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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's bring him on. Senator John Housted joining us now
and Merry Christmas. Senator, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Merry Christmas? I'm doing great. I'm trying to finish up
my work here in Washington so I can come home
for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Making your list in checking it twice?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Are you? I'm just trying to be naughty and not nice.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Save Santa the Trip, as they say, yeah, well we
got that one hanging in the half bath downstairs.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It was like, be naughty safe Santa the Trip.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, no kidding, No, I'm trying to be nice. I'm
trying to get things done and and hopefully help the
American people.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
So very good, do our best. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, uh so let's start with what are your thoughts
on the latest polling claiming? Uh and we're you know,
talking about governor here in the state of Ohio and
that Amy Acton is ahead of vivek Ramaswami, which I
don't know. My first thought Senator was, uh, is this
the same people who had Hillary basically winning versus Trump?
(01:02):
Is this the same people who did that poll? Because
that was all but over when Trump ended up winning
his first time. I mean, think about it, it was
the way that that all was playing out. As you're
watching that coverage, you're like, oh, well this is this
is basically over. I don't even know why people are
going to the poles and that clearly was not the case.
Are we up against that again? Because Chuck and I
(01:22):
saw this and we we tore it apart on the air.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
But I was just like, what is happening here?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I know, I know, you know, Governor de Wine
is saying, hey, look that everything that happened with COVID,
that's on me, you know, don't.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You know what? There's actually there's actually a pretty good
explanation for that because I was there.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, well you had a front receipt.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was the lieutenant governor, Amy Acton was the was
the health director, and the governor. The governor's right, it's
his decision. He was accountable for it. That's the point
he's trying to make. It's like nobody else made decision.
I did. But here here was the thing you talk
about naughty and nice? You pick you picked this out.
I know that doctor Acton was advocating for businesses to
(02:03):
be closed longer, schools to be closed longer, sports to
be shut down longer. I was advocating that it be less,
you know, open things back up. I was trying to
get things done faster, and she should be very proud
of her position. I was very proud of my position,
but it's ultimately the governor's decision. However, we should all
know where everybody was right. Everybody know she was advocating
(02:27):
for more. So if you think that being shut down
longer was a good thing, then you should like you
know her in that role. If you think being shut
down less, you know, opening up schools, opening up businesses,
opening up you know, that's kind of where I stood.
That's where I think the akrom Maswami stood. I won't
speak for him, but you know, that's pretty easy explanation
(02:47):
for people. And I think that with the benefit of hindsight,
we see that the learning loss that occurred in schools,
the fraud that occurred, you know, from all the extra
COVID money that was out there from the federal government,
that that the way that that those shutdowns were handled,
you know, proofed in the end that opening up sooner
(03:08):
was better.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
See, the learning loss is what did this? It's two
years of not being in school. A bunch of stupid
people answered this poll. That's what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And look, I'll you know, poll pulling issues or are
are interesting things, but you know it's so far away,
Like you can never put a lot of stake into
one poll, and that means if you're up, you know,
look the polls. The polls showed me up. But oh well,
like it's nice, but if it showed me down, it
(03:40):
wouldn't change my opinion one way or the other. About
the fact that we all have to go out and
work hard and earn the trust of the people of
the state of Ohio. That's what you do in every election.
You never you never take it for granted. You never
think that you're you're great. You've got to earn it
every single day by doing the work that the people
(04:04):
of the state of Ohio want you to do.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Senator John Houstad joining us now, and you know the
thing that the constituents look for from their senators, if
you will, is affecting change. You had two bills that
have become low and only ten months talk to us
about this. You've got to be very proud of this.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, you all know I kind of got thrown in here.
Wasn't planning on being a senator, I'm and then all
of a sudden, JD. Vance gets selected Vice President and
I'm a senator, and I said, well, what's what's one
of the first things I can do. I can reverse
all the bad things that happened during the Biden administration.
So that was my first bill, reversing their their requirements
(04:41):
for you know, more energy efficient, more regulatory requirements on
the production of things like dishwashers, and heating and cooling systems, pumps, washers,
things like that. Repealing the mandates on these household appliances.
So why so they'd be cheaper, so that they would
(05:02):
that you would have more choice, that they all didn't
have to be the same hitting these same goals. If
you wanted more energy efficient, sure get it. But if
you if you wanted something that's more affordable, you could
buy that. I repealed all those Biden era mandates that
the President signed in so I got a bill passed
on my one hundredth day in office. And then the
next one that I got done was called the Smart
(05:24):
over over the Counter Provision smart OCC. So you know
how prescription drugs cost more than over the counter drugs,
I'm making the process easier easier so that we can
get more things. Like say you're on a stat and
there's no reason for that to be a prescription drug.
Let's let's speed that process up so that could be
(05:45):
an overcounter, over the counter drug. For example, remember allergy medications,
they used to have to be all prescription. Now you
can get them over the counter. And when you do this,
it reduces the cost from thirty to ninety percent of
the of the drugs that you use for whatever ailement
you have. And just stuff like that, Like every little
thing that we can reduce the cost of providing services
(06:07):
to people, that's the kind of thing that I'm interested
in doing.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Center you said, while you're thinking about rescription drugs, this
just popped into my head. Are there any incentives out
there or working on, any incentives that might inspire more
domestic production of not just prescription but over the counter stuff.
Vitamin supplements is so much that stuff comes from China. Honestly,
it makes me nervous.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, that's very true, and it's an important issue. And
you know, in Central Ohio we've had we've had two successes.
You know, the people that make Nature's Blend vitamins and
supplements they moved a production facility to New Albany. Amjin
used to produce a lot of their drugs around the globe.
They're producing more of them right in central Ohio and
(06:50):
a new facility they have out in the New Albany area.
So we've landed some of those, and there's another one
I hope that we will land here soon in the
state of Ohio. But we're doing that. But Chuck, you're
exactly right though, on prescription drugs, on rare earth, on chips,
things like that. We have to stop depending on China
(07:12):
and people who are our adversaries and start making more
of that in America. And and you know that's that's
literally what the tariffs are part of doing is moving
you know, re re setting the conversation about instead of
these low you know, getting undercut by by other nations
(07:32):
on prices, that we can move more of that back
to America and establish a secure supply chain for the
things that are essential for our economic and national security.
Because right now we all know this. If China wanted to,
they could, They could bring America to its knees from
a trade from a from an economic point of view,
because it would they could stop sending this the stuff
(07:52):
we need for pharmaceuticals or or for battery production or
automotive production, and it's a it's a scary thing, and
we've got to do that reset.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, that's the thing we need to do, which is
clearly start Like Chuck was kind of pointing out, if
if and it's easy, you know, easy to obviously just
say it, but having it produced here is clearly the
answer there. So we're not you know, we're not being
held hostage by it if you.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I mean, seriously, just show this quickly. In the nineteen nineties,
America used to process most of the rarer minerals on
the planet. Now we have almost none of them, and
it's because it got all shipped off to China. We
started that. We can bring it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Back, Yeah, for sure, Senator John Houstad, and I know
you were saying you're trying to get back here for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You got big Christmas plans.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You guys will have a chunk of time where you
hopefully get to take a little time off.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yes, well I wish, but it won't be it won't
be very long. But I hope to spend time with
my family. I mean, that isn't that what for us
Christmas is about. It's about family, it's about the birth
of our Savior, It's about it's about us taking stock
and the many blessings that we have in life, and
to hopefully, if we're able and we have many blessings,
(09:06):
to share those blessings with others at this time of
year when people need help, if people's loan, you know,
if there's someone lonely, you know, maybe you can invite
them over. Maybe you can take them some cookies, Maybe
you can send them a gift, Maybe you could do
something to take that person in your that you may
know in life, you may not know them well, but
maybe you can shine a little light into their life,
a little Christmas cheer, and I promise you it will
(09:29):
make you feel as good as it makes them feel.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah, very good, Very good.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
All right, Senator John Housted, thank you very much for
hanging with us for a couple of minutes. And like
I said, Merry Christmas and happy New Year, and I'm
sure we'll be talking to you more here as twenty
twenty six and so on.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Great Merry Christmas, very good, Thank
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You appreciate that
Let's bring him on. Senator John Housted joining us now
and Merry Christmas. Senator, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Merry Christmas? I'm doing great. I'm trying to finish up
my work here in Washington so I can come home
for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Making your list in checking it twice?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Are you? I'm just trying to be naughty and not nice.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Save Santa the Trip, as they say, yeah, well we
got that one hanging in the half bath downstairs.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It was like, be naughty safe Santa the Trip.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, no kidding, No, I'm trying to be nice. I'm
trying to get things done and and hopefully help the
American people.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
So very good, do our best. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Well, uh so let's start with what are your thoughts
on the latest polling claiming? Uh and we're you know,
talking about governor here in the state of Ohio and
that Amy Acton is ahead of vivek Ramaswami, which I
don't know. My first thought Senator was, uh, is this
the same people who had Hillary basically winning versus Trump?
(01:02):
Is this the same people who did that poll? Because
that was all but over when Trump ended up winning
his first time. I mean, think about it, it was
the way that that all was playing out. As you're
watching that coverage, you're like, oh, well this is this
is basically over. I don't even know why people are
going to the poles and that clearly was not the case.
Are we up against that again? Because Chuck and I
(01:22):
saw this and we we tore it apart on the air.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
But I was just like, what is happening here?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I know, I know, you know, Governor de Wine
is saying, hey, look that everything that happened with COVID,
that's on me, you know, don't.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
You know what? There's actually there's actually a pretty good
explanation for that because I was there.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, well you had a front receipt.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was the lieutenant governor, Amy Acton was the was
the health director, and the governor. The governor's right, it's
his decision. He was accountable for it. That's the point
he's trying to make. It's like nobody else made decision.
I did. But here here was the thing you talk
about naughty and nice? You pick you picked this out.
I know that doctor Acton was advocating for businesses to
(02:03):
be closed longer, schools to be closed longer, sports to
be shut down longer. I was advocating that it be less,
you know, open things back up. I was trying to
get things done faster, and she should be very proud
of her position. I was very proud of my position,
but it's ultimately the governor's decision. However, we should all
know where everybody was right. Everybody know she was advocating
(02:27):
for more. So if you think that being shut down
longer was a good thing, then you should like you
know her in that role. If you think being shut
down less, you know, opening up schools, opening up businesses,
opening up you know, that's kind of where I stood.
That's where I think the akrom Maswami stood. I won't
speak for him, but you know, that's pretty easy explanation
(02:47):
for people. And I think that with the benefit of hindsight,
we see that the learning loss that occurred in schools,
the fraud that occurred, you know, from all the extra
COVID money that was out there from the federal government,
that that the way that that those shutdowns were handled,
you know, proofed in the end that opening up sooner
(03:08):
was better.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
See, the learning loss is what did this? It's two
years of not being in school. A bunch of stupid
people answered this poll. That's what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And look, I'll you know, poll pulling issues or are
are interesting things, but you know it's so far away,
Like you can never put a lot of stake into
one poll, and that means if you're up, you know,
look the polls. The polls showed me up. But oh well,
like it's nice, but if it showed me down, it
(03:40):
wouldn't change my opinion one way or the other. About
the fact that we all have to go out and
work hard and earn the trust of the people of
the state of Ohio. That's what you do in every election.
You never you never take it for granted. You never
think that you're you're great. You've got to earn it
every single day by doing the work that the people
(04:04):
of the state of Ohio want you to do.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Senator John Houstad joining us now, and you know the
thing that the constituents look for from their senators, if
you will, is affecting change. You had two bills that
have become low and only ten months talk to us
about this. You've got to be very proud of this.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, you all know I kind of got thrown in here.
Wasn't planning on being a senator, I'm and then all
of a sudden, JD. Vance gets selected Vice President and
I'm a senator, and I said, well, what's what's one
of the first things I can do. I can reverse
all the bad things that happened during the Biden administration.
So that was my first bill, reversing their their requirements
(04:41):
for you know, more energy efficient, more regulatory requirements on
the production of things like dishwashers, and heating and cooling systems, pumps, washers,
things like that. Repealing the mandates on these household appliances.
So why so they'd be cheaper, so that they would
(05:02):
that you would have more choice, that they all didn't
have to be the same hitting these same goals. If
you wanted more energy efficient, sure get it. But if
you if you wanted something that's more affordable, you could
buy that. I repealed all those Biden era mandates that
the President signed in so I got a bill passed
on my one hundredth day in office. And then the
next one that I got done was called the Smart
(05:24):
over over the Counter Provision smart OCC. So you know
how prescription drugs cost more than over the counter drugs,
I'm making the process easier easier so that we can
get more things. Like say you're on a stat and
there's no reason for that to be a prescription drug.
Let's let's speed that process up so that could be
(05:45):
an overcounter, over the counter drug. For example, remember allergy medications,
they used to have to be all prescription. Now you
can get them over the counter. And when you do this,
it reduces the cost from thirty to ninety percent of
the of the drugs that you use for whatever ailement
you have. And just stuff like that, Like every little
thing that we can reduce the cost of providing services
(06:07):
to people, that's the kind of thing that I'm interested
in doing.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Center you said, while you're thinking about rescription drugs, this
just popped into my head. Are there any incentives out
there or working on, any incentives that might inspire more
domestic production of not just prescription but over the counter stuff.
Vitamin supplements is so much that stuff comes from China. Honestly,
it makes me nervous.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, that's very true, and it's an important issue. And
you know, in Central Ohio we've had we've had two successes.
You know, the people that make Nature's Blend vitamins and
supplements they moved a production facility to New Albany. Amjin
used to produce a lot of their drugs around the globe.
They're producing more of them right in central Ohio and
(06:50):
a new facility they have out in the New Albany area.
So we've landed some of those, and there's another one
I hope that we will land here soon in the
state of Ohio. But we're doing that. But Chuck, you're
exactly right though, on prescription drugs, on rare earth, on chips,
things like that. We have to stop depending on China
(07:12):
and people who are our adversaries and start making more
of that in America. And and you know that's that's
literally what the tariffs are part of doing is moving
you know, re re setting the conversation about instead of
these low you know, getting undercut by by other nations
(07:32):
on prices, that we can move more of that back
to America and establish a secure supply chain for the
things that are essential for our economic and national security.
Because right now we all know this. If China wanted to,
they could, They could bring America to its knees from
a trade from a from an economic point of view,
because it would they could stop sending this the stuff
(07:52):
we need for pharmaceuticals or or for battery production or
automotive production, and it's a it's a scary thing, and
we've got to do that reset.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, that's the thing we need to do, which is
clearly start Like Chuck was kind of pointing out, if
if and it's easy, you know, easy to obviously just
say it, but having it produced here is clearly the
answer there. So we're not you know, we're not being
held hostage by it if you.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I mean, seriously, just show this quickly. In the nineteen nineties,
America used to process most of the rarer minerals on
the planet. Now we have almost none of them, and
it's because it got all shipped off to China. We
started that. We can bring it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Back, Yeah, for sure, Senator John Houstad, and I know
you were saying you're trying to get back here for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
You got big Christmas plans.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You guys will have a chunk of time where you
hopefully get to take a little time off.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yes, well I wish, but it won't be it won't
be very long. But I hope to spend time with
my family. I mean, that isn't that what for us
Christmas is about. It's about family, it's about the birth
of our Savior, It's about it's about us taking stock
and the many blessings that we have in life, and
to hopefully, if we're able and we have many blessings,
(09:06):
to share those blessings with others at this time of
year when people need help, if people's loan, you know,
if there's someone lonely, you know, maybe you can invite
them over. Maybe you can take them some cookies, Maybe
you can send them a gift, Maybe you could do
something to take that person in your that you may
know in life, you may not know them well, but
maybe you can shine a little light into their life,
a little Christmas cheer, and I promise you it will
(09:29):
make you feel as good as it makes them feel.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah, very good, Very good.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
All right, Senator John Housted, thank you very much for
hanging with us for a couple of minutes. And like
I said, Merry Christmas and happy New Year, and I'm
sure we'll be talking to you more here as twenty
twenty six and so on.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Great Merry Christmas, very good, Thank
Speaker 4 (09:47):
You appreciate that
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