00:00How did that help American farmers? You can't even go to the grocery store and
00:04know if it's American or where in the world it came from, where they have
00:08different laws that govern food safety. Oh, but it says USDA. Well, that must be
00:15USA. No, that is not USA beef. Let me talk about some of the things that I've
00:21done since I've been in Congress. In 2014, working with Jared Polis again here,
00:27well, wait, wait, wait, that's a dirty word, across the aisle. You shouldn't be
00:31working across the aisle, Congressman Massey. Don't do that. We got to have a
00:35bunch of fake bills that go down party lines that we can use against the other
00:39party in this next election. We don't want anything, and whatever you do,
00:44don't co-sponsor some Democrats bill. You're just giving credence to to the
00:48other side, to the other viewpoint. Well, I ignored that and I worked with Earl
00:53Blumenauer and Jared Polis, and we got the hemp bill in the farm bill. And I'm
01:00not afraid to tell you, I did a little R&D to come up with that hemp bill. I
01:05ripped off and duplicated it. That's what R&D stands for. I ripped off and
01:09duplicated that bill from Ron Paul, and it became a law and it created an entire
01:14industry. It was just a little thing in the farm bill. Just a little pilot program
01:19that grew into an industry that helped my state, Kentucky, created an industry
01:23that's at least a billion dollars in Kentucky. Well, now they're trying to
01:26destroy it, but that's another, that's for another day. What am I doing now too?
01:32Right now, that was in 2014. Have you heard about this beef product, ground beef
01:38product that's going to come from a foreign country at 75% of market price? How do you
01:43get something at 75% of market price? Well, I can tell you what, it ain't grade A
01:48prime if it's 75% of market price. Somebody else didn't want to buy it. And
01:53that's what they're talking about bringing 300,000 metric tons. They tell you in tons,
01:59so you don't realize that's 600 million pounds. That's a billion, that's two billion
02:04quarter pounders, folks. That's how much they're going to bring here to this
02:09country. Is that going to help farmers? No, it's not going to help farmers. It was
02:14never intended to help farmers. It's not even going to help consumers because what
02:17it's going to do is going to run more farmers out of business in this country.
02:21And when we run out of the 300 metric boatloads or whatever it is of ground
02:25beef product, they won't have our own farmers here. They won't survive through
02:30these manipulations of the market. Well, the solution has been here all along since
02:352015. As a fully participating member of Congress, I introduced the Prime Act. By
02:42the way, this is back in 2015. What else happened? This body got rid of country of
02:48origin labeling for beef and pork. How did that help American farmers? You can't
02:53even go to the grocery store and know if it's American or where in the world it came
02:57from, where they have different laws that govern food safety. Oh, but it says USDA. Well, that
03:04must be USA. No, that is not USA beef. So what was my solution? It's called the Prime
03:13Act. I say it's my solution, but I got to give credit to Shelley Pingree. Across the
03:17aisle. Oh man, there's that dirty word again. Across the aisle. Working with
03:22Democrats on a bill that could help farmers and consumers. What does the Prime
03:26Act do? It says, you know what? If you're a small farmer and a small processor and
03:32you're not crossing state lines and you're raising your healthy beef right
03:36there in your own county and you want to sell it to a neighbor in your own county,
03:40your own state, you can use a local processor. And as long as the state or a
03:45county health inspector is watching that process, you don't need the federal
03:49government there. You don't need a million dollars regulation at a company
03:54that has 10 employees. They cut up more meat at the at the steakhouse down the
04:01street in a day than most of these processors cut up in a week. They don't
04:05have a USDA inspector. You don't need a USDA inspector. You just need local
04:10inspection like free restaurants. So that's the bill that Shelley Pingree and I
04:13came up with as fully participating members of Congress in 2015 in response to
04:19the repeal of the country of origin labeling, which I voted against the repeal. By
04:23the way, your cell phone's labeled, your suits labeled, your shoes are labeled, your car's
04:29labeled. Everything's labeled with country of origin except for beef and pork. Why is
04:34that? Because there's some greedy corporations that convinced the World
04:39Trade Organization and this body to get rid of those labels so they could sell you
04:44foreign food and make you think it was USDA because it has USDA label on it. Where is
04:51the Prime Act right now? Well, Massey, that was a great idea, but you didn't do
04:55anything with it. Oh, no. You all voted for it. It's in the it's in the farm bill. It's
05:01in the House farm bill. I worked hard across the aisle with the chairman of that
05:06committee and he did town halls across the country and found out that this is
05:11what people want and this would solve two problems. It would three problems. It
05:15would lower the price of food in the supermarket. It would make our farmers
05:19more successful and the quality of what you eat would go up. That's what I've
05:24done as a fully participating member of Congress. You know what else I remember
05:29doing as a fully participating member of Congress? I stood at this microphone on
05:35the night the big budget-busting bill passed. Some people called it beautiful. I
05:46said, from this podium, we are not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic for
05:52this country. We are putting coal in the boiler and setting a course for the
05:57iceberg. I said, if you look, I like to cut taxes. Two of my bills were in the big
06:03bill. No tax on tips and reducing tax for senior citizens on Social Security. Why
06:11not? Massey, why wouldn't you vote for that? Because I refuse to lie to my
06:15constituents. I refuse to lie to them. I'm not going to tell them that you can cut
06:22taxes and increase spending and the debt will go down. That's a lie. You could, no
06:29grade schooler who's done the least bit of math would believe it. But we, some of
06:35my colleagues stood here and told that lie and I wasn't willing to tell it and I
06:40wasn't willing to vote for it. I said it would cause massive inflation. On that night
06:44over a year ago when I gave my speech, I said the bond market is also going to
06:49react poorly to this. Interest rates will go up because they see we are not serious
06:54about dealing with the debt. They see that one day we are going to default. And I
07:00called a spade a spade and I voted against the big beautiful bill and I'm
07:03proud that I did. Because it's a terrible bill and it's what's caused this
07:09inflation. Part of what's caused this inflation. Let me tell you something else
07:14I've done here over the years. I worked with my colleague from California, Zoe
07:18Lofgren, on privacy. You know you're being spied on by our own country without a
07:24warrant and contravention of the U.S. Constitution. Zoe Lofgren and I got an
07:30amendment passed many years ago into the appropriations bill to ban that. Well the
07:36Senate threw it in the trash. But we can't control what the Senate does. And
07:41that's one thing that I got done. I've been here as a fully participating member
07:46of Congress. The sole voice for inventors on the Judiciary Committee. I've
07:53introduced pro patent legislation, pro small business legislation. There's this
08:01misunderstanding. People think, oh, Apple, Google, Microsoft. They just use those
08:06inventions to keep the little guys from getting into their markets. No. Apple,
08:12Google, Microsoft. They're slow moving. They got employees there. I mean they got
08:16some good ones but a lot of them are just punching the clock. They've
08:19accumulated some weight. The fast nimble companies. The people in their garages.
08:25Little girls at science fairs invent things that even Google or Apple couldn't
08:30think of. And then when they patent them, Google and Apple do everything they can to
08:36steal the idea. To invalidate the patent. And I have worked for the small inventors
08:42to make it a level playing field so that the little guys can compete. So that their
08:46patents won't get stolen by the big guys. I've been doing that for as long as I've
08:51been in Congress. I got a bipartisan bill passed here recently just this spring to
09:00improve the reporting of the NICS database. This is the background check
09:04that they do on whether you could before you can buy the gun or not. Well guess
09:08what? The error rate there is astounding. There's a hundred thousand false denials of
09:14the Second Amendment rights of people every year the DOJ has admitted. And they only
09:19prosecute about twelve of them every year. Why is that? Because most of them are
09:22false denials. But here's one thing I discovered. If your name is similar to
09:26somebody else's name, they're going to deny you. And then you got to appeal. If you
09:31don't win that first appeal, you got to go hire a lawyer. And justice, if it's delayed,
09:37it ain't justice. And so what I did, I went, I dug deeper. My friend John Lott, who's a
09:44researcher and an analyst, and he actually worked at the DOJ and got a look at this
09:49data. It turns out if you're a minority, if you are black, you're three times as
09:53likely to share a name with somebody else who has a name, who's been in prison for a
09:59year or more. Because we share names within our groups, within our ethnicities. If
10:06you're Hispanic, you're twice as likely to get falsely denied the purchase of a
10:10firearm. Because you share names with other people who are Hispanic, who have
10:15been to jail. And I don't think, whether you're Hispanic, black, white, or Asian,
10:21anybody, should be falsely denied. If a bank, banks do background checks. We should
10:27let the banks do these. If the banks had an error rate like this, that was
10:31racially prejudiced, they'd be sued out of existence. But the government gets away
10:36with it. So I got a bill passed here unanimously to report by race and
10:43ethnicity. I don't want to collect more data on Americans, but that stuff's
10:46already collected. It's on the form. Just give us the data. And I think what will
10:50happen is when we see what's really happening, when the data becomes public,
10:53there'll be an outcry to improve that database so that it's not racially biased
10:58and so that it doesn't deprive anybody of the right to carry a firearm or to keep a
11:05firearm. You know, one thing I've done here as a fully participating member of
11:11Congress is draw attention to the foreign aid. Where's your money going? Before
11:15there was Doge. By the way, let's talk about Doge a little bit. I sat here in
11:21this chamber when we were addressed at a State of Union about all of this waste
11:28and everybody stood up and clapped, oh the waste, the waste, let's get rid of the
11:32waste. These were the chairman of the committees that created the waste. There's
11:38so much cognitive dissonance at the State of Union. And I said to myself,
11:42they're clapping because they have to clap, but there's no way they're going to cut
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