Episode 1010: Rick Scott – It's Time for the Senate to Do Its Job
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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With the SAVE America Act stalled in the Senate for the third time, Senator Rick Scott is sounding the alarm. The former two-term governor and successful entrepreneur joins Newt for a frank conversation about the Senate's capacity, and willingness, to get things done. Scott makes no secret of his frustration: the Senate has been in session only 79 days this year, and the SAVE America Act — requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID at the polls — has passed the House three times and is still going nowhere. Scott lays out his plan for the weeks ahead, from pushing the SAVE Act to avoiding a government shutdown and makes the case for bringing bills to the floor and making members vote. He also discusses healthcare transparency, runaway deficits, and what it truly means to do the job voters sent you to Washington to do.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Neut's World Podcasts on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.4 | Before we talk with my good friend Rick Scott, the former governor and current senator from Florida, |
| 0:19.2 | I want to take just a minute to talk about Lindsey Graham. I think |
| 0:24.1 | the more people have learned in the last few days, the more they realize what a remarkable person, |
| 0:31.1 | Lindsey was. He came out of a very poor background, worked very, very hard. His mother died of cancer. And about a year and a half |
| 0:39.8 | later, his father died of a heart attack, possibly the same genetic challenge that Lindsay faced |
| 0:46.2 | when he flew back from Ukraine. Lindsay had a 13-year-old sister. And he promptly turned and said, |
| 0:52.9 | I'm going to take care of you. You're not going to be |
| 0:55.7 | alone. And he did. In fact, he ultimately adopted her so that she would be eligible for his military |
| 1:02.4 | pension and his military health benefits. And they literally were together all the way up to the day he died. |
| 1:09.9 | And it's, I think, a wonderful thing that President |
| 1:12.8 | Trump supported having her replace him during the last part of his Senate term, and that the |
| 1:18.5 | governor agreed to do that. And I just think it's one of those moments where, you know, |
| 1:23.6 | you'll reach beyond partisanship, ideology, and it's about family and about human |
| 1:28.4 | beings. |
| 1:29.7 | I've known Lindsay since 1994. |
| 1:32.7 | He was an astonishing character. |
| 1:35.9 | He was always on. |
| 1:38.0 | He was always positive. |
| 1:40.0 | He always had energy. |
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