Congresswoman Sara Jacobs

And it shouldn't take leaders to have a personal experience with something to want to do things.

And I think the way we get to a better policy discussion is by creating new two-way feedback loops between people and their leaders.

And actually, to me, this is a big piece of agency, right?

This is one of the key things I'm focused on as a leader is that people have lost trust and faith in leaders and institutions and policy and government because they don't feel like we're listening and they don't feel like they get a say in the decisions being made about them.

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And we have new tools and technologies now that enable us to actually be able to have these two-way feedback loops and have more people be part of the policymaking process so that we can get more of these lived experiences that we don't have to wait till one of 435 people has experienced something themselves, but that we are having this way to hear from and bring in people into this conversation and we can address challenges before millions and millions of people have been hurt.

Yeah.

And look, it shouldn't take someone like Morgan Luttrell getting to Congress, as wonderful as I think he is as a human, to get us to do something about this.

Again, we shouldn't need someone who's had personal experience.

And we shouldn't require people who have experienced trauma to have to bear their trauma to us over and over again to get us to act.

That shouldn't be how we do things.

And I think you're exactly right.

It's like things that are outside of maybe the experience of your typical leader, your typical member of Congress, don't get as much attention.

And that's not how it should be.

And that's not fair.

And I'm actually excited that we have a much more diverse Congress than we've ever had.

And I do think that it's shown that things are changing, right?

Morgan and I worked across the aisle to get funding for TBI to address some research that we think needs to happen around potential cures.

And that's because I represent a military community of San Diego.

I hear about this from my constituents all the time.