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What DOGE Is Finding Should Horrify Everyone, Especially Congress · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All righty, It's Tuesday Morning Show with Preston, Scott and Preston.
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  Speaker 1: He's ose and joining us on the show is US
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Kat Camick, Florida's third congressional district.
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  Speaker 2: Cat, how are you good morning? We're doing great. It's
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  Speaker 2: my eight year wedding anniversary this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, congratulations, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. My husband we woke up and we're like, this
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  Speaker 2: is going about our day, like, oh man, it's our
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  Speaker 2: weddy anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you're spending the morning with us on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so he's used to it. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, pass along our congrats to your husband as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well done, I will will.
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  Speaker 1: I've been sitting somewhat speechless this morning over the latest
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  Speaker 1: revelations from Doge and what Doge is uncovering. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with four point seven trillion in largely untraceable payments, Kat,
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  Speaker 1: how much is Congress going to I mean, this has
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  Speaker 1: to be a bipartisan You've got to be kidding me right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, quietly, as with many other things like the border
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  Speaker 2: and many of the transgender surgery bills and things, I
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  Speaker 2: get Democrats coming to me quietly saying this is insane.
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  Speaker 2: But they're too scared to speak out because, as we
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  Speaker 2: all know right now, the Democrats are in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of an identity crisis, and they're so adamant that they
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  Speaker 2: have to be against all things Trump and all things
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk that they can't even bring themselves to say, wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a really bad thing that they just found, or
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  Speaker 2: that is that's absolutely insane. One hundred you know, sixty
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  Speaker 2: year olds collecting Social Security is absurd. They are so
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  Speaker 2: committed to this anti Trump, anti Elon, anti Republican mindset
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  Speaker 2: that they can't even bring themselves to say, yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is this is crazy, We've got to do something. And ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: I think that that is a sign of hey, this
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  Speaker 2: is exactly why you guys lost. You couldn't bring yourself
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  Speaker 2: to the common sense side, and it's why they're going
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  Speaker 2: to continue to lose. It's absurd, absolutely crazy, absurd.
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  Speaker 1: So what does what should Congress do? And let's just
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  Speaker 1: stay focused on the House, that's your world. What can
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  Speaker 1: the House do to support, to codify, to put in
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  Speaker 1: concrete the steps we're taking to uncover the fraud, the waste,
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  Speaker 1: the whatever, and support this action.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, last night I was down in Marion County,
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  Speaker 2: one of my awesome counties, and it was our RC
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  Speaker 2: night down there, and I was telling them, I'm incredibly energized,
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  Speaker 2: very excited for all the things that are happening and
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  Speaker 2: the potential for what can happen. But I'm also very
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  Speaker 2: vigilant in that Congress has a way of screwing everything up.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, come March fourteenth, we have to fund
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  Speaker 2: a government because we're still operating under a continuing Resolution,
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  Speaker 2: which is a rubber stamp of Nancy Pelosi spending. And
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  Speaker 2: there have been, you know, based conversations out there saying, hey, Kat,
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  Speaker 2: get ready to vote for a CR. And I've not
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  Speaker 2: supported a CR and I don't intend to start. And
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  Speaker 2: my comment back is, why in the world would we
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  Speaker 2: ever fund the programs that does just went in and
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  Speaker 2: discovered all the fraudulent payments in because literally, what we're
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  Speaker 2: saying is yay, go Dodge, go go go dos. But
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  Speaker 2: then on the backside, we're going to go and refund
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  Speaker 2: all these programs like USAID. Are they crazy? So that
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  Speaker 2: is something to keep keep in mind as Congress is
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  Speaker 2: going through these first and second quarters of funding battles
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  Speaker 2: and reconciliation that we don't fall into the same old trap.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, at the House passed the Halt Fentanyl Act, tell
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  Speaker 1: us about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean common sense will pretty much does what
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  Speaker 2: it says. We have been fighting for Gosh, I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe it's now four years since I actually got into
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  Speaker 2: Congress to permanently schedule Sentinel. And you know, I have
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  Speaker 2: debated this bill on the House floor. I have fought
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  Speaker 2: my colleagues on the other side on this and they say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we can't do that. They said, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: We have one hundred thousand Americans every single year being
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  Speaker 2: poisoned to death. And I don't say that these are overdoses.
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  Speaker 2: These are poisonings because I can't you how many people,
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  Speaker 2: how many families I have met with to say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we thought that he was going to take an adderall that,
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  Speaker 2: or my daughter thought she was taking a xanax and
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  Speaker 2: it was laced with Sentinel, and they are poisoned to death.
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  Speaker 2: And for whatever reason, sentinel had not been permanently scheduled,
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  Speaker 2: which made the enforcement really really tough. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I had said, listen, my husband's the first responder. He's
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  Speaker 2: a slap medic and yes, they do carry Sentinel on
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  Speaker 2: the trucks, but it is tightly controlled, highly highly regulated
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  Speaker 2: in EMS. And so the notion that we can't take
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  Speaker 2: action to prevent more death in this country is absurd
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  Speaker 2: and just another example of where the left they just
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  Speaker 2: seem to they cling to some of these crazy ideas.
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  Speaker 2: And I would say often, you know, this drug is
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  Speaker 2: it is an equal opportunity offender. It is an equal
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  Speaker 2: opportunity killer. It doesn't care if you're black or white.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't care if you're rich or poor. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter if you're a Republican or Democrat. Even secondary contact.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when my husband goes to these calls and
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  Speaker 2: these people have been poisoned, they have it in their system,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's recreational or they thought they were taking a
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  Speaker 2: prescription drug. That contact, it is so dangerous and so
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  Speaker 2: potent that that transfers through skin. I mean, that is
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  Speaker 2: something that we've said often of It's not a matter
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  Speaker 2: of if it's when our first responders began overdosing on
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  Speaker 2: it as well. It's just a common sense thing. And
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  Speaker 2: we have so many people who have tragically been lost
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  Speaker 2: to this, and of course the border crisis is the
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  Speaker 2: driving factor. You have one hundred and sixty factories in
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  Speaker 2: China that are making the precursors for ventanol contracting with
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  Speaker 2: the cartels in Mexico, and we're sitting here on our
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  Speaker 2: hands being like, well, we really can't do anything on
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  Speaker 2: the enforcement front. That's nonsense, that's bs And so this
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  Speaker 2: was a very common sense bill that allows us to
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  Speaker 2: put more power, firepower in the hands of law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: and prosecutors and start going after people who are trafficking
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  Speaker 2: in the trade.
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  Speaker 1: Did Did any Democrats cross over and support it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a few did, which is a departure from where
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  Speaker 2: we were when it's been brought up the two times prior,
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  Speaker 2: where straight down the line not a single Democrat would
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  Speaker 2: support it. But I think some are starting to see
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  Speaker 2: the writing on the wall that Americans are sick and
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  Speaker 2: tired of this in their games. But still I can't
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  Speaker 2: remember the numbers off the top of my head of
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  Speaker 2: what the final vote was, but I mean, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: dozens and dozens of Democrats that refuse to take action
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  Speaker 2: on the bill, and again it's they want to play
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  Speaker 2: politics with people's lives, and I think Americans are well
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  Speaker 2: past the games of the left.
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  Speaker 1: Kat Children have died in airbnbs and verbos that have.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the previous renters had a party and there's
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  Speaker 1: this little flake of this stuff, this powder, and it's
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  Speaker 1: gotten into a child's hand and they've been dead. They're dead.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I mean, and that's that's that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: I mean. And you talk to those families. I've spoken
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  Speaker 2: to a couple of families that that has happened to
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  Speaker 2: the enforcement mechanism hasn't been there. They are left with
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  Speaker 2: this tragedy and no recourse. And this is some this
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  Speaker 2: is one step to try to make things right, but
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  Speaker 2: it is it's just absolutely in every element of our
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  Speaker 2: society today. And you look at the state of Florida,
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  Speaker 2: across the Panhandle, you have E ten which is a
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  Speaker 2: major corridor for drug trafficking, human trafficking Down seventy five
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  Speaker 2: and ninety five also major corridors. And of course you
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  Speaker 2: look at our districts all of north central Florida that
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  Speaker 2: that that nexus of I ten seventy five. You talk
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  Speaker 2: to the sheriffs and they're like, oh, we're finding bricks
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  Speaker 2: of fetanyl with the stamps of border cartels. They're frinding
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  Speaker 2: them with pill presses because they're intending to distribute in
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  Speaker 2: these major corridors. And what even scarier is they're making
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  Speaker 2: these when they do the pill presses, they make them
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  Speaker 2: look like candy. Yeah, they're making the drugs look like Skittles.
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  Speaker 2: And it's because they're intending to distribute to kids and
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  Speaker 2: they want it to look very kid friendly. This is
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  Speaker 2: just insane. And again it's just you talk to some
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  Speaker 2: of these Democrats behind you know, closed doors, and they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is a really bad problem, but they're scared to
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  Speaker 2: speak out because their leadership has told them if you
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  Speaker 2: align with the Republicans, you're done on your committees will
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  Speaker 2: run primary ads against you. And people are just scared
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  Speaker 2: of losing their job. But I'm scared of losing our country.
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  Speaker 2: So it's time that people put the politics aside and
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  Speaker 2: do it's right.
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  Speaker 1: Where can we help you? Where can listeners of this
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  Speaker 1: program help get some things done? What bill needs to
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  Speaker 1: get done that you need some public support.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be the least sexy topic on
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  Speaker 2: the planet, but it is probably the most important. The
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  Speaker 2: Rains Act. The Rains Act is the largest regulatory reform
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  Speaker 2: effort in American history. It is the Drain the Swamp bill.
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  Speaker 2: It will take on all of the unelected, nameless, faceless
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  Speaker 2: bureaucrats that have spent our money to the tune of
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  Speaker 2: two trillion dollars a year in enforcement and compliance. That's
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  Speaker 2: what it cost us taxpayers. And it basically says, you
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  Speaker 2: guys are no longer in charge, You no longer have
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  Speaker 2: this authority. And it puts that power back into Congress,
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  Speaker 2: which is really where it should have been, because that
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  Speaker 2: is the house of the people, that is the people's house,
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  Speaker 2: and that is where we get our power back. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Rains Act very simple, elegant bills. We just
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  Speaker 2: got it put into the reconciliation process, and so it
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  Speaker 2: has a long way to go, but it's a really good,
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  Speaker 2: important first step. And what people can do is call
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  Speaker 2: up your member of Congress, call your Congress critter, but
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  Speaker 2: then call your senators and demand that they support the
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  Speaker 2: Rains Act in reconciliation. And that's so important that phrase
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  Speaker 2: support the Rains Act in reconciliation because even President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has said, we want the tax cuts, we want all
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  Speaker 2: these things. If we do the regulatory reform that is generational,
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  Speaker 2: that is a change that will get our country back
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  Speaker 2: on track. That gives us a fighting chance at another
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years of exceptionalism. The Rains Act,
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  Speaker 2: reining in government, draining the swamp. This is the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing that we could do.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a counterpart bill in the Senate?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So I carry the bill in the House. Senator
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  Speaker 2: Ran Paul, he carries it in the Senate. If you
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  Speaker 2: follow Mike Lee on social media, you know he is
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  Speaker 2: very passionate about this bill. Elon has been supportive of it.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is supportive of it. The Senate parliamentarian is
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  Speaker 2: not so supportive of the bill. And again it's because
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  Speaker 2: this is the bill that takes on the swamp. These
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  Speaker 2: cuts that everyone are talking about. Yes, it is incredibly
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  Speaker 2: important to cut down the size of government, but remember
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  Speaker 2: those are one sat like one time only cuts. The
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  Speaker 2: way to make lasting change in Washington and really drain
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  Speaker 2: the swamps is you have to reform the process that
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  Speaker 2: all this happens through. And right now you have unelected
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  Speaker 2: beercrats that they're the ones that are making the laws,
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  Speaker 2: enforcing the laws, and up until Supreme Court ruled on
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  Speaker 2: Chevron in the Lower Bright case, they were judge and
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  Speaker 2: jury on them too. The Supreme Court case did not
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  Speaker 2: strip these beer crats of their ability to make rules
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  Speaker 2: and regulations. They just said you can't be the final
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  Speaker 2: arbiter on them. They just they pulled us in the ruling. Congress,
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  Speaker 2: this is your turn. Now you need to reassert your
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  Speaker 2: article on authority, institutional right to make the laws. And
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  Speaker 2: so this is our moment. If we don't get the
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  Speaker 2: Rains Act done this Congress, it will be an absolute
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  Speaker 2: crying shame. And so people need to speak out, get
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  Speaker 2: very vocal call senators, call their congressmen and demand that
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  Speaker 2: they support the Rains Acts. This could not be more
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  Speaker 2: important than in this moment.
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  Speaker 1: The President said something that I was shocked by. And
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  Speaker 1: this will be my final question for you, Kat, because
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  Speaker 1: I know you've got to run. He mentioned a balanced
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  Speaker 1: budget in your opinion, will we see an actual budget
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  Speaker 1: get passed in this Congress?
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  Speaker 2: I am hopeful. I am hopeful a balanced budget would
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  Speaker 2: would be a game changer. And I have always supported
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  Speaker 2: a balanced budget amendment, and I think that for folks
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  Speaker 2: like you and I, it's common sense. But they start
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  Speaker 2: doing the actual math and you get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people who have a lot of special projects and programs
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  Speaker 2: that their districts have become very dependent on. And this
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  Speaker 2: is where everyone starts getting into protectionist mode of oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: we can't cut that, and we can't do this, and
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  Speaker 2: we can't do that, folks. This is why I have
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  Speaker 2: never had earmarks as part of our office policy. I
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  Speaker 2: have said we are not doing ear marks. You either
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  Speaker 2: earmark every single line item in the budget, or you
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  Speaker 2: go in and you create your your budget, you do
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  Speaker 2: your twelve appropriations, and there should be no ear marks.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it that some districts are rewarded for their
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  Speaker 2: member complying in Washington where others aren't. It's wrong. And
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  Speaker 2: so we have a massive deficit that we need to overcome.
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  Speaker 2: We have a thirty seven trillion dollar national debt that
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  Speaker 2: it's the interest on our debt alone has outpaced our
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  Speaker 2: defense spending at a time when Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: and North Korea have formed the new app axis. And
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  Speaker 2: it's just a scary time. And we're sitting here twiddling
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  Speaker 2: our thumbs, rearranging the deck chairs on the deck of
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  Speaker 2: the Titanic. This is not a time to be focusing
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  Speaker 2: on who's bringing home the bacon into their district. This
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  Speaker 2: is about how do we get the country back on track.
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  Speaker 2: And so I am very much in favor of a
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  Speaker 2: budget balance, a balanced budget amendment. It's just going to
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  Speaker 2: take political courage, and we're still a little short. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at least you got some Kat, Happy anniversary again
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for the time. We'll talk again next month.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you have a good one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. US Congresswoman Kat Camick with us here in
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