This is the Tom Hartman program.

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

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

Tom Hartman here with you and so pleased that Congressman Mark Pocan is back with us.

He will be taking your calls during this first hour of our Wednesday program.

Feel free to give us a shout at 202 90.

What is our phone number?

908925.

That's right.

202 809925. That's right. 202 808 9.25.

And Congressman, welcome back.

Hey, thanks, Tom. It's really great to be back.

You want to let our listeners know where you've been the last couple weeks?

Sure. You know, in fact, three weeks ago today, I underwent a triple bypass surgery here in Madison, Wisconsin.

And make a very long story short, I've been working out pretty extensively.

Because of it, I want to go to the doctor for for a test and they've kind of found this through

some routine sort of tests and we did a catheterization so I had two really really blocked out of her. He's 100% and 90% and

and that's one they couldn't quite tell and so I underwent the surgery three weeks ago

mending every single day. I i'm covered by the affordable care acts i'm very

fortunate that i had good health insurance and was able to have a pretty major

surgery and

uh... have it covered uh... and uh and now I'm just kind of mending every

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