This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Harbin here with you.

And it's midweek, it's midday.

It is time for our middays with Mark, Congressman Mark Pocan, U.S. Congressman representing the

Second District of Wisconsin, he's the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive

Caucus. His website, Pocan. House.gov, you can tweet him at Rep Mark

Pocan. And and Congressman welcome back.

Hey, I'm glad to be here.

It is always great having you with us and for all our listeners you're here for the hour you will be taking calls on

pretty much any topic presumably so but before we get to that I'm you know

there's so much going on in the news cycle here and in and in Congress

i'm wondering what you think are the are the most consequential things the things we

need to know about i know i notice that

uh... brine shots and uh... frit who it was in the house just introduced this was just

on the hill just a few minutes ago oh yeah it was Ben Ray Lujan introduced a public

option health care bill into the house although of course

Paul Ryan is not going to let that go anywhere right?

Right and there's been actually a couple versions expanding Medicare to people who are

55 and older and some other options too. I think what

we are just showing is when you talk to people about health care they want

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