0:15

You were one of the holdouts last

0:17

week, and it looks like since

0:19

Speaker McCarthy has become Speaker

0:21

McCarthy, The pace has been extraordinary.

0:23

Swanwall off committees, Elon

0:25

Omar off committee, Adam Schiff off

0:27

committee, anti CCP committee,

0:29

the Church Committee, Are you guys able to keep

0:32

up this pace? Yeah. We

0:34

are because that's just the investigative stuff and

0:36

there's gonna be more to come, but we haven't even

0:38

gotten into border policy and Energy

0:40

policy, Financial Services policy, Capital

0:43

Markets, what we're going to have to start thinking

0:45

through about tax policy is the tax as

0:47

the Trump tax cuts gonna expire in

0:49

a couple of years. There's a lot of work to

0:51

be done. The country has been neglected for far

0:53

too long. In house Republicans, we're committed

0:56

to that work. Yeah. And so

0:58

what obviously not having the senate

1:00

is a barrier in some sense, but

1:02

walk our audience through some of the rule changes

1:05

that you were able to broker last week?

1:07

Well, a couple of things. Everybody's

1:09

been talking about the motions of vacate. That's

1:11

one. I think it's important for people to understand

1:14

that for more than a hundred years,

1:17

any member of the House of Representatives could

1:19

have went to the floor and called for a

1:21

motion to vacate the chair. Any one member,

1:23

Republican or crap. Didn't matter.

1:25

Nancy Pelosi is the one who changed the rules.

1:28

She's the one that said, no, I don't want this rule

1:30

when she wants speaker. And so we were saying,

1:32

well, look, we shouldn't be following Nancy's rules.

1:34

Let's get back to the rules of the people's

1:36

body. That's what we did. That's one. Second

1:39

one is on germanious and single subjects.

1:41

Put it in there and it's actually very clear language

1:44

that was refined and and beefed up

1:46

to make sure that

1:48

what we're doing here is a bill that's if it's

1:50

a bill is about spending in the defense

1:52

department is about spending in the defense

1:54

department. If it's about a post office, it's

1:56

about a post office. What what

1:58

happens too often, the the omnibus package

2:01

is indicative. That was a coin bill.

2:03

The senate basically opened up a coin

2:05

bill and dumped in one point seven

2:07

trillion dollars in spending. That is not gonna

2:09

be allowed in the House of Representatives. And

2:11

it could pass whatever they want, but they've been

2:13

put on notice. If you do that mess and you send

2:15

it here, it's gonna be out of order. That's

2:17

number two. Number three, the weaponization of

2:20

the federal government church committee

2:22

that was announced. Part of the negotiations

2:25

was making sure that that

2:27

that church committee could have

2:29

all of the teeth necessary to be

2:31

effective. We don't wanna get into the

2:33

business of just doing dog and pony shows.

2:35

If we're gonna do something, we want it to be

2:37

effective. So that was that was part of the

2:39

process there. Then the other piece

2:41

was just making sure that every part of the

2:43

conference was reflected in terms

2:46

of their their their political viewpoints

2:48

on all committees. That way,

2:50

whether you're talking about budget,

2:52

you're talking about energy and commerce,

2:55

appropriations and so on and

2:57

so forth that there are there are people who are

2:59

more moderate in air leaning and more conservative

3:02

in air leanings at the table going

3:04

through this policy that affects the American

3:06

people. Howard Bauchner: Yeah, and so what

3:08

committees are you personally going

3:10

to be on? Do you know that yet or is that still being

3:12

decided? So actually yesterday,

3:15

I was appointed to the Financial Services

3:17

Committee. On a personal

3:19

note, financial services is actually how I got

3:21

in politics. That's going back to two thousand

3:23

and eight. I remember watching that committee

3:25

when they were going over Dodd Frank and all

3:27

that stuff. And I just thought that they had

3:29

no idea what they were doing. Still

3:31

don't think they had any idea that they didn't know

3:33

what they were doing. But it's

3:35

what got me it's, you know, it's got me sit in politics.

3:37

So, you know, you know, we've, like, now come

3:39

full circle, I guess. So I'm gonna be serving on that

3:41

committee. And then there's still a potential

3:43

I'll serve on oversight in in this congress

3:45

well. You are a finance professional. Joy

3:47

Reed is not. First, I wanna compliment

3:50

you for going on Joy Reed. You significantly

3:52

boosted her show, which is miserable

3:56

to watch. I think that it's torture,

3:58

but good for you for doing that. Let's play

4:00

cut seventy because Joy Reed

4:03

Let's just let the tape speak for itself.

4:05

Click on seventy. Do you know that Social

4:07

Security is going to be insolvent in twenty

4:09

seventeen? That's actually

4:11

not No. It's Not sure. It's

4:14

actually not true. actually not true.

4:16

It's actually not true. Financial community.

4:18

That's actually not true. That's actually not true. You'll go

4:20

insane. That's actually not. Those are the facts. That's

4:22

not true. Should we not that as not true? Congressman,

4:24

you're right, elaborate. Mhmm.

4:27

Well, first of all, they're listening to the clip. I

4:29

didn't realize that they boomed they boomed or

4:31

Mike over mine. Of course. So it was effectively

4:33

cutting me off, but that's another point. I'll listen.

4:36

The Congressional Budget Office, the Office

4:38

of Management and Budget, The congressional

4:40

research service have all said that Social

4:42

Security is gonna go and solve it in two thousand and

4:44

thirty five or maybe sooner.

4:46

One of the things that has impacted Social

4:48

Security in a negative way is

4:50

the fact that during the COVID lockdowns,

4:53

there is more payroll taxes going into

4:55

the system. In order to pay Social Security

4:57

benefits. So we are going to have

4:59

to take a look at that at some point in the future,

5:01

and we can do that in a responsible way, but

5:03

make no mistakes. It's going

5:05

to be in solvent. My view is

5:07

is that we need to sit down and

5:09

start to have plans about how to

5:11

address it. Where you are taking

5:13

care of the current retirees who

5:15

will be able to get their their payments

5:17

that they were promised and will continue to

5:19

be able to deliver that while at the

5:21

same time making the necessary adjustments

5:24

for future Americans so that if they

5:26

still wanna take advantage of Social Security in

5:28

the future, then it's there for them as

5:30

well. That's what we're talking about. But to

5:32

put your head in the sand and say it's not

5:34

insolvent. It's not going insolvent. Then you're

5:36

lying to yourself and you're lying to the American

5:38

people. Oh, truth is not left wing value. And

5:40

Joey Reid is a dumb person. I I hate to be

5:42

that blunt. She's just not very smart.

5:44

You continue talking to Joey Reid cut sixty

5:47

nine about the woke military policies

5:49

play cut 691 of the reasons

5:51

that we have to get into some walled policies

5:53

at the Department of Defense is because recruitment

5:55

is down at the Department of Defense. If

5:58

our military is not prepared to deal

6:00

with battles in the future because

6:02

recruitment is down, shouldn't we go on

6:04

and investigate? And it should be a

6:06

it should be no question at all to investigate

6:08

it. Your thoughts Byron Look, I totally agree. It

6:10

makes no sense at all. We already know about the

6:12

diversity equity and inclusion

6:14

programs in every branch of the military.

6:17

Members of our armed services have

6:19

been talking about this. There was one gentleman

6:21

in particular lost his commission

6:23

because he wrote a book over it. We have to

6:25

dig into this. And last but not least, recruitment

6:27

is down. Our military has one

6:29

job, and let's just be very blunt. It is

6:31

to defend the whole land, fight

6:33

wars, and if worse comes to worse,

6:36

yes, kill the enemy. That is the job

6:38

of the military. It is not a social

6:40

experiment and what is happening over

6:42

there is to the detriment of the United

6:44

States.

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