worked on this bill, it is our good pieces of legislation. they are counted in a bipartisan way. the meetings that i have been in with senators grassley and senators fisher and senators widen, they have stepped up to the plate. you wouldn t know one of those democrat, one of them is a republican. they are concerned about this issue. they are looking at it from a rural perspective and consumer standpoint, and they re saying this is the right thing to do. it has been a pleasure to work with those folks. it s in the committee now. chairman stabenow did a great job in the hearing we had a couple days ago. and we re going to get this out of committee, we re going to get it to the senate floor, and hopefully we re gonna get it passed, because it s the right thing to do. rural america is important in this country. if we have the kind of leadership we need, and we ve seen good leadership out of the president as you pointed out with that editorial, but the bottom line is if we do nothing? we re
evidence for it. really it s just a little t test to donald trump. so when they say i believe don trump is really a president i think joe biden is there illegitimately they don t really believe that. but they think that this is how they will demonstrate their subservience and their loyalty to donald trump. it s just a very scary thing for a modern political party to operate that way requires people to suspend critical thinking skills. we have to squeeze in a break here, before we go quickly. on the schedule of junior six committee, televised hearings have we ve been hearing june as a possible start time for that. what will those hearings be will they be witnesses that you have already heard from in private sessions in the committee? well we live in an age of you know a lot of media and good tv as you and rachel maddow and a well. so we have to tell this story in an interesting way. we understand that.
republicans are talking about is that the freedom caucus, the jim jordan gang, has enough power to stop anybody who shows any kind of equivocation the way that kevin mccarthy did about succumbing to the will of donald trump and whitewashing everything he does. so if they can stop, you know, a more center leaning or traditional conservative from becoming speaker. but they can t elect someone on their own, then they ll just tell donald trump and trump would happily waltz in and take the speaker s chair. you don t have to be a member of the house to run for speaker. the january six committee is investigating what happened on the last presidential election. at the same time, you are watching republican state legislatures take action that involves the next presidential election. based on your investigation in the january six committee now and what you ve seen republican
learning from the mccarthy tapes, is relevant to your investigation to the january six committee? well it s important for reviving everybody s memory of what really took place. that s important. it s also important for people to see that he had radically changed his tune and he s doing that only for political reasons obviously. i think it s, he s not asking for my advice but i think it s a rather silly strategy in his part. i mean what the republicans are saying is that there are not going to rebel against him now because they don t want to have a complete circus show before the election. but the election is over and they will get rid of him. and there are ten people lining up to try to take its place, including possibly donald trump. because would a lot of the republicans are talking about is that the freedom caucus, the jim jordan gang, has enough power to stop anybody who shows any kind of equivocation the way that kevin mccarthy did about succumbing to the will of donald trump an
my concern. that s where i think the fundraising flows from. what i hope is that the trust i m trying to build between me in the american people and that should be the goal of every elected representative on both sides of the aisle. what became very clear to me, when i saw you very early in your freshman year, in committee work, is that you knew immediately that the job is in the committee. that that is where a house member can do her job. speech making out there is one thing. but the real labor is in the committee. because oversight the reason for that is oversight, it s a key congressional function. the executive branch is work to do. but part of our work as legislators is to hold them to account. are they doing what the law that we passed says they are supposed to do? our corporations following the law? if they are not, then congress may need to take action. we simply cannot pass laws, you cannot decide how to vote, if you don t know the state of the