Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: We have a Congressman Josh Urcken on the line here
Speaker 1: with us today and Congressman Burkeen welcome home. Now you're
Speaker 1: you're making the rounds, as they say, with your town halls.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a lot in a short time, young man.
Speaker 2: We uh yeah, we'll have four days. We're going to
Speaker 2: be on the fourteenth Wednesday, will be in in your
Speaker 2: next woods, will be in Bartlesville at noon at a
Speaker 2: Kuwana's event. Then two o'clock we're going to be a
Speaker 2: no Ona and then prior four. So that's just some information.
Speaker 2: Hope people people get a chance to get people in
Speaker 2: the area.
Speaker 1: Now you've done this nearly one hundred times since taking office,
Speaker 1: these town halls. That's that's almost unheard of in the
Speaker 1: modern day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's so that's the town hall so like
Speaker 2: the Kawana Augiliy Club top event. So that's not counting
Speaker 2: that number. But yeah, we've done well. It will be
Speaker 2: over one hundred town halls within our first session of Congress.
Speaker 2: Of course, Congress is to year session, so we're averaging
Speaker 2: about fifty a year. And uh, you know when you
Speaker 2: got twenty eight county. That's a significant number of you know,
Speaker 2: towns that you've got to get to.
Speaker 1: So what are you ring at the town halls?
Speaker 2: This open border policy, this administration. It's also inflation. People
Speaker 2: really feeling the pain of the Congress and this administration
Speaker 2: taking on steroids of the continual spin without recognizing the
Speaker 2: reality that at some point you have to pay the
Speaker 2: piper and and so the hidden tax and inflation, it's
Speaker 2: robbing every every uh, you know, aged American that's you know,
Speaker 2: in their twilight years and and and seeing their retirement
Speaker 2: savings evaporated because of inflation, or it's a young adult
Speaker 2: trying to buy a home for the first time and
Speaker 2: they can't afford it. Us. It's just a sad reality.
Speaker 2: And if Congress wants to fix it, it's within the
Speaker 2: power the first to start making sure that our our
Speaker 2: deskin stopped being that and we go back that you
Speaker 2: can pay for things by having a revenue.
Speaker 1: Well, this all sounds good, but it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: there are too many folks there in Washington, DC, besides
Speaker 1: yourself and maybe a handful of others who have the
Speaker 1: will to do this.
Speaker 2: I keep saying, I'm asked that question. But if you
Speaker 2: look at the vote last year, you'll have anywhere from
Speaker 2: eighty to one hundred and twenty people. When myself or
Speaker 2: other mostly members of the Freedom Cockers, we put a
Speaker 2: spending cut of amendments on the floor and the vote
Speaker 2: counted a two hundred and twenty Republicans, you'll see eighty
Speaker 2: to one hundred and twenty Republicans. That's the average. To
Speaker 2: keep in mind, there's four hundred and thirty five people
Speaker 2: that make up that body, so we have to have
Speaker 2: to eighteen many times. It takes that number. And when
Speaker 2: you can only get one hundred and twenty Republicans when
Speaker 2: there's two twenty total, you go bout one hundred Republicans
Speaker 2: that are refusing to face reality. You can only spend
Speaker 2: within coming in through revenue, and when you choose to
Speaker 2: go beyond that, then the hidden tax and inflation that
Speaker 2: we're experiencing is going to get every American.
Speaker 1: The remainder of Congress needs a cold dose of reality.
Speaker 2: Congressman, everybody's about, you know, fixing inflation. When push jumps
Speaker 2: to show it's a lot of talk for many and
Speaker 2: little actions for most.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's too bad. That that's really too bad.
Speaker 1: We need to hear something optimistic here. What can folks
Speaker 1: look forward to when we meet with you at the
Speaker 1: town hall. I know one thing's for sure. They get
Speaker 1: a chance to be heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Paul, we will, you know, open it up for questions,
Speaker 2: and hopeful people feel like that they're giving a direct response. Now,
Speaker 2: I am trying to shorten my answers, and the longer
Speaker 2: we go on these, a lot of times I'll cheat
Speaker 2: on the intro. I'll not spend a whole lot of
Speaker 2: time on you know, laying out of ten fifteen minute presentation.
Speaker 2: So when I'm asked a question that I look forward
Speaker 2: to weaving in what I want to talk about in
Speaker 2: the way that I respond, But hopefully people feel like
Speaker 2: they're going a true respond and that they're being represented.
Speaker 2: We might always agree, we may agree, but there probably
Speaker 2: we may not agree, but hopefully we do it in
Speaker 2: a civil manner and people can at least know that
Speaker 2: I'm utilizing what I've contend is history, facts, original intent
Speaker 2: to back up the positions that I'm a stouting.
Speaker 1: Now, you talked about how things are done and how
Speaker 1: folks behave at the town halls. The R word comes
Speaker 1: into play. It's called respect and it goes both ways.
Speaker 1: And I like the way that it's explained and handled.
Speaker 1: Tell us about that.
Speaker 2: I used to start off by describing that, you know,
Speaker 2: being married for years, you figure out that you're not
Speaker 2: always going to agree, right, I mean, anybody who's in
Speaker 2: a marriage knows that you're going to have disagreement. And
Speaker 2: the key to effective communication is being able to have
Speaker 2: a good conflict resolution. And that includes boundaries and guidelines
Speaker 2: and the way that you respond to one another. And
Speaker 2: so you know, I try to many times doubt all said, Look, uh,
Speaker 2: you can lost someone and disagree with them. You can
Speaker 2: be you know, spiritually one with them. Is the biblical
Speaker 2: model of marriage is supposed to be, but not always
Speaker 2: see out of eyes and and but that's healthy. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's that's uh, that's stand paper rudman against each other.
Speaker 2: So my attention to the town halls is is number
Speaker 2: one knows that I care about you. Know, if I
Speaker 2: care about your position, we may be a total uh
Speaker 2: different parts of the spectrum ideologically, but I want to
Speaker 2: value you as someone that was made in the image
Speaker 2: of God. And if you have an idea, let's talking
Speaker 2: through rationally that's reason together and if we can do
Speaker 2: it calmly and with mutual respect, and hopefully we can agree.
Speaker 2: But if we can't, we walk away going. You know what,
Speaker 2: at least I feel like they had a valid reason
Speaker 2: for the position they had.
Speaker 1: Very good, Very good. What a wait you when you
Speaker 1: returned back to the nation's capital. What what's on your
Speaker 1: docket there?
Speaker 2: We've got a proporatious process that we've completed about seven
Speaker 2: out of the twelve funding build. Last year, we set
Speaker 2: up a scenario to what we thought we're going to
Speaker 2: be a completion of that process, but it did not happen.
Speaker 2: The speaker issue came up and it derailed that, and
Speaker 2: then we've started the process again this year. So my
Speaker 2: hope is we come back we have the ability, the
Speaker 2: will power for the Republicans at least to get those
Speaker 2: civil corporation bills done. If we don't, I joined with
Speaker 2: a number of members of the House Freedom caucused and
Speaker 2: a letter to the Speaker. He's in the news as
Speaker 2: of the last couple of days talking about the concepts
Speaker 2: of not doing it omnibus. What we want to see
Speaker 2: us do is hunt the funding into January February. We
Speaker 2: hopefully have Republican president and Republican Senate, so that we're
Speaker 2: not having to negotiate with a liberal id very ultraliberal
Speaker 2: ideology that is producing no real conservative results. And so
Speaker 2: that's our hope. We send a letter saying we want
Speaker 2: to go into March with a continuing resolution, with the
Speaker 2: hope that we could get into March and Republican President,
Speaker 2: Republican Senate. And I know people hate the word continued resolution,
Speaker 2: but that is much better than an omnibus, a Christmas
Speaker 2: tree laden punk project. So HFC is adopting the position
Speaker 2: that let's do a cr gendion resolution, get us into March,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll have the ability to end the WheelPower
Speaker 2: to cut spending with Republican read administration