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Congressman Warren Davidson -- 11/25/25 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven six here fifty about Kerosene Detalk Station. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very happy Tuesday to segue into Thanksgiving, the last day
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  Speaker 1: of the week, and happy to have, as always, any
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  Speaker 1: day of the week's great day to have Congressman Warren Davidson,
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  Speaker 1: proudly representing the eighth District Heneral, Ohio, back on the program.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, welcome back in and advance early Thanksgiving. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to you and your family.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, Brian. And what an
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  Speaker 2: eventful few days. I mean, I just spoke with you
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  Speaker 2: last Thursday, but there's been a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, it's really a question of where do we begin.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You enlisted in the Army third Infantry. You then went
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  Speaker 1: to West Point, You then went to Ranger School. You
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  Speaker 1: were in the seventy fifth Ranger Regiment, your hundred and
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  Speaker 1: first Airborne Division. You know about the Military Code of Justice,
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  Speaker 1: what's legal and what is illegal? Or do you here's
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  Speaker 1: a question. We had this video that was issued by
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats, and I hope you don't mind me using
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  Speaker 1: this as the first topic to talk about, but I
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  Speaker 1: figure giving your proud military experience, you might be able
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  Speaker 1: to chime in on it. The Democrats, I think six
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  Speaker 1: of them, sent a video out which included a statement quote,
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  Speaker 1: right now, the threats to our constitution aren't just coming
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  Speaker 1: from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws
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  Speaker 1: are clear. You military personnel can refuse illegal orders. You
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  Speaker 1: can refuse illegal orders. They said it twice. You must
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  Speaker 1: refuse illegal orders three times. What is an illegal order,
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, in the context of let's say, bombing Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: in boats, in ships, in international waters or elsewhere. That's
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  Speaker 1: one of the things I believe they were commenting on.
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  Speaker 1: Is a service member to know and do you or
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  Speaker 1: I even know if it's unlawful or lawful to blow
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  Speaker 1: up a boat off the shores of Venezuela right now?
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  Speaker 1: Don't you need legal opinion or some sort of ruling
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  Speaker 1: from the Supreme Court because this is kind of outside
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  Speaker 1: of the realm of the Constitution, which says you have
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  Speaker 1: to have a declaration of war to wage war against
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  Speaker 1: a foreign country.
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  Speaker 2: Davidson, Well, there's a lot there, Brian, you know fundamentally, Uh, look,
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  Speaker 2: these guys were trying to sew discord and division within
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  Speaker 2: our military and frankly within our country. They thought it
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  Speaker 2: would be kind of this cool video or it was
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  Speaker 2: actually more malicious than that, and it was frankly designed
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  Speaker 2: as an early stage of what you know is a
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  Speaker 2: known as a color revolution. This is how you do
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  Speaker 2: regime change operations. And a lot of these people know
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  Speaker 2: that well, I mean some of them former CIA backgrounds
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  Speaker 2: that you know, this is a doctrinal thing. And if
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  Speaker 2: you if you define domestic enemies to the Constitution and
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  Speaker 2: then you use a battle cry don't give up the ship. Uh, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of implied things there, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're getting the scrutiny they've deserved for this.
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  Speaker 2: Does it Does it amount to treason? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Does an amount to sedition? I'm not sure what it
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  Speaker 2: Sure does sound like it's more serious than the seditious
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  Speaker 2: conspiracy charges that people were sentenced to long sentences in
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  Speaker 2: jail with under underwrite. And so does it count a
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  Speaker 2: seditious conspiracy? I don't know? Maybe? But is it really dumb?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely really dumb? And it was meant to divide our
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  Speaker 2: country in our military and that it certainly has. So Look,
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  Speaker 2: these aren't good people, I mean when you look at
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  Speaker 2: their backgrounds. Yet, Okay, they served their country, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what I always tell people. Hey, being a veteran's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: You should serve your country if you can. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best decisions I made in my life was
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  Speaker 2: to join the army. But let's be clear, being a
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  Speaker 2: veteran does not inoculate you from being dumb, and we
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  Speaker 2: just saw that with that video.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for whatever reason, Bob McDonald's I went to
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  Speaker 1: West Point comment just went through my mind when you
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  Speaker 1: made that last day in the Congressman Davidson. Anyhow, so
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  Speaker 1: I guess you know going back to does this constitute
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  Speaker 1: seditious behavior?
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  Speaker 2: You don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that requires a legal determination. Again, when
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  Speaker 1: pressed on all the television programs of the talking heads,
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  Speaker 1: each of the individuals who were involved in this video
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  Speaker 1: couldn't cite a single illustration of an unlawful order that
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  Speaker 1: Trump allegedly has made. So I think they got backed
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  Speaker 1: into the corner on that one. But your point is
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  Speaker 1: well taken, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Well thanks. Look, I always tell people, Look, when you
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  Speaker 2: first get to basic training, make sure you tell the
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  Speaker 2: drill sergeant all the things you're not gonna do. It'll
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  Speaker 2: really help you get clear on how it works.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. Congress and Davidson. The other thing I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to bring up, and I wanna catch you off, gud,
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  Speaker 1: because I want to hear what you are prime to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this morning. In terms of all the events
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  Speaker 1: that are happening. I saw this bizarre common and of
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  Speaker 1: course coming from James Carville, you'd expect it to be bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: He wants the Democrats to engage in what he called
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  Speaker 1: pure economic rage. This is what they're going to run on.
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  Speaker 1: He said, It's time for Democrats who embrace the sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished,
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  Speaker 1: unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This
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  Speaker 1: is our only way out of the abyss. He's of course,
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  Speaker 1: focusing on inflation. I know Donald Trump campaigned on lowering inflation,
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  Speaker 1: and he said he was going to try to lower it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a very complicated thing to engage in. But I
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  Speaker 1: guess economic rage. Is there anything the administration can do
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  Speaker 1: to cope with inflation practically speaking? Because this clearly is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a dominant part of the conversation as
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  Speaker 1: we move into next year of the fall election.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, rage bait is their whole program.
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  Speaker 2: And you know they're they're even raging at this. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know doctor a psychiatrist who says, look, people are
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  Speaker 2: coming in TDS is real. These people can't cope. They
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  Speaker 2: have Trump derangement syndrome. They're wrecking their own lives, the
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  Speaker 2: relationships with friends and family because they obsess about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And that is the Democrat platform is, you know, get Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's going to be their focus. And look,
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  Speaker 2: if the economy gives you any any handle to pull on,
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  Speaker 2: they'll use that. If there's anything else that they can
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  Speaker 2: grab onto, they'll use that. But it is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent Trump is their platform anti Trump. And so look,
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  Speaker 2: is the economy strong. I mean, here's the challenge about
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  Speaker 2: the top ten percent of earners are driving about fifty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the consumption in our economy. You know, so
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  Speaker 2: it is healthy on one end, and the end that
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  Speaker 2: it's healthy on is people that already have assets. You
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  Speaker 2: already own your home, you've got a retirement account, you've
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  Speaker 2: got a job that the wages are maybe keeping up
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  Speaker 2: with inflation or insulating you a little better, more disposable income.
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  Speaker 2: You know, things are you know, relatively good there, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, you look at people that don't have assets,
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  Speaker 2: that are trying to be first time home buyers, that
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  Speaker 2: are in a situation where they're living paycheck to paycheck. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the rate of increases drop. That's where inflation is lower,
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  Speaker 2: but the price level is still very high, and wages
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  Speaker 2: have it kept up with that. And frankly, the solution
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  Speaker 2: a lot of my colleagues offer is, well, if you care,
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  Speaker 2: then you give subsidies. More government is always the answer,
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  Speaker 2: and we're suffering from a fatal overdose of government. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what causes inflation. It's massively more spending going into the economy, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and the things that you subsidize get inflated faster than
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the economy. So yeah, fair point. If
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  Speaker 2: you get the subsidy, it is lower for you, but
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  Speaker 2: it raises the overall price level for everyone else, and
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  Speaker 2: it turns into this endless spiral of well, then we'll
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  Speaker 2: have to increase the subsidies. And that's exactly what's going
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  Speaker 2: on with Obamacare.
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  Speaker 1: Well, indeed, I'm glad you pivoted over to Obamacare. It's
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  Speaker 1: what kept the government shut downs along the extension of
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  Speaker 1: these subsidies for people who probably could afford a premium,
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  Speaker 1: but oh, low and behold, maybe not. With the massive
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  Speaker 1: increase in Obamacare premiums because of the massive influx of
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  Speaker 1: people who were pre existing condition they just join Obamacare
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  Speaker 1: after they've been diagnosed with a pretty significant illness. That
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  Speaker 1: has just driven the costs into just impossible to manage amounts.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem in the failure with Obamacare right there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean fundamentally it was designed to work
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  Speaker 2: that way. I mean Republicans said it was, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have been united behind well, Obamacare is their checkdown policy.
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  Speaker 2: What they really want is Medicare for all, Medicare. So
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  Speaker 2: this is delivery the delivery vehicle for it. Because the
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  Speaker 2: government just keeps eating a larger and larger portion of
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  Speaker 2: the spend and healthcare. I mean, when the Great Society
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  Speaker 2: launched back in the sixties under Lyndon Johnson and more
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  Speaker 2: government for more things, healthcare was about six percent of
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  Speaker 2: the economy. Now it's almost twenty twenty four percent of
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  Speaker 2: the economy is healthcare. And of that huge percentages of government,
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  Speaker 2: the single largest expense for the federal government is healthcare.
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  Speaker 2: So and the rate of growth is just eating the
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  Speaker 2: world on that. And of the things you could do
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  Speaker 2: with the money, the dumbest is send it to the
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  Speaker 2: health insurance companies, right, I mean, you can send it
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  Speaker 2: to the doctors and hospitals. They're the ones that are
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  Speaker 2: providing the care, and they all that they need it.
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  Speaker 2: So you could straight pipe it to the doctors and hospitals,
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  Speaker 2: or you could send it to the consumer that's actually
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  Speaker 2: getting treated. But you send it to this middleman, and
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  Speaker 2: the middleman's still giving you double digit increases. They're still saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is out a network. There's still denying claims, and
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  Speaker 2: there's still just terrible service overall. So you go deal
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  Speaker 2: with the doctors and nurses and you feel like, how
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  Speaker 2: these people really care. They're doing great stuff. You look
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  Speaker 2: at the things. Obamacare is by design, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: a disaster. But either way, let's say it's got the
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  Speaker 2: most noble intentions, it still isn't working. And so people
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  Speaker 2: always say, well, where's the Republican plan. They've been varied.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've got dozens of proposals that are out there.
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  Speaker 2: I've got several myself. I've always wanted a healthcare committee
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  Speaker 2: so that every single hearing is on healthcare, and it's
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  Speaker 2: almost twenty percent of the economy. There's no excuse for
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  Speaker 2: not having that. Maybe we'll finally get it, but we'll
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  Speaker 2: least get the debate. I hope between now and Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Let us debate further with Congressman Davidson. Congressman Davidson will
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  Speaker 1: do it. Congressman's choice on the next topic. I know
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things you want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the program. I know there's a million things we could
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  Speaker 1: talk about, Congressman Davidson kind of what's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's what's on your mind of what you might want
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  Speaker 1: to bring to my listeners and my attention.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, thanks, Brian. I think one of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: things is what is Congress doing? I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you'd go to Congress and you're sitting here looking at
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  Speaker 2: President Trump getting executive orders, all kinds of executive actions,
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  Speaker 2: and people are like, well, why aren't we codifying President
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  Speaker 2: Trump's executive orders? And you know, some of that frustration
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  Speaker 2: was voiced by Marjorie Taylor Green with her resignation, and
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of my colleagues feel that sense
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  Speaker 2: of frustration, and it's you know, where's the play call?
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  Speaker 2: And I remember when I was first in Congress back
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  Speaker 2: in you know, twenty seventeen, I replaced speaker Bainer came in,
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  Speaker 2: Paul Ryan was speaker, and I had this little booklet
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  Speaker 2: called A Better Way. They had this basically the offensive playbook.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the things we're gonna do. And people say, well,
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  Speaker 2: why aren't you doing xyz? And I go, well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but there's a place he hears the bullet
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  Speaker 2: points and you could say this is a plan right now.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of things where it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't even have the playbook for some of this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and when we do, there's a coalition of folks that
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  Speaker 2: sort of say, well, let's not do that. And some
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  Speaker 2: of it's the administration, some of the things that they
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  Speaker 2: want to do, like, for example, look, I think it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: It's a preemptive strike to take out drug boats in
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  Speaker 2: the Caribbean. Seems like you say, hey, you should get authorization. Great,
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  Speaker 2: let's just do the authorization. I'm for it. These guys
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  Speaker 2: are bringing infentanyl that are killing people right here in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it's a preemptive strike. They plan it on
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  Speaker 2: killing Americans. We're going to stop them from doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, do I feel that way about every
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  Speaker 2: kind of drug that's going on. No, but these cartels
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  Speaker 2: are to me enemies of our country. They've been designated
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  Speaker 2: that way, and I think they're a legitimentary But let's
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  Speaker 2: have the debate on the floor. Administration's concerned that if
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  Speaker 2: we do that, well, then it might imply they don't
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  Speaker 2: have the authority to do whatever they want and that
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  Speaker 2: would disrupt what they're actually doing. So you have that
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  Speaker 2: on issue after issue. At the border, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: secure border. Where are the laws that change this and
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  Speaker 2: codify it. A lot of times they don't want to
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  Speaker 2: bring those up because they're afraid they'll fail, or in
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  Speaker 2: some cases, we've passed bills in the House and they're
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  Speaker 2: waiting on sixty votes in the Senate. We just saw
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  Speaker 2: how important sixty votes is to get something through the
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  Speaker 2: Senate with the shutdown. But if you break the filibuster,
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  Speaker 2: now you can't use that excuse anymore. You've got to vote.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, some of the Senators don't want to vote.
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  Speaker 1: Hiding behind the filibusters so they don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: on record.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that definitely happens. And of course anyone
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  Speaker 2: senator can kind of put their thumb on a bill
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  Speaker 2: and hold it up and cause delays and everything. They've
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  Speaker 2: got their own process. But there are a host of
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  Speaker 2: reasons why everybody's frustrated right now. And I think the
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  Speaker 2: other one, maybe the most common question I've gotten since
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  Speaker 2: I've been elected, is you know, when is someone going
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  Speaker 2: to jail? And I think that's why the Epstein thing
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  Speaker 2: resonates so much. People promised accountability for that, and in frankly,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of why Trump's you know, you know, big
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  Speaker 2: mad at Thomas Massey and Marjor Taylor Green as they
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  Speaker 2: signed this discharge petition, Like I'm willing to work with
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  Speaker 2: the Committee of Jurisdiction here on the Oversight Committee they've
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  Speaker 2: been releasing documents. I think Pam Bondy's released some documents.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't help to say that it's a hoax and nothing,
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  Speaker 2: when on the one hand, everybody was going to go
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  Speaker 2: to jail that was doing it, and it was a
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  Speaker 2: huge scandal. The binders were handed out to journalists and
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  Speaker 2: then it just in a matter of weeks disappears, like,
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  Speaker 2: where's the explanation for that? That hearing should have happened.
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  Speaker 2: It was supposed to during the shutdown, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's back on tap for January. But people need an
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  Speaker 2: answer for that. And there's no prosecutor in the in
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  Speaker 2: the legislative branch, right we keep unearthing all this rage
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  Speaker 2: bait for people, and people say, well, what's Congress going
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  Speaker 2: to do? You know about it? Because we had the hearings,
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  Speaker 2: We've made this stuff public. But the prosecutor is the
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  Speaker 2: attorney general. So I would love a hearing, and I've
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  Speaker 2: told Jim Jordan, the Chairman of Judiciary, this would be
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  Speaker 2: the hearing for me. Don't just bring Pam Bondy, bringing
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  Speaker 2: Merrick Garland, who was attorney general for Joe Biden. No
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  Speaker 2: one had any questions for him, No one had any
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  Speaker 2: questions for Joe Biden, why didn't Merrick Garland bring the case?
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  Speaker 2: Go back to the previous administration, Bill Barr and Jeff's
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  Speaker 2: sessions were Donald Trump's attorney general's his first term, and
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  Speaker 2: then go back before that and look at Eric Holder.
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  Speaker 2: I would bring every one of those attorneys general. So
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  Speaker 2: this is a scandal that's been going on in the
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  Speaker 2: news for you know, ten fifteen years at this point,
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  Speaker 2: Why was there never a case braun And have every
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  Speaker 2: single one of those attorneys general give an answer. I
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  Speaker 2: think that would be a good hearing. But here's the thing,
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, no matter what comes
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  Speaker 2: out of that, people are still going to be going
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  Speaker 2: when somebody going to jail, and that's the job of
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  Speaker 2: the Attorney general and the US attorneys around the country.
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  Speaker 2: So they need to be bringing cases, evidence presented at trial,
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  Speaker 2: convictions in jail time. Because it's clear that there's a
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  Speaker 2: kind of double standard on this. And I will say
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  Speaker 2: Congress has exposed a lot of this, but that's why
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  Speaker 2: the frustrations there is. Congress did expose it, but what
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  Speaker 2: are we supposed to do about it? And at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, we could change the funding. We
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  Speaker 2: could change some of the rules, we could remove judges,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: we could do some things. I don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: we're powerless here, but you know it's in action in
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  Speaker 2: certain elements of the executive branch, and inaction and components
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  Speaker 2: of the legislative branch. And I think people are rightly frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: Well and just lying in the sand division between the
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  Speaker 1: two party system we have. If one side proposes it
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  Speaker 1: as glorious and brilliant and bipartisan as it would be
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  Speaker 1: as it's sort of an objective observation of any proposal,
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  Speaker 1: just because one side proposes that, the other side is
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  Speaker 1: lockstep against this, which means we're not going to get
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  Speaker 1: anywhere with anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and that's where you've got to have
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  Speaker 2: a play. So like, are going to make sure we
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  Speaker 2: don't get shut down again by January thirty? Any well,
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  Speaker 2: we should. We should have the votes on all the
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: appropriations bills. We've got three of the twelve done and
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  Speaker 2: so we've got nine more. All of those have made
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: it out of a committee in the House anyway, the
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  Speaker 2: Appropriations Committee. We need slow time and have the debate,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: get the amendments, pass the bills, and in the House,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: we can pass them on a simple party line vote.
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  Speaker 2: Then other question is are we going to get the
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  Speaker 2: votes in the Senate, And for some of them probably not,
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  Speaker 2: so what are we going.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: To do about it?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: And then you could break the filibuster in the Senate.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: We can't do anything about that in the House. But
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: that's where reconciliation comes in. So normally you're not supposed
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: to put discretionary spending, your normal appropriations in with what's
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: known as mandatory spending. And that's not priority. That's a term.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: So like if you give it x dollars to run
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  Speaker 2: the Department of Defense or the Department of Transportation, et cetera,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: that's a specific dollar amount. We don't set a specific
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: dollar amount for food stamps, for example, it's like, oh,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: we just handed out the last EBT card. No, it's
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: that if you qualify, then we spend the money. So
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: that's mandatory. So the mandatory spending site has normally dealt
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: with with reconciliation, but both parties have added components of
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: discretionary spending. Democrats added when they did the Green New
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Deal named the Inflation Reduction Act. They put you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: EPA funding and things like that in there, and when
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: we did the Big Beautiful bill, we put defense funding
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and border security funding in there, so those are normally
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: discretionary items. We could just round out whatever we can't
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: pass across the floor of the House and Senate deem
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: it mandatory and basically give a big check to the administration.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Say look, just run the government and that would be
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: a true power play because it would be party line,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and I think we should be ready to run that
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: play by January thirtieth. Otherwise, you know, Democrats feel like
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: they don't have to negotiate again. It's like, well, they
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: kept saying, well, where's where's your negotiation. It's like, well,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the CR was the negotiation. We can't settle for a
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: CR on January thirty if we need offense, and I'd
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: love to do some of it collaboratively with Democrat votes,
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  Speaker 2: but I would be you know, I'm encouraging my leadership
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: team to say, look, we run the reconciliation play, and
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: even if we don't end up running it, we've got
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: it ready and if they don't want to negotiate, fine,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: we'll just run a pure party line play.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Wash rinse repeat. Congressman Warren Davidson, God Bless you, sir
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  Speaker 1: for spending time my listeners and me. I certainly appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I know my listeners enjoy hearing from you. Obviously a
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  Speaker 1: man of logic, common sense, and reason, and we wish
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  Speaker 1: there were more people like you intellected capacity. I'll look
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  Speaker 1: forward to having you back on the program real soon,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson. And again, very happy Thanksgiving for my listeners
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  Speaker 1: and my family to yours.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Brian, It's always an honor. God
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: bless you all your listeners, and happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
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