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Featuring: Blake Moore, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 1st Congressional District

Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore

Published July 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 14:23

University of Utah Health plans. Find your health insurance plan @uofuhealthplan utah.edu the upward mobility piece that I mentioned. Pretty straightforward. I love pro growth tax policy, people. When In 2017, we lowered taxes, but we're actually growing. We grew the economy in a way that brought more revenue back into our US System. and we've made that permanent and Like I mentioned, the cool best America Trump account piece that's going to change the way kids grow. (14:23–14:32)

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Asserts that the 2017 tax cuts led to economic growth and increased revenue.

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“Six year olds are going to now be earning interest, whereas before they weren't starting those 401s or IRAs until they're 30.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 10:07-10:15
“Since the Tea Party movement when it was the main thing, it's tripled.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 12:36-12:40
“We reduced the deficit by $360 billion, but tariffs were a part of it and they were ruled unconstitutional through the IIPA process.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 16:36-16:46
“We run a $2 trillion deficit every year.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 33:00-33:04
“Mandatory spending... now consumes over 77% [of the budget].”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 33:16-33:59
“I served in the intelligence community.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 06:02-06:04
“The company that I worked for, Cicero, was very involved both, you know, private, nonprofit, and public sector work.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 06:05-06:14
“I took over his [Dan Jones'] practice when he sort of passed the baton on.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 06:26-06:30
“Cicero is a management consulting firm, but we owned Dan Jones, and we use that call center and that capability to run marketing research…”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 06:36-06:45
“Our bill just passed with more support than it did the previous Congress.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 10:37-10:42
“We passed the bill out of committee on Ways and Means.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 10:37-10:42
“We got more Democrats on board with this one and the administration's making moves on it.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 10:41-10:49
“Passing a great Salt Lake bill, doing stuff in this industry that matters for people, making tax policy, pro growth tax policy, permanent.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 11:08-11:16
“Debt and deficit issue... it's gone up significantly since I've been in Congress.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 12:29-12:34
“The Fiscal Commission act passed, and that was in the 118th Congress.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 12:52-13:00
“We passed it with unanimous support out of the House back end of last year, so end of 2025.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 18:51-18:59
“What this bill does is it ensures that the University of Utah will be able to continue to use and access Research Park area for the reasons…”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 18:58-19:15
“Public lands, federal lands are such a tough issue to reckon with.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 19:29-19:35
“That swath of area, that land has, you know, it's got federal ownership of it, but it's been leased or deemed usable to the university.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 19:51-20:00
“We're working some angles to try to move it along through the National Defense Authorization act, because there's some angles there.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 20:52-20:59
“Fort Douglas is going to fully move their facility out to [the southwestern part of the valley].”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 21:55-22:08
“The University is going to be able to then use [Fort Douglas] for housing.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 22:19-22:22
“R and D expensing was the standard for a long time until 2017 when Republicans changed it.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 25:13-25:22
“Up until 2017 you could use everything that you spent, whether it be labor costs, capital costs, anything.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 26:12-26:20
“We moved it to a five year amortization so you could do 20% each year.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 26:28-26:33
“We as a group of Ways and Means Republicans said hey, we know folks are concerned about this.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 27:41-27:47
“We were able to re establish it in this last year make it, make a lot of it retroactive for small businesses.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 27:59-28:05
“The bill on its own is entirely bipartisan.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 28:15-28:19
“We just passed a housing bill, broad bipartisan support.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 29:20-29:23
“R D is back to, back to the normal way that it is. You can expense it within the first year and that's permanent.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 29:47-29:55
“The last time we made one major change to Social Security was like in 1983, maybe with Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 33:59-34:07
“We can cover that $2 trillion deficit because we are able to sell enough Treasuries.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 35:24-35:30
“We don't have a balanced budget anytime in the next little while.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 36:42-36:45
“MSET... it's Medicare coverage for breakthrough technologies.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 36:58-37:19
“MSET... is making sure that Medicare coverage exists for these technologies [breakthrough technologies].”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 36:58-38:22
“Trump first administration, they embraced it [MSET], they started doing it.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 40:36-40:40
“Biden administration changed it [MSET], pulled it back a little bit.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 40:40-40:54
“We're hopeful that this rulemaking... should be done in the next few months.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 41:19-41:25
“Once you codify it [MSET] and make it law, then it doesn't go away so quick.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 41:54-41:58
“Both Trump and Biden administrations stood the test of time [regarding a policy].”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 42:03-42:08
“It's got merit and it's worth making this into law.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 42:08-42:13
“Biohive...it's substantive, it's well researched. It's got broad support from the community, from various industries.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 42:28-42:48
“There was so much gusto for the administration to come in and we're going to figure out all this autism stuff.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 46:29-46:36
“There was a lot of over delivering there that I was like, how, how is it going to happen that quickly?”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 46:37-46:43
“There's no way the prevalence of this [autism]...was as prevalent as it is now.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 48:26-48:34
“There's something out there, and there's something that we can do on research.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 48:34-48:38
“Our nation is still in a position to be the most competitive and a world leader in virtually every area.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 49:19-49:30
“Anytime some new technological breakthrough happens, the US has been in a position to lead.”
Hive Capital: How Public Policy Shapes the Future of Life Sciences | Representative Blake Moore | Uploaded July 22, 2026 | 50:20-50:26