Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We
Speaker 1: have a US representative, Josh Burkeen on the line. First
Speaker 1: of all, Josh, tell us the latest on the spending bill.
Speaker 1: What's going on there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom, They've decided to move forward with a continuing resolution.
Speaker 2: Absolutely changes the policy you're spending. I will be a no.
Speaker 2: It ultimately is going to be a bipartisan measure and
Speaker 2: that will result in, you know, continuation of spending. That
Speaker 2: is a gas to me, and much less, not much less.
Speaker 2: The policies also.
Speaker 1: Well, I understand that the House version had something that
Speaker 1: just basically underscored the law of the land, that says
Speaker 1: there will be no people who are not US citizens
Speaker 1: voting in this election. Now, what could have caused such
Speaker 1: an oproar over in the Senate that would make mister
Speaker 1: Schumer not even called the call a vote?
Speaker 2: Well, yes, and of course it didn't make it that far.
Speaker 2: Last week, I was supporters of that play to add
Speaker 2: to say that which would scrub the voter rolls to
Speaker 2: make sure that as Heritage points out, Heritage says that
Speaker 2: if you look at the last two decades, there's at
Speaker 2: least twenty thousand as many as twenty thousand March twenty
Speaker 2: ten and twenty thousand in the state of Pennsylvania alone
Speaker 2: to have cast a ballot illegally cast a ballot. So
Speaker 2: people claim, well, you know this is already gets law.
Speaker 2: Well it's still happening. That's the point. And so for
Speaker 2: those that would say that this is redundant it's not necessary. Okay,
Speaker 2: if that's your worst objections, that's redundant, vote for it.
Speaker 2: But that's not the reality because that small objection of
Speaker 2: redundancy is not just going to keep them from supporting that.
Speaker 1: Okay, I guess I see that. But it sure would
Speaker 1: be nice to go on record for most of the
Speaker 1: every lawmaker to say that I believe in the constitution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the reality is you've got to you know,
Speaker 2: full all the Democrats who you know in the House
Speaker 2: would not support it. I think there are two Democrats
Speaker 2: that supported it down the House, but they they don't
Speaker 2: believe that fully believe that we need to be scrubbing
Speaker 2: the voted roles. You know, it's look, only only God
Speaker 2: knows their motives. But I don't know what else you
Speaker 2: can derive from that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, I'm president now has had two separate attempts
Speaker 1: on his life outrageous. And the more it seems that
Speaker 1: we find in these stories that are being released both instances,
Speaker 1: these people should have been caught before they even got
Speaker 1: that close to the president. It would appear really.
Speaker 2: Sad that that we're having to you know, Monday morning
Speaker 2: quarterbacks to Secret Service because they are inability to you know,
Speaker 2: see that when you've got the front runner. The Majority
Speaker 2: is already pushing that direction months ago that Trump was
Speaker 2: going to be in this position, he should have had
Speaker 2: presidential level protection. He's a former president. Is a is
Speaker 2: another element of this. So it's it's you know, come
Speaker 2: lately that the administration has finally decided to implement that
Speaker 2: we as a few days ago, did it legislatively and
Speaker 2: sent it to the Senate, saying that you have to
Speaker 2: have the same personnel and you have a major party
Speaker 2: candidate as as if they were already in office. So
Speaker 2: you know that is that is relative to what happened
Speaker 2: is Florida, regarding that they didn't make have the personnel
Speaker 2: to do the sweep. Trudeos to the Secret Service agent
Speaker 2: who had the line of side on the barrel and
Speaker 2: took the shots. That was an execution of a good detail.
Speaker 2: What it was not an execution. Execution of the plan
Speaker 2: was making sure that he never had the opportunity to
Speaker 2: be there for twelve hours lining in wait for the
Speaker 2: President United States. When it comes to Butler, I mean
Speaker 2: you know, I went to Butler, I saw the layout.
Speaker 2: We heard enough testimony Homeland Security. He was a total
Speaker 2: total mess. When you have twenty minutes before the shots
Speaker 2: are fired, communication breakdown where they're reaching into the incident
Speaker 2: command center and this is the outer perimeter and saying
Speaker 2: to the Secret Service within the incident command center, hey,
Speaker 2: here's a picture of this guy. We think he could
Speaker 2: be a threat to this to the president. What do
Speaker 2: we do? And they said here's They then say text
Speaker 2: the number or text this photo to this numbers. Twenty
Speaker 2: minutes before this thing, before the shots were fired, they
Speaker 2: should there should have been somebody within the incident command
Speaker 2: center the moment the out of premitor delegated responsibility to
Speaker 2: pay attention to any threats, the moment that got to
Speaker 2: the end of the commands, and there should have been
Speaker 2: the authority to shut shut that uh stage appearance down
Speaker 2: and not allow them to go on stage, so that
Speaker 2: that whole process was abysmal. And you know, I filed
Speaker 2: legislation because we are already hearing that there was major
Speaker 2: errors made by the personnel that were on the advanced team.
Speaker 2: And my contention is there's some of that because of
Speaker 2: some of the DEI typed hiring. So we filed the
Speaker 2: build that says on merit only, you have to meet
Speaker 2: the same qualifiers. I don't care what gender you are,
Speaker 2: you have to meet the same qualifiers when it comes
Speaker 2: to being able to protect. You know, in this situation,
Speaker 2: the likely next president the United States.
Speaker 1: Boy, tell you, it's it's just crazy. This is this season,
Speaker 1: as they say, you know, where the election comes into
Speaker 1: play and some people get a little crazy. And this
Speaker 1: is where you have to rely on your government institutions
Speaker 1: like your Secret Service. They've got to be there. They've
Speaker 1: got to show up for the game. They've got to
Speaker 1: be game ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean, look, when you are trying to
Speaker 2: advance people because of anything outside of merit, outside of
Speaker 2: their ability to perform on the job. And you know,
Speaker 2: in this situation with Cheetles, she's trying to advance people
Speaker 2: because of gender. Look great, there's many women within the
Speaker 2: Secret Service that do a great job but then there's
Speaker 2: also women within the Secret Service that are saying this
Speaker 2: is ridiculous that they were not held to the same standard.
Speaker 2: This isn't coming from me. There's some national personalities on
Speaker 2: some more moderate many to show saying this, and we're
Speaker 2: saying this months ago. So common sense says, you hire
Speaker 2: based on the ability to do the job, not because
Speaker 2: you're trying to meet a certain metrics. You can you know,
Speaker 2: be pc. That's the statness of this culture where we're headed.
Speaker 2: Content of the character.
Speaker 1: Josh. We've touched on some hot wire issues, but there
Speaker 1: are other issues that play that to kind of bind
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Washington, d C. What are some of the
Speaker 1: things that you're working on in that realm.
Speaker 2: Well, we've you know, everybody I know gets tired of
Speaker 2: me talking about our spending trouble, So let me pivot.
Speaker 2: So he doesn't have been so kind to give me
Speaker 2: the opportunity to talk about that often. We've got to
Speaker 2: have growth too, Tom, And one of the things I'm
Speaker 2: interested in, you know, have excitement around, is the opportunity
Speaker 2: to unleash energy dominance in this country. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: to change, have to have a change administration before that's
Speaker 2: going to be allowed. You have in Oklahoma, we've lost
Speaker 2: the largest share of extraction related jobs and on the
Speaker 2: gas sector. And then with the Democrat administration, if we
Speaker 2: don't change the inflation we're duction acts, we're set to
Speaker 2: move from like twelve percent of our electric grid is
Speaker 2: based on wind and solar. Now, because of that bill
Speaker 2: they passed that Tamala Harris was a deciding to vote
Speaker 2: on a few years ago, we're moving by twenty fifty.
Speaker 2: Energy Information Administration says where sixty percent of our electric
Speaker 2: grid nationwide will be built upon unreliable wind and solar.
Speaker 2: So it's a mess that is about to hit us
Speaker 2: and it's going to be, you know, really bad for
Speaker 2: Oklahoma because of our high number of government jobs, of
Speaker 2: falsipulary jobs.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you'd like to pass a log
Speaker 1: to our listeners?
Speaker 2: Look, Tom, I'm meeting here shortly. There's a small group
Speaker 2: of us meeting with Katley Means and RSK. The the
Speaker 2: whole discussion around food and the poisoning of our young
Speaker 2: adults through high processed food that you know is long
Speaker 2: term having health costs for Medicaid and Medicare population. So
Speaker 2: I'm really excited about this conversation I'm about to get
Speaker 2: into or with RFK and CALLI means. I've got a
Speaker 2: bill that I'm may be aware of that I filed
Speaker 2: last year with Marco Rubio that says on the Supplemental
Speaker 2: Nutritional Assistance Program that we're going to stop allowing the
Speaker 2: expenditure of junk food to be a part of the
Speaker 2: food stamp program because we end up paying for that.
Speaker 2: And you know, if you're listening to some of the
Speaker 2: things that that Cali Means and RK have been talking about,
Speaker 2: fifty percent of our teenagers or obese, seventy five percent
Speaker 2: of our adult population. And I said, so much of
Speaker 2: this is driving these health outcomes. Not out of ten
Speaker 2: healthcare outcomes they keep talking about are related to our diet,
Speaker 2: of these of these you know, incidents that lead to death.
Speaker 2: And we have a population that has become so ingrained
Speaker 2: and a gut vera meant that is embedded with companies
Speaker 2: that are making a profit by selling into government systems
Speaker 2: that which is leading to higher health costs in this country.
Speaker 2: So I look forward to the Trump administration and RFK
Speaker 2: embedded somewhere to where we can can repeal some of
Speaker 2: this and the Healthy Snap Bill that we've introduced, I
Speaker 2: hope is one of.
Speaker 1: Those very good How can people reach you.
Speaker 2: B'urkeen at at Bourkeen dot house, dot G o V,
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