We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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We're joined today by former congresswoman, my reflora.

She is now an Americano media senior contributor and a senior fellow with our friends over at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Congresswoman, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

Of course, why don't you tell us just a little bit about what you've been doing over the past couple of months.

It seems like you've been really busy, but did you get a chance to kind of slow down at least?

No, I really haven't had any chance to slow down, but I am enjoying my family.

I'm home a lot more.

I missed a lot of family time during the campaign, during the time that it was in office.

So I'm very happy to be spending more time with my family, but also doing the things that I love

working with TPPF and Americano media and getting things done here at the state level,

passing school choice and property tax cuts and focusing also on border security.

There's a lot to focus on when it comes to that, especially since you're down there in Texas.

You've seen this for your whole life, basically.

Obviously, things that continue to escalate under the Biden administration will get to that in just a second.

Before we do, I want to ask probably a question that you've gotten from a lot of people,

which is looking back on your experience in the house.

Is there anything that surprised you about Congress, like maybe just from a regular person's

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