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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Congressman Mark Polkan is with us. He represents the second district of Wisconsin.

In the US House of Representatives, he's the member and chair emeritus of the Congressional

Progressive Caucus. He's the co-founder and co-chair of the Labor Caucus, the chair of the

Congressional at Quality Caucus. Polkan.house.gov is his website. Mark Polkan, POCA and Mark Polkan

is his Twitter handle. Congressman, welcome back to the program. He thinks I'm glad to be here.

Glad to have you with us. So, am I reading this right that Kevin McCarthy's demand, at least the

other one that we know of so far, that first of all, over 200 pages of the 300-page proposed

legislation are entirely devoted to fossil fuel projects, more drilling, more pipelines, you know,

redo, re-allow the Keystone XL pipeline ban future Republicans and governors from banning fracking,

prevent them from doing that. It's basically a wish list for them and he wants to put work

requirements on basically all social welfare programs. Is this including social security?

No, I don't think that, but I haven't seen that anywhere. You're partially right as far as

what he's got in there. He also wants us, in addition to their Bill HR1, which is like, you know,

Christmas and your birthday and Hanukkah and everything put together in one gift for the fuel,

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