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Dustin Burrows: “I look forward to revisiting some of those old ideas because…”

Featuring: Dustin Burrows, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 83

A conversation with Reps. Dustin Burrows & Drew Darby

Published January 19, 2017 | Video Starts at 59:21

Really creative, great thoughts. Before the Affordable Care act came down, they all seem to have been silenced and stopped once that came down. I look forward to revisiting some of those old ideas because I think we can do a better job and take care of a lot of the concerns that you did raise. Good. It's 1:00. I promised you I would let you all back into the world at one. How wonderful to have a chance to talk to Chairman Darby and Representative Burroughs. (59:21–59:29)

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Asserts intent to revisit previous state-level healthcare ideas to address current concerns.

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“The House budget that's been laid out is a very good budget. It goes ahead and takes care of some of the needs of this area with respect to…”
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“The Supreme Court made the right decision just based on the law.”
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“Small schools are being penalized just for being small and rural.”
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“It costs more to get calculus teachers and physics teachers out to West Texas.”
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“Right now I don't believe that's factored in accordingly.”
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“It is harder to attract some of the teachers and retain the teachers we need in these small schools right now.”
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“I do have an issue with calling some of my schools F. They're not F schools.”
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“They're not. I just know they're not. They're great schools, great kids, great superintendents.”
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“Some of the schools that I saw are not F schools.”
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“My priorities are funding for rural schools.”
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“I'm not going to be filing a bill anytime soon to bring school choice, but I'll at least listen.”
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“You have got to have accountability. If tax dollars follow, I mean, if we're talking about, you know, special education, you know, vouchers…”
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“It's their job to do it. One of the few roles the federal government ought to be is secure our border.”
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“We're still having [drug busts], it's still getting here, but it's coming around through Arizona and New Mexico.”
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“A technological wall and an increased forces seems to be what made the most sense.”
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“My hope is for full repeal [of the Affordable Care Act] and let Texas have the responsibility of figuring it out.”
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“Price transparency is the key and then trying to put market forces in there.”
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“The speaker has called to restore the Medicaid therapy cuts, fully support his initiative to do that.”
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“We have provided more money, which is the number one thing. They wanted to hire more people so that we reduced the caseload and pay them…”
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“We are making the appropriations to what the core things they've asked.”
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“The House actually has a much more thoughtful version [of the bathroom bill].”
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“[Matt Shaheen's bill] simply says we're not going to go have HERO ordinances.”
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“[Matt Shaheen's bill opposes] local ordinances that try to do what HERO did, which basically makes LGBTQ a protected class.”
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“Some of these discrimination ordinances have gotten a little bit out of control in other parts of the country.”
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“You're going to have this patchwork of ideas that aren't good for the economy of the state of Texas.”
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“I think there's economic predictions, but I think that some of them are probably inflated.”
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“The budget we put out is obviously the conversation you and I continue to have. Very thoughtful, very good House budget and really think it…”
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“When you have a commodities based economy, especially oil and gas and all your property values continue to go up and up and up because we're…”
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“I tried to amend the rules to put it on the top of every fiscal bill. What is the local impact?”
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“Well, they just said the predicted floor we need is seven and a half billion dollars.”
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“We obviously have more money in the account than seven and a half million.”
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“Especially we have seven and a half, more than seven and a half million billion dollars already in the economy.”
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“There were some really great conversations happening in the state about how to address a lot of these issues. Really creative, great…”
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