I'm glad you said that.

Yes.

And, uh, you know, you solve all the world's problems, and by gosh, this is what, you know, if I, if I were here.

I mean, the reality is you're not gonna show up as a brand-new member, very junior in service, and be at the center of the discussions on the great issues of our time.

You'll have your vote, and you'll advocate on behalf of the people you represent, but you're not going to be the fulcrum that gets those four hundred and thirty-five people lined up and moving.

And if you try to be, you're gonna wind up with your name in the headlines, and people out in the country have heard of you, and nobody here trusts you because it's clearly, you know, you're, you're building about yourself, not about trying to get something done, which is a little different from the Kansas dynamic.

But there are things you can do that on right from the start.

Hmm.

Um, what is the truth about the state of our stockpiles?

Look, we've used a lot of munitions.

There's no doubt about that.

I don't think it takes, uh, you know, some sort of, uh, great insight to figure that out.

But it's also not true that we are sort of, uh, nearing the last armament.

You know, part of the reporting, uh, on this, again, not blaming the folks that report, but the folks that have spun this message up, uh, you know, it's true, we've used a lot of precision munitions, standoff munitions.

We used a very large number of those early in the war.

What is the Republicans plan to help those families with the cost of living, especially leading into November?

Y'all just finally passed a farm bill, which is something that has been waiting quite a long time since Congress has actually passed a farm bill.

three years overdue but we said we were going to get done and we've gotten it out of the house course a big part of the traditional farm bill we got done in the reconciliation bill last summer but a lot of pieces were still left on the table uh... we got him out of the house i'm hopeful the senate can follow suit i mean look there's a lot of uncertainty in agriculture there has been some time immemorial and there's even more right now in terms of you know some of the international dynamics but there are things we can do to provide certainly and uh...

Having a farm bill that lasts for the next five years, not just sort of every year to year and folks can't make long-term plans, that's a big step.

So I'm pretty excited about it.

Obviously big for us out here in farm country in the Midwest, in Kansas for me in particular.

And if the Senate can follow up on their part, this will be a huge accomplishment that's long overdue.

And here your colleagues across the aisle are nitpicking and ninnypicking over mean tweets from the White House, and they're shutting down Homeland Security.

It's irresponsible, John.