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What brings you to town. Actually
meeting with a group of senior adults today

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and then meeting on some have some
meetings on water dealing with obviously Copan Lake

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and the direction that we can continue
to be able to go to be able

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to deal with drought issues in Martlesville. Work a lot with the Core of

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Engineers. I've had a lot of
meetings with them, and we're doing some

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face to face meetings today. Very
very good. So the Core sometimes it

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can be a little bit of a
handful to work with. I understand that

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there are a lot of moving parts
with that bunch. Yeah, really it

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shouldn't be called the Core of Engineers. It should be called the Core of

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Attorneys. Really, they seem to
do more attorney work than the new engineering

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work at times, and they spend
years and years and years and studying something

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and then years to be able to
actually get it done. So my frustration

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with the Core is they really have
a responsibility that has been given to them

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by Congress to be able to oversee
some flooding issues mitigation and then also some

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of the water handling for the country
and our state in particular. That's a

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very important task on it, but
we've got to be able to make sure

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that we're actually allocating the water in
a way that needs to be done,

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and if we have water availability,
we need to make sure that water is

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actually getting to people being held back
from people. You know, it's been

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an interesting year because of the drought, and we got a little bit of

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a relief where you know, right
kind of right at the edge there where

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we're just above conservation. But a
lot of people are doing it voluntarily because

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they know how fragile this can be
with the one hundred degree temperatures and evaporation

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and things like that. But it's
nice to know that we've got somebody fighting

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for us here to make sure that
we have ready access to water at all

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times, regardless of the way.
I haven't actually worked on the water issues

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in Bartlesville for a year and a
half at this point, working through some

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of different issues, So even before
we reached a level we were earlier in

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this spring, we were already working
on it. I've had some of my

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team members that they've actually worked on
this consistently, if not weakly. Every

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other week we're on different meetings or
phone calls trying to be able to track

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this down work with our representatives and
senators there from the states, trying to

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be able to work through what we
can there. Then obviously lots of meetings

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and phone calls with the Core of
Engineers. I have another meeting later on

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this week with the core even after
the meeting that I've got today on it.

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And so we are very active on
this because this is an issue that

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needs to be resolved long term of
Bartlesville's economic development. It's growth as a

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community will be limited if we can't
have a good consistent set of water and

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that's actually coming to the community.
And so we're going to get this solved

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so bartels Will can work on bigger
issues. Thank you very much. We

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appreciate that greatly. Other things cooking
here now that you're back home, but

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that doesn't mean that the Senator stops
working. As you just outlined, you

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were giving really hard work here on
getting us, you know, a long

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range plan for our water projects.
What else is in the bag. It's

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always funny, but when my wife
hears anyone say, you know, Congress

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is off on vacation for a month, you should see her expression on that

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one to say, once you travel
with us for the month of August and

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see it help off. That really
is as we travel around the state,

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get a chance to be able visit
people the one month a year when not

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in session it's August, and that
really does allow me to put it to

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being home in covering the state in
our seventy seven counties as much as we

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can to be able to visit a
folks, find out what the needs to

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be able to be in more in
depth conversations with people around the state to

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be able to determine what can we
do, what do we take on.

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There's a lot to be able to
do with the interfere but August it's been

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really helpful for that. Plus there's
a lot that's going to be done when

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we get back in September as well, so we're going to Tergees to work

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on the budget issues, to work
on immigration, so there's quite a bit

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major legislation is still moving as well
as a piece I've worked on for five

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years now on prescription FROUDS meetings with
Farmercists all last week. I'll have some

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others coming up with the chase ahead
to be able to talk through what we

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can do to be able to get
greater access to individuals at a lower price

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until able to get to be able
to determine how we get the price down

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based on reducing some of the man
in the process called the pharmacy benefit manager.

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You know. Well, one thing
that you started talking a little bit

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about the drugs and the medications and
what have you. Here something that's been

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kind of hitting the low burn on
the news cycles with some of the national

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news services. They want to bring
up COVID rearing its head again, saying

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that they're concerned about a new variant, and is that anything that folks in

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Washington, DC have been hearing about, As far as anything is a big

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deal, because I think folks around
here I've had enough of it. Well,

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I would say CDC has engaged and
said there are new variants, but

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also anticipated forever there would be new
variants, just like there is for the

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flue. There's a new variant every
bear dealing with the flue as it just

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and adapts. So we'll continue to
be able to fight COVID the same way

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we're finding the flu. Off.
We'll determine just what our immunization needs are

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in the day said that will be
very different than what it is now.

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I'll let folks to be able to
talk to their doctor about that specifically,

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because everyone makes their own decisions every
single year, and what they're going to

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do on flu people do the same
thing, and what they're going to choose

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to be able to do on COVID
vaccinations. But variants don't surprise me at

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this point nor frighten me at this
point. That's going to be given.

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Whether it's pneumonia or it's a flue, whether it is COVID that's out there,

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those will be viruses that will continue
to exist for a long time.

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Very good on that one. You
were talking about border issues and what have

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you. That's something you've been watching
like a hawk. You've been to the

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border several times, and it doesn't
appear like anything's improving, although some of

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the numbers have been doing funny things, but it still looks like the same

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old, same old. I'm gonna
tell you that are numbers jump back up

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significantly in July. The administrations finally
released the July numbers in the middle of

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August. The July numbers show a
pretty dramatic increase from June. Again,

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the heat went up significantly, but
the numbers jumped up significantly as well along

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the borders. So while the administration
is saying, look, we solved all

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the problems the border, everyone looked
away. The National Wedet did look away.

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Many of us did not, and
I said many others did as well.

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These numbers off right back up again, and they have. What's been

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interesting is the administration for the longest
said that the reason they are out of

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forty two, the numbers were so
high, it's because people were repentantly crossing

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the border. They would turn them
around, they'd come back over and over

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and over again. They're saying the
RECENTIVIS and numbers are down, but that

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would mean the numbers are even higher
of individuals that are coming across now than

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even they were a year ago.
The individuals coming so still major issues.

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Two big things that are out there. The administration has got to enforce the

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law right now. They're trying to
find every way they can not to enforce

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the law. They got to enforce
it. And Congress has changed the definition

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or foot qualifies for asylum. If
we don't clarify that, this administration will

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continue to use that loose asylum definition
to their own advantage to be able to

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continue to be able to bring people
across the border to the tune of almost

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two hundred thousand people that they identified
last year our last month, not including

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the god obeys they got in the
last month. So Congress is going to

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be able to fix the asylum law, which I have a proposal for,

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and the administration has startingforcing the actual
law they can centator link. For one

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other thing, it's the economy,
and we've been told that, oh,

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the economy is in much better shape
than we thought it was going to be.

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We dodged a bullet, But it
seems like now from the economists I've

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been hearing from, we didn't nearly
dodge the bullet. We just kind of

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delayed the bullet. I understand this
fall going into Winner could be really kind

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of bad for us on the econom
Excited things don't approve. It's always hard

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to tell. Anyone who tells you
that they know what the economy is going

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to do in two months. Just
know that the front were also selling ground

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property somewhere in the middle of the
country. So I would just say everyone's

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guessing on the economy, but we
can all look at the trends and issues

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here. We're able to full then
inverted yield curve, which is kind of

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a dirty way of investors are looking
out on the horizon trying to be able

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to figure out what's going to happen
with treasuries, and there's still a major

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concern for the vast majority of investors
that are out there looking at the economy.

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The other big issue that we've got
energy prices continue to accelerate. These

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are directly connected to the tax increases
that were done in the Inflation Reduction Act

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the applet name Inflation Reduction Act of
Democratic pass last year to be able to

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increase the price of gasoline. Well, that's working. Gasoline prices are now

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going up because the taxes have gone
up significantly, and it's slowing down as

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a number of new capital and investments
out there. And also we're feeling it

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at the pump now. Our economy
runs on housing construction and business construction and

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low energy prices. And right now, with high mortgage rates, I think

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the highest mortgage rates that we've had
in twenty years, housing construction and housing

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sales are going down and energy prices
are going back up. That's typically not

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a good sign for our economy and
where things are headed. Ironically enough,

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this administration is walking around doing their
campaign rallies on the term vitonomics. I

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can't find people that are super excited
about bytonomics for centurieson prisident Biden thinks that's

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the thing. He wasn't campaign on
his high mortgage rates, high energy prices.

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Most Americans aren't excited about that,
but apparently he is amazing. Is

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there anything else that we need to
cover here in our brief time that we

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have together, Senator Now, I
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on Lankforduccina dot gov. We're glad
to be able to have this kind of

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conversation where have lots of meetings of
people all over the state right now,

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to be able to engage as much
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get input from people and ideas