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Hello, it's the end of the week
three and you'll note I'm

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wearing a suit again and like week
one, I still get a lot of flack

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about doing one in casual clothes
doing one of these videos.

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Thanks for watching this thanks
for letting me up here this

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week. It's been kind of a slow session
this year. I think it's

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because with the tax reform followed
by the repeal and the

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effort that went into the tax reform,
love it or hate it.

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That's kinda left us as a Legislature
a little bit worn out.

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There's not any really. Big issues
It seems like not major big

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bills. We have stopped a couple
of key bills. One in

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particular, there was a bill to
bring back safety inspections.

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If you remember two years ago, then
Representative McCay now

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Senator McCay ran a bill to get
rid of safety inspections

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using a lot of data showing that
they don't really seem to have

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any correlation with safety on the
roads and there's been some

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effort to bring those back and we
are successfully able to in

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business and labor make that bill
kind of stop. So that's one

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thing other than that. we're wrapping
up the budgets. I know I

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talked about last week too, But
that's what we do. The first

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three weeks primarily is budget.
we wrapped up this morning. I

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sit on social services Appropriations
subcommittee and we

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prioritize our budget request I
guess based on what came in to

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that Committee. One of the things
that that I was most more

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interested in is is Medicaid for
kids. You know we. We have a

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lot of programs for a lot of different
people. One thing that

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we did work on this this morning
and I've worked to prioritize

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higher on the funding list was Medicaid
for kids, More Medical

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12 -month eligibility for Medicaid
for kids about 90 percent of

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the Medicaid recipients in the state
of Utah are children and

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when you look at you know things
that are appropriate to fund

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in government. I think taking care
of kids at need-kids is

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one of the more important things
we could do as a government

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and with that, there's still no
general fund money and you

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know, Education fund money and we're
working through you know

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how much to fund the WPU right now
how much to fund into higher

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education and we'll be working through
that next week as well,

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an executive Appropriations Committee
anyway, Thanks so much

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call text. email. Whatever happy
to talk to you. Bye.