Mike Crapo

All right.

Tomorrow, we're expecting Senator Mike Crapo to join us.

Looking forward to that.

And of course, we'll have the latest for you.

Hopefully it was

Crapo.

Mike Crapo.

Such a great name.

But what the church said in January 2010 was that the white horse prophecy had not been substantiated by historical research and it was not Mormon church doctrine.

And so the industry group that I am a member of and a lot of the individual members of the industry group are very active in trying to get Treasury to back down from that.

And in fact, Senator Crapo in Idaho was the head of the Finance Committee.

So we had conversations yesterday with his staff, we're trying to get Treasury to back off on that to basically move that guidance to the end of 2028 so that people can still actively use the 1.0 zones.

As of today, if you want to develop in a 1.0 zone, we need to jump through those hoops because it may be 2027 before they back off on that.

Following the introduction of Petra, Senator Wyden went on the Senate floor on March 3, 2026, and asked for unanimous consent to pass the bill.

In response, Senator Mike Crapo, the Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, objected, blocking the passage of the legislation.

Additionally, while chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Wyden actively sought a Republican counterpart to join in pursuing subpoenas on the Epstein matter through the committee on a bipartisan basis.

In June of 2024, Senator Wyden's office began outreach to the office of Senator Marsha Blackburn, seeking her support for a bipartisan investigation of Epstein's bank records, as Blackburn had long been an outspoken proponent of increased transparency with relation to Jeffrey Epstein.

But here's where there's a twist.

Mike Johnson, Senator Mike Crapo, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan before them, and Donald Trump himself didn't just strip healthcare from millions of people.

They might have opened a door to real progressive change.

Because the only way that real change ever happens in this country, the only way we swing the pendulum back, is when enough people are crushed, uninsured, underinsured, buried in medical debt, maybe watching a parent or a child denied care over a missed form.

Russ Fulcher, got it.

Cardio

... got it.

And I think that the sort of political, um, finding was people weren't willing to take, willing to take that risk.

When you said that you'd worked with, this was during the hearing, that you'd worked with Senator Crapo on the Simpson-Bowles commission.

Yeah.

And one thing that I found fascinating, Marc, was that Senator Crapo had said how senators would come up to him and say that they thought the work was really great, but that they hadn't been asked to be part of it.

And I thought, "Oh my God, is this all ego?" Is this...

Like, I feel like sometimes when we're dealing with the government, it's like a bunch of little kids on a playground saying, "Well, you didn't invite me," and so things don't get done.

under President Obama, and it was a bipartisan commission that was tasked with, and actually succeeded at, coming up with an idea both to fix our long-term debt and to secure Social Security.

And we actually came up with plans for both.

Before we get rolling, this was brought to my attention by some people, by our elaborate and enormous staff here.

And this is an editorial by our own Senator Mike Crapo.

I know you're going, didn't Mike Crapo used to be on the program a lot? He did.

but whether it's the media people, whether it's that, we just roll on, right? But his point being that he's talking about some things that the president has not gotten credit for.

In fact, I usually get his releases.

It got published in the Washington Examiner.

Now, if you want to read it, you have to get a subscription to the Examiner.

But we'll break it down for you from Mike Crapo.

I mean, and you'll notice within 24 hours, a handful, if not more, Democratic senators jumped right on that and said, yeah, absolutely.

So my personal experience has been, for example, in Senate Finance, Wyden and Crapo, the current ranking member and the current chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and they'd flip positions if Democrats regained the majority, as Jim's outlined.

They try to work together when possible.

I did an investigation where they were both on board.