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Congressman Warren Davidson joins the show this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven oh five. Are fift about Kerosene Talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Great time to betune in the morning show. They think
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  Speaker 1: it's always a good time. But the return of Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Warren Davidson. Welcome back, Congressman Davidson. It's always a real
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  Speaker 1: pleasure having you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, always in an honor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for talking, Brian, and I hear your voice. So
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  Speaker 1: clearly the world did not end. We're in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of our what second day and a half, two days
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  Speaker 1: into the shutdown. Let me get this straight. The Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are arguing about cutting these healthcare benefits, the subsidies that
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  Speaker 1: flow to folks with Obamacare premium. So it used to
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  Speaker 1: be sixty four I believe five hundred dollars was the cutoff.
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  Speaker 1: If you made a dollar more than that, then you
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  Speaker 1: got to know subsidy. That was in the original text
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  Speaker 1: of the legislation. That when they waived the cap because
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  Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen they passed the bill, the COVID nineteen bill,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the hell it was called, they got rid
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  Speaker 1: of that. So if you made six hundred thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: you still be eligible for a subsidy on an Obamacare plan. Fine,
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  Speaker 1: but when that was passed, it had a finite end date,
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  Speaker 1: which is the end of this year. Right, that was
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  Speaker 1: what the Democrats pushed through or am I wrong on
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  Speaker 1: that reality?
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  Speaker 2: Now You've got it right, And it was because there
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  Speaker 2: was a pandemic. And part of the reason for the
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  Speaker 2: subsidy was, well, there's going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 2: extra expenses. You don't want the health insurance companies to
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  Speaker 2: just pass those on to everybody. So if we pay
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  Speaker 2: the money to the help insurance companies, it's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: hold down premiums. Well, how'd that work out about? Like Obamacare,
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  Speaker 2: premiums kept going up almost vertical the whole time, whether
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  Speaker 2: you pay the subsidies or not. And you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: been a long offering. Pandemic has been over for a
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  Speaker 2: long time, so it's like, oh, we have to phase
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  Speaker 2: them out. They were phased out. This is pandemic has
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  Speaker 2: been over. So that's one of the things they're fighting about.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the other one is undoing you know,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we made it hard to have states
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  Speaker 2: pay to have illegals selecting Medicaid and other forms where
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  Speaker 2: states were bypassing Medicaid not a big issue in Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: because we didn't do that, but states like California and
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  Speaker 2: New York Illinois they did well.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's interesting because Jdvans pointed it out
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  Speaker 1: and pointed to the legislation that the Democrats prepared, which
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  Speaker 1: indeed gave taxpayer health care money to illegal aliens, and
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  Speaker 1: they want to put that back on. So on one thing,
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  Speaker 1: we can argue that, Listen, we all knew, we saw
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  Speaker 1: it five years ago during the pandemic, that this supplement
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  Speaker 1: was going to end. You wrote it that way. There's that,
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  Speaker 1: and you have that content or that discussion in the
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  Speaker 1: context where no illegal immigrants are getting free medical insurance,
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  Speaker 1: but they've added on this extra layer here in those
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  Speaker 1: states that extended it to illegal immigrants. You and I
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  Speaker 1: are shouldering the burden for that. They shouldn't have been
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  Speaker 1: on it in the first place to begin with, because
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  Speaker 1: they're not in our country legally. So there's a separate
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  Speaker 1: argument over here, which I think the Democrats are on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong side. Given the immigration problem we're facing is
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  Speaker 1: kind of an eighty twenty issue, with the Republicans being
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  Speaker 1: on the vast majority percentage side.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and yeah, I think that's probably right. It's
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  Speaker 2: probably in our district bigger than eighty twenty. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: you know a lot of Democrats would agree, like this
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  Speaker 2: is crazy, and that's why we didn't do it in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: But in some states. And you remember the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: presidential primary where they had still like fifteen candidates on
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  Speaker 2: the stage and you're like, raise your hand if your
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  Speaker 2: plan for healthcare would cover health care for illegals. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: raised their hands, and they say, oh, well, this doesn't
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  Speaker 2: do that. And you're like, well, check page fifty seven
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  Speaker 2: in the bill that Chuck Schumer presented to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, no, no, our demands are written down. I like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: well they're written down. Really checked Page fifty seven is
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  Speaker 2: right there. They want to undo what we did to
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  Speaker 2: make it hard for states to cover, you know, medicaid
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  Speaker 2: for illegals. And they say, oh, well, it's illegal to
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  Speaker 2: give medicaid federal dollars to illegal So I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's illegal for the illegals to be here, but they're here,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not supposed to be doing it in states
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  Speaker 2: like California, but you are. And they're saying, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: we're using state dollars for that. But it's for medicaid,
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  Speaker 2: so we need to count that for our federal match.
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  Speaker 2: What Republicans did is say, no, you can't count that
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  Speaker 2: for federal match. You spend your state dollars, which you
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't do. You're here actually an accomplice for I legal immigration.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't got to that phase yet, but Tom Homan's
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  Speaker 2: actively getting people out of the country. And as for
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  Speaker 2: whether we should extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies further,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think we should. Some people think
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  Speaker 2: we should, but that's why we're having the debate on appropriations.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, I've got things that I want
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  Speaker 2: mostly to spend less money on, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have that debate too. But that's what we're doing with
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  Speaker 2: the appropriations fight. The idea that Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 2: shut it down is crazy. And look, we passed a
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  Speaker 2: bill in the House. Simple majority runs the House. A
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  Speaker 2: majority of the Senate actually passed a bill to keep
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  Speaker 2: the government open. But the Senate has a sixty vote rule.
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  Speaker 2: So if we were going on simple majorities, the government
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  Speaker 2: would be open right now, or more open, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: because as we can tell, it's actually pretty much open
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  Speaker 2: and it'll.
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  Speaker 1: Be open at the Biden level funding from last year, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you voted on status quo.
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  Speaker 2: Look, this is this is the frustrating thing for us.
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  Speaker 2: And we didn't get our way in March. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we we funded the government at the Obama I mean
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  Speaker 2: the Biden Schumer level when ok, technically the House had Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: but this was the agreement in the previous presidency. And
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  Speaker 2: so we didn't change anything when Donald Trump became president,
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  Speaker 2: except we did pass the big beautiful bill and turn
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  Speaker 2: some stuff off and I'll make the tax cuts permanent.
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  Speaker 2: Things like that give money to secure the border. And
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  Speaker 2: they want to undo some of these things. They even
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  Speaker 2: want to undo the defunding of MPR. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't accidentally defund MPR. We basically said go fund yourself. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love that phrase too, by the way. That's that's great. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you this specific question because you probably
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  Speaker 1: served your country. You enlisted in the Army and third
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  Speaker 1: Infantry Division. I might point out you also went to
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  Speaker 1: West Point, graduating in the top of your class, so
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  Speaker 1: you served. I'm kind of wondering what the how the
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  Speaker 1: American the active duty service members are going to do
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  Speaker 1: with this shutdown? Well, how is it going to impact
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  Speaker 1: my veteran friends? And I also want to know when
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  Speaker 1: you were serving, did you ever go through a shutdown
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  Speaker 1: where your pay was suspended until the shutdown ended?
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  Speaker 2: You know, if we did, I was oblivious to it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was like, yeah, I'm just focused on
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  Speaker 2: the mission. You know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get paid. The frustrating thing is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you look at the military and go, well, these guys
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  Speaker 2: are essential. Why wouldn't the payroll clerk that cuts the
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  Speaker 2: check to them be essential too? So this is really
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  Speaker 2: frustrating with a lot of things. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a bill called the Shutdown Prevention Act. It
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  Speaker 2: would close some of those stupid things like that, like, well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: if you're essential enough to be at work, well you're
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  Speaker 2: essential enough to get paid. So we're going to take
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  Speaker 2: care of the payroll function for that. And it'll prevent
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  Speaker 2: these sort of shut down gamesmanship things here at that level,
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  Speaker 2: and you would intentionally turn things off or intentionally turn
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  Speaker 2: them on, otherwise they just kind of continue. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why I'm a sponsor of that Shutdown Prevention Act. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: to my knowledge, we never had this kind of drama,
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  Speaker 2: you know, while I was on active duty, well thankfully.
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  Speaker 1: And beyond the Yamkapor holiday. The while the government is
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  Speaker 1: shut down and I know representatives and senators continue to
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  Speaker 1: get their paychecks. You know that, could you be working
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  Speaker 1: on the twelve appropriations bills right now? I mean, could
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  Speaker 1: work get done toward that end, which is really what
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  Speaker 1: the cr was supposed to do by you some time
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  Speaker 1: until November so you can iron out the details of
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  Speaker 1: the twelve appropriation bills in regular order.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, in fact, we are. I mean we're
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  Speaker 2: working on you know, the Unfortunately, some of my colleagues
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  Speaker 2: are already working on ways to compromise with Democrats on
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  Speaker 2: these Affordable Care Acts extensions, which is you know, airble,
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  Speaker 2: you should stop wasting your time on that. Hopefully we
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  Speaker 2: don't have the votes for that nonsense, but or a
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  Speaker 2: speaker that will put such a crazy idea on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got other provisions that we're working on, the amendments.
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  Speaker 2: And look, the appropriators talms to the chairman. They got
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  Speaker 2: all twelve of the bills through the House Appropriations Committee.
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  Speaker 2: We've got I think four across the floor of the House,
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  Speaker 2: but we got to get the other a across the floor.
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  Speaker 2: And look, occasionally the House will get all of them done.
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  Speaker 2: The Senate hasn't got all their bills done since the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: So the Senate really is the hold up here with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the things broken on appropriations, and that
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  Speaker 2: usually results in some sort of omnibus, crown the bus
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  Speaker 2: or continuing resolution. But in the meantime, you are jockeying
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  Speaker 2: for amendments that you would want to do, and you're
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  Speaker 2: working the phones with colleagues or staffs working to try
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  Speaker 2: to collaborate to get that done. Those kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: are going on right now, and they're going on kind
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  Speaker 2: of in a turbo charge way, because you know, our
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  Speaker 2: phones are busy if people are calling in and they
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  Speaker 2: always are like, well, what's going to happen? Am I
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  Speaker 2: going to get my Social Security check? And yes, you are.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's pause. Congressman Davidson back talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about issues, as well as his Empower Youth seminar,
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  Speaker 1: which is taking place tonight. I strongly encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: register empower you America dot org. You can watch from
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  Speaker 1: Great Oaks Drive, which is the Scarlet Oaks Empower You
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  Speaker 1: studio address. More with Congressman Warren seven eighteen. If you've
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  Speaker 1: have kc DE talk station, Happy Friday Eve. Congressman Warre
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  Speaker 1: and Davidson one more segment with him, gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: annapower You seminar tonight. Get over to empower your America
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  Speaker 1: Dot organ register. Show up live or watch from your
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  Speaker 1: own home. What are the things Congressmen you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking about tonight and empower you? The one day, one
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  Speaker 1: vote proposal and to eliminate no excuse mail and voting.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting timing on that, Congressman Davidson. It was widely reported
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  Speaker 1: yesterday there's a woman in Maine. They've got a November
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  Speaker 1: fourth election day in Maine as well, had to over
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  Speaker 1: to her front door a box containing temper evident packs
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  Speaker 1: of fifty ballots totally two hundred and fifty what appear
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  Speaker 1: to be authentic ballots filled out and cast that landed
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  Speaker 1: in this one private citizens front door. And they're suggesting
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  Speaker 1: a federal criminal investigation should be launched. There's a huge
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  Speaker 1: problem with dropping off stacks of mail in ballots and
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of reason why many people, including Maureen,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're out there, believe that the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: election was stolen. How do we address this problem, Congressman Davidson,
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  Speaker 1: considering how much states have control over their own voting.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I was told that was illegal, and so it
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't happen, you know, just like drugs, you know, So
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  Speaker 2: obviously this kind of stuff does go on. And look,
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  Speaker 2: we were told illegal aliens don't vote, but we just
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  Speaker 2: found the superintendent of Des Moines Schools is not only
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  Speaker 2: in the United States illegally and not only didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the academic credentials he said he did, but he was
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  Speaker 2: also a registered voter in the state of Maryland and
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  Speaker 2: had a voting record. So these kinds of things have
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  Speaker 2: gone on. We need election integrity, and for that reason,
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  Speaker 2: the House of Representatives has passed laws that would be
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  Speaker 2: binding on federal elections. So, you know, we don't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: have a system where the federal government could say, well,
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  Speaker 2: here's how Ohio has to do their state Supreme Court elections,
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  Speaker 2: except to say, you know, we protect civil liberties and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. But when you look at criteria for
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  Speaker 2: federal elections, there's a lot that we could do. We've
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  Speaker 2: had a hard time getting over the sixty vote threshold
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate, which is the same struggle we're having,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with keeping the government open. And yes we
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  Speaker 2: do have a majority, but the Senate's still got this
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  Speaker 2: sixty vote rule. But for that, we could be passing
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  Speaker 2: election reform, we could be keeping the government open, and
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  Speaker 2: we could do on a lot of things. Nevertheless, the
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  Speaker 2: Senate keeps protecting their sixty vote rule. We keep sending
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  Speaker 2: stuff over in the House, and this is one of
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  Speaker 2: those things that we could do. And you know, another
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  Speaker 2: one of the things we're going to talk about tonight, Brian, is, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America and just looking at the legacy of our country,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, there's so many milestones that no other
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  Speaker 2: country has been like America. We're still the greatest country
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  Speaker 2: in the world. And we've not yet made a perfect union,
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  Speaker 2: but we've made it more perfect in some respects, and
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  Speaker 2: I to say, maybe less perfect in a few other ways.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know, one of the topics tonight's secure borders,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously it is a profound night and day difference.
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  Speaker 1: It's like somebody flipped a white switch on between the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration's approach of the southern border, which was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't touch it, and Donald Trump, which is the media
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  Speaker 1: shut it down. I mean, the flow of illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: into our country has just almost disappeared, at least in
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  Speaker 1: the southern border. I know we have some problems in
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  Speaker 1: the north, and that's kind of leading to my question,
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  Speaker 1: where are we in connection with border security? What else
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  Speaker 1: needs to be done considering the Trumps success in the
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  Speaker 1: southern border.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we need a law so that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: no government could actually do what the Biden administration is doing.
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  Speaker 2: And in my own opinion, I think we need a
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  Speaker 2: you know, charges, we need doj to actually bring charges.
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  Speaker 2: Alejandro Mahorkis, as as Secretary of Homeland Security, was charged
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  Speaker 2: with securing the border. The laws are already pretty clear,
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  Speaker 2: and he actually spun those on the head. He literally
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  Speaker 2: built an app at Homeland Security to make it easy
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  Speaker 2: to you know, bypass our laws and come here illegally.
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  Speaker 2: So to me, that's treason. I think you should be charged.
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  Speaker 2: I think you should go to jail for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of the problems. You know, people people
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  Speaker 2: do rightly say, you know, when is somebody going to jail?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, people are going to keep depriving others
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  Speaker 2: of their rights. They're going to abuse the power of
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  Speaker 2: the office until somebody sell to account for it. And
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  Speaker 2: I think there are a lot of those folks that
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  Speaker 2: need to be held to account. And I think you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's where people are saying, oh, Trump is weaponizing the government. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: we had a weaponization committee last Congress because the wide
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  Speaker 2: administration was weaponizing the government. And so holding those people
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  Speaker 2: to account isn't retribution, it's justice. You know. Even Google
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  Speaker 2: just this past week, you know, they say, yeah, here's
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  Speaker 2: what we were doing because the government told us to
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  Speaker 2: do it, right, we were censoring people. Well, who's going
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  Speaker 2: to be held to account for that? And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's why you know this hopefully to tell me charges
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  Speaker 2: or the tip of the iceberg.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Google may very well be held accountable because by
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  Speaker 1: operating at the behest of the American government, that means
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  Speaker 1: they're inextricably intertwined with the government, meaning they have to
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  Speaker 1: extend First Amendment rights to the people who use their platform,
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  Speaker 1: and by so restricting the speech they may have committed
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  Speaker 1: a civil rights violation and could be held accountable in
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit. So Google might pay the price for their
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  Speaker 1: frank admission that they did just that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, they say, oh, we're a neutral platform. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you're not a neutral platform. When you engage in editorial content.
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  Speaker 2: You're acting as a publisher and you're deciding you know
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  Speaker 2: these things, and you did it really at the be
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  Speaker 2: heast of the government. So I think, look, you you.
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  Speaker 2: In my view, I would work a plea deal with
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  Speaker 2: Google to out the federal officials who were violating the councilitution.
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  Speaker 2: And you know these people should go to jail.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Now, one final point for we part company to
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  Speaker 1: day Warren Davidson. The reason the Democrats are so held
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  Speaker 1: bent on getting illegal immigrants in this country and keeping
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  Speaker 1: them here is because it's going to impact the House
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  Speaker 1: of Representatives. So the more warm bodies you have in
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  Speaker 1: your state of your jurisdiction, the more likely it is
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get another representative. We know California is
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  Speaker 1: pushing for that because everybody who has any ability to
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  Speaker 1: leave the state has already left. Can we fix that legislatively?
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  Speaker 1: Ignoring the impediment we have in the Senate with the votes,
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  Speaker 1: but is conceptually, can we do that illegal immigrants, if
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  Speaker 1: you're not here legally in our country, you're not counted
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  Speaker 1: for census purposes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you could do it legally. We've got bills that
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  Speaker 2: would simply change the law to make that clear, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm a co sponsor for that. I am the sponsor
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  Speaker 2: of a bill that would have amend the Constitution to
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  Speaker 2: basically override the courts. And frankly, the courts could do
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  Speaker 2: what they did in Dabbs and say, look, we then
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  Speaker 2: messed up. We haven't really provided the right clarity here
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  Speaker 2: on the census. And so you know, Ronald Trump in
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  Speaker 2: his first term tried to get the census done the
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  Speaker 2: right way. And if you don't have an honest census,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how you can have an honest election.
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  Speaker 2: Because you know, right now, the congressional maps are drawn
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  Speaker 2: based off of all persons in the country, whether they're
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: here legally or not, citizens or not. And Democrats are
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: united and saying citizenship is irrelevant. We just want to
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: count everybody that's here. And you know, Republicans are united
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: and saying no, citizenship does matter, and we should count
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: citizens and California would lose like, I don't know, five
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: to seven members of Congress if they would do that,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: and they don't just lose them anyway, they lose them
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: in the sanctuary cities because you know, the rural areas
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: generally aren't over sampled with all this stuff. If you look, Yeah,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Texas and Florida and some other states would lose representation too.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: That's why Ohio would probably gain at least one seat,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: because we do have some illegals, but as a proportion
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: compared to other states, it's very small. So we went
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: from sixteen seats to fifteen. Last time, we would have
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: held that seat but for a bad census.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Congresso, Moore and Davidson, we're looking forward to your seminar
• 17:03
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• 17:05
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• 17:08
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• 17:10
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• 17:12
  Speaker 1: make sure you register at the website first. Congress Davidson,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: thanks as always for your time on the program this morning.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Keep up the great work speaking truth to power and
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: holding the Democrats accountable for their insanity. Enjoy the seminar tonight,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and I'll look forward to having you back on the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: show well as soon as we can