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All right, Friedrich, let's go.

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Let's try it.

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Let's rock and roll.

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And I know you have never let me

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down.

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Likewise.

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As Wisconsin and the nation gear

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toward midterm elections,

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what are voters to make of what goes

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on in Washington and how it affects

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them? Or are they tuning out

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because of the daily crush of

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headlines?

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There's the ongoing war in Iran,

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prices at the pump and in the spring

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planting fields.

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There is the nearly $1.8 billion

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anti-weaponization fund

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that the president could give to

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people who stormed the Capitol on

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January 6.

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There is the significant narrowing

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of the Voting Rights Act by

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conservatives on the U.S.

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Supreme Court and the list goes

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on and on.

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We regularly like to touch

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with our Washington delegation

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by way of meeting up with

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them for interviews, for their news

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and views.

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Over the past couple of weeks, we've

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invited Wisconsin Republicans to

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share their viewpoints without

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success.

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Tonight, we turn to 4th District

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Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore

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from Milwaukee.

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And thanks very much for being here.

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Always great to be with you,

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Virginia.

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So of all the news that is swirling,

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what stands out for you as you

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represent your constituents?

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Well, the thing that is obviously

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standing out to me is

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just the unending

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economic crush

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that people are facing.

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Combination of the

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tariffs,

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the war on Iran,

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the erratic, mercurial

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functioning of this

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president,

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him freezing funds

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for essential services.

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Uh, like daycare and

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child care.

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Uh, these are things that are

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disrupting, uh,

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every day, Wisconsin, nice lives,

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the crisis with healthcare, uh

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and the doubling sometimes

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of people's healthcare premiums or

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the loss of their healthcare

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premium, you know, just the

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aggregation of all these things is

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placing a huge economic,

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uh, crush on families.

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And so that's the thing that sort

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of stands out to me

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as the background

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for all of the very particular

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things that have happened.

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As to the ruling related to

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the Voting Rights Act that a

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majority minority district was an

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unconstitutional racial gerrymander,

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what does that mean to minority

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representation?

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It means an awful lot.

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You know, the 13th, 14th,

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15th Amendment, the 14th Amendment

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of the Constitution in particular

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really guaranteed African-Americans

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equality.

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And we have seen throughout history,

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this is not new people,

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we've seen throughout the history

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a sort of lost cause

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of, you know,

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Democrats and Republicans grieving

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over

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uh... African americans having

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access to the ballot access

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to power and their

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willingness to sort

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of interfere with that power and by

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any means necessary you know

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the rise of the kooklicks clan

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came as a result of africans being

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enfranchised uh...

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And so this is absolutely no this

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is a backlash uh...

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For the power that africana

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americans have achieved And

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this could have an impact.

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On a minimum of 19

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sort of voting voting rights

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districts in the country.

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Already, we see,

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for example, in Texas,

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the primary that's coming up

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this week between Al

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Green, my classmate, and

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a newcomer, Christian Menafee,

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where they're battling it out for

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one black seat where there

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were two.

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these.

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Storied Jim Clyburn

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from South Carolina,

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the only African American

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elected in South

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Carolina because of gerrymandering.

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take his seat away,

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take that seat away and

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so on.

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district in Memphis, Tennessee,

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that was ably represented

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by Stephen Cohen.

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67% African American

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district where they,

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African Americans elected Stephen

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Cohen, but now they

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have torn that district up and

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there's a, and the Memphis district

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now moves out past

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Memphis 300 miles away

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from the city

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center.

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So it will mean that

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African Americans will not have a

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choice and the ability

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to elect.

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Members of their choice,

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like in Memphis, for example, they

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chose to

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elect Stephen Cohen,

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a white man, time and a

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time again, but they

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will now lose the power

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to elect someone of

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their choose, and I suspect that

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Memphis may be lost as

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well.

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changes to Wisconsin voting maps

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as a result of this Supreme Court

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ruling, right?

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Not for this term at

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all.

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the reasoning under the Roberts

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courts, we could easily get

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two more seats out of Wisconsin.

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And then Wisconsin, you

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know, is 50-50.

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It's a purple state.

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Everybody knows that.

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Every single vote counts.

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We've had elections that

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Democrats and or Republicans

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have won by the hair of

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their chinny chin chin because

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this is a 50-50 state.

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So that does not explain

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why, up until

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they did a state redistricting

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last time, that we had only

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one third of our 99 member

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assembly be Democrats.

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That was clearly a result

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of partisan gerrymandering.

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principles to redistrict

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in Wisconsin, we could

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have had.

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Districts and maybe even more

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in Wisconsin, two more,

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excuse me, democratic districts,

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and maybe a 4-4

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distribution of members of

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Congress in Wisconsin.

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Turning to the war in Iran,

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the U.S. And Iran are reportedly

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negotiating.

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Are members of Congress on both

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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

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putting up War

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Powers Resolutions

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repeatedly,

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privileged resolutions,

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which by the way, the Republicans

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did not or yesterday,

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we had yet another War

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Powers resolution ripened and

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they didn't put it before us because

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they in the House did not

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have the votes to

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defeat it. We've seen more

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and more and more

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Uh, and

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putting forth this war powers

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resolution.

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a concrete reason that we went

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in there.

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We don't see any path

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toward a resolution

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or victory.

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And of course, the president

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campaigned on

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getting out of these forever wars.

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And you really can't blame

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constituencies and voters

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for being attracted to that concept.

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And this is one of the biggest

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disappointments of his presidency,

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that and of course, increasing

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prices through his tariffs

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and this war.

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On another matter, in your

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mind, should Congress have a say

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over the nearly $1.8 billion

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fund that resulted out of a

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settlement President Trump made

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with the IRS that would

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pay people the administration

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believes were unfairly

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prosecuted?

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It's all very ludicrous.

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I bet, Frederica, you can't even

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believe that you're asking this

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question.

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This $1.8 billion

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slush fund for

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his cronies and his buddy.

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It is separate from our

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judgment fund that the

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United States has for legitimate

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sort of

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overreaching of the federal

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government. This is a slush fun

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that is set to

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expire.

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When he leaves office in

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December of his

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final year of office.

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And of course, these January 6

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rioters, people who bludgeoned

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police officers.

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Police officers died one

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day after, I'm thinking of Brian

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Sicknick, who died

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and lost his life.

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The officers who died by suicide

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because of their apprehension about

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what happened on January 6.

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All of these people are lining up.

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To get their payout.

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And also,

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another part of that agreement is

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that Donald Trump and his sons

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should never, ever, ever be

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audited again.

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That is absolutely the

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pinnacle of corruption.

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person,

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Chang Pei Chao,

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who was

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convicted on

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SEC securities fraud,

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but bought $2 billion

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worth of

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Trump's,

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and Eric Trump's

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coinbase or

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cryptocurrency, and

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he was pardoned.

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And so, you know, so Congress

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doesn't have any oversight

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over who he pardons,

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but I mean, it is so obvious and

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so clear.

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That this is more than quid

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pro quo. I don't know what you would

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call it. But as a member of the Ways

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and Means Committee, we did offer,

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in our markup yesterday,

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which was on corruption of

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TANF, for example, corruption,

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we did author amendments

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to try to get rid of

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this $1.8 billion fund.

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Are your voters overwhelmed by the

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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

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I'll say.

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The whole political strategy

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of the Trump administration has

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been to flood the zone,

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to just keep us

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running like a rat on

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a treadmill so that we won't be

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able to respond to

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their chaotic, mercurial

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governance strategy

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to keep things going.

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But you know what?

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In the words of my former colleague,

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the late, great John Lewis,

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We're going to keep our eye on the

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prize.

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And the prize is

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that Democrats would

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resume power, and we would resume

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regular order.

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Who knew that the thing we

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would want more is just

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some normalcy?

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We are hoping to get back into power

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to really resolve some of the major

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threats to our

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community of interests.

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That is the ability for people

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to vote.

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The ability of people to be

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able to go to a doctor, the

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ability of the people to afford

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both the bacon and

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the eggs,

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and to be to live

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a productive life, to be

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be able put gas in their

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car so they can get to work.

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This is the American dream,

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just to have normalcy.

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And so.

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This is what we're offering

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voters in the future.

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And that is, we're keeping our

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eye on the prize.

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I can tell you with the voting

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rights debacle,

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the message that black

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legislators have is

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that this is not just a problem

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of black legislators.

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This is an American problem

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that African-Americans

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like me represent

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districts that are filled.

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With non-African Americans

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who have hopes and dreams and

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aspirations for

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their present and their future.

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We represent so many

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families that are not African

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Americans, and so

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squashing the voting rights of

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African Americans will ignore

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to the detriment

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of all Americans.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore, we leave

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it there.

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Thank you so much.

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Are you done?

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Yes.

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Thanks.

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Okay. Appreciate it.