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Matt Cartwright: “I ran for Congress 10 years ago to become a powerful…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

Pennsylvania 8th Congressional District Debate

Published October 21, 2022 | Video Starts at 06:54

Mr. Cartwright, two minutes. Thank you Larry. And thank you to WVIA and all its partners and all our panelists for taking part this Evening. I ran for Congress 10 years ago to become a powerful, effective voice for northeastern Pennsylvania. And boy, do we need that now more than ever. I made it to the top of the U.S. house Appropriations Committee. (06:54–07:03)

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“I made it to the top of the U.S. house Appropriations Committee.”
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“I have brought back nearly $72 million to fund our police and for other worthy projects locally in the community.”
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“I brought back billions from the ija, the Infrastructure and Jobs act, finally to clean up our abandoned mine lands.”
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“I have worked across the aisle as the most bipartisan Democrat in the Congress over the last 10 years.”
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“I have a 77.1 voting average of voting along with Republicans in the votes that I've cast in the House of Representatives.”
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“My opponent... wants to have a national ban on abortion with no exceptions. No exception for rape, no exception for incest. No exception…”
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“I'm a co sponsor of Social Security 2100 to adjust it to raise the cap so that more people pay into it longer and so the solvency lasts…”
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“Social Security is money you paid into. It's an insurance program.”
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“Rick Scott is a senator from Florida and he said the quiet part out loud for Republicans when he said he thinks all federal legislation…”
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“That means eliminating Social Security, eliminating Medicare, eliminating all kinds of rights.”
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“One of the reasons I supported the Inflation Reduction act is that it will reduce the deficit by $200 billion this decade.”
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“All of that money can go towards shoring up Social Security, and that's what we intend for it to do.”
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“I voted for the Women's Health Protection act of 2021 and 2022.”
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“I voted for the anti price gouging bill to crack down on big oil.”
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“I voted for a crackdown on ocean shipping cost profiteering.”
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“I voted for the chips plus bill to bring it all back from China so we can make it in America.”
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“I am helping bring the Nacero plant to Luzerne county, working with the Ways and Means Committee.”
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“By January, seniors drug costs are going to start coming down. Their co pays and their insulin will be capped.”
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“Health insurance premiums are coming down as well.”
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“Oh, I think we can have local control over gun access.”
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“I'm in favor of sensible gun safety laws.”
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“My opponent took that audio tape and doctored the tape to make it sound like I said yes to the defunding the police question.”
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“I favor more aid for Ukraine. I don't favor giving them a blank check.”
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“I support enforcing the rule of law.”
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“I voted for over a billion dollars to build a wall on our southern border.”
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“I also voted for Kate's Law to increase criminal penalties for violent criminals who reenter the U.S. illegally after being deported.”
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“I also broke with the Biden administration in their attempt to lift the current Title 42 restrictions on processing applications.”
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“Mr. Trump held [up Javelin missiles] to try to get dirt on Joe Biden. I didn't think that was right. I thought that was an impeachable…”
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“Many [big corporations] pay little, some of them pay no taxes even though they're making record profits.”
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“I support marriage equality. I have for over 10 years.”
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“I would vote to codify [marriage equality] as well.”
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“I first ran to support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
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“In the two years before Governor Corbett accepted the Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, we lost two…”
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“My aim is to get as many people covered as possible because it gives us local, strong, financially sound hospitals.”
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“I make no secret of the fact that I like the idea of Medicare for All, but it has to be done in a way that does not hurt existing enrollees…”
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“My opponents attack Ads are paid for by dark money super PACs. We're not even sure if it's American money.”
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“I vote 77% of the time with Republicans who voted the same way.”
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“President Trump liked [my bill on kidney donation], and he turned my bill into an executive order, and he signed it.”
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“He also signed my bill, the Veterans Care Financial Protection act of 2017.”
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“Climate change is real, unfortunately, and we feel it around here.”
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“I never said I would ban fracking.”
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“Price gouging by the oil companies was a big target of mine.”
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“They had to make a public filing of what they were doing, who they were doing it for, and how much they were paid to do it.”
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“They were making $150,000 a month from the Saudi royal family to lobby against the American victims of 9 11.”
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“He was supposed to fill out a form about where he had been working and he never filled it out.”
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