and speaking on behalf of my district, one of my fellow senators, a male, older republican. including those that we ve been discussing today - senator, i m sorry. you know i have a hearing problem, and i m only getting about half of what you re saying. - i m sorry, i will speak up. - i have trouble, i m sorry, with women s voices and i m just not getting it. - and it was just such a breathtakingly honest, but also symbolic reflection of what it was like to be in the texas senate. - i know you re new to the legislature, but the fiscal impact on the bill, that is determined if there s a cost to the state. - believe it or not, i understand that a fiscal impact is based on whether there is a cost to the state. in texas, it is absolutely the case that the diversity of our communities are not reflected
and speaking on behalf of my district, one of my fellow senators, a male, older republican. including those that we ve been discussing today - senator, i m sorry. you know i have a hearing problem, and i m only getting about half of what you re saying. - i m sorry, i will speak up. - i have trouble, i m sorry, with women s voices and i m just not getting it. - and it was just such a breathtakingly honest, but also symbolic reflection of what it was like to be in the texas senate. - i know you re new to the legislature, but the fiscal impact on the bill, that is determined if there s a cost to the state. - believe it or not, i understand that a fiscal impact is based on whether there is a cost to the state. in texas, it is absolutely the case that the diversity of our communities are not reflected
and speaking on behalf of my district, one of my fellow senators, a male, older republican. including those that we ve been discussing today - senator, i m sorry. you know i have a hearing problem, and i m only getting about half of what you re saying. - i m sorry, i will speak up. - i have trouble, i m sorry, with women s voices and i m just not getting it. - and it was just such a breathtakingly honest, but also symbolic reflection of what it was like to be in the texas senate. - i know you re new to the legislature, but the fiscal impact on the bill, that is determined if there s a cost to the state. - believe it or not, i understand that a fiscal impact is based on whether there is a cost to the state. in texas, it is absolutely the case that the diversity of our communities are not reflected in the people who represent us,
okay, john. i know you are chomping at the bit. i thought this was an important exchange because it s been one of the central issues in the campaign. it s one of vitamin s biggest weak points. his personal record on the parole board, his personal statements about letting people out of jail, trying to empty the jails, one third of people this is become the real reason that republicans have been able to reel in this race and make, it essentially, a tight race. overall tonight, i will just tell you, apart from this topic, i thought this was the unraveling of one of the biggest scandals going on in this mid term cycle, the covering up and the lying about the status of john fetterman. we were told, oh, he motions words together. and if he has this accommodation it s just a hearing problem. they have not been honest with people from the minute this happened, when back in the primary, they pushed this debate off as far as they could. it all came out tonight. there is no way to have wa
one of my very first experiences as a state senator standing up and getting my microphone out and speaking on behalf of my district, one of my fellow senators, a male, older republican. including those that we ve been discussing today - senator, i m sorry. you know i have a hearing problem, and i m only getting about half of what you re saying. - i m sorry, i will speak up. - i have trouble, i m sorry, with women s voices and i m just not getting it. - and it was just such a breathtakingly honest, but also symbolic reflection of what it was like to be in the texas senate. - i know you re new to the legislature, but the fiscal impact on the bill, that is determined if there s a cost to the state. - believe it or not, i understand that a fiscal impact is based on whether there is a cost to the state.