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  1. “and I had never known, and he said I've been cleaned for seven months now. I struggle with this every single day. I am trying to hang on. My mom, who you know is here with me, he said This is my fight right now, so I mean that's my fight. When we have these fights about particular strains of purity in the party, it's like, you know what? I can't worry about who's pure enough. We've got things we actually have to do.”

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  2. “Yeah, it really is almost like a debate or a world that I'll pass on. And what I mean by that is we've got so many things to take care of in this nation right now in terms of job creation, skills training. David, I have an opioid scourge in my state that is heartbreaking. I went to an event on Monday night, not this past Monday, but the Monday before. It was called the Overdose Lifeline, and the people who were there had lost a son or daughter, brother, or sister, and we're talking about their loved one. And this young man came up to me, and I know his family. And I know him, and he's like 24, 25 years old. And he came up and gave me a big hug and he said, it's so awesome to see you. I said, oh, it's great to see you. I didn't know you were going to be here. I said, who are you here for? He said. Me.”

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  3. “Well, I say that The Democratic Party is a big tent, that whatever their purity test is, where they are may not be what the purity test is where I live, that my job is to represent the people of Indiana and not to try to pass some artificial test that makes somebody happy somewhere else. My obligation is to the family in Kokomo and to the family in Richmond and the family in Avansville to get a job for their dad. That's a democratic value. When Franklin Roosevelt looked up, he wanted to make sure everybody was working because you know what? We can have all the purity tests we want in the world. And so we want good jobs. We want good opportunity. We want to take care of our veterans. We want to take care of our service members. We want to end the opioid scourge. We want to make sure the NIH has the funds they need to cure arthritis, to cure diabetes.”

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  4. “What I've always believed is, you know, I've had a pro-life position and I've always believed that where the emphasis should be is on how do we make it so that any child who is fortunate enough to be here has a chance to succeed, that life doesn't, once you're here, that's not the end of trying to create success. That success is that that child can have the best health care, the best education, the best opportunities. And, you know, that's what we encourage. No.”

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  5. “Just don't like them I mean, you know, they just don't like the presence of it. And my expectation is that it will survive. You know, they don't like him, but I will say that we have saved a lot of money through the CFPB for a lot of families and made sure that a lot of families had. had the opportunity to have more fairness in the game on the financial markets”

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  6. “I think the future is good for consumers in this way, that if there are changes, it would be changes to things like community banks who are never part of the problem to start with. And the idea for any changes there would be that if they have two or three regulators coming in doing the same thing, that one or two might be enough. But it would be restricted to primarily to focus on cordreing that.”

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  7. “No, vote. I think now, you know, there's been a few more years of experience on this as well, and understanding where this process is. That you get 70 plus, like I said. And I do believe this will get done because it's so clearly the right thing to do that these kids, you know, I have folks in Indiana who have gone to the local high schools who are at Indiana University or Purdue University. And say, Joe, how does how is I've never lived anywhere else? I don't even know where this country or that country is. I can tell you where Terrahot and Richmond is, but I can't tell you how to get to these other places where I played for the basketball team at Carmel High School. I'm at IU in my third year as an engineer. How am I not a credit to my nation?”

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  8. “I do. I think that there's no question that these young people, they are Americans. They came here when they were two, three years old. Their parents brought them here and they have lived their entire life here. From three years old on to four years old on.”

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  9. “Are threatened with disenfranchised? I actually do. You know, we just have to get this to the floor. And I think if you do, my guess, and I don't have an exact count, was probably in the Senate, you'll get at least 70 votes. You'll probably get over 300 in the House because it's inherently the American thing to do is to give these kids. And do you think it”

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  10. “Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. I thought that the president was I thought he was really in a tough spot, though, in this, that the bases is 30, 35%. That's not who America is. America is a place where there's a desire to get things done and not to constantly drive off the cliff on every single issue where much of his base was going. So how do we get things done? And I know from my colleagues in the Senate, if something can be brought to the floor, in most cases, it's normal, you'll get 70 votes, sixty votes. It's getting it to the floor. The reason yesterday's vote got to the floor is because the president said, I want to vote on this.”

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  11. “Right, right. Look, what I always hear when I'm back home. Just a desire and we have a saying who's your common sense just a desire to try to get things done. They say when I'm running my business, even when I'm trying to sell a product to somebody else, we go back and forth on a price, we go back and forth on this or on that, but eventually we come together and nobody gets a hundred percent of what they want. Everybody gets like seventy percent of something. And do the same. And we have core principles and core beliefs.”

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  12. “Net that's the other part is that once they get that mental health assessment that whatever care they need will be there and that ongoing help is not only with DOD folks or I'm sorry Department of Defense folks but from local psychiatrists in your hometown and it's all covered”

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  13. “Working there, his truck driver. He drives every day back and forth to Detroit with parts, and he said, I'll take a couple days off and come out and talk to folks. And so we were able to, with his help and with the help of my friends in the armed services committee, Senator McCain, then Senator Levin, Senator Reed and all the others, we were able to pass legislation that said every member of the armed services can have a mental health assessment every single year. That the next year we were able to get it passed that they can get that mental health assessment right here in Chicago from a local doctor or in Lafayette, Indiana from a local doctor.”

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  14. “I want to make sure it doesn't happen to any other kid. So if you're serious about this, let's work together on it to try to change it. And so he did. His son Jake had served in Afghanistan and was home and was going back and took his life from farmland, Indiana. And so I worked with Jeff and Barb, the mom and dad And said this has to end. And they had no interest in coming to Washington. Their home was Indiana.”

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  15. “Because these are our brothers and sisters, these are husbands and wives. I've met them. When Chuck Hagel was up for Secretary of Defense, I was really bothered by myself. The suicide rate in the military. And so I asked them, I said, you know, Senator When you take this job, what you're going to find is We're losing more young men and women to suicide than in combat. And how are we going to do this? Are you going to focus on it? And he did. But as I asked him about that, we got an email from A fellow who's become a very close friend of mine, Jeff Sexton, and the email was My son committed suicide while he was home on RNR from Afghanistan, and”

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  16. “I think it stands up fine because part of the way I've approached this job as well. Is that I'm the senator for the people of Indiana, and so money ag committee because eighty five percent of our land is in farmland and our farmers need somebody to be their voice. I serve on the armed services committee because Number one, I want to keep my country safe, but number two, we have the, as I mentioned before, per capita the largest national garden. I want to make sure our men and women, wherever they go, go for the right reasons that the right decisions are made, that they have everything they need, and that we're squared away. And so I've tried to tie my committee work into the needs of the state and the needs of the country.”

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  17. “When Congressman Chicola was first starting, we had a little storefront place for veterans with an eight month wait for healthcare. And then he helped move it to a house in effect. And then I was able to help pick up the ball and focus like a laser on this. And we were able to get it to a bigger place in South Bend. And now we have a full healthcare center, 70,000 square feet that are veterans, and you know how the winters can be up here, that our veterans are not on a van that might not make it on an icy road, on a two hour ride, whether it's to Hines here in Chicago or to Fort Wayne. And so those are the things that when I go look at the voters in the eye, I said, look, here's what I've delivered, here's what I've promised. What I've done. And I think that's the best case.”

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  18. “I don't feel vulnerable at all because I don't want this to sound naive, but I don't worry about that. What I worry about is trying to do the very best job I can. And my dad always taught me, and he's not here any longer. He says, do your job and everything else takes care of itself. And so that's what we try to do. Look, we have a new veteran center opening in near South Bend, Indiana this month. We've been working on this for 10 years now that”

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  19. “That he was punished for that, as opposed to people saying it's great that folks in our country can work together. And he was punished in the primary for what he was president.”

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  20. “Because I wasn't certain that he would get the nomination at the end of the day. Number one though was because I thought I can help my country if I do this, or at least try to help the country. I don't want to sound like a mini genius or anything, but try to do my best in the U.S. Senate. But number two was my expectation based on what I had. Their primary voters were not going to re-elect Senator Luger, not because he had done anything wrong. He was an extraordinary hero. And in large measure, because he was willing to work with the president, President Obama, who we work closely with on a number of issues.”

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  21. “An American icon. He's an extraordinary person who is a mentor to me who is actually one of my heroes. You know, you could tell That there was trouble in the Republican Party in terms of how they were looking at issues, how they were looking at things with the Tea Party. And Senator Luger had served six terms, was run for president, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. And my expectation was if he was a candidate, obviously, it'd be awful tough”

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  22. “They had to make decisions whether their daughter was going to go to Ball State or they were going to get medical care. And like every parent, they made the decision that, you know what, I'll keep plugging through this. I am not going to deny my kid a chance. They only had money to do one. And the Affordable Care Act for the first time gave them the chance to do both.”

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  23. “Depending on what house you're born in, you can get decent medical care or wind up in a wheelchair in ten years. Something's really amiss with that. And I thought that the Affordable Care Act could help change that. And I will tell you that once it went into effect, and we all have stories like this, the CEO of a medical center back home called me up and he said, we have been inundated with terrible heart cases. And he said, we couldn't figure out what it is. So we had a little round table like this and had folks from the cardiac division and this and that. And when we all, we started talking about why is there something happening in the community? And somebody looked up and said, the Affordable Care Act started a month ago. These people have had these conditions for years, but haven't had the money to get care. And what they were all doing is just like all of us.”

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  24. “Her medical condition. Yeah. And so what this new medication did was in effect, it didn't make it better, but it stopped it, more or less. But what I also knew was This is really, really expensive. And so for that kid in the other house down the block, who has the same exact condition? How on earth is it fair that one kid in our town Can be squared away, and this other kid would continue to deteriorate. And so from that perspective, I said, this isn't right that”

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  25. “Well, here's what played on my thinking was. You know, we knew what the prescription costs were for that. It's arthritis. Right. Rheumatoid arthritis. And the prescriptions were $1,500 a month at that time. But what we also knew was before that medication was available, it was a different medication. And it was a real struggle. I mean, it was the most advanced medication out there, but it was clear the situation was going in reverse as opposed to at least stable.”

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  26. “And so in July in one of our little towns, we had a Congress on your corner. And I was there for about two hours, and two people showed up at the supermarket. And I was with a buddy of mine. And I said, man, if we don't have more people start coming, I don't know whether it's worth it as opposed to just trying to figure out something else. And so fast forward about a month and a half later, I have 800 people in a parking lot in Kokomo, Indiana. It's 100 degrees. We're all in the parking lot because the theater that we got had 200 seats and by 4 p.m. there were like 300 people outside. So there's about 800 people in the parking lot. It's 100 degrees”

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  27. “Oh sure, yeah, I had an amazing town hall meeting in Kokomo, Indiana, a wonderful place where I'll backtrack for a second, and it was like in July. I used to do the Congress, I'd used to do the Congress on your corners.”

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  28. “Well, it was a tough vote in this respect that Trying to explain potential benefits is not always the easiest thing to do and trying to let folks know well. If this goes through, you'll still have this. If this doesn't go through, you won't have this. Sometimes telling people about, well, you have this benefit, but it'll go away is not always the easiest case to make and to talk about. And when we talked about the ACA, you know, letting folks know, well, with this pre-existing condition, you can actually have coverage for the first time. until they actually see it, it doesn't actually exist. If you know what I mean. And it wasn't going to happen for X number of years. And so all the fake talk about death panels and other things was what people were hearing.”

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  29. “And looked up and a plant of over 5,000 people was down to 100. To 100. So that's like 4,900 people who are wondering, how am I going to pay my mortgage on my house? How am I going to take care of my kids? How am I going to make sure we don't have economic collapse? And at the same time, David, those same people are digging in their pockets for a buck or two to help whoever was in the toughest spot at that time. It was one of the most inspirational things you could ever see. And they go, Hey, Jimmy's really in a tight spot. And everybody pitch in.”

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  30. “There's no money for inventory. There's no money to buy parts. There's no money to put vehicles on the lots. And everybody looks at each other and says we've got thousands and thousands and thousands of people who are coming into work and all of the Wall Street banks Have collapsed. And in effect, our financial pipeline's been turned off. And so one of the most painful things was The awful conduct of Wall Street It really gave Main Street the punch in the face is what happened. And in the southern part where our Chrysler transmission plant was, just the best people in the world you'd ever want to meet, they literally, every time I'd be down there, would be having a fundraiser for someone else in the community who had a challenge on this or on that.”

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  31. “Folks' main concern is, does everybody have a good job? Does everybody have a chance to see their kids go to a good school? Will every kid have a chance at decent health care? And that was always the focus of the congressional district I had. And you talked about the nine oh ten period. It was breathtaking in the pain that it caused because that was the time of the economic collapse. And we're a manufacturing community in many ways. My congressional district was in Elkhart we built RVs and we still do RV capital of the world. We do a lot of other manufacturing throughout and in the southern tier we build Chrysler transmissions. Over 5,000 people. And when Economic implosion At the time, the RV industry had three primary financers. All of them laughed within a couple of weeks. And so you have an entire industry looking at the And”

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  32. “And at first, we didn't know that it was your wife, and she's a terrific volunteer. And somebody said, wow, she's doing great. How do we make sure she comes in tomorrow? And I was like, just make sure we have, you know, plenty of ritz crackers and soda and this and that. Then I realized that that was probably not the draw. Serving the people of my community. They're such good people and We don't do the Democrat-Republican stuff. And what I mean by that is, you know, I'm... I'm proud to be part of the Democratic Party. But I'm really proud to be a hoosier and an American. And what I mean by that is”

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  33. “You know everybody feels That they serve the best congressional district in the country. And that's certainly how I felt about my friends and neighbors. And one thing I do want to mention is that working with your wife was such a great experience that her only question ever was how can we be of help? And it was great fun.”

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  34. “To give you a call when we had a poll that showed we were doing well, I said, here's where we are, we're 10 points ahead. And he goes, well, listen, you know, that means you're in the ball game, that if you're that close, things are breaking a certain way, that this is something we're going to have to keep an eye on. I said, I don't think you heard me. I'm not 10 points behind. I'm 10 points ahead. And then he loved me much more.”

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  35. “I called him, and this is like in July. And we'd seen no help. Nobody had come in, which was fine. I was more than happy to just keep plugging along, stay under the radar, do the best we could. And we got a poll that showed we were 10 points ahead in July of 2006. So I called up Rom and I said, hey, you told me, you know.”

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  36. “Ram is someone I've known for a long time, and at that point we looked and we said, you know, I think the numbers do work and we can make a difference. We can try to, because our state is a state per capita has the largest national guard. So we have more kids going off per capita than any other state. We have an incredible service dedication and I wanted to make sure that anything we were doing was being done in the right way. And I said, you know, I'll give it a shot. And Ram said in his own unique way, he said, look, when you have a poll that shows you a head, give me a call. I said, all right, we'll just do our thing. That summer of oh six”

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  37. “Unfortunately, all of it is his To decide to do that as like, look, I don't want to run just to run. That's not who we are. Does it do anything for the country? And we were really concerned about Iraq, it was that time.”

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  38. “So everybody would want to come out and vote for president And in the off years usually Democrats would pick up about five points. And we knew the next one would be in the off year. And you looked and said, you know, one or two things change. You could win. And it wasn't just to win, though. It was when I sat down with my family and said, what do you think? And they were like, oh. You know, we've got a great life. We love our country, but this is the fella you're running against is worth $75 million. You know, and the joke we had was between my opponent and I were Chris Chocolate.”

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  39. “Yes, it does, doesn't I had been out fishing Came back and was going to the store and got a call, and my daughter said, Hey, you got a call from your friend. And I said, all right. I figured they need $100 for Ned who's running for sheriff type thing. And they said, we think you'd be a great congressional candidate. And I said, that's a tough run. I said, you know, I kind of turned the page on that and trying to do my thing here. And they said, well, think about it. So we ran and we're supposed to have no chance at all and came close, came close to winning. And I knew back then the way the numbers worked and you've always been a numbers guy that in those days in the off year Democrats always did better. This was during a presidential. And in the off year. Because Indiana do better.”

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  40. “I got a call in 2000 near the end of 2003 from some of the local Democrats and I figured it was back then the numbers were a little different but you'd contribute $100 to this candidate or to that candidate and and I had been out fishing”

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  41. “And the unique thing about that was I had no intention of doing that. I was actually, the way that came about is I had been on the school board back home for some years. It was one of those things where you get a call at your house. And they said, hey, you're on the school board. And it's like, no, I'm not a candidate for the school board. You obviously have the wrong person. And they said, no, no, no. So-and-so decided that they're getting off. And we thought you could help. And I said, well, this is for the Catholic High School Board. And I was like, well, you know, I don't know. And then I said, well, then you have to tell a bishop no. And it's like, all right, I'm on the board. They said, that's your job. And I'm like, all right, I'm in.”

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  42. “From the New Deal. From the New Deal that he was sent out to the West to build bridges and do all of those kind of things. And his paycheck was sent back to his mom to help take care of the rest of the kids. And he laughed. He said, you know, I asked where my paycheck was. And they said, son, you're never going to see your paycheck. And so it was given to his mom to help take care of the family. And so, and he then served in the Navy in World War II. My uncle Tom served in the Army, in Patton's Army, was wounded, and I felt, you know, I owe something to my country. And so I took a shot. And then in 1990, I figured, you know, that's not to be, so I'll do the best I can for my town and my community, raise my family. And so I spent the next, what, 14 years or so.”

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  43. “Well, you know, when I graduated from college in'77, Later on, one of the things I missed and wished I had done was to serve in the military. I looked and I said, you know, I owe something to this country who took in my grandparents, who my dad was in the CCCs because the family had so little that he went out west to build bridges. Civil”

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  44. “That's right. I said, you know what, I want to make sure I take care of my family and focus on that. And said, I'll be more than happy to help others, but that's not for me.”

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  45. “Well, my wife will tell you that I am the guy who when he sees a parade and sees a line of stuff will go, there's a pony ahead. But after 90.”

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  46. “What he always understood was the people of our state who are incredibly kind and hard working. and are focused on the basics of faith and family and country. And that's what Birch always tried to represent. And that's what's important to everybody back home. When we look at my home state of Indiana, you look at folks who know David more than almost anything that if mom and dad have a good job, everything can work. And that's why when you talk about if we can't sell in Tokyo, they can't sell in Kokomo. All we want is fair and the chance to compete on a fair playing field. And that's kind of ingrained into who we are as Hoosiers is that we'll give it everything we have, what we expect in return is to have the rules the same for everyone.”

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  47. “That one of the great things they had back then was birch buy would have the ability to sit down with everybody else in the Senate and just say, what do you think about this? And instead of a tax starting, they go, well, why don't we tweak this part? Why don't we tweak this part? How about this? How can I make it stronger? And so it was never in us against them. It was how do we make this so it works for all the young girls in our country to have an equal chance? Tit”

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  48. “And it was an amazing thing. I would come by and spend time with him. And, you know, he'd always say it's always so great to see you here. I said, look, we're on your shoulders. And as you well know, that's how so much of this is built is on each other's shoulders.”

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  49. “An extraordinary guy, and I would visit him at MYU every year, just to touch base with him out of respect for him. Just a giant And toward the end, he started to suffer a little dementia. But he was there every day, and the people who work for him were so. Loved him so much.”

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  50. “and he wanted to come out and say hello to his family anyhow, who many of them were still out there. And I said, tell me what you're going to speak about. And, you know, it's a moderate district. And he's like, oh, we're just going to talk a little bit about, you know, education and how things are going in the country. And I said, oh, that sounds great. And then he got up and gave a barn burner stem winder against, you know, the president. I'm like, oh my gosh.”

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