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Member of Congress Previews President's Address to Nation, Key Issues · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely going to be spectacular theater. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that she's anxious for what's going to happen, and so
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  Speaker 1: joining us is Representative Cat Cammick from Florida's third District.
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  Speaker 1: How excited are you for the theater that will be
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  Speaker 1: the State of the Union.
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  Speaker 2: I am very excited. I have had to sit through
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  Speaker 2: four years of Joe Biden, and so tonight is going
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  Speaker 2: to be about redemption and talking about the potential and
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  Speaker 2: exceptionalism of America. And I know we're also excited. What
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  Speaker 2: I am not looking forward to is the jockeying for
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  Speaker 2: seats that will inevitably begin at five o'clock tonight. It
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  Speaker 2: gets a little silly in there sometimes, and the lengths
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  Speaker 2: that people will go to it's a little nuts. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a great night. I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now, hold on, hold on, let's not brush past
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  Speaker 1: that for a second. Here, tell us more. Come on, now,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's kind of do it. Let's do a little
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  Speaker 1: inside Congress thing here. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, all right, Well you'll find out when you
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  Speaker 2: turn on the television cameras tonight. So there's you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've all seen it In the movies, there's this main
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  Speaker 2: aisle where the sergeant at arms. When the president comes in,
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  Speaker 2: the sergeant at arms announces to the chamber you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: mister speaker, the President of the United States, and the
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  Speaker 2: whole chamber like comes up and is roaring, and.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, ah, well, what people don't know, okay, is
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  Speaker 3: they have embedded mics in this particular aisle, and so
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  Speaker 3: the hot there's always a hot mic.
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  Speaker 2: And what members some members do, we'll say, is they
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  Speaker 2: will lie seat and shield a seat and oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had coffee, Lie feel and cheat. That is
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  Speaker 2: what I'm getting at to get into the seat that
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  Speaker 2: is closest to that aisle. And I'll never forget. Even
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  Speaker 2: if it was a Democrat president, you know, you had
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  Speaker 2: Republicans that were jockeying because what they want is that
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  Speaker 2: shot of them leaning over and shaking the president's hand
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  Speaker 2: as he walks down the aisle. And so it is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: People will literally lay out clothing, purses, cell phones, like
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  Speaker 2: they'll start laying this stuff out throughout the day, claiming
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  Speaker 2: these seats, which is kind of funny to me because
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  Speaker 2: it always gets messed up. And when you get in there.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember a couple of years ago, the mics
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  Speaker 2: were on and Biden had come in and a colleague
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  Speaker 2: of mine had started talking some pretty harsh smack, and
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  Speaker 2: of course the hot mic and I got a text
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  Speaker 2: message and it was from the speaker and they said,
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  Speaker 2: can you please remind so and so that the mics
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  Speaker 2: are hot and we have just heard that whole string
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  Speaker 2: of explicives about how stupid they think the president is.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, oh, yes, And so there's literally a
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  Speaker 2: clip of me, you know, in the in the span archive,
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  Speaker 2: of me leaning over to this gentleman being like, hey, friend,
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  Speaker 2: hot Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: The only time I know of anything that's like that
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  Speaker 1: is the back row church. People fight for that seat
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  Speaker 1: for similar reasons, I think. But US congress Woman Cat
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  Speaker 1: Camick with us get to the business at hand. Next
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  Speaker 1: here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott, US congress
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  Speaker 1: Woman Cat Camick with us for a few minutes on
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  Speaker 1: a very busy day. They're all busy days when you're
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  Speaker 1: in Congress. But Congress women, thanks you as always for
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  Speaker 1: making time for us. We've talked a lot this morning
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  Speaker 1: about women's spaces and protecting women's sports and girls' sports
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  Speaker 1: and beauty pageants and whatever else is generally, you know,
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  Speaker 1: created as a place for women to compete or be
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  Speaker 1: of exclusively for them. Why aren't we getting a law
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  Speaker 1: that ties this to DNA because birth certificates isn't going
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  Speaker 1: to get it done right.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredibly frustrating, and as we all saw yesterday, Democrats
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate took down the bills that would have
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  Speaker 2: codified protecting women in girls' sports and spaces. And there's
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  Speaker 2: just no rhyme or reason to it. I really think
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  Speaker 2: that so much of this moment is tied into the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we have an identity crisis at the core
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  Speaker 2: of the Democrat Party. They can't decide if they are
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  Speaker 2: going to keep leaning into the progressive left, woke nonsense,
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  Speaker 2: or if they're going to go back to some sense
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  Speaker 2: of common sense of you know, yes, we do protect
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  Speaker 2: women's sports. But they still haven't figured that out. That's
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  Speaker 2: evidenced by the fact that you had of them voting
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  Speaker 2: against it. In fact, right now on Twitter, it is
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  Speaker 2: trending the phrase Democrats hate women. What is so striking
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  Speaker 2: to me is last year we held a press conference
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  Speaker 2: in front of the Capitol talking about protecting women's sports,
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  Speaker 2: and I would say, in that moment, with moms and
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  Speaker 2: you know, aunts and all these women from around the
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  Speaker 2: country that had come to talk about this issue, would
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  Speaker 2: work on this issue. I would say half of them
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  Speaker 2: were Democrats. And what's crazy is they would lean over
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  Speaker 2: and say, listen, We're probably not going to agree on
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  Speaker 2: many other topics, but on this one, like, we're all
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  Speaker 2: in with you guys. And they felt such dismay at
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they the Democrats had left them on
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  Speaker 2: this issue. But it's just it's so sad that basically
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  Speaker 2: every Democrat on the Senate side just put into the
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  Speaker 2: record that they really do they hate women.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what is going to.
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  Speaker 2: Happen with the last and I don't know how we
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  Speaker 2: move forward if we can't even agree that little girls
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  Speaker 2: should not be competing against boys. It's so sad.
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  Speaker 1: Are we relying then on the United States Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: to settle this matter since the politicians won't.
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  Speaker 2: I think ultimately it will get there, and I think
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  Speaker 2: this is going to go into other areas where you
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  Speaker 2: see now with the announcement that Trump made that there
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  Speaker 2: are two genders, which I mean on common sense. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: you know people are saying, well, my passport has you know,
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  Speaker 2: an X, and I don't have to give you my gender. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's just that's a third I do think because what
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  Speaker 2: we saw here this week in the Senate it means
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  Speaker 2: that this is going to be everything from the birth
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  Speaker 2: certificates to the passports, to college admissions to the sports issue,
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  Speaker 2: all of these things are going to have to go
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  Speaker 2: to the highest court. And I do believe, given who
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  Speaker 2: the makeup of the court is is that ultimately truth
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  Speaker 2: will prevail. But it's just sad that we have to
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  Speaker 2: have this conversation and we can't even agree on that.
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  Speaker 2: If we can't agree on that, then how the heck
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  Speaker 2: else are we going to get for movement on the
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  Speaker 2: really really big ticket items. That's what's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: concerning to me.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree it has to be DNA not birth
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  Speaker 1: certificate because there's too many states that can just change
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  Speaker 1: it based on the request of the person on the
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  Speaker 1: birth certificate.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean talk about one eighty that has happened
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  Speaker 2: here in the last three decades. You know, the left
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  Speaker 2: use is cream at us about you know, follow the science,
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  Speaker 2: follow the science and who's following the science now, like,
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  Speaker 2: clearly not you. I mean, the notion that there's what
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  Speaker 2: ninety two genders and some nonsense. It's absurd. It is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely absurd. And meanwhile, our adversaries abroad are looking at
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  Speaker 2: us and saying they've lost their ever living minds. This
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  Speaker 2: is a great moment for us to strike economically, militarily.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is absolutely terrifying when you get into
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  Speaker 2: the skiff and you really see and hear what's happening
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  Speaker 2: around the world, and then you come out of the
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  Speaker 2: skiff and you run into a Democrat colleague who wants
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  Speaker 2: to talk to you about why there should be ninety
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  Speaker 2: two genders. It's like, get a clue, dude, this is
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  Speaker 2: a first.
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  Speaker 1: You almost have to be careful saying dude.
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  Speaker 2: No, I know, well, and it's you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: just really frustrating. It is absolutely absurd that this is
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  Speaker 2: the point that we are at. But I still believe
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  Speaker 2: despite all the craziness, you know, people in this country
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  Speaker 2: are going to experience a renaissance like we've never seen.
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  Speaker 2: I've been saying this for years and now we have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, President Trump saying this. You know about the
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  Speaker 2: Golden Age. I really do believe it. But I do
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  Speaker 2: also believe that, you know the saying of what is
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  Speaker 2: it hard times create good men, strong men. Strong men
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  Speaker 2: create good times. Good times create week men. Week men
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  Speaker 2: create hard times. It's this cycle. And it's almost like
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  Speaker 2: we've been so blessed in the country with just bounty
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  Speaker 2: and opportunity and all these wonderful things. So many people
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  Speaker 2: have sacrificed before us to give us, and we have
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  Speaker 2: to manufacture problems now, Like it's just absurd. So people
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  Speaker 2: are going to really enter that whole f around find
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  Speaker 2: out era, and I think we're entering that place right now.
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  Speaker 1: We've gotten some behind the scenes dirt on what goes
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  Speaker 1: on at these speeches. I guess it's technically I've been corrected.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a State of the Union speech because it's
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  Speaker 1: his first speech with this Congress as president. So whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you've written and talked a lot about the budget process,
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  Speaker 1: the reconciliation process, congresswoman, tell me just your personal thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on the budget and kind of where we are. I
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  Speaker 1: saw a forecast deficit of two trillion and I just
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  Speaker 1: I cried mm.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's going to continue to get worse.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that we have talked
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  Speaker 2: at length about is the upcoming Reconciliation Bill, upcoming CR
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  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of mashing of teeth over the
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  Speaker 2: idea that we cut a trillion or one point five trillion,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, Dari say we need to cut more.
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  Speaker 2: But more than that. The one time cuts are very important,
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  Speaker 2: and reducing the spending is critical. Sure, but regulatory reform
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  Speaker 2: will actually handle a lot of the dysfunction in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard me talk about the Reins Act. I'm like
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  Speaker 2: a broken record on this. The largest regulatory reform effort
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  Speaker 2: American history. It's called the Rains Act. I've been proud
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  Speaker 2: to lead it for the last four years, and we've
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  Speaker 2: passed it out of the House. It always dies in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. But it is the way that we drain
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  Speaker 2: the swamp. And if you don't tackle regulatory reform, you're
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  Speaker 2: never going to substantially get to a place of deficit
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  Speaker 2: neutrality and then ultimately tackling the debt. Because what I
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  Speaker 2: tell the Budget Chair and Speaker and all my colleagues
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  Speaker 2: is if we can get the regulatory regime under control,
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  Speaker 2: effectively draining the swamp, then what we should do is
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  Speaker 2: do a structured debt repayment deal where on autopilot a
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  Speaker 2: percentage and I don't care if it's a quarter of
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  Speaker 2: a percent, a half of percent, a percent, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter to me. That's not important. What is important is
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  Speaker 2: you take a percentage of GDP and you put it
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  Speaker 2: on autopilot. That goes directly to paying down the principle
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  Speaker 2: on our debt. Because right now the interest on our
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  Speaker 2: debt outpaces what we spend on defense. Yep. So there's
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  Speaker 2: never any any anything substantial to bring it down. And
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  Speaker 2: if you peg it to a percentage rather than a
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  Speaker 2: fixed dollar amount, it will adjust and you know, account
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  Speaker 2: for the cyclical nature of the economy. So in good years,
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  Speaker 2: more will go down, you know, paying down, and in
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  Speaker 2: you know, tougher years there will be less. But it's
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  Speaker 2: still making those payments. And this is just so simple
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  Speaker 2: to me because this is you know, what you're taught
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  Speaker 2: when you get your first credit card is don't make
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  Speaker 2: the minimum payment. But you got to keep kipping away
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  Speaker 2: at it, you know, I think, what is it? Dave
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  Speaker 2: Ramsey calls it the snowball message. Ye got to start somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: And where does why is that dying? Who is killing it?
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  Speaker 1: Of the because the Republicans are in charge of the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: So where is it dying in the Senate?
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  Speaker 3: So the Rains Act.
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  Speaker 2: Has always run into the hurdle of it can't overcome
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  Speaker 2: the filibuster in the Senate, which is why we have
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  Speaker 2: worked so incredibly hard to get it as part of
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  Speaker 2: the reconciliation package, because reconciliation does not is not subject
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  Speaker 2: to the sixty vote threshold in the Cornet correct And
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  Speaker 2: so that's where we're putting a lot of eggs in
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  Speaker 2: that basket. But knowing how how dysfunctional the swamp up
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  Speaker 2: here really is, we're we're also looking to put the
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  Speaker 2: rain fact on every appropriations bill, on a cr any
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  Speaker 2: means we possibly can. We're looking to attach it to
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  Speaker 2: a vehicle that is a must pass because we have
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  Speaker 2: to be creative, you know. There. As much as people
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about, you know, being purity of purpose
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  Speaker 2: and you know, all principled, there's some chicken crap politicians
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  Speaker 2: up here that have campaigned very hard on balancing the
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  Speaker 2: budget and cutting government spending, but are the first one
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  Speaker 2: behind a closed door to be like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I can't cut that. That's my pet project back home. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's the same conversation about ear marks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I'm the only Republican in Florida in the congressional
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  Speaker 2: delegation that does not do ear marks, and that blows
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  Speaker 2: people's minds. They're like, why don't you? And I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you support those right, Yeah, of course, and your ear
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  Speaker 2: marks are any different.
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  Speaker 1: How God bless you. That's why you're on this show, Kat,
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  Speaker 1: because you're the only one doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lonely place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what it's it's better to be
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  Speaker 1: right and unpopular than wrong and the bell of the ball. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and God bless you. Now, I'm serious. Thank you. You're
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  Speaker 1: always going to have an audience here and always know
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  Speaker 1: if something comes up in between our visits, you just
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  Speaker 1: have atline, get me, get me word and I'm making
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  Speaker 1: time for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're the best. I do appreciate you more than
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  Speaker 2: you know. And thanks for always sharing all the crazy
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  Speaker 2: work that we're up to, especially since this week we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be dropping a bill that's a real doozy. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: already mad about it?
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  Speaker 1: Come on? I love it. Hey, By the way, Kat
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  Speaker 1: remember the hot mics.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, you know I might just roll in
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  Speaker 2: with duct tape. You know, who knows.
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  Speaker 1: I know what, if you've got a spot, just just
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  Speaker 1: put put my name out there on the hot mic.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't say Scott Preston. Okay, just don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's what happens when you're given two first names.
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  Speaker 1: I know I've got three. In fact, I got three
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  Speaker 1: first and three last. Kat, You're the best. Thanks so much,
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  Speaker 1: be well, appreciate it, Thank you, all right, Kat Camick
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  Speaker 1: with us? Do you hear that? Only one? And I
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  Speaker 1: know it. I've been fighting for people in Congress to say, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're not taking pork in our district. We can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: She's the only one, and that's why she's a guest
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Show with Preston Scott