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Jeff Hurd: “This is an issue that should be left to the states.”

Featuring: Jeff Hurd, Republican | U.S. House Colorado, District 3

Jeff Hurd and Adam Frisch debate in Pueblo

Published September 30, 2024 | Video Starts at 34:04

No, I would not. I'm pro life with exceptions. But I do believe there are federal issues and there are state issues, and This is an issue that should be left to the states. And I say that as a constitutional conservative, somebody that believes in our federalist system of government. So that's something I've been consistent on and clear on from the very beginning of running. (34:04–34:07)

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Asserts that abortion should be a state issue.

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“We need to secure our border, grow our economy, especially energy, and protect our water and the farmers and ranchers that feed us.”
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“The fourth congressional district is a very rural district. The third also is very rural.”
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“When it comes to rural issues, when it comes to economic development, when it comes to ag policy and when it comes to energy as well, there…”
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“Adam takes corporate money. He does this little dance where he talks about, I don't take corporate PAC money, but he takes money from…”
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“We need to grow our energy sector. We do everything we can. The cost of energy operates in bad democratic policies, operate as a hidden tax…”
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“He also takes direct money from the trial lawyers themselves as well.”
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“We grow crops here in Pueblo county, in Otero county, and Los Animas county, not houses in Aurora.”
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“We also need to protect the Colorado River Compact.”
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“He talked about renewing or renegotiating the Colorado River Compact of 1922.”
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“We need to do what we can to reform NEPA.”
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“We also need to work hard to get rid of the invasive species, the so called phreatophytes, the russian olive and the tamarisk.”
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“Protect the compact, build more high altitude distributed storage throughout the state.”
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“In Pueblo county, there are only 500 housing permits issued every year. We need 1400.”
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“Bad democratic energy policy, like my opponent would support in Congress, is operating as a hidden tax.”
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“Environmental regulations, like the National Environmental Policy Act, add time delay fees and costs to housing.”
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“We have huge infrastructure projects here in southeast Colorado that we need to be taking care of.”
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“Kamala Harris's $25,000 to every home buyer solution is going to only drive costs up.”
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“The Arkansas Valley conduit project is a key issue here in southeast Colorado.”
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“Rural healthcare...is something that the next Congress needs to be focused on.”
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“We need to make sure that we're providing for mental health care.”
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“It is very difficult to know how much procedures cost and that's not right.”
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“20% of our GDP is spent on health care costs.”
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“We are not getting the value out of those dollars.”
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“I'm pro life with exceptions.”
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“The same guy that's talking about freedom and individuality is the same guy that's advancing economic policies that shut down Comanche.”
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“They're also shutting down the coal fired power plant up in Craig power station, which is wrong, and that's un environmental and that's…”
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“I would not [vote in favor of a bill to ban abortion at the federal level].”
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“I think it's 35 trillion now, though, Ernest.”
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“Those of you that have paid into Social Security, that relied on it should absolutely 100% keep your benefits, no matter what, period, is my…”
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“Defense is something that needs to stay.”
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“How about something earnest like an across the board 5% cut or holding costs or decreasing by 3%?”
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“I would be in support of a balanced budget amendment.”
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“We need to make sure that we protect the Social Security that all of you folks have paid into and are relying on.”
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“We need to be looking at ways that long term we can make sure that Social Security and Medicare are solvent.”
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“If we can increase revenues in the dollars that are coming into the system, that will help with solvency long term.”
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“How about an exemption from, for HQA workers from state overtime requirements? That's killing our aging, our farmers, killing our ranchers.”
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“I would like natural resources and energy and commerce.”
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“We are not following the law [regarding the Congressional Budget Act of 1973].”
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“The Congressional Budget Act of 1973 requires twelve separate appropriations bills.”
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“I would have voted to increase [the debt ceiling] the last time around.”
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“I'm very concerned about the risks of defaulting on our federal debt.”
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“I think we need some guardrails [regarding the debt ceiling].”
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“Colorado has a higher [minimum wage].”
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“The market does way better than the government command and control telling us what we have to pay employees.”
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“Our agriculture industry, our hunting industry is already under assault.”
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“Ballot box decisions that are being made that are really hurtful to our district.”
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“I have serious concerns about ranked choice voting, and I think it confuses people.”
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“There's no one type of ranked choice voting.”
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“I believe congressionally directed spending is an important part of what a representative can do.”
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“Those 39 communities that are relying on the Arkansas river conduit project are able to get affordable and reliable drinking water.”
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“After all legal means and challenges have been exhausted and that the result is upheld, then that's how our democracy works.”
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“I believe that's, remember what I said my first priority, the constitution of the United States and then the third congressional district.”
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“We as Republicans are right. When it comes to securing the border, when it comes to energy independence and growing our economy.”
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“The best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to grow our Colorado energy economy.”
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“Support the high BTU, low mercury, low sulfur coal that we have here, some of the cleanest natural gas molecules in the world.”
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“The shutdown of Comanche means the loss of hundreds of jobs, millions of dollars in economic revenue, and it's bad policy.”
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“We need to figure out how we're going to get the resources to provide the adequacy that we need to provide reliable electric load.”
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“My opponent voted to add a fee on carbon-based fossil fuels when he was in 2016 on the Aspen City Council.”
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“My opponent was part of an Aspen environmentalist group pushing carbon-free, net-zero energy and environmental justice.”
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“The Holy Grail is 100% renewable energy produced locally in your own zip code.”
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“We need to stand up for Colorado energy families by growing our traditional hydrocarbon industries.”
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“I'm in favor of best of the above energy, which can include renewables as well.”
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“We need to make sure that we have adequate resources to serve the load that is growing in this district and in our country.”
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“Nuclear is it's coming in the future. It's clean, it's also safe, and it's reliable, and it will lower costs.”
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“What we need to do, Ernest, to answer your question specifically, is get rid of the government regulation.”
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“Environmental review processes, construction processes, there are ways that we can advance that faster and more effectively.”
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“I do share the concerns that Adam had about federal lands management, that shuts off oil and gas, that restricts our ability to graze…”
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“I am not from Aspen.”
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“I don't have millions of dollars to run on endless tv ads.”
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