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Fridays with Fred is a grassroots movement demanding Rep. Fred Keller better represent his constituents.

Them over to the senate. we ought to add now bills we always thought we would do such as we wanted to give them the easy stuff first, but were very actively considering calling the committee back into session before -- during the district work there to consider bills c and banning assault rifles, certain provisions to make sure people convicted of hate crimes and domestic violence cant get guns and various suggestions have been made by members and others. more likely than not well have a committ...

If february we took what we thought were the very easy bills and sent them over to the senate. we ought to add now bills we always thought we would do such as we wanted to give them the easy stuff first, but were very actively considering calling the committee back into session before -- during the district work period to consider bills on banning high capacity magazines, banning assault rifles, certain provisions to make sure that people convicted of hate crimes or domestic violence cant get gu...

Organizations work. >> absolutely it is the senates job to confirm this person, though youve been mentioning youre doing district work, i know congressional office is one thing they deal with a lot, constituent services and veterans concerns. in that vain, do you think from what you see hes got the bureaucratic experience, the managerial experience to handle a department with 377,000 employees? >> his experience has been as a physician, but i wouldnt exclude the possibility that he would be a fi...

Repeal because it means there are millions of americans who are going to be out of health care insurance, out of coverage almost overnight, and that will be utterly intolerable. it will got home i cannot get a majority. the reason that sasse wants to advocate it because he knows it so intolerable that that will force the senate into doing a repair, replacement quickly. but that may not work. i think thats going to be seen as a bluff. the only way to go, i think right now, is mcconnell tries to p...

You cannot have a clean, naked repeal because it means there are millions of americans who are going to be out of health care insurance, out of coverage almost overnight, and that will be utterly intolerable. it will got home i cannot get a majority. the reason that sasse wants to advocate it because he knows it so intolerable that that will force the senate into doing a repair, replacement quickly. but that may not work. i think thats going to be seen as a bluff. the only way to go, i think rig...

Think is a fix obamacare, not real a repeal? >> that is the problem that some of these guys are facing. and i will say people that i talked to at the white house when they talk about this, they do remind you that, oh, hey, obamacare took a while to get through and it wasnt on the first try that they got it. so there is a little bit of lik pre- pre-butal from the white house. for example if the vote didnt happen on thursday, that nts would be the end of the world. >> but it is in that it throws o...

We should not allow anyone else to come in to our backyard and take away those resources. >> neil: did they know who you were? >> some people did. i think some people showed up because some of the local media and talk radio put it out that id be here. so it was a pretty good treat to have a congressman pumping your gas. >> neil: by the way, this guy pumping gas, i still hear in the back channels as a potential presidential candidate. donald trump and mike huckabee opting out. what do you think o...