And I'll tell you, Ben, this, this is actually the culmination of what I set out to do when I got elected to the Senate. I mean, this is, this was your dream. That's now reality. So when I was first elected, The very first op ed I ever wrote in the Senate in January of 2013 was called the rise of opportunity conservatism. And what it said is that every policy, every economic policy we look at should focus on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder, focus on opportunity. (19:15–19:29)
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