Rep. Greg Landsman
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I travel a lot. I mean, I go around, you know, because I do living rooms and, you know, you find a way, but yeah, I mean, I, I think it was not only good for me, but it was key to, you know, beating this, this, you know, multi-term, you know, he'd been there again, 26 years, almost three decades. He, he, he had taken more corporate PAC money than just about anyone else in the house.
And I ran, if you go watch my ads, I don't take corporate PAC money. I said it, I said it in multiple ads. I say it over and over as, as a way of ensuring or making sure people know that I will always be with them. and no one else. And I think the party needs to head in that direction. That's where Obama was. I mean, that's where we were.
And so, yeah, the, the, I think that Trump is without a doubt, the most corrupt president in American history. Um, just the, you know, sheer volume of cash that the guy's depositing into his own bank account. But the big, issue in terms of corruption is the, is the kind that messes with people's lives.
And that is the, the role that money, big money plays and getting these politicians to vote for the big money guys as, as opposed to voting for, uh, the people that you represent. And I think Josh Hawley, I don't know if Josh Hawley takes corporate PAC money or not, but
You know, for him to say very clearly and emphatically, you know, taking away health care from, you know, 10 to 14 million people, anyone, to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy is terrible policy. And I think he said political suicide. And he's right.
Yeah, I mean, I'm for term limits. It's going to be hard to get done because Congress is never going to do it. You know, I'm one of... Not that many people that support term limits, but do so publicly. I just think that it's good. And, you know, if you want to take a break, term limits doesn't mean that you can't come back, right?
Like, because I served... This is where I think age is maybe the wrong way to look at this. I mean, Nancy, in some ways, is one of the most still... She's incredible. ...compelling and, like, you know, like, she's just... She's more on her game than... You know, some of the more younger members.
I mean, I worked for Nancy. That was my first job. And I had a hard time at 22 years old keeping up with her. I mean, I genuinely, and I still, I'm still like, she buzzes around the floor the way I do. And I find myself sitting down and sort of taking a minute. sooner than she does.
But so I think I think it's time, you know, where you, you know, and I think term limits forces people to take a break. So, you know, the idea is 18 years for the Supreme Court. That seems to make a lot of sense to me. It doesn't preclude you from coming back. So anyways, the reason why I'm a little skeptical of age is that and this is a unique thing.
So hopefully Scott will, you know, give me some grace here. But the when I got to City Hall, I think everyone needs good mentors. My mentor was a guy named David, or is a guy named David Mann. He was a former member of Congress, mayor, and then he wanted to come back. And he was at City Hall and he and I ran the budget together and I learned so much from him.
And I thought that was a hugely important thing that he came back. You know, he helped us get through some really complicated years and some really complicated budgets. So I think it's, I tend to believe that, yes, elections should be more competitive. I want to end partisan gerrymandering so that we have more competitive elections. I want to get money out of politics.
And I think that there should be term limits so that people take a break. And if they want to come back, then come back.
Yeah. I mean, I do think it's – It's ideas and energy and a worldview and trustworthiness that matters most, right, as opposed to age. That's all. And there are people who are younger who have lost their way, in my opinion.
One argument I'd make— I think I'm going to make it here and we'll see how it plays out is that maybe we need some nineties kids. Now I say that obviously as a nineties kid, but in the nineties, if you grew up in the nineties, like me, you didn't have the internet. So you appreciate a world without the internet. Uh, I didn't, I, you know, like, I think I got my first email address.
That's what it was an email address.
When I got to college in 1996, and you didn't really use it. It wasn't like something – when we were in college, there was no cell phones, so we still had to memorize everybody's four-digit number for their room. Their room, essentially. Yeah. But we also, that was the last time we balanced the budget. This is the last time we fixed the tax code.
So we saw, we grew up, we saw a group of leaders work in a very bipartisan way to fix stuff. They didn't always get it right. Don't get me wrong. But they did work together to do all kinds of really important things. It was the last time we got close to a peace agreement. I mean, you know, Clinton was there in the Rose Garden with, with Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and the PLO leader Arafat.
And they got as close to a peace deal as anyone. But again, on the budget stuff, it was the last time we balanced the budget. We fixed the tax code. We ran a surplus. We ran a surplus for years. It was the largest economic expansion in American history. And we passed meaningful gun reform. paired with hiring police officers.
So I do think there's a, is this a moment for a 90s kid, at least to be sort of, you know, helping us get to a place where we've fixed the economy you know, government is running way more efficient. I mean, if you grew up in the 90s, you were all about making it work better, you know, finding the fraud and the inefficiencies. You know, we were serious about immigration reform.
You know, like all of these issues that are coming up, we did make some meaningful progress in the 90s. And there's, I think, some lessons to be learned. But those of us who were raised in that time period I think I have a moment, this is a moment for us to step up and say, here's the path forward.
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