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Speaker 2: a great show. Thanks to Joe Checker for wanting up
Speaker 2: all the guests this morning, including my next ask. Replacing
Speaker 2: Congressman brad Winstrop. David Taylor, Representative Congressman Taylor, Welcome to
Speaker 2: the fifty five KRSY Morning Show. It's a real pleasure
Speaker 2: to have you on the program today. Oh, David, need
Speaker 2: to turn your microphone. He's not here all on zoom.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Joe Strecker and I are going back and forth.
Speaker 2: So good morning there. Yeah, there you go, coming in
Speaker 2: loud and clear. Now, David, it's great to have you
Speaker 2: on the morning show. Congratulation on the victory and of
Speaker 2: course representing Ohio District too. It's a sizeable district. Remind
Speaker 2: my listeners of your background, because you have a very
Speaker 2: impressive background that obviously qualifies you eminently for the job,
Speaker 2: because most notably you run your own small business, but
Speaker 2: also we're a former prosecutor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian, that's right. I started out as as an
Speaker 3: assistant prosecutor in Claremont County and did that for a
Speaker 3: number of years before taking over the family business in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety nine, which is starting your ready mix located
Speaker 3: in Brown County. Been in business in my family for
Speaker 3: fifty years now, and stayed involved with the Prosecutor's office
Speaker 3: over the years since then and helped out where I could. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's important to have more people with the
Speaker 3: business background in Washington, and I'm glad to say that
Speaker 3: in this incoming Congress, a lot of the new members
Speaker 3: don't have lifetime of political service. A lot of them
Speaker 3: are in businesses of different kinds, of widely varied backgrounds,
Speaker 3: which is you know, I think that's the goal.
Speaker 2: Well, and I think the important component is not just
Speaker 2: that you know how to run business, it's how life
Speaker 2: actually works, as opposed to how government works, which isn't
Speaker 2: responsible for generating any revenue and having to be accountable
Speaker 2: for the American dollar. You either earn your living and
Speaker 2: have a successful operation, or yeah, lose the business. And
Speaker 2: that's I mean. So I think that's an important sort
Speaker 2: of reality component that some people just sort of miss
Speaker 2: out on.
Speaker 3: Oh. Absolutely, the numbers have to work out in the
Speaker 3: private sector and all they have to do is print
Speaker 3: some more money here. Unfortunately, we're seeing how they've leaned
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: Well, let me just get your reaction to the just
Speaker 2: flurry of activity coming out of the Trump administration. I've
Speaker 2: been saying, Donald Trump hit the ground sprinting. We haven't
Speaker 2: seen this much activity. And I would argue all positive
Speaker 2: I did in my lifetime. I don't think I.
Speaker 3: Couldn't agree more that we all expected him to come
Speaker 3: out of the gate strong, but I think everybody's surprised
Speaker 3: by just how prepared the administration was to go forward
Speaker 3: and how uh, how quickly it's happened. And as you said,
Speaker 3: many many positive things happening here, and it was sort
Speaker 3: of as a as a new congressman, I feel like
Speaker 3: we need to we need to get busy catching up
Speaker 3: with him. You know, a lot of executive orders, doing
Speaker 3: a lot of good things, undoing a lot of previous
Speaker 3: policies from the outgoing administration. But if we don't go
Speaker 3: behind him and codify those things in the law, then
Speaker 3: you know, the next time we have a Democrat in
Speaker 3: the White House, those things will will just be another
Speaker 3: flurry of executive orders and I don't think that's how
Speaker 3: the United States is supposed to be governed. Now.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of the so called imperial presidency,
Speaker 2: but we've been stuck in a quagmire for so long.
Speaker 2: Congress hasn't been able to get anything done. If Republicans
Speaker 2: says yes, Democrats say no, it doesn't matter what the
Speaker 2: idea is. It's just that there's this obstructionism that goes
Speaker 2: on based upon party affiliation. But since you mentioned it,
Speaker 2: and one of the obviously executive orders that bore some
Speaker 2: great fruit on behalf of the American people, regardless of
Speaker 2: the political strike, is cracking down on the border. I mean,
Speaker 2: one of the reasons Donald Trump won and by a
Speaker 2: large margin, including the popular vote, is because this border
Speaker 2: security thing was just insane. Biden welcome people and in
Speaker 2: fact encourage people from the four corners of the globe
Speaker 2: to come to the United States, overwhelming even the most
Speaker 2: blue Democratic cities to the point where the citizen there
Speaker 2: was screaming at the top of their lungs to make
Speaker 2: it stop. But border crossings down ninety percent. I read
Speaker 2: that this morning. But it's something that the next administration,
Speaker 2: if God forbid, we elect the Democrat president could immediately undo.
Speaker 2: So what is your codify into law solution? Do you
Speaker 2: have one? Are you working on legislation to put something
Speaker 2: into law?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one we've started with. I'm encouraging, you know,
Speaker 3: my other fellow congressmanated to do the same. I've started
Speaker 3: with trying to our first bill to codify the Resident's
Speaker 3: executive order to remove ten federal regulations for everyone. That's added.
Speaker 3: Very lucky to have Rick Scott heading that or leading
Speaker 3: that in the Senate. No one disagrees that we've a
Speaker 3: bloated federal regulatory structure. In fact, a member of my
Speaker 3: staff spoke to Congressional Research Service last year just tried
Speaker 3: to get an idea of under when he's working for
Speaker 3: someone else out here, just to try to get an
Speaker 3: idea of how many federal regulations there were. And we're
Speaker 3: basically told that's not even knowable, just so many we
Speaker 3: could not possibly give you account. So obviously it's not
Speaker 3: a law that would need to be an effect forever,
Speaker 3: but probably need to be an effect for a number
Speaker 3: of years to sort of puld the unwieldy and you often,
Speaker 3: you know, very negative federal regulations.
Speaker 2: Well, if anybody's seen the Code of Federal Regulations. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's volumes of books. I mean, it's just it's a
Speaker 2: sight to behold when you look at it, and then
Speaker 2: when you start reading it. I mean, it's the kind
Speaker 2: of thing that makes your eyes gloss over because it's
Speaker 2: just so complex, and one regulation will reference another one
Speaker 2: and sort of order to understand it, you got to
Speaker 2: go to the other regulation. It's just mind boggling.
Speaker 3: Right where I'll tucking to one of my fellow freshman
Speaker 3: class members and I said, it takes a long time
Speaker 3: to walk past it, much less read it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know that's when we hear about these
Speaker 2: omnibus bills being passed, and I wish it would be
Speaker 2: back to the regular order of business with twelve annual
Speaker 2: Appropriations bill, which is part of the job description. But
Speaker 2: you get an omnibus bill. It's twelve hundred and fifteen
Speaker 2: hundred pages long, and it is it's you can't understand
Speaker 2: it because it mentions changes to regulations which aren't fully
Speaker 2: spelled out in the omnibus, which means you got to
Speaker 2: go back to the Coda fegga regulations and have that
Speaker 2: handy to understand what's sitting in front of you, But
Speaker 2: ultimately it's only out there for like three days. So
Speaker 2: even if you could read it cover to cover and
Speaker 2: understand it, which you literally cannot, no one does.
Speaker 3: No exactly right. And I want, I want to assure
Speaker 3: you that we're working hard to make sure we do
Speaker 3: the appropriations bills and operate under a budget this year.
Speaker 3: Obviously the March fourteenth deadline is coming up, but our
Speaker 3: goal is to be operating under a budget as as
Speaker 3: was intended this fiscal year.
Speaker 2: Which committees are you on, if I may ask, Congressman.
Speaker 3: Absolutely was very lucky in that regard. The two committees
Speaker 3: I thought were most helpful for the folks in my
Speaker 3: district or Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure, and I was
Speaker 3: fortunate enough to be chosen for both of those. We
Speaker 3: targeted agriculture because there are eleven thousand family farms in
Speaker 3: the district and not only and they're struggling under the
Speaker 3: lack of a farm bill that's been kicked down the
Speaker 3: road two years running now, and I do believe we're
Speaker 3: going to get that across the finish line this year.
Speaker 3: I think we're in a good spot starting out, but
Speaker 3: also that Agriculture Committee has some jurisdiction over the rural
Speaker 3: connectivity issue, and that's a huge problem in the second district.
Speaker 3: Large swaths of the district aren't not meaningfully connected to
Speaker 3: the Internet, which means they're not meaningfully connected to the
Speaker 3: modern economy. So that was sort of my first priority
Speaker 3: in the district was that if you get that domino
Speaker 3: to fall, I think you start tipping over a lot more.
Speaker 3: Because it's an all Appalachian district. Now they have every
Speaker 3: need in a very acute way that you can imagine. Yes,
Speaker 3: but I think that gives them accessibility to a lot
Speaker 3: of those issues.
Speaker 2: Well, I do I come from sort of related to
Speaker 2: farm stock. I mean my grandparents, great grandparents, and my
Speaker 2: great uncles were farmers in the Tennessee area. My wife
Speaker 2: grew up on a dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 2: I understand the hardships associated with being a dairy farmer,
Speaker 2: most notably a small dairy farmer. That is a tough life.
Speaker 2: And since you're involved with the with the agriculture area
Speaker 2: and sector and on that committee, to walk into dangerous
Speaker 2: waters here, but I am no fan of burning up
Speaker 2: corn in my gas tank and I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any need for it. It's all predicated on climate change
Speaker 2: or something, and I don't know if I understand how
Speaker 2: or why it is a good thing to burn up
Speaker 2: food in cars, and yet we pay subsidies and encourage
Speaker 2: farmers to do exactly that because of the ethanol mandates.
Speaker 2: Where are you on that topic? And you feel free
Speaker 2: to disagree with me or explain why I'm wrong now, Brian.
Speaker 3: I'm learning about that. I've heard from both sides in
Speaker 3: a little bit of time i've been here. I know
Speaker 3: they're talking about sustainable aviation fuels and you're trying to
Speaker 3: see ways that it can be positively used. But I've
Speaker 3: got a lot more to learn about that. But I
Speaker 3: am in the process of trying to get my arms
Speaker 3: around that issue. I know it's a hot button topic
Speaker 3: between farmers, and you know people are against it, so
Speaker 3: the farmers mostly are for it. So yeah, it's something
Speaker 3: I'm digging into, but not something I've got a position
Speaker 3: on yet. All right, Well, I appreciate that, and you're
Speaker 3: honesty in that regard. But I think of the corollary
Speaker 3: to that is the problem we had with corn syrup,
Speaker 3: and I think RFK Junior. If he does end up
Speaker 3: getting his position confirmed, is going to shine a whole
Speaker 3: lot of light on that most notable problem in our diets.
Speaker 2: Let's pause. We're going to continue with Congressman Dave Taylor
Speaker 2: taking over for Congressman brad Winstrup, and he's hitting the
Speaker 2: ground running. It's like everybody else in the Trump administration.
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Speaker 2: The talk station AY nineteen here fifty five KRCD talk
Speaker 2: station Proirly represented District two here in Ohio. Congressman David
Speaker 2: Taylor on the phone day, finishing, pivoting over to some
Speaker 2: of the legislation you're sponsoring and dealing with the border again,
Speaker 2: if I maybe go back to that just for a moment,
Speaker 2: remain in Mexico Act and finish the Wall Act. Those
Speaker 2: are two things that obviously, if they were signed into law,
Speaker 2: would have a level of permanence that executive orders.
Speaker 3: Do not, right, And I think that's going to be
Speaker 3: the goal of this Congress to sort of following the
Speaker 3: wake of these executive orders and try to get them
Speaker 3: codified into law and so that they're longer lasting. And
Speaker 3: the good part here is, as you mentioned earlier, that
Speaker 3: we're seeing the positive effect of these executive orders in
Speaker 3: short order, So you know that will make those bills
Speaker 3: easier to pass. So I think you know, as much
Speaker 3: as you and I don't love the executive order, they
Speaker 3: are going to be helpful in actually legislating in this case.
Speaker 2: I mean that's a positive well, and the other positive
Speaker 2: is moving away to things that don't have a permanence.
Speaker 2: But Elon Musk and I keep reading all these angry
Speaker 2: leftist posts. He's a non elected official out of them,
Speaker 2: but he's not doing anything but identifying the fraud, waste,
Speaker 2: and abuse in government so that folks like you, Congressman
Speaker 2: Taylor can hopefully do something about it. He's been very
Speaker 2: effective in that regard lately.
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more. You know, what we've seen from
Speaker 3: from the Democrats since Dog especially was looking at us AIDS,
Speaker 3: they seem to think that people are more worried about
Speaker 3: how we found out the us AID funds leftist propaganda
Speaker 3: international terror than they are that us AID funds the
Speaker 3: leftist propaganda in international terror. I know, I think that
Speaker 3: the public at large is a little more worried that
Speaker 3: it's happening then how it finds out. And honestly, there's
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with the president appointing someone to look at
Speaker 3: what's going on within his bureaucracies. And this, you know,
Speaker 3: the us AID was was enacted by executive order by
Speaker 3: John F. Kennedy so if the President wants to look
Speaker 3: at it again, more than within his rights to do so.
Speaker 2: Well, And I'm quick to point out I don't recall
Speaker 2: anyone electing doctor Fauci when he was running the ship
Speaker 2: out there, and that terms of our medical care and
Speaker 2: and and covid is, among other things, and funding gain
Speaker 2: of function research at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan
Speaker 2: absolutely true.
Speaker 3: And the idea that to be involved in the processes
Speaker 3: of government you have to be elected, well, we'd be
Speaker 3: down to under six hundred people out here. Maybe that
Speaker 3: would be a good thing, but.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're on is something on that?
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: The other thing is I'm always been an advocate for
Speaker 2: some measure of school choice. Obviously, I don't think anyone
Speaker 2: can argue that our public schools seem to be failing
Speaker 2: our children. And this is not intended to be an
Speaker 2: indictment on teachers themselves. They've got a tough job. But
Speaker 2: the scores are going down, the children are no longer
Speaker 2: thinking along the lines of critical thinking. We're failing and
Speaker 2: reading and mathematics. I see that you're behind getting rid
Speaker 2: of the Department of Education. Do you think that will
Speaker 2: have some sort of effect on allowing students and families
Speaker 2: to make greater choices in their education.
Speaker 3: I think that's just one of many benefits that would
Speaker 3: that would flow from the elimination of the of the
Speaker 3: Department of Education. You know, the terrible policies that are
Speaker 3: top down pushed from on the federal level to schools
Speaker 3: in our states are are uniformly ineffective to harmful. They
Speaker 3: sort of arrange in that uh, that near range. So
Speaker 3: not only do the local state and local schools have
Speaker 3: more resources, but they would be able to have, as
Speaker 3: you said, more opportunities for school choice. I have it
Speaker 3: does a great job with the voucher system, but it
Speaker 3: can be a lot better, Like with more resources in
Speaker 3: the state. My district which has fewer h you know,
Speaker 3: school choice options, would be able to have more school
Speaker 3: choice options. So yeah, I know Congressman Matthew has proposed
Speaker 3: this before, and God love him for it, and I've
Speaker 3: always been for it, But this time around, it it
Speaker 3: looks like it's got some traction from the White House
Speaker 3: as well. So now now seems like the time.
Speaker 2: It does seem like the time and Ford part company.
Speaker 2: I've just got to ask you, Congressman Taylor about the
Speaker 2: amendment of proposing the a membent of the Constitution the
Speaker 2: limit the numbers of the terms of members of Congress.
Speaker 2: I would think that you, probably even within the Republican Party,
Speaker 2: might have some opposition to that because well, that would
Speaker 2: eliminate their their their their their jobs.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, there's what's right, there's what's right. I
Speaker 3: think that you know, we need to address the situation
Speaker 3: of term limits. I'm for term limits absolutely. Uh CO
Speaker 3: sign the bill to that effect and maybe the sorry
Speaker 3: the amendment, But you're right, it's hard to get people
Speaker 3: to vote against their own job. But in the language
Speaker 3: in the in the in the bill is such that
Speaker 3: you sort of exempt the people that are already here,
Speaker 3: so you get a little bit that self interest out
Speaker 3: of it. And it's it's an unfortunate carve out, but
Speaker 3: it's one that it's sort of necessary to give it
Speaker 3: a chance to pass to improve the situation in the
Speaker 3: long run. But yeah, I don't think you're supposed to
Speaker 3: make a career out of this. I think the founder's
Speaker 3: envisioned people having a life before and after politics, and
Speaker 3: you'll go out and have a life and bring some
Speaker 3: value life experience to Washington and then leave and make.
Speaker 2: Room for someone else and get back to running the
Speaker 2: Sardinia Ready Mix exactly. I hope they are okay without
Speaker 2: you for a while day getting stuck in the swamp,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure you got some great people there were
Speaker 2: running the show for you. Congressman David Tail, you always
Speaker 2: have a welcome spot here in the fifty five KRC
Speaker 2: Morning Show to talk about the issues legislation, the problems
Speaker 2: you're facing, keeping in touch with your constituents. Got a
Speaker 2: lot of folks from district too, and we always enjoyed
Speaker 2: having Congressman Winstup on the program. So I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to more conversations with you, sir. It's been a real
Speaker 2: pleasure today.
Speaker 3: Thank you very guys. Have a great day, you do.
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