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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Kick things off.

Congressman Mark Pokin is with us.

Congressman Pokin is the chair emeritus member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

He's also the co-founder and co-chair of the Labor Caucus and the chair of the Congressional

Equality Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He represents the second district of Wisconsin.

Pokin.house.gov POCAN.house.gov is his website.

You can tweet him at Rep. Mark Pokin.

And Congressman, welcome back.

It's been a while since we talked.

Yeah, thanks Tom.

You know, we're an appropriation season and that just sucks up an enormous amount of time.

We're about halfway through marking up the 12 appropriation bills.

But you know, it does unfortunately occupy some of the time that we normally get together

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