam system 17:16.657 --> 17:18.768 is critical . Our nation's economy is 17:18.768 --> 17:20.712 coming investment and increase the 17:20.712 --> 17:23.610 capacity of the system over 50% at a 17:23.610 --> 17:25.832 critical choke point . You know , bobby 17:25.832 --> 17:27.943 case , even talk to me about this for 17:27.943 --> 17:30.110 so long . I think we're gonna call the 17:30.110 --> 17:32.277 Casey lock when it's done . But look , 17:32.277 --> 17:34.388 I'm here today to talk about an issue 17:34.388 --> 17:36.666 affecting americans across the country . 17:36.666 --> 17:39.390 Water you think it's silly , but water , 17:40.170 --> 17:42.170 you know , the issue has to do with 17:42.170 --> 17:44.460 basic dignity . Every american deserves 17:44.460 --> 17:46.571 to be able to turn on their water tap 17:46.571 --> 17:48.627 or faucet and be able to drink clean 17:48.627 --> 17:50.682 water . But we're the richest , most 17:50.682 --> 17:53.070 prosperous nation in the world . Water 17:53.070 --> 17:54.959 ought to be something that's just 17:54.959 --> 17:57.181 guaranteed . But unfortunately , that's 17:57.181 --> 17:59.292 not the case right now . There are an 17:59.292 --> 18:02.560 estimated 160,000 service lines and 18:02.560 --> 18:04.671 carrying water into homes and schools 18:04.671 --> 18:06.393 in Pennsylvania , including an 18:06.393 --> 18:08.990 estimated 20,000 lines for homes here 18:08.990 --> 18:10.712 in the state of in the city of 18:10.712 --> 18:12.790 Philadelphia , 10 million families 18:12.790 --> 18:14.850 across the country and hundreds of 18:14.850 --> 18:17.320 thousands of schools and were school 18:17.320 --> 18:20.190 Children and their case daycare centers 18:20.190 --> 18:22.760 exist that their water is pumped 18:22.760 --> 18:25.310 through lead pipes , lead valves and 18:25.310 --> 18:28.020 led fixtures and folks look the problem 18:28.020 --> 18:29.909 is almost in every state but it's 18:29.909 --> 18:32.020 especially bad in older cities in the 18:32.020 --> 18:34.460 midwest and here in the Northeast , 18:34.470 --> 18:36.980 many houses built in the last century . 18:36.990 --> 18:39.290 An average age of water and sewer pipes 18:39.290 --> 18:41.610 in the U . S . Is nearly 50 years old 18:42.030 --> 18:44.252 And they're often even older . In major 18:44.252 --> 18:46.470 cities like Philadelphia . Many water 18:46.470 --> 18:48.414 mains and pipes in the country are 18:48.414 --> 18:50.580 nearing the end of their useful lives 18:50.590 --> 18:52.646 and our water systems break down the 18:52.646 --> 18:54.812 pipes start to deteriorate exposure to 18:54.812 --> 18:57.170 lead and pipes increases and beyond 18:57.170 --> 19:00.080 lead pipes . There as many as 24 19:00.090 --> 19:03.000 million housing units that have 19:03.000 --> 19:05.120 significant significant problems with 19:05.120 --> 19:07.590 lead based paint and here's why it 19:07.590 --> 19:09.970 matters . I know we talked about it 19:09.980 --> 19:12.080 generically but it really matters . 19:13.120 --> 19:15.120 Exposure to lead impacts Children's 19:15.120 --> 19:17.340 brain development . It's hazardous to 19:17.340 --> 19:19.284 the health . No amount of lead and 19:19.284 --> 19:21.760 water is safe . None no amount is safe . 19:22.610 --> 19:24.610 It can damage the brain and kidneys 19:24.610 --> 19:26.666 interfere with the production of red 19:26.666 --> 19:28.610 blood cells that the body needs to 19:28.610 --> 19:31.580 carry oxygen . Despite these dangerous 19:31.580 --> 19:33.570 health effects . The C . D . C . 19:33.570 --> 19:35.626 Estimates that over half of american 19:35.626 --> 19:38.370 Children could be exposed to lead with 19:38.370 --> 19:40.426 the exposure often coming from their 19:40.426 --> 19:42.100 own homes . The problem 19:42.100 --> 19:44.211 disproportionately affects low income 19:44.211 --> 19:46.540 families as white said , people of 19:46.540 --> 19:48.651 color are much more likely to live in 19:48.651 --> 19:50.762 homes for lead exposure is an issue . 19:50.780 --> 19:52.947 This is the United States of America , 19:52.947 --> 19:55.113 for God's sake . This is not , we know 19:55.113 --> 19:57.360 better than that and we know we're 19:57.360 --> 20:00.340 proving it . Look , Vice President , I 20:00.340 --> 20:02.970 made a commitment to replace every 20:02.970 --> 20:05.630 single service line in every part of 20:05.630 --> 20:08.630 the country over the next decade by 20:08.630 --> 20:12.170 using not 20:12.170 --> 20:15.640 most every , We're using every tool at 20:15.640 --> 20:17.696 our disposal to get it done . When I 20:17.696 --> 20:19.696 took office , I signed the American 20:19.696 --> 20:21.529 rescue plan , which the governor 20:21.529 --> 20:23.740 indirectly referred to . It sent $350 20:23.740 --> 20:25.960 billion dollars to state and local 20:25.960 --> 20:28.127 governments and we said they could use 20:28.127 --> 20:30.650 it for things like replacing lead lines 20:30.650 --> 20:32.950 and led fixtures in their communities . 20:33.630 --> 20:35.630 I'm proud of the city of Pittsburgh 20:35.630 --> 20:38.180 used Pittsburgh . Now I didn't miss not 20:38.180 --> 20:41.840 misspeaking used 17.5 million as part 20:41.840 --> 20:44.440 of their plan to replace lead service 20:44.440 --> 20:47.160 lines in the city by 2026 , 20:48.250 --> 20:50.417 They got to do that through this state 20:50.417 --> 20:52.417 and throughout that we've got to do 20:52.417 --> 20:54.583 throughout the country . Today , we're 20:54.583 --> 20:56.806 here to talk about a record funding for 20:56.806 --> 20:58.972 infrastructure law that provides clean 20:58.972 --> 21:01.360 water with $15 billion dollars with a B 21:01.370 --> 21:05.200 set aside specifically 21:05.210 --> 21:07.620 for lead pipes and lead service removal . 21:08.600 --> 21:11.060 Pennsylvania's referenced earlier 21:11.060 --> 21:13.310 already has gotten 240 million they can 21:13.310 --> 21:15.570 use to upgrade the water system and 21:15.570 --> 21:17.890 they're getting additional funding each 21:17.890 --> 21:20.460 year for the next four years . They 21:20.460 --> 21:22.850 sent 100 and 60 million of that money 21:22.860 --> 21:24.971 here to philadelphia to upgrade water 21:24.971 --> 21:27.100 treatment plants and to replace older 21:27.100 --> 21:28.711 water mains and lead pipes , 21:28.711 --> 21:30.700 philadelphia's Water department is 21:30.700 --> 21:32.756 going to start by using the money to 21:32.756 --> 21:36.100 replace approximately 19 miles of 21:36.100 --> 21:39.670 100 year old water lines there , 100 21:39.670 --> 21:42.430 years old . Today we're announcing 21:42.440 --> 21:46.190 $340 million loan , which is under a 21:46.200 --> 21:48.311 program that exists the government of 21:48.311 --> 21:50.510 very low interest rates and a stretch 21:50.510 --> 21:53.100 time to pay it back and you'll be able 21:53.100 --> 21:55.211 to save a lot of money in the process 21:55.211 --> 21:57.830 and lives . The 1st 20 million plus . 21:57.840 --> 22:01.630 The 1st 20 million is gonna replace 160 22:01.640 --> 22:04.960 service lines and 15 miles of 22:04.960 --> 22:07.182 distribution mains , which are going to 22:07.182 --> 22:09.071 protect public health and prevent 22:09.071 --> 22:11.182 additional water main breaks . Look , 22:11.182 --> 22:13.293 we're also announcing that pence pain 22:13.293 --> 22:15.490 is one of four states as part of a new 22:15.490 --> 22:17.601 partnership with mayors and governors 22:17.601 --> 22:19.379 and labor leaders to accelerate 22:19.379 --> 22:21.490 replacement lead pipes in places that 22:21.490 --> 22:23.712 need it . The most where the pipes have 22:23.712 --> 22:25.768 been replaced have been replaced for 22:25.768 --> 22:27.879 half a century . We're not just doing 22:27.879 --> 22:30.046 this work here in Philly , we're doing 22:30.046 --> 22:32.046 it across the country from coast to 22:32.046 --> 22:34.212 coast in the american Heartland . Just 22:34.212 --> 22:36.379 over a year ago , we launched the lead 22:36.379 --> 22:38.601 pipe and pain action plan to coordinate 22:38.601 --> 22:40.823 10 different federal agencies , get all 22:40.823 --> 22:43.820 10 them together So that we could pull 22:43.820 --> 22:46.860 money and get out the door quickly 22:46.870 --> 22:48.870 since the start of the Biden Harris 22:48.870 --> 22:51.092 administration , we've already put more 22:51.092 --> 22:52.092 than $5 billion 22:52.092 --> 23:00.800 ten-year 23:00.800 --> 23:03.022 project for all of this work that we're 23:03.022 --> 23:05.022 gonna be doing , not the individual 23:05.022 --> 23:07.022 project , but 10 years the money is 23:07.022 --> 23:09.022 gonna be available . And one of the 23:09.022 --> 23:11.078 things about infrastructure law that 23:11.078 --> 23:13.189 I'm most excited about is we're doing 23:13.189 --> 23:15.620 this with american workers and with 23:15.620 --> 23:17.920 products made in America and with union 23:17.920 --> 23:21.690 labor , that's the condition we wrote 23:21.690 --> 23:22.690 into it . 23:25.620 --> 23:27.620 I know , and maybe even some of you 23:27.620 --> 23:31.040 think I'm too pro union , it's not , 23:31.050 --> 23:33.670 but there's a reason for this . You 23:33.670 --> 23:35.726 know , everybody talks about college 23:35.726 --> 23:37.726 education . Will there be a plumber 23:37.726 --> 23:40.059 pipefitter ? What do you think it takes ? 23:40.059 --> 23:41.503 It takes you 4-5 years of 23:41.503 --> 23:43.503 apprenticeship , like going back to 23:43.503 --> 23:45.837 school , going to four years of college . 23:45.837 --> 23:48.003 That's why we have the best workers in 23:48.003 --> 23:50.226 the world , the union workers , because 23:50.226 --> 23:52.448 they're the best trained in the world . 23:52.448 --> 23:55.520 And that's not hyperbole laborers , 23:55.520 --> 23:57.242 plumbers , pipefitters , union 23:57.242 --> 23:59.187 electricians , carpenters , cement 23:59.187 --> 24:01.530 nations , ironworkers , still workers , 24:01.540 --> 24:04.860 communication workers and so much more . 24:04.870 --> 24:07.390 And folks look , these are good jobs , 24:07.390 --> 24:09.557 you can raise a family on , they don't 24:09.557 --> 24:12.120 require a college degree because you 24:12.120 --> 24:14.009 have in a sense of college degree 24:14.009 --> 24:16.064 through the apprenticeship program , 24:16.064 --> 24:18.009 which is one reason why the United 24:18.009 --> 24:19.898 States I said is the best trained 24:19.898 --> 24:21.953 workers in the world . It would be a 24:21.953 --> 24:24.120 digression to get into it . But we did 24:24.120 --> 24:26.176 the sign the Chips and Science Act . 24:26.176 --> 24:28.287 Well , guess what ? One of the people 24:28.287 --> 24:30.453 is investing over one of the companies 24:30.453 --> 24:31.953 investing over $80 billion 24:31.953 --> 24:37.680 South 24:37.680 --> 24:41.140 Korea , the best workers in the world . 24:41.860 --> 24:44.180 Let me close with this folks . This 24:44.180 --> 24:46.760 isn't complicated . Every person in 24:46.760 --> 24:48.760 this country deserves to be able to 24:48.760 --> 24:50.538 turn on a faucet and have clean 24:50.538 --> 24:52.050 drinking water through the 24:52.050 --> 24:53.939 infrastructure law . We're making 24:53.939 --> 24:56.106 historic investments to make sure that 24:56.106 --> 24:58.161 they can when America sees us making 24:58.161 --> 25:00.328 these investments , all across America 25:00.328 --> 25:03.240 replacing these pipes , building roads 25:03.240 --> 25:06.090 and bridges and that sends a message . 25:06.980 --> 25:10.220 We can really do big things . I think 25:10.220 --> 25:12.600 America over the previous 567 years 25:12.600 --> 25:14.711 began to wonder whether we can do big 25:14.711 --> 25:17.150 things . There's nothing . And I mean , 25:17.150 --> 25:18.928 let's think about this now from 25:18.928 --> 25:20.761 historical perspective , there's 25:20.761 --> 25:22.983 nothing we've ever set our mind to as a 25:22.983 --> 25:25.039 country that we haven't succeeded in 25:25.039 --> 25:27.039 doing nothing . Nothing . We're the 25:27.039 --> 25:29.094 only country in the world that comes 25:29.094 --> 25:31.500 out of every crisis stronger than we 25:31.500 --> 25:33.810 went in . That's what we're doing on 25:33.810 --> 25:35.866 the economy now , that's we're doing 25:35.866 --> 25:38.088 under this infrastructure realization , 25:38.088 --> 25:40.600 We can move this nation forward . And I 25:40.600 --> 25:43.340 want to send another message to as much 25:43.340 --> 25:45.730 as of pride , Pride in our country , 25:45.730 --> 25:49.080 Pride in our capability . Pride , Pride , 25:49.080 --> 25:51.191 what we can do when we do it together 25:51.540 --> 25:53.818 and it generates a sense of self worth , 25:54.370 --> 25:57.050 generates a sense of self worth knowing 25:57.050 --> 25:59.217 that you can provide for your family . 25:59.640 --> 26:02.390 I've long said it's never been a good 26:02.390 --> 26:05.220 bet . Never ever been a good bet to bet 26:05.220 --> 26:07.810 against America . And I can honestly 26:07.810 --> 26:10.090 say , and I mean it sincerely and a lot 26:10.090 --> 26:12.034 of food lovers know me . I've been 26:12.034 --> 26:14.490 around for a long time . I have never , 26:14.500 --> 26:16.722 ever , ever , ever been more optimistic 26:16.722 --> 26:18.778 about America's chances in the world 26:18.778 --> 26:21.120 and today never were one of those 26:21.120 --> 26:23.160 inflection points in world history 26:23.170 --> 26:24.850 where things are gonna change 26:24.850 --> 26:27.400 dramatically over the next couple of 26:27.400 --> 26:29.456 years . And what we do over the next 26:29.456 --> 26:31.678 couple years are going to determine the 26:31.678 --> 26:33.511 next four or five years what the 26:33.511 --> 26:35.456 country is gonna look like and the 26:35.456 --> 26:37.678 world's gonna look like 2030 years from 26:37.678 --> 26:40.010 now . We reach those inflection points 26:40.010 --> 26:42.320 every five or six generations , maybe 26:42.320 --> 26:46.260 fewer . And that's who we are . We're 26:46.260 --> 26:49.640 leading the world . Once again , we are 26:49.640 --> 26:51.751 the nation that the rest of the world 26:51.751 --> 26:53.920 looks to Former Secretary of State 26:53.920 --> 26:56.031 Madeleine Albright was right . We are 26:56.031 --> 26:57.990 the essential nation . We got to 26:57.990 --> 27:00.540 remember whom God's name we are . We're 27:00.540 --> 27:03.960 the United States of America . There's 27:03.960 --> 27:06.840 nothing nothing beyond our capacity , 27:07.550 --> 27:10.450 Nothing And the least we can do . 27:10.450 --> 27:12.339 Although it's gonna be incredibly 27:12.339 --> 27:14.680 expensive and take a little bit of time 27:14.690 --> 27:18.040 is make sure that those 400,000 schools 27:18.040 --> 27:20.040 and daycare centers alike when they 27:20.040 --> 27:22.207 turn on water at that school , the tap 27:22.207 --> 27:24.370 in the fountain , that that water is 27:24.370 --> 27:27.340 clean and pure . We owe it to our kids 27:27.340 --> 27:29.740 and grandkids , God bless you all and 27:29.740 --> 27:30.990 thank you for what you're doing .