This is the Tom Hartman Program. Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the Congressman Mark Pocan on the line with us representing the second district of Wisconsin

the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

His website,

Pocan. house.gov, you can tweet him at Rep Mark Pocan.

Congressman Pocan, welcome back to the program.

Yes, no, maybe?

It's an, oh, I put him on, hang on just a second, let me move him over to two.

Okay, we've got him on hybrid number two.

Congressman Pocan, can you hear me? I can, thanks, glad to be here.

Great, thanks so much for being with us. We've got a new studio and we're using an older

version of our call screen software for the moment as we're trying

to figure out a bug in our new one and anyway it's all good.

So in your opinion, a lot has happened since we talked last week and I'm curious what you think are the most

consequential things that have happened in the past week and what you're looking at coming up.

What's what what is on your radar screen?

Well, you know, this is one of the weeks that we're back in district. So I've been doing town halls again in my district. I'm sorry? Yeah, go ahead. Okay. And I did one actually yesterday in Paul Ryan's district.

And whenever we do these town halls, we wind up getting a couple subjects that keep coming up. One being health care people are still

very very concerned about what's going to ultimately happen and then secondly

this new tax cut for the wealthy package that they're putting out there.

You know, Paul Ryan is going around Wisconsin telling everyone that they're doing

this for the middle class and you know as long as he means by the middle class the

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