WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.080 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:08.720 We are here with Congressman Josh Rakeen and Congressman Braken. You've been a 3 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.000 busy guy. You're gonna be all over the place. You're off to have 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:16.679 some megs and issues here in Bartlesville. Off to Dewey, I believe, 5 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.760 Chelsea, and then to Oolaga and places far and white. How many of 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:27.239 these town halls have you done so I we're I think thirty two live town 7 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:32.399 halls across the second Congressional District in the last one hundred days plus. And 8 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:37.920 and it's good time to get educated and keep under the understanding the pulse of 9 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:40.920 the second Congressional District. Great. Well, you know, we got a 10 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.039 lot of things going on here and a lot of things that folks seem to 11 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:47.359 be concerned about. His money or lock of it. It seems like on 12 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.200 paper there appears to be money, but it doesn't do much for us anymore. 13 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:58.079 Yeah. Yeah, Inflation's been a tough row to hoe for most families 14 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:03.960 and most people I think Oklahoma know what they felt. The numbers are what 15 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:08.120 they are. When when the average Americans spent eighty seven hundred dollars more in 16 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:11.640 the course of you know, the full year of twenty twenty two, eighty 17 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.840 seven hundred dollars more to buy the exact same goods as they did in just 18 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.359 the year prior. Because of the devaluation of the dollar. Families they're feeling 19 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:26.239 it. And Tom pun intended on the radio station broken record, I am, 20 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:27.280 we've got to get our physical house in order. If we're going to 21 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:32.560 solve inflation, We've got to start living within our means and stop running up 22 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.760 reckless spending bills on a credit card that you know, they're talking about an 23 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:41.480 X date of this debt ceiling, but it's the X date of us going 24 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.599 off a fiscal cliff as a nation. Every American needs to be more concerned 25 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:49.400 about now we have that, like you said, the debt ceiling thing looming 26 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.519 here. Rumor is that President Biden. I'm not talking to anybody. This 27 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.120 is going to be a clean bill. I'm not talking to anybody. Finally, 28 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.319 just said, Hey, Kevin McCarthy, what do you say we get 29 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:00.760 together on the night. Yeah, Well, I mean, look, the 30 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:06.959 only the only plan that's been passed is because of a group of us who 31 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.800 said we're committed to seeing us reduce spending. And so we passed the largest 32 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:14.520 cut dollars fer dollars that I know of thus far that Congress has ever passed, 33 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:17.199 and the Limit, Save and Grow Act. It will actually be real 34 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:22.120 cuts in year one if we call back everything. You know, almost a 35 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:27.919 trillion dollars in cuts in that year one, inclusive of getting rid of Biden's 36 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.840 student aid bill out, which is so against the American spirit of taking from 37 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:37.000 from some and giving to others. And we're going after those eighty seven thousand 38 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:42.879 rs agents in that bill. It restores energy independence, energy dominance type permitting 39 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:46.360 reform. We're looking at the highest home heating bills this next winner. Some 40 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:51.199 say that it was as we've had in fifteen years because of this administration is 41 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.000 waging war on the fossil fuel industry. It's because they are willing to sacrifice 42 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:01.159 the prosperity of our families in America because of a radical religious cult falling towards 43 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:07.319 a climate ideology, sacrificing prosperity on the altar of the Church of Nature. 44 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.199 And that's what we've been doing. And China and Russia are you know, 45 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:15.560 they're laughing at us as we appease that ideology, you know, with they 46 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:22.080 have no desire to go down that pathway. And if America even did everything 47 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:27.479 that those who believe that way, you know, if America did everything that 48 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.800 those who believe like that would want, you're only talking about a less than 49 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.400 a degree change overall, and you're talking about less than an inch change in 50 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.159 the oceans. That's just if America did everything, that's almost obliteration of the 51 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.599 fossil field. And so in China and Russia say we're not doing anything that. 52 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.360 So we continue to fight with our arms behind tied behind our back when 53 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:50.439 we have four hundred years of fossil fuel industry supply in this nation and its 54 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.039 foolishness. We have to be able to cut government and grow our economy, 55 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:59.039 and Unelasian energy dominance is so pivotal to that. Um. The other things 56 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.479 that we did in that build in addition to the cuts is we went after 57 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:06.400 the work requirements. Go back to to what Gingridge and Clinton under divided government, 58 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.639 which is like we are today. We ought to be able to say, 59 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.639 if you're able bodied and you have the means and the ability to work, 60 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:15.439 don't ask the single mom who's got two or three kids to be supporting 61 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:19.439 you, who's who's scratch scratching incline and who is working to support you? 62 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:25.279 And Biden actually said in ninety six or ninety five when he voted for you 63 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:30.000 know, Tanni Reform, that we need more, more work, brittle society, 64 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.639 less dependence was was his comment. And so we're saying to him, 65 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.319 if you believe that years ago, then then why not now in divided government? 66 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:44.439 And so we've got simple measures that I think the average American can go. 67 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:46.759 I get that, I believe in that, and we just need the 68 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.680 president and the Democrat controlled Senate to say that makes sense, and let's start 69 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:56.399 doing something about these problems. Southern border always a kind of a messy situation, 70 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:59.160 but now a titled forty two ending? Yeah, and what is it? 71 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:01.959 The eleven? Yeah? Wow, what's the score there? Well, 72 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.879 so Biden's gonna send, you know, fifteen hundred troops to the border. 73 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:10.519 And that's more or less admitting there's a problem. President Biden has been ever 74 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.639 since he took office. One of the first things he did was he stopped 75 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.600 the construction of a congressionally authorized physical barrier, saying, not another foot, 76 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:23.680 that was his comment, not another foot. I'm on the Homeland Security Committee, 77 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:33.240 and I purposely ask Chief Royal Ortiz, his U lead patrol officer at 78 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:38.240 a hearing, do you disagree with President Biden's decision to shut down that wall 79 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:42.560 fully funded, two hundred fifty mile additional wall, fully funded, and by 80 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.959 executive order he shuts it down his own administration. The guy who leads the 81 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.319 nineteen thousand border patrol agent said, I disagreed, yes, or I disagreed 82 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:53.519 with that decision. And I asked Secretary of my orchists last a couple of 83 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:57.199 weeks ago when he was before our committee, the same question, and he 84 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.759 he said, he, you know, standing firm with Biden, and so 85 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:05.279 their experts are saying physical barriers work. I found a quote that I utilized 86 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:08.879 last week in the markup. We passed a bill last week that would continue 87 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:12.360 construction on the border wall a lot of other measures. We marked it up 88 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.639 at the Homeland Security Committee, and the Democrats were trying to amend it and 89 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:18.319 pull that provision out of physical barriers, and I said, I want you 90 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.480 to hear your quote. I quoted President Biden who said in two thousand and 91 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.199 six, during the Secure Fence Act vote, when he was a senator that 92 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:30.759 I believe in fences, physical barriers because of the drug because the drugs being 93 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:34.560 pushed across the border, and so they're reversing course. Biden voted for the 94 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.560 Secure Fence Act that included physical barriers. He was vice president of Obama who 95 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.759 built one hundred fifty miles of border wall, Secretary of my Orcus was deputy 96 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.319 Secretary of Homeland Security when they built one hundred and fifty miles of border wall, 97 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.040 and I asked him specifically, do you disagree? He went the Obama 98 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:51.120 administration who believed in physical barriers, who built one hundred fifty mile and so 99 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:57.399 he said, yes, you know, there's different caveats of security, and 100 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.680 that's just one element of it. And look, it's not just one element. 101 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:05.680 When they canceled the contracts, that costs three million dollars a day, 102 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:10.079 that two hundred and fifty mile wall, it was approved by Congress. When 103 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.759 Biden takes over, he then shuts it down by executive order. That costs 104 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.040 the taxpayer three million dollars a day for the rental space and the cancelation of 105 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:21.360 those contracts, that's for the materials to rush and expire off the southern border. 106 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:25.319 It's now costing on a daily basis still one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 107 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.000 It's like a common sense. Wow, Well, if you're gonna be 108 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.680 busy today and folks can't catch your life, where can they get a hold 109 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.360 of you? Had to maybe you get some information from it or further some 110 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.720 information towards you. Yeah, so you can go to broken dot house dot 111 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:44.360 gov. B is in boy Urs and Ralph he is an echoc is in 112 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.439 Charlie h Is and Horse he is an echo. He is an echo and 113 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:51.839 is in Nike broken dot house dot gov. And you can also reach out 114 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:57.399 for casework support to our Claremore office nine one eight two eight three six two 115 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:01.560 six two. And then you also can show up to these town halls. 116 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.680 I love to see people turn out to the Dewey town Hall, the uh 117 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.360 Ulagau Town Hall and uh and Chelsea and the Courts Eggs and yeah, and 118 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.160 so we'd love to We'd love to have them attend and be grateful for it. 119 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.879 I'd love to see people live. And again, if they can't get 120 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:18.839 too me live, then they can visit with us, you know, via 121 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.600 electronic communication. And Tom I actually read when somebody, do you see a 122 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.839 field reput out in the area representing us comment to those guys, Um, 123 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:31.759 I actually read what what those those constituency take the time to share with those 124 00:08:31.799 --> 00:08:35.559 field reps when you call into the office and you leave commentary. When I'm 125 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.240 flying back and forth, I'm reading the information so I can make sure I 126 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.840 stay informed by the citizens of the Alkahoma second Congressional District.