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Critical to be in this bill? >> okay. so the raines act, maria, is absolutely essential. it's essential because it puts congress back in charge of making law. for decades, shul decades -- absolutely decades,es you've had congress outsourcing authority to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. those bureaucrats have in turn adopted major rules, massive regulations that have hundreds of billions of collars of economic -- dollars of economic impact on the american economy costing hard working americans more for everything they buy. and all of this comes about as a result of things that congress ne...

Talks with the house republicans senatorring with speaker kevin mccarthy. maria: how confident are you that those 40 republicans stick together and is hang you have tough on this? i mean, are you sure mitch mcconnell is going to go along with this? >> well, senator mcconnell, as the senate minority leader, the republican leader in the senate, has signed the letter. he's with us. so, again, we've got 43 republican senators who have signed this letter pledging to do exactly as i just described and two more who for strategic reasons can't want to sign but indicated they will stand with us in the ...

Talks with the house republicans senatorring with speaker kevin mccarthy. maria: how confident are you that those 40 republicans stick together and is hang you have tough on this? i mean, are you sure mitch mcconnell is going to go along with this? >> well, senator mcconnell, as the senate minority leader, the republican leader in the senate, has signed the letter. he's with us. so, again, we've got 43 republican senators who have signed this letter pledging to do exactly as i just described and two more who for strategic reasons can't want to sign but indicated they will stand with us in the ...

Critical to be in this bill? >> okay. so the raines act, maria, is absolutely essential. it's essential because it puts congress back in charge of making law. for decades, shul decades -- absolutely decades,es you've had congress outsourcing authority to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. those bureaucrats have in turn adopted major rules, massive regulations that have hundreds of billions of collars of economic -- dollars of economic impact on the american economy costing hard working americans more for everything they buy. and all of this comes about as a result of things that congress ne...

Rarely include treasury, commerce. we rarely war game the financial escalation. we saw this in ukraine in 2014 and in this past year. we had to improvise and make up our financial and economic warfare strategy. the same is true with china. and at the same time a, xi is preparing his citizenry for economic warfare with the west. we also just need to get our own fiscal house in order. it's insane. we have unfunded liabilities to the tune of over $100 trillion. we can't just increase the debt ceiling without structural reforms. there are things we can do whether it's the raines act, whether it's ...