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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 we're 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 can't get guns and various suggestions have been made by members and others. more likely than not we'll have a committee meeting to vote some of these bills before the end -- before labor day. >> gun policy is stuck...

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 we're 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 can't get guns, and various other suggestions that have been made by our members and others. so i think more l...

Organizations work. >> absolutely it is the senate's job to confirm this person, though you've been mentioning you're 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 he's got the bureaucratic experience, the managerial experience to handle a department with 377,000 employees? >> his experience has been as a physician, but i wouldn't exclude the possibility that he would be a fine secretary. we have a veterans hospital in the district i serve, lions veterans hospital and ...

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 that's going to be seen as a bluff. the only way to go, i think right now, is mcconnell tries to piece together a replacement. and if you can do it, you do it. if you can't, you can't do repeal alo...