Yeah, sure. You know, we just left the Vera breakfast that started at about six twenty this morning.
It's always good.
That was good. It was great, and it's well known throughout the state as a place that Representative Earl Sears the former representatives that is hosting of that. It's really awesome. And then we've got we're here with you, and then we have our best forum. We've got some coffees with the business leaders in town, just kind of you know, going back and seeing some old friends. And you know, you guys have got a great congressman up here and
josh ur Keen good friend of mine. So it's great to be up here just making a pass through to say hi to everybody and talk about tax policy.
Oh boy, you know you've been on the heading up the Republican Study Committee. You've been busy with that. I have.
That's an honor to do that. We you know, some of the former members or chairs of that have been the current Speaker, Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise, the Majority Leader Jim Jordan, Mike Pence and others. And it's a two year term only. You're elected by your peers, not by leadership, and we really talk about policy. And that's
the great thing about it. We have people from all the other caucuses, you know, from the Freedom Caucus, of the more moderate parts of the Republican Party coming together talking about policies, talking about balanced budgets, putting together balanced budgets. As a matter of fact, we've done the only budgets in Congress since I've been in Congress, and they all balanced.
And you know, it's really great. I mean, I know America gets tired to seeing all the political haggling going on and just wondering when we're gonna get to work about America. And that's what we do in the Republican Study Committee.
Very good. You recently cast some pretty interesting boats, one involving China and our land here in the United States. Tell us a little bit about that.
Yeah, it's a tough situation when you're in a capitalist environment like we are in the United States of America, free enterprise, when you don't want to get in between a buyer and a seller. But when you have something some country like we know with China being very malicious in some of their activity, or buying up our food processing plants, buying up our big farms across America doing things, especially buying land near our strategic installations, like our military basis.
You have to kind of wonder what that's all about, you know, why pick that particular land. And so we've
gone in and push back on that. I put out a three hundred and sixty seven page comprehensive a Chinese bill, if you will, back in March that we're pulling off bills out of that, from anything from going after China for the precursors to fentanol that's killing one hundred thousand Americans a year coming across the southern border, to business people that are using their capital to go in and increase the technology and China investment in technology of China,
We're cutting that out and looking at what they're doing and sending in imports to try to conquer our manufacturers. And so all of this involves a big bill, and then I send on Ways of Means on the tax policy team, and we have a big expiration next year the end of twenty five of the current tax policy. And the area that I'm responsible for that I've been given by them and Jason Smith of Ways and Means is to I'm in charge of all the international tax policies.
So I'm working to make sure that America is the most favorable place in the world to do business, and we're doing that through the tax policy.
Goodness, busy day today. You've just finished up with the beer. You're gonna go to the forum, and that's always fun.
It is. You know, My first first time to come to Oklahoma or to Borrowsville, brother when I after I moved to Oklahoma, was in two thousand and four, and then uh, the former Congressman Tom Coburn was running for Senate and I was on his campaign. That was the
first campaign that ever worked on in my life. And my first campaign stop was the RVs Breakfast and when we went in there, you know, then candidate Tom Coburn shared his vision of what he wanted to do in the Senate, and of course he did that from the ten years he was there. And I remember that the members there, it was a packed house and they all gave him, gave him a standing ovation. So I don't know if I get a standing ovation today, but it certainly was My hero was time cover.
Indeed, Hey, thanks for being with us today. Is there anything else you'd like to share with us before you get rolling.
Well, just thank you, and I thank Bartlesville for you know, being Bartlesville. It is really a great place, and I hope all your listeners know how great it really is. And you know, as I look at America across the world and all the work I'm doing now, I still
believe we're the beacon for the world. But when you look at the United States of America, many people have seen this map of if the Democrats win this election, that you're going to have California and New York basically controlling our country, and all throughout the center of the country it's red. If you look right in the center, that's Oklahoma. And I still believe that Oklahoma and Oklahoma
and are really the best hope for America. So thank you all for all the listeners out there for what you do, and thank all the Oklahoma's out there that for being who you are.
Dougress been herd. Thank you