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Rep. Jeff Crank on Housing Market Relief · Richard Randall Show

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  Speaker 1: Prichard Randall is on Colorado set the show with Congress
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  Speaker 1: and Jeff Crank joining US representative. Does that carry a
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  Speaker 1: piece by you talking about something I think is really
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  Speaker 1: important nationally but here in Colorado as well, and that
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  Speaker 1: is housing. The American dream is to own a home
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  Speaker 1: or at least live in something that is affordable. You've
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  Speaker 1: got plans on how to remedy some of that, Jeff Crank.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Richard. Yeah, we just introduced a bill,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm really proud of it. It's called the Framer Act,
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  Speaker 2: and essentially what it does is we've got states like
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  Speaker 2: Colorado that are putting these these sort of crazy energy
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  Speaker 2: mandates into homes, which lot which force home builders all
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  Speaker 2: across the state to build to a higher energy standard
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  Speaker 2: than the federal government requires through the Housing and Urban
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  Speaker 2: Development Department. So that drives up the cost. That drives
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  Speaker 2: up the cost of houses, and we're seeing it in Colorado,
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  Speaker 2: particularly where our crazy state legislature passes these laws and
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  Speaker 2: then with no understanding that it's going to drive up
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  Speaker 2: the cost by thousands of dollars of a new home
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  Speaker 2: built in Colorado. So what my bill does is, once
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  Speaker 2: we get the bill passed. It will require that if
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  Speaker 2: a state were to have a more stringent energy standard
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  Speaker 2: for houses than the federal government has, that they the
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  Speaker 2: state would be required to reimburse the builder and pass
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  Speaker 2: that and then that savings would be passed on to
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  Speaker 2: the home buyer. And so it's a way to help
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  Speaker 2: reduce the costs of this. And it also requires that
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  Speaker 2: at closing, the buyer knows how much they've saved because
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  Speaker 2: of the because of this federal law, and how much
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  Speaker 2: more they would have had to pay for that house
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  Speaker 2: if that crazy mandate from the state would have stayed
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  Speaker 2: in place. It only applies in federal opportunity zones, of
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  Speaker 2: which all of downtown Colorado Springs is a federal opportunity zone.
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  Speaker 2: So that's how the federal government can do this and
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  Speaker 2: why the bill makes sense. But it's a way. It's not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, nothing's going to automatically snap the fingers and
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  Speaker 2: fix the housing problem, but it does help. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to help lower the cost of houses in Colorado Springs
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  Speaker 2: particularly and in Colorado, and it helps shine the light
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  Speaker 2: on some of the crazy energy mandates and things that
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  Speaker 2: people are putting on in our state legislature.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Representative Crank. As long as I've known you,
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  Speaker 1: you have been very pragmatic, and you see a problem.
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  Speaker 3: You come up with a solution to it.
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  Speaker 1: But more and more and more I think people realize
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  Speaker 1: that you are focused on the real world. I got
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  Speaker 1: some stuff coming out of state legislature, and they want
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  Speaker 1: to make it harder on ice to do activities and
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  Speaker 1: operations here and all of the rest.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're in.
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  Speaker 1: This situation with housing because they prioritize something that I
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  Speaker 1: honestly just don't believe that the average person out there,
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  Speaker 1: if they understood what this was all going to mean,
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  Speaker 1: they would never have voted for people to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna gree in everything. We're gonna make Colorado unaffordable,
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  Speaker 1: and you're not even be able to rely on energy,
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  Speaker 1: much less housing throughout a time.
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  Speaker 2: So rich Richard, if you live in a big mansion
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  Speaker 2: down in the Broadmoor area, it's probably you probably don't
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  Speaker 2: care if there's an extra eight thousand dollars or so
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  Speaker 2: added to your home. But to most of us who
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  Speaker 2: live in Colorado Springs, you know, seven eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: on the cost of a home for what for an
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  Speaker 2: energy mandate? That most likely over thirty years, you won't
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  Speaker 2: recover that seven or eight thousand dollars in the additional
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  Speaker 2: call in your home. I mean, this is and it's
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  Speaker 2: also a matter of choice, right If somebody wants to
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  Speaker 2: go have those higher standards for energy mandate in their house,
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  Speaker 2: they can do that. But what about the rest of
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  Speaker 2: us who want a cheaper house. And again, there are
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  Speaker 2: much better standards now today at the federal level than
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  Speaker 2: there were twenty years ago. Our houses are much more
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  Speaker 2: energy efficient and they should be with new technology, and
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  Speaker 2: that's great, But this is about allowing the average person
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  Speaker 2: to be able to still be able to buy a
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  Speaker 2: house and live the American dream. And again, there's folks
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  Speaker 2: that make tons of money. Probably doesn't matter to them,
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  Speaker 2: but to the average person in Colorado Springs or in
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  Speaker 2: al Paso County, this bill will make a difference.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: And it always seems like Democrats are like that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they don't worry about we'll make the penalties for stealing
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  Speaker 1: cars less than it was before, and we'll side and
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  Speaker 1: give favor to people stealing cars. But the majority of
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  Speaker 1: thotes cars are being stolen from average Americans out there
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  Speaker 1: who need that car to get to and from work.
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  Speaker 3: You are so grounded nationally.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very proud of this president because he seems, more
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  Speaker 1: so than anybody in my lifetime, to understand the average American.
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  Speaker 1: The average American, I don't know where it comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he just knew that people are working for him
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  Speaker 1: when he when he was a builder. But we have
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  Speaker 1: more and more people like that in Congress, like you.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm partisan because I don't see that. Used
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  Speaker 1: to be the Democrat party looking out for the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Class and the average person. It's not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me about the people that you and others
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  Speaker 1: in Congress are looking out for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean you know I'm I tell people
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  Speaker 2: all the time. I was born and raised in Pueblo.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just as simple of a guy as you can get.
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  Speaker 2: I drive a Ford F one fifty and you know
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  Speaker 2: that's who I am and I'm not going to change.
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  Speaker 2: But that's probably why I also relate to people who
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  Speaker 2: do that. Right. I don't live in some big mansion somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just an average guy, the that's fortunate enough to
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  Speaker 2: live in the greatest country in the world and got
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  Speaker 2: elected to Congress to serve my constituents, and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's no doubt it. We have folks that don't think
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  Speaker 2: about it when they pass these crazy energy mandates or
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  Speaker 2: they say, oh, you have to get all of your
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  Speaker 2: energy has to come from soul or wind or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: you know. To them they think that's great. But to
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  Speaker 2: the average citizen that just means more money coming out
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  Speaker 2: of their pocket because some politician in Washington or Denver
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  Speaker 2: is making the choice for them. I'm for the freedom
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  Speaker 2: of people to choose what kind of energy they want
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  Speaker 2: to use, what kind of car they want to drive,
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  Speaker 2: those sorts of things. And you know, it really is
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  Speaker 2: a defining issue between you know, between conservatives and those
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  Speaker 2: big government folks on the left.
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  Speaker 1: So as long as I've got you, do you have
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  Speaker 1: a minute to just talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Government's shut down partial shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't believe you have all these Democrats over
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  Speaker 1: the issue of ice, which is protecting people in neighborhoods
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  Speaker 1: and in communities, they would shut the freaking government down
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  Speaker 1: to look out for people in this country illegally and
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  Speaker 1: committing crimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. They're choosing, They're choosing criminals over law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no way around that right. And look, Richard,
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  Speaker 2: I was on your show last week in studio, and
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  Speaker 2: I made it very clear we have to hold law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement accountable if there were if they did something wrong
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  Speaker 2: in that there should be a full and complete investigation
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  Speaker 2: and people should be held accountable. We do that with
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  Speaker 2: all of our law enforcement, and we should always do that.
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  Speaker 2: People in law enforcement need to respect the civil rights
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  Speaker 2: of American citizens and others, right, but that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing. We're going to get it solved today. There
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  Speaker 2: are adults in the room. I think we will pass
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  Speaker 2: the bill this afternoon or this evening and send it
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  Speaker 2: to the President that will fund all of the government,
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  Speaker 2: accept homeland security, which the President is negotiating with some
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  Speaker 2: folks for a two week continuing resolution so that homeland
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  Speaker 2: security appropriations go, which includes, by the way, not just
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  Speaker 2: Homeland Security and ICE and Customs and Border Patrol, but
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  Speaker 2: it also includes FEMA, the TSA, so all of our
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  Speaker 2: air traffic or I'm sorry, all of our TSA workers
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  Speaker 2: at airports. All of that stuff's going to be for
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  Speaker 2: two weeks from now, but everything else, paying our soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get that done today, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: that people remember who were the responsible legislators who made
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  Speaker 2: sure that we pay our men and women who support
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  Speaker 2: us each and every day by fighting for us across
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  Speaker 2: this globe and defending our freedom.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these votes are very narrow. Sometimes vans
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  Speaker 1: has to get involved. Sometimes it's only Republicans voting this
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  Speaker 1: way or that way. How much of a difference would
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  Speaker 1: it make in the future if instead of a person
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  Speaker 1: like you representing the district, you are to have a
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  Speaker 1: Democrat representing that district. That would change the numbers and
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  Speaker 1: what is being done in Washington?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no question we have As of last night, we
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  Speaker 2: swore in a new Democrat member from Texas. So we
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  Speaker 2: now can lose the grand sum of one vote in
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  Speaker 2: the House one Republican, and if we lose more than
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  Speaker 2: one Republican, we lose two Republicans. We can't pass a
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  Speaker 2: rule in the House or get anything done. So it's imperative.
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  Speaker 2: This is a team sport, and you know, we all
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  Speaker 2: we got a bunch of people here. They all have
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  Speaker 2: egos and sometimes they think they know better than leadership
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. But it's a team sport. We
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  Speaker 2: either stick together or we're going to fail together. But
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  Speaker 2: I believe today we're going to come together. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to pass this rule by one vote. We'll pass the rule,
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  Speaker 2: and then that will allow us to bring the bill
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  Speaker 2: up and we will we will pass it by a
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  Speaker 2: wider margin. I believe then we'll have some Democrats that
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  Speaker 2: cross over and do the right thing, but not very
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  Speaker 2: many because they want to fight. They want to side
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  Speaker 2: with the criminals that romar streets rather than law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: on this one.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, Thank you so much. I'll let you
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  Speaker 1: get back to work of the public and the people
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  Speaker 1: you represent out here, and even the people didn't vote
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  Speaker 1: for you, but you're representing everybody. I'll go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: put a link over people can read about the frame
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  Speaker 1: or act on your website. I'll tell them about the
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  Speaker 1: newsletter as well. God bless you anything before I let
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Crank No.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for all you do, Richard. I appreciate It's an
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  Speaker 2: honor to be back here and serve. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be back here till Thursday and then heading back
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  Speaker 2: home and we'll be back this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: So God bless you you do. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I gotta tell you what I've known him
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, and this comment does not come
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  Speaker 1: because I've known him for a long time as a
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  Speaker 1: friend or anything and coworker, etc. There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of politicians that you meet when you do what I do,
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  Speaker 1: and they come up at various levels, sometimes presidents, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you know, Congress, everything, including people who are county commissioners,
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  Speaker 1: city council, et cetera. He is one of the hardest
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  Speaker 1: working and yet most humble people that I know. That
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  Speaker 1: That's not some you know, because sometimes people pretend to
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  Speaker 1: be folks, see and they pretend to be humble. I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you right now, well you just heard. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you get. That's who the man really is. And
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  Speaker 1: why is he so busy? Is it just that he's
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  Speaker 1: got nothing better to do. He can be upgoing hunting
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Trust me, it's because he cares
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  Speaker 1: about so many different things. And I think you understand
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  Speaker 1: where he's getting at at the end of that interview,
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  Speaker 1: and that is if Jeff weren't there, and you were
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  Speaker 1: to have a Democrat there, it would be very very
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  Speaker 1: difficult for the president and his agenda.
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  Speaker 3: And it is America. First, Let's take a short break