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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pleasure to welcome State Senator Ben Hansen back to the program. Senator,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Bet story in the world. Hera the other day caught
my eye about LB. Five seventy four, which which was
difficult to get done this past session and has to
do with with gender medical treatment for minors. There's also
an abortion element to it that you had added. And
here comes a Senator MICHAELA. Kavanaugh, So she wants to
(00:29):
challenge this on I guess constitutional grounds. What do you
know about this, Ben, where's this going to go?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah? So basically what happened is she filed a letter
to the Executive Board of Legislature, which is within her right.
So this is a process that senators can use to
I can await air a grievance or a concern that
they have about regulations that were put in place from
a law that we passed, right, so five seventy four
in the bill saying we're going to leave it up
(00:59):
to the Department then to make the rules and regulations
with the intent of the law that we just passed,
which they did, right, And and so her concerns really
aren't they're not they're not really what in my opinion,
the intent of this process was made for the whole
whole intent of this process is, well, we got some
(01:20):
regulations from a law that we passed before that are
no longer needed, and so we we mentioned this in
a letter, goes to the Executive Board, and then it
goes to the chairperson of the committee that's involved with
and then if the chairperson decides to move it forward
to the Department, then to maybe redoce some of the
regulations or get rid of them. In my opinion, that's
what the intent of this whole process was. But then
(01:41):
she's now using it now, unsurprisingly then to air her
concerns or grievances about five seven four in a different fashion.
So I wouldn't say it's it's, you know, a big
do nothing, but it's just maybe a way of her
making things more public about why she doesn't like the bill.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, so this hasked to tell me a little bit
more about the Executive Committee process, what she's using, who's
on that, and what do they have to do for
her to move where she wants to go.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Sure, So, Senator Aguilar right now is the chair of
the Executive Board and it's made up of other members
of the of the Senate and they make decisions such
as this or internal decisions about legislature as a whole
the capital. And now then they decide, So they don't
really decide, but they have to find the relevant chairperson,
which is me because on the chair of JH has
(02:36):
and then they move this letter on to them, and
then I make a decision on whether I feel like
it should go to the Department to then, you know,
give more of a reasoning on why they have these
rules and regulations. But they're totally falling within the constitution
that the rules and regulations they made are within the
attent of the law, and so I don't really have
a huge issue with the rules of regulations that they
put in place.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You're the one who had the abortion piece of five
having four, right, Ben that this is a twelve week restriction.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, it was at a mixture both, and so you know,
because both those are maybe having a little difficult time
moving forward, then I made the decision to change it
from the heartbeat from six weeks to twelve weeks, and
then also kind of alter how we go about doing
medications for youth. Now leaving up to the Department to
put some rules and regulations in place, so we kind
(03:24):
of put both of those together and then kind of
move both and forward as one. Yeah, so it worked
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So when when when the end of the story is told,
what do you think it'll be? Will she will she
be able to get movement on this?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's unlikely, That's the best I can give you right now.
But yeah, unlikely that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Again, this is just, in my opinion, a public or
more formal way for her to say I these are
the reasons why I don't like the the rules the
department put in place, right, and so this is it
just makes it more public and more formal. But now,
does that really result in anything, you know, changing, uh,
statue wise, No, in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You're in Blair, right, Senator Hanson. Yes, that's is that
district one? Uh Congressional Congressional district uh Blair?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, we were, we're yeah, yeah, we recently just moved
into Adrian Smith's district three now yes, yes, yes, yeah, sorry.
I think it's different where I live compared to what
I am as a senator, so it's kind of a weird.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what the shape of the
shape of these congressional districts a little bizarre. But the
reason I asked is I wondered what what you well,
you you have part of part of you is in
District one, that's Mike Flood. Is the District one solid
REDDA anch or does it have a District two issue? Uh?
For Trump? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Pardon, It's hard to say. We're Lincoln where Lincoln is
going in Norfolk and Columbus, which which is a big
part of that district. Are they going to go the
same way as Omaha? Or are we kind of seeing
people actually leaving Omaha moving into the moving to the
outskirts of District two and going into District one, which
will make them more red.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So it's hard to say, Actually, yeah, it's interesting. I'll
tell you what. I wonder if this bothers you, because
we're talking about abortion a minute ago, if this bothers
you as much as it does me. One of the
Kamala Harris ads uh talks about the Trump the Trump
(05:25):
abortion law. There is no Trump abortion Yeah, there is
no Trump abortion law. The Trump Each state is doing
what each state decides to do, which was kind of
the untent right from the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, and I think it's exactly you know, the most appropriate,
you know way that we should address them, these hard
hitting social issues. Leave it up to the state, you know,
the more we kind of I asked a lot of
my constituents. Anytime the federal government has any decision about anything,
has it usually turned out better? No? And so it's always,
in my opinion, you leave it up to state when
you have a lot of these kind of like I said,
(05:58):
not just social issues, but difficult issues, or you know,
to decide to live at the settle government leader up
the states.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, but it doesn't help when he says I got
that done. Remember when he leaves the script on the
tele promery says I got that done. I shot abortion.
She calls it the Trump abortion band in some of
these states. If he was saying I got that done,
it might help.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's almost like you're saying don Trump might have an ego.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
No, no, sanator, Thank you, thank you, Ben Hanson. Appreciate
the time this morning.
Pleasure to welcome State Senator Ben Hansen back to the program. Senator,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Bet story in the world. Hera the other day caught
my eye about LB. Five seventy four, which which was
difficult to get done this past session and has to
do with with gender medical treatment for minors. There's also
an abortion element to it that you had added. And
here comes a Senator MICHAELA. Kavanaugh, So she wants to
(00:29):
challenge this on I guess constitutional grounds. What do you
know about this, Ben, where's this going to go?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah? So basically what happened is she filed a letter
to the Executive Board of Legislature, which is within her right.
So this is a process that senators can use to
I can await air a grievance or a concern that
they have about regulations that were put in place from
a law that we passed, right, so five seventy four
in the bill saying we're going to leave it up
(00:59):
to the Department then to make the rules and regulations
with the intent of the law that we just passed,
which they did, right, And and so her concerns really
aren't they're not they're not really what in my opinion,
the intent of this process was made for the whole
whole intent of this process is, well, we got some
(01:20):
regulations from a law that we passed before that are
no longer needed, and so we we mentioned this in
a letter, goes to the Executive Board, and then it
goes to the chairperson of the committee that's involved with
and then if the chairperson decides to move it forward
to the Department, then to maybe redoce some of the
regulations or get rid of them. In my opinion, that's
what the intent of this whole process was. But then
(01:41):
she's now using it now, unsurprisingly then to air her
concerns or grievances about five seven four in a different fashion.
So I wouldn't say it's it's, you know, a big
do nothing, but it's just maybe a way of her
making things more public about why she doesn't like the bill.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, so this hasked to tell me a little bit
more about the Executive Committee process, what she's using, who's
on that, and what do they have to do for
her to move where she wants to go.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Sure, So, Senator Aguilar right now is the chair of
the Executive Board and it's made up of other members
of the of the Senate and they make decisions such
as this or internal decisions about legislature as a whole
the capital. And now then they decide, So they don't
really decide, but they have to find the relevant chairperson,
which is me because on the chair of JH has
(02:36):
and then they move this letter on to them, and
then I make a decision on whether I feel like
it should go to the Department to then, you know,
give more of a reasoning on why they have these
rules and regulations. But they're totally falling within the constitution
that the rules and regulations they made are within the
attent of the law, and so I don't really have
a huge issue with the rules of regulations that they
put in place.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You're the one who had the abortion piece of five
having four, right, Ben that this is a twelve week restriction.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, it was at a mixture both, and so you know,
because both those are maybe having a little difficult time
moving forward, then I made the decision to change it
from the heartbeat from six weeks to twelve weeks, and
then also kind of alter how we go about doing
medications for youth. Now leaving up to the Department to
put some rules and regulations in place, so we kind
(03:24):
of put both of those together and then kind of
move both and forward as one. Yeah, so it worked
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So when when when the end of the story is told,
what do you think it'll be? Will she will she
be able to get movement on this?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's unlikely, That's the best I can give you right now.
But yeah, unlikely that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Again, this is just, in my opinion, a public or
more formal way for her to say I these are
the reasons why I don't like the the rules the
department put in place, right, and so this is it
just makes it more public and more formal. But now,
does that really result in anything, you know, changing, uh,
statue wise, No, in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You're in Blair, right, Senator Hanson. Yes, that's is that
district one? Uh Congressional Congressional district uh Blair?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, we were, we're yeah, yeah, we recently just moved
into Adrian Smith's district three now yes, yes, yes, yeah, sorry.
I think it's different where I live compared to what
I am as a senator, so it's kind of a weird.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what the shape of the
shape of these congressional districts a little bizarre. But the
reason I asked is I wondered what what you well,
you you have part of part of you is in
District one, that's Mike Flood. Is the District one solid
REDDA anch or does it have a District two issue? Uh?
For Trump? Right?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Pardon, It's hard to say. We're Lincoln where Lincoln is
going in Norfolk and Columbus, which which is a big
part of that district. Are they going to go the
same way as Omaha? Or are we kind of seeing
people actually leaving Omaha moving into the moving to the
outskirts of District two and going into District one, which
will make them more red.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So it's hard to say, Actually, yeah, it's interesting. I'll
tell you what. I wonder if this bothers you, because
we're talking about abortion a minute ago, if this bothers
you as much as it does me. One of the
Kamala Harris ads uh talks about the Trump the Trump
(05:25):
abortion law. There is no Trump abortion Yeah, there is
no Trump abortion law. The Trump Each state is doing
what each state decides to do, which was kind of
the untent right from the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, and I think it's exactly you know, the most appropriate,
you know way that we should address them, these hard
hitting social issues. Leave it up to the state, you know,
the more we kind of I asked a lot of
my constituents. Anytime the federal government has any decision about anything,
has it usually turned out better? No? And so it's always,
in my opinion, you leave it up to state when
you have a lot of these kind of like I said,
(05:58):
not just social issues, but difficult issues, or you know,
to decide to live at the settle government leader up
the states.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, but it doesn't help when he says I got
that done. Remember when he leaves the script on the
tele promery says I got that done. I shot abortion.
She calls it the Trump abortion band in some of
these states. If he was saying I got that done,
it might help.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's almost like you're saying don Trump might have an ego.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
No, no, sanator, Thank you, thank you, Ben Hanson. Appreciate
the time this morning.
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