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Inside The Beltway · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: And away we go, third hour of our anniversary show.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty three years as of today, this radio program, I
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  Speaker 1: have grown. I've grown old in your ears. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: it's actually kind of a scary thing. But being the kind,
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  Speaker 1: benevolent talk show host, I'm not asking for gifts from you.
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  Speaker 1: I am giving you a gift, and it's you, as
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Kat Camick. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh lord, I left it up from the discount store.
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  Speaker 2: That's the gift.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, come on, can I talk you up all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that. Don't diminish my gift to the audience.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a happy anniversary and congratulations. That is quite an accomplishment.
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea that I was going to be
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  Speaker 2: on the anniversary show, so I feel very honored. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: when you say that I'm the gifts, of course, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like the Dollar General version. But thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: What's so funny about that is that to show you
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  Speaker 1: how big a deal it is that that it's the
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the show. My wife said to me the
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  Speaker 1: other day, honey, isn't your anniversary show coming up? And
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  Speaker 1: I went, yeah, it is completely forgot about it. So
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  Speaker 1: here we are Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me like a guy that's it.
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  Speaker 1: No no, oh no, no, no, no no, don't you
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  Speaker 1: dare dump that on me. I know the dates of
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  Speaker 1: anniversaries and birthdays in my family. Uh huh, absolutely, Hey
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  Speaker 1: tell me this. What are your expectations of the meeting
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  Speaker 1: between the president and Vladimir Putin?
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  Speaker 2: Well birth. Let me apologize to you and to all
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  Speaker 2: our listeners. I am a walking ball of Paulin right now.
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  Speaker 2: Basically I could shake and every bit of paul And
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  Speaker 2: from both Washington and Florida would come off of me.
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  Speaker 2: So I apologize if I sound a little crazy right
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  Speaker 2: now on the on the topic of Putin and President
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  Speaker 2: Trump meeting, my expectations are that President Trump will walk
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  Speaker 2: away with more commitments from Russia from President Putin about
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  Speaker 2: how we end the war in Ukraine. Now and again,
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  Speaker 2: I need to I need to preface this. I am
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  Speaker 2: somebody who is not only officially sanctioned by Putin. I
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  Speaker 2: was sanctioned from the Russian government as an American citizen.
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  Speaker 2: I have family members, entire trees in my family lines,
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  Speaker 2: in my family tree branches that ended in Russia, probably
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  Speaker 2: in a mass grave somewhere. I have no love for
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  Speaker 2: the Russian government whatsoever, and they are the absolute aggressors
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  Speaker 2: in this. But let us be clear that Ukraine has
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  Speaker 2: taken advantage of the generosity of the American people, and
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, a lot of other governments have fallen into this.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of blame to go around. At this point.
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  Speaker 2: We need solutions, and I think that's what President Trump
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  Speaker 2: is focused on, is let's get to a resolution rather
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  Speaker 2: than protracting this war out over more and more years
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  Speaker 2: to feed the military industrial complex. That is what his
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  Speaker 2: goal is, and so I think he's going to get
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  Speaker 2: more concessions out of President Putin. They're not friends. Anyone
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  Speaker 2: who suggests otherwise just doesn't know the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Kat We've done a few deep dives on the program
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  Speaker 1: about the long history of Ukrainian and Russian relationships, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a part of this story that really
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been told very well by people on our side
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  Speaker 1: that absolutely know Russia is the aggressor in all of this.
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  Speaker 1: But it is that promises were made about the security
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  Speaker 1: of Ukraine as it relates to NATO and not being
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  Speaker 1: a member, and promises made when the Soviet block collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: and the reality is is that the former Soviet Union
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be reconstituted, as much as Putin
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  Speaker 1: wants it to be. It's just not because the overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: number of those nations are NATO members. I'm not overly
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  Speaker 1: concerned about whether Ukraine is a member of NATO or not.
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  Speaker 1: I love the idea of US having some business interests
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  Speaker 1: in the East that acts some act as a buffer zone.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the beauty of the deal with
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  Speaker 2: the minerals. Is we have seen for the last forty
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  Speaker 2: plus years an entire erosion of our mining industry. I
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  Speaker 2: come from the granite business. My family was in granite
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  Speaker 2: and commercial stand blasting. I'm third generation, and we watched
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  Speaker 2: as quarries have gone under. We've watched as mining operations
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  Speaker 2: have gone under do in large parts really because of
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  Speaker 2: the regulatory regime of the federal government, and they will
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  Speaker 2: do anything they can to offshore this type of work,
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  Speaker 2: which is why now China is controlling the vast majority
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  Speaker 2: of the world's critical minerals. YEP. And everything in our
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  Speaker 2: lives is dictated by critical minerals, whether people admit it
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  Speaker 2: or not. The phones that we talk on every day,
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  Speaker 2: the technology that dictates our lives, I mean all of this,
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  Speaker 2: and so to cut a mineral deal is really smart
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  Speaker 2: but also a national security power move because we need
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  Speaker 2: access to critical minerals for defense, for economic reasons, and
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  Speaker 2: so this is a win win in ending the war,
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  Speaker 2: ending the bloodshed, but also allowing us to have access
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  Speaker 2: to critical minerals that that has long since been shut
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  Speaker 2: down here in our own territory.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was a time when Democrats used to
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  Speaker 1: talk really tough about immigration, and boyd did that change.
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  Speaker 1: And now we have a very different scene at the
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  Speaker 1: southern border because we no longer have Democrats in charge
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  Speaker 1: of what's going on at our border. Congress, Women Kat
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  Speaker 1: Camick with us from flour or a third congressional district,
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  Speaker 1: You've been in the middle of all this. How dramatic
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  Speaker 1: a change have we witnessed?
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  Speaker 2: A ninety seven percent reduction in crossing ninety seven percent
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  Speaker 2: in less than one hundred days. And so for anyone
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  Speaker 2: to say that it was not the fault of Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden and his administration is absolutely insane. They had every
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  Speaker 2: capability and power to secure the border, and in turn,
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  Speaker 2: what they did was they flooded the country with people
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  Speaker 2: who are from over one hundred and fifty one different nations, unvetted,
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  Speaker 2: unsure of their connections, their ties. Of course, we now
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  Speaker 2: know through a lot of the investigations that are going
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  Speaker 2: on that many have terrorist ties. And now it's the
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  Speaker 2: job of the Trump administration that clean up the nets.
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  Speaker 2: And we've had people lose their lives from the sentinel
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  Speaker 2: that has been traffled across the border by these individuals
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  Speaker 2: or at the hands of violent offenders who have who
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  Speaker 2: have raped, who have who have murdered innocent American citizens.
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  Speaker 2: So ninety seven percent reduction in illegal crossings of the border,
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  Speaker 2: and that is again without a lot of the technology
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of the physical barriers that are forced multipliers.
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  Speaker 2: And so really that just goes to show what a
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  Speaker 2: change in leadership can do and the message that is sent.
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  Speaker 2: And you look at our partnership with El Salvador for example,
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  Speaker 2: that is a way that we can collaborate and make
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  Speaker 2: sure that we're keeping our border safe and keeping people
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  Speaker 2: who should never be here in the first place out.
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  Speaker 2: It's remarkable, truly remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: Kat I've been addressing the issue that involved my daughter
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  Speaker 1: and my grandchildren, and I've been really prodding State Republicans
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  Speaker 1: in the legislature in Florida to quit protecting employers of
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  Speaker 1: illegals and to follow the law. We have a law,
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  Speaker 1: follow it and expand it so the deverify covers all employment,
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  Speaker 1: not just twenty five or more employees. But in general,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans have been playing protection of big business, big agriculture,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it extends into Congress. When are we
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  Speaker 1: going to address that part of the component holding employers accountable?
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of the big frustrating parts about well,
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  Speaker 2: really government in general is the inaction and really the
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  Speaker 2: squishy spines and personalities that we deal with. I serve
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  Speaker 2: as the loan representative Republican or Democrat on the House
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  Speaker 2: Agriculture Committee for the entire state of Florida, and we're
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  Speaker 2: a predominantly specialty crop state. We have three hundred crops
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  Speaker 2: that are specialty, meaning we have to typically pick by
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  Speaker 2: hand because there hasn't been mechanization developed as of yet
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  Speaker 2: experimenting with like blueberries and stuff like that. But all
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  Speaker 2: that have to say is that we have been up
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  Speaker 2: to our eyeballs in this debate about guest workers. And
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  Speaker 2: when people say, oh, we need to deport everybody it's
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  Speaker 2: here illegally. You've got a lot of people here who
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  Speaker 2: have been here for twenty plus years. There's really no
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  Speaker 2: there's no program for them to enter or something to
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  Speaker 2: do in order to fix that, correct remedy that. But
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  Speaker 2: we also have people who are just over here and
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  Speaker 2: they're jumping around their abusing programs like the H two
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  Speaker 2: A program for example. It's wildly abused. And also it's
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  Speaker 2: not written to accommodate seasons right and seasonality, and that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the frustrating things. I have proposed that and
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  Speaker 2: to your point, we need everify across the board. No
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  Speaker 2: one should be exempt from that, but we have to
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  Speaker 2: have a workable guest worker program. And in wisdom of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: they do this one size fits all approach. They're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to do this. Well, this is the crazy thing.
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  Speaker 2: If you are an employer and your presented documents and
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  Speaker 2: you question them, you can get sued for discrimination by
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  Speaker 2: an illegal like that's in third But if you if
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  Speaker 2: you don't, then you get in trouble with the government.
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  Speaker 2: The employers are in a no win situation, and really
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  Speaker 2: who loses is the consumer because the cost of everything
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  Speaker 2: gets shacked up So Congress needs to grow a spine
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  Speaker 2: and a pair of you know what, and they need
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  Speaker 2: to actually sit down and figure out a workable guest
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  Speaker 2: worker program. It doesn't need to be this comprehensive nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: I shudder when people say we need a comprehensive guest
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  Speaker 2: worker program. No, that's when you get poison pills. Keep
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  Speaker 2: up purity of purpose and make it so that we
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  Speaker 2: know who the hell is here, make sure that they
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  Speaker 2: are not criminals, and make sure that they go home
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  Speaker 2: when their time here is done. That is that simple.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the adverse wage effect in itself is killing us.
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  Speaker 2: When you have illegals and people in these programs that
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  Speaker 2: are making more than you're a marri Caase citizens, and
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  Speaker 2: that's mandated by the government. The adverse wage effect is
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  Speaker 2: killing our producers and effectively consumers. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of work to be done here. But it's not just agriculture.
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  Speaker 2: It's also construction, it's hospitality across the board. And we
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  Speaker 2: are also now paying people these illegals like you've seen
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  Speaker 2: in New York. They're getting ten thousand dollars gift cards
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  Speaker 2: and they're just being put on too a welfare program.
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  Speaker 1: How would come out on the Rains Act that you
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  Speaker 1: and ran Paul in the Senate are trying to get
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  Speaker 1: across the finish line and get done.
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  Speaker 2: So it is right now we're an holding pattern because
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  Speaker 2: you know, the House we did our budget resolution, the
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  Speaker 2: Senate did theirs, and for the first time ever in
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  Speaker 2: reconciliation history, we were able to get policy statements for
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  Speaker 2: reins in both. Now we are negotiating between the Senate
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  Speaker 2: on really reconciling those two resolutions, and because we were
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  Speaker 2: able to get rains in both versions, we are very
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  Speaker 2: confident that it will survive. But the Senate only wants
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  Speaker 2: to cut four billions. The House wants to cut one
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  Speaker 2: point five trillion. That's quite a delta. And as I said,
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  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of individuals in Washington known for
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  Speaker 2: their bravery. So we could use some help encouraging the
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  Speaker 2: Senate to adopt our resolution. If anyone feel so inclined
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  Speaker 2: to reach out to Senators today or at any point
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 1: Kat the thirty second pitch on the Range Act. What
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  Speaker 1: does it do?
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  Speaker 2: It is the largest swamp draining empowers of people, take
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  Speaker 2: away power from unelected name of faithless Beaucraft bill that
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  Speaker 2: exists today. It says that any major rule or regulation
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  Speaker 2: that has one hundred million dollars of industry impact or
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  Speaker 2: more must receive an up or down vote by Congress
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  Speaker 2: before it can be implemented. That is absolute reassertion back
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  Speaker 2: to Article one Constitutional powers and the way that we
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  Speaker 2: actually herb government spending, put people back in the driver's
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  Speaker 2: seat and like I said, actually drain the swamp.
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  Speaker 1: I have used the line you shared with me two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago about the background checks. I've asked everybody. I've asked,
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  Speaker 1: did you know that there's no nobody doing background checks on
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  Speaker 1: the people that work in Congress? And everyone looked at
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  Speaker 1: me and said what I said to you, No way, yep.
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  Speaker 2: So we have been working on two pieces of legislation
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  Speaker 2: on that, one that requires mandatory background checks and disclosure
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  Speaker 2: a report to be generated for any staffer hired in
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  Speaker 2: the House Representatives or Senate, because you have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of staffers that are put in place by foreign government.
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  Speaker 2: Qatar is one of the worst offenders, and I think
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  Speaker 2: the American people deserve they deserve to know if they
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  Speaker 2: are staffers that are being bought and paid for by
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  Speaker 2: foreign governments. So that's the first and the second is
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  Speaker 2: members of Congress. Their qualifications are dictated by the Constitution,
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  Speaker 2: but nothing in the Constitution guarantees a member of Congress
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  Speaker 2: the right to top secret clearance. So I believe that
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  Speaker 2: every member of Congress, in order to access that information
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  Speaker 2: should undergo a background check. Currently, all we do is
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  Speaker 2: sign a little blue piece of paper. It's like baby blue,
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  Speaker 2: and it says I won't share anything top secret or
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  Speaker 2: classified with the public. That's it, and then you're granted
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  Speaker 2: carte blanc of all classified information in the world. That
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  Speaker 2: me is terrifying. When you're dealing with people like ilhan
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  Speaker 2: Omar or Eric Swalwell, people who are compromised, who have
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  Speaker 2: questionable allegiances and have made some interesting statements about the
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  Speaker 2: United States, I think that is an absolute no brainer.
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  Speaker 2: So going after members of Congress making sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: cleaning up our own house that is critically important.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, I'm going to read a headline from Epic Times.
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  Speaker 1: Retirees must make obligated withdrawals from IRAS four oh one
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  Speaker 1: k accounts by April First. This from the IRS. That
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  Speaker 1: is kat. We've got to stop this. It's our money.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether we take it out early and
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  Speaker 1: don't pay it back or not. It's all our money.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I listen, I am right there with you.
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  Speaker 2: My mother in law just went through this and I
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  Speaker 2: have gotten an ear form on it. It makes no
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  Speaker 2: sense and this is once again government dictating what you
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  Speaker 2: do with your money. And I know that this is
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  Speaker 2: something that we have got to address, and so I've
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  Speaker 2: talked to a few colleagues on this. There's a few
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  Speaker 2: pieces of legislation out there, but unfortunately, with everything that
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  Speaker 2: we've got going on, it hasn't been made a priority.
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  Speaker 2: But I hear you loud and clear. It is such
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  Speaker 2: everything has got to be looked at and adjusted and
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  Speaker 2: fixed and reformed. I'm right there with your friends.
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  Speaker 1: I just want someone to explain to me who is
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  Speaker 1: harmed by anyone taking money when they want to.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I know, I hear you. And again that is
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  Speaker 2: that has always been the mantra of government, though they
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  Speaker 2: always act like they know best, and it's not do
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  Speaker 2: as I as I do, it's do as I say. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that is the frustrating element of government. It's the culture problem.
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  Speaker 1: That we have. All Right, Kat, do your thing today.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks very much for being part of the show, and
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate you being with us today.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate the congratulations on the big anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks very much. Kat Cammick with us this morning,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight past the hour