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US Rep Kat Cammack Unplugged · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: We're doing great. It's a rainy day up here on
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, but we've got a three week sprint to
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of stuff done. And then the docket
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  Speaker 1: is full, whether it is appropriations, whether it is name,
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  Speaker 1: image and likeness, nil, the big package that everyone's been
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  Speaker 1: talking about in college sports. If you're watching college sports,
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  Speaker 1: which of course is a good Southerner, of course you
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  Speaker 1: are on Saturday. What else are you doing? You've seen
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  Speaker 1: the advertisements for the Score Act. And then of course
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  Speaker 1: we've got today and next week a lot and this
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  Speaker 1: is in my Committee of Jurisdiction, a lot dealing with
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  Speaker 1: online safety for kids. And so we've got a full
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  Speaker 1: plate on our hands up here.
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  Speaker 2: Preston, this is Congress when Kat camra Kat.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't had a legitimate budget in this country for
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  Speaker 3: the government since the mid nineties, I think it is.
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  Speaker 3: And there's not a business on the planet that could
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  Speaker 3: operate that way, And I guess that explains why we
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  Speaker 3: are where we are financially in our country as far
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  Speaker 3: as the government.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I would say thirty years, I believe
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  Speaker 1: is the actual number that we have gone without putting
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  Speaker 1: forward a budget and then subsequently appropriating all twelve of
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  Speaker 1: the appropriations, and just for everyone's refresher, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: take everybody back to Civics class. You have a budget
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  Speaker 1: that is passed out of the Budget Committee in the House,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have twelve appropriations that cover everything. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the trick here is you have the authorizing Committee, So
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  Speaker 1: in order for something to technically be appropriated, you have
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  Speaker 1: to have it authorized by Congress. Well, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: mess because we've never done all twelve appropriations and not
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  Speaker 1: well thirty years and currently you have about nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars eight hundred and ninety two billion to be exact,
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  Speaker 1: that has not been authorized by Congress. But for years
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  Speaker 1: under these crs, they continue to get appropriated, and so
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  Speaker 1: there's a huge push amongst US fysical conservatives. We want
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  Speaker 1: all of these programs to be audited, go line by line,
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  Speaker 1: and we want to have a real budgeting, appropriation and
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  Speaker 1: authorization process put forward. That's what we're fighting for and
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  Speaker 1: we've been fighting for. It's going to be a real
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  Speaker 1: fight because government funding runs out on January thirtieth, and
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  Speaker 1: we're still in this doom loop of crs and omnibuses,
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  Speaker 1: and it's got to end because our children, little baby Aggie,
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  Speaker 1: every child, every kid under the age of eighteen today
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  Speaker 1: has five hundred thousand dollars of national debt on their
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  Speaker 1: shoulders as a result of this broken process. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why it's so important.
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  Speaker 3: We know Democrats are going to oppose this because they
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  Speaker 3: don't have and I'm going to be charitable as I
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  Speaker 3: say this, Kat, Democrats don't understand economics.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't.
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  Speaker 3: Every community, virtually, sorry, every community run by Democrats in
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  Speaker 3: this country is in a fiscal tailspin. So who's blocking
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  Speaker 3: this on the Republican side.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the thing that you find out when you get
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  Speaker 1: up here is that there really aren't Republicans and Democrats. Right.
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  Speaker 1: You have the Party of big Government, and then you
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  Speaker 1: have the Party of little government. Okay, some people call
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  Speaker 1: it the Uni Party. I'm agnostic to that term, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: because it really comes down to something much simpler for me,
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  Speaker 1: which is, either you believe as an individual that you
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  Speaker 1: can be responsible for yourself and your family and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want government interfering in your life. You want low taxes,
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  Speaker 1: less interference, or you think that the government should be
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  Speaker 1: supplying all these programs and things, right, little government versus
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  Speaker 1: big government and the parties. They tend to ebb and
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  Speaker 1: flow in between these titles, and so I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the people who have been here the longest who In
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  Speaker 1: a cross example was yesterday I was having a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with a colleague and they said, Kat, you just don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it's always been done. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: and that is exactly why Congress has a fourteen percent
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  Speaker 1: approval rating. People would rather go get a colonoscopy than
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  Speaker 1: deal with Congress because y'all don't do anything. You don't
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  Speaker 1: do your jobs. You run roughshot with people's money and
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  Speaker 1: their livelihoods, and you treat it like monopoly money. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm sick of it. And that's what we're fighting for.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, today I have to go testify. I don't
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  Speaker 1: say I have. I get to go testify because I'm
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  Speaker 1: very excited about this in front of the Budget Committee
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  Speaker 1: on some ideas that we have about bringing down our
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  Speaker 1: national debt, things like a structured debt repayment plan, and
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  Speaker 1: why we should go to zero based budgeting because we don't.
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  Speaker 1: We do the opposite, We don't zero based budget and
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  Speaker 1: why we need to authorize these programs before we put
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  Speaker 1: money into them. It's just common sense we should be
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  Speaker 1: auditing these programs and we're not, and it's frustrating. And
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  Speaker 1: this is where the American people, knowing the process and
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  Speaker 1: how it's done and how it's not done, sometimes that's
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  Speaker 1: the difference maker, because then we the people can demand
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  Speaker 1: change and we can push our leaders in Washington to
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  Speaker 1: actually help get a budget and a process finished and
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  Speaker 1: across the finish line.
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  Speaker 3: US congress Women Kat Camick with me. Cat stand by,
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  Speaker 3: folks listening on iHeartRadio all over the country, call your
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  Speaker 3: congressional representative, tell them to support the idea of you know,
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  Speaker 3: this zero based budgeting, the auditing, the appropriations process.
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  Speaker 2: Be amazing. What would happen?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you can just imagine how that conversation in the
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  Speaker 3: break went. She is a big Florida Gator fan, and
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  Speaker 3: obviously Florida played Florida State over the weekend, and of
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  Speaker 3: course I'm a Florida State fan, and all of our
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  Speaker 3: teams are on the bench the rest of the football season,
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  Speaker 3: and we both bask and misery, but they're not quite
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  Speaker 3: as miserable as we are because they and so Kat
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  Speaker 3: and I were having that discussion, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, you were a great sport and I
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  Speaker 1: like to think that I was an okay sport about it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. The game was like a race to
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  Speaker 1: see who was going to be second worst. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a fun game and it was it was
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  Speaker 1: great that we ended the Gators. We the Gators, the collective.
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  Speaker 1: We ended on a high note. But yeah, if we
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  Speaker 1: lost to Florida State, that would have really put a
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  Speaker 1: damper on on things for us.
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  Speaker 3: Now, now, now listen to this cat. This is a
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  Speaker 3: professional radio segue. If you've ever heard when you're ready
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  Speaker 3: speak speaking of the swamp hr one, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: go to bat and try to get it done in
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  Speaker 3: the swamp.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, so you you tied me up perfectly on
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  Speaker 1: this question. Today I will be testifying in the Budget Committee,
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  Speaker 1: well simultaneously in another committee here. It's amazing how we
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  Speaker 1: schedule up here. It's like, you know, we think we
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  Speaker 1: can spend time. And I am going to be pushing
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  Speaker 1: for Congress to reauthorize all of the programs and agencies
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  Speaker 1: before they receive money. And I know that's a novel
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  Speaker 1: idea and it's probably the least sexy topic that we
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  Speaker 1: could be talking about. But here's why it's important. And
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  Speaker 1: you had mentioned this earlier. Everyone listening, call your representatives
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  Speaker 1: and ask them to support co sponsor HR one p
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  Speaker 1: forty three, the USA Act, the Unauthorized Spending Accountability Act.
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  Speaker 1: And again, the reason why this is so important is
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  Speaker 1: because on autopilot, all of the crs, all the omnibuses,
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  Speaker 1: all the things that Congress keeps doing, just exactly what
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  Speaker 1: it's doing. We will spend. We the people will. We'll
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  Speaker 1: out of our tax dollars, fund eight hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 1: two billion with a B dollars of unauthorized programs and agencies,
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  Speaker 1: and it'll just come out of our pockets like nothing happen.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the scary part. You've got agencies like the
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  Speaker 1: EPA never authorized by Congress. There's so many pet projects
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  Speaker 1: that have been created that have never had an audit,
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  Speaker 1: Congress never approved them, and they're still getting funding. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but whether you're Republican or Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: you should care about where your tax dollars are going.
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  Speaker 1: And you would hope that somebody somewhere has got some
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  Speaker 1: oversight on them. And so HR one three, the USAC,
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  Speaker 1: this will fundamentally change how Congress operates. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, that's what I am in Washington
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  Speaker 1: to do, disrupt the status quo and drain the swamp
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  Speaker 1: and put power back in the hands of we the people.
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  Speaker 1: This does just that because it holds people accountable to
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  Speaker 1: the programs that they're funding. And so while it is
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  Speaker 1: not the sexiest work, it is very important work. And
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  Speaker 1: this is what can help us get on track to
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  Speaker 1: keep us a republic for the next two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty years.
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  Speaker 3: Kat Horn, A foundation for a house isn't sexy. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't make the house look pretty, but it allows the
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  Speaker 3: house to stand. And what you're talking about here is
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  Speaker 3: critical infrastructure type stuff that I mean when you said EPA,
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  Speaker 3: the EPA is an agency that has no congressional authorization.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, it has never been officially authorized or approved by Congress.
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  Speaker 3: Roughly how many such agencies departments do we have that
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  Speaker 3: have never been authorized and we're spending.
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  Speaker 2: Money for.
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  Speaker 1: One thousand, two hundred and sixty four good yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: one two hundred and sixty four programs and agencies have
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  Speaker 1: no congressional authorization. In fact, forty nine percent of all
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  Speaker 1: of the funding that government does expired over a decade ago,
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  Speaker 1: and the oldest was nineteen eight that last got any
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  Speaker 1: sort of look.
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  Speaker 3: At Doesn't that make these organizations illegal?
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  Speaker 1: You would think. But if they're illegal, why are we
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  Speaker 1: sending money to them? And that's where the courts are like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you guys keep sending money to these what do you
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  Speaker 1: want us to do? And the last thing that we
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  Speaker 1: need is more activist judges, right, yeah, because Congress, we
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  Speaker 1: set our own rules and we're violating our own rules,
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  Speaker 1: and so we have to do the work of holding
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  Speaker 1: Congress accountable. And nobody up here in Washington wants to
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  Speaker 1: take a look at cleaning house. That's why it's such
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  Speaker 1: a fight for us to tackle the regulatory regime and
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  Speaker 1: you know, do background checks for members of Congress and
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  Speaker 1: their staff, Like nobody wants this accountability. They don't. But
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  Speaker 1: it's it's really sad because I think if they if
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  Speaker 1: they were forced to actually play by the book book,
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  Speaker 1: no insider trading, background checks, no dual citizenship, things like this. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: if we were forcing members to do it, the trust
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  Speaker 1: would slowly start to be rebuilt in the system in
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  Speaker 1: our government. And I think a healthy amount of skepticism
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  Speaker 1: is always good, but when you've got a fourteen percent
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  Speaker 1: approval rating on a good day, that's a sign that
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  Speaker 1: you're not doing things in the best interest of the people.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've got it. Like I say, it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to longevity, and are we going to be a
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  Speaker 1: republic for the next two hundred and fifty years? Not
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  Speaker 1: at this rate. Certainly the physical situation will answer that
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  Speaker 1: for us. But if we want to continue to be
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  Speaker 1: this wild, crazy experiment in freedom, we have to start
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  Speaker 1: cleaning up the house in HR one forty three. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of the big important steps we've got to take.
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  Speaker 3: Kat you got to get on Fox, even though we
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  Speaker 3: talked about the limitations of television, but you also have
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  Speaker 3: to get on Glenn, and you've got to get on
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  Speaker 3: Clay and Buck, and you've got to get on Sean,
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  Speaker 3: and you got to get on Mark Levin.
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  Speaker 2: You need to be beaten the bushes on this because
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  Speaker 2: this is really good. I'm proud of you. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, well, I will be on I'll be on Harris
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  Speaker 1: Faulkner today at eleven o'clock. Okay out, okay, This and
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of other things. And Lord knows. I try
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  Speaker 1: to do as much media talking about these issues as possible,
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  Speaker 1: but man, we really need the people. Like this is
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  Speaker 1: where the power of the people is so important. Call
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  Speaker 1: your representatives because there's nothing that a chicken crat politician
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  Speaker 1: fears more than when their constituents start lighting up their
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  Speaker 1: phone lines and saying, Hey, I want you to sponsor
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  Speaker 1: this bill, Hey, please sponsor this bill. They all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden start paying attention because they're thinking reelection, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's where I need the people's help.
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  Speaker 2: Kat, you're the best.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll talk again in a couple of weeks before
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  Speaker 3: the Christmas break, but if not, Merry Christmas and thank
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  Speaker 3: you for all you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, appreciate you more than you know. Everybody, have a great,
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  Speaker 1: great holiday. If I don't see you or talk to
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  Speaker 1: you before then, and make God continue to bless these
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  Speaker 1: United States.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Kat Cammick with us this morning on the Morning Show.