Rep. Tim Burchett
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I usually don't eat lunch with my colleagues.
I have a few close friends in Congress.
No.
Yeah, I'd say Chlamydia outranks us.
No, but yeah, there's a bunch of us.
I mean, we see what's going on.
We just shake our head, but it's a lot of frustration though, Tucker.
Yeah, we're in a minority.
You look at spending bills and then look at the opinion polls on things like Ukraine, other things, and you look at the board and you're wondering, where are we at?
Yeah.
What's going on?
And...
You know, and for guys like me, though, it gets incredibly tough because, you know, the big boys start calling and the bank account dries up pretty quick.
It's hard to raise money.
For somebody like me, it is incredibly tough to raise money.
Most of my contributions are just hard work and God-fearing people.
They'll send me $10 and a Bible verse, you know, and I don't –
The billionaires usually are for me the day after the election.
Right.
But the billionaires don't want it.