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Stephanie Bice: “The president, you know, won this district by 13% in 2016.”

Featuring: Stephanie Bice, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, District 5

Conversations with Candidates: State Sen. Stephanie Bice

Published October 13, 2020 | Video Starts at 53:29

It looked like he was doing a whole list of them. Does that help you or hurt you in the 5th district of Oklahoma, you know, I think it's The president, you know, won this district by 13% in 2016. You know, I think he wants to see Republicans take over the House and take the gavel away from Pelosi, who I think we, many of us believe is very partisan in these last couple years and try to actually get stuff done. (53:29–53:35)

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Claims President Trump won her district by 13% in the 2016 election.

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“We had had, you know, my first couple of years in the state Senate, it was a $600 million budget shortfall followed by a $900 billion budget…”
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“We really hit the pause button back in March when Covid presented itself and things began to shut down in Oklahoma.”
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“These [COVID-19 vaccines] are not just being vetted by the FDA here in the US they're being vetted internationally by a lot of different…”
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“We were putting out a lot of information, talking to folks about unemployment issues and how to apply for that.”
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“We started doing Facebook town halls. We did Facebook Live. We did some Zoom calls.”
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“I was never really engaged in politics other than voting in every election.”
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“When I was 18 years old, I registered as a Republican.”
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“I was the first one to graduate from college in my family.”
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“I had 11,000 in student loans when I left Oklahoma State.”
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“In 2008, my dad called one day and he said, we have a problem.”
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“The line of credit had been exhausted and we had no cash flow.”
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“That company is still thriving today.”
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“The sitting senator at the time, he called me one day and said, I'm not running for reelection and you should consider running for my Senate…”
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“The president, along with Congress, took some immediate action to try to, you know, stem the spread [of COVID-19].”
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“Certainly we were short on PPE and other things, which is a supply chain issue, particularly dealing with the Chinese.”
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“A majority of deaths are happening in that over 55 to 65 population, and oftentimes it's nursing home residents that are being impacted.”
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“The governor has tried to stockpile PPE to make sure that we're able to give it, you know, to those facilities that do need it.”
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“The president invested a lot of money with several different pharmaceutical companies to try to get something out quickly.”
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“Believe there's now five pharma companies that have a vaccine in production, or, I'm sorry, in phase three trials.”
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“The FDA is putting all their efforts into making sure that we get this drug out as quickly as possible and it will be safe.”
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“In Oklahoma, we've got 5.7% unemployment right now, and 5% is considered full employment.”
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“There's still money sitting out there. And I think that, you know that the speaker is being grossly negligent and at least not allowing that…”
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“There's still actually dollars out there that haven't been spent on the state and local aid front.”
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“We do not have broadband.”
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“OKCPS made the decision to go virtual for the first nine weeks.”
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“The majority of the dollars did go to public school schools, which was the right decision.”
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“There's already some infrastructure, I believe in Stillwater that it's set up that would lend itself to having a health lab there.”
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“We really as legislators weren't given a lot of information about [the health lab move] before the announcement.”
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“I've had constituents that have reached out to me in the last few days that were employees of the health lab that are pretty shocked.”
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“I certainly think a couple of my colleagues are looking at putting forth some legislation that may put pump the brakes, if nothing else, to…”
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“You mentioned the ACA case that's before the Supreme Court and the potential repeal. But I think that's also highly speculative and we don't…”
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“Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a constitutional lawyer who has an impeccable judicial record and has been lauded by both sides of the aisle.”
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“There are pieces of ACA that I do think that could be questionable constitutionally, could be a violation of that.”
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“We have hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans that have chronic diseases.”
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“One of the things that the ACA promised was you can keep your doctor. I don't think that's been true.”
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“It also said that, you know, costs would go down. That didn't happen. I'm paying more now than I ever have before for health care coverage…”
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“I think it was sort of passed, you know, undercover in the dark of night with not a lot of time to be able to really look at all of the…”
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“Whatever we do, however we move forward with this, it does have to cover pre existing conditions.”
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“There are thousands of Oklahomans that have a chronic disease.”
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“I wasn't for [Medicaid expansion]. I want to be very clear about my position on that because I don't want it to be misconstrued. I was…”
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“Right now there is a 90% federal match with a 10% state match. My fear, Chris, is that that'll change in the future.”
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“If you looked at Governor Stitt's Medicaid expansion plan back in the legislative session, I did support that.”
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“The science, you know, says that climate change is real.”
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“The United States was sort of beholden to [the Paris Climate Accord]. And there are other countries that really weren't meeting the same…”
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“You've even seen things like an expansion of, you know, solar and wind energy across the state of Oklahoma.”
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“Gavin Newsom saying, I don't want any fossil fuel vehicles by 2035.”
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“We spent decades trying to become energy independent in this country.”
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“We still use a lot of fossil fuel products, petroleum products, across the globe.”
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“Banning drilling and exploration becomes problematic because you're going to start being reliant on foreign oil again.”
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“We have a balanced budget. You can't spend what you don't have.”
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“We also have a cap on our rainy day fund, and that's a constitutional cap.”
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“On the federal level, it's a very different conversation, though, because we have unlimited spending.”
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“Right now I think we're under unique circumstances. This is a difficult situation and we've got to continue to make sure our economy is…”
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“Congress could look at additional funding [for police].”
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“My opponent actually voted to take [qualified immunity] away.”
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“The fraternal order of police, over 6,000 law enforcement officers endorsed me in this race.”
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“Our division actually does minimum quarterly training to address things like, you know, de-escalation tactics.”
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“Body cams are not cheap. And when you're having to outfit every officer 247 and keep that video on file for months and years at a time, it's…”
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