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Sen Jon Hustead 9-16-2026 · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greetings!
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  Speaker 2: Salutations! Welcome, my friends, to another edition of the Power
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  Speaker 2: we still have it. Seriously, I don't. Coming up in
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  Speaker 2: the second half hour tonight... I encountered something last night
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  Speaker 2: that I guarantee you, I guarantee you there are those
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  Speaker 2: out there. That's racist. You can't do it. But I
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  Speaker 2: thought about it and I thought, you know. Preference. We
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  Speaker 2: don't talk about preference anymore, but you're allowed to have those.
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  Speaker 2: You are allowed to have those. And a completely nice
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  Speaker 2: human being that I met last night. But I guarantee
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  Speaker 2: you somebody out there is talking bad about her. So
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  Speaker 2: I will explain that and I'll get your thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: that in the second half hour. In this first half hour.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of bills introduced today in the United States Senate,
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  Speaker 2: and you talk about reaching across the aisle. People go, well,
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  Speaker 2: that means working with the other party. He's reaching across
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  Speaker 2: the street into the other building as well. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about our own Ohio Senator John Husted. He's on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com
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  Speaker 2: phone lines right now. Senator Husted, good evening, and thanks
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  Speaker 2: for being here.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck, great to be with you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure which of your two– Your two bills
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  Speaker 2: you would like to talk about first. I love the
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  Speaker 2: acronym Team USA. I don't know how long it took
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  Speaker 2: you to come up with that or who came up
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  Speaker 2: with it, but they deserve an extra cookie after dinner tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I came up with the idea. I think someone
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  Speaker 1: else came up with the name. So how about that?
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Training Education for American Members in University
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  Speaker 1: Sports and Athletics Team USA bill. And this is the deal.
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  Speaker 1: We all know about college athletics right now. The NIL stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal, colleges are begging Congress to save college sports,
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  Speaker 1: as they call it. So we're debating that bill. It
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  Speaker 1: might pass tomorrow. But I want to protect it for
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  Speaker 1: American student-athletes, Chuck, because here's the deal. Many roster spots
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  Speaker 1: and scholarships these days have been going to student athletes
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  Speaker 1: from other countries. We're training their Olympic teams. We're giving
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  Speaker 1: the roster spots and scholarships to many of the students
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  Speaker 1: who are not American citizens in American taxpayer-funded colleges and universities.
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  Speaker 1: And if this new bill passes, there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot more money available for college athletes. It's now
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  Speaker 1: going to be basically a professional, semi-professional sport, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you think that the flood of foreign athletes was
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  Speaker 1: happening before, it's going to only be worse because you'll
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  Speaker 1: essentially give an incentive for professional athletes in other countries
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  Speaker 1: to come take these opportunities under the American system. Because
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  Speaker 1: we're the only nation in the world that has a
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  Speaker 1: system like this where where college athletes are making money
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  Speaker 1: and playing sports. And I want to protect it for
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  Speaker 1: American student-athletes because we have some teams, tennis, golf, soccer, hockey,
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  Speaker 1: that most of the roster spots, if not all of them,
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  Speaker 1: are going to foreign athletes. And if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: ask the American government to look out for college sports,
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  Speaker 1: then we ought to have the American government look out
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  Speaker 1: for American citizens. And so my bill caps the number
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  Speaker 1: of foreign athletes that can be on these rosters. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope we can get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And you said it caps the number. What is it, 20%?
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  Speaker 1: 20%. We're not saying none. We're not saying none. We're
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  Speaker 1: just saying the vast majority of these opportunities need to
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  Speaker 1: go to American citizens. because literally, I won't call out,
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  Speaker 1: but there are some universities in Ohio who I've seen
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  Speaker 1: rosters of some of their, quote, non-revenue sports. They're 100%
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  Speaker 1: non-American citizens.
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  Speaker 2: Now, will allowances be made in those sports where, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: they can't get Americans?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can get Americans.
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  Speaker 2: If the Americans want to be on the collegiate soccer team,
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  Speaker 2: for example.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they do. Like, they want to be, but they're
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  Speaker 1: being forced. they're being essentially forced out because there aren't
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  Speaker 1: opportunities like there's I mean have you seen youth soccer
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  Speaker 1: lately the parents are paying outrageous sums of money to
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  Speaker 1: send their kids to all of these camps and travel
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  Speaker 1: teams and things like that and then they're getting and
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  Speaker 1: then they have these dreams these little kids have dreams
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  Speaker 1: of playing college sports and then No roster spot at
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  Speaker 1: my favorite university because they went to all the people
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  Speaker 1: from other countries who are taking advantage of the American system.
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  Speaker 1: They're out there. Chuck, I wouldn't be a U.S. senator
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't for me having the chance to play
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  Speaker 1: college football. It just wouldn't have happened because what it
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  Speaker 1: forced me to do as a young person is to
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  Speaker 1: focus on my academics so that I could go to school.
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  Speaker 1: It forced me to learn self-discipline, teamwork, resilience, get knocked down,
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  Speaker 1: get back up. And that's why we have academic, that's
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  Speaker 1: why we have extracurricular activities. Because there's three things that
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  Speaker 1: when they added sports to schools, they said, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: want young people to have three forms of education, academic,
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  Speaker 1: physical education, and and character education. And sports give you
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  Speaker 1: the physical and character education that you need to be
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  Speaker 1: successful in life. And if you look at the stats,
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  Speaker 1: you look at CEOs of companies, entrepreneurs, leaders of all types,
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  Speaker 1: they participated in some extracurricular activity in sport. And now
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  Speaker 1: more and more of those opportunities are vanishing for American
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  Speaker 1: student athletes. I want to protect it for them.
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  Speaker 2: This is Ohio Senator John Husted joining me right now
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  Speaker 2: on the LegacyRetirementGroup.com phone lines. When your office sent the
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  Speaker 2: text over to me earlier, and I was reading this over,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's not part of the bill, but I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to ask you, was it considered at any point,
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  Speaker 2: as you talk about the NIL money and so forth,
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  Speaker 2: that there is some sort of background procedure? You know,
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  Speaker 2: somebody comes over here from who gives a damn a stand,
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  Speaker 2: and we find out that their father and their uncle
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  Speaker 2: are both associated with Hezbollah or or Al-Qaeda or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: they probably shouldn't be making a couple of million in
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  Speaker 2: NIL money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that would be an immigration issue. So you would
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  Speaker 1: have to get through that through the visa. I think
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  Speaker 1: you would have a hard time getting your visa cleared
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  Speaker 1: if that were the case. So that wouldn't be the
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  Speaker 1: college's responsibility. That would be federal immigration officials' responsibility, and
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  Speaker 1: that does exist. So there is a requirement for that now,
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  Speaker 1: and there would be if this bill passed. But I
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  Speaker 1: just want to make sure we're protecting these opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: American student-athletes. Look, as I always say, I expect the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese government to do China first. I expect the French
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  Speaker 1: government to do French first. I expect the American government
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  Speaker 1: to do America first. And let's look out for American student-athletes.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, along these same lines, not protecting the universities, but
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  Speaker 2: protecting the people on the road, you've got something else.
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  Speaker 2: You and Senator Marino teaming up on this one. I
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  Speaker 2: was glad to see that. Partnership is good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we're trying to solve a problem that has cost...
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  Speaker 1: That in a nine-day period, three Ohioans lost their lives
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  Speaker 1: here recently to illegal aliens driving cars and trucks that
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  Speaker 1: killed Ohioans on the highways. And in one of the cases,
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  Speaker 1: this illegal alien got a driver's license in Connecticut because
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  Speaker 1: 19 states and the District of Columbia... issue drive-only driver's
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  Speaker 1: licenses to people illegally in America. Illegally. They're not even
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be here, but yet they give them driver's licenses.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll call them sanctuary states, right? And one of
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  Speaker 1: them came to Ohio and killed an Ohioan. And enough's enough.
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  Speaker 1: And so what we're saying in this legislation is if
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  Speaker 1: you issue driver's licenses to to people in this country
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  Speaker 1: illegally that you should lose your federal highway funding. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: it's perfectly legal to, as they've done in the past,
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  Speaker 1: for the federal government to say, hey, states, you raise
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  Speaker 1: your drinking age to 21 or we're going to cut
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  Speaker 1: off your federal funding, okay? Well, I'm saying that if
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  Speaker 1: you're a state that's letting someone illegally in this country
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  Speaker 1: have a driver's license to go on our highways and
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  Speaker 1: then eventually... as they've done, kill American citizens on the roads,
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  Speaker 1: that your highway funding should go away.
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  Speaker 2: And Claudia Tenney from New York over in the House
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  Speaker 2: has introduced, I guess, pretty much a duplicate bill. So
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  Speaker 2: we've got both houses considering this at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, on both of these bills, we're getting House sponsors
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  Speaker 1: to do it so we can try to get it
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  Speaker 1: done as fast as possible. But But I mean, can
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  Speaker 1: you can you did you know this, Chuck? I bet
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  Speaker 1: most people didn't know that these states were issuing driver's
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  Speaker 1: licenses to illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Yes, I know. And I've got I'll be
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  Speaker 2: honest with you. Something else I would love to see
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  Speaker 2: you address. I've had two two people in the insurance
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  Speaker 2: industry tell me this, that they get their license, they
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  Speaker 2: get car insurance. The insurance companies collect premiums, realizing that
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  Speaker 2: they're here illegally and they'll never have to pay out
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  Speaker 2: because they shouldn't have been driving or licensed in the
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  Speaker 2: first place. We need to look into that, too. These
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  Speaker 2: companies should not be profiting from their illegal presence.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you shouldn't be issuing insurance or you shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: issuing a driver's license to somebody who's in the country illegally.
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  Speaker 2: But if the states are issuing them licenses, the insurance
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  Speaker 2: companies don't have any kind of check like that on citizenship.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get into that, too. I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about that as I read the text on this one earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Three Ohioans lost their lives over this in nine days.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like it's a rare thing that happened three
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  Speaker 1: times in nine days.
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  Speaker 2: Now, both these bills, I'm assuming you were trying to
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  Speaker 2: fast-track these and get them done. What kind of timeline
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  Speaker 2: are you looking at? Are you going to get cooperation
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  Speaker 2: in getting them to the floor?
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  Speaker 1: We're looking to get the Team USA Act to be
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  Speaker 1: part of the bill that we're considering on this tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if we can get Democrats to go along.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have resisted my efforts in the past to include
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  Speaker 1: a– preservation of opportunities for American citizens in college sports.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see if they have a change of heart
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  Speaker 1: on this. And then the timeline for the ban on
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  Speaker 1: states giving out driver's licenses to illegals, we'll push that
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as we can.
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  Speaker 2: And that is, you know, I understand they're both large issues,
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  Speaker 2: but that one I Honestly, it's probably closer to my
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  Speaker 2: heart because we've got the situation in the state of
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  Speaker 2: Ohio that we have. And that is that that concerns
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  Speaker 2: me and my concerns, my wife and my grandkids and
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  Speaker 2: everybody else who's on the road. We need to do
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  Speaker 2: something about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, fraudulent CDLs have been out there. And we
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  Speaker 1: we tried to address that in the working family tax
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  Speaker 1: cut plan where we said, you know, look, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to speak English to to to get
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  Speaker 1: a CDL. And you can't give a CDL to somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's in the country illegally. And All of those things
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  Speaker 1: we've been pushing for, but this one, it's a safety issue.
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  Speaker 1: And if sanctuary cities are not going to enforce the
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  Speaker 1: rule of law, sanctuary states are not going to enforce
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  Speaker 1: the rule of law, and they're going to let people
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  Speaker 1: in the country illegally endanger American citizens on the highways,
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  Speaker 1: then they ought to get their federal highway funding cut off.
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  Speaker 2: I know you are limited time-wise here. You're kind of
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  Speaker 2: election coming up in November and so forth. But I
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  Speaker 2: also know you love talking to your constituents and the
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  Speaker 2: people that are here in the state of Ohio. What
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  Speaker 2: is the best way, the most efficient way for somebody
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  Speaker 2: to contact your office?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, you can contact our Columbus office and you
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  Speaker 1: can contact our Washington office. And look, customer service is
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  Speaker 1: a big part of what we do. You can go
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  Speaker 1: to my Senate website, find, uh, find all the details about, uh,
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  Speaker 1: our Columbus constituent office. And by the way, like if
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  Speaker 1: you're a veteran and you have trouble with the VA,
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  Speaker 1: if you are having trouble with your social security, you're
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  Speaker 1: having some issue receiving, uh, service from the federal government
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  Speaker 1: in any way, we want you to call our, our
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  Speaker 1: Columbus office to help us out or so that we
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  Speaker 1: can help you out because customer service is a big
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  Speaker 1: part of what we do.
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  Speaker 2: All right, sir. I'll get that posted on the social
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  Speaker 2: media as well, just in case somebody's driving and can't, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Memorize it, write it down, or whatever, and you know
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  Speaker 2: I always appreciate you and your time. I know you've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: It's Husted.Senate.gov, H-U-S-T-E-D.Senate.gov, and then our number is 614-369-4925. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Senator John Husted, hopefully we'll talk again very soon, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great evening.
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  Speaker 1: Great. Thanks, Chuck.