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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to
speak with our congressman, Josh Rikeen.

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How are you doing, sir,
I'm good man, and what's going on

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in your corner of the world known
as Washington, d C. And also

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Congressional District too. Yeah. Well, we're going to try to find a

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way to ultimately force the president's hands
if it can be forced. I think

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the only way you're gonna get President
to let go of this embargo ammunitions to

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Israel is he's going to fear his
next election cycle because we're gonna try this

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week to bring about a power of
the purse maneuver. My great concern is

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is that when you know we're talking
about funding for cabinet level entities under his

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authority, that the Senate will have
his back knack him up. Maybe not,

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though, if the American people will
demand their senators, even the Democrat

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senators back the play of the House
of saying President Biden does not constitutionally have

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the authority to hold up funds for
Israel. Article one section once has all

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legislative powers to be vested in the
Congress and the President by the Constitution is

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also, as it articulates to faithfully
execute the laws of the land. He's

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doing something that's unconstitutionally doesn't have the
authority. American people put enough pressure on

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him. After we get down with
the house boat this week. My hope

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is the Senate will take it up, and ultimately the Senate and alongside the

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American people can let him know that
you're about to be without a job,

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and maybe that's enough getting to change
is his past speak support in Israel today

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but not tomorrow, which he continues
to do well. Well, did the

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President just get told that he can't
give away four hundred and thirty nine a

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million dollars for education that he tried
to unilaterally do just a little bit of

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God, I mean, he got
shut down once before, but I think

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I read that that happened here again
recently within another about that he tried to

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pay off student owans almost half of
the mean I almost have a trillion in

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the billions, trillions. It's unbelievable. Almost half a trillion dollars he's trying

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to give away. He's trying to
buy votes. That's what this is.

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I mean, it's it's why he's
sending out notices right now. We talked

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when two weeks ago to anybody's receiving
government funds, medicaid, et cetera,

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that different states are letting them know
about voting procedures so that the people who

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are, you know, receiving government
benefits will turn out and vote for those

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they perceive or giving them the most
government benefits. You know, he is

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lawless in the way that he is
trying to implement his role as the executive.

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It's lawlessness to do that kind of
stuff. We're speaking with Congressman Josh

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Burkeen. We recently had a tornado
right here in Bartlesville, and I imagine

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you probably heard all about it and
what have you, but wow, it

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was something else. Next time you're
in the area, we got to show

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you some of that we can do
this. What's that give? Let me

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our district director, Dan, he
lives in Bartlesville and keeping me a couple

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every days, you know, in
the know in communication with you know,

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the city manager of the mayor,
trying to make sure that we're doing what

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we can on our side. But
Dan Harrigan, who lives in in in

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Bartlesville, our district director, is
telephone number nine eight two six zero four

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eight seven to one for anybody that
is needing, you know, connection with

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the federal entities. Dan has been
daily involved in that role nine one,

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eight two six zero four eight seven
to one. My latest update from him

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showed me, you know that we've
got a lot of the debris thanks to

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your county commissioners. Kudos to them, a lot of the county commissioners,

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Samaricans purer So Oklahoma Baptist. Sounds
like a lot of the debris is being

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dealt with and then hopefully with the
paperwork that's been turned in the request of

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the federal entities on individual and public
assistance, that stuff like that determination based

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to plumb merit will go forth and
be evaluated this week and maybe, you

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know, as early as next week
we'll have day. Well, I'm glad

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you brought I'm glad you brought it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry your phone

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was breaking up. I was going
to say it's a good thing you mentioned

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Dan again, because I was worried
that his phone hadn't you know, might

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have stopped ringing. But he has
been busy. He and Derek Diisney are

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both they're actively in monitoring the situation, making sure the word devil. We

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need to do to make sure that
people impacted have the resources available. Okay,

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very very good. U Border issue. Once again, it seems like

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it's never going away. It seems
like it is never ever ever going away

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any progress. Well, look,
I I I hate to admit this,

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but the reality is the leverage for
forcing this U president's hands in the Senate

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hands was in a way as of
a couple of weeks ago more in eight

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bill plus what happened in twenty four
appropriations package. What our founding father said

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was the power of the person Federalist
sixty eight. So there's nothing left that

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comes with a prize tag that this
administration wants. It gives us the ability

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to say, you want that,
you're going to do this. So I'm

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sad to say that that was the
result. That's why I voted against both

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that four an Age eight package and
the twenty four appropriations. Feel situation with

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the border will not change less the
president. I mean, it's played and

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we're talking you, josh mckem and
Joshua the country it is, you know,

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Joshua. One of the things that
people really kind of marvel at is

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a year grasp of where we are
financially as a country, and just how

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far away we've kind of slipped away
from where we need to be and how

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far down the physcal cliff we seem
to be tumbling and bringing us up to

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data on where we are there.
Well, it's uh, we're used to

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a trillion dollar depths. It's as
of a year or two ago. Huh.

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Now we're two trillion dollar deaths,
two trillion dollar depths. You add

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the student loan belop and Biden is
continuing to push is one point seven trillion

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plus three four hundred billion he's trying
to advocate for. We're living in two

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trillion dollar desths. Nineteen eighty after
two hundred years of government debt loading,

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we got to a trillion dollars total
gross national debt in nineteen eighty trillion dollars.

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It's two hundred years as well,
our total debt we're thirty four trillion.

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Now our annual debt is two trillions, so we're twice in one year,

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we'll overspend what it took us two
hundred years to get total debt accumulation

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to in nineteen eighty. Every year
now we'll we'll debt spend twice that amount.

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Over two trillions are annual depths.
Goodness, we're headed towards We're headed

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towards hyper inflation. And that's where
we're headed. And when we talk,

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sorry, when we talk about hyper
inflation, that sounds like a very scary

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word, and it truly is.
Could you explain to the layman what that

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actually means. There's a there's a
term that Thomas Jefferson used. There was

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a Latin term called it's called the
abusive state of man. Okay, that's

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what happened when government puts you in
a no win situation by your curses.

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No, it's the abusive state of
men. Thomas Jefferson said, should not

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allowed to maintain our independence. He
said, we should not allow our leaders.

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He used a different term for leaders. Should not allow our leaders to

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load us with perpetual debt. He
goes on to say, that's why you've

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got to make your election basically,
your vote between liberty and servitude. You

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gotta make your vote between liberty and
servitude. Are you voting for somebody's gonna

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give you more? It's done paid
for. You vote for somebody who says,

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we got a cut so that our
kids have had the blessing of liberty.

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He goes on to say, Jefferson
does, and at a different time

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that he uses this Latin term talking
about the abusive state of man. He

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said, the four horse, the
four horse talking about a wagon train scenario,

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the four horse of this frightful team, this public debt taxation follows that,

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and in its train is wretchedness and
oppression. So nobody can can tell

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you what's gonna happen. But whether
it's the hidden tax of inflation or the

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real tax of yere's in the future
paying for all of this, the abusive

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state of man in its train is
wretchedness and oppression. That's what our founders

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warned us against, and that's where
we're headed. Indeed, Josh Berkeen,

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what's on your plate as you take
a look ahead here in the next day,

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five to ten days, what's what
you got going on? So there

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is the the thing I discussed early
on in this discussion with you about trying

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to find some leverage going after the
cabinet level funding to try to force this

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president to let go of his hold
on munitions go to Israel. Law enforcement

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will pass a number of different,
hopefully number of different law enforcement measures this

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week. This week is police week, You're gonna have a one hundred year

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celebration of CBP customers and Border Patrol
agents on you know, trying to secure

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a border. We're gonna have a
number of measures this week on the floor

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that will be designed to empower our
law enforcement, something that we've seen the

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liberal ideology try to undermind. So
Congress gonna understand you're going to be in

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Bartlesfield soon. Well, we're gonna
get a chance to see the damage.

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Cut it out. I had had
speaking of graduation last week, and then

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with Mother's Day, it's kind of
called them mac to schedule, but we're

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gonna try to get up there.
My own daughters had to speaking another graduation

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last weekend. But this weekend my
daughter graduates, so i'm'll make a mad

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dash home to go to her graduation
and get up the next morning, head

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to Bartlesville, get a chance to
make sure that I'm well aware of what

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the FEMA information is gonna be turned
in and get to see it live,

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and then catch a plane. Then
at the end of this week weekend,

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to his credit converser Mark Way,
Mullen has scheduled a trip for some of

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the delegation along with myself and and
some others from Pennsylvania, Virginia. It's

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not just the Oaklam the Watson family
that is being detained in Turks and Cacos.

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We've also got two other individuals that
have been detained from two other states,

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and so we're going to try to
make a trip, a one day

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trip to try to advocate for that
family. Is to try to get you

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know that the craziness someone who left
a few shotgun shells, a few shells

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in their bag in Turks and Cacos
and now they're looking at a twelve year

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prison center of their tourism dollars comes
from the United States. We're going to

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try to make a trip to try
to expose this and try to have discussions

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to get the government to change their
minds. I mean, I think it's

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the punishment has to match the crime, and in this case, it is

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not matching an innocent in fraction,
Thank goodness, Josh McKeen. Besides getting

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a hold of Dan and he's always
accessible, how do he get a hold

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of anybody else in your office?
And is there a website or a or

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a phone number dot Claremore Office nine
one eight two eight three six two six

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two nine one eight two eight three
six two six two, or she can

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reach out to Dan who lives in
Bartlesville specifically what's you know with emerging management,

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what's going on with Bartlesville. But
in just regular casework, that Claremore

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office is someone you can an office
that you can reach out to, whether

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it's passports or or veterans affairs or
Medicare Social Security. And then if you

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will let me know your thoughts on
how do you think I should vote on

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something? Call our our DC office
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one. I actually read those call
sheets. I listen to what people in

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the second Congressional District are saying.
And you know, I also read the

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field reports of our field reps.
When they're talking to people make comments.

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I read that so and then go
to you know, if you want to

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do electronically, go to Burkeen dot
house dot gov. B R, E,

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C A T N. Burkeen dot
house dot gov. And you can

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also send us your thoughts. In
written for him Augus Smith mckein, thank

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you very much for being with us
today