Rep. Tim Burchett
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And I said, great.
And so they started checking around on me.
And then guess what?
I never got another mentoring session because I didn't do the game.
When I first got to Congress, I remember I went to my โ there's like a selection committee that allows you to get on certain committees.
And I'm not โ I've been in Congress eight years, and I'm still not on an A committee, obviously.
And they said โ
We're going to see how you vote, which I understood.
And then they said, and we'll see how you do across the street.
Now, what that means is you can't raise money in the Capitol building, which probably a lot of them do.
But you have to go across the street to make fundraising calls and to raise money and to have fundraisers.
And so literally they tell you that when you get to Congress and is infinitely broken because of that.
And, you know, honestly, Glenn, I don't the big boys, they never support me to the day after the election.
And then they call me in and want to write me a check.
My my contributions are these little bitty ones.
They're twenty five dollars and a sweet little woman's written a Bible verse on a piece of paper and wrapped it around a check.
But that's few and far between people like me because they just bend and scrape.
And we've got to hold people accountable.
And I would encourage people to find out how your person votes.
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