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Senator Jacky Rosen on proposed gas tax relief, youth mental health - YouTube
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for more on this let's bring in nevada
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democratic senator jackie rosen senator
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thank you so much for joining us
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thank you for having me
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uh the uncertainty of this situation
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with ukraine is obviously a factor in
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rising fuel prices and you are
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co-sponsoring this new gas holiday tax
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bill which would suspend the 18 cent per
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gallon federal gas tax for the next 10
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months or so why do you think that is
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the best way to tackle this problem
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well because when i talk to folks in
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nevada of course everyone we talk to
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around the country the most important
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thing to everybody is what's happening
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to them right at their kitchen table
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they're worried about paying their
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monthly bills so giving gas relief a
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price at the pump
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they'll be able to immediately put that
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savings to other things that they need
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whether it's rent or food or medication
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so this is just one way that we can help
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families all across this country right
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now immediately put more money in their
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pocketbook and so when we're looking at
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this average gas price it's a little bit
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higher in nevada
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i think it's something that we can do
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that we can start on right away we're
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going to continue to work on lowering
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our prescription drug prices it's
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another thing i hear people complaining
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about all the time we want to bring
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those down lowering those health care
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costs and of course investing
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a lot of education workforce training
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for the good paying jobs and security
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that those good paying jobs bring
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senator there is a no doubt that gas tax
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holidays are popular i mean who doesn't
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want cheaper gas but the knock
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on uh this kind of tax break is that it
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ends up helping gas produces more
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producers more than it helps consumers
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and that it's essentially a short-term
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gimmick what's your response to that
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criticism i noticed that
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senate democrats and the white house
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have yet to get behind this new push
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well how i feel is this if you're going
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to pay your monthly bills
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you're really not concerned with
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politics or what's a gimmick or what
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isn't you're concerned with your bottom
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line so that's what we thought of here
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this was an immediate way that we could
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do something to bring down costs we have
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to continue to do that democrats are
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trying very hard to find every way to
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lower cost lower cost of prescription
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drugs to bring down
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the
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price for health care and invest in good
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paying jobs and that's what we have to
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do because people really care most of
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all of how they're going to take care of
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their family you know nevada
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was hit the hardest one of the hardest
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in the nation during the copen pandemic
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we had some of the highest unemployment
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in the nation uh for a while there we
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still have
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tens of thousands of jobs in the
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hospitality industry that have not come
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back and so people are hurting and we
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have to really make sure that we're
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listening to what real people need on
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the ground and that's what i'm focused
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on
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senator let me ask you about your other
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big job right now which is to run the
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democrats re-election efforts in the
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senate how are you dealing with the fact
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that midterms are generally seen as a
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referendum on the new president and in
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this case this president's approval
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ratings are currently at an all-time low
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well i can tell you that i am head of
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the women's senate network and one thing
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that is good to know there's a lot of
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great women in the senate and running
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for the senate i'm just going to put a
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plug in there are great women all across
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this country running for everything from
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their local school board county
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commissions state county offices all the
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way up to the federal level but i have
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four wonderful incumbents to protect
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senator patty murray from washington my
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partner in nevada senator catherine
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cortez masto pragmatic
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solving just like maggie hassan in new
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hampshire and tammy duckworth in
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illinois these are spectacular women
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working hard bringing their experience
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and pragmatism to help families all
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across this country and of course we've
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already uh supporting a few uh
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challengers and one of them is val
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demings in florida she was the first uh
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woman police chief in orlando she's a
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congresswoman she's a tremendous fighter
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and advocate so we're supporting her in
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florida and there's an open seat in
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north carolina where former chief
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justice sherry beasley
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is running for that seat and so we're
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going to see what happens as primaries
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go across this country other women that
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that come up as for senate but i can
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tell you that i'm proud to support women
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up and down the ticket in my state of
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nevada and of course across the country
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because i think women
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really bring
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pragmatic problem solving common sense
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skills to the table that's what we need
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right now
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one of the big challenges for your party
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this cycle is that you've got several
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senators running for reelection from
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swing states arizona georgia new
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hampshire and your home state of course
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of nevada so what are the issues that
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are top of mind for those voters and is
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the white house do you think doing
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enough to keep the focus on those issues
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well we're working in partnership with
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the white house on all of that but it is
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our job in the senate to push those
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policies to push the white house to make
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sure that we work with our governors you
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know we did pass
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the american rescue plan bringing money
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down to our states in the midst of the
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pandemic we passed that infrastructure
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that bipartisan infrastructure law i was
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proud to be on that group of 22 that
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helped write the law i was on the
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airport and broadband subcommittees
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bringing that
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that money down to all of our states so
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it's important that we push and advocate
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for the policies that are so important
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so i can tell you in nevada the
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bipartisan infrastructure law is going
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to bring about four billion dollars over
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the next five years to our state with
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great projects so now what we have to do
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is continue to work on workforce
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training rebuilding that so we can
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continue to build out particularly that
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broadband to the rural and underserved
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communities it's kind of like
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electricity you can't do anything if you
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don't have broadband anymore we see it
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with tele-education telehealth telework
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of course tourism key in my state you
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want to go on vacation you want to see
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those dark skies in england nevada or
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you want to see the bright lights of the
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las vegas trip maybe you want to do a
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little sunset cruise on lake tahoe
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whatever that is
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you're going to try to look it up on the
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internet and so we need that investment
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so these are good jobs good paying jobs
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boosting our economy and those are the
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kinds of policies and things the way we
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learn to compete what we're going to do
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uh how we're going to invest in our
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families and our kids and ourselves
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apprenticeships we have nine over 90
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apprenticeships in nevada you know
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average salary over 70 000 when you
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graduate from these registered
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apprenticeships i'm trying to bring some
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now in cyber security
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over half a million jobs in cyber
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security available across this country
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now over 3 500 in nevada so there's so
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much that we can do to invest
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in our future by investing in people
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that's what democrats are fighting for i
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am fighting to invest in our best asset
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which is each and every one of us and
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our potential and when you elect women
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up and down the ticket when you elect
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democrats up and down the ticket you're
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going to find folks who are invested in
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your success
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i want to ask you about this bill that
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you introduced with republican senator
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lisa murkowski last week it's called the
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youth mental health and suicide
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prevention act obviously isolation
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during the pandemic contributed to this
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mental health crisis what does your bill
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aim to do and how much support do you
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have for it
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well i i think we're going to have broad
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bipartisan support and i'm going to
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speak now really as a parent and so this
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is the youth mental health and suicide
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prevention act you know our clark county
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school district i think it's one of the
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largest school districts in the country
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we were top of the list in 2020 that no
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one wants to be top of we have more
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youth suicides than any other school
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district in the nation can you imagine
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no parent wants to think about this or
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any mental health
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issues with your kids you want support
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so senator murkowski and i paired
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together to think about especially
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during the pandemic some of the unique
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challenges that all families faced as
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unemployment went up maybe you were
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isolated from your friends from your
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family from your grandparents maybe
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there was illness or death in your own
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family our young kids it's hard for them
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to to grapple with these big issues
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and so
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this bill will direct our federal
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agencies to take money that's already
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there for our colleges and universities
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to support mental health initiatives and
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suicide prevention and just allow access
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for our k-12 schools to better
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prevent
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prevent suicide and really help those
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kids who are struggling and i can't
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imagine that there's any senator who
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could find anything wrong with doing
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that this is a this is something our
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kids need and like i said i speak as a
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parent for this one
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there's a lot of parents and
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grandparents in the senate and in the
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house and
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nobody wants to imagine this so we have
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to really help our kids as best we can
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yep a really important issue you know
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one of the arguments we've been hearing
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lately from some is that mask wearing is
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somehow impacting kids mental health do
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you see any clear evidence for this
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claim you know your own governor dropped
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the indoor mask mandate this week
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including in schools is that something
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that you support
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well you know i support our and respect
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our governor's decision i will tell you
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we're watching this pandemic it's
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happening in real time so of course in
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the beginning we weren't sure
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much about covet at all we were trying
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to clean everything we were wearing the
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masks of course science really saved us
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they came out with some really effective
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vaccines and we're getting more and more
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treatments i urge everyone get the
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vaccine it's safe it's free it's
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effective it's going to keep you out of
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the hospital from getting severe illness
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and of course another tool in the
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toolbox is wearing the mask coven 19
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needs a human host we want to find every
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way to deny it that entry into our body
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to prevent illness but i can tell you
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that the issue of youth mental health
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this is nothing new uh i do think
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there's been more struggles because of
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everything we've gone through in the
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pandemic everything that families have
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had to struggle with because of the
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isolation the lockdown maybe loss of job
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loss of life or other kinds of illness
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during the pandemic and so it's just
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expanded and shown us more need for
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mental health services but sadly
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this is an area that we have had to
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focus on for a long time and we hope to
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get to zero our goal would always be to
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get to
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zero suicides if we could
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yup something families and schools are
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struggling with across the country
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senator jackie rosen thank you so much
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for talking with us today
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thank you for having me really
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appreciate it
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