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

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And it's time now to speak with
US Congressman Josh for Keen from our

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second congressional district and first of all, Congressman, good morning, Good morning,

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Tom. How's the world finding you
today? It's not a hundred degrees

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yet, it's still much improved over
near Miami, Oklahoma. This morning we're

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hitting different town hall stops. We'll
be at sixty town halls Tom by the

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end of this uh of this week, some total, and so get to

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see a lot of second Congressional districts. That's a lot of engagement. I

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know you've also been working engaging with
the Senator James Lankford on something that kind

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of concerns a lot of people around
here. Your guys are looking for some

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answers. After playing Parenthood received about
twenty million dollars in COVID relief. How

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was that money spent? If you've
gotten an answer to that, No,

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they've not responded. The letter was
sent a HS and we received no response

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thus far. COVID was about,
you know, the COVID relief as I

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wasn't there, but COVID relief people
thought was going to keep places open.

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I don't think people had any intention
that they were going to continue to fund

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the abortion industry. And so Senator
Lankford and I are asked you for questions,

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how in the world at HHS send
this kind of allocation to plan parenthood.

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Another thing you've been working like,
you've been working with Eric Burlison on

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the America Works Welfare reform package.
Tell us a little bit about it and

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tell us how it's going. Well, there's a number of things that burls

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and I've been talking about over time. You know, as a farm bill,

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it's coming in before us. It's
the five year reauthorization and eight Most

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people don't realize that eighty percent of
the total expiniture on these farm bills is

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related to SNAPS Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, which is food stamps historically, and

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so you know, if you look
it's the total economic impact of a farm

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bill and the number of jobs created, it's forty million. That's both you

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know, direct and indirect. The
number of people were supporting because the food

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stamps is forty million, so it's
a one to one ratio of the jobs

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created within the agricultural industry. And
that bill also empowers, you know,

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part of this dependency culture. And
so what Derik and I are saying is

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we've got to change this dependency culture. This administration in two years has increased

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the food stamp total dollar value when
it's already at eighty percent of the farm

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bill, and they've increased just the
total formula twenty seven percent with someone is

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a thrifty food plan. So one
of the builds I put forward is number

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one. There's a reason the Article
one, Section one says that all legislative

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powers to be vested in the Congress, and it's not upon the President of

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States have the ability to plus up
the dollars. That's the we, the

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people discussion the members. So that
elected, you know, like across as

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I went through recently and all four
hundred and thirty five of the House,

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one hundred U S Senators to make
decisions what's the dollar value, and that

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for the president to say we're gonna
plus it up twenty seven percent in his

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administration without going to corners ridiculous.
So I've got to build it. Says

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we're going back Tom. So much
of what we've got to do to turn

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this country around is we've got to
go back on the baseline to pre COVID

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spending on so many different fronts,
this is one of them. One of

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the other areas that many of us
and the Freedom Contus keeps talking about.

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We've got to have enhanced work requirements. There used to be, you know,

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a belief in America that you can't
tell people but by doing for them

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what they could and should be doing
for themselves. And we've got to make

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sure that these these programs are leading
us to have a full workforce, not

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a lesson workforce because of a defendency
culture that the federal government says the federal

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government spending is creating. So we're
trying to bring about some some good changes

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there. I've also i think made
news several weeks ago. I want to

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see us change the allocation of how
much of the foreign bill ten percent of

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it just soft drinks, on the
food stamp allocations. Whine in the world

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are we paying for things that are
going to cause people when they get older

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to also on Medicare and medicaid to
pay for the negative health outcomes. You

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know that what diabetes and predisposition to
diabetes, especially kiddosh sugar diabetes, water,

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soft drinks, ten percent of all
foodstamps spending is going there, and

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so I want to see that change. I followed the bill to do that.

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There's a famous song kind of in
your world of music. I hope

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they may be talking about what those
people in Richmond doing that. He actually

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has a line in his song.
It's kind of becoming. I don't know,

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hope if it's famous, but it's
sure enough being talked about the last

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couple of days. This guy,
I think he's got a Tennessee where he's

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got the line in the saal it
talks about the amount of ole beets.

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Either we're propagating through through this type
of spending foodstamp specifics, so the common

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senses, let's change this very good. Now we've kind of it seems like

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I'm a two tier system of prosecutions
going on. We've got hunter Biden,

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now we've got somebody looking into President
Biden, and of course the recent indictments

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with former President Donald Trump. Where
would you like to start on this merry

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go around? I think I look
merry go around circus, I mean we

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could use Look. I think most
people their hearts getting and their years are

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getting calloused by hearing all of this, you're going, let's let this be

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a vote of the people. I
mean, what what what people see and

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just common sense tells you is that
the word weaponization is being thrown around because

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it's what's going on. Public tax
dollars are being used by by different attorneys

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across the nation and this Department of
Justice to go after their political opponents.

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I mean, there is a foul
motive involved with this. And you know,

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you on one hand, you've got
the FBI, the d J offering

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these sweetheart deals to Hunter Biden and
and you know, tipping the FBI off,

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the FBI tipping off hundred Biden's lawyers
to say, hey, go go

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deal with this. We might be
coming to you know, the scout out

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and gather information. And so they
got trying to reshuffle on his home premises.

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That's David wats Is under his authority
that that occurred. And now he's

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going to sign a special Counsels only
special about didn't tell you slow walks the

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five years he's had to look at
Hunter Biden. And then he lets the

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statute of limitations run out where he
can't be charged on some of the most

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egregious stuff of the Brisma element,
which is the Ukraine connectivity to where he

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was influenced feddling nine different members of
the Biden administration. We you know,

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the bank records are showing the House
Oversight Committee at seventeen million dollars going to

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nine different members of the Biden coming. There's a foreign crup Foreign Practices Act

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that was passing the seventies, federal
law modified in the nineties. It talks

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about it's it's it's bribery when family
members received money. It's not just you.

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So you know, Tom, I'm
convinced that bribery is a I have

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signed off an HR forty fifty seven, which was the resolution to bring about

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impeachment. I believe that this admitting
I believe that the President Biden has crossed

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the line. And Article two,
section four with discribus of presidency, it

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lists three things high crimes and misbanus, treason and bribery and and uh,

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this whole special counsel of designed to
kind of cover like kittie litter, kittie

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litter what David Washington's group have not
been doing for five years, stead of

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allowing the Oversight can continue to say, bring us through the bank records,

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what what what what else have we
not yet seen about the corrupt practices that

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occurred here by using the influence of
the United States own personal game. My

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goodness sake, it sounds like a
mess. And Congressman er keen once again,

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you're gonna have what sixty town hall
meetings by the time this, uh,

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this little leg of the tour is
through. You're doing a lot of

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groundwork and you're listening to a lot
of people. What what's the biggest response?

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Again, what's the biggest And certain
people are raising, who are you

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that people feel the fact that they're
spending eleven hundred dollars more per months this

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month? What the stats show and
what people know and they feel it?

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You know, I asked you bought
said, how many of you are having

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a conversation with your spouse about the
amount of money that it's taking, like,

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where's this money going out of our
bank account? And in the average

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the statistics you're selling us right now
that the average family of force spending eleven

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hundrellars more per month by the exact
same goods and services than they were in

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January twenty twenty one, when when
this administration took offered now to be fair.

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It is under both Republicans and Democrats
that are national debt rages on and

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our gross dep increase. But under
this administration it's been on steroids. And

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people know that devaluations of currency,
the runaway federal spending, unchecked, unbridled,

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runaway federal spending is causing them to
feel the pain in the pocket book.

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And so whether it's the field,
reps or out in the town,

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which we're doing a good job going, you know, this is a business

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getting information, seeing people in the
communities getting information. This consistent theme of

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man, it is costing too much. Restaurants telling us it's not. It's

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not. Fifteen percent increased in January
twenty one is what the stats say.

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They're saying in a restaurant, we're
having a thirty percent increased on just our

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our costs to buy the food that
we're having to pass on to the customers.

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And so you want to deal with
devaluations our currency, you want to

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deal with inflation, then Congress has
got to stop giving more than just lip

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service to cutting federal spending. We
have got to turn this thing around home.

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It's not just the national debts,
not just our kid's future it's right

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now. People are been living in
their pocketbook. Gonna cost the average family

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four eleven hundred dollars a month,
that's thirteen thousand, seven hundred dollars they'll

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spend this year alone, and they
get no increase in buy entower, all

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because of Congress's historic over overspending.
We got to cut spending. We people

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have, you know, I get
to DC and people say, all right,

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we gotta do something about spending.
All right, fine, then let's

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go back to pre COVID spending list. Let's let's reset the baseline we can.

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Can you not live on the amount
of government that they're was, you

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know in twenty nineteen, And that's
the question I'm asking everybody in the town

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hall. Still, absolutely, give
our country a chance, give our kids

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at ten. In five years,
we're gonna be at a place because of

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where we're are at right now.
It just continual debt loading thirty two trillion.

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Now we only reach one trillion in
nineteen eight. We're in five years,

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what we spend just on interest payment, no principle, just pay service

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servicing the debt is going to cost
us a trillion dollars. That is more

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than what we spend on defense of
our entire in defense of our entire country.

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Right now, that's where we are
in five years. That's a subjector

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we're headed. We're in trouble,
and we better have serious amount of people

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in sizeable problems, our sizeable solutions
to address the size of the problem.

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Congresswomen, Besides attending one of your
town halls, how can folks get a

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hold of you burkein b R E. C. T. N. Verken

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dot House dot gov, Verken dot
House dot gov. They can, you

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know, of course, get online, find our in state office and Claire

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Moore, reach out to our our
staff instate or in DC and they can

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also you know, send me,
send me an email, or to talk

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to our field reps. We're encouraging
to come to these town halls we've got,

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you know, like I said,
we're doing a full week here and

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and those have been advertised as on
our social media pages, uh Potishman Josh

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mckin on Facebook, also Twitter,
and that information is there as well.

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Congressman Mikin, thank you very much
for being our guests today. Thanks to

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appreciate you. Man