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>> As Wisconsin and the
nation geared toward

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midterm elections, what are
voters to make of what goes

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on in Washington and how it
affects them? Or are they

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tuning out because of the
daily crush of headlines?

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There's the ongoing war in
Iran, prices at the pump

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and in the spring planting
fields. There is the nearly

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$1.8 billion anti
weaponisation fund that the

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president could give to
people who stormed the

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Capitol on January 6th.
There is the significant

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narrowing of the Voting
Rights Act by conservatives

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on the U.S. Supreme Court.
And the list goes on and on.

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We regularly like to touch
base with our congressional

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delegation for their news
and views. Over the past

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couple of weeks, we've
invited Wisconsin

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Republicans to share their
viewpoints without success.

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Tonight, we turn to fourth
District Democratic

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore.
And thanks very much for

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being here.
>> Always great to be with

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you, Fredricka.
>> So of all the news that

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is swirling, what stands
out for you as you

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represent your constituents?
>> Well, the thing that is

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obviously standing out to
me is just the unending

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crush, economic crush that
people are facing.

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Combination of the tariff
tariffs, the war on Iran,

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the erratic, mercurial
functioning of this

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president, him freezing
funds for essential

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services like daycare and
childcare. These are things

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that are disrupting
everyday Wisconsinites

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lives. The crisis with
health care and the

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doubling sometimes of
people's health care

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premiums, or the loss of
their health care premiums.

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You know, just the
aggregation of all these

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things is placing a huge
economic crush on families.

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And so that's the thing
that sort of stands out to

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me as the background for
all of the very particular

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things that are happening.
>> As to the ruling related

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to the Voting Rights Act,
that a majority minority

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district was an
unconstitutional racial

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gerrymander, what does that
mean to minority

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representation?
>> It means an awful lot.

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You know, the the 13th,
14th, 15th amendment, the

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14th amendment of the
Constitution in particular,

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really guaranteed African
Americans equality. And we

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we have seen throughout
history, this is not new

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people. We have 'seen
throughout history sort of

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lost cause. You know,
Democrats and Republicans

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grieving over African
Americans having access to

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the ballot, access to power
and their willingness to

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sort of interfere with that
power by any means

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necessary. You know, the
rise of the Ku Klux Klan

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came as a result of African
Americans being

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enfranchised. And so this
is absolutely no this is a

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backlash for the power that
African Americans have

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achieved. And this could
have an impact on a minimum

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of 19 sort of voting,
voting rights districts in

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the country.
>> Turning to the war in

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Iran, the U.S. and Iran are
reportedly negotiating. Are

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members of Congress on both
sides tiring of this

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ongoing war and wanting a
say?

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>> Well, I'll tell you, we
have been putting up war

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powers resolutions,
repeatedly privileged

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resolutions, which, by the
way, the Republicans did

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not honor. Yesterday we had
yet another war Powers

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resolution ripen, and they
didn't put it before us

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because they in the House
did not have the votes to

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defeat it. We've seen more
and more and more

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Republicans join us in
putting forth this War

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Powers Resolution. To this
day, we don't have a

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concrete reason that we
went in there.

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>> On another matter in
your mind, should Congress

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have a say over the nearly
$1.8 billion fund that

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resulted out of a
settlement President Trump

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made with the IRS that
would pay people the

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administration believes
were unfairly prosecuted.

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>> It's all very ludicrous.
I bet Frederica you can't

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even believe that you're
asking this question. This

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$1.8 billion slush fund for
his cronies and his buddy

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and, you know, also a part
of that other part of that

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agreement is that Donald
Trump and his sons should

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never, ever, ever be
audited again. That is

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absolutely the pinnacle of
corruption. But as a member

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of the Ways and Means
Committee, we did we did

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offer in our markup
yesterday, which was on

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corruption of TANF, for
example, corruption. We did

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offer amendments to try to
get rid of this $1.8

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billion fund.
>> Are your voters

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overwhelmed by the crush of
everything that happens out

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of Washington on a daily
basis?

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>> You want to know
something that I'll say?

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The whole political
strategy of the Trump

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administration has been to
flood the zone, to just

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keep us running like a rat
on a treadmill so that we

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won't be able to respond to
their chaotic, mercurial

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governance strategy. We are
hoping to get back into

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power to really resolve
some major threats to our

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community of interest. That
is the ability for people

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to vote, the ability of
people to be able to go to

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a doctor, the ability of
people to be able to afford,

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you know, both the bacon
and the eggs and, and to be

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able to live a productive
life, to be able to put gas

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in their cars so they can
get to work. This is this

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is a this is the American
dream just to have normalcy.

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And so this is what we're
offering voters in the

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future. And that is we're
keeping our eye on the

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prize.
prize.