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Speaker 2: did you do last week? His name is Senator Rick Scott.

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Speaker 2: He lives in Florida. He represents Florida. Of course you

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate your time, sir.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you're in Florida.

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Speaker 3: I want to make it accountable.

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Speaker 4: Right now the House is committed to one bill. The

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair.

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Speaker 4: We have fifty three Republicans, we need sixty to pass it.

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Speaker 4: Byron Donalds is my congressman. I think he's been a

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Speaker 4: great person to work with. I know Trump endorsed him

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we're going to.

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Speaker 4: Have a competitive governor's race, turned gentlemen's race, cfo's race,

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Speaker 4: acommissioner race.

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Speaker 3: It looks like and we and actually moved will be up.

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Speaker 4: They got appointed by DeSantis, so it's it's going to

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Speaker 4: be it's going to be exciting twenty twenty six in Florida,

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Speaker 4: but it always is in Florida.

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Speaker 2: Well, Senator Rick Scott, I appreciate the work you're doing

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Speaker 2: on behalf of Floridians, and I appreciate your time today.

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Speaker 2: All right, have a great day. That was Senator Rick

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Speaker 2: Scott of Florida. Really appreciate his time. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 2: course you can listen throughout the week. I also want

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Speaker 2: to thank John Cassio and my producer for putting the

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Speaker 1: Until next time,