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Mike Lawler - US Representative for NYs 17th District · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: For Mark today. Here's Ken Rosatto and good to be
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  Speaker 1: with you right now, eleven forty two on your Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the federal government has been shut down now
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  Speaker 1: for fifteen days, all because a handful of Democrats in
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  Speaker 1: the Senate refused to sign with the near one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent of Republicans who've already voted to pass the continuing
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  Speaker 1: Resolution in the House, and fifty two of the fifty
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  Speaker 1: three Republican senators voted for it. Yet the left keeps
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  Speaker 1: trying to blame the shutdown on Republicans. Well, joining us
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  Speaker 1: out to talk about the shutdown as New York Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lawler. He represents the low Hutson Valley, My family
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  Speaker 1: all lives there. Good morning to you, Congressman, Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: having me. Good to have you on. And before we
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  Speaker 1: before we even go into the shutdown, I got to
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  Speaker 1: ask you, so you went face to face with Hakeem Jeffries,
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  Speaker 1: what was that like? Because it looked like he was
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  Speaker 1: a little testy. He wasn't. He wasn't having it, but
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  Speaker 1: neither were you.
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  Speaker 2: He was. He was angry, he was yelling, he was stuttering,
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  Speaker 2: he was stammering, and he couldn't answer a single question.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, my point going to him was to
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  Speaker 2: call out the hypocrisy of his position. Number one on
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  Speaker 2: shutting the government down under Joe Biden, thirteen times he
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  Speaker 2: and Chuck Schumer voted to keep the government open and
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  Speaker 2: funded passing clean crs. And number two, to point out that, look,
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  Speaker 2: if you're saying healthcare is the issue, I'm on a
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  Speaker 2: bipartisan bill to extend these subsidies by a year. Join us,
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  Speaker 2: get on the bill, champion it with us. And he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't do it. And in fact, you know, he just
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  Speaker 2: evolved into personal insults and you know, really had no
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  Speaker 2: substance to his position because it's indefensible what he and
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer have done, right, I mean, Chuck Schumer government down.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman. If I A when Chuck Schumer was going into
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  Speaker 1: his news conference two and a half weeks ago, wasn't
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  Speaker 1: he going in to say that he apparently that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to sign on to this, to the Continuing Resolution.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently, I mean, he knows he has AOC on
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  Speaker 1: his backside. So suddenly he goes up there and he says,
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  Speaker 1: I am, I'm not going to sign in to this
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  Speaker 1: no Senator will. It was just so obvious that it's
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  Speaker 1: all politics with them, and the idea that they would
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  Speaker 1: try to blame this on the right. With everybody on
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  Speaker 1: the right, with the exception of what Rand Paul, everybody
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  Speaker 1: on the right is supporting the continuing resolution, How on
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  Speaker 1: earth do you blame Republicans for this?
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  Speaker 2: It's absurd, And in fact, John Fetterman last night said
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  Speaker 2: that this is entirely the Democrat's fault. The Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: not responsible for this. And so, you know, Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 2: and Hakeem Jeffries have made a political calculation, and the
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  Speaker 2: political calculation is that they need to show their progressive
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  Speaker 2: left base that they are standing up to Trump, that
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  Speaker 2: they're fighting back against Donald Trump. That's all this is about.
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  Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with healthcare, It has nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with government spending. It has to do with
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  Speaker 2: them showing their base that they are big and bad
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  Speaker 2: and tough. I mean so much. Show that Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 2: changed his glasses to look hits. It's absurd, but this
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  Speaker 2: is what we're dealing with. And so you know, AOC
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  Speaker 2: was asked last night on a town hall, are you
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  Speaker 2: going to primary Schumer? And she wouldn't answer the question
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  Speaker 2: because we know the answer right is yes. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what he's afraid of. That's what he's concerned about. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to lose his grip on power in the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Conference, and he took so much incoming in March
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  Speaker 2: when he voted for a clean cr So their position
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  Speaker 2: is entirely absurd. And that was my point in going
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  Speaker 2: and basically exposing Jeffries for the partisan hack that he is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you and you did that, and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you did that, it was like you
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  Speaker 1: whipped a band aid off a scab. He was so
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  Speaker 1: ticked off the fact that he had no means of
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  Speaker 1: saying anything productive and intelligent back, but to spit and
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  Speaker 1: get angry. When I say spit, I mean spittle. I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean he actually spitted you. You know that. But to
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  Speaker 1: do that just uncovered everything about him. Just remind everybody
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to seven to ten woar the Voice of
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  Speaker 1: New York. This is Ken Rosotto on a Thursday in
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  Speaker 1: for the Great Mark Simone with one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: Congress members of all time, Mike Lawler, who represents the
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  Speaker 1: Lower Hudson Valley. My family all and friends all living
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  Speaker 1: in that friends and Putnam County family in Westchester County,
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  Speaker 1: and they all voted for you, by the way, just
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  Speaker 1: to put it on record. But so now I love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the Democrats will never seemingly understand the
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  Speaker 1: Great Donald Trump that when they are playing cheap checkers,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is playing advanced chess and he's already figured
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  Speaker 1: out how to across them. Of course, not only with
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  Speaker 1: the shutdown. So he's getting the military paid, and he's
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  Speaker 1: putting the Democrats in a situation where they have to say, no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't pay the military.
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  Speaker 2: That's not allowed.
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  Speaker 1: So that makes them even look more foolish. And on
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  Speaker 1: top of that, now the big Gateway tunnel project, which
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  Speaker 1: was Chuck Schumer's big championing project for twenty years, he said, no,
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  Speaker 1: now it's all over. But bye, it's all on you, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think that that'll be permanent or do
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  Speaker 1: you think that's something that could be renegotiated now when
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  Speaker 1: we come back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is the stupidity of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey's position, and they're starting to hurt New Yorkers, and
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  Speaker 2: you know they should stop playing games. They should stop
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  Speaker 2: putzing around. They should do their jobs. Go vote today
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  Speaker 2: to open the government back up. There is no benefit
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  Speaker 2: to a government shutdown. You are hurting the American people,
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  Speaker 2: You're hurting those serving in the military. You're hurting those
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  Speaker 2: who are reliant on programs like Wick and SNAP, and
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  Speaker 2: you're hurting New Yorkers and moreover, they're costing US about
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  Speaker 2: fifteen billion dollars a day in GDP because of the
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  Speaker 2: stupidity of all of this. You know, at a time
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  Speaker 2: when Donald Trump is securing Middle East peace and getting
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  Speaker 2: a ceasefire and getting the hostages released, these idiots are
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  Speaker 2: holding the American people hostage for nothing, for no gain
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  Speaker 2: or reason other than their own political self interest and
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  Speaker 2: trying to appease a radical left base.
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  Speaker 1: And for what it's worth. And for those who don't understand,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about passing a continuing resolution, which means the
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  Speaker 1: existing spending plan for which the Democrats voted in lockstep
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, they would continue it for another few
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  Speaker 1: weeks while you could all get together and negotiate a
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  Speaker 1: brand new spending plan for next year. Do I have
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  Speaker 1: that right, Congressman, You got it spot on. So that's
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  Speaker 1: all it is. How is it that the Democrats when
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  Speaker 1: Biden was president, they were all for this, and now
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  Speaker 1: the Trump, the orange man bad is president. Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: can't support this. It is such pure hypocrisy. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact that in this day and age, this era of
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  Speaker 1: the Internet, that CHUCKI, Chuck Schumer can think that people
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  Speaker 1: are not going to look it up and see what's
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  Speaker 1: really going on is laughable. I think this is going
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  Speaker 1: to backfire on them, big ten.
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  Speaker 2: And no question. You know, Chuck Schumer last week was
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  Speaker 2: quoted as saying, every day gets better for us. Who's us?
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  Speaker 2: Us is the Democratic Party. They don't care about the
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  Speaker 2: American people. They don't care about the impact on the
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  Speaker 2: American people. This is about protecting their own hide within
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  Speaker 2: the base of their party and trying to stave off
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  Speaker 2: any primaries or plays on leadership. That's all this, that's
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  Speaker 2: all this is about. And so you look at it
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  Speaker 2: and you know, to me, this isn't about polls. It's
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  Speaker 2: not about who's winning or losing. The only people being
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  Speaker 2: hurt here are the American people. And it is shameful,
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  Speaker 2: it is wrong. I pushed back against it when Republicans
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do it. Under Joe Biden because of his
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  Speaker 2: open border policies. While I agreed with them on the
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  Speaker 2: merits of Biden's policies being disastrous, that's not the way
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  Speaker 2: to fix it. You don't shut the government down as
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  Speaker 2: a means of trying to fix it. And Democrats all said,
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  Speaker 2: you can't do that, you can't do that, you can't
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  Speaker 2: try to exert policy changes at the barrel of a gun.
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  Speaker 2: And yet that's precisely what they are doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman, if you were a betting man, how long would
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  Speaker 1: you say this might last?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to go on for quite a while.
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  Speaker 2: There seems to be no willingness on their part. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you had a Democratic staffer say we'll keep it shut
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  Speaker 2: down until a plane pulls out of the sky. I mean, forbids.
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  Speaker 2: That's how foolish these people are. It's totally unnecessary. It
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  Speaker 2: needs to stop. Unfortunately, you know, I think we're in
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  Speaker 2: this for quite a while.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's hope that maybe more calm minds and hearts
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  Speaker 1: will prevail and we get this taken care of sooner
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  Speaker 1: rather than later. It is so good to have you on.
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  Speaker 1: He represents New York's seventeenth Congressional district, including the Lower
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  Speaker 1: Hudson Valley. Congressman Mike Lawler, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: fighting the good fight and coming on the Mark Simone
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  Speaker 1: Show today.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thanks so much.
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