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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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We have on the telephone with this, uh Congressman Josh mckin. How

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are you doing, sir, I'm
good. Next, Tom, let me

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join you again. Well, I'll
tell you what, it's always a pleasure

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having you around. A couple of
big things happening. First of all,

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the defense built tell us a little
bit about that. That's a little bit

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different this year. Yeah. Well, let me say that that the Republicans

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passed a authorization last week that is
extremely conservative. The NDAA in the last

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many years has been something that was
bipartisan supported, but it contained all the

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garbage that I think that Eisenhower and
Douglas mccarthur would be looking at and saying,

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are you kidding me? It's the
stuffs and social media is you know,

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a flame with showcasing that we're doing. Joe Biden is doing a drag

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Queen story hour some you know somewhat
with our men and women uniform subjecting from

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the highest rank of the lowest rank
everyone to set and not in agreement.

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And that is not we need.
We need a military that is lethal,

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that's fears that's speared by our enemies. Uh and and you know, Joe

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Biden's administration has turned this thing into
cleaner off of mash and it's been it's

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it's it's ridiculous. And so what
we did was we said, no,

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we're not going to do that.
And so the Republicans passed out of the

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House Representatives last week could build a
pull back garbage out and it said we're

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going to focus on on lethality and
if it's not leading to more readiness and

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easy deployment, then it doesn't need
to be in there. So it's not

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just the millions that this administration has
been spending on transition surgeries and cross hormone

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UH blockers, but it's also tom
they they're undermining the rule of law.

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The Supreme Court in in the Dobbs
decision, said, we're correcting what Rov

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Wade got wrong. The federal government
does not have the ability to be engaged

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in promoting abortion. And this administration
the last two years it said, if

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you're in a pro life state,
we're going to use the taxpayer dollar.

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If you're if you're serving your country
and you want an abortion, we're gonna

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we're gonna pay for your reimbursement.
Go to a travel reimbursement to go to

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a state that advocates for abortion.
That's not what a National Defense Authorization bill

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is for. Wow. And so
there's a multitude of other things that we

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pulled out, the di diversity,
equity, inclusion stuff that it's just plain

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silliness. And we need to be
injecting fear into our enemies, not being

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a laughing stock. And so Republicans
passed to bill out that returns us to

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what a National Defense Authorization Act needs
to be. Congressmending recently down at the

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border again, what you see,
um, welcome Tom. It's it's the

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same madness that continues because there's a
desire to increase those who vote for Democrats.

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And maybe I'm going too far there, but I don't think so.

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I think that the ultimate design is
is too for the Democrats who are leading

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this party, the liberal side of
that they're leading their party. They want

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amnesty. And so we've got poorest
borders six almost six million at this point,

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which is one point five times the
population of Oklahoma's uh higher population.

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And that's the amount of the illegal
this administration, through their absurdain policies that

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are allowed across the border, and
it's it's it's far and beyond anything has

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ever happened in any previous administration.
And and look, so Biden is letting

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the liberals have control of the ship. That's what's really going on. But

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for every signed and are moved and
assigning the law, you can multiple times

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thirteen the number of regulations, most
of them to the utmost liberalists trying to

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uh, you know, advance by
the by guidance and by rules. I'm

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by the act of the will of
people to through congressional law. And so

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we just no, I find our
office oftentimes we're playing defense, legislative defense

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because of this administration is constantly trying
to come up with new better dance their

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ideology. And now I'm doing it
the way that our founders set up.

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Still give you the idea, Let
the cars vote on it, go to

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the House, go to the Senate. Let it be tuning the law.

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Well, they know they're gonna,
you know, have problems, and so

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um the stroke of a pen or
by a bureaucrat setting in a cubicle.

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They're trying to inject upon the American
people the uh, the most extreme ideology

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they can My goodness, when you
said the defensive legislation, you just outlined

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it pretty dart and well there it's
you go to Washington to try to get

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something done. It sounds like you're
you're there most of the time these days

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just to keep from something from happening. Yeah, people often say, you

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know, well, you know,
shouldn't we be, you know, trying

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to shouldn't you get something done?
Shouldn't you if if if you're being blought

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by Congress, shouldn't you do everything
you can? Know? No, we

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are a nation of blass, not
a nation of men. Founders plainly said

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that. John Adams has said that
what that means is you have to follow

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the rules we designed to be that
way. And I'm I've said this often,

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but people I challenge people go look
at Federalist Paper seventy three, the

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Federalist papers, the eighty five of
those Federalist papers were designed to tell the

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States, this is why we need
the Constitution. John Jay and Hamilton and

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Madison and Hamilton lays out very well
in Federalist seventy three that we set it

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up be different from European experiments to
governance. Europe they have, you know,

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like parliamentary parliamentary parliamentary control. Parliamentary
control where one party who wins an

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election gets to run the gamut.
It's not the way it is in America.

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It's it's designed to where you have
a House and you have a Senate.

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In Federal seventy three, he said, and look, we made it

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much more complicated because we even give
gave the president the ability to veto and

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he said, and people are going
to cry that because they know it's going

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to stop good bills from getting passed. And Hamilton says, we were more

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concerned about bad bills getting passed,
and so we're willing to not let some

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good bills get passed so we can
maintain stability. So when people are saying,

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we'll just get something done, the
Founders set our system of governance up

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into maintaining stability. In fact,
in that paper you'll find him talk about

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the excess of legislating, the excess
of legislating. They wanted the states to

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be doing the perimentation, the laboratory
of democracy and tweaking the things that we've

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turned the federal government into doing everything
you know, it wasn't empowered to do

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by the constitution. And it's it's
led us down this path where cost constantly,

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the bureaucrats, the fourth leg of
government is running rush shot over the

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will of the American people. And
Microman, did you get too Yes?

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Absolutely, Gosh, fer Ken,
you've been out and about, You've been

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doing a lot of town halls,
and you really put the miles on because

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you've got such a vast, big
geographic district here in Oklahoma. What are

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you hearing from your constituents that,
Paul and everybody's being hit by inflation and

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inflation. I've got a good team
of field reps that are out in the

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field and going into businesses and asking
them what are you dealing with? Catching

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people at work, what are you
dealing with? And consistently through those field

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reports of costly reading people talking about
just the cost of everything already in the

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field report last week, constituent talking
about in the food market, it's you

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know, them saying it. It's
not fifteen percent like everybody's talking about.

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I can tell you this, this
was this one person's take. It's a

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thirty percent increase in food process that
she's then having to pass along to the

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customer in a restaurant setting. And
and it's the inflationary impact of runaway federal

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spending, the evaluation of our currency. It's impacting everyone. And in Congress,

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nobody, nobody, um, you
know, wants to cut seemingly well,

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if we're going to get control over
this runaway Congress, it is lashing

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the credit card every time they vote
and going on. There's no problems.

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Just keep increasing expenses. You're never
going to solve this problem. If you

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don't start cutting, you will not
uncomfortable. Yeah, it will come up,

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it will come up to bid its
twenty percent, the evaluation of our

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currency. You hold up one hundred
dollars bill, it's lost twenty percent since

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twenty seventeen. Wow, so just
fold it and fifth. Hold that one

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hundred all millions fifth and you know
you take off one fifth of it.

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That's the loss of buying power.
You've lost nine of that one hundred dollars

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bill since nineteen hundreds. That's amazing, It is absolutely amazing. Oh,

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Mike, when are you coming back
to do the Bartlesville where you're around in

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Oceanada? You're up and doing and
all parts around. Uh, were you

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going to be back? You think? Well, I know, you know,

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next month in August we'll be doing
a serious town halls again, and

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I'm not sure the exactness of locations, but I'm sure we'll be in northeast

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Oklahoma. I'm sure you will.
Hey, I want to thank you for

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being with us here today. Thank
you for breaking it all down and and

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telling us, you know, kind
of the behind the curtain what's going on

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there, because folks really like the
sunshine that you provide by explaining what's happening.

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Well, thanks Tom. And if
anybody's wanting to to find out where

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our next town hall, we've done
forty four town halls this year live town

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halls and and so if anybody wants
to know where our next onan do is

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go to Burken dot House dot gov. That can also get on our Josh

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Urkeen Congressman Josh Berkein Facebook page and
it keeps people up to up to speed

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on when we're coming to a town
near them. And it's also a great

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way to you know, get something
to your congressman as well. Uh,

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you're always open for communication. That's
one thing that look, yeah, we

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take we take information that you know
comes up in these town halls, and

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we're turning into legislation the healthy healthy
Snap idea that we're running right now.

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That's you know, eight eighty eighty
percent of what we're of a farm bill

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consists of food stamps these days.
So when a farm bill comes up,

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eighty percent of the dollar value is
coming going directly back into food stamp programs,

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the Snap something nutricians business program.
And someone and Hugo said to us

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and said, look, why aren't
we taking wick women have been children where

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they say it's going to be nutritional
instead of buying garbage that ultimately increases costs

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on Medicaid and Medicare taxpayer paste for
And so we said, that makes sense.

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And you know, ten percent tom
of the food stamp program is just

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soft drinks, soft drinks. That's
nasty. And so we're saying, look,

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if this dessert or candy or or
ice cream or soft drinks, if

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you want to buy it on your
own grade, but don't expect the taxpayer

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to pay for it. That has, you know, a trend of increasing

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obesity numbers that then we know is
a large driver of the healthcare costs the

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taxpayer picks up on the Medicaid and
Medicare front. Wow, gosh for king,

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thank you it's always great to talk
to you. Thanks man. You

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two have a blessed day. Tom