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tennessee senator bill hegarty right now
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senator um
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somehow moderates got together with
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progressives and enough of them along
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with 13 republicans voted yes on the
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infrastructure only package to make it
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happen
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how do you feel as a republican about
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those 13 who voted for this
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well neil you recall that i fought this
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very hard in the senate um it was very
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surprising to me to see 13 republicans
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basically bail nancy pelosi out she did
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not have the votes within her own party
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to do this we had 13 republicans that
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decided to step up and help her in this
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way i think what they did was put
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themselves on a path to early retirement
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so in the senate where you had 19
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republican senators doing just that you
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feel the same way
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well the situation i think should be
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evaluated in the light of what happened
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in virginia
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what we saw earlier this week was the
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american public certainly manifested
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itself in virginia
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spoke out they repudiated these policies
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that we're seeing coming from the
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democrat party and what's happened here
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is exactly what i predicted would happen
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neil back in august i said this when i
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refused to allow this process to
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expedite when i refused to allow this
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1.2 trillion dollar bill to be expedited
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through the senate i said this would
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become the hostage that nancy pelosi
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would use to open the door for this
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massive big government spending program
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that they've now teed up for for later
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in november that's exactly what happened
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nancy pelosi held this bill for three
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months
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the bill was the hostage they signed it
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exactly as it was sent over from the
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senate they sat on it for three months
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until she could get the votes she needed
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last night to lay the procedural
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framework to go ahead and move forward
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on this massive big government spending
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bill
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um you mentioned the republicans who
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voted for this senator and you know
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donald trump has been a little more
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blunt about even the republican senators
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who supported the infrastructure only
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measure
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back in august and and saying we should
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remember their names i'm paraphrasing
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here but should they be punished if
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you're a republican and you voted for
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this do you think you should be punished
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i think the concern that everybody
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should have right now
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is looking at what this has laid the
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groundwork for
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this 1.2 trillion dollar package was
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used by nancy pelosi to force her party
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together to force together the votes
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to lay the groundwork to pass this
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massive you know
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3.56 trillion you come up with a number
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neal they're still working on it and i
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can guarantee the cbo is going to come
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up with a disappointing outcome
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but they passed the 1.2 out of the
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senate with a half sorry with a quarter
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of a trillion dollars of a shortfall
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when they said earlier that it would all
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be paid for it was not
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i don't expect that to be the case with
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this massive build back better plan that
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really is a big government socialism
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package and the american public will not
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want this
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i'm thinking the the consequences are
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going to be pretty severe for those who
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have enabled this and particularly these
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13 house members after looking at what
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happened in virginia just earlier this
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week
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it really does puzzle me
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senator near the end of his remarks the
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president was referring to the supply
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chain shortage as really um a covet
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issue uh because you know there were
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limitations at staff that factories
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around the world said i've heard this
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argument before
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uh that is what created it um
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what did you make of that
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well that may may be part of the problem
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neil but another part is look what
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happens when you stop paying people not
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to work
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we've actually seen you know our
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employment numbers come back uh that has
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a lot to do with the fact that we've
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stopped subsidizing unemployment but
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we've also got a lot of other things
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happening and i think that one of the
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worst things that's going to happen in
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terms of supply chain chain dislocation
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is this vaccine mandate
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the company after company that i talk
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with in my home state of tennessee are
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telling me they're going to lose workers
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this is going to exacerbate the problem
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i even put together an op-ed this week
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the mandate that stole christmas but
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this is going to be a very big concern
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as we look at further worsening of the
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supply chain and then when you look at
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what they've done to our energy
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independence by killing the keystone xl
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pipeline by by basically unleashing war
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on fossil fuels and again that's what
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this massive big government spending
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program is going to do it's going to
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destroy the fossil fuel industry this is
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the big green deal and under another
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name as they embark on this they're
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going to make transportation costs
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higher they're going to increase the
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cost of transporting everything through
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the supply chain they're going to make
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it more difficult to get workers we've
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got trucker shortages all of this is
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part and parcel to bad policy
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well watch it very closely uh senator uh
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thank you very very much very good
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seeing you bill
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you
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