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Beth Van Duyne: “One of the bills that we have is, is attacking Davis Bacon…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46).

Published May 8, 2023 | Video Starts at 04:25

And it really made no sense. But what we do know is that it drastically increased the cost of building a new home. So One of the bills that we have is, is attacking Davis Bacon and getting rid of that. Even the people who worked in Davis Bacon didn't appreciate, you know, approve of Davis Bacon. (04:25–04:30)

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Asserts that she is working on a bill to eliminate the Davis-Bacon Act.

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“Two of the bills that I am trying to pass is really to help people get into homeownership.”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 02:43-02:51
“Years ago when we looked at the cost of building, building a new home, for example, in California, 40% of that new cost had to do with…”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 03:33-03:44
“The second thing that I'm trying to do is make sure that people can take money that they are put in an IRA and put it away into a home.”
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“I want to increase the amount that people can put away for a home, take out of their IRA from 10,000 to 30,000.”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 04:58-05:05
“I think it's got a good likelihood with this Congress to get passed.”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 05:36-05:40
“What we're seeing coming out of the White House just last week, which is hurting people who have great credit and who have worked hard to…”
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“People are getting paid more to stay at home. They can't compete with what the government is giving them not to work.”
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“The Biden administration is doing on its green tax credits and its green tax plan, it's really making and demonizing our energy industry in…”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 09:24-09:35
“We're seeing inflation as a direct result of these [Biden administration's] policies.”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 09:38-09:38
“We are emboldening, enriching, empowering China at the loss of the U.S. and U.S. businesses.”
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“We have always been able to maintain in the last four years of the Trump administration, energy independence.”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 10:11-10:16
“EPA regulations and how that is causing everything to increase in cost but also decrease in the amount of volume of energy that we're…”
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“We produce energy cleaner than any other country.”
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“I don't think that you can overstress the risk that, that China poses to the US Right now.”
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“We are losing the fight with China. China is engaged in those conversations with foreign countries around the world.”
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“China has been very aggressive and very proactive in forming those relationships with our allies.”
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“The US has just been silent [in forming relationships with foreign countries] especially in the last two years.”
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“Three quarters of our tax base was paid for by business taxes.”
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“This administration is trying to increase the size of the Small Business Administration to be able to compete with private banks.”
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“We're paying people more to stay at home... taking away the incentive of people to go to work.”
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“The inflation is killing [small businesses] and we have to do everything that we can to stop that.”
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“I'm the chairman now of Oversight for Small Business.”
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“What we've had the Small Business Administration do is if those loans, if those amounts were under 100,000, they're just dropping them.”
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“That's billions, billions of dollars that were fraudulently given away that we're, what I've heard is we're never going to get back.”
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“Democrats, the second round really were not paying attention to what happened the first time, which was paying people more to stay home than…”
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“One of the bills that I tried to pass last session, which I'm going to be reintroducing this year, is how to do the regulations.”
A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46). | Uploaded May 8, 2023 | 25:00-25:08
“You could not add a regulation unless it was budget negative or budget neutral.”
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“What we've heard from our small business community is these, these taxes are killing us and they're affecting us.”
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“If you look at the 14 plus percent of inflation since Biden took office, people are, that's, that's, that's more than a month of a paycheck…”
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“We are seeing untold numbers of people go through [Mexico] to come illegally into [the United States].”
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“These include people who are sex trafficking, who are drug trafficking, and who are on the terrorist watch list.”
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“Drug cartels and human trafficking cartels in [Mexico] are making billions of dollars at our expense.”
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“We've had over 107,000 people die from fentanyl.”
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“Fentanyl is being brought into [Mexico] from China.”
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“We are seeing millions of people being let in [to the U.S.].”
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“Our communities are being flown there at taxpayer expense, dropped off and then never heard from again.”
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“We are having people who are brought, children included, who are being brought on farms, illegal marijuana farms worked to death.”
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“They're being put in meat packing plants working, you know, the graveyard shift at the tender age of 14.”
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“We just passed a bill related to this. Saving women in women's sports, protecting women in women's sports.”
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“Everyone but one Democrat voted to allow abortion up until the moment of birth.”
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“Previously, that had been unheard of in our country.”
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