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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Congressman Mark O'Can is with us, former co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Currently, member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, he's on the Appropriations Committee,

the Education Committee, the Labor Committee in the U.S. House, where he represents the second

district of Wisconsin. You can tweet him at Rep. Mark Pocan, P-O-C-A-N, and his website, of course,

is pocan.house.gov. Congressman Pocan, welcome back, it's great having you.

What's at the top of your list today, and how do you think the probabilities of buildback better

pasting before Christmas? Like, uh, my Chuck Schumer said yesterday, he hopes can happen, are gonna, are gonna be.

You know, that's gonna be as a big 800 pound drill of what's happening left on the Congressional

calendars. Can they get it done before the end of the year? The only reason that it's significant

about now when I get done is the money, the child tax credit, the child tax cuts that was done

for COVID reasons, that's continued under buildback better, that helps lift 40 to 50% of the

children in poverty in this country out of poverty, and with the check that just went out today.

So if we don't have it done by January 15th, that check won't happen anymore, and it's had such

a positive impact on helping, again, lift kids out of poverty and helping, you know, average family.

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