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AFP - Make Government Work · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: And Tyler's Phil He's found on two seventy five erect
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  Speaker 1: ing Ramont fifty five KOC the talk station. It's seven
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine, fifty five KRSD talk station and a very
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  Speaker 1: happy Wednesday to you one hour from now, Judgejenna Politana
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  Speaker 1: preceded by congress Span Thomas Massey in the meantime, Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to the fifty five KRSEE morning show from Americans
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  Speaker 1: for Prosperity Donovan and he it's always great having you
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  Speaker 1: on the show, Donovan.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, always a pleasure to start my Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: With you, and I've been laughing all morning at the
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  Speaker 1: subject matter is just make government work campus like? Is
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  Speaker 1: that even possible? They have to be open to get
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  Speaker 1: work done, apparently, although they were able to approve one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seven of Donald Trump's nominees and positions yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: fast tracking that. But they had a solution for that
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  Speaker 1: that didn't require sixty votes in the Senate. They need
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  Speaker 1: that many votes to get the government open again. So
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  Speaker 1: absent and open government, I doubt it's going to be working.
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  Speaker 1: Some of my listeners are actually quite pleased about that.
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  Speaker 1: Before we jump to the Make Government Work program. Your
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  Speaker 1: reaction to the Democrats line in the same position on this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we keep going back to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the premium supplements were waved. The cap was waved because
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  Speaker 1: of COVID, and they put an end date in that legislation,
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  Speaker 1: which is the end of this calendar year. That was
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  Speaker 1: by the Democrat's own hand. It's something they agreed to.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to end. COVID is over. We have no
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  Speaker 1: reason to continue this. And yet they're the Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: insisting that we give all kinds of people, including illegal immigrants,
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  Speaker 1: but even people who make two hundred and three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and four hundred thousand dollars a year or how whatever
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  Speaker 1: amount over sixty two to five, they're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a break and have their premium supplemented by the American
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  Speaker 1: tax payer. I don't get how they have any traction
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  Speaker 1: on this at all, Donovan, and I just want to
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  Speaker 1: get your reaction to their position relative to the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and the reality is there is zero connection
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  Speaker 2: between this government shut down and the demands of Chuck
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  Speaker 2: Schumer on these COVID subsidies. This is their entire and
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  Speaker 2: wholly unrelated, and the fact that this narrative continues to
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  Speaker 2: be able to exist, you know, in traditional media, and
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  Speaker 2: that they're not being laughed out of Washington, DC, the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats over this is just unbelievable, zero connection, Brian, between
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  Speaker 2: our government not functioning right now, military pay at risk,
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  Speaker 2: federal employees pay at risk next week, and these COVID
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  Speaker 2: subsidies totally unrelated.
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  Speaker 1: And it's such a black and white there's no gray
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  Speaker 1: area in this. The continued resolution offered by the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: is the Biden level of spending. So the Democrats aren't
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  Speaker 1: complaining about all the evil Republicans CR wants to cut this,
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  Speaker 1: that and the other thing. No, it doesn't, so that
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  Speaker 1: argument isn't there. So we really are talking about extending
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  Speaker 1: these COVID era supplements that that message the reality the
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  Speaker 1: black and the reality of the black and white nature
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  Speaker 1: of this dispute, that it isn't resonating or maybe is
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  Speaker 1: lost on the American people. That's a struggle that you
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  Speaker 1: deal with Americans for prosperity all the time. If people
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  Speaker 1: don't pay attention, if they don't bother looking into the
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  Speaker 1: whys and wherefores, they're just going to listen to a
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  Speaker 1: SoundBite from the Democrats or the Republicans as the case, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but they're going to be in a factual vacuum.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's part of what we've been
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  Speaker 2: out there driving and I think Speaker Johnson and the
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  Speaker 2: Republican majority in Congress have done a great job of
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  Speaker 2: driving that home. We have to reject the Democrats premise here.
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  Speaker 2: There's no need for a deal, that it's a manufactured
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  Speaker 2: crisis that is easily resolved with the clean continuing Resolution
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  Speaker 2: that's already passed out of Congress is over sitting with
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  Speaker 2: the Senate and just takes sixty votes. It'd be great
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  Speaker 2: to get one hundred, right, to get everybody to agree
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  Speaker 2: we're just going to keep our government running while we
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  Speaker 2: proceed through the normal order of business of getting these
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  Speaker 2: budget bills completed and sent to the President. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the idea here, Brian right, is reject the premise of
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  Speaker 2: what Democrats are putting for because it's bogus, it's not real.
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  Speaker 2: They're unconnected issues, and the crisis exists only because I
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer wants to use the September thirtieth end of
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  Speaker 2: the federal fiscal year he used the September thirtieth end
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  Speaker 2: of the fiscal year to create a crisis and try
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  Speaker 2: to score some partisan wins on an issue that they
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  Speaker 2: can talk about, debate, and discuss beyond the government shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned Johnson when he was he did his
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  Speaker 1: press conference on this issue. He was bulletproof, rock solid,
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  Speaker 1: very just laid out point by point reason why this
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  Speaker 1: is all on the Democrats corner. The point that I
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  Speaker 1: just boiled down a moment ago about these COVID nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year or something.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was just easy to unpackage and easy to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: But if no one's listening to that message. I heard
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  Speaker 1: a talking head comment on that that you know X
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  Speaker 1: number of people actually watched it or clicked on the
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  Speaker 1: replay on social media versus Bernie Sanders or whoever else
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  Speaker 1: rambling about the evil Republicans which had millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: by contrast clicks on it. So if you're hiding in
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  Speaker 1: that factual back, can you not interested in hearing what
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  Speaker 1: Johnson's going to say? You're not going to see how
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  Speaker 1: bulletproof is logic is. So there's that uphill struggle we
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  Speaker 1: constantly deal with waking the American people up and getting
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  Speaker 1: them to try and pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: So let's pause.
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  Speaker 1: We'll bring Donovan O'Neil back and talk specifically about how
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  Speaker 1: you and I can help make government work. To the
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  Speaker 1: extent that's a good idea. We'll continue to detalk Station
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with Americans for Prosperities Dominant O'Neill on the
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  Speaker 1: concept of make government work. Over at makegovernmentwork dot org.
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  Speaker 1: You can find all the I love this one, Donovan particularly.
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  Speaker 1: You have five specific acts, the Reorganizing Government Act, to
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  Speaker 1: Prevent Government Shutdowns Act, the Rains Act among them, and
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  Speaker 1: each one would go a long long way to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: the goals of my listeners and I are really hoping
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  Speaker 1: to see someday, you know, getting rid of inefficiency, getting
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  Speaker 1: rid of bureaucracy, streamlining processes, making government more efficient, and
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  Speaker 1: preventing the government from shutting down in the event they
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  Speaker 1: can't resolve things. So let's talk about some of these.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Massey has brought up some of these particular acts before.
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  Speaker 1: But an opportunity you've made so easy for our listeners
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  Speaker 1: to get engaged. Just give them your name and your
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  Speaker 1: email address, and so they'll send you a call to
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  Speaker 1: action from time to time. This is the well oiled
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  Speaker 1: machine that we need on our side of the political ledger,
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  Speaker 1: much in the same way those leftists and Marxists and
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  Speaker 1: socialists have such a well low machine when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to social media. So help you help yourself, help Americans
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  Speaker 1: for our prosperity. Let's talk about some of these. Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: the Reorganizing Government Act.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is This is a piece of legislation from
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky Representative James Comer. It's active legislation. We've got nineteen
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  Speaker 2: co sponsors right now. And what it would require is
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  Speaker 2: an independent review for waste and overlapping services, provide Congress
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  Speaker 2: with reorganization plans right to help sort of pinpoint from
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  Speaker 2: independent analysis what needs to be done to get you know,
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  Speaker 2: the duplicative regulatory bodies and just the bloat and overweighted
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  Speaker 2: government streamlined so it can actually operate efficiently. And these
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  Speaker 2: aren't like I mean, they are pie and a sky
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  Speaker 2: ideas Brian right. But like outside of government, large organizations,
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  Speaker 2: large complex organizations are able to do this stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: we just need to bring some of those practices and
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  Speaker 2: ideas to government to make it work. At a cost
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  Speaker 2: effective way with the precious tax tape pair dollars we
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  Speaker 2: give it so that it can function without chaos and craziness.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because the free markets out here in the real world,
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  Speaker 1: where real work has to be done and they have
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  Speaker 1: to make a real profit, they're allowed to streamline and
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  Speaker 1: engage in rifts and reorgs and elimination of departments without
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  Speaker 1: fear of litigation. Because most of the employers have the
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  Speaker 1: freedom to hire or fire at will. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: that in the federal government. They have rules, regulations, unions
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  Speaker 1: protecting the government employees. And there's so much red tape
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  Speaker 1: involving eliminating a position. It just gets bigger and bigger,
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  Speaker 1: and no one ever seems to get fired.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and I think you know, we see glimmers
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  Speaker 2: of this the early days of Trump forty seven. Right,
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  Speaker 2: just a few short months ago, there was a there
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  Speaker 2: was that energy existed, I think in Washington to make
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  Speaker 2: some of those reforms. Now you're taking you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: going up against what is that that immovable object and
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  Speaker 2: an unstoppable force, right, yes, kind of colliding here, but
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  Speaker 2: you know it's it's legislation like this, right that it
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  Speaker 2: has the opportunity of Congress has the courage to reassert
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  Speaker 2: its authority and right side the ship. It's possible, it's constitutional,
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  Speaker 2: and we appreciate Senator or Representative Comer for bringing this forward.
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  Speaker 2: And we're kind of beating that drum out there on
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  Speaker 2: this as a key solution to fixing the bloat and
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  Speaker 2: wasting government.
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  Speaker 1: And there is no reason to be against the Prevent
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  Speaker 1: Government Shutdowns Act. We wouldn't be in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: this stupidity if we had this. And this is one
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  Speaker 1: of the ones that I've talked about with Congressman Massy.
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  Speaker 1: Remind my listeners about this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So this is from Senator James Langford, and this
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  Speaker 2: actually has been around for a few sessions of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: It came about in twenty nineteen when we had the
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  Speaker 2: thirty five day shut down. Shutdowns are a more recent
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  Speaker 2: in art in American history phenomenon. It actually came out
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  Speaker 2: of the nineteen seventies and an interpretation from the Carter
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  Speaker 2: administration on the function of government when it fails to
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  Speaker 2: pass a budget, it's created a crisis to crisis environment
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  Speaker 2: where like we're seeing right now right wholly unrelated issues
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  Speaker 2: like COVID era Health ACA subsidies are trying to be
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  Speaker 2: connected to the normal funding of our federal government at
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  Speaker 2: current levels, totally unconnected issues. We can prevent government shutdowns though,
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  Speaker 2: by automatically funding government at current levels till the budget
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  Speaker 2: process is done and putting some accountability measures like hey, congressman,
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  Speaker 2: you can't use taxpayer dollars to get out of Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Go home, and you know, you know peacock in front
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  Speaker 2: of your constituents, you got to stay in Washington till
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  Speaker 2: the job is done and you get the budget. It's
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  Speaker 2: the most essential function of Congress, Brian, we know this
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  Speaker 2: right is to fund our federal government and manage it
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  Speaker 2: to prevent government shutdown. Act. It would eliminate the crisis
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  Speaker 2: to crisis approach that exists right now when Congress and
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  Speaker 2: government can shut down because Congress builed to act.
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  Speaker 1: All right, moving over the Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so what this would do when we budget at home? Right?
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  Speaker 2: And I know Congress in Washington, DC aren't like budgeting
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  Speaker 2: at home, but you put everything together, right, You don't
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  Speaker 2: get to just say, hey, you know, my mortgage payment's
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  Speaker 2: over here, and you know, date night with the wife
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  Speaker 2: budget is over here. It's all one big budget, right,
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  Speaker 2: you get one paycheck and it all gets You got
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  Speaker 2: to budget it all out right now, Congress has shrunk
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  Speaker 2: discretionary spending is only about twenty five percent seventy five
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  Speaker 2: percent or more. Is this direct spending like Social Security, Medicaid,
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  Speaker 2: Medicare these these programs that are sort of I would
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  Speaker 2: describe as being on autopilot for budgeting. We need to
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  Speaker 2: put the whole picture together and have a full picture
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  Speaker 2: of what our federal government is in taking and outgoing spending,
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  Speaker 2: so that we're actually making decisions about the total ledger,
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  Speaker 2: not just that small percentage that is discretionary. We want
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  Speaker 2: Congress to be in control of the purse. And what
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  Speaker 2: this would is would require that.
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  Speaker 1: So they take in X, they've got mandatory spending, which
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  Speaker 1: is a pile that represents why so X minus Y
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  Speaker 1: is what's left over, and that has to be allocated
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  Speaker 1: responsively among what's left the non discretionary spending. So if
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  Speaker 1: you have a finite amount of cash left over in
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  Speaker 1: the pile, you limit your spending to what's left over.
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  Speaker 1: That's responsible budgeting, which means a lot of stuff is
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  Speaker 1: going to have to get cut because it isn't really
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  Speaker 1: truly a priority.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know cut adjusted. You know, not
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  Speaker 2: that I would advocate or we would allgate for this, right,
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  Speaker 2: but if you you know, Congress deems this a priority,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have to raise taxes or some other
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  Speaker 2: form of revenue to get it done. But right now
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  Speaker 2: we kind of look at these things in pieces and parcels.
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  Speaker 2: We want Congress to look at this as the whole picture,
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  Speaker 2: right Congress, Like you said, it takes an X, it's
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  Speaker 2: got to spend. Why what do you what are the
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  Speaker 2: actual priorities? Where can the where is the federal government
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  Speaker 2: best position to be impactful or have programs? But again,
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  Speaker 2: right now, as long as it's sort of sliced and
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  Speaker 2: diced and split up, more of it's on autopilot. When
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  Speaker 2: we actually want Congress to take a more active approach
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  Speaker 2: to governing, that's what we send them there to do.
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  Speaker 2: We elect them to go there and do that a
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  Speaker 2: handful do we need all of Congress to do that?
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  Speaker 1: And the next one's come up quite frequently. Again, again
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  Speaker 1: I've talked with Congress from Kes about the Rains Act.
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  Speaker 1: This is a really important one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, once we get the and we can get
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  Speaker 2: government reorganized. We can get you know this, this shutdown
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  Speaker 2: threat removed from the equation in Washington, d C. And
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  Speaker 2: you get the budgeting figured out. You also got to
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  Speaker 2: make sure the bloat doesn't come back, right, And each
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  Speaker 2: of these are important on their own, but the Rains
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  Speaker 2: Act in particular. You know, as we start, especially this
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration with does starts clearing out rules and regulations
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  Speaker 2: and streamlining permitting if we can clear out the cobwebs.
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  Speaker 2: But what we need to do is by enacting the
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  Speaker 2: Rains Act, keep that proliferation of rules and regulations from
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  Speaker 2: coming back, and it would the regulations from the executive
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  Speaker 2: in need of scrutiny. Is good for both Republicans and
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  Speaker 2: Democrats because it'd keep these most egregious, economically harmful rules
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  Speaker 2: from going into effect without at least Congress taking another
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  Speaker 2: look at him and saying, yeah, this is what we intended.
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  Speaker 2: We believe this is important and it's right now. I
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  Speaker 2: got ninety two co sponsors, including Ohio's and Dave Taylor
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  Speaker 2: from southern Ohio, so we appreciate that cool from him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, and force the Democrats to defend what they want,
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  Speaker 1: which is egregiously intrusive and irresponsible regulations. Make them justify it.
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  Speaker 1: Now at least the conversation will be air, will air
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  Speaker 1: all this out in the public.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, we have the Midnight Rules Relief Act. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: familiar with this one, Donovan.
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  Speaker 2: So this is from Arizona Representative Andy Biggs, and this
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  Speaker 2: is an important piece in that How many times do
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  Speaker 2: we hear? Right, you get to December January when a
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  Speaker 2: new administration is coming in and the outgoing Lane Duck
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  Speaker 2: president starts writing rules and auto penning rules whatever they're doing, right,
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  Speaker 2: they're just going on a flurry of enacting the things
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  Speaker 2: that might have been politically unpopular in the early part
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  Speaker 2: of their tenure of their administration. But they jam that
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  Speaker 2: stuff through. We shouldn't be doing that stuff. What it
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  Speaker 2: would do is it would target some of these late
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  Speaker 2: term regulations. So anything sort of that your the administration
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  Speaker 2: is trying to do in the final year an office,
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  Speaker 2: give that a little more scrutiny. Expand the Congressional Review
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  Speaker 2: Act to be able to bundle some of those reviews together,
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  Speaker 2: where right now I believe they have to do them
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  Speaker 2: sort of individually, with each individual rule. Ultimately saving time
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  Speaker 2: and taxpayer dollars. Some rules need to be implemented, right,
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  Speaker 2: but we want to reassert that congressional authority that if
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  Speaker 2: you know you're on the Biden administration and you're you're
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  Speaker 2: on your way out, you don't get to put all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff in, you know, Monday night and Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 2: When the next president comes in, they've got to figure
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  Speaker 2: out what the damage is and what actually needs to.
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  Speaker 1: Be a just I couldn't agree more with that. So,
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  Speaker 1: as we typically end on the call to action, I
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  Speaker 1: know the website is Makegovernmentwork dot com. How can my
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  Speaker 1: listeners get engaged?
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  Speaker 2: Well, go to that website. And the important part about
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  Speaker 2: this toolkit why I wanted to join you and talk
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  Speaker 2: about this today is so many of our friends on
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  Speaker 2: the left say, well, Republicans have no solutions, Conservatives have
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  Speaker 2: no solutions to these problems. We have solutions, Brian, Makegovernmentwork
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  Speaker 2: dot com. It's a place you can go. There's five
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  Speaker 2: active pieces of legislation in Congress right now that would
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  Speaker 2: solve many of the structural problems that have put us
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  Speaker 2: in the situation we're in here today, eight days into
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  Speaker 2: a government shutdown. Go there, arm yourself with some information
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  Speaker 2: and go out and have that conversation with folks. And
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  Speaker 2: if you want to join us, go there, share your information.
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  Speaker 2: We'll reach out and we'll get you plugged into some
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  Speaker 2: of the events and activities we have going on around
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  Speaker 2: the Buckeye State.
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  Speaker 1: I know you will. You always have and you'll continue
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  Speaker 1: to do so. Americans for Prosperity head on over to
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  Speaker 1: Makegovernmentwork dot com just trek. We'll put a link about
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  Speaker 1: my blog page fifty five cat com in case you
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  Speaker 1: can't remember that. Donovan O'Neil, thanks for what you and
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  Speaker 1: Americans Will Prosperity do each and every day. Appreciate your
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  Speaker 1: willingness to help out voters here in the state of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio get involved, as well as dealing with national legislation,
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  Speaker 1: which of course is the scope of this Make a
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  Speaker 1: Government Work Plan. Donovan will get you out back on
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  Speaker 1: real soon. Have a great day and keep up the
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  Speaker 1: excellent work.