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	Um, and, but you see the beauty and the joy and things that you may not have seen before and your training and all that you're doing.
	And so with you, I am not at all in favor of cheese with fish. I just, I, I don't, it's not for me. Let me just say.
	I'm not going to judge, but it's just not for me. Exactly. No kidding. Yeah. Yeah. I've been cooking a lot. That's probably one of the silver linings.
	of this pandemic for me in terms of the experience I'm having, although cooking every meal is not so much.
	So I have figured out how to, one of the ways to get through it all, I just make twice of whatever I make.
	And then either that's lunch the next day or I freeze it and that, you know, one day wouldn't, don't feel like cooking. And usually whenever I slow cook is something I'll then freeze half of it.
	Yes, yeah, we've been doing a lot of fried rice actually. Yeah. Yeah. With that same point. And I do it actually with brown rice, and it's great, you know.
	Yeah, we've been doing a lot of fried rice. You don't do brown rice? You know what I've started doing recently is wild rice. I grew up, almost every meal included rice. So I grew up with rice.
	But now I'm starting to also do wild rice, which I always thought was a little time intensive, but it's actually nice. It's a nice difference. That's right. That's right.
	And usually I stuff that under the skin and let it sit in the fridge for a day or two with a lot of salt outside, right up and then slow roasted.
	I do at three 25 for two hours. My mother taught me as a child. She's like, you'd like to eat.
	you better learn how to cook. It does. I mean it's nice to have a home cooked meal. I mean when we're in the normal routine I don't have as much time to cook.
	But it is one of my joys. And we have a tradition at home of Sunday family dinner, which the kids know, they can bring anybody they want, whoever's in town.
	but I'll cook and I'll start cooking even maybe the night before. Friends come, my in-laws come, whoever's around.
	And that's my favorite thing all week is Sunday. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. You know, I grew up the same way.
	And in fact, when we were growing up as kids at the table, we were encouraged to speak up. But.
	There was no baby talk. Like, you'd speak up, and then you'd have to defend your point. And there were some of the most incredible conversations with a lot of passion.
	that would take place around our dining table. I have my onion here. All right, it's really, it's just very basic. Okay, can you see the onion? Okay, so.
	You know, you just get rid of the top, peel it. Okay, so that's obvious. Okay, so keep the end, right? Cut off the top, peel it, keep the end.
	Nice. Yep. Three quarters of the way down slice, slice, slice. All right. Okay. So wait, I gotta go across.
	the other way. And then I will show our friends just the easiest way to chop an onion. Okay?
	Done got it everybody now watch I am so I'm doing that's for dinner
	Um, you know, so in the pandemic, we try not to go to the grocery store too often. I went to stuff and freeze it. So.
	So frozen beef, ground beef that has been defrosting overnight. I'm going to chop up cilantro, some green onions.
	clove, coriander, cumin. I'll do some, I actually love fresh peppers in almost anything. I have some habanero peppers.
	And I'll chop them up very fine. Cause you know, they're super hot and, um, a little cinnamon, which I don't have out yet.
	And hi, what's that? Hey, Luca. Hi, I'm Kamala. Are you going to make something? Can I have what we're making? So that's pretty much it. And then I'll soak the bread.
	I actually freeze bread on like a loaf of bread because it just extends the life of it. And then I always keep the ends of a loaf for meatballs.
	And so, but these meatballs and then so soak the bread in some milk. Um, I'll probably, um, add a little and then a little chopped onion.
	But actually I prefer my meatballs to grate the onion. Just when I do Italian meatballs, I would love your recipe. But when I do Italian meatballs, I shred the onion because then it actually.
	adds moisture, but with this chopped onion now that I have shown everyone my technique. Oh, you have to get onion goggles. I got them for my husband.
	Oh, you have you seen onion goggles? They're fantastic. They will work in a pandemic too. They're green and they're literally, they have suction.
	So no air gets in, you know, if you, if you refrigerate the onion, it reduces it a little bit before you cut it. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm just, I'm.
	I'm going to start it. I'll start shopping as we talk. But honestly, it didn't completely defrost it. I thought it would be defrosted.
	Right. Right. I agree. Oh, she's been terrific on this issue. But and to your point, and it's been my
	my entire life and certainly my entire adult life. Arts, small restaurants.
	owners and businesses are not only a business, but they really are part of the fabric of a community. It is the restaurant.
	It's the small businesses and restaurants in particular who are always the first to say, hey, you need to feed folks who are hungry.
	we're going to be there, we will donate. The first to, when we need to set up a food kitchen, that they are there, the first to hire locally.
	I have a cousin who has a restaurant in Oakland, a chicken and waffle restaurant. And he started a whole thing. He just started it. He didn't name it.
	he didn't get any fame or recognition for, but a re-entry initiative. And he hired a bunch of folks who were formerly incarcerated and trained them and have people.
	who have been working in his restaurant now for a decade, who he took in and trained and invested in. And that's.
	That's the experience I have with so many, I mean, all of the small restaurants I know, and by small, I mean just those who are running day to day.
	but running an incredible business, but feeding a community in every way you can possibly feed. And but to your point also about just the.
	the part of that, it's part of what makes a community, a community of, right? That we are all, it's.
	It's that neighborhood restaurant that when you go there, they're so used to it, it's like going to your mother's kitchen. They sit you down and feed you what they know you like.
	It's that neighborhood restaurant there's we have a couple that my husband and I go to like if I'm campaigning After a long day and I might call and say
	is your kitchen still open? Come on in, Kamala. And you sit down and they just give you a beautiful bowl of pasta or something else. And it's literally like being in your mother's kitchen.
	They're literally family and part of community for so many people, especially in neighborhood restaurants. To your point with.
	you know, five, ten tables. They can seat 30 people. And it's a labor of love that they perform. Right.
	And it would be a shame to lose them. It would be a shame we can't lose them. It's part of what makes us rich as a community, right?
	in terms of the fabric of a community. Right. Right away, this conversation, Tom, that we're also fighting for in the next package is it's.
	The small businesses should not be treated like, they should not be in the same tranche as publicly traded companies. We gotta correct that. That's a real problem. Yeah, you're great.
	But he made me for lunch. I did too, because I did my video with Mark at like 5 in the afternoon. And that wasn't going to be for dinner.
	So we had tuna sandwiches the next day. Oh, good. That's great. And thank you for everything you do. I will. I will. And I will tell her. You be well. And thank you.
	So I want to just properly introduce you. Nana Pressley is, as everybody knows, a member of the United States Congress and the House of Representatives.
	She was elected with that whole group of inspirational folks, and in particular, inspirational women. And she has just taken the Capitol by storm.
	She has been a leader on so many issues. I have worked with her on issues that relate to maternal mortality and Black maternal mortality.
	She and I have had conversations so many over just a long period of time about what we can do.
	collectively and with each other to bring relief and voice and dignity to so many people. And I'm just so thrilled, Ayanna, that you're with me today.
	We, she paved the way for us. I know that. It's her desk, right? Don't you have her desk? Well, you should have her desk. Ayanna is the first woman of color to be elected to.
	to the United States Congress from the state of Massachusetts. It's a huge, I mean, you know, we're sadly still making first, but to make first and for her to have.
	started that path, it requires a whole lot and you did it and you did it. That's right. Well, let's talk about our SOS Act. You want to kick it off? Why don't you kick it off?
	Okay, that's right. So but if for example when when Representative Pressy was talking about the CDF, the Community Development Financial Institutions, so it's the local banks.
	It's the community banks. So many of our minority and women-owned banks or businesses, they bank with the community bank, right?
	And what we saw as the Paycheck Protection Program, the PPP, was rolling out is that 90%
	of our minority and women-owned businesses did not get the benefit of it. So we got together and said, well, hold up. You know, we need to save the business down the street. That's what we did.
	why it's called Save Our Street. It's about save the business down street. No, Wall Street but Main Street. Save the barbershop.
	beautiful the flower shop the bodega right and so the way that we built
	this purposely was that in the next significant relief economic relief for businesses that our smallest businesses
	who are the lifeblood of community, that they not lose out, that they not be looked over and overlooked when in fact they are part of the fabric of the community.
	They're the ones who, you know, local hire, they hire locally, they hire from the community. They're the ones who if they see somebody in need, they give a helping hand.
	and for the ones who, for the children of the community, they're going to sponsor them for the softball league. And so we wanted to build it so that 75%, right?
	Now we're talking about $125 billion. 75% of it has to go to historically underrepresented communities.
	And see, here's the significance of Ayana of you and me and others like us being where we are, which is that we're.
	I'm acutely aware when people get left out because we always sit back and know to ask, who are we not hearing from? And then to figure out where they are.
	and what they need. And as we have seen historically and even in these last relief bills, so many of our folks got left out. And so, you know, it's
	It's real American. That's right. Small businesses who we know. I mean, my cousin has a chicken and waffle restaurant.
	And he years ago started one of the first re-entry initiatives. He never called it that. He didn't know that's what it was called. But he would hire folks who were formerly incarcerated.
	and he'd bring them in and train them. He's got folks working in his restaurant who've been with him for a decade.
	You need to recognize who they are and carve out policy around supporting their specific needs. To your point, and not looking at only the ones...
	And part of what's excluded from our bill, guys, is that publicly traded companies are not part of this. They're not gonna get the benefit of this. This is for the real small businesses.
	We want to make sure y'all... That's right. And what we know is when you talk about progressive politics...
	and you talk about what we need to do in terms of being progressive, the families that we're talking about want access to capital.
	They want access to an ability to create and build wealth in their homes, in their families, in their neighborhoods, in their community. And these small businesses.
	therefore are inextricably linked to everything they have in terms of aspirations for themselves and their children. How was your Mother's Day?
	Let me die in the back of my head. That really is. He likes to capture your tippy toes. Well, let me tell you, first of all.
	I like you, I talk to my mother every day, um, in one form or another and miss her horribly every day.
	There's so much you knew and I have had this conversation, not in front of all of our friends, but just together. And it's a real blessing. It's a real blessing.
	to have had that kind of love of a mother who was strong and who convinced you you could be and do anything. And in that way.
	Would you remind them of their power and do that in a loving way? All kinds of incredible things get produced, you know? She was, I think, exactly five.
	She said she was 5'1", but she certainly won more than 5 feet tall. But if you had ever met her, you would have thought she was 10 feet tall.
	I mean, my mother was a force. She was somebody who was probably the toughest, smartest, and kindest person.
	have ever known, you know? And there's something about all of that stuff in one package, right? Some people think it's a false choice. You either have some of them and not all of them.
	Um, but so Mother's Day, you know, I'm in still in DC because we have the votes. So the kids are in LA.
	So we did a Zoom and they sent me this little thing of flowers, which was really special. And then, you know, all the mothers in my life who are either.
	For example, my mother's best friends were still around. I got in touch with them in my auntie's. And then all my nieces and nephews and godchildren got in touch with me.
	So it was a good day. It was a really good day. It's already kind of underrated. Like, especially when I was campaigning.
	If I could even just get like 15 minutes to lay down and close my eyes, it was, talk about restorative, right? The power nap. That's it. That's it.
	So how, wait, when did you start working on the hill then? Yeah, so. Yeah. And you now run the office you interned in, individual, even a student.

Um, and, but you see the beauty and the joy and things that you may not have seen before and your training and all that you're doing.

And so with you, I am not at all in favor of cheese with fish. I just, I, I don't, it's not for me. Let me just say.

I'm not going to judge, but it's just not for me. Exactly. No kidding. Yeah. Yeah. I've been cooking a lot. That's probably one of the silver linings.

of this pandemic for me in terms of the experience I'm having, although cooking every meal is not so much.

So I have figured out how to, one of the ways to get through it all, I just make twice of whatever I make.

And then either that's lunch the next day or I freeze it and that, you know, one day wouldn't, don't feel like cooking. And usually whenever I slow cook is something I'll then freeze half of it.

Yes, yeah, we've been doing a lot of fried rice actually. Yeah. Yeah. With that same point. And I do it actually with brown rice, and it's great, you know.

Yeah, we've been doing a lot of fried rice. You don't do brown rice? You know what I've started doing recently is wild rice. I grew up, almost every meal included rice. So I grew up with rice.

But now I'm starting to also do wild rice, which I always thought was a little time intensive, but it's actually nice. It's a nice difference. That's right. That's right.

And usually I stuff that under the skin and let it sit in the fridge for a day or two with a lot of salt outside, right up and then slow roasted.

I do at three 25 for two hours. My mother taught me as a child. She's like, you'd like to eat.

you better learn how to cook. It does. I mean it's nice to have a home cooked meal. I mean when we're in the normal routine I don't have as much time to cook.

But it is one of my joys. And we have a tradition at home of Sunday family dinner, which the kids know, they can bring anybody they want, whoever's in town.

but I'll cook and I'll start cooking even maybe the night before. Friends come, my in-laws come, whoever's around.

And that's my favorite thing all week is Sunday. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. You know, I grew up the same way.

And in fact, when we were growing up as kids at the table, we were encouraged to speak up. But.

There was no baby talk. Like, you'd speak up, and then you'd have to defend your point. And there were some of the most incredible conversations with a lot of passion.

that would take place around our dining table. I have my onion here. All right, it's really, it's just very basic. Okay, can you see the onion? Okay, so.

You know, you just get rid of the top, peel it. Okay, so that's obvious. Okay, so keep the end, right? Cut off the top, peel it, keep the end.

Nice. Yep. Three quarters of the way down slice, slice, slice. All right. Okay. So wait, I gotta go across.

the other way. And then I will show our friends just the easiest way to chop an onion. Okay?

Done got it everybody now watch I am so I'm doing that's for dinner

Um, you know, so in the pandemic, we try not to go to the grocery store too often. I went to stuff and freeze it. So.

So frozen beef, ground beef that has been defrosting overnight. I'm going to chop up cilantro, some green onions.

clove, coriander, cumin. I'll do some, I actually love fresh peppers in almost anything. I have some habanero peppers.

And I'll chop them up very fine. Cause you know, they're super hot and, um, a little cinnamon, which I don't have out yet.

And hi, what's that? Hey, Luca. Hi, I'm Kamala. Are you going to make something? Can I have what we're making? So that's pretty much it. And then I'll soak the bread.

I actually freeze bread on like a loaf of bread because it just extends the life of it. And then I always keep the ends of a loaf for meatballs.

And so, but these meatballs and then so soak the bread in some milk. Um, I'll probably, um, add a little and then a little chopped onion.

But actually I prefer my meatballs to grate the onion. Just when I do Italian meatballs, I would love your recipe. But when I do Italian meatballs, I shred the onion because then it actually.

adds moisture, but with this chopped onion now that I have shown everyone my technique. Oh, you have to get onion goggles. I got them for my husband.

Oh, you have you seen onion goggles? They're fantastic. They will work in a pandemic too. They're green and they're literally, they have suction.

So no air gets in, you know, if you, if you refrigerate the onion, it reduces it a little bit before you cut it. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm just, I'm.

I'm going to start it. I'll start shopping as we talk. But honestly, it didn't completely defrost it. I thought it would be defrosted.

Right. Right. I agree. Oh, she's been terrific on this issue. But and to your point, and it's been my

my entire life and certainly my entire adult life. Arts, small restaurants.

owners and businesses are not only a business, but they really are part of the fabric of a community. It is the restaurant.

It's the small businesses and restaurants in particular who are always the first to say, hey, you need to feed folks who are hungry.

we're going to be there, we will donate. The first to, when we need to set up a food kitchen, that they are there, the first to hire locally.

I have a cousin who has a restaurant in Oakland, a chicken and waffle restaurant. And he started a whole thing. He just started it. He didn't name it.

he didn't get any fame or recognition for, but a re-entry initiative. And he hired a bunch of folks who were formerly incarcerated and trained them and have people.

who have been working in his restaurant now for a decade, who he took in and trained and invested in. And that's.

That's the experience I have with so many, I mean, all of the small restaurants I know, and by small, I mean just those who are running day to day.

but running an incredible business, but feeding a community in every way you can possibly feed. And but to your point also about just the.

the part of that, it's part of what makes a community, a community of, right? That we are all, it's.

It's that neighborhood restaurant that when you go there, they're so used to it, it's like going to your mother's kitchen. They sit you down and feed you what they know you like.

It's that neighborhood restaurant there's we have a couple that my husband and I go to like if I'm campaigning After a long day and I might call and say

is your kitchen still open? Come on in, Kamala. And you sit down and they just give you a beautiful bowl of pasta or something else. And it's literally like being in your mother's kitchen.

They're literally family and part of community for so many people, especially in neighborhood restaurants. To your point with.

you know, five, ten tables. They can seat 30 people. And it's a labor of love that they perform. Right.

And it would be a shame to lose them. It would be a shame we can't lose them. It's part of what makes us rich as a community, right?

in terms of the fabric of a community. Right. Right away, this conversation, Tom, that we're also fighting for in the next package is it's.

The small businesses should not be treated like, they should not be in the same tranche as publicly traded companies. We gotta correct that. That's a real problem. Yeah, you're great.

But he made me for lunch. I did too, because I did my video with Mark at like 5 in the afternoon. And that wasn't going to be for dinner.

So we had tuna sandwiches the next day. Oh, good. That's great. And thank you for everything you do. I will. I will. And I will tell her. You be well. And thank you.

So I want to just properly introduce you. Nana Pressley is, as everybody knows, a member of the United States Congress and the House of Representatives.

She was elected with that whole group of inspirational folks, and in particular, inspirational women. And she has just taken the Capitol by storm.

She has been a leader on so many issues. I have worked with her on issues that relate to maternal mortality and Black maternal mortality.

She and I have had conversations so many over just a long period of time about what we can do.

collectively and with each other to bring relief and voice and dignity to so many people. And I'm just so thrilled, Ayanna, that you're with me today.

We, she paved the way for us. I know that. It's her desk, right? Don't you have her desk? Well, you should have her desk. Ayanna is the first woman of color to be elected to.

to the United States Congress from the state of Massachusetts. It's a huge, I mean, you know, we're sadly still making first, but to make first and for her to have.

started that path, it requires a whole lot and you did it and you did it. That's right. Well, let's talk about our SOS Act. You want to kick it off? Why don't you kick it off?

Okay, that's right. So but if for example when when Representative Pressy was talking about the CDF, the Community Development Financial Institutions, so it's the local banks.

It's the community banks. So many of our minority and women-owned banks or businesses, they bank with the community bank, right?

And what we saw as the Paycheck Protection Program, the PPP, was rolling out is that 90%

of our minority and women-owned businesses did not get the benefit of it. So we got together and said, well, hold up. You know, we need to save the business down the street. That's what we did.

why it's called Save Our Street. It's about save the business down street. No, Wall Street but Main Street. Save the barbershop.

beautiful the flower shop the bodega right and so the way that we built

this purposely was that in the next significant relief economic relief for businesses that our smallest businesses

who are the lifeblood of community, that they not lose out, that they not be looked over and overlooked when in fact they are part of the fabric of the community.

They're the ones who, you know, local hire, they hire locally, they hire from the community. They're the ones who if they see somebody in need, they give a helping hand.

and for the ones who, for the children of the community, they're going to sponsor them for the softball league. And so we wanted to build it so that 75%, right?

Now we're talking about $125 billion. 75% of it has to go to historically underrepresented communities.

And see, here's the significance of Ayana of you and me and others like us being where we are, which is that we're.

I'm acutely aware when people get left out because we always sit back and know to ask, who are we not hearing from? And then to figure out where they are.

and what they need. And as we have seen historically and even in these last relief bills, so many of our folks got left out. And so, you know, it's

It's real American. That's right. Small businesses who we know. I mean, my cousin has a chicken and waffle restaurant.

And he years ago started one of the first re-entry initiatives. He never called it that. He didn't know that's what it was called. But he would hire folks who were formerly incarcerated.

and he'd bring them in and train them. He's got folks working in his restaurant who've been with him for a decade.

You need to recognize who they are and carve out policy around supporting their specific needs. To your point, and not looking at only the ones...

And part of what's excluded from our bill, guys, is that publicly traded companies are not part of this. They're not gonna get the benefit of this. This is for the real small businesses.

We want to make sure y'all... That's right. And what we know is when you talk about progressive politics...

and you talk about what we need to do in terms of being progressive, the families that we're talking about want access to capital.

They want access to an ability to create and build wealth in their homes, in their families, in their neighborhoods, in their community. And these small businesses.

therefore are inextricably linked to everything they have in terms of aspirations for themselves and their children. How was your Mother's Day?

Let me die in the back of my head. That really is. He likes to capture your tippy toes. Well, let me tell you, first of all.

I like you, I talk to my mother every day, um, in one form or another and miss her horribly every day.

There's so much you knew and I have had this conversation, not in front of all of our friends, but just together. And it's a real blessing. It's a real blessing.

to have had that kind of love of a mother who was strong and who convinced you you could be and do anything. And in that way.

Would you remind them of their power and do that in a loving way? All kinds of incredible things get produced, you know? She was, I think, exactly five.

She said she was 5'1", but she certainly won more than 5 feet tall. But if you had ever met her, you would have thought she was 10 feet tall.

I mean, my mother was a force. She was somebody who was probably the toughest, smartest, and kindest person.

have ever known, you know? And there's something about all of that stuff in one package, right? Some people think it's a false choice. You either have some of them and not all of them.

Um, but so Mother's Day, you know, I'm in still in DC because we have the votes. So the kids are in LA.

So we did a Zoom and they sent me this little thing of flowers, which was really special. And then, you know, all the mothers in my life who are either.

For example, my mother's best friends were still around. I got in touch with them in my auntie's. And then all my nieces and nephews and godchildren got in touch with me.

So it was a good day. It was a really good day. It's already kind of underrated. Like, especially when I was campaigning.

If I could even just get like 15 minutes to lay down and close my eyes, it was, talk about restorative, right? The power nap. That's it. That's it.

So how, wait, when did you start working on the hill then? Yeah, so. Yeah. And you now run the office you interned in, individual, even a student.