I am not accustomed to the attention that comes from some National Media press. We welcome them to great bend and i am delighted to be here as well. Congress is out of session until labor day and im using my time, as i have almost every other august in fact every august, to be out and about in kansas and the have conversations with all of you. This is my 1228th town hall meeting as a member of congress and it is great to be back. We try to do one in every county on an ongoing basis. Just a couple of things i want to say and then we will take this as quickly as we can to the for yous and comments to make. This is my first visit to great bend since the death of bob parish. Bob and polly were great friends and great supporters. We spent our honeymoon with bob and polly at the Republican National convention in 1984. They are great friends of my wife. Politics interested in but bob in particular was interested in this community and the history of this community. We now live in manhattan and
I am not accustomed to the attention that comes from some National Media press. We welcome them to great bend and i am delighted to be here as well. Congress is out of session until labor day and im using my time, as i have almost every other august in fact every august, to be out and about in kansas and the have conversations with all of you. This is my 1228th town hall meeting as a member of congress and it is great to be back. We try to do one in every county on an ongoing basis. Just a couple of things i want to say and then we will take this as quickly as we can to the for yous and comments to make. This is my first visit to great bend since the death of bob parish. Bob and polly were great friends and great supporters. We spent our honeymoon with bob and polly at the Republican National convention in 1984. They are great friends of my wife. Politics interested in but bob in particular was interested in this community and the history of this community. We now live in manhattan and
The effort to repeal and replace the federal Health Care Law also better and services, farming challenges and opioid epidemic. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Excuse the delay. I guess the days of more normal town Hall Meetings. We welcome them to great bend and im delighted to be here as. Well. As you would know, congress is out of session now until labor day, and then using my time as e have almost every other august, in fact,ha every august to get t and about across kansas and you. Having conversations with all of you. This is my 1220 eighth town hall meeting as a member of congress, and great to be back. We try to do when it every count on an ongoing basis. I just cant looking so what is and it will take this as quickly as we can to the questions and commerce that you would like toi make. This is my first visit to great band since the death of bob parish was my longtime friend. Bob and polly were great friends, great supporters. They spent our honeymoon, w
S in american history. This is a Major Energy Center by the way for the entire country. A quarter of our Energy Production comes from this neck of the woods. For the next two hours weve got you covered with the likes of Texas Governor greg abbott on the race to respond no matter the danger weve got texas land commissioner george p. Bourbon the need for coastal barrier no matter the cost, former fema director Michael Brown urging President Trump to be on this no matter what he has urged do not, mr. President , let this be your katrina and then general russel remember him during katrina he was banging heads to get everyone on the same page and quit the political arguments, hes here on this over some people heeding warnings to evacuate and some who never did and never have and now they could be stuck and may be for weeks some say even months to come. First whats happening now on the ground in texas we start with rick whose been covering this on where this massive storm goes right now. Wha