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Speaker 1: Congress Woman, thank you so much for joining us. She's

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Speaker 1: a member of the House Financial Services giving I'm in

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Speaker 1: Houston still. I I love it so much. I can't

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Speaker 1: get out of here. Congress I'm a great job on

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Speaker 1: the hosting of the debate last night. What do you

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Speaker 1: think of it? Oh, Kate, when I thought it was great? Um,

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Speaker 1: you know I I I Uh, that is my alma

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Speaker 1: marchi Assue were it was hosted, and uh, I went

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Speaker 1: to the law school there, and I just cannot believe

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Speaker 1: how they transformed, uh that that building, and what a

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Speaker 1: great job they did, much like the great job that

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Speaker 1: all the candidates did joined the debate. I was very impressed,

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Speaker 1: and I think we have a great group of experienced,

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Speaker 1: You know, Congresswoman, we were talking about this all inside

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Speaker 1: of the spin room and even with conor your colleague,

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Speaker 1: Condresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who by the way, gave me

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Speaker 1: an excellent recommendation for some Mexican food here in Houston.

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Speaker 1: And before I let you go, you gotta tell me

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Speaker 1: where to get the best Mexican food here in Houston

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Speaker 1: is because this it's this such a food set city,

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Speaker 1: and you guys have excellent restaurants. But before we talk food,

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Speaker 1: let's talk policy and the importance of Texas. Not just

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Speaker 1: whether or not it's the term purple or whether it

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Speaker 1: real term purple, but the importance that Texas plays in

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Speaker 1: the democratic primary process. Tell me how crucial it is

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Speaker 1: Texas and on Super Tuesday, Well, I think Texas will

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Speaker 1: be a critical state. And I think that ground zero

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Speaker 1: for Texas is right here in Harris County in Houston. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know that with the population growth, the demographic growth,

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Speaker 1: in the UM excitement that we have, uh in all

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Speaker 1: the work quite frankly, that we've invested in the last

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Speaker 1: decade in registering voters, getting people motivated, getting them engaged. UM,

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to see some great numbers that

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Speaker 1: we expect about eleven million people to vote UM and

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Speaker 1: we've we've been successful and increasing UM every time the

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Speaker 1: number of turnout between UM fourteen elections in the eighteen

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Speaker 1: we increased voter turnout by almost and that's significant and

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Speaker 1: we hope to to uh uh to increase that even more.

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Speaker 1: For this is such an important point. Joining us on

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Speaker 1: the line, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia She's a Democrat who represents

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Speaker 1: uh Texas is twenty nine congressional district. She's also a

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Speaker 1: member of the House Financial Services Committee, and she's talking

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Speaker 1: just about just how important many of these suburban voters

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Speaker 1: are not just in the state of Texas, but also

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Speaker 1: these are the independent voters in the general election as well.

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Speaker 1: What do you what economic pitch, Congresswoman Democrats need to make.

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Speaker 1: Do they need to take a more Biden Esque centrist

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Speaker 1: approach or an Elizabeth Warren esque approach in terms of

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Speaker 1: messaging to the economy in a general election. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I described it just a basic bread and butter issue approach. People.

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Speaker 1: People worry about their pocket books, they worry about their paychecks,

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Speaker 1: and they worry about what food they can put on

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Speaker 1: the table. I mean, we really have to focus on

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Speaker 1: going back to the basics because that's what working working

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Speaker 1: in middle class America care about. You know, at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, for them, it's about wages for them,

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Speaker 1: it's about what they can do for their families, including

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Speaker 1: you know, a good education and having health care. So

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Speaker 1: it really is about the bread and butter issues, and

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Speaker 1: that's what we need to talk about. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: That's why we did focus on raising the minimum wage.

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Speaker 1: That's why we've already in pass that bill out of

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Speaker 1: the House. We've focused on equal pay for equal work,

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Speaker 1: especially in today's world. The very idea that women may

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Speaker 1: not be earning the same as the man working in

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Speaker 1: the same jobs next to them. Uh, it's just ludicrous. UH.

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Speaker 1: So we really we've already passed that bill. So we

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Speaker 1: continue to work on making sure that work in America, UM,

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Speaker 1: the lower middle class and and and the working people

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Speaker 1: UM have have the wages that they need to be

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Speaker 1: able to UH to have a good quality of life.

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Speaker 1: And make sure that your kids can go to school.

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Speaker 1: Two more questions for your Congresswoman Sylvia Garcias on the line.

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Speaker 1: She's a Democrat from Texas. UH, and she's been so

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Speaker 1: generous with her time or appreciative of it. Congresswoman, Medicare

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Speaker 1: for all? For it? Against it? Should it? Should? Should

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Speaker 1: there be a public private option? Where do you stand

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Speaker 1: on medicare for all? Is it's smart? For Where should

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party stand on medicare for all? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I believe strongly that the first thing we have to do,

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Speaker 1: and of course we've already done it, and passed the

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Speaker 1: bill to protect Affordable Care Act. I mean, the Affordable

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Speaker 1: Care Act has been a lifesaver for my district, for

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Speaker 1: over a million people here in Texas. Uh. Any any

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Speaker 1: cuts or any changes to the Affordable Care Care Act

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Speaker 1: will will hurt a lot of people, and it particularly

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Speaker 1: working mothers, particularly chill grind and other vulnerable populations. So

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Speaker 1: I always start with protecting the Affordable Care Act and

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Speaker 1: moving from there. Uh. You know, I'm an old social

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Speaker 1: worker by by by trade before I became a lawyer.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's nothing more important, uh than the health

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Speaker 1: care of our workers and our children, and our and

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Speaker 1: our and our seniors. Uh. So I think it's important

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Speaker 1: that that we we we not make any cuts to

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Speaker 1: Medicare or Medicaid or CHIP program, but that we do

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Speaker 1: look at Medicare in and make it available to everyone.

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Speaker 1: I'm not signed up, you know, just to be perfectly

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Speaker 1: candid on any of the proposals, because I want to

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Speaker 1: see what the final product looks like. I'm not too keen.

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Speaker 1: A lot of voters, you know, and I said us

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Speaker 1: in the spin room, Congress of It, I don't blame you.

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Speaker 1: A lot of voters are still making up their mind

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Speaker 1: and they're they're sorting through it. It's so early in

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Speaker 1: the process. You've got everybody running from president plus Marian

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Speaker 1: Williamson and people are people are figure wearing it out.

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Speaker 1: Last question before I let you go in again, A

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Speaker 1: very complicated issue. And you look before you put your

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Speaker 1: your sponsor, your name on it. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: for me, for everyone else, but for me, I want

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Speaker 1: to I want to tell what the final brought them

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Speaker 1: looks like. I want to see what all the inn

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Speaker 1: look like. So it's too early, but I'm certainly open

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Speaker 1: to it. All right. Last question, where should I get

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Speaker 1: some tacos after the show tonight? Where's the best place

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Speaker 1: in Houston to get some tacos? Oh? Tonight? Well, regrettably

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Speaker 1: it's tonight, which means my favorite place. And you know

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Speaker 1: I always come back home and that's one of the

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Speaker 1: first stuffs that make is a good binge of of

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Speaker 1: of tacoas. But for me, it's takes makes crispy beef

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Speaker 1: tacos and those who can find it doing what he is.

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Speaker 1: Rest from the navigation a five minutes from downtown to Houston.

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Speaker 1: They do not serve dinner when you're breaking my heart

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Speaker 1: all right, Congress, all right, well thank you all. To

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Speaker 1: come back to Houston off for lunch. On to go

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Speaker 1: to after Houston for a lunch