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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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<v Speaker 1>We have a Congressman Josh Urcken on the line here

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<v Speaker 1>with us today and Congressman Burkeen welcome home. Now you're

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<v Speaker 1>you're making the rounds, as they say, with your town halls.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a that's a lot in a short time, young man.

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<v Speaker 2>We uh yeah, we'll have four days. We're going to

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<v Speaker 2>be on the fourteenth Wednesday, will be in in your

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<v Speaker 2>next woods, will be in Bartlesville at noon at a

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<v Speaker 2>Kuwana's event. Then two o'clock we're going to be a

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<v Speaker 2>no Ona and then prior four. So that's just some information.

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<v Speaker 2>Hope people people get a chance to get people in

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<v Speaker 2>the area.

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<v Speaker 1>Now you've done this nearly one hundred times since taking office,

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<v Speaker 1>these town halls. That's that's almost unheard of in the

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<v Speaker 1>modern day.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so that's so that's the town hall so like

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<v Speaker 2>the Kawana Augiliy Club top event. So that's not counting

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<v Speaker 2>that number. But yeah, we've done well. It will be

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<v Speaker 2>over one hundred town halls within our first session of Congress.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, Congress is to year session, so we're averaging

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<v Speaker 2>about fifty a year. And uh, you know when you

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<v Speaker 2>got twenty eight county. That's a significant number of you know,

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<v Speaker 2>towns that you've got to get to.

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<v Speaker 1>So what are you ring at the town halls?

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<v Speaker 2>This open border policy, this administration. It's also inflation. People

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<v Speaker 2>really feeling the pain of the Congress and this administration

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<v Speaker 2>taking on steroids of the continual spin without recognizing the

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<v Speaker 2>reality that at some point you have to pay the

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<v Speaker 2>piper and and so the hidden tax and inflation, it's

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<v Speaker 2>robbing every every uh, you know, aged American that's you know,

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<v Speaker 2>in their twilight years and and and seeing their retirement

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<v Speaker 2>savings evaporated because of inflation, or it's a young adult

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<v Speaker 2>trying to buy a home for the first time and

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<v Speaker 2>they can't afford it. Us. It's just a sad reality.

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<v Speaker 2>And if Congress wants to fix it, it's within the

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<v Speaker 2>power the first to start making sure that our our

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<v Speaker 2>deskin stopped being that and we go back that you

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<v Speaker 2>can pay for things by having a revenue.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, this all sounds good, but it doesn't sound like

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<v Speaker 1>there are too many folks there in Washington, DC, besides

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<v Speaker 1>yourself and maybe a handful of others who have the

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<v Speaker 1>will to do this.

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<v Speaker 2>I keep saying, I'm asked that question. But if you

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<v Speaker 2>look at the vote last year, you'll have anywhere from

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<v Speaker 2>eighty to one hundred and twenty people. When myself or

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<v Speaker 2>other mostly members of the Freedom Cockers, we put a

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<v Speaker 2>spending cut of amendments on the floor and the vote

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<v Speaker 2>counted a two hundred and twenty Republicans, you'll see eighty

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<v Speaker 2>to one hundred and twenty Republicans. That's the average. To

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<v Speaker 2>keep in mind, there's four hundred and thirty five people

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<v Speaker 2>that make up that body, so we have to have

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<v Speaker 2>to eighteen many times. It takes that number. And when

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<v Speaker 2>you can only get one hundred and twenty Republicans when

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<v Speaker 2>there's two twenty total, you go bout one hundred Republicans

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<v Speaker 2>that are refusing to face reality. You can only spend

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<v Speaker 2>within coming in through revenue, and when you choose to

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<v Speaker 2>go beyond that, then the hidden tax and inflation that

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<v Speaker 2>we're experiencing is going to get every American.

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<v Speaker 1>The remainder of Congress needs a cold dose of reality.

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<v Speaker 2>Congressman, everybody's about, you know, fixing inflation. When push jumps

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<v Speaker 2>to show it's a lot of talk for many and

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<v Speaker 2>little actions for most.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, that's that's too bad. That that's really too bad.

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<v Speaker 1>We need to hear something optimistic here. What can folks

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<v Speaker 1>look forward to when we meet with you at the

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<v Speaker 1>town hall. I know one thing's for sure. They get

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<v Speaker 1>a chance to be heard.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Paul, we will, you know, open it up for questions,

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<v Speaker 2>and hopeful people feel like that they're giving a direct response. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I am trying to shorten my answers, and the longer

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<v Speaker 2>we go on these, a lot of times I'll cheat

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<v Speaker 2>on the intro. I'll not spend a whole lot of

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<v Speaker 2>time on you know, laying out of ten fifteen minute presentation.

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<v Speaker 2>So when I'm asked a question that I look forward

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<v Speaker 2>to weaving in what I want to talk about in

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<v Speaker 2>the way that I respond, But hopefully people feel like

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<v Speaker 2>they're going a true respond and that they're being represented.

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<v Speaker 2>We might always agree, we may agree, but there probably

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<v Speaker 2>we may not agree, but hopefully we do it in

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<v Speaker 2>a civil manner and people can at least know that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm utilizing what I've contend is history, facts, original intent

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<v Speaker 2>to back up the positions that I'm a stouting.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, you talked about how things are done and how

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<v Speaker 1>folks behave at the town halls. The R word comes

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<v Speaker 1>into play. It's called respect and it goes both ways.

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<v Speaker 1>And I like the way that it's explained and handled.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell us about that.

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<v Speaker 2>I used to start off by describing that, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>being married for years, you figure out that you're not

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<v Speaker 2>always going to agree, right, I mean, anybody who's in

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<v Speaker 2>a marriage knows that you're going to have disagreement. And

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<v Speaker 2>the key to effective communication is being able to have

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<v Speaker 2>a good conflict resolution. And that includes boundaries and guidelines

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<v Speaker 2>and the way that you respond to one another. And

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<v Speaker 2>so you know, I try to many times doubt all said, Look, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>you can lost someone and disagree with them. You can

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<v Speaker 2>be you know, spiritually one with them. Is the biblical

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<v Speaker 2>model of marriage is supposed to be, but not always

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<v Speaker 2>see out of eyes and and but that's healthy. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>that's that's uh, that's stand paper rudman against each other.

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<v Speaker 2>So my attention to the town halls is is number

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<v Speaker 2>one knows that I care about you. Know, if I

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<v Speaker 2>care about your position, we may be a total uh

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<v Speaker 2>different parts of the spectrum ideologically, but I want to

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<v Speaker 2>value you as someone that was made in the image

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<v Speaker 2>of God. And if you have an idea, let's talking

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<v Speaker 2>through rationally that's reason together and if we can do

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<v Speaker 2>it calmly and with mutual respect, and hopefully we can agree.

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<v Speaker 2>But if we can't, we walk away going. You know what,

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<v Speaker 2>at least I feel like they had a valid reason

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<v Speaker 2>for the position they had.

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<v Speaker 1>Very good, Very good. What a wait you when you

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<v Speaker 1>returned back to the nation's capital. What what's on your

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<v Speaker 1>docket there?

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<v Speaker 2>We've got a proporatious process that we've completed about seven

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<v Speaker 2>out of the twelve funding build. Last year, we set

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<v Speaker 2>up a scenario to what we thought we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>be a completion of that process, but it did not happen.

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<v Speaker 2>The speaker issue came up and it derailed that, and

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<v Speaker 2>then we've started the process again this year. So my

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<v Speaker 2>hope is we come back we have the ability, the

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<v Speaker 2>will power for the Republicans at least to get those

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<v Speaker 2>civil corporation bills done. If we don't, I joined with

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<v Speaker 2>a number of members of the House Freedom caucused and

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<v Speaker 2>a letter to the Speaker. He's in the news as

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<v Speaker 2>of the last couple of days talking about the concepts

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<v Speaker 2>of not doing it omnibus. What we want to see

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<v Speaker 2>us do is hunt the funding into January February. We

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<v Speaker 2>hopefully have Republican president and Republican Senate, so that we're

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<v Speaker 2>not having to negotiate with a liberal id very ultraliberal

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<v Speaker 2>ideology that is producing no real conservative results. And so

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<v Speaker 2>that's our hope. We send a letter saying we want

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<v Speaker 2>to go into March with a continuing resolution, with the

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<v Speaker 2>hope that we could get into March and Republican President,

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<v Speaker 2>Republican Senate. And I know people hate the word continued resolution,

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<v Speaker 2>but that is much better than an omnibus, a Christmas

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<v Speaker 2>tree laden punk project. So HFC is adopting the position

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<v Speaker 2>that let's do a cr gendion resolution, get us into March,

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<v Speaker 2>and hopefully we'll have the ability to end the WheelPower

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<v Speaker 2>to cut spending with Republican read administration