English subtitles for clip: File:President Biden Signs an Executive Order.webm

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The President: Well, folks,
thanks for coming in.

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I was telling my Cabinet
before you all came in that

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when I was a kid --
in grade school

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and high school
and college --

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one of my closest friends
was a guy named Pete McLaughlin.

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And if you're
a real basketball fan,

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he was the "sixth man"
on the Riordan-Walker team

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in Providence College
back in the --

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back in the late '60s.
And -- anyway.

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And he used to have
an expression

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when someone would say
something to us.

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(Inaudible)

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say, "Look, you got to know
how to know."

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"You got to know
how to know."

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Unfortunately, he passed away
some time ago.

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But, you know, you can go
on the Library of Congress

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and, if you don't know
how to read the card catalog,

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it doesn't do you much good;
it's all a matter of luck.

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And since I got involved
in public office

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and got elected,
I've really -- not a joke --

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I've tried starting my home
office in my home state --

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like, get to a point
where people could get their --

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we assume --

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bureaucracies assume that people
understand how they function.

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But it's, really,
a very complicated web

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for the vast majority
of people,

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whether they have PhDs
or high school educations.

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And so, today, I'm signing
an executive order to ensure --

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to ensure that the
federal government puts you,

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the American people,
at the front of the line

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and for --
first in everything we do.

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I'm directing 17 agencies here

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to focus on more
than 30 key areas

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to make it easier to apply
for services

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and benefits
that they're entitled to

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and they've paid for
and is theirs, their government.

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Let me give a few examples.

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For millions of people
who retire each year,

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you should be able to apply
for Social Security benefits

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without needing to go
to a Social Security office

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and have Medicare proactively
reach out to you with the tools

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you need to manage
your health and save money.

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Or if you're one of the tens
of millions of people

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who move each year,

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you should be able to take and
update your address one time,

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in one place,
and check off which agencies

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that new information
should go to

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instead of going to each one
separately to let them know.

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And you'll see better technology
to speed security lines

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and wait times
at our national airports;

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make filings
and refunds to the IRS more --

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more rapid;
and for disaster aid,

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which I was talking a little bit
earlier today about;

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and to student loans.
The list goes on.

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The bottom line is we're going
to make the government work

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more effectively for
the American citizens

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so it's not as confusing
and it's straightforward.

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And we're going to --
because I believe

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this will go a long way to
restoring faith in government.

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I know it sounds like
a simple thing,

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but I think it's pretty
consequential.

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And so, I'm about
to sign that now.

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And I'd ask all
the Cabinet members

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to come around behind me here,
if you would.

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I used to wonder how Barack
did this all in one (inaudible).

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Thank you. (Applause.)