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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Seven one fifty five krs Detoxation Happy Friday Meeting an
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Speaker 1: extra special happy welcome back to the fifty five Carsee
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Speaker 1: Morning Show. Yeah, you can say there are some good
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Speaker 1: people elected to hire office out there in terms of Congress,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson is one of them. Welcome back, my friend.
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Speaker 1: I love when you have when you come on the show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, Brian. Nice to talk with you.
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Speaker 1: Hey, real quick here before we get to the version
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Speaker 1: of the shutdown in what's going to take to get
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Speaker 1: DHS funded? If anything, Trump ourx got rolled out yesterday
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Speaker 1: trump rx dot Gov, which is an opportunity for at
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Speaker 1: least around forty or so prescriptions. This most Favored Nation
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Speaker 1: thing that Trump's been negotiating directly with pharmaceutical companies, looks
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Speaker 1: like it's going to result in some pretty substantial savings
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Speaker 1: for people who are eligible to use the Trump rx
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Speaker 1: dot site.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a pretty good idea.
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Speaker 3: I think we've got bills in the House that either
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Speaker 3: have made it through or widely supported. We don't have
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Speaker 3: a path through the Senate for some of this stuff
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Speaker 3: that Trump's executive action and frankly just leverage that he's
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Speaker 3: used with the insurers is getting this done and frankly
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Speaker 3: putting pressure on other countries too. And it's basically the
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Speaker 3: idea is like, yeah, if you're going to sell it
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Speaker 3: for eighty bucks in England, then you can sell it
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Speaker 3: for eighty bucks in.
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Speaker 2: America instead of eight hundred.
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Speaker 3: And so it's like if you want to blend it
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Speaker 3: and say it's three hundred or whatever, but like, whatever
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Speaker 3: your lowest price is, you sell that to Americans if
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Speaker 3: you're based in America, and if you want to sell
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Speaker 3: into America, you sell it that way. So I think
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Speaker 3: it's a huge opportunity for healthcare. And frankly, it's an
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Speaker 3: idea that makes sense for a lot of things, like
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Speaker 3: you can have a price, but you use this nonsense
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Speaker 3: of oh well, you know, here's how you're paying.
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Speaker 2: It's a lower price.
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Speaker 3: Or it'd be like the gas station saying, oh, well,
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Speaker 3: you drove up in a Chevy, you got this price,
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Speaker 3: but if it's a Ford, it's a different price.
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Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't make any sense. But I guess
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Speaker 1: I sort of heard in your statement there that there's
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Speaker 1: bipartisan support to pass this legislatively, because right now, again
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Speaker 1: it's just individually negotiated agreements with pharmaceutical companies. But if
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Speaker 1: you could legislate this, then it would be I would
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Speaker 1: imagine a much broader chunk of the pharmaceutical market.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is by parts of There are some
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Speaker 3: Repulicans that are like, oh, that's too much government.
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Speaker 2: We can't know to op the private sector what to do.
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Speaker 3: And then there are some Democrats that are like, well
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Speaker 3: that's Trump, so I can't support it period.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, or they want single payer where the government just
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Speaker 3: pays everything and there should be no price for anything
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Speaker 3: in healthcare.
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Speaker 2: It should all be free.
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Speaker 3: So but I think there's enough people that we should
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Speaker 3: be able to get this into law. We just haven't
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Speaker 3: moved it as like a standalone peace of legislation.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, pivoting over to funding five of the
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Speaker 1: spending bills, got to prove that parts over DHS subject
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Speaker 1: to a continuing resolution which allows DHS to continue what
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Speaker 1: it's ocurring funding level until what the thirteenth of this month,
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Speaker 1: which is fast approaching. Democrats rolled out ten some are
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Speaker 1: describing as outrageous demands for ICE and Home Department of
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Speaker 1: Homeland Security. Have you read the ten demands?
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Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson, Well, they keep adding to them.
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Speaker 3: Right, Originally they were like three in the negotiation, and
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Speaker 3: then there were ten, and now I hear there's like thirty.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's what's gonna happen, is that they
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Speaker 3: don't want to fund ICE, they want to defund ICE,
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Speaker 3: and so they're gonna keep moving the goalpost. Now, look,
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Speaker 3: I trust the plan. President Trump says he's got a plan,
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Speaker 3: and partially I think his plan is to say, you
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Speaker 3: guys are pretty dumb when you said defund the police
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Speaker 3: if you want to have something else blow up on you.
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Speaker 3: I don't think the public's gonna want you to defund ICE,
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Speaker 3: because the other thing when you defund DHS, I mean
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Speaker 3: you defund everything in DHS, So you'll shut the airports
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Speaker 3: down TSA. We can say, oh, these are essential and
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Speaker 3: try to keep them running like we did in the
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Speaker 3: previous Democrat led shut down the coastguards funded with DHS.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there are a lot of things that are
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Speaker 3: in homeland security that we need. And so I don't know,
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Speaker 3: we'll see how the negotiation plays out. I don't think
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Speaker 3: the Senate should have done this. I think they, you know,
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Speaker 3: lost leverage. They should have just passed it on a
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Speaker 3: party line vote and given okay, fine, that's what we
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Speaker 3: did in the House, gave the Democrats a vote, we
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Speaker 3: broke Homeland Security funding out and got to be recorded
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Speaker 3: on that. But then we blended the package together and
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Speaker 3: sentence to the Senate, And if they wanted to do
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Speaker 3: that in the Senate they could have. My concern is
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Speaker 3: that the reason they didn't do that is maybe they
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Speaker 3: didn't even have all the Republicans on board with voting
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Speaker 3: to fund DHS.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see, we will see and question mark as
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Speaker 1: we go to a brief break here and bring back
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Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson. A lot of people clamoring to incorporate
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Speaker 1: the Save Act into any Department of Homeland Security funding.
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Speaker 1: I imagine that Democrats don't like that. We'll hear if
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Speaker 1: that's a possibility. T leave reading from Congressman Davidson. Plus
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Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson, joining the program this morning, went through
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Speaker 1: some of the issues before we move over away from
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Speaker 1: a Department of Homeland and Security funding. I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people are clamoring to get the Save Act
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Speaker 1: in the funding bills, So if the Democrats are asking,
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Speaker 1: they have their list of demands. Republican demands include, hey,
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Speaker 1: how about the Save Act, which Congressman Davidson. I think
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of people really embrace the concept of
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Speaker 1: a photo identification to vote in elections. The only people
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Speaker 1: that seem clamoring against that are Democrats. And the only
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Speaker 1: thing I can come up with a logical, reasonable explanation
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Speaker 1: for that is that they want it to be easy
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Speaker 1: for people who aren't lawfully allowed to vote to vote.
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, your take.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's an eighty twenty issue, probably a
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Speaker 3: ninety ten issue in our neck of the woods. It's
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Speaker 3: the law in Ohio, it's not the law around the country.
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Speaker 3: And frankly, the only people that are opposed want to
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Speaker 3: cheat in elections. I mean they might not want to
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Speaker 3: cheat personally, but they certainly want to make it easy
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Speaker 3: to cheat. And you know, I don't know how you
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Speaker 3: can say you have a secure, honest election when you
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Speaker 3: can't even say who voted right, So you know, this
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Speaker 3: is a crazy idea that we're debitting. And the other
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Speaker 3: thing is, well, there are no illegals voting in elections.
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Speaker 3: And at the same time, you know it's unjust to
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Speaker 3: require you to prove you're a citizen, right, Okay, well
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Speaker 3: then affect nobody if we do. If you're right, and
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Speaker 3: no illegals voting elections, you know that's that's not true.
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Speaker 3: But but either way, you know, we've had to we've
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Speaker 3: had to push laws to say because they put motor
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Speaker 3: voter voter ID they have, they're registering when you when
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Speaker 3: you get a license. They're doing nothing to get licenses,
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Speaker 3: including uh, commercial drivers licenses in some states.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And and then they're supposed to screen at the like
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Speaker 3: security state's supposed to screen. Is this person lawfully allowed
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Speaker 3: to register a vote? But in some states they don't
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Speaker 3: do that, and so you have to go after it,
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Speaker 3: go out there and purge those roles.
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Speaker 1: Well, under federal law, immigrants, illegal immigrants are not allowed
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Speaker 1: to vote. There I mean, that's a black and white issue,
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Speaker 1: isn't it. So this was Yeah, this is a mechanism
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Speaker 1: to enforce federal law. You have to have to ask
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Speaker 1: for an ID or otherwise verify residency status. Otherwise they're
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Speaker 1: not eligible to vote. Because I mean, that's a critical component,
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I mean, and look, we need to get this done
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Speaker 3: soon because trankly it needs to apply to every single
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Speaker 3: federal election and in time is of the essence here
7:17
Speaker 3: we see, you know, all kinds of things going on
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Speaker 3: to try to shape the outcomes of these elections, and
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Speaker 3: you know, you need to take illegal things off the table,
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Speaker 3: and by all means, go work to the votes, not doors,
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Speaker 3: call people, send messages, whatever that speech. But what you
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Speaker 3: can't do is, you know, you've got places where they're
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Speaker 3: doing the mail in ballots. This is the other thing
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Speaker 3: that needs to be part of the Save of America
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Speaker 3: Act is limiting the kinds of mail in voting that's
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Speaker 3: going on.
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Speaker 2: So like, yeah, if you're legitimately going.
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Speaker 3: To be out of town or you're in the military,
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Speaker 3: these are the reasons we do absentee voting. But in
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Speaker 3: some states they're literally mailing live ballots to people and
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Speaker 3: not just to hey, would you like or soliciting absentee voting,
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Speaker 3: and they're putting this out to places that have like
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Speaker 3: dozens or in some cases even hundreds of people at
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Speaker 3: the same address. So, you know, common sense things like
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Speaker 3: limiting mail in voting and frankly when the votes are counted,
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Speaker 3: all these kinds of things. There's so many common sense
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Speaker 3: reforms at the federal level. And the great thing is
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Speaker 3: Ohio has done a lot of these things. We had
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Speaker 3: a problematic election, you know, four in January sixth of five.
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Speaker 3: We had people object to the results in Ohio's election,
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Speaker 3: and of course they didn't, you know, say that was
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Speaker 3: crazy or anything. You know, we disagreed and they called
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Speaker 3: the votes and everything went smoothly.
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Speaker 2: But we fixed our elections. Since then, it had to
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Speaker 2: go to the Supreme Court to do it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, John Houstd when he was secure of state,
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Speaker 3: had to sue and win in the Supreme Court just
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Speaker 3: to take dead people off the voter rolls.
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Speaker 1: In a while, isn't that It's just absolutely crazy when
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Speaker 1: you put it that way. Congressman Davidson, well, call me
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Speaker 1: jaded and cynical. I doubt it's going to be part
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Speaker 1: of the DHS. But this came in advance as a
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Speaker 1: standalone bill on its own because it's already been through
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Speaker 1: the House and previously.
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Speaker 2: Approve.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, and look, we've updated that bill, so we'll
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Speaker 3: probably vote on it this next week in the House
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Speaker 3: and get it to the Senate with fresh language. And
9:16
Speaker 3: the senate's talking about a standing filibuster. So this isn't
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Speaker 3: like a new thing. It doesn't break the path that
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Speaker 3: they've been doing with the quote sixty vote rule. There's
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Speaker 3: another means that you can do to get a vote
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Speaker 3: without what they call cloture, which is sixty votes, which
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Speaker 3: is you know, how they agree to have debate.
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Speaker 2: The other thing you can do is exhaust every person
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Speaker 2: who speaks.
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Speaker 3: You can only speak two times on a given subject,
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Speaker 3: but you can speak for as long as you want,
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Speaker 3: you know. So like mister Smith goes to Washington, he
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Speaker 3: had no allies, so he held the floor and then
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Speaker 3: you know, eventually, you know, gave up, right, And that's
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Speaker 3: I don't want to spoil the inning for anybody it
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Speaker 3: hadn't seen.
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Speaker 2: It's a good show. Mister Smith goes to Washington. But
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Speaker 2: but that that is still the rule in the Senate.
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Speaker 3: It just isn't used because it's easier to say, well,
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Speaker 3: you don't have sixty votes, and they never even call
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Speaker 3: the votes a lot of times.
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Speaker 1: Right, Well, well, I'd like to see it happen, because, again,
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Speaker 1: as you point out, this really is an eighty twenty issue.
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Speaker 1: People understand the need for a photo ID. How else
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Speaker 1: can you ensure the integrity of the election. And we
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Speaker 1: just happen to be the only what developed country in
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Speaker 1: the world that does not have a photo ID requirement.
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Speaker 1: I mean everybody else woke up to this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean even the French are onto this, right,
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Speaker 3: and they count their election results in a single day.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's amazing.
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Speaker 3: That's good.
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Speaker 1: We'll leave on that note and bring it back to
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Speaker 1: talk about the new tax rule and great, great things
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Speaker 1: happen in the state of Ohio. We've got to stay
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Tiffany Green all the other police officers for
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Speaker 1: what you do. Congressman Warren Davidson pivoting back over to
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Speaker 1: let's just start with this new manufacturing and innovation hub.
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Speaker 1: This is a great thing that's happening up in Hamilton.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's tremendous.
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Speaker 3: You've got really the first polytechnic school in Ohio, and
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Speaker 3: by that, you know, you've got high school kids, you've
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Speaker 3: got a path for like a community college degree, you've
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Speaker 3: got path for a four year degree, and you've got
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Speaker 3: adult education for just short term things. So all this
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Speaker 3: is right there in Hamilton, and watching the kind of
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Speaker 3: collaboration that's taken years to come together, I just kudos
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Speaker 3: to the City of Hamilton, Butler Tech. John Graff was
11:33
Speaker 3: a longtime superintendent for Butler Tech. Joshua Smith was a
11:38
Speaker 3: longtime leader for economic development in Hamilton, And you could
11:42
Speaker 3: you could spend the rest of the program naming off
11:44
Speaker 3: you know, dozens of people that really just put full
11:48
Speaker 3: effort into this. Doctor Crawford leading Miami, getting Miami to
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Speaker 3: make this commitment. I mean, it's going to be people
11:53
Speaker 3: from all over the country are coming there to check
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Speaker 3: this thing out, and it's going to be a tremendous
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Speaker 3: game changer for the industry.
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Speaker 1: So this will involve training people for manufacturing jobs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a whole host of them.
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Speaker 3: And you know, before I was in Congress, I used
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Speaker 3: to own manufacturing companies. I was at one time the
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Speaker 3: chairman of the Dayton Region Manufacturers Association. We had plants
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Speaker 3: in Troy and plants in Fairfield, We had apprenticeship programs,
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Speaker 3: and we never even dreamt of having the kind of
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Speaker 3: capability out of some of our community colleges or joint
12:25
Speaker 3: vocational schools, things like Butler Tech, that you have now
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Speaker 3: in this So you have state of the art technology
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Speaker 3: in the jobs. I mean, I think the perception in
12:34
Speaker 3: the public thanks to micro talking about dirty jobs and
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Speaker 3: so many other people, there are so many good jobs
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Speaker 3: and I love them in manufacturing. So you can go
12:42
Speaker 3: get a PhD advanced research in manufacturing. If you want
12:45
Speaker 3: to be an accountant, don't be a tax accountant, be
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Speaker 3: a cost account and figure out what it takes to
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Speaker 3: make things. Or if you just like I was talking
12:52
Speaker 3: to my son over Thanksgiving and catching up on his buddies,
12:55
Speaker 3: and he said, well, you know, the guy who's probably
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Speaker 3: making the most out of all of us went to
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Speaker 3: welding school for nine months now the Lima tank plant.
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Speaker 3: These guys are working all the overtime he wants. He's
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Speaker 3: making well into the six figures as a welder.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up welding. I have always been
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Speaker 1: fascinated by welding. I had a litigation in Chicago involved welding,
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Speaker 1: and when I learned about it, it's like I got
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Speaker 1: to learn how to weld. This is amazing. Those jobs
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Speaker 1: pay good money, and there's a lot of them out
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Speaker 1: there from everything I've heard of manufacturing. Well, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: the adult education is going to be offered at this
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Speaker 1: manufacturing innovation hub. Perfect timing given the new work requirement
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Speaker 1: for receiving able body people currently on social welfare benefits career.
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Speaker 2: That's been my view.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we changed all this back with the
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Speaker 3: big beautiful Bill on July fourth, And you know, back
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Speaker 3: in the nineties this was bipartisan when Bill Clinton did
13:47
Speaker 3: the deal with new Gendrich and you said, you know,
13:49
Speaker 3: just like you would expect in your own friends or family,
13:51
Speaker 3: you'll help someone out in need. But after a while,
13:53
Speaker 3: you're saying, you're g net need a job, right or
13:55
Speaker 3: at least go to school or volunteer or something. Well,
13:58
Speaker 3: that went away when Obama was pre at eight oh nine.
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Speaker 3: So instead of suspending all the mandate for a little while,
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Speaker 3: because you know, we had a big recession, they just
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Speaker 3: removed it and it's been hyperpartisan ever since. To get
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Speaker 3: this done. We passed it in the big beautiful bill,
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Speaker 3: and they would say, oh, all these people are gonna
14:14
Speaker 3: lose their food stamps or they're going to lose their
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Speaker 3: health care. I'm like, I really don't think so. I
14:18
Speaker 3: think that if the alternative is you really need this money,
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Speaker 3: you're probably gonna go to school or volunteer or get
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Speaker 3: a job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think that's what's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: And now we've got this resource where if you just
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Speaker 3: need more skills, you can do it.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: The hard thing is is if you've got three generations
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Speaker 3: of people that don't have a work ethic, you're going
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Speaker 3: to be twenty five or thirty and don't have a
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Speaker 3: work ethic.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard to fix those people. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But if you're willing to do something to help yourself,
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Speaker 3: and you have somebody in your life that will help
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Speaker 3: drive you and motivate you to do it, then you
14:49
Speaker 3: know we've got a great resource there in Hamilton. Now.
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Speaker 1: Yes, hey man, my family's philosophy and something I tried to,
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Speaker 1: you know, pound into my children's head. You owe society
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Speaker 1: and obligation to at least be able to take care
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Speaker 1: of yourself, unless you're just not able to, in which
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Speaker 1: case that's why we have programs. But if you're capable
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Speaker 1: of it, you owe it to society. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: like it takes a village, Congressman Davidson. If you're part
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Speaker 1: of the village, don't lay around on your butt if
15:12
Speaker 1: you're capable of getting up and participating. It seems like
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Speaker 1: a simple philosophy that doesn't bear political stripe. But we
15:17
Speaker 1: know where we are, Congressman Davidson. Finally, how about the
15:20
Speaker 1: new tax rules. Apparently we're looking at bigger refunds this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's another big thing. You know, people
15:27
Speaker 3: forget that. The Big Beautiful Bill was also one of
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Speaker 3: the core components of it was called the Working Families
15:33
Speaker 3: Task Cuts Act, and you know, of course, it locked
15:36
Speaker 3: in rates that were already there that we're going to
15:39
Speaker 3: go up significantly if we didn't pass the law and
15:42
Speaker 3: make them permanent. But it added new things like you know,
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Speaker 3: a six thousand dollars deduction for Social Security, like no
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Speaker 3: tax on overtime, no tax on tips for businesses that
15:53
Speaker 3: you know, restored things that did expire like being able
15:56
Speaker 3: to expense research and development and capital expenditures interest, So
16:01
Speaker 3: these things are huge. We think that's going to start
16:03
Speaker 3: kicking in with the new withholdings for the year, and
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Speaker 3: it's going to drive some of the investment that's going
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Speaker 3: to keep our.
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Speaker 2: Growth rate high.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, looking at a four percent growth
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Speaker 3: rate projection for the year, and we got to do
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Speaker 3: other things to keep that happening. But you know, the
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Speaker 3: work has been done, and I think President Trump's led
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Speaker 3: a strong path to growth for the economy.
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Speaker 1: And thanks to folks like you, we are on a
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Speaker 1: path to growth.
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Speaker 2: Growth.
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Speaker 1: Congress and Warren Davidson, thank you so much for spending
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Speaker 1: time with my listeners and me. As always, I look
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Speaker 1: forward to having you on the show, and I'll look
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Speaker 1: forward to talking with you again. Best to health you
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Speaker 1: and your loved ones, and again, keep up the great work.