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ONELEGUPALEX NEWS Reports on Senate’s Leg Up on Affordability 6-22-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here at one like a blex Media.
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  Speaker 1: A major win tonight for the Republicans and the fight
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  Speaker 1: for affordability. Did you see it? Did you see that?
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  Speaker 1: A housing bill? A housing bill was passed pretty much
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  Speaker 1: majority in the Senate tonight in an eighty five to
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  Speaker 1: five vote. According to NBC News, senators voted tonight to
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  Speaker 1: pass what they're calling the twenty first Century Road to
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  Speaker 1: Housing Act, which, as they call it, NBC News calls
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  Speaker 1: it would be a desperately needed win for Republicans. It
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  Speaker 1: would basically say housing affordability will help low lower costs.
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  Speaker 1: And you know sometimes Wall Street firms buy these houses
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  Speaker 1: to flip them for more. And now this bill is
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  Speaker 1: going to prevent Wall Street investors from further buying up
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  Speaker 1: houses and limit them and make housing more accessible. I
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  Speaker 1: talked about this, remember when I'm Donnie and Trump were
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  Speaker 1: all about talking about affordability and Trump wanted a champion affordability. Mum,
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  Speaker 1: Donnie wanted a champion affordability. What about accessibility, both financial
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  Speaker 1: accessibility and physical accessibility. Well, maybe this is a step
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  Speaker 1: toward not only affordability, but accessibility. I can tell you
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  Speaker 1: from firsthand, trying to get an apartment in New York
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  Speaker 1: through the lottery. They still were gonna charge me twelve
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month. They were that's not affordable for
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  Speaker 1: the disabled community, even if you're working.
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  Speaker 2: That's not.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: While twelve hundred maybe good to the average person, to
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  Speaker 1: disabled community, I still think that's a little high.
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  Speaker 2: That's too high.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe a.
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  Speaker 2: Bill like this.
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  Speaker 1: Can not only put an exclamation point on the promise
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  Speaker 1: from both parties, this is a bipartis an effort right
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  Speaker 1: here to make life more affordable. To make the cost
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  Speaker 1: of living affordable in places like New York City could
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  Speaker 1: be a major boon for Americans as we continue to
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  Speaker 1: ramp up for America to fifty. This would help make
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  Speaker 1: us feel like we are achieving the American dream. Those
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  Speaker 1: with disabilities, those who are on low income, those who
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  Speaker 1: are struggling new break out of home and try and
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  Speaker 1: get their own place. Maybe this bill to make housing
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  Speaker 1: more affordable will help us feel like the American dream
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  Speaker 1: is attainable. What is the American dream? It's to be independent.
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  Speaker 1: It's to be able to provide for yourself and when
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  Speaker 1: you have rent, that is as who was it as
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy McMillan once said, rent is too damn high. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this bill could very much be the catalyst for lowering it,
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  Speaker 1: lowering it, lowering the bill, you know, lowering bills. The
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  Speaker 1: legislation would approve a series of finding or of funding
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  Speaker 1: and grow grand programs for constructing new homes, slash red tape,
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  Speaker 1: empower local governments like New York City's government to expedite
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  Speaker 1: reviews to Bill Moore Housing, and a key section titled
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  Speaker 1: Homes Are for People, Not Corporations, would restrict any large
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  Speaker 1: institutional investor from buying single family homes.
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  Speaker 3: I do believe this has.
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  Speaker 1: Mum Donnie in it and his footprint handprints in it,
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  Speaker 1: because that was something he was championing on the campaign
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  Speaker 1: trail here. So is it possible all those secret meetings
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  Speaker 1: between Mum Donnie and Trump and the very visible one
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  Speaker 1: after Mum Donnie got elected led to something like this.
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  Speaker 1: The final package came together after the Senate. This is
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  Speaker 1: according to NBC News, agreed to add a series of
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  Speaker 1: person visions sought by the House, while dropping a provision
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  Speaker 1: the House objected to which would have required large investors
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  Speaker 1: that construct her own at least three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: single family homes to sell them after seven years that
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  Speaker 1: the NBC News is talking about a bill about to
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  Speaker 1: be passed by the Republican and signed by Trump. There's
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  Speaker 1: something in the bill for just about everyone to like.
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  Speaker 1: Put that on a T shirt because when do we
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  Speaker 1: ever hear that line? There's something in the bill for
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  Speaker 1: just about everyone to like. NBC's news reporter Sahil Kapor
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  Speaker 1: is reporting on this. I love that line, because when
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  Speaker 1: did we ever hear that about a bill when Washington, DC?
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  Speaker 1: You never hear everyone every American is gonna like a bill.
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  Speaker 1: You never hear that line. So well, this is promising,
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  Speaker 1: This is promising that this could be an affordability win
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  Speaker 1: and an excess a financial accessibility win, maybe even physical accessibility.
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  Speaker 3: Win, and it would be a win for Trump.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not why I care about it. I care
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  Speaker 1: about it because it shows DC might actually be doing
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  Speaker 1: something for the American people. When do we hear that
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  Speaker 1: We went to d C a year and a half,
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  Speaker 1: a year and a few months ago to help to
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  Speaker 1: show them they need to do something for the American
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  Speaker 1: people who have digestive diseases. It's all about I don't
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  Speaker 1: even want to use the word lobby because I hate
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  Speaker 1: the word. It's all about advocacy. It's all about advocating
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  Speaker 1: for something like this, and it looks like the advocacy
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  Speaker 1: has paid off for in the name of affordability. And
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  Speaker 1: it could be a breather from what's happening in Iran
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  Speaker 1: for just a moment, for just a moment, something everyone
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  Speaker 1: could like is a win for affordability.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, I think that's huge.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently Trump's not hands on with the bill because
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  Speaker 1: he's been focused on the Iran deal and getting a
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  Speaker 1: deal done. Of course, the Switzerland meetings are going on,
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  Speaker 1: and JD Van's out there. By the way, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: say this right now, I still choose Marco Rubio over
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  Speaker 1: JD in the presidential primary and in the presidential race
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  Speaker 1: against most likely Gavin Newsom. And I'm gonna play you
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow what Marco Rubio said, because I've been on the
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  Speaker 1: next tear. We've all been on the next tear. But
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  Speaker 1: it's time to get serious. We are about to sell
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  Speaker 1: about America now. The celebrations are gonna keep going for
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks, but the bigger celebration is gonna be happening
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  Speaker 1: for the nation. In less than two weeks. We're about
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  Speaker 1: to turn two hundred and fifty, and you gotta hear
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  Speaker 1: what Marco Rubio said about the two hundred fifty year
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  Speaker 1: of America as report on Mike by Mike Gallagher. I'll
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  Speaker 1: share that tomorrow. But this is a win. This is
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  Speaker 1: a win for achieving the American dream that our founding
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  Speaker 1: fathers set out to give us two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Know
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  Speaker 1: what happiness is affording a house, of making apartments affordable,
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  Speaker 1: making it accessible, financially accessible, financial freedom. That to me
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  Speaker 1: is what the American dream is. Freedom. Quite often I
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  Speaker 1: find that in the disabled community, if you're on services,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot make over a certain amount of money. That
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  Speaker 1: is not the American dream. So maybe that could be
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  Speaker 1: a next step. Hey, stop limiting how much disabled viewers
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  Speaker 1: can make if they're on benefits. Just allow them to
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  Speaker 1: work and achieve the and receive the benefits they need
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  Speaker 1: to maintain independence and to be adapting and always adapting
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  Speaker 1: and smashing stigmas. This moment right here, you may not
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  Speaker 1: hear about it a lot, but this moment right here
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  Speaker 1: with the Senate passing on the way to the House
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  Speaker 1: and on the way to Trump's desk, is a major
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  Speaker 1: win for both parties. It'll have the Republican win because
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  Speaker 1: they are in the party in control right now, so
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  Speaker 1: they'll look like they have a grasp on affordability. But
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  Speaker 1: it'll also be a win for Democrats because we know, mom,
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  Speaker 1: Donnie's been in Trump's a year about something like this.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to build more housing in the city. And
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  Speaker 1: I do agree with the idea that corporate America should
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  Speaker 1: stay out of our housing system, stop buying up and
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  Speaker 1: pricing out average everyday Americans. That's not the American dream,
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  Speaker 1: That's not what the founding father said out for us
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years ago. But you're gonna hear
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  Speaker 1: tonight about more in the Geneva, the Geneva, the Switzerland conversations,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll hear more about you know, whether Vance is
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  Speaker 1: the guy or Marco Rubio's the guy. But underneath it
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  Speaker 1: all this shows Washington is still working with us and
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  Speaker 1: for us through the chaos. And I don't often say that,
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  Speaker 1: but they are working for us in the chaos, through
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  Speaker 1: the chaos, and it's encouraging, and it'll be encouraging once
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  Speaker 1: it's signed by the House and then signed by prew
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  Speaker 1: by the House and signed by the President, because then
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  Speaker 1: that moniker of affordability could open up the doors.
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  Speaker 3: For actual families.
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  Speaker 1: To live freer and not be so stressed out about
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  Speaker 1: everything going on about not being able to afford, about
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  Speaker 1: having to work multiple jobs just to get by. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think the founding father started this country so hard
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  Speaker 1: and we're working everyday Americans have to work multiple jobs
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  Speaker 1: to get by. No, that wasn't the pursuit of happiness
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  Speaker 1: they were thinking of. But this moment of bipartisanship and
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  Speaker 1: of debate. I've always said, this debate is what made
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  Speaker 1: this country happen, and it made amendments happen. It made
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  Speaker 1: this country break free from Britain.
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  Speaker 3: For once.
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  Speaker 1: We're breaking free of gridlock right now and approving something
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  Speaker 1: and voting on something that is a big yess for
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  Speaker 1: Americans looking to achieve an American a dream of independence.
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  Speaker 1: And that's my message tonight on one leg a Ballex
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  Speaker 1: Media on June twenty second, twenty twenty six, just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks away from year two fifty and Washington
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  Speaker 1: voted on a bill, as Sahilicaport writes, that has something
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  Speaker 1: in it for just about everyone to like, and how
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  Speaker 1: can you not like that