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Why Won't Democrats Support Voter ID? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: And it is the third hour of the Morning Show
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  Speaker 1: with Preston Scott Jose Kan't you see over there in
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  Speaker 1: Studio one A forgot his classes today and he is
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  Speaker 1: doing his best. He's not pushed the wrong button yet.
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  Speaker 1: He's hanging tough. And I'm here in Studio one B.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Preston Scott. Great to be with you this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a delight to have back with US
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  Speaker 1: US Congresswoman Kat Camick, who was up bright eyed and
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  Speaker 1: bushy tailed for Fox this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Kat, how are you.
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  Speaker 3: Well? A little bleary eyed? But we are still standing?
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  Speaker 3: As the song goes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know where to begin, So let's
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  Speaker 1: start with what I think is most important at this moment,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the Save Act.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us where we are.
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  Speaker 3: So I actually just posted up a video on social
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  Speaker 3: media talking about this. It has been a whirl wi
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  Speaker 3: twenty four hours, but no surprise. I know no one
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  Speaker 3: is shocked by this. The Save Act will not be
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  Speaker 3: a part of the appropriation's vote today. Now. The House
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  Speaker 3: last year we passed the Save Act and kicked it
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  Speaker 3: over to the Senate, and throughout this appropriations process I've
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  Speaker 3: been very critical, not because of the process but because
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  Speaker 3: we have included billions of dollars in earmarks for progressive programs,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just it's frustrating. And so one of the
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  Speaker 3: compromises that was struck was, Okay, if you send that
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  Speaker 3: Senate package back, the Appropriations package, we're going to send
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  Speaker 3: it back to you with the Save Act to force
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  Speaker 3: the Senate to pick it up. And they said absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, Republicans over here in the House they caved
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  Speaker 3: and they said, okay, we'll vote for this, but only
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  Speaker 3: if you in the Senate. You folks in the Senate,
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  Speaker 3: you pinky promise that you're going to take up the
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  Speaker 3: Save Act. And unfortunately, I'm just not really confident that
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  Speaker 3: that's going to happen. They say that they're going to
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  Speaker 3: get rid of the zombie filibuster just in this case
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  Speaker 3: and use a standing filibuster, the talking filibuster, which requires
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  Speaker 3: that senators be in the room in order to actively
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  Speaker 3: filibuster until they drop, at which point then they could
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  Speaker 3: pick up the Save Act and vote on it. But
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  Speaker 3: even still, it doesn't guarantee that the bill will actually pass,
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  Speaker 3: because you have enough Republican senators that are skeptical of
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  Speaker 3: the bill. So once again, the House is playing not
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  Speaker 3: to lose rather than to win. And there is a
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  Speaker 3: distinct difference.
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  Speaker 1: Kat What is the opposition by Republicans and the GOP
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  Speaker 1: to the Save Act? What parts of it? What causes concern?
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  Speaker 1: It's about making sure, you know, everyone's talking. Even Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer says election integrity. But this is the foundation of it,
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  Speaker 1: making sure that people who vote are eligible to vote.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not controversial, certainly in my mind. It's common sense.
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  Speaker 3: You should be a citizen to vote in federal elections,
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  Speaker 3: and you should have photo ID. And the Save Act
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  Speaker 3: the way that Senator Mike Lee and Representative Chip Roy
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  Speaker 3: have written the bill, it's very simple. They give multiple
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  Speaker 3: avenues in which you can prove your citizenship, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: a passport or a real ID. There's a litany of
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  Speaker 3: other things. What the left is saying and opposition to
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  Speaker 3: this is saying, is that this is a voter suppression mechanism.
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  Speaker 3: And as a woman, I am particularly offended because they're
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  Speaker 3: saying that this is going to disenfranchise married women who
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  Speaker 3: take their husband's last name. To me, they're calling women
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  Speaker 3: idiots because they're basically saying that we're not smart enough
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  Speaker 3: to figure out how to change all of our legal
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  Speaker 3: documentation once we get married, which as the millions and
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  Speaker 3: millions and millions of women who have taken their husband's
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  Speaker 3: last names have done time and time again, as they
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  Speaker 3: get their Social Security updated and their passports and their
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  Speaker 3: documents and everything, this would effectively qualify them under the
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  Speaker 3: way the bill is written. And so it's just really frustrating.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the opponents are saying, that it's a voter
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  Speaker 3: suppression mechanism and that it's going to hurt women more
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  Speaker 3: bs from the left as we know. But unfortunately that
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  Speaker 3: narrative has taken root, and so we've got to push
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  Speaker 3: back and make sure that people know exactly what the
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  Speaker 3: bill does.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: I keep this handy to reference it. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely
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  Speaker 1: renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign,
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  Speaker 1: prints potentate state, or sovereignty of whom or which I
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  Speaker 1: have heretofore been a subject or citizen, and that I
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  Speaker 1: will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the
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  Speaker 1: United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, and it
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  Speaker 1: goes on from there. So with that said, congress Woman,
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  Speaker 1: why has Atlanta Omar not been denaturalized? She has a
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  Speaker 1: sworn allegiance to Somalia over the United States. She has
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  Speaker 1: violated her oath of allegiance to this country. She shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be in Congress.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's so much here, Oh my goodness. Yea, let's
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  Speaker 3: start with the fact that the Republican House will they
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  Speaker 3: refuse to hold her accountable. We couldn't even get a
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  Speaker 3: censure going in the House because there was fear that
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  Speaker 3: a Republican from the state of Florida who's dealing with
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  Speaker 3: some personal issues would face retaliation if they did that.
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  Speaker 3: And so this kind of truth, this ceasefire has taken
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  Speaker 3: root in the House Representative And I'm of the mindset
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  Speaker 3: that I don't care if you're Republican or Democrats. If
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  Speaker 3: you're doing shade crap, you should not be in office. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: And in a case of ilhanu Are, we know that
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  Speaker 3: not only has she been engaged in some questionable financial
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  Speaker 3: activity where her husband has received oodles of money through
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  Speaker 3: her campaign, potentially violating sec rules and laws. But there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of questions about her naturalization and her citizenship,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that that is something that needs to
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  Speaker 3: be discussed more. But because people on the right are
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  Speaker 3: afraid that one of their own is going to get
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  Speaker 3: called out, there's been like I said, this unspoken and
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  Speaker 3: i'll tell you gatty. It has been spoken on the
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  Speaker 3: House floor, but publicly it appears to be an unspoken
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  Speaker 3: truce where they don't want to see one of their
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  Speaker 3: own taken outs. So it's like, if you don't mess
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  Speaker 3: with ours, we won't mess with yours.
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  Speaker 1: And that kind of indirectly, it dials back to what
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about in the previous segment with the
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  Speaker 1: ear marks. The earmarks aren't just coming from the left.
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  Speaker 1: There are some Republicans with loaded bills with spending in
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  Speaker 1: their districts.
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  Speaker 3: Listen. This is a huge frustration for me. I have
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  Speaker 3: a hard time believing anyone who says they're a fiscal
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  Speaker 3: conservative and they're all about doge and then they turn
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  Speaker 3: around and they submit for ear marks now as worthy
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  Speaker 3: as that project that they're submitting may be. Until we
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  Speaker 3: get to a place where we either earmark the entire
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  Speaker 3: federal budget and go line by line and say yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you can build that firehouse there, and you can get
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  Speaker 3: that over here until it's either every line by line
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  Speaker 3: has agreed upon or we do it the way that
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  Speaker 3: it has been intended, where we authorize a program, then
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  Speaker 3: the Appropriations Committee appropriates the amount to it, and then
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  Speaker 3: the executive branch executes that program based on a merit
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  Speaker 3: competition system where you compete for the grants rather than
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  Speaker 3: the ear mark. That is that is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a problem for me. You can't stand there and say
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  Speaker 3: that you're fighting to drain the swamp when you're engaging
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  Speaker 3: in the currency of corruption, which is ear marks. And
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  Speaker 3: there's only about a dozen of US Republicans that don't
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  Speaker 3: do ear marks. But because people are bringing home the
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  Speaker 3: bacon where voters tend to look the other way, and
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  Speaker 3: that is something that has to change.
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  Speaker 2: How how I need to just shut my I got
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  Speaker 2: to edit myself here.
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  Speaker 3: How I think we keep calling it out? I think
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  Speaker 3: you know, I talked about it this morning about five am,
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  Speaker 3: that people are not stupid and the American people have
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  Speaker 3: the wool pulled over their eyes often because the process
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  Speaker 3: up here is complicated and it's I mean, my goodness,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a twelve hundred page you know book on
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  Speaker 3: my desk of process and the Rules of the House
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  Speaker 3: and how it all functions. Can people elect their representatives
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  Speaker 3: to learn the process to get things done? But the
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  Speaker 3: representatives have figured out, oh well, as long as the
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  Speaker 3: people don't understand the process, I can hide behind it.
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  Speaker 3: If people understand the process, they become unbeisible. And that
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  Speaker 3: to me is how you fix this whole ear marks
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  Speaker 3: unauthorized programs. You know, you can be able to call
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  Speaker 3: members out and hold them accountable if you understand the process.
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  Speaker 3: But until then, members are just going to continue to
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  Speaker 3: hide behind it and say they're doing things when in
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  Speaker 3: reality they actually can't because the process either prohibits them
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  Speaker 3: from doing it or doesn't exist at all.
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  Speaker 2: Is there some good news coming out of the belt?
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  Speaker 2: Wagh anything at all?
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  Speaker 3: Biden really taught me on my heels on that one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always so, you know, how about this, how about this?
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  Speaker 3: There is no, no, no, there is there is Okay, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So when we pass the one big beautiful bill some
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  Speaker 3: people call one big utiful bills and call it the
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  Speaker 3: working working family tax cut. We secured a historic investment,
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  Speaker 3: and I was actually I'm on the Subcommittee and the
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  Speaker 3: Committee of Jurisdiction, and we had this huge battle. It
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  Speaker 3: took us twenty seven hours to do it, but we
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  Speaker 3: got it done. Fifty billion dollars in rural health care investment,
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  Speaker 3: and for Florida we were able to secure two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and nine million dollars. And why that's so critical is
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  Speaker 3: we know that we don't have healthcare. We've got sick care,
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  Speaker 3: and an actual, real, targeted investment into rural healthcare is
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  Speaker 3: so long overdue and so needed in breaking up this
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  Speaker 3: consolidation that we're seeing all across the country which is
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  Speaker 3: driving people into more chronic conditions and more disease and
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  Speaker 3: more dependency onto these big programs. And so talking about
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  Speaker 3: good news, that is good news. We have a lot,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of investment and refocus going to rural healthcare.
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  Speaker 3: And just yesterday I was in a meeting talking about
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  Speaker 3: the bad program that forty two billion dollars under the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration had been spent but not a single person
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  Speaker 3: in the United States had been connected to internet. That
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  Speaker 3: program has been fully reworked, and now you're going to
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  Speaker 3: see a massive infrastructure build getting Americans connected to high speed, affordable,
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  Speaker 3: reliable internet. So that's going to be a game changer
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Kat, is anybody I've got a story here that I
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  Speaker 1: have this little stack of stories that I print and
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  Speaker 1: I write, kat Kat Kat Cat kat kat, And one
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  Speaker 1: of them is this headline from Epic Times. Trump to
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  Speaker 1: unveil plan allowing home buyers to use four oh one
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  Speaker 1: K funds for down payments. Now, yeah, I said, hooray, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: But is anybody anybody besides you? Because I know that
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  Speaker 1: you will share what I think with everybody up there,
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  Speaker 1: But is anybody seriously having conversations about why do we
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  Speaker 1: have any say over what anybody does with their retirement money?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you and I have talked about this a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and that is one of the conversations that happens a
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  Speaker 3: lot upon Washington, up on Capitol Hill. But nobody ever
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  Speaker 3: really does anything with it. It's just so many battles
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  Speaker 3: to fight. And I agree with you. You know, it's your money.
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  Speaker 3: You should be able to dictate terms. And it's frustrating
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  Speaker 3: right now. Everybody's really pivoted and looked at this affordability agenda,
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  Speaker 3: and you saw, as you just mentioned that the President
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  Speaker 3: is looking at opening up for one case to be
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  Speaker 3: able to purchase, which you can currently, but there is
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  Speaker 3: a penalty. There's going to be some legislation announced, some
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  Speaker 3: of it is out of our office, that would basically
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  Speaker 3: create HSA type accounts where you could save for your
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  Speaker 3: first home tax free. And I cannot tell you how
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  Speaker 3: many people have given me pushback on Capitol Hill because
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  Speaker 3: they're like, oh, well, that's going to cost the government
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  Speaker 3: X number of dollars and I'm like, it's not the
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  Speaker 3: government's money. It has never been their money, and they
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  Speaker 3: need to stop treating it like it's their money. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the problem. We're spending money on all these ridiculous
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  Speaker 3: earmarks and these projects that have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 3: a federal nexus, but then they want to turn around
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  Speaker 3: and complain about letting people keep more of their money.
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  Speaker 3: That's the problem in Washington. So it's a culture shift
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  Speaker 3: that needs to happen. If you just have to put
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  Speaker 3: a very quick, concise button on it, it's a culture
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  Speaker 3: shift that has to happen in Washington about the people's
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  Speaker 3: money is their money, and government should be doing very little,
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  Speaker 3: if much at all, to dictate terms.
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  Speaker 1: Kat km Mick Willis, Kat, thanks so much, as always
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  Speaker 1: for your time. I know it was an early morning
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  Speaker 1: for you, so maybe maybe you'll get a chance between
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  Speaker 1: Congress and being a mom to catch a nap.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know is napping allowed.
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  Speaker 3: No, no cat nap for Kat.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to go there. I did not want
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  Speaker 2: to drop that pun on you, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Knew it was there for you. You know, I ripped
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  Speaker 3: that band aid off.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do it, but thanks for doing it for me. Kat.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks as always, We'll talk again in a few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, my friends.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Kat Camick with US US congressional representative Florida's third district
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Show with Preston Scott