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Speaker 2: How you feel about the likelihood of a shutdown or

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Speaker 2: the progress being made on this ICE reform issue probably

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Speaker 2: depends on who you ask on Capitol Hill. So we're

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Speaker 2: going to ask someone there right now joining us, I'm

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Speaker 2: pleased to say live from the House is Republican Congressman

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Speaker 2: Brian Style of Wisconsin. He, of course, is the chair

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Speaker 2: of the House Administration Committee. Welcome back to Bloomberg TV

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Speaker 2: and Radio. Sarah, It's good to see you. It's been

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Speaker 2: a while since we've talked. As you just heard Tyler say,

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Speaker 2: it seems that there is still a bit of daylight

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Speaker 2: between Republicans and Democrats on what reforms both can actually

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Speaker 2: get behind. Sir, what would you be willing to accept.

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Speaker 1: Kelly, Welcome back. Here we are again Democrats threatening your shutdown,

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Speaker 1: in this time a portion of the federal government if

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Speaker 1: they don't get their way. I think what we need

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Speaker 1: to do is have cooler heads prevail. The Department of

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security is an essential agency that covers not only ICE,

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Speaker 1: but also Coast Guard, TSA, and other essential federal government programs,

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Speaker 1: and so the threat of a shutdown is unproductive at

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Speaker 1: an absolut minimum. We should pass a continuing resolution, and

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Speaker 1: in fact, the House pass complete funding from the entire

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Speaker 1: fiscal year in a bipartisan vote. So at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, what we need to see is Senate

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Speaker 1: Democrats come to the table to make sure that we

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Speaker 1: can get sixty votes in the Senate fund this for

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Speaker 1: the full year. Allow cooler heads to prevail, and I

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Speaker 1: think what we're seeing is more and more local jurisdictions

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Speaker 1: cooperating with ICE and that prevents some of the more

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Speaker 1: challenging situations that we've had.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Congressman, there are a lot of questions about the

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Speaker 3: way this goes, and the calendar is not a friend.

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Speaker 3: At the moment, there was only a two week continuing resolution,

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Speaker 3: So here we are again up against the deadline. If

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Speaker 3: Democrats and Republicans can't come to terms in the next

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Speaker 3: couple of days. Here, would you support a continuing resolution

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Speaker 3: of that duration again or should it be something longer

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Speaker 3: so we don't have to keep coming back around on these.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't love curs, but boy, they're better

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Speaker 1: than shutting down the government for a portion of the government.

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Speaker 1: In this case, two weeks is pretty insufficient for Congress

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Speaker 1: to operate. It's too bad that's the case. I'd be

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Speaker 1: open to even a slightly longer cr But again, this

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Speaker 1: final negotiation is going to take place between about ten

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Speaker 1: Democrats in the United States Senate with President Trump. It's

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Speaker 1: trusting that they can land this plane. Cooler heads prevail,

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Speaker 1: getting local jurisdictions to cooperate with ice, and giving that

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Speaker 1: time to reach agreement on this funding deal, I think

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Speaker 2: Well, so while the work on a funding agreement happens

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Speaker 2: in the background, Congressmen, you of course are doing work

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Speaker 2: of your own, including holding a committee hearing on election

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Speaker 2: integrity today as well, of course having introduced the Make

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Speaker 2: Elections Great Again, the Mega Act around Election Security, that

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Speaker 2: Act as well as the Save Act, which of course

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Speaker 2: is a kind of tantem effort going on. Congressman was

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Speaker 2: criticized by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski as effectively federalized elections.

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Speaker 2: Is that what you are intending to do? How do

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Speaker 1: Article one, section four gives authority vote to the states

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Speaker 1: to operate elections, but also the authority for Congress to

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Speaker 1: make sure that there's clear laws to make sure that

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Speaker 1: we have confidence in our elections. The Mega Act, a

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Speaker 1: portion of which is the Save Act, puts forward common

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Speaker 1: sense reforms to reinstate America's trust in our elections. I

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Speaker 1: think it's common sense that we should require, for example,

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Speaker 1: photo identification when an individual goes to the polls, I

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Speaker 1: have to do that. If you want a board an airplane,

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Speaker 1: you want to open a bank accounter, Heck, you want

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Speaker 1: show photo identification. So it's common sense, it's popular. This

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Speaker 1: is far from the takeover argument that some are attempting

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Speaker 1: to make. It's putting in baseline standards so that all

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Speaker 3: Do you worry about mission creep here? If I can

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Speaker 3: use that term, Congressman, When you hear President Trump talking

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Speaker 1: Well, I think what it is is putting in baseline

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Speaker 1: standards that are needed to operate our elections. Again, the

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Speaker 1: but I do think it's appropriate to have a federal

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Speaker 1: Sixteen states, for example, don't require photo identification when an

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Speaker 1: should require that. We should end elections on election days

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Speaker 1: are common sense, and they instill confidence in our elections.

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Speaker 1: What we saw from the state of Georgia after they

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Speaker 1: run two statewide elections is high voter participation, increasing confidence

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Speaker 2: And as we consider what will be on the minds

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Speaker 2: of the American electorate as they go to vote, Congressman,

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Speaker 2: we know the economy always features quite heavily and the

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Speaker 2: impact certain fiscal policies and others have on the economy,

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Speaker 2: like for example, the impact of tariffs that have been

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Speaker 2: levied by the Trump administration. They were supposed to be

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Speaker 2: just a few hours from now a procedural vote, a

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Speaker 2: a prohibition of calling snap votes on repealing the president's tariffs.

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Speaker 2: We now understand that has been postponed to eight thirty

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Speaker 2: pm this evening. It seems there's a little bit of

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Speaker 2: trouble in the water here, Congressman. Is a few of

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Speaker 2: your colleagues have suggested that they will not be voting

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Speaker 2: with the Speaker on this. What are you hearing, Well.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of dialogue and discussion as to exactly

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Speaker 1: how we move forward. I think we have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: here to work with the presidents we strike trade deals,

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Speaker 1: in particular with our allies, to bring those trade barriers

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Speaker 1: down to give American markets access into foreign markets. For

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Speaker 1: far too long, countries like China have taken advantage of

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Speaker 1: US trade agreements. In holding countries like China, along with

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Speaker 1: to have a lot of dialogue and debate over this

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Speaker 1: or the next handful of hours, but at the end here.

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Speaker 1: I think the goal is to create these trade agreements

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Speaker 1: with our allies, and I think we have an opportunity

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Speaker 3: You know, the Supreme Court at some point is going

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Speaker 3: to rule on this Congressman. In fact, we thought we

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Speaker 1: Well, for a number of years beyond just this administration,

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Speaker 1: we have seen executives, both at the presidential level as

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Speaker 1: well as governors, use emergency orders to take actions that

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I think could be depending on how it's written, transformative.

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Speaker 1: As we understand emergency powers. Many of the tariffs that

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Speaker 1: the President put forward are dependent on those emergency powers.

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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court may rule, but I think in lieu

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Speaker 1: of that, I think what we would like to see

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Speaker 1: is the President continue to work and finalize these trade

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Speaker 1: trade agreements that we need to keep our economy strong.

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Speaker 2: And just finally, Congressman. On the subject of the economy,

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Speaker 2: President Trump suggested in an interview with Fox's Larry Cudlow

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Speaker 2: that the economy could be growing at fifteen percent under

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Speaker 2: the leadership of Kevin Warsh if he is confirmed a

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Speaker 4: We should be at fifteen percent. I'll tell you if

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Speaker 4: our new head of the FED, who I think is

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Speaker 4: going to be great, and he's a really high quality person,

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Speaker 4: but if he does the job that he's capable, we

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Speaker 4: can grow at fifteen percent.

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Speaker 1: I think more than that.

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Speaker 2: You sit on the Financial Services Committee, Congressman, do you

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Speaker 2: buy fifteen percent GDP growth in the United States of America?

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Speaker 1: Well, wouldn't we all love to see it? But I

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Speaker 1: think we got a ton of run room in front

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Speaker 1: of us. The underlying economy in the United States is strong.

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Speaker 1: If we continue to work to remove the burdens that

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Speaker 1: have been put in place through red tape, through high regulations,

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Speaker 1: through taxes, and we work to empower the American economy,

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Speaker 1: I think we're going to continue to see strong economic growth.

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Speaker 1: I think it's great that the President is out there

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Speaker 1: cheerleading for the country and putting a high bar in

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Speaker 1: front of us but we should all be working to

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Speaker 1: drive forward economic growth. In particular as we look at

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Speaker 1: a period of time where debt and deficits are significant

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Speaker 1: challenges in front of us. The biggest answer to get

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Speaker 1: rates that we haven't seen. We've seen strong economic growth

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Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to continue to build on that success.

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Speaker 3: Congressman, it's great to have you back. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: the insights. As always, Ryan Style of Wisconsin, the chairman

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Speaker 3: of the House Admin Committee,