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Stephanie Bice: “We really hit the pause button back in March when Covid…”

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

Conversations with Candidates: State Sen. Stephanie Bice

Published October 13, 2020 | Video Starts at 01:31

So what's this been like? It's different. I think that for me, the campaign was then cut into chunks. We really hit the pause button back in March when Covid presented itself and things began to shut down in Oklahoma. So from middle of March to really beginning of May, we really didn't do much from the campaign side because we were really focused on making sure that we were being cautious with what was happening. (01:31–01:38)

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Asserts that the campaign paused in March due to COVID-19 shutdowns 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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“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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“The president, you know, won this district by 13% in 2016.”
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