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U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack Joins Preston · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Here we go, Tuesday, September this second show fifty four
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  Speaker 1: to forty three of The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Preston. He's ose great to be with you. And
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  Speaker 1: who do we have here? Oh my goodness, it's the
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  Speaker 1: Mama Bear Us Congresswoman Cat Camick. Cat. Congratulations, by golly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you for literally sitting here our little family
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  Speaker 2: of three. And baby Aggie is eating her second breakfast
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  Speaker 2: as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: So are we going with Augie? Is that the name
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  Speaker 1: around the house? Aggie?
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  Speaker 2: Well, officially she is Augusta.
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  Speaker 1: Dare I know that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? I call her Augie. Matt is fond of Gussasaurus,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as any good child of the nineties. We
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  Speaker 2: all love dress the Park, and so he's he's hoping that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's going to be able to get her
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  Speaker 2: into dinosaurs. And I already told him, I'm imagining me
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  Speaker 2: coming home at one point and they'll be in Dinoh
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  Speaker 2: outfits running around the house. So you've got Aggie, we've
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  Speaker 2: got Gusta Augusta, We've got Gustasaurus. We've got still baby Peanut.
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  Speaker 2: It's anyone, it's Anyone's guests.
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  Speaker 1: Could anything have really prepared you for this blessing.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I mean at one, I still think it's
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  Speaker 2: crazy that you know, you you walk out of you
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  Speaker 2: deliver your child, and then they're like here you go,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like there's no manual for this, right, It's
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  Speaker 2: like we'd out and we like to think that we're
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  Speaker 2: very competent human beings and adults, but nothing prepares you
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  Speaker 2: like becoming a parent. There there is no preparation. It's
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  Speaker 2: just so overwhelming in terms of you know, you feel
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  Speaker 2: so blessed and lucky and you're in awe of this
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  Speaker 2: amazing little child, and it is it's the best thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that I waited so long to do this.
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  Speaker 1: I almost feel guilty talking about anything else because your
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  Speaker 1: mom now and you've got your little girl with you,
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  Speaker 1: and it's and it's like, I don't want to ruin
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  Speaker 1: it by talking about other things. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: delay just a couple more minutes because we shared the
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  Speaker 1: news of little Augusta's birth with the audience, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's safe to say, based on the email I received,
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  Speaker 1: people just overjoyed for you and Matt and know the
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  Speaker 1: blessing that children bring to lives in just enriching the
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  Speaker 1: life of a mom and a dad, and she's got
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  Speaker 1: two great parents. I know that, and I would imagine
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  Speaker 1: the staff sort of kind of is going to be
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  Speaker 1: fighting over her.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we've already seen where people are, you know, nicknaming her,
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  Speaker 2: and she's going to be kind of the mascot for
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  Speaker 2: the team for sure. She's just an incredible little little human.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she's I know, I say perfect, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: exceptionally biased. Of course, every parent is for their kid,
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  Speaker 2: but she's just amazing. And it is so true what
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  Speaker 2: they say that you don't know what real love is
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  Speaker 2: until you have a child. And Matt and I just
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  Speaker 2: feel so incredibly lucky. I mean, it was no doubt
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  Speaker 2: a brutal labor and delivery. We spent six days in
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  Speaker 2: the hospital, but you know, we are so so lucky
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  Speaker 2: to have a healthy, happy little girl. And I just
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  Speaker 2: know that she's gonna do incredible things and we're just
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  Speaker 2: gonna love her and do the very best that we can,
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  Speaker 2: as all parents do. And it just puts everything into
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  Speaker 2: a different light and perspective and certainly makes me want
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  Speaker 2: to fight harder for our country and for her future.
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  Speaker 2: And I do think being a parent makes you better
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  Speaker 2: at your job? I really do. I'm already I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we've been up since five and we've already done you know,
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  Speaker 2: TV hits, and we've already started talking to the team,
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  Speaker 2: and that's like, of course, you're even more busy now
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  Speaker 2: than you were before. But it just it means so
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  Speaker 2: much more when you have your child's future kind of
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  Speaker 2: in your hands and you want to do right by them.
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  Speaker 2: So we're very excited, so blessed, and we can't thank
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  Speaker 2: people enough for the incredible outpouring of well wishes. We
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  Speaker 2: really do have the best community in Florida, and we
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  Speaker 2: just can't say thank you enough, truly.
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  Speaker 1: Kat have you been You haven't been back to Washington
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  Speaker 1: since your child's been born.
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  Speaker 2: Right, correct? We just got back yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess that at some point that's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Do you have any expectations of whether you'll
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  Speaker 1: be treated any differently because you're now a mom?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure how you know it's going to go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm only the fourteenth woman ever to have a baby
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  Speaker 2: while serving in Congress, and if you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: there's been twelve thousand people that have served our nation
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  Speaker 2: in Congress only about four hundred, and I think twelve
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  Speaker 2: have been women, and fourteen of them have given birth
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  Speaker 2: myself now included the capital and Congress is not really
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  Speaker 2: set up for working parents. You know, there's not changing
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  Speaker 2: tables really in all the bathrooms for a mom like
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  Speaker 2: me who's breastfeeding. You know, it's one of those situations where, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: how do we make this work? And you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: talked to the Speaker and the leadership team and they're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can just got to use a bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know, it's funny because Congress makes
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  Speaker 2: the laws, but yet we can't follow the laws that
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  Speaker 2: we make because that's actually illegal, you know. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're we're slowly educating our colleagues on the needs of
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  Speaker 2: working parents and we're really lucky that I can bring
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  Speaker 2: her to the Capital with me. And ironically, Matt, as
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  Speaker 2: a firefighter, gets paternity leave, members of Congress do not.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get sick time or vacation time, or paternity
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  Speaker 2: leave or maternity leave. I know that that's a common misconception.
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  Speaker 2: We also don't get free childcare. That's another misconception. And
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  Speaker 2: so you know, we're just doing what we can to
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  Speaker 2: make it work. And we think that our experience might
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  Speaker 2: illuminate things for some of my colleagues and make it
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  Speaker 2: better for families across the country. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: figure it out. We're going to make it work. And
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  Speaker 2: I think one of the important things that I've realized
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  Speaker 2: right out the gate is your time management changes. Your
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  Speaker 2: priorities shift dramatically, and all of a sudden, you're not
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the perfect plan, You're just executing. You're making decisions.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it is actually going to make me
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  Speaker 2: more decisive and a little bit more aggressive, which some
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  Speaker 2: people are like, oh gosh, that's scary.
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  Speaker 1: Hey god, Cat, Well, she just fired a shout over
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  Speaker 1: about all of Washington, d C. That now, being a parent,
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  Speaker 1: US Congressman Cat Camick is going to be the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: mama bear when it comes to being a bit more
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  Speaker 1: aggressive when it comes to legislation and fighting. Hard to
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  Speaker 1: imagine that, horror, Cat, I think some people might view
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  Speaker 1: it that way. I'm curious, though, has your time away,
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  Speaker 1: as much as you can detach yourself from what goes
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  Speaker 1: on in Washington and in your district, has it allowed
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  Speaker 1: you to be maybe more laser focused on a given
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  Speaker 1: set of issues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, obviously your perspective is you know, always
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  Speaker 2: colored by you know, your experiences, your personal experiences. And
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  Speaker 2: this last month in August, not only we were we
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  Speaker 2: continuing to work. I mean, I think I worked up
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  Speaker 2: until about two days before I delivered baby Augie. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, just hearing from people, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: local things that we were working on, but I'm seeing
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  Speaker 2: a big shift towards how do we fix this healthcare system?
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  Speaker 2: Because we really don't have a healthcare system. It's more
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  Speaker 2: sick care. It's completely broken, and so there's a tremendous
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  Speaker 2: amount of work that we have to do there. And
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  Speaker 2: you and I were North Florida and we see where
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  Speaker 2: the closing of hospitals, the closing of primary care, people
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  Speaker 2: going out of business. It's leaving these massive health deserts.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the result of you know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different things. But you've got insurance that doesn't really ensure
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  Speaker 2: anything anymore. Your premiums are going up, the quality of
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  Speaker 2: care is going down. That's something that needs to be addressed.
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  Speaker 2: And that goes back to really I believe the affordable
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  Speaker 2: care Act. Was it perfect before the Affordable Careact Obamacare? No,
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  Speaker 2: but Obamacare made it thirty thousand times worse. So we
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of work in that space to do.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is, of course, government spending and waste
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  Speaker 2: fraud abuse. We're garnishing the wages of our children and
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  Speaker 2: our grandchildren. And I'm going to lay blame on both
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans and Democrats on this front.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Republican Democrats have bidden negligent in their duty to put
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  Speaker 2: forward a budget and do the regular order of twelve
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  Speaker 2: appropriation bills, which this is September. We have fourteen legislative
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  Speaker 2: days to get that done. Otherwise we end up in
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  Speaker 2: a Continuing Resolution a CR, which is just a rubber
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  Speaker 2: stamp of Nancy Pelosi spending era programs. And that's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely unacceptable. So we have to get that
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  Speaker 2: under control because our children's future is on the line,
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  Speaker 2: and baby Agy she deserves a fair shot at whatever
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  Speaker 2: she wants her future to look like, just like every
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  Speaker 2: other kid does. They don't need to have the burden
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  Speaker 2: of one hundred one thousand dollars plus of debt on
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  Speaker 2: their shoulders from the minute that they're born. So we
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  Speaker 2: have to have some cajones and we've got to get
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  Speaker 2: this wrapped up. And we need to do away with
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  Speaker 2: the port that ear marks. I'm the only Republican in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Florida that doesn't do ear marks, and
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  Speaker 2: that's a third. Get rid of the insider trading, get
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  Speaker 2: rid of all this corruption that is happening in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I'm going to be focused is cleaning up Washington,
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  Speaker 2: cutting the spending, and actually fixing a healthcare system that
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  Speaker 2: is so broken. That's really where I'm looking at right now.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard the laser focus. US Congresswoman Kat Cammick Florida's
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  Speaker 1: third district, only one in Florida in the Republican Caucus
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  Speaker 1: not doing ear marks. How long have I been asking
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  Speaker 1: for that, those of you that are veterans of the show.
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  Speaker 1: It goes back years begging congressional reps, set the examples,
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  Speaker 1: stop take in the pork. She's the first one to
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  Speaker 1: actually do it. Kat, I got to ask you about this.
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  Speaker 1: What is President Trump thinking buying shares of Intel and
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  Speaker 1: pursuing shares of a defense company or owning a defense company.
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  Speaker 3: That's socialism, it is, you know, and I will admittedly
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  Speaker 3: say I've struggled with the news on that because as
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  Speaker 3: a constitutional conservative, that is absolutely fundamentally against everything that
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  Speaker 3: I stand for.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe, I respect the President. I know that
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  Speaker 2: his heart is in the right place, but I think
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  Speaker 2: that the administration is wrong on this one. So I
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  Speaker 2: think there's going to be some unwinding that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to do. I also think that even more broadly,
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  Speaker 2: you look beyond the intel, look at what our grid
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  Speaker 2: and all our telecommunications nationally have embedded in them that
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  Speaker 2: we still haven't corrected. That is all Chinese owned infrastructure,
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  Speaker 2: and I would rather us focus our time, attention, and
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  Speaker 2: resources on rooting out all of this. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: got a report that nearly sixty percent of all of
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  Speaker 2: our national security DoD equipment has CCP manufactured produced equipment
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  Speaker 2: inside of it. That's the stuff that we need to
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  Speaker 2: be focused on. And so I know that he's focused
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  Speaker 2: heavily on the investment in the United States and getting
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  Speaker 2: these companies reshored and onshore. But we have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work to do in getting the CCP out of
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  Speaker 2: our basic infrastructure. It's going to take some work, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not thrilled about the decision on Intel. But we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of moving parts here that we've got
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  Speaker 2: to focus on.
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  Speaker 1: I know agriculture is a big thing. This will be
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  Speaker 1: the last question I have for you today because I
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  Speaker 1: want to respect your time with your husband and your child.
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  Speaker 1: The reconciliation package has some stuff in it. I want
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  Speaker 1: to say it's section four thirty five, four thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: or something dealing with some Basically, it allows complete shielding
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  Speaker 1: of liability to the pesticide companies out there. It's snuck
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  Speaker 1: in there. It's it's a it's a it's a nightmare
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  Speaker 1: for consumers because it basically says, uh, glycasate is not
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  Speaker 1: you can't you can't prosecute for that anymore, among other things.
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  Speaker 1: What can you tell.
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  Speaker 2: Me, Well, just like the pharmaceutical companies, no one should
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  Speaker 2: have absolute immunity from a sort of liability, right. And
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  Speaker 2: so that's actually something that as a member of the
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  Speaker 2: ad the Committee, we've been kind of socializing what is
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  Speaker 2: it going to look like when we come back in September.
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  Speaker 2: Now that we're back, we're having briefings on this because
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  Speaker 2: it never should have been put in the bill in
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  Speaker 2: the first place. So I think long term that's going
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  Speaker 2: to get rectified because again you have a general consensus
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  Speaker 2: out of the conference that no company, no industry should
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  Speaker 2: have blanket immunity when when people have a right and
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  Speaker 2: one know what's in their products, they have a right
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  Speaker 2: to choose what products they want to consume. Now, we
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  Speaker 2: know that, like to say and others, have been widely
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  Speaker 2: used in agriculture, but we also know that there are
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  Speaker 2: concerns and their complications as a result of that. So
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  Speaker 2: we need to deal with that in a smart way.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I get frustrated with is
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  Speaker 2: you have the Bill Gates of the world who are
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  Speaker 2: constantly circuiting short short circuiting the system where they've got
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  Speaker 2: new coatings that they're putting on products that they've basically
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  Speaker 2: been able to buy an organic label on and it's
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  Speaker 2: not organic. We have to have a conversation about food
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  Speaker 2: safety in the country, and that's long overdue. I think
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  Speaker 2: RFK is trying to have that conversation, but you have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of entrenched bureaucrats that don't want to have
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  Speaker 2: that conversation, and so we have to figure out a
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  Speaker 2: way to get this done in a way that's smart.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the ad can. The AG Committee is
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  Speaker 2: going to be taking it up this month because don't forget,
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  Speaker 2: we still have a farm bill that is going to
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  Speaker 2: need to be passed. We're already a year over the
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  Speaker 2: deadline for the Farm bill, and the farm bill is
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  Speaker 2: critical to a state like Florida, where you have three
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  Speaker 2: hundred specialty crops. That is insanely important. Now, the One
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  Speaker 2: Big Beautiful Bill did have that provision, but it also
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  Speaker 2: had some huge wins for Florida, and I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's important to highlight because everyone wants to highlight the
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  Speaker 2: bad and not always look at the goods. We can
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  Speaker 2: go back and fix that, but I also think it's
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  Speaker 2: worth mentioning that Florida made out like bandits on the
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  Speaker 2: upside when it came to some of the AG provisions
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  Speaker 2: in the One Big Beautiful Bill as well.
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  Speaker 1: Kat, thanks for the time. You are the best. My
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  Speaker 1: advice to you and Matt come courtesy of Bill Cosby.
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  Speaker 1: He said, remember, only change your baby when you can
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  Speaker 1: no longer pick her up. Why remove the only thing
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  Speaker 1: she can accomplish at this stage of her life. Don't
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  Speaker 1: take the child's self esteem.
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  Speaker 2: Noted Matt. Matt is staring at me right now saying
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  Speaker 2: what in the world, shaking his head. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you you as well. Kat Camick with us on
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  Speaker 1: The Morning Show with Preston Scott