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September 3, 2025 16 mins
Now a mom, Congresswoman Kat Cammack (R-FL. 3) is more determined than ever to fight for the future of our nation. A great visit. 
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Here we go, Tuesday, September this second show fifty four
to forty three of The Morning Show with Preston Scott.
I'm Preston. He's ose great to be with you. And
who do we have here? Oh my goodness, it's the
Mama Bear Us Congresswoman Cat Camick. Cat. Congratulations, by golly.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh, thank you for literally sitting here our little family
of three. And baby Aggie is eating her second breakfast
as we speak.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
So are we going with Augie? Is that the name
around the house? Aggie?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, officially she is Augusta.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Dare I know that?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes? I call her Augie. Matt is fond of Gussasaurus,
you know, as any good child of the nineties. We
all love dress the Park, and so he's he's hoping that,
you know, he's going to be able to get her
into dinosaurs. And I already told him, I'm imagining me
coming home at one point and they'll be in Dinoh

(01:10):
outfits running around the house. So you've got Aggie, we've
got Gusta Augusta, We've got Gustasaurus. We've got still baby Peanut.
It's anyone, it's Anyone's guests.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Could anything have really prepared you for this blessing.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
No, no, I mean at one, I still think it's
crazy that you know, you you walk out of you
deliver your child, and then they're like here you go,
and it's like there's no manual for this, right, It's
like we'd out and we like to think that we're
very competent human beings and adults, but nothing prepares you

(01:49):
like becoming a parent. There there is no preparation. It's
just so overwhelming in terms of you know, you feel
so blessed and lucky and you're in awe of this
amazing little child, and it is it's the best thing ever.
I can't believe that I waited so long to do this.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I almost feel guilty talking about anything else because your
mom now and you've got your little girl with you,
and it's and it's like, I don't want to ruin
it by talking about other things. So I'm going to
delay just a couple more minutes because we shared the
news of little Augusta's birth with the audience, and I

(02:29):
think it's safe to say, based on the email I received,
people just overjoyed for you and Matt and know the
blessing that children bring to lives in just enriching the
life of a mom and a dad, and she's got
two great parents. I know that, and I would imagine
the staff sort of kind of is going to be
fighting over her.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yes, we've already seen where people are, you know, nicknaming her,
and she's going to be kind of the mascot for
the team for sure. She's just an incredible little little human.
I mean, she's I know, I say perfect, and I'm
exceptionally biased. Of course, every parent is for their kid,
but she's just amazing. And it is so true what

(03:15):
they say that you don't know what real love is
until you have a child. And Matt and I just
feel so incredibly lucky. I mean, it was no doubt
a brutal labor and delivery. We spent six days in
the hospital, but you know, we are so so lucky
to have a healthy, happy little girl. And I just

(03:38):
know that she's gonna do incredible things and we're just
gonna love her and do the very best that we can,
as all parents do. And it just puts everything into
a different light and perspective and certainly makes me want
to fight harder for our country and for her future.
And I do think being a parent makes you better
at your job? I really do. I'm already I mean,

(03:58):
we've been up since five and we've already done you know,
TV hits, and we've already started talking to the team,
and that's like, of course, you're even more busy now
than you were before. But it just it means so
much more when you have your child's future kind of
in your hands and you want to do right by them.
So we're very excited, so blessed, and we can't thank

(04:20):
people enough for the incredible outpouring of well wishes. We
really do have the best community in Florida, and we
just can't say thank you enough, truly.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Kat have you been You haven't been back to Washington
since your child's been born.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Right, correct? We just got back yesterday.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'm going to guess that at some point that's going
to happen. Do you have any expectations of whether you'll
be treated any differently because you're now a mom?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
You know?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
So I'm not sure how you know it's going to go.
I'm only the fourteenth woman ever to have a baby
while serving in Congress, and if you think about it,
there's been twelve thousand people that have served our nation
in Congress only about four hundred, and I think twelve
have been women, and fourteen of them have given birth

(05:17):
myself now included the capital and Congress is not really
set up for working parents. You know, there's not changing
tables really in all the bathrooms for a mom like
me who's breastfeeding. You know, it's one of those situations where, Okay,
how do we make this work? And you know, we've

(05:37):
talked to the Speaker and the leadership team and they're like, well,
you know, you can just got to use a bathroom.
And I'm like, you know, it's funny because Congress makes
the laws, but yet we can't follow the laws that
we make because that's actually illegal, you know. And so
we're we're slowly educating our colleagues on the needs of

(05:59):
working parents and we're really lucky that I can bring
her to the Capital with me. And ironically, Matt, as
a firefighter, gets paternity leave, members of Congress do not.
We don't get sick time or vacation time, or paternity
leave or maternity leave. I know that that's a common misconception.
We also don't get free childcare. That's another misconception. And

(06:23):
so you know, we're just doing what we can to
make it work. And we think that our experience might
illuminate things for some of my colleagues and make it
better for families across the country. So we're going to
figure it out. We're going to make it work. And
I think one of the important things that I've realized
right out the gate is your time management changes. Your

(06:45):
priorities shift dramatically, and all of a sudden, you're not
waiting for the perfect plan, You're just executing. You're making decisions.
So I think it is actually going to make me
more decisive and a little bit more aggressive, which some
people are like, oh gosh, that's scary.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Hey god, Cat, Well, she just fired a shout over
about all of Washington, d C. That now, being a parent,
US Congressman Cat Camick is going to be the ultimate
mama bear when it comes to being a bit more
aggressive when it comes to legislation and fighting. Hard to

(07:26):
imagine that, horror, Cat, I think some people might view
it that way. I'm curious, though, has your time away,
as much as you can detach yourself from what goes
on in Washington and in your district, has it allowed
you to be maybe more laser focused on a given
set of issues.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, you know, obviously your perspective is you know, always
colored by you know, your experiences, your personal experiences. And
this last month in August, not only we were we
continuing to work. I mean, I think I worked up
until about two days before I delivered baby Augie. And

(08:08):
you know, just hearing from people, there's a lot of
local things that we were working on, but I'm seeing
a big shift towards how do we fix this healthcare system?
Because we really don't have a healthcare system. It's more
sick care. It's completely broken, and so there's a tremendous
amount of work that we have to do there. And

(08:30):
you and I were North Florida and we see where
the closing of hospitals, the closing of primary care, people
going out of business. It's leaving these massive health deserts.
And that's the result of you know a lot of
different things. But you've got insurance that doesn't really ensure
anything anymore. Your premiums are going up, the quality of

(08:52):
care is going down. That's something that needs to be addressed.
And that goes back to really I believe the affordable
care Act. Was it perfect before the Affordable Careact Obamacare? No,
but Obamacare made it thirty thousand times worse. So we
have a lot of work in that space to do.
The other thing is, of course, government spending and waste
fraud abuse. We're garnishing the wages of our children and

(09:15):
our grandchildren. And I'm going to lay blame on both
the Republicans and Democrats on this front.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Republican Democrats have bidden negligent in their duty to put
forward a budget and do the regular order of twelve
appropriation bills, which this is September. We have fourteen legislative
days to get that done. Otherwise we end up in
a Continuing Resolution a CR, which is just a rubber
stamp of Nancy Pelosi spending era programs. And that's unacceptable.

(09:45):
It is absolutely unacceptable. So we have to get that
under control because our children's future is on the line,
and baby Agy she deserves a fair shot at whatever
she wants her future to look like, just like every
other kid does. They don't need to have the burden
of one hundred one thousand dollars plus of debt on
their shoulders from the minute that they're born. So we
have to have some cajones and we've got to get

(10:07):
this wrapped up. And we need to do away with
the port that ear marks. I'm the only Republican in
the state of Florida that doesn't do ear marks, and
that's a third. Get rid of the insider trading, get
rid of all this corruption that is happening in Washington.
That's where I'm going to be focused is cleaning up Washington,
cutting the spending, and actually fixing a healthcare system that

(10:28):
is so broken. That's really where I'm looking at right now.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
You've heard the laser focus. US Congresswoman Kat Cammick Florida's
third district, only one in Florida in the Republican Caucus
not doing ear marks. How long have I been asking
for that, those of you that are veterans of the show.
It goes back years begging congressional reps, set the examples,

(11:00):
stop take in the pork. She's the first one to
actually do it. Kat, I got to ask you about this.
What is President Trump thinking buying shares of Intel and
pursuing shares of a defense company or owning a defense company.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
That's socialism, it is, you know, and I will admittedly
say I've struggled with the news on that because as
a constitutional conservative, that is absolutely fundamentally against everything that
I stand for.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
And I believe, I respect the President. I know that
his heart is in the right place, but I think
that the administration is wrong on this one. So I
think there's going to be some unwinding that we're going
to have to do. I also think that even more broadly,
you look beyond the intel, look at what our grid
and all our telecommunications nationally have embedded in them that

(11:57):
we still haven't corrected. That is all Chinese owned infrastructure,
and I would rather us focus our time, attention, and
resources on rooting out all of this. I mean, I
got a report that nearly sixty percent of all of
our national security DoD equipment has CCP manufactured produced equipment

(12:20):
inside of it. That's the stuff that we need to
be focused on. And so I know that he's focused
heavily on the investment in the United States and getting
these companies reshored and onshore. But we have a lot
of work to do in getting the CCP out of
our basic infrastructure. It's going to take some work, and

(12:43):
I'm not thrilled about the decision on Intel. But we've
got a lot of moving parts here that we've got
to focus on.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
I know agriculture is a big thing. This will be
the last question I have for you today because I
want to respect your time with your husband and your child.
The reconciliation package has some stuff in it. I want
to say it's section four thirty five, four thirty seven
or something dealing with some Basically, it allows complete shielding

(13:09):
of liability to the pesticide companies out there. It's snuck
in there. It's it's a it's a it's a nightmare
for consumers because it basically says, uh, glycasate is not
you can't you can't prosecute for that anymore, among other things.
What can you tell.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Me, Well, just like the pharmaceutical companies, no one should
have absolute immunity from a sort of liability, right. And
so that's actually something that as a member of the
ad the Committee, we've been kind of socializing what is
it going to look like when we come back in September.
Now that we're back, we're having briefings on this because

(13:49):
it never should have been put in the bill in
the first place. So I think long term that's going
to get rectified because again you have a general consensus
out of the conference that no company, no industry should
have blanket immunity when when people have a right and
one know what's in their products, they have a right
to choose what products they want to consume. Now, we

(14:11):
know that, like to say and others, have been widely
used in agriculture, but we also know that there are
concerns and their complications as a result of that. So
we need to deal with that in a smart way.
One of the things that I get frustrated with is
you have the Bill Gates of the world who are
constantly circuiting short short circuiting the system where they've got

(14:34):
new coatings that they're putting on products that they've basically
been able to buy an organic label on and it's
not organic. We have to have a conversation about food
safety in the country, and that's long overdue. I think
RFK is trying to have that conversation, but you have
a lot of entrenched bureaucrats that don't want to have
that conversation, and so we have to figure out a

(14:55):
way to get this done in a way that's smart.
And I think the ad can. The AG Committee is
going to be taking it up this month because don't forget,
we still have a farm bill that is going to
need to be passed. We're already a year over the
deadline for the Farm bill, and the farm bill is
critical to a state like Florida, where you have three

(15:15):
hundred specialty crops. That is insanely important. Now, the One
Big Beautiful Bill did have that provision, but it also
had some huge wins for Florida, and I think that
that's important to highlight because everyone wants to highlight the
bad and not always look at the goods. We can
go back and fix that, but I also think it's
worth mentioning that Florida made out like bandits on the

(15:37):
upside when it came to some of the AG provisions
in the One Big Beautiful Bill as well.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Kat, thanks for the time. You are the best. My
advice to you and Matt come courtesy of Bill Cosby.
He said, remember, only change your baby when you can
no longer pick her up. Why remove the only thing
she can accomplish at this stage of her life. Don't
take the child's self esteem.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Noted Matt. Matt is staring at me right now saying
what in the world, shaking his head. Thank you so much,
appreciate you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Thank you you as well. Kat Camick with us on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott
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