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	If you want to be a part of the program, uh I gotta tell you something.
	This is insanity.
	You got the mob, the media, fake news, CNN, you got AOC, you got Pete Buttig, you got everybody out there.
	They want to now Kathy Hokel, the governor of New York, and they want to ban gas stoves.
	They think that this this is now the new fad of the climate alarmist cult, and you couldn't imagine a more, you know, ridiculous, you know, anti-science, dishonest, elitist, you know, signal uh as it relates to the economy.
	By the way, who's gonna buy everybody a new appliance?
	Who's gonna pay for all of this?
	And as we've been pointing out, then the FAA disaster, where for the first time since 9-11, 2001, they had to shut down the the entire country in terms of air flight.
	The FAA.
	They don't know why.
	Was it a a hacking?
	Was it a comp computer glitch?
	Had did it happen?
	You know, doesn't impact Pete Buttigieg, he's out there flying around in a government jet that you paid for.
	And meanwhile, they lecture every American about you know carbon emissions, carbon emissions.
	Well, your government, you have paid for uh a fleet of close to a thousand jets and helicopters that they all use on a regular basis.
	If you look through all the varying times, now they want to ban gas stoves.
	Are you kidding me?
	In fluorescent light bulbs?
	I mean, you this this is insanity to me.
	Uh anyway, uh there was some tape earlier, Pete Buddha judge making excuses for the FAA outrage.
	Then we're gonna talk about the economy as well.
	Listen to this.
	First of all, any hint of what the root cause was of this outage.
	Well, now that uh the system is up and running, our primary focus is to determine that root cause, not directed FAA to figure out uh exactly how this happened.
	This is an incredibly complex system.
	Uh so uh uh glitches or complications uh happen all the time, but we can't allow them to uh uh ever lead to this level of disruption, and we won't ever allow them to lead to a safety problem.
	Yeah, he doesn't have the problem because he's flying on a private jet you paid for with all the carbon emissions that they say they they're so uh angry about.
	Uh by the way, Congresswoman Nancy May, South Carolina filed a bill that would require Buddha Judge to fly commercial, uh especially after the FAA and Southwest Airlines debacle, and those things haven't been uh resolved.
	Uh then over at fake news CNN, they're comparing gas stoves to an idling car.
	Listen.
	The science is showing us that having a gas stove in a small apartment, especially with bad ventilation, it's like having an a car idling there.
	And if you have young kids, It can affect cognitive abilities and as well as asthma.
	Oh, great science over there at Fake News CNN.
	In the meantime, you're paying record amounts of money to fly with the worst service that we've ever had.
	Have you looked at the price of eggs recently?
	If you can find them, you know, 1150 a dozen in some stores.
	I paid 10 bucks.
	I eat eggs every day.
	I eat three or four eggs every day or egg whites, depending on what the day is.
	It's unbelievable.
	Traveling has never been worse than it is right now.
	Now, if you listen to the left and and liberals in general, and they talk about the economy, you would think that nothing is nothing has gone wrong at all.
	But they couldn't be more wrong.
	Anyway, here to sort it out.
	We have David Bonson.
	He's the uh founder managing partner of the Bonson Group, uh, Steve Moore, uh economics uh extraordinaire expert, Trump Bhenomics, the inside of the American First Plan to save our economy.
	You know, if you listen to these so-called experts, you would think that the economy is completely rebounded and we have nothing to worry about.
	Meanwhile, the price of every consumer good continues to rise.
	The only thing that went down somewhat significantly was the price of a gallon of gasoline, Steve Moore.
	So I agree with you, Sean, that we are hardly out of the woods, and this idea of taking a victory lap on inflation is a little ridiculous.
	I just calculated the numbers from what when Trump came into office to today, Sean.
	Do you know what the average increase in prices for average consumer goods is over that two-year period?
	I'm listening.
	13%.
	13%.
	By the way, let me give you examples.
	The price of eggs is up 59.9%.
	Fuel and oil, again, again, if you liken it to what Joe Biden inherited is up 41.5%.
	Butter margarine, 35%, airfare, 30%, lettuce, utility, public transportation, even my favorite, you know, Sabret and hot dogs with the full natural casing, uh bread, coffee, dairy, all of it's going up.
	Electricity prices are gonna double in California and New England this winter.
	Yeah, I'll give you another one that you know um health insurance costs were up eight percent uh this past year.
	Gee, Sean, I thought we didn't we pass the Affordable Care Act.
	Wasn't that gonna bring inflation down for for these health plans?
	And now there's Steve, the average family was going to save twenty five hundred dollars on average per year.
	Yeah, that never happened.
	So now that's the bad news.
	The good news is that we did get a good number for this month, this past month of December.
	David Bonson can talk more about that than he knows more of the particulars.
	So it looks like inflation is coming down, but I I'm worried about just the structural economy.
	When you have a thirty-two trillion dollar debt, when you're borrowing a trillion and a half dollars a year, uh that is a prescription for national uh disaster on the economy.
	I see it that way, and and it's obvious.
	Uh if you listen to the financial experts, I'm hearing almost all of them uh are unanimously predicting a recession this year, David Bonson.
	Yeah, so I I um feel very strongly that I have a right-ling conservative-based objection to what the Biden administration is doing with the economy.
	But I do think my opinions are a little different than you guys on what the nature of that is here.
	The Biden administration's made so many mistakes I wouldn't even know where to count, Sean.
	But on the price of eggs and food and these different things, the COVID lockdowns were a disaster.
	And we reopened our economy where normal human beings created by God to live normal lives went about living normal lives.
	But guess what?
	The supply side of our economy wasn't ready.
	We didn't have enough goods and services because of those absurd blue state lockdowns.
	And that was the primary cause of inflation that is no question coming down significantly, and the prices are still higher than they were two years ago.
	But from a political standpoint, I want the right to focus on the worst thing the Biden administration's doing, because it it's going the inflation numbers are going to continue getting lower, and that's and that's not because they're doing good stuff.
	It's because we're gonna lose growth in the economy and prices are gonna be coming down.
	Core goods are only up now year over year.
	2.1%.
	They had peaked at over 9%.
	That's not because the Biden administration did anything.
	It's because this inflation was highly supply-side driven.
	Ultimately, I really believed that the low, slow, and no growth that excessive government indebtedness creates is our biggest problem, and it's all I want the right talking about because America is a high growth economy, and these people are turning us into Japan.
	Explain that so the average person can understand completely what you're saying, because there's there's too much economic speak in there for me.
	Okay, that's fair.
	I'm sorry.
	I think that America's used to growing at a certain rate ever since World War II.
	We produce a lot of goods and services.
	There's consumption, there's activity, there's humans doing a lot of things with innovation and pr product productive economic living.
	And that since the financial crisis coming with the Obama years, uh President Trump inherited economy that had been growing at half of its 70 year average.
	After they passed the tax bill that Steve Moore and others were a big part of, economic growth got up to three percent.
	It doubled what it had been in the Obama years.
	It's the first time we saw three percent real GDP growth since um uh the financial crisis.
	Right COVID came, Sean.
	And and now I think we're gonna be stuck at one percent growth for a long time, and we're doing it now with instead of twenty-four million dollars twenty-four trillion on the card, thirty-one trillion.
	Thirty-one trillion.
	You're right.
	I stand corrected.
	My non-economic argument, I'm trying to be simple about it, is every dollar they spend is a dollar not being spent in the private sector, and that's the problem.
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	Politically speaking, this is where the House Republicans Not only do they have the power of subpoena, which is so pivotal as we spent the entire almost the entire show on before you guys joined us uh discussing uh especially these investigations into the Biden family, whether or not the DOJ's weaponized the FBI politicized, uh, but on the issue involving the economy and where it's headed, I I think this is the one, you know, bread and butter issues are the ones that impact Americans the most.
	Nobody's talking about Steve Moore that Joe Biden, as of January first, raised bil billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes that are impacting the poor, the middle class, people on fixed income the most, something he promised he wouldn't do if you make less than four hundred thousand a year, but he raised significantly billions of dollars in new taxes on coal, gas, and oil, uh, and on your pension plan and corporate tax increases, which we know get passed on to consumers.
	Yeah, and don't forget the most important tax of all, Sean, which you didn't even well, we kind of indirectly mentioned, which is inflation is a tax.
	It's a tax on Americans' earnings.
	And so, you know, at a time when we've had that 13% inflation over the last two years, wages and salaries go have gone up, you know, just a little bit more than half of that amount.
	So it's a it's a it's a tax on every it's almost like a sales tax, Sean, um, that that inflation rate that's so high.
	Now, David Bonson is right that the inflation is coming down rapidly, and and he's exactly right.
	But that growth point is is what really is sticks in my crop because I honestly believe, Sean, and I know you believe this too, um, if Trump had were still president, we wouldn't be talking about a recession.
	You kidding me?
	We'd be we'd be booming.
	We'd be producing three or four million more barrels a day of oil.
	We would we would have control of our border.
	We wouldn't have the tax of climate.
	We would be coming we'd become an energy rich country.
	Exactly because we would take energy independence, put it on steroids, and we would be providing Western Europe with all their energy needs and getting rich.
	And don't forget also, you know, there's no way that uh Putin could have gone into Ukraine if we continued because his his whole economy is based on the price of oil, and and you know, so my point is that we if we're gonna grow, David Bonson is right that the economy is only going to grow by one percent uh or less under Biden.
	Well, I thought that was an optimistic figure by David.
	Do you agree with David or that's a disaster?
	Well, let me ask you.
	I thought, David, no offense.
	I'm not arguing with you.
	I thought your one percent prediction on GDP was pretty optimistic.
	Uh Steve Moore, do you think that's where we're headed?
	Well, what I'm saying is that's the consensus forecast.
	Even the Biden administration is saying the economy is only going to grow by one or one and a half percent.
	We've got to be growing at three to three and a half to four percent.
	Under under Reagan, we have three and a half to four percent growth.
	Under under Trump, we had three percent growth, and we were headed to four percent growth.
	So growth is the solution to these problems, but where's it gonna come from?
	You've got a president who doesn't want to produce our energy, wants to raise taxes on our businesses, and on and on and on, all things that are just weights on the back of the American economy.
	I think that's the perfect analogy.
	He's weighing down the economy.
	All these taxes on energy, gas, oil, coal is only gonna it's gonna act like a a sinking weight on the economy at all times.
	And I don't see those policies changing anyway, anyhow, with this president, David.
	Well, no, and the energy independence is the greatest example, and all three of us were during the Obama years very critical, appropriately so of President Obama.
	But what he did was say all the wrong things about green energy, but then he actually didn't really shut down fracking.
	He didn't really shut down permits.
	He didn't do all the stuff President Trump did.
	He didn't do it the way I would do it.
	But Biden came in with the bark of the radical environmentalist and the bite.
	Where at least Obama was a little bit more hypocritical because he knew he needed the growth of the fracking revolution.
	We need that energy independence back.
	It would in and of itself, over a 10-year period, add two percent per year to GDP just by itself.
	You add in the other factors, that's how you get back to the Steve Moore three-handle or four-handle that we need.
	Sean, I don't predict one percent GDP growth this year.
	I would love for it to be the case.
	I wouldn't bet a political race that it's going to be recessionary, but I expect it will be.
	But one percent is my prediction for years going forward.
	And the problem in saying one percent is you're talking about Japan level numbers, and it's totally unacceptable.
	And the reason we need the growth Steve Moore is talking about is not only because we need it to fund our deficits, we need it to fund economic growth in a higher uh standard of living.
	It's the best thing for humanity to have the opportunity to have an aspirational society.
	They're taking away people's hope.
	Yeah, I think that's well said, Steve.
	Can I mention one other quick thing that you didn't mention?
	Did you see the story this week that the Biden administration doesn't want to build new votes?
	Now we just passed a what, a trillion dollar infrastructure bill, and they don't want to use it for vote.
	They want to use it of transit and green underseat, things like that.
	They don't want people driving cars.
	I mean, this is insanity.
	Did you did you see not only that, did you see that had we by eliminating the Keystone XL pipeline, it cost 60,000 jobs.
	Yep and billions of dollars uh potentially for this country.
	Never mind, we we would be importing 900,000 um 900,000 barrels of Canadian oil daily by now.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's the we're not building the infrastructure.
	We do need infrastructure in this country, but it's not infrastructure.
	We need pipelines, we need votes, we need to prepare our bridges and things, and they're spending it on windmills.
	Yeah.
	Uh just what we need a beautiful windmill to kill the birds.
	I love birds.
	I don't want to kill the birds.
	Uh anyway, we really appreciate you both being with us.
	Thank you, Steve Moore, David Bonson, thank you.
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	All right, so last night we we went to the swamp, the sewer, only to come back to the other swamp and sewer where we're at, which is foolishly we're at.
	Anyway, so and uh I went there after all that went on last week.
	I wanted to find out, could take the temperature.
	One of the things I kept saying last week was everyone's got to listen to me.
	The agenda is set.
	The agenda is in concrete.
	The investigations are happening.
	The commitments to America are all going to be voted on.
	You know, I at the end of the day, I think they could have solved this before January 3rd.
	I like a lot of all the changes.
	I can't think of one I don't like, to be honest.
	But anyway, so I wanted to do this town hall.
	We had Kevin McCarthy, Jim Comer, James Jordan, uh, Jim Jordan was on.
	Uh we had people like uh Alice Stefan and Steve Scalise.
	You know what?
	We had a great time.
	Anyway, we want I want to run some of this from last night so you can hear for yourself and see if you have more confidence after this interview.
	I have a feeling that 222 people agree on Jim Jordan's investigation, uh, and that would be into whether the FBI's politicized the DOJ weaponized.
	Well, what they weaponized from homeland, FBI.
	You know, we've watched him get out of control with no check and balance.
	But last week was tough.
	But remember what my father always said it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
	And let me tell you what happened after last week.
	Our very first bill, we repealed 87,000 IRSAs.
	He promised to do that.
	The promise is that we made it in our in our commitment to America, which you've talked a lot about, and we'll check it off as they go.
	I have my own copy.
	Yeah.
	But you know what you know what else we did next?
	We just passed the church style committee that Jim Jordan will run, looking at the weaponization of government.
	You know what we just passed right now?
	Uh select committee on China.
	And we got 146 Democrats to vote with us.
	Pelosi would never allow this.
	They had an agreement with her, and she backed away the night before.
	So you want to bring jobs back from China to America.
	You want to stop them from buying our farmland.
	You want to stop them from stealing our intellectual property.
	This is where it all starts.
	And this is only our first couple days in power.
	So the power of the purse, which we'll talk about at length, the power of subpoena, those are the two big powers you have.
	Okay, let's go, let's focus on the investigation part.
	Jim Jordan in appropriations.
	Then we got Jim James Colmer.
	They'll both be joining us tonight.
	Yes.
	And he'll be looking into the Biden family syndicate.
	We know everybody in this room knows one thing that Joe Biden lied.
	When Joe Biden said not one time did he ever talk to his son Hunter about his foreign business dealings, we have photographic evidence and evidence of meetings that have taken place and witnesses that will attest to such.
	We've got documents that they denied us until we're in the majority.
	Do you thank the president more than 40 years of being elected?
	Why do you think he finally went to the border?
	Because we were sworn in.
	He knows what's coming.
	You've got to secure your border.
	And we're going to use every power we have to make sure we protect this country and look out for the American taxpayer.
	I think last week, at least a part of it was Republicans around the country were disappointed in past speakers.
	I'll give one example, John Boehner.
	I was disappointed in John Boehner.
	And I think that there were people that wanted the assurances.
	I had interviewed you enough.
	I had asked you repeatedly the commitments to America.
	I have my version right here, which we'll talk about.
	And they wanted to know these investigations were real.
	What other investigations?
	Well, you've got to hold government accountable.
	For the whole time the Democrats have been in power, all they've done is increase spending.
	Why don't we have a check and balance?
	Think of this.
	When the Republicans were in power last time for eight years, you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years?
	Zero.
	They were in power for four years.
	They increased it by 30 percent.
	They went from spending four trillion to seven trillion.
	We don't have that type of money.
	They created inflation.
	So we've got to get our country under control financially.
	How do we do that too?
	Energy policy.
	Watch what they've done to make us weak.
	They made our price of gas go up, but they made us weak around the world.
	We're going to become energy independent.
	Our border is not secure.
	But look what they have done to our schools as well, right?
	We're going to pass a parent's bill of rights.
	Also, when you think about this as well, when we look at checks and balances, you got comer oversight, you got Jim Jordan at judiciary, but every single committee has an oversight committee.
	So every dollar matters how we spend it, and we're going to be looking at everything.
	No more blank checks.
	Okay.
	And by the way, you will vote on every appropriations bill independently, all 12 of them.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	We'll get to that.
	Um what other investigations are the same as a COVID?
	Why don't we know where COVID started?
	They wouldn't have any hearings on it.
	We would have that.
	Why shouldn't we know what happened to Afghanistan those last two months?
	Thirteen Gold Star families have a right to know, but more importantly, this nation has a right to know so it never happens again.
	We should know what happened with China and where the money is going.
	We know the documents are there.
	I think the country has a right to know that as well.
	But the weaponization of what the FBI did.
	Well, that goes right into COVID.
	We have our own ability to oversee that and look into that.
	Uh now let's get to the issue of finances and money and spending.
	And why don't you explain how this process now will be different and we're coming up against the debt ceiling vote and what that's going to mean?
	That might be the first test of how committed the Republican Party in the House is to really holding the line on spending.
	Am I wrong on that?
	No, you're not wrong on that.
	But look, think for one moment.
	We cannot, one of the greatest threats we have to this nation is our debt.
	It makes us weak in every place that we can.
	We have never been at this high of debt to GDP except during World War II.
	It's the Biden family foreign syndicate.
	Remember, they use their political status to profit pedal influence, uh, zero experienced hunter, House Republicans vowing to investigate every single corner of it.
	All right, the people that will be leading two of the most important investigations, along with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we have the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, that's Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman, that's James Comer, guys you've been on a lot.
	Um Jim, you will be investigating.
	You're both Jim's Jim Jordan.
	You'll both be you will be investigating whether the FBI has been politicized and whether the the DOJ has been weaponized.
	Um what do you see so far?
	Well, it's not a question of whether that's happened, it has, because we have had now dozens of FBI agents come to us taking whistleblower status, talking about how political things have become.
	And I would step back and look at the big picture.
	We had a Department of Justice that treated moms and dads as terrorists, used the Patriot Act.
	That's the Ferris at school board meetings.
	You got the FBI that paid Twitter three million dollars.
	Not One, not two, but three million dollars to censor conservative viewpoints on their platform.
	And then, of course, you got what what we've seen happen across government in so many other agencies where it's been weaponized against the very people they're supposed to serve.
	The Department of Homeland Security tried to set up a disinformation governance board as if some Federal agencies should tell the American people what they're allowed to say, what they're not allowed to say.
	And that's that's what we're going to look into.
	Because the first step in stopping it is you have to get all the facts on the table for the country to see.
	Then you go about stopping and making sure it never happens again.
	Let me ask you this.
	Did the FBI, in 2016 and 2020, in the presidential elections, did they put their thumb on the scale?
	I can give you detail.
	I know you have the detail, but for example, in 2020, they FBI agents in early October, after they were warned by Bruce Orr not to use the dossier, they flew over to Great Britain.
	Yeah.
	And they met with Christopher Steele.
	They offered him a million dollars to prove that the dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for, the Russian dossier, was true.
	He couldn't claim his money.
	But then by the end of the month, it became the bulk of the FISA application and it was unverified.
	But I would argue that.
	Now we have the recent case, they suppressed all this information about Hunter Biden's laptop.
	Did they put their thumb on the scale of the Federal Mr. And I would argue as my colleague Matt Gates has said in committee, I would argue was all the other elections as well.
	So 2016, they they spy on Trump's campaign and do what you just described.
	2018 it's the Mueller investigation.
	2020, they suppressed the Hunter Biden story, and in 2022, 91 days before the midterm election, they raided President Trump's home.
	Which, oh, by the way, is quite a contrast between what we learned yesterday, how they treated President Trump and what we learned yesterday, where Joe Biden now had classified information at the Biden Center that they knew about before the election, but somehow that didn't get made public.
	Will this be like a church committee moment?
	Will this be that the true reform that what should be the premier law enforcement agency in the world, the FBI, will we be able to restore it to the great greatness it once had?
	That's our goal.
	Rank and file agents are good men and women.
	We know that by the fact that the uh dozens of them come talk to us about what they see happening and how concerned they are about it.
	So we know what what that we know that.
	So that's our goal, our objective.
	But we're gonna do everything we can.
	We're gonna do it in a vigorous way, we're gonna do it in an aggressive way, we're gonna do it in a way that's consistent with the Constitution, but we're gonna do it because that's our job.
	This is not about they said today on the floor when we passed the resolution creating this.
	They said on the floor today, Mr. Nadler was quoted in the paper and they went after us today on the floor.
	They said this is political and we're gonna fight it tooth and nail.
	Why?
	We're protecting the First Amendment.
	We're protecting the American people.
	Why would you fight a Democrat?
	I thought you guys embraced the Constitution like we all do.
	Love the First Amendment and the rights we enjoy.
	That's what this is about.
	We're going to do everything we can to protect American citizens' First Amendment liberties.
	They should join with us, not fight it.
	I agree with if they had an integrity.
	You know what?
	We won't play like them.
	They want to put somebody on the committee?
	Put them on the committee.
	We're not presetting this thing to be political, because that's not what it should be.
	We're going to follow the Constitution.
	Jim will follow wherever the information takes us.
	But this hasn't happened since 1970.
	And I think it's gotten so far out of control.
	You hear from all, not just the American citizens, but the whistleblowers at the FBI are coming to us.
	We're going to hear from them.
	That's our goal.
	you know the whistleblower status they have to agree but we hope that some of these individuals i think they will because frankly a number of them have been retaliated against that which is not allowed to happen well i think they were actually kind of said that uh you're not allowed to talk to members of congress or the senate i'm like day after we first talked about on your show the very next day he says issues a memorandum saying hey hey be careful here's the rules when you're going to talk to congress That that it looked that looks to me like a definite infringement on their liberty, their right to go tell us what's going on in those agencies.
	And they believe this.
	They love this agency.
	They want this agency to be what it was.
	It's funny, a friend of mine retired from the FBI.
	He said it is not what I signed up for.
	Exactly.
	That's how much it changed.
	Your investigation, you said something that was deep and profound.
	People think now the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in December of 2019.
	That's why the FBI meeting with with big tech once a week prior to the 2020 election, saying, Oh, you might get disinformation about Hunter.
	They could have verified Hunter in five minutes, either him doing drugs or other things with other people, but I won't go into those details.
	But they didn't.
	You're going to be investigating, you said the President of the United States.
	Joe Biden lied to this country, didn't he, when he said he did never discuss his foreign business dealings with his son.
	Absolutely.
	We have produced pictures, we produced emails, we've produced documents that show that not only did Joe Biden know very well what his son and brother were doing with with respect to influence peddling, but he was also a part of it.
	As many of you likely recall, Texas Congressman Chip Roy was critical in bringing all sites together last week to unify around a new speaker, and I believe that the party is now stronger and even more unified around what is the America First, conservative, make America Great Again agenda.
	You played a big role.
	I gave you props last week on TV.
	I meant them.
	I know behind the scenes, you tried to bridge the gap, you were successful.
	How hard was it?
	Well, look, uh, beating the swamp is hard.
	And and everybody here is committed to doing that.
	And sometimes you got to break a little glass, sometimes a little temporary conflict.
	The American people were drawn in last week.
	They were drawn into what we were trying to accomplish on their behalf to fight for them.
	They want to believe that we're here fighting for them.
	And I was delighted to work with my colleagues here.
	And this morning in the Republican conference, I think there was a new sense of unity, a new sense of purpose.
	United behind a mission, a mission to stop funding a government, a government filled with bureaucrats and tyrants rolling over the American people, denying their liberties, undermining their freedoms.
	We have a unique opportunity.
	Kevin has an historic opportunity right now to carry this country forward.
	I look around the room.
	Brian Fitzpatrick behind me.
	Fred Schill and Garrett Graves.
	We worked together all last week to make this happen.
	My fellow Texans, Ronnie Jackson, Brian Babin, who worked hard on the Texas border plan that's a part of this deal.
	Look, we're all united to stand up for the American people.
	That stuff was important.
	And uh, but we got now look, we've got the tools, we've got some of the transparency.
	Now the work lies ahead.
	We got to unite and go execute.
	And Byron, you also worked hard behind the scenes.
	By the way, it had to feel a little good to get some votes for speaker.
	It was cool.
	I'll admit that.
	But I lost to this guy, you know, so what am I gonna do?
	No, it was um it was a point in time where you know there were some members who believed in my abilities, but the number one thing was bringing this thing together.
	Um, obviously the world was watching, we all knew that.
	Uh but like Chip said, we had a responsibility to make sure.
	Number one, we had a plan and we had an agenda that Speaker McCarthy has built for our conference.
	The thing that we were looking for is making sure that every tool in this building is utilized to make that happen.
	And so the job was simple.
	Find a way to get everybody together so we can get the job done and get down to business, and that's what we're doing.
	We have 30 seconds left, Mr. Speaker.
	What do you want the American people to hear last?
	Where are we where are you taking this group of this majority?
	I want them to understand this is their house.
	This is their government, and we will always listen to them and we will always fight for them.
	What our battle last week was to only make us stronger to represent you.
	It doesn't matter if you're Republican, Democrat, or independent.
	Your voice matters, and you have a voice here.
	Our commitment to America, what we campaigned on, we will keep it.
	We're showing it each and every day.
	We might stumble at times, but the one thing I hope everybody learned from me, we will never give up.
	And I'll never give up on the American public.
	Uh we're gonna do these town halls on a regular basis.
	We'll update you when we do them.
	I hope you found it worthwhile.
	Uh 800-941 Sean.
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