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Speaker 1: We're joined by Congressman brad Winstroup. He is a Republican

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Speaker 1: serving Ohio and and and Congressman, I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you about the next round of economic stimulus. You know,

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Speaker 1: Leader McConnell the other day was saying that August he

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Speaker 1: wants to get something done before the August recess. What

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Speaker 1: would be in the next round of economic stimulus, Well,

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Speaker 1: in general, I would say what we're focusing on is

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Speaker 1: a reopening package. In other words, instead of Phase four

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Speaker 1: or five whatever that we were talking about, reopening phase

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Speaker 1: one and it still addresses the effects of UH COVID

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Speaker 1: and it's it's effects on our economy. And I think

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Speaker 1: that that's gonna be the big push, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to continue to look for any of the glitches and

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Speaker 1: the things that we've already done so that we can

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Speaker 1: maintain UH and get back to a healthy economy, whether

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Speaker 1: it's our hospitals, our businesses, or individuals or small businesses.

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Speaker 1: We have to take a look at all that we

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Speaker 1: painted things with a pretty broadbrush when we first started,

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Speaker 1: and we've seen we've had to make some changes. Extending

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Speaker 1: programs like p p P. I think is is a

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Speaker 1: great deal for what's going on in America today and

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Speaker 1: the needs that people have, and we have to continue

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Speaker 1: to look at things going in a positive direction and

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Speaker 1: UH doing and doing it safely. And that's the that's

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Speaker 1: the conundrum. So, you know, from an economic perspective, especially

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Speaker 1: as economist, Congressman are talking about there being a stepped

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Speaker 1: up recovery with the with the you know, positive economic

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Speaker 1: indicators and a Q three beginning Q four, you know,

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Speaker 1: you've just passed significant other significant UH economic deals including

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Speaker 1: U S M C A which recently went into effect.

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Speaker 1: From an economic standpoint, it's not just the virus, but

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Speaker 1: what else needs to be done in order to get

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Speaker 1: a faster recovery. Well, I think that you you'll see

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Speaker 1: the administration working with us UH to to do pro

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Speaker 1: growth things. UM. You know, I think that UM, with

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Speaker 1: are so many things to look at, and I know

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Speaker 1: that I'm being kind of vague, because there there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities out there UM and to allow

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Speaker 1: people to UH continue with the tax breaks to maintain

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Speaker 1: more of their income UM. But we also have to

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Speaker 1: get kids back in school. These these are some of

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Speaker 1: the things that we have to do for allow to

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Speaker 1: allow our economy to take place, and of course we

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Speaker 1: have to do it do it safely. So it's a

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Speaker 1: combination of returning to normal in a in a safe place,

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Speaker 1: in a way that people aren't anxious and and so

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Speaker 1: it really comes down so much of this is involved

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Speaker 1: with health right and so as you look, we have

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Speaker 1: got to look at the virus itself and continue to

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Speaker 1: go in positive directions medically, which we have done with treatments.

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Speaker 1: You're seeing far fewer people uh dying. You're seeing people

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Speaker 1: that have recovered and they have convalescent plasma. They can

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Speaker 1: help the next person. Those are things that we need

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Speaker 1: to do to build confidence in in our society in general.

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Speaker 1: Um and we would and when we do that, we

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Speaker 1: can eliminate some of the other things that have been

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Speaker 1: We see an increase in suicide, domestic violence, all these

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Speaker 1: things that are negatives for us. So we have to

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Speaker 1: take a look at those and make sure that we

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Speaker 1: can read institute normal life for a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: so that people can go to work because their kids

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Speaker 1: are taken care of at school and afterwards and all

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Speaker 1: of these things come into play. We have a shortage

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Speaker 1: of daycare providers. That's a problem for our economy because

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Speaker 1: you can't return to work and just leave your kids

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Speaker 1: at home. All of these things have to be addressed.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to look for incentives for those types

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Speaker 1: those fields because there's a definite need there. And if

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Speaker 1: we don't, if we don't address every component of this,

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Speaker 1: people just can't all return back to work. But I

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Speaker 1: am encouraged by the numbers that we have seen in

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Speaker 1: the last one month in Congressman. I want to pick

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Speaker 1: up on that point because from an economic standpoint here

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Speaker 1: we are staring down the next round of economic stimulus

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Speaker 1: negotiations ahead of the August recess. And and and you

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Speaker 1: you mentioned about the psychology of the American worker in

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Speaker 1: terms of going back to work. Part of that includes

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Speaker 1: And so you talked about providing incentives for these schools

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Speaker 1: and whatnot. How important is that to to to reopening

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Speaker 1: the economy. It's really important. And you talk to anybody

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Speaker 1: that has employees, especially in small businesses, and that is

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Speaker 1: a limiting factor. So we've seen good numbers. We want

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Speaker 1: to see the numbers going up. But those are the

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Speaker 1: things that men to play. And so I represent both

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Speaker 1: urban and rural areas, and it's a very different environment

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Speaker 1: has had zero admissions for COVID or one and and

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Speaker 1: only one death and that was with co morbidities, and

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Speaker 1: so they're not understanding the same way an urban setting is,

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Speaker 1: where you have higher numbers than you have deaths. Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: is not the same as New York, and my rural

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Speaker 1: about doing that really is going to involve good medical

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Speaker 1: parents and of kids going to school. The desire is there.

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Speaker 1: I have seen that tremendously. The desire is there to

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Speaker 1: return to that normal, and we just have to do

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Speaker 1: all that we can to allow, especially at a local level,

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Speaker 1: people to provide the safety that is necessary and the

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Speaker 1: important on people's minds is they don't want their kids

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Speaker 1: missing out on their education. And so it's a combination there.

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Speaker 1: So it's a very holistic approach that we need to

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Speaker 1: take because it's not just about the virus. Are we

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Speaker 1: going to have a generation of kids that were uneducated

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Speaker 1: because we're not letting him go to school? That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you is you know, I'm lucky

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Speaker 1: my my son in kindergarten. We we get his his

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Speaker 1: do the work with him. Not everyone has that capability

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Speaker 1: across America, and we have to recognize that. And that's

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Speaker 1: why the importance of continuing to educate our children is

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Speaker 1: really important, especially for our workforce, not only for today

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Speaker 1: for parents that are working, but for the future and

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Speaker 1: our workforce. Cogress and Bradwin strips on the line. He's

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Speaker 1: a Republican and he serves for Ohio Second Congressional district.

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Speaker 1: He's also an Iraq war veteran and serves as a

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Speaker 1: member of the House Select Intelligence Committee. Uh and Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's really where I want to go next in terms

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Speaker 1: of more geopolitical If if I could for a minute,

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Speaker 1: how has how has the United States collectively been protecting

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Speaker 1: itself against some of what's what's coming out of China,

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Speaker 1: or how has this been changing the dynamic from Beijing

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Speaker 1: with their lack of transparency, Congressman, in terms of resetting

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Speaker 1: U some of the some of the geopolitical relationship there,

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of restructuring to do, and I

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Speaker 1: think that this president was on his way and doing that,

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Speaker 1: and I think we're going to continue to do it.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's going to happen with the support

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Speaker 1: of Congress because it needs to. I'm I'm a military guy,

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Speaker 1: I did has spent a year in Iraq, also a

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Speaker 1: position very concerned about the World Health Organization. If you're

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Speaker 1: not getting honest data and honest answers out of the membership,

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Speaker 1: then it's not worth having it at all. And we

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Speaker 1: shouggest trying to together our own data as best that

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Speaker 1: we can. And and so that's a recognized problem, and

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Speaker 1: I think the President was right to respond to that

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Speaker 1: not going to tolerate this, this type of bad behavior

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the health of humankind. This has

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Speaker 1: affected the entire world. That's one thing. We've also learned

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Speaker 1: a valuable, valuable lesson that I think has really been

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Speaker 1: decades now, and that's our supply chain. And so we

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Speaker 1: are going to have to change our economy in a

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Speaker 1: way that manufacturing comes back to the United States, which

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Speaker 1: this president has been doing since the day he took office.

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Speaker 1: And that is key. I got asked early on when

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Speaker 1: it was recognized we had a supply chain problem, So

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Speaker 1: what do you do? I said, what this president has

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Speaker 1: been doing bringing manufacturing back to the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to find ways of doing that. As

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Speaker 1: a military person, if you had told me that my

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Speaker 1: where that we that we got in Iraq, we're coming

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Speaker 1: from China, I would have said, there is no way.

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Speaker 1: And but that's the situation we're in, and I can

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Speaker 1: tell you right now we're working diligently to identify where

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Speaker 1: in hand with the administration on that. That's Congressman Brad Winship.

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Speaker 1: He is a Republican from Ohio second Congressional District