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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Garry Seidelmayer, Jim Rose and Company. Welcoming Nebraska. US Senator
(00:03):
Pete Rick, it's back to the program. Senator, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, thanks for having me on again.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Back in the state or are you in the swamp today?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
No, I'm back in Nebraska. The Leader has decided that
we're going to do a different strategy where we actually
work nights now. Ah, so typically you know, we'll have
votes like an eleven fifteen two, like a couple of
votes of two fifteen, five, thirty, eight, thirty. Yes, we
can still be as productive and then people can have
a chance back their district.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, that's about time you start putting in a full
day's work.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Speaking of voting, I was called to my attention that
you know, Dilon, Musk and Doge went through all of
this BS stuff with with the international spending on foreign
aid spending, and there was a vote to codify that
in the law, and you and Senator Fisher were two
(00:58):
of twenty six Republics voted against that. What was your
thinking there, Yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Was one of our bills that the President wanted. He
wanted to continuing resolution to go forward. If that amendment
had passed, we would have lost the Continuing Resolution and
government to shut down. That would have been exactly against
what the President wanted in that case. In particular, Ran
Paul went rogue on us and introduced that legislation, and
in fact we asked him, we said, hey, Ran, so
if your a member passed, is the univote for the
(01:26):
continuing Resolution? He said no, I'm like so like dude, seriously.
So that was a case where Ram was just doing
one of those show votes and the President had pecifically
said he wanted to Continuing Resolution to go forward, and
so we couldn't let that amendment pass because then the
Consuming Resolution would have failed.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
One of the other things I wanted to ask you about,
speaking of votes, is where you think that the budget
plan is going, the big beautiful bill. And Doug was
sending in an email wanting to know if the no
tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax
on social security as going to survive this process. What
do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, it is just what you said, a process there
we're going through. We're still in the Finance Committee, which
is run by Center Mike Crapo. They're still going through
their process there. However, I can tell you that at
least on the starting list of the things that they're
working on, all three of those are in it right now.
But as you point out, the process and the math
is all got to work on this stuff. So we'll,
(02:23):
I say, stay tuned. This is going to be something
where it's going to continue to progress throughout the summer.
You know, the House is going to try and get
their work done here in the next couple of weeks,
but then the Sun is going to have to do
their work and it's going to have to go you know,
those both those two things are going to have to
get reconciled together. So this is this is going to
take the next several months.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Where are you on the salt tax. A lot of
people think it's just for California and New York, but
Nebraska some of the highest taxes in the country. Are
you willing to go to thirty thousand from ten thousand
or even higher salt tax being the state and local
tax okay deduction.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the salt tax.
I think that rewards states with high property taxes. We're
trying to get our property taxes down here in Nebraska,
but it certainly rewards states like California and New York.
But you know, at the end of the day, we've
got House members in New York and California and New
Jersey that we need to get to two eighteen. So
this is again, it could be one of those things.
It's going to be a negotiation and we'll see where
(03:19):
the negotiated number comes out.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But you don't think property taxes are high enough in
Nebraska yet to merit a sall tax extension.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, I'm not a big fan of the fall tax
because I think just rewards having high property taxes. We
don't want to reward that. We want to bring our
property taxes down. We want to give it sentence to
bring our property taxes down. So that's what we need
to work on. And certainly states like California, New York,
and New Jersey are really taking advantage of this in
much greater way than those states. So again, it's one
(03:48):
of the things that we'll be negotiate out here. I'm
guessining there'll probably be some sort of salt tax exemption
because of those the members we need in those states.
The word that number ends up is still being negotiated.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What do you think of the results of the Omaha
maras election.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm sorry Jean didn't get elected. I think she's been
a great mayor. You look at what she's done over
the last twelve years. You know, Forbes, just francis the
number one city to move to. We've got one of
the honest housing markets. She invests in economic development, murder
rates her dad. Over the last four years. It's a
safer place she had economic developments. You know, I wish
John doing success because he's taken over a great city
(04:25):
and we want to continue to see it be great.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Jessica Flannagan is taking flak for the attack ad she
was working on behalf of the mayor for the attack
ad against John Ewing, and a listener wants to know
if you and your friends funded the pack that paid
her to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, all those numbers, I think are all disclosed. I
gave my contributions directly to Mayor Southard, so I can't
speak for anybody else, but I will tell you I
think it goes toward what the Democrats in general have
been aligned with, which is, you know, having boys playing
girls school sorts and boys being and girls locker rooms,
and you know, you look at things like what happened
(05:05):
with Riley Gaines and how she was robbed of, you know,
a medal or a recognition in swimming because a man
was swimming against her. I mean, that's the things that
Democrats are for, and that's that's really not what the
vast majority of American people think is right. So you
would be nice to see if hard new mayor would
saying he's not for those things.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, you're right, it's an eighty twenty issue, and in
many cases, I think it might be a ninety ten issue.
Are you disappointed that the mayor didn't start in on
that a little sooner than a week or so before
the election, given that those are the issues that gets
republic to get Republicans to vote, and a lot of
them stayed home.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know, I think the mayor worked hard. You know, look,
it's always tough when the party in power is there,
it energizes the opposite side. So there's a lot of
not going on the mayor's race, and I know the
mayor worked hard, and you know, I think she's done
a great job. I hope wish the new mayor of
success as well, because we want to keep our city great.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Does this worry you for Don Bacon and district too
next year.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Don Bacon always had a tough race.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
They always slapped them down. They tried, they tried out
these Dems and they always slapped them down. I wanted
to ask you to send on the records about a
National Police Week. In fact, you offered a is it
a resolution or a law to honor police and help
protect them with increased penalties?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah? Actually I am. The last year i co led
the Back to Blue Act. This year I'm a co
sponsor for the Thin Blue Line Act, which would create
more penalties for criminals who target law enforcement, make them harsher,
gives a law enforcement more tools. And with National Police Week,
we also recognized Officer Ross Bartlett, who is the Soresco
officer who was killed in the line of due last year. Again,
(06:52):
he was making a traffic stop and allegedly a driver
was distracted on the phone texting and drifted over into
the shoulder and his current killed them. So that just
shows you the danger that officers go through to keep
us safe. And we are to recognize police officers for
all the work they do. The women and men who
put on the blue risk their lives of the family
sacrifice one with them, so we should say thank you
(07:13):
this week, every.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Week, no doubt. And then there was the officer that
was killed. We had that horrible snowstorm and he was
out there on a traffic call in the middle of
it and was got. It's just it's a although that
was not a criminal acting and they and and strictly speaking,
Bartlett's death was an accident. But still I think the
point is well taken. Senator thank you. Yeah, indeed, thanks
(07:34):
for coming.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
On my pleasure having beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Weekend in Omaha, Nebraska. That's US. Senator Pete Ricketts
Garry Seidelmayer, Jim Rose and Company. Welcoming Nebraska. US Senator
(00:03):
Pete Rick, it's back to the program. Senator, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, thanks for having me on again.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Back in the state or are you in the swamp today?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
No, I'm back in Nebraska. The Leader has decided that
we're going to do a different strategy where we actually
work nights now. Ah, so typically you know, we'll have
votes like an eleven fifteen two, like a couple of
votes of two fifteen, five, thirty, eight, thirty. Yes, we
can still be as productive and then people can have
a chance back their district.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, that's about time you start putting in a full
day's work.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Speaking of voting, I was called to my attention that
you know, Dilon, Musk and Doge went through all of
this BS stuff with with the international spending on foreign
aid spending, and there was a vote to codify that
in the law, and you and Senator Fisher were two
(00:58):
of twenty six Republics voted against that. What was your
thinking there, Yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Was one of our bills that the President wanted. He
wanted to continuing resolution to go forward. If that amendment
had passed, we would have lost the Continuing Resolution and
government to shut down. That would have been exactly against
what the President wanted in that case. In particular, Ran
Paul went rogue on us and introduced that legislation, and
in fact we asked him, we said, hey, Ran, so
if your a member passed, is the univote for the
(01:26):
continuing Resolution? He said no, I'm like so like dude, seriously.
So that was a case where Ram was just doing
one of those show votes and the President had pecifically
said he wanted to Continuing Resolution to go forward, and
so we couldn't let that amendment pass because then the
Consuming Resolution would have failed.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
One of the other things I wanted to ask you about,
speaking of votes, is where you think that the budget
plan is going, the big beautiful bill. And Doug was
sending in an email wanting to know if the no
tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax
on social security as going to survive this process. What
do you think?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, it is just what you said, a process there
we're going through. We're still in the Finance Committee, which
is run by Center Mike Crapo. They're still going through
their process there. However, I can tell you that at
least on the starting list of the things that they're
working on, all three of those are in it right now.
But as you point out, the process and the math
is all got to work on this stuff. So we'll,
(02:23):
I say, stay tuned. This is going to be something
where it's going to continue to progress throughout the summer.
You know, the House is going to try and get
their work done here in the next couple of weeks,
but then the Sun is going to have to do
their work and it's going to have to go you know,
those both those two things are going to have to
get reconciled together. So this is this is going to
take the next several months.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Where are you on the salt tax. A lot of
people think it's just for California and New York, but
Nebraska some of the highest taxes in the country. Are
you willing to go to thirty thousand from ten thousand
or even higher salt tax being the state and local
tax okay deduction.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the salt tax.
I think that rewards states with high property taxes. We're
trying to get our property taxes down here in Nebraska,
but it certainly rewards states like California and New York.
But you know, at the end of the day, we've
got House members in New York and California and New
Jersey that we need to get to two eighteen. So
this is again, it could be one of those things.
It's going to be a negotiation and we'll see where
(03:19):
the negotiated number comes out.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
But you don't think property taxes are high enough in
Nebraska yet to merit a sall tax extension.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Well, I'm not a big fan of the fall tax
because I think just rewards having high property taxes. We
don't want to reward that. We want to bring our
property taxes down. We want to give it sentence to
bring our property taxes down. So that's what we need
to work on. And certainly states like California, New York,
and New Jersey are really taking advantage of this in
much greater way than those states. So again, it's one
(03:48):
of the things that we'll be negotiate out here. I'm
guessining there'll probably be some sort of salt tax exemption
because of those the members we need in those states.
The word that number ends up is still being negotiated.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What do you think of the results of the Omaha
maras election.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm sorry Jean didn't get elected. I think she's been
a great mayor. You look at what she's done over
the last twelve years. You know, Forbes, just francis the
number one city to move to. We've got one of
the honest housing markets. She invests in economic development, murder
rates her dad. Over the last four years. It's a
safer place she had economic developments. You know, I wish
John doing success because he's taken over a great city
(04:25):
and we want to continue to see it be great.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Jessica Flannagan is taking flak for the attack ad she
was working on behalf of the mayor for the attack
ad against John Ewing, and a listener wants to know
if you and your friends funded the pack that paid
her to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, all those numbers, I think are all disclosed. I
gave my contributions directly to Mayor Southard, so I can't
speak for anybody else, but I will tell you I
think it goes toward what the Democrats in general have
been aligned with, which is, you know, having boys playing
girls school sorts and boys being and girls locker rooms,
and you know, you look at things like what happened
(05:05):
with Riley Gaines and how she was robbed of, you know,
a medal or a recognition in swimming because a man
was swimming against her. I mean, that's the things that
Democrats are for, and that's that's really not what the
vast majority of American people think is right. So you
would be nice to see if hard new mayor would
saying he's not for those things.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, you're right, it's an eighty twenty issue, and in
many cases, I think it might be a ninety ten issue.
Are you disappointed that the mayor didn't start in on
that a little sooner than a week or so before
the election, given that those are the issues that gets
republic to get Republicans to vote, and a lot of
them stayed home.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know, I think the mayor worked hard. You know, look,
it's always tough when the party in power is there,
it energizes the opposite side. So there's a lot of
not going on the mayor's race, and I know the
mayor worked hard, and you know, I think she's done
a great job. I hope wish the new mayor of
success as well, because we want to keep our city great.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Does this worry you for Don Bacon and district too
next year.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Don Bacon always had a tough race.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
They always slapped them down. They tried, they tried out
these Dems and they always slapped them down. I wanted
to ask you to send on the records about a
National Police Week. In fact, you offered a is it
a resolution or a law to honor police and help
protect them with increased penalties?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah? Actually I am. The last year i co led
the Back to Blue Act. This year I'm a co
sponsor for the Thin Blue Line Act, which would create
more penalties for criminals who target law enforcement, make them harsher,
gives a law enforcement more tools. And with National Police Week,
we also recognized Officer Ross Bartlett, who is the Soresco
officer who was killed in the line of due last year. Again,
(06:52):
he was making a traffic stop and allegedly a driver
was distracted on the phone texting and drifted over into
the shoulder and his current killed them. So that just
shows you the danger that officers go through to keep
us safe. And we are to recognize police officers for
all the work they do. The women and men who
put on the blue risk their lives of the family
sacrifice one with them, so we should say thank you
(07:13):
this week, every.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Week, no doubt. And then there was the officer that
was killed. We had that horrible snowstorm and he was
out there on a traffic call in the middle of
it and was got. It's just it's a although that
was not a criminal acting and they and and strictly speaking,
Bartlett's death was an accident. But still I think the
point is well taken. Senator thank you. Yeah, indeed, thanks
(07:34):
for coming.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
On my pleasure having beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Weekend in Omaha, Nebraska. That's US. Senator Pete Ricketts
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