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Speaker 2: January fifth. But one thing that I want you to know,

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Speaker 2: going to tell us. The chairman of the Republican Study Committee,

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Speaker 2: Been good to be with you, sir, Well, thanks for

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Speaker 8: Well, we've already been doing it, and we inherited a

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Speaker 9: That's what we did with the One big, Beautiful Bill.

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Speaker 8: Which by the way, is putting four to five thousand,

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Speaker 2: Do you think there's a way the private sector? I

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Speaker 8: I think it's a great idea. We need young people

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Speaker 8: one of the things that the Republican Study Committee is

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Speaker 9: Let's get rid of that. Why do we pay taxes

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Speaker 8: Let's have mortgage portability where when you get a good

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Speaker 9: And there's a lot of things that we are championing,

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Speaker 8: Well, that's a rule for them. And you know, I

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Speaker 9: So I'll leave that to them.

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Speaker 8: But let me offer this, Let's do another reconciliation plan,

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Speaker 8: Sanctuary cities that don't prosecute crimes of illegal immigrants don't

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Speaker 2: Great to be here on Capitol Hill on a rainy,

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Speaker 11: Chris, good to be with you.

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Speaker 2: This is a really critical time now as we turn

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Speaker 11: They put so many regulations on housing markets. They've increased

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Speaker 11: It's not so much what the left is selling, because

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Speaker 7: The great work that's being done.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're a creative way. And I've been kind of

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Speaker 2: You're only one half of the legislature, though it always

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Speaker 11: Well, I tend to respect the other body and their

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Speaker 11: Well, you know, this job is one of service, and

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Speaker 2: And difficult to lose a Republican vote though at this time,

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Speaker 11: to leave that to her.

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Speaker 2: That's diplomatic. Congressman. We appreciate your time today, sir, Thank yous.

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Speaker 2: From the Great State of Texas, Mark Davis Country No less,

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Speaker 2: It's Congress when Beth Bendine of the twenty fourth District,

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Speaker 2: good to meet you.

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Speaker 1: So you love Mark Davis.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking a little while ago about my

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Speaker 2: colleague and friend Mark Davis and the good people of Dallas, Texas,

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Speaker 2: where we broadcast each and every day. You you appear

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Speaker 2: on local radio in Dallas pretty regularly and value it,

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Speaker 2: and I wanted people to.

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Speaker 4: Know that, Yeah, no, absolutely, I have been a local

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Speaker 4: elect official. So I started out in city council back

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Speaker 4: in two thousand and four, and Mark was one of

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Speaker 4: the first interviews that I've had. You guys, you're so loyalty,

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Speaker 4: and I was telling you, I said, you know, it's amazing.

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Speaker 4: When I'm on the Mark Davis Show, I get more

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Speaker 4: on Fox.

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Speaker 2: There you go, Davis, there's your drop. Go ahead and

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Speaker 2: cut that, use it. He's going to use that for

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Speaker 2: promotional material like you guarantee. That's awesome. No, we love

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Speaker 2: Mark and he's great. He fills in for me from

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Speaker 2: time to time too. We really appreciate him. So here

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Speaker 2: we are talking with the Republican Study Committee on Capitol

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Speaker 2: Hill today. The invitation was sent out to all of

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Speaker 2: us who were considered media and new media to kind

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Speaker 2: of message I think as we turn the corner and

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Speaker 2: of your colleagues, what is the message, particularly given right

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Speaker 2: now the media is trying to drum up the idea.

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Speaker 2: You guys are up against it, your backs are against

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Speaker 2: the wall. Things aren't getting better, In fact, they're getting worse,

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Speaker 2: and there's nothing you can do, and it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a landslide, crushing defeat for Republicans in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: That's the narrative.

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Speaker 4: You say, Well, I say, you've actually got adults in

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Speaker 4: the run right now that are trying to unravel the

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Speaker 4: problems that have been building up over the last several

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Speaker 4: decades under Democrat leadership. Under four years of the Biden administration,

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Speaker 4: we saw one point eight trillion dollars of burdens, of

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Speaker 4: regulatory burdens push down our businesses that we are trying

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Speaker 4: to unravel. We saw record amounts of inflation that we

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Speaker 4: are trying to unravel. We saw massive amounts of taxation

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Speaker 4: and unfair business practices put on our US manufacturers that

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Speaker 4: basically made them uncompetitive for the rest of the world.

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Speaker 4: We're trying to unravel that. We're looking at mortgage costs

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Speaker 4: that made it impossible for people to buy be able

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Speaker 4: to buy homes. We are trying to unravel that with

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Speaker 4: a tax package. We are looking at tariffs that have

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Speaker 4: put businesses again US businesses in horrible positions. We are

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Speaker 4: trying to make that more fake. We are looking at

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Speaker 4: tax positions over the Biden administration that took more money

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Speaker 4: out of people's pockets that increase inflation, and we're trying

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Speaker 4: to put money back into people's pockets. So I think

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Speaker 4: under the Trump administration, what they've been able to do,

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Speaker 4: working with a Republican majority in the House and in

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Speaker 4: this Senate. What we have been able to do in

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Speaker 4: the last ten months is remarkable. Now people are not

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Speaker 4: going to feel it immediately because when you added trillions

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Speaker 4: of dollars onto our.

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Speaker 1: Deficit, that takes a toll.

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Speaker 4: I mean, for four years, they're running up a credit

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Speaker 4: card debt that we're now having to pay off.

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Speaker 1: We've warned about this forever.

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Speaker 4: We're looking at health healthcare, which is healthcare versus healthcare.

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Speaker 4: Insurance is a much different different thing, and we are

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Speaker 4: looking at ways that people could be able to get

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Speaker 4: better healthcare, holding insurance companies accountable.

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Speaker 1: Those are all the things that we are focused on.

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Speaker 4: These are everyday meat and potatoes issues that working families

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Speaker 4: are struggling with. But it's going to take some time

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Speaker 4: because of the massive amount of damage. And by the way,

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Speaker 4: I didn't even talk about what was going on at

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Speaker 4: right now, and then we're looking at what's happening in

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Speaker 2: Do you guys in Texas know it better than most

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Speaker 2: that border situation? What are you hearing from your constituents

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Speaker 2: in Texas because many you know, people to your north

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Speaker 2: don't really understand the impact of a wide open border

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Speaker 4: What's been the MP We had over sixty percent of

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Speaker 4: all the folks who entered our country illegally entered through

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Speaker 4: our borders in Texas because we had a federal government

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Speaker 4: to thank our a state for taking the cost over

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Speaker 4: eleven billion dollars of actually trying.

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Speaker 1: To protect our our borders in in protect our state.

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Speaker 4: But the fact is is that we still had almost

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Speaker 4: twenty million people who came in illegal in the last

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Speaker 4: four years into the Biden administration.

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Speaker 1: What we're hearing in our districts.

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Speaker 4: Is seeing you saw increases in feedinal deaths, you saw

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Speaker 4: which I am very appreciative of the Trump administration from

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Speaker 4: basically day one, within thirty days, they got control of

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Speaker 4: that border.

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Speaker 1: Not by any new rules, not by any new.

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Speaker 4: Laws that had to get passed by Congress, but by

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Speaker 4: simply by simply enforcing the laws that were already on

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Speaker 4: the books, which showed that the Trump that the prime

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Speaker 4: administration was completely ignoring them. That being said, we are

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Speaker 4: trying right now to make sure that the criminal elements

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Speaker 4: that are in our districts, especially those who are here illegally,

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Speaker 1: We are working.

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Speaker 4: You know, you're seeing mayors, You're seeing our state being

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Speaker 4: able to work very diligently with federal law enforcement officers to.

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Speaker 1: Make sure that happens. And we're trying to do that

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Speaker 1: throughout the country.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like, and I've heard Vice President of Vance

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Speaker 2: One of the things he says is illegal immigration. Do

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Speaker 2: you see that correlation and explain that if so.

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Speaker 4: Well, when you have federal dollars that are being spent

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Speaker 4: on housing on immigrants who are here illegally in our

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Speaker 4: country that are paying market rate, you're rising up the

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Speaker 4: We know that. So yes, absolutely, we got twenty million

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Speaker 4: people that you're bringing in and you're having to figure

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Speaker 4: out where they're going to live, and then you're having

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Speaker 4: federal dollars have to pay for that. That is absolutely

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Speaker 4: driving up the health care costs or housing costs. Another

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Speaker 4: thing that drives up the healthcare housing costs is regulatory issues,

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Speaker 4: in costs of taxes, in permitting fees. And it's amazing

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Speaker 4: when you start thinking about some of the most expensive

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Speaker 4: areas in the country for housing, it's really the local

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Speaker 4: and the state taxes that they've got the permitting how

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Speaker 4: difficult that they make it, whether or not that's San Francisco,

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Speaker 4: on the New York, Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: They do it to themselves.

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Speaker 4: And in fact, in California, this is an often I

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Speaker 4: quote this fact often to build a new home in California,

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Speaker 4: nearly forty percent of the cost of building a new

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 4: So if we were to take those regulations and start

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Speaker 4: pairing them back instead of forcing it on the private sector,

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Speaker 4: the government sector has a lot to do with that.

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Speaker 1: And what we find is that a lot of it

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Speaker 4: The massive blue blue areas, whether or not those are

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Speaker 4: that are that have horrendous housing policies.

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Speaker 2: And I've been asking all of your colleagues the same question,

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Speaker 2: and I'll ask you collectively or individually, are you all

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Speaker 2: aware of what seems to be this kind of media

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Speaker 2: driven narrative realer perceived young people housing particularly, but affordability generally,

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Speaker 2: they're very unhappy and they're almost willing now to warm

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Speaker 2: to a mundami or a AOC because they figure, what

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Speaker 2: the heck, things can't get any worse. That's that's a

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Speaker 2: theme I hear. Whether that's real or perceived, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: But are you hearing that? And can you message against it?

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Speaker 4: If so, when you're having when you're having hard time

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Speaker 4: having somebody who's going to promise to be able to

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Speaker 4: that can sound very appealing, but the problem is is

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Speaker 4: that somebody's going to end up paying for it, and

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Speaker 4: our youth right now are the ones who are going

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Speaker 4: to end up paying for it, because that sticker, that

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Speaker 4: sticker shock is going to be paid for them with

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Speaker 4: taxes for the rest of their lives and so nothing

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Speaker 4: is free.

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Speaker 2: This individual down in Tennessee today, as we speak, that

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Speaker 2: race tighter than I think many in the Republican Party

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Speaker 2: would like it to be. She's selling many of those things.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if she's victorious as we talk, but

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Speaker 2: is that disconcerting that in Tennessee that message is working?

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Speaker 4: And again, you know, I think right now you've got

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Speaker 4: two campaigns that are fighting. I don't buy polls, you know,

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Speaker 4: I buy actual election results. They see what the election

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Speaker 4: looks like. You know, what the numbers look like. But

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Speaker 4: the fact that that is resonating again. People are having

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Speaker 4: to pay more money right now than they ever have

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Speaker 4: right for food. We've seen energy costs go down a

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Speaker 4: little bit. We've seen price of mortgages, you know, go

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Speaker 4: down a little bit. Again, this is I think as

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Speaker 4: a direct result of our tax bill that we just

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Speaker 4: passed a few months ago. You're starting to see some

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Speaker 4: of the effects of that. But when you are promised

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Speaker 4: free things, which is what the Democrats promise, I'm going

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Speaker 4: to give you free healthcare, I'm going to give you

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Speaker 4: free busting, I'm going to give you free food. And

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Speaker 4: that's a great message as opposed to Republicans saying we

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Speaker 4: can't afford it.

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Speaker 1: That is the responsible message.

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Speaker 4: That is the message that we actually need to be

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Speaker 4: but to be sustainable, to be able to be successful

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Speaker 4: in the future. But it's not a message that you

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Speaker 4: want to hear when you're struggling to try to pay

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Speaker 4: your bills.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Russias, it's hard to run against Santa Claus. I

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Speaker 2: remember the great rustling in law used alway say it's

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Speaker 2: hard to run against Santa Claus congress Woman. It is

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Speaker 2: a real pleasure to meet you. I hope you'll come

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Speaker 2: back on the show. I know people in Dallas and

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Speaker 2: your larger district would love to hear from you anytime

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Speaker 2: you can.

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Speaker 1: I love it, Mary Christmas A Foy Pressure, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Hey.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's trying to save money where they can. If you

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Speaker 2: buy your own health insurance or if you're on Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: you know how expensive those premiums are getting. It's why

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Speaker 2: I've sent my own parents, my personal friends, and my

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Speaker 2: colleagues to John Ruhlman and his team at us medical

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Speaker 2: plan dot com. John works with one hundred different private

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Speaker 2: health insurance companies across the country to find you the

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Speaker 2: very best coverage at the very best rates. My own

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Speaker 2: parents saved four hundred dollars a month each on their

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Speaker 2: Medicare supplemental health insurance premiums reaching out to John Rouman

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Speaker 2: and US Medical Plan dot Com. I have a friend

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Speaker 2: in between jobs. She reached out to US Medical Plan

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Speaker 2: to replace her Cobra insurance rates. Saved six hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: a month. A personal friend who buys his own families

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Speaker 2: health insurance out of pocket, I send him to John

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Speaker 2: and now he's saving one thousand dollars a month. Listen, folks,

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Speaker 2: this is one of the easiest ways to save appreciable

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Speaker 2: money every month without sacrificing coverage. But you're not going

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Speaker 2: to know unless you reach out right now and have

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Speaker 2: the conversation eight seven seven four to one, zero forty

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Speaker 2: three to twenty one or log onto US Medical Plan

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Speaker 2: dot Com. Always good to be back with Congressman Derek Schmidt.

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Speaker 2: He represents the second Congressional District of Kansas. Good to

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Speaker 2: see a congressman. Great to be here.

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Speaker 7: Thanks gres.

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Speaker 2: The issue of affordability, as you well know, is the word.

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Speaker 2: That word, and it seems like it kind of popped

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Speaker 2: up out of nowhere. Not that people were happy with

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Speaker 2: the cost of things. But I felt like progress has

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Speaker 2: been made in this first term of President Trump, and

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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, it's like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: a switch was flipped in here late in the year.

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Speaker 2: Now the narrative is, I don't think it's that people

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Speaker 2: aren't struggling, but there seems to be this persistent message

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Speaker 2: of things are bad and getting worse. I don't perceive

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Speaker 2: it that way, but I don't want to discount that

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Speaker 2: people do struggle. I understand that. Is it a lack

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Speaker 2: of the market correcting as fast as everyone would like,

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Speaker 2: or are we just not making progress the way we

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Speaker 2: should or how do you see things?

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Speaker 5: You know, sometimes, Chris, when you're sick, you take the

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Speaker 5: medicine and it takes a while for your symptoms to

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Speaker 5: go away, and you're feeling better, but you still got

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Speaker 5: to do the medicine. Yeah, And I think there's a

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Speaker 5: sort of an element of that in how Republicans have

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Speaker 5: approached this instead of just trying to, you know, real quick,

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Speaker 5: like pass a big inflation reduction act that didn't reduce

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Speaker 5: inflation and just printed and threw a bunch of money

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Speaker 5: into the economy, or the other things that happened in

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Speaker 5: the Biden years. Instead of doing those things, we've actually

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Speaker 5: worked on trying to fix the underlying problems. Runaway growth

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Speaker 5: of federal spending. A lot more to do, but for

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Speaker 5: the first time we actually started to bend the spending

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Speaker 5: growth curve downward instead of upward. With the one point

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Speaker 5: one trillion dollar top line reduction in reconciliation. Build this

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Speaker 5: summer a tax structure that is permanent and people can

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Speaker 5: rely on and make plans on, and make investment decisions

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Speaker 5: on because they know it's not going to change. For

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Speaker 5: the giant tax increase at the end of this year.

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Speaker 5: More money in the pockets of working families with the

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Speaker 5: other provisions and the tax pund no tax on tips,

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Speaker 5: and tax on overtime, and reduce taxes on seniors, all

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Speaker 5: of those things. On the regulatory side, trying to I mean,

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Speaker 5: the President's done a great job of putting the brakes

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Speaker 5: on regulatory growth.

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Speaker 7: We need to continue to do more, as we're going

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Speaker 7: to do on the floor.

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Speaker 5: Today with some of the small business provisions, trying to

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Speaker 5: start to peel back those regulations that are piled on

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Speaker 5: and that are hugely costly and they get passed on

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Speaker 5: so I do think it's an issue of when you

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Speaker 5: actually try to fix the problems, sometimes it takes a

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Speaker 5: bit longer to see the results, but you get lasting results,

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Speaker 5: and that's where we are.

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Speaker 2: So when we talk about next year in the midterms,

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Speaker 2: I've been asking all your colleaguesists today, there's this kind

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Speaker 2: of conventional wisdom that loss is inevitable. It's just degrees

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Speaker 2: of loss that Republicans will be navigating next Pall, do

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Speaker 2: you accept.

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Speaker 7: That or no, No, I don't.

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Speaker 5: I think at the end of the day, every election

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Speaker 5: is different, and you know, we've seen midterm elections in

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Speaker 5: the past where the incumbent party has done well.

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Speaker 7: We've seen ones where they haven't done well.

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Speaker 5: The people that get paid to think about and talk

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Speaker 5: about these things for a living, you know, they have

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Speaker 5: their top line narratives.

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Speaker 7: Which are worth about what you pay for them. But

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Speaker 7: at the end of the day, it's what voters decide.

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Speaker 5: And I believe we are delivering on the things that

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Speaker 5: we said we were going to do when voters trusted

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Speaker 5: us to change the direction of America in twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: four and get us back in the direction that most

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Speaker 5: Americans and certainly most.

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Speaker 7: Kansas believe we need to be headed. We are fixing

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Speaker 7: those problems. Voters will see that we're fixing those problems.

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Speaker 7: What we have to do is stay on focus.

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Speaker 5: And that's one of the reasons I think it's so

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Speaker 5: encouraging that everybody from the President on down now is

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Speaker 5: talking about the affordability issues. It's a reminder of what

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Speaker 5: people sent us here to do.

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Speaker 7: Stay focused. Voters will see it, they'll vote accordingly.

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Speaker 2: You think that spring, early summer, or even that late

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Speaker 2: will there be a different economic story to tell than

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Speaker 2: where we sit at the moment.

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Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of election cycles in my life,

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Speaker 5: and it is pretty common that what seems inevitable in

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Speaker 5: January of the election year looks very different by the

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Speaker 5: fall running up to the election, not just because of

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Speaker 5: current dynamics, that's just the way things tend to unfold.

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Speaker 7: I imagine this will be one of those years as well.

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Speaker 2: As you watch what's happening in Tennessee with a special election,

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Speaker 2: are you surprised it's this tight in a place like Tennessee.

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Speaker 5: No special elections are, Somebody said to me the other day,

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Speaker 5: they're special, They're always unique turnout. It's always a problem

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Speaker 5: it's you know, people aren't accustomed to showing up in

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Speaker 5: special elections, especially in this case, deep red districts.

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Speaker 7: A lot of times.

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Speaker 5: Republicans don't show upcause they don't think they're needed, and

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Speaker 5: they're not otherwise going to the ballot because it's a

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Speaker 5: special election. It's not a regularly scheduled election that they plan,

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Speaker 5: and there's lots of issues that they you know, go

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Speaker 5: out and vote on or vote on candidates, So it's

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Speaker 5: always a turnout driven issue when it comes to specials.

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Speaker 7: I think that'll be true here.

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Speaker 5: It'll be tighter than the district tends to normally.

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Speaker 7: Show, but that's because it's a special election.

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Speaker 5: And I think we're going to win that race here today,

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Speaker 5: and I think once we do, that's going to be

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Speaker 5: a CEE easily hold in the next cycle.

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Speaker 2: Agriculturally speaking, Kansas is so well known for it. Obviously farmland.

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Speaker 2: China owns a lot of it in this country, which

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Speaker 2: I find unbelievable, but it's true. Can we reverse course

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Speaker 2: on that? Should we outlaw that outright?

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Speaker 5: Why is that we absolutely need to put a stop

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Speaker 5: to that. You know, we passed a provision earlier this

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Speaker 5: year became law just about a month ago, as in

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Speaker 5: the Agriculture Appropriation Bill, that makes it harder for China

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Speaker 5: and other adversary countries to acquire real estate farmland in

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Speaker 5: the United States.

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Speaker 7: And I think under this administration that.

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Speaker 5: Will have the effect of having stopped it, because I

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Speaker 5: don't think this administration is ever going to approve those

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Speaker 5: purchases going forward, and with the changes.

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Speaker 7: We made in law, they will be in a position

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Speaker 7: to disapprove them.

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Speaker 5: I would like to go further, frankly, and be a

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Speaker 5: little tougher because we won't always have this administration, and

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Speaker 5: I'd like to make sure that we don't have adversaries

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Speaker 5: buying up land in the United States that they may

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Speaker 5: intend to use for nefarious purposes against us, you know,

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Speaker 5: regardless who.

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Speaker 7: The president is. But we have at least moved in

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Speaker 7: the right direction. You know. It's funny. I don't pretend

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Speaker 7: to be a farmer.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I've grown up around it all my life

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Speaker 5: and sort of advocated braggard culture, a big believer in it,

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Speaker 5: but that's not how I've made my living. But somehow,

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Speaker 5: the Chinese, they seem to be smarter than we are.

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Speaker 5: In one sense, They've figured out from their vantage point,

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Speaker 5: the most fertile and productive land in the United States

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Speaker 5: happens to be close to our military installations.

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Speaker 7: Isn't that a remarkable coincidence?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's creepy. Frankly, I hope we figured that

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Speaker 2: out soon. And then in terms of meat beef in particular,

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Speaker 2: I've talked with a couple of your colleagues about this today,

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Speaker 2: the big four meat packers in the country. President Trump

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Speaker 2: says he's investigating that. I think with the DOJ at present,

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Speaker 2: what do you say about that? And to those who

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Speaker 2: are farmers and ranchers in.

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Speaker 5: Your district, Well, when I was Attorney general in can

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Speaker 5: Kansas state law did not allow us to initiate an

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Speaker 5: investigation of potential anti trust abuse. This is in the

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Speaker 5: meatpacking sector. There's a provision in Kansas state law that

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Speaker 5: didn't allow that to happen. So rather than doing that ourselves,

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Speaker 5: we asked the federal government to initiate a review at

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Speaker 5: that point, and they told us they did, although they

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Speaker 5: never let us inside to see what was happening. So

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Speaker 5: this isn't a new issue from my vantage point, and

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Speaker 5: I think it's good that the administration is taking a

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Speaker 5: look the law to be enforced, and if there's a

880
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Speaker 5: problem there, I don't know what the facts bear out,

881
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 5: but there's certainly a reason for concern, and so if

882
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Speaker 5: there's a problem there, you know, there ought to be

883
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Speaker 5: an enforcement action. What I don't think we need to

884
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Speaker 5: do is have the government get deeper into trying to

885
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Speaker 5: manipulate the market in the beef space or generally. I'm

886
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Speaker 5: not a believer in that, but certainly not in the

887
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Speaker 5: beef space. There are a lot of reasons that prices

888
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Speaker 5: have fluctuated dramatically.

889
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Speaker 7: If a piece of that is.

890
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Speaker 5: Forbidden by the anti trust law, then there ought to

891
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Speaker 5: be an investigation and enforcement action.

892
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Speaker 7: But there are other factors at play.

893
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Speaker 5: I mean, certainly the drought of many years, the reduction

894
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Speaker 5: and heard size it's driven up prices makes it much

895
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Speaker 5: more a track active for folks to liquidate and take

896
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Speaker 5: the cash, then to build a herd back up, which

897
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Speaker 5: can tie up cash for long periods of time.

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Speaker 7: We call those market cycles. We've seen them many times

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Speaker 7: in our lifetime.

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Speaker 5: We're in one right now where prices tend to be

901
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Speaker 5: higher and herdcount tends to be lower.

902
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Speaker 7: That will reverse if we leave the market to its ways.

903
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Speaker 2: Pivoting to school choice. Christian school We've got a lot

904
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Speaker 2: of colleagues that follow this issue closely. The state of

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Speaker 2: school choice in the country, the Department of Education, I

906
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Speaker 2: don't know the President's trying to scale back on that,

907
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Speaker 2: and Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, has said, we

908
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Speaker 2: were closed for forty three days and nobody missed us.

909
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Speaker 2: What's the state of school choice in Kansas? The district

910
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 2: you represent Christian schools in particular homeschoolers. What do you know?

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00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 5: What vast majority of education policy in this country is

912
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Speaker 5: And my view should be made at the local and

913
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Speaker 5: the state level. The federal government should be a support player,

914
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Speaker 5: not a central driver of the direction of how we.

915
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Speaker 7: Educate our kids. I think the federal government is too involved.

916
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Speaker 5: In my view, most of those decisions related to choice

917
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Speaker 5: are state level decisions and games this is. You know,

918
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Speaker 5: there are some small steps in the direction of choice.

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Speaker 5: There's some tax credit provisions, for example, that have been

920
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Speaker 5: very supportive of some schools that in my view, have

921
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Speaker 5: been successful providing education with.

922
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Speaker 7: Kids who weren't getting what they needed from the traditional system.

923
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Speaker 5: And I think that's where most of those decisions ought

924
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Speaker 5: to continue to be made. It would be very helpful

925
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Speaker 5: if the federal government could, to the extent practically get

926
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Speaker 5: itself out of the way. We don't need, you know,

927
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Speaker 5: it this huge federal bureaucracy that's second guessing what the

928
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 5: large enough state bureaucracy that it's self second guessing what

929
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 5: the local decision makers are deciding on how local people

930
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Speaker 5: educate their local kids. And so, you know, I'm one

931
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Speaker 5: who's always believed that educating kids is not a one

932
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Speaker 5: size fits all endeavor. For some kids, the traditional public

933
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Speaker 5: school system is great. It works very well. I'm a

934
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Speaker 5: product of that system, and I was very pleased with it.

935
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Speaker 5: For other kids, you don't reach the kids that way.

936
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Speaker 5: And to give folks the opportunity to find the best

937
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Speaker 5: fit for their kids, whether it's a parochial school, another

938
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Speaker 5: private school, a home school, a public school, a public

939
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Speaker 5: school of a particular type, whether it's Montessori or you know,

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Speaker 5: whether it's another you know, sort of subset. I think

941
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Speaker 5: that makes perfect sense. It's the way we ought to

942
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Speaker 5: do it, and it doesn't work as well in every

943
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Speaker 5: part of the state.

944
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Speaker 7: And I'm from a rural area.

945
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Speaker 5: We didn't have a lot of choices because frankly, there

946
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Speaker 5: weren't that many schools available, but where it works.

947
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Speaker 7: It ought to be available.

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Speaker 2: Do we have to talk about security in private schools

949
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Speaker 2: Christian schools like we do public schools? I mean, I

950
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: know public schools have dealt with things like magnetometers and

951
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: things like that for a while. Now is are we

952
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Speaker 2: a place where we have to start thinking about that

953
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Speaker 2: for Christian schools too?

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Speaker 7: Well, you never say never.

955
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Speaker 5: It has to be a decision of each individual institution,

956
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Speaker 5: maybe each individual building. And obviously everybody wants their kids safe.

957
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Speaker 5: And if you're a school administrator, a teacher, parents, school

958
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 5: board member, whatever, you know, you feel that responsibility uniquely

959
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Speaker 5: for the kids who are intrusted to your care and learning. So,

960
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Speaker 5: you know, but I think we ought to be supportive

961
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Speaker 5: of those local decisions and so far in general, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think it's a generally true statement that we've seen

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Speaker 5: more of that manifest itself in public schools and we

964
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Speaker 5: have in private schools. But honestly, nobody is immune from

965
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Speaker 5: one imbalanced person with an intent.

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Speaker 2: To kill all of you have to go home and

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Speaker 2: make your pitch every two years. And so as we

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Speaker 2: head toward twenty twenty six, your pitch to your voters

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Speaker 2: will be well.

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Speaker 5: We're only halfway through this term, so we need to

971
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Speaker 5: see how things unfold. I have every expectation we're going

972
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Speaker 5: to be able to go home with people in the

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Speaker 5: eye and tell them here the things we promised we

974
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Speaker 5: were going to focus on if you gave us this chance.

975
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Speaker 5: But the Biden administration did tremendous damage to this country,

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Speaker 5: whether it was the wide open southern border, whether it

977
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Speaker 5: was explosive spending, whether it was refusing to deal with

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Speaker 5: issues like ongoing health care costs, or excusing to deal

979
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Speaker 5: with issues like the looming tax increase and the affordability crisis.

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Speaker 5: We said we were going to deal with those things,

981
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Speaker 5: and we have. We have largely fixed the border. We

982
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Speaker 5: still need to change the law to lock those in,

983
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Speaker 5: but the border is night and day better today than

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Speaker 5: it was just a year ago. We have largely fixed

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Speaker 5: the tax code problem. You can always do more and

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Speaker 5: here and there, but we have avoided the largest tax

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Speaker 5: increase in the history of this country, and we've provided

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Speaker 5: more relief for working families throughout this district. We have

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Speaker 5: focused on reducing the regulatory burden. There's more to do,

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Speaker 5: but we are making progress in that direction. We're staying

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Speaker 7: Going to do. You can trust us to do that.

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Speaker 7: There's more work to do. We'd like to do this

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Speaker 7: for two more years.

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Speaker 10: Look, I think that.

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Speaker 12: We have passed a great bill in the one big

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Speaker 12: beautiful bill had a lot of the tax reforms that

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Speaker 12: we needed to address, but we did not take on

1025
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Speaker 12: the topic that I was I was harping about to

1026
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Speaker 12: our conference, which was healthcare and the affordability crisis. And

1027
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 12: here we are staring us in the face, and I

1028
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 12: think we we will fail the American people if we

1029
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Speaker 12: don't properly address it.

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Speaker 2: And so to that in you have you do have

1031
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 2: a plan. I mean, while everybody else says we've got

1032
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Speaker 2: to do this, we've got to do that. You've put

1033
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 2: it down on paper.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, what do you think we have? I've architected a plan.

1035
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Speaker 12: I took a lot of the best ideas from other

1036
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 12: members in the past, right, some of the bills that

1037
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Speaker 12: really I thought kind of shepherded us back to a

1038
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Speaker 12: free market and took the best of those ideas, put it,

1039
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 12: put it together, and added a few of my own.

1040
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Speaker 12: And I call it the Maha Plan or the MAHA counts.

1041
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 12: So the idea is, you create, you let let people

1042
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 12: keep if they you know, don't touch the other stuff Obamacare,

1043
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 12: leave it alone. Right, If people like their crappy Obamacare,

1044
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 12: they can keep it, they can truly keep it.

1045
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 10: But we're going to give people a better product. And

1046
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 10: this MAHA account.

1047
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 12: So instead of your buying you buying insurance through your employer,

1048
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 12: for example, your employer writes the check to your MAHA

1049
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,720
Speaker 12: a count and you can put in your own money,

1050
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 12: tax free into MAHA it. You can get charitable donations

1051
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 12: or maybe government help into your MAHA count and then

1052
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 12: you get to go out on the on the insurance

1053
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Speaker 12: market and pick whatever insurance policy you want.

1054
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 10: Maybe you want a health sharing ministry.

1055
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 12: Paul's maybe you want an association policy, maybe you want

1056
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 12: a state sponsored plan, or or god forbid, you want

1057
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Speaker 12: the ACA. You can have that, but let people pick

1058
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Speaker 12: and pay the premiums for the product that they want.

1059
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 12: And guess what happens when you do that. You get

1060
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 12: to pick your network. You get to pick your doctors

1061
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 12: and which doctors are in the network or what hospitals

1062
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Speaker 12: are in your network.

1063
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Speaker 10: If you want to do direct primary care, you can

1064
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 10: do that.

1065
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Speaker 12: You also would be able to pay for deductibles tax free,

1066
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 12: You be able to pay your co pays tax free.

1067
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Speaker 10: And so this is I think this idea is gaining speed.

1068
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 12: And then one of the ideas that you know in

1069
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 12: conversations with the Bobby Kennedy team, it really is about

1070
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 12: we got to address the healthy issue in America, not

1071
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 12: just health care costs. And so the American people are

1072
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 12: not healthy. The food that we're eating isn't healthy, and

1073
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Speaker 12: we end up paying for it on the back end

1074
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Speaker 12: with expensive medical bills.

1075
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Speaker 10: Why not flip the script and reverse that?

1076
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 12: Why not encourage people through their MAHA account each month

1077
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 12: to be able to purchase healthy food right, and I

1078
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 12: mean unprocessed protein produce, you know, basically meat, vegetables, vitamins, supplements,

1079
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Speaker 12: things like that.

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Speaker 2: Housing the tax code to encourage behavior like we have

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Speaker 2: in the past.

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Speaker 10: That's right.

1083
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 2: That's right, family, that's right.

1084
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Speaker 12: And so that's something that at the end of the day,

1085
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Speaker 12: wouldn't you love to be able to buy your steak

1086
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:26,720
Speaker 12: tax free?

1087
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Speaker 2: I love the idea. Yes, I'm all for it. Tax

1088
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 2: free market based solutions. You're offering them, that's what's we

1089
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Speaker 2: need more of it. I mean, you're here to solve problems.

1090
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Speaker 2: That's what you're clearly passionate about doing. Yeah, and I

1091
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Speaker 2: know you've got to go vote, but I wanted to

1092
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Speaker 2: talk to you before we left because I love this plan.

1093
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Speaker 2: How likely is it we're going to get somewhere with it?

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Speaker 12: We've I've had a lot of conversations with leadership and

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Speaker 12: with members of the committees. We're gaining steam, and I

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Speaker 12: just need the American people to reach out and kind

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Speaker 12: of if they like this idea, get behind it.

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Speaker 2: It's called the Maha Plan. Can people read more about it?

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Speaker 2: I'll put it up on.

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Speaker 12: My on my social media. We're tweeting about it all

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Speaker 12: the time.

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Speaker 2: I will repost on my social media to people that

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Speaker 2: are listening. If they want to follow along Eric Bergliston's plan,

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Speaker 2: the Maha count Plan. Congressman, great to talk to you,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for make good to see you again. Chris, We'll

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Speaker 2: see you, Sue. Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 10: Merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 2: Congresswoman.

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Speaker 3: Is great to see you, Nice to see you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for time to day. You guys just came from

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Speaker 2: the floor and voted on something called the Score Act,

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Speaker 2: And I was kind of reading about it because I

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Speaker 2: didn't all their particulars. What can you tell us about

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Speaker 2: that bit of business.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying to do a framework for name image

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Speaker 3: enlightenment out of fairness to the university students who are

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Speaker 3: it's kind of the wild wild West right now in

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Speaker 3: terms of the NIL deals and everything that's going on

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Speaker 3: in the competitive nature. We do think there probably needs

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Speaker 3: to be a framework. That's what we're trying to get

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Speaker 3: across the floor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I heard it was kind of close maybe. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So the rule vote, it was a rule and if

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Speaker 3: the rule doesn't pass, then the bill can't proceed to

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Speaker 3: the House for a vote.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: We can bring bills to the floor in a number

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Speaker 1: of ways.

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Speaker 3: One is on suspension, which means we suspend the rules

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Speaker 3: it has to get two thirds majority to pass.

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Speaker 1: But if we bring it to the floor under a rule,

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Speaker 1: it can.

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Speaker 3: Pass the simple majority, but the rule itself has to

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Speaker 3: pass first, Okay. And so today was the rule vote

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Speaker 3: and I left the chamber and it was the vote

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Speaker 3: was still open.

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Speaker 2: Wow, all right, So I guess we'll wait to see

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Speaker 2: how that ends up shaking out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are some there are some concerns that have

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Speaker 3: been raised about free markets and whether this is the

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Speaker 3: role of the federal government to weigh in on this issue.

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Speaker 3: I think there's an interstate commerce argument plus higher education

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Speaker 3: argument to be made that the federal government does maybe

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Speaker 3: have a role to play here.

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Speaker 2: Federal dollars going to colleges of course, right right, that's

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Speaker 2: probably one of the considerations for sure.

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Speaker 1: So we will see if it passes.

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Speaker 3: If it doesn't, we could we could go back to

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Speaker 3: the Rules Committee, which I serve on, and you know,

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Speaker 3: try to formulate a new path forward.

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Speaker 2: I've been asking your colleagues all day long about you know, midterms.

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Speaker 2: I know you guys are always kind of thinking about

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Speaker 2: the next election, particularly in the House. It's every couple

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Speaker 2: of years. What is your sense of things right now?

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Speaker 2: It's always kind of this understood, given that the party

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Speaker 2: that's in total control, and then as the White House

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Speaker 2: loses in the midterms of the following year, do you

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Speaker 2: accept that Do you think that dynamic could change next year?

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Speaker 3: You know, I am optimistic about the mid terms. I

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Speaker 3: think that we will see a lot of patriotism going

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Speaker 3: into the next year for the two hundred and fiftieth

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Speaker 3: anniversary of the country. And I also think that we

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Speaker 3: have a lot of wins that we have sort of

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Speaker 3: chalked up on our side of the Ledger that we

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Speaker 3: can point to for American families. We are constantly working

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Speaker 3: toward improving affordability. Let's not forget that the healthcare crisis

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Speaker 3: that we have was created by the Democrats and by

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Speaker 3: the passage of Obamacare. So we've been saying, look, we're

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Speaker 3: going to formulate a path forward that is health care affordability.

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Speaker 1: If you like your Obamacare.

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Speaker 3: You can keep it, but we're going to move forward

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Speaker 3: with a plan that has puts patients and doctors and

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Speaker 3: does not get in between their relationship, includes competition, and

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Speaker 3: really puts the American family first in terms of cost

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Speaker 3: and health care affordable.

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Speaker 2: Do you think this affordability issue, which has now become

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Speaker 2: the word, and I can almost watching the news every

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Speaker 2: day and doing commentary on the news every day. It's like,

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Speaker 2: almost out of nowhere, this word became the buzzword. And

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Speaker 2: not that people aren't aware of what things cost. I

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Speaker 2: don't mean that. I just mean it seems that all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, the focus on somehow things are getting worse,

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Speaker 2: when I just know literally on paper that's not true.

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Speaker 2: But we're kind of being pushed.

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Speaker 7: That.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the sentiment is things are not great and getting worse.

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Speaker 2: Do you sense that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a little bit organic, because when

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Speaker 3: I did go home over the break, there are concerns

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Speaker 3: that are being raised by constituents on housing affordability.

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Speaker 2: And is it getting worse.

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Speaker 3: I think it's getting better. I just don't think it's

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Speaker 3: getting better fast enough for their liking. Yes, so I

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Speaker 3: do think it's getting better. If you look at inflation

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Speaker 3: rates versus the first Trump administration, then skyrocketing under Obama,

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Speaker 3: are under President Biden, and now it's back down to

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Speaker 3: I think two and a half percent and trending in

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Speaker 3: the right direction. But families just really aren't feeling it yet,

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Speaker 3: particularly in the housing market. I would hope that Jerome

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Speaker 3: Powell would reduce interest rates so that we could eventually

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Speaker 3: start to free up this frozen housing market. But when

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Speaker 3: you inject twenty million people into this country, that is

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Speaker 3: going to cause a housing problem. It's going to cause

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Speaker 3: a supply chain problem, it's going to cause work employment

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Speaker 3: problems and wage problems. It's going to drive down wages,

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Speaker 3: and it's going to drive up housing costs, and we

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Speaker 3: are going to suffer from that until we can finally

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Speaker 3: turn the page on not only Biden's economy, but Biden's dacked,

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Speaker 3: disastrous immigration policies.

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Speaker 2: I was told about something you're working on specifically called

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Speaker 2: parents over Platforms. I was intrigued by that. Tell us

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so jacocin class, he's a Democrat. We're working on

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Speaker 3: this together. And where you know a lot of kids

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Speaker 3: online safety legislation, we know that the state of affairs

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Speaker 3: today and risks to kids is more than the playground

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Speaker 3: and more than the neighborhood, it's the whole entire globe.

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Speaker 3: With the access to the Internet and these social media platforms,

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Speaker 3: we think strongly that no child under sixteen should have

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Speaker 3: access to some of these apps, and so we have

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Speaker 3: these parents over platforms to put parents back in charge.

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Speaker 3: I have a personal experience with my own daughter who

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Speaker 3: when she was thirteen, she got access to Instagram without

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Speaker 3: our knowledge or consent. She hacked around our parental controls

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Speaker 3: and was on her phone. They find a way. Parents

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Speaker 3: are overwhelmed with an amount of apps that are out

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Speaker 3: there and the number of different iterations of parental protections

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Speaker 3: and parental controls. So we're trying to streamline that at

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Speaker 3: the federal level. Make sure that sixteen is the standard,

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Speaker 3: not under sixteen. Just like you can't drive a car

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Speaker 3: before you're sixteen, you can't have social media before you're sixteen.

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Speaker 1: It's just too dangerous a platform.

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Speaker 3: We know that it's dangerous for kids under that age.

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Speaker 3: We've seen it. We don't have to see more research.

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Speaker 3: So we're putting a line in the sand there and

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Speaker 3: hoping that this will get legislatives.

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Speaker 2: Does so, I say you're working with a Democrat. Does

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Speaker 2: that mean there's strong bipartisan support? Do you have a

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Speaker 2: sense of it.

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Speaker 3: I would say that there is bipartisan support for sure.

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Speaker 3: I think that there are some Democrats who still think

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Speaker 3: that a thirteen year old should be able to have

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Speaker 3: access to these social media platforms without any parental knowledge

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Speaker 3: or consent. There are still Democrats that feel that way,

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Speaker 3: that don't want us to. They want us to take

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Speaker 3: care of children's privacy, but they don't. They're less concerned

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Speaker 3: about sexual exploitation or sexual content that a child might access.

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Speaker 3: This is going to be the issue of our time.

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Speaker 3: A colleague today, a friend of mine and Energy and Commerce,

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Speaker 3: said that Facebook is the new Philip Morris, and it

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Speaker 3: really is a danger to our kids these social media applications.

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Speaker 1: We've got loads of data to prove it.

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Speaker 3: When the Kids Online Privacy Protection Act was first passed

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Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety six, at the time, policymakers thought that

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Speaker 3: thirteen year olds might need access to the Internet for homework.

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Speaker 3: We are well beyond that today and we know what

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Speaker 3: we need to do. We just have to have the

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Speaker 3: courage to get this done.

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Speaker 2: Boy, we're going to pay close attention to that. I

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Speaker 2: hope you'll come back as that hopefully progresses through Congress.

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Speaker 2: But in the meantime, just in closing twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 2: I know we've still got lots of time before that

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Speaker 2: midterm election, But what would you say to Americans right

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Speaker 2: now as we get into Christmas. What's your pitch the Republicans,

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Speaker 2: the GOP here in the House, where things stand and

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Speaker 2: where you're going, why they should continue to support your efforts.

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Speaker 3: Well, House and Senate Republicans, along with the leadership of

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Speaker 3: President Trump, we were just getting started.

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Speaker 1: We've already put in the.

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Speaker 3: Largest tax increse or tax reduction in history. We've prevented

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Speaker 3: the largest tax largest tax increase in history from going

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Speaker 3: into effect with the Working Family's Tax Cuts Act. We've

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Speaker 3: got record numbers of deportations. Crime is going down, prices

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Speaker 3: are going down.

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Speaker 1: We are all trending in the right direction.

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Speaker 3: Let us keep doing our jobs, let us keep working

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Speaker 3: for the American people, and really get this America First

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Speaker 3: policy platform in effect.

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Speaker 2: By the way, we're going to get an extra seat

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Speaker 2: in Indiana or no, you might get two, maybe two.

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Speaker 2: You think that's going to happen.

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Speaker 10: It may.

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Speaker 3: It's up to the General Assembly whether or not they

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Speaker 3: want to do this. Indiana is a very republican state.

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Speaker 3: Ninety percent of our local elected officials in Indiana are Republican.

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Speaker 3: So if Indiana were to draw a nine zero map,

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Speaker 3: I think it would certainly be in line with the

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Speaker 3: value set of the majority of Hoosiers.

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Speaker 2: That'll be interesting to watch. Congresswoman. Great to meet you,

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Speaker 2: hopefully come back to you too.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: So that's a wrap for another Christi Gall Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for committing to it listening to it all the

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Speaker 2: way through. You're a fighter. I like that about you.

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