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joining us now with reaction is House
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Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana
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American Conservative Union Chairman
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match slap one of our favorites New York
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congressman Lee Zeldin and Fox News
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contributor Charlie hurt gentlemen thank
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you so much for joining you all of us
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with us tonight
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I want to start with you Whip Scalise I
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got to tell you this does give Nancy
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Pelosi more power when she tells members
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of Congress you don't even need to show
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up anymore you need now have proxy
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voting and we can just do this without
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you right yeah Jason you know the thing
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is it gives Nancy Pelosi power but
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imagine being a Democrat who goes back
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home in a swing district you just voted
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to give your voting card in Congress to
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Nancy Pelosi and she doesn't represent
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the values of a lot of those districts
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you know you now signed on for San
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Francisco values and by the way what are
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you doing that why you collecting a
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paycheck if you want Nancy Pelosi to be
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the one to vote for you and represent
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your district and you're representing a
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swing state somewhere else and so this
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is gonna be a tough vote for those
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people to explain it's unconstitutional
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first of all because a quorum under this
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just this resolution they just passed 20
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people on the floor 20 Democrats can
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constitute a quorum of the House of
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Representatives 435 people that goes
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against article 1 of the Constitution
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they don't seem to care about any of
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that they just want to consolidate power
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and spend money I mean a drunken sailor
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would be offended to be compared to them
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and what they did with this bill money
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to illegals taxpayer funding of abortion
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this is crazy but I got to ask you
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congressman are does that mean that
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you're gonna challenge this in court are
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you going to go to court and say hey and
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challenge the constitutionality of this
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well if they pass any bill using these
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new rules they haven't done it yet but
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they are now creating this opportunity
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to have 20 people on the floor to
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constitute a quorum and Nancy Pelosi
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literally be able to help hold the
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voting cards of so many of these people
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if they pass I just think it's gonna be
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an interesting lesson to be challenged
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it'll be challenged I that that'll be
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interesting because I believe that you
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would certainly have standing now
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congressman Zeldin this bill that is
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being voted on right now it's just on
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the verge of passing three trillion
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dollars
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this thing is larded up with all kinds
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of pork and other things how do you see
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this bill over 1,800 pages three
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trillion dollars this isn't a bill that
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was drafted through bipartisanship
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vetting debate compromise none of that
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it gives a stimulus checks to people who
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are legally in our country massive
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prison release legalizes throughout
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america ballot harvesting it outlaws
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voter ID it extends unemployment in a
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way that's going to keep people out of
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work for almost another year I'll add
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another one to that it provides more
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money to state local governments in the
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hundreds of billions beyond what our
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local governments are even asking for so
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speaker Pelosi chose this hyper partisan
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path to nowhere rather than pursuing the
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alternative which was working with
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President Trump working with
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congressional Republicans and trying to
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negotiate a compromise this is something
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to appease her left flank now this is
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one though that turns off most of
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America and she's going to end up with a
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bill that's dead on arrival in the
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Senate and not going anywhere it was a
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strategic failure on her part on
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multiple levels on the process and the
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substance this is a waste of everyone's
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time and it's certainly a waste of a
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whole lot of tax dollars especially with
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all those liberal fantasy items totally
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unrelated to coronavirus response I mean
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Matt if you spend a million dollars a
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day every day would take you almost
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three thousand years to get to one
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trillion and this bill is three trillion
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dollars that's $10,000 per person in the
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United States of America why not just
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give them $10,000 each thanks math
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thanks for doing the math for me Jason
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because it's staggering and we already
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did three trillion dollars so what I
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think Republicans are saying which is
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rational is let's let all of the money
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we've already spent like drunken sailors
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because the government shut down
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American businesses let's set that
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capitalized in the system and Jason this
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is the critical point which is more
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bridges and more stimulus is not what
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the American economy nor its people need
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they need to be legally allowed to go
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back to work they need to be able to
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open up their shops if you're a
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mom-and-pop you should be able to be
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open just like the big box
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retailers are able to be open we have
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this indiscriminate silly rules out
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there by mostly blue state governors and
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it needs to end no business can survive
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if it can't make a product nor transact
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with customers it's simply that clear
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now Charlie the Democrats have been
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trying to say oh we just need to work
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together we got to find something that's
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bipartisan but Nancy Pelosi didn't do
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any of that I mean they say one thing do
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something that's totally opposite how in
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the world did they go back to the
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American people and say hey we're the
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adults in the room we're the ones that
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will work together and get things done
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when they put this monstrosity in front
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of the Congress and then vote to say hey
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we don't even need to come back into
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session it's incredible this should be a
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real wake-up call because if anybody
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doubts what is at stake in this election
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coming up this is what's at stake this
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is what these people will do if they
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can't control of the if they hold
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control the house they get control of
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the Senate and Lord forbid they get
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control of the White House this is the
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kind of insanity that that you're going
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to be looking at and of course obviously
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the particulars are just astonishing
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the stops to illegal aliens all of that
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stuff is absolutely just absolutely
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reprehensible but but let's step back
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for a minute let's say how in the world
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does piling three trillion dollars in
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additional debt on hardworking Americans
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how does that help them recover from
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this from this pandemic and recover from
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shutting down the economy and and and we
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should look back you know Minh where we
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would be right now Jason if we hadn't
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already piled up 20 trillion dollars of
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debt on hard-working American taxpayers
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but that's all these people in this
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aisle do they want to pile more and more
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on there and and with it comes just a
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mountains of regulations that throttle
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American ingenuity and Industry so and
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work that that destroys Americans a
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congressman Scalise you're in leadership
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there Nancy Pelosi and what she's done
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is signaled also in the
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bill that the House of Representatives
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may not come back into session until
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July 21st I mean why do members of
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Congress even get paid if they don't
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have to go to work
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postal workers go to work truckers are
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gonna go to work health care workers are
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gonna work but Nancy Pelosi saying no
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need to show up anymore yeah can you
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imagine that even the United States
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Senate is going to work and there is no
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reason we were here today voting you
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know there were about twenty four
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members who couldn't make it in out of
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435 and so to suggest that it's
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complicated to get here is just fallacy
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so why she did this it's about a power
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grab it surely has nothing to do with
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health and safety because as you
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mentioned you know we've got our
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frontline workers back at home in our
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hospitals or grocery stores now in
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Louisiana today we just started opening
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up so you can go into a restaurant today
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at 25 percent capacity we could finally
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go back into places of worship and yet
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she's gonna say that she doesn't want
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Congress to be meeting in Washington
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debating bills she just would rather
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just take your proxy vote and hold on to
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it so that she can vote for you I'll
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tell you this and of course Jason you
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you would have never done this either
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Nancy Pelosi is not gonna get my vote
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she surely would not have gotten yours
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but for any of those folks that voted
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for this bill today how did they go back
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home and explain today they voted to
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allow Nancy Pelosi to vote for them so
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that they don't have to go to work
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anymore well then why don't they just
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resign their seat and send somebody up
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here who wants to come and fight for
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restoring the American dream up here in
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Washington thank you so much congressman
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Zeldin last word we've got 15 seconds if
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there's a member of House leadership of
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viewing the House of Representatives is
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non-essential that house leadership
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members should step aside if there's any
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member of the House who views themselves
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as non-essential they should step aside
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we should be here we shouldn't be AWOL
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we shouldn't be going home right now
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there's important work to do for the
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American people for our economy for
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businesses for the workers and now
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everyone's leaving and as you pointed
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out it might be for a long time until we
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come back unbelievable thank you
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gentlemen for joining us tonight we
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really do appreciate it
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