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Tom Cole: “The Labor, Health and Human Services and Education…”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

Cole on Congress with guest Rep. John Moolenaar

Published May 3, 2017 | Video Starts at 03:22

Well, tell us a little bit again about your priorities now that you're in Congress. What are the things that interest you the most? Again, we serve together on The Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Subcommittee spends $163 billion. a lot of money. It's after defense, the second largest appropriated budget that we have, $163 billion. But not very many Republicans like to come and deal with those issues. (03:22–03:30)

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“Our individual rates are going up 69% on the Obamacare exchange and there's only a single provider left in the state.”
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“The Federal government spends $250 billion a year looking after Alzheimer's patients through Medicaid.”
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“In 1941, almost one out of every five Americans, 19% lived on a farm or a ranch. Today it's less than 3%.”
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“We've done 15 of these congressional Review Acts, which undo regulations from the previous administration. Nobody else had ever done more…”
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“It's after defense, the second largest appropriated budget that we have.”
Cole on Congress with guest Rep. John Moolenaar | Uploaded May 3, 2017 | 03:22-03:28
“We're locked in the middle of a great health care debate right now.”
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“None of us know precisely how that's going to end up in terms of whether or not we can pass the Republican crafted bill or not.”
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“In my home state, Obamacare has just been a disaster. We're not a Medicaid expansion state.”
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“We're in the middle of a budget crisis out there right now anyway.”
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“They've been struggling with closing deficit holes for three consecutive sessions.”
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“Anybody that thinks it's going to stay at 90% when for most Medicare or Medicaid patients, I think the national average is the federal…”
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“The National Institute of Health and the center for Disease Control, which I always say are extraordinarily important.”
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“The national institute is about $32 billion this year, which we're going to make 34, and CDC is a little over 7, which we're going to push…”
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“In 2003, when we reached the peak of the doubling period, we were funding about one out of every three research requests a dozen years…”
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“Last year's turnaround has had, frankly, an immediate impact, both in terms of we now fund about one out of five.”
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“They're feeding a country that has three times as many people they're exporting all over the world.”
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“We get food at a cheaper price as a percentage of our income than anybody else.”
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“Scott Pruitt's from my state, our former attorney General.”
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“The waters of the U.S. i mean, people that don't know that that was the agricultural community, various farm groups that actually took the…”
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“I think we've got a good shot, you know, this year we'll get the omnibus done within the next couple of weeks and fully fund government at…”
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“We won't spend any more money than we did last year and the year before.”
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“Let's put more money in idea, which is money to help kids with disabilities, and ship it out of Washington back to local school districts.”
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