Life On Capitol Hill: Morgan Luttrell Breaks Down Misinformation, Lays Out Learning Curves, Behind The Scenes Look From A Freshman Congressman

The Team Never Quit podcast is brought to you by Navy Federal Credit Union. When you use the Navy Federal Cash Rewards Card, you can earn up to 1.75% cash back on all purchases. Learn more at NavyFederal.org. I don't care about red or blue anymore. We're here. We're $31 trillion in debt. The problem is in front of us. I don't care which administration did it. There's a point in time. We'll be paying more on the interest of the debt in the next five to 10 years than we pay on our defense budget. All right everybody. Welcome back to the TNGU podcast. I'm your host, Marcus LaTrell. Every week it's my job to fire you up, to ignite the legend inside of you, and to push you to your greatness. Join me every week as I take you into my briefing room with some of the most hard charging people on the planet. They're going to show you how to embrace the stuff of life, keep you the values of working your ass off, and charge through whatever life throws at you. This is the Team Never Quit Podcast. Don't buckle up, Buttercup. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of Team Never Quit podcast. Thank you all for listening, watching, viewing, and subscribing. If you haven't yet, please show your support by hitting that like button or check us out on social media at Team Never Quit. All right, I am thrilled to introduce today's guest to you, a true American patriot, one that you all already know, a distinguished veteran, a successful businessman, and if you didn't think that was enough, a newly appointed politician. Welcome to the show, our former co-host, and now United States Congressman Morgan Littrell. Sounds strange to hear that come out of your mouth, I heard something the other day too. The difference between, there is a difference between a politician and a leader. Politician and the statesman. Yeah, there is substantial. Absolutely, substantial difference. I can't remember what we were watching when I learned that, but it made a complete sense. That's why I'm bringing it up. What is it? You don't want a politician in there. You want a leader. Politicians are... Make everybody happy. Yeah, they play to the position where statesman's represent and lead their constituents. They polish shit up to where it looks okay. Somewhere in that word has to come from that, right? For sure. Hey, when people call me a politician, I cringe. It's just a couple months ago. Wait, what was the hero title? Yeah, that's just kind of... It's more of a leader. Because a couple of months ago, I wasn't. I was in Willis the other day doing my first town hall, and it got aggressive. Some of the things that they... And again, the base is amazing. They're very passionate. Christian conservatives. So, everyone at one point is like, hey, you do realize I'm from here? What were they being aggressive about? Politics. Everything. Politics is aggressive. It doesn't even matter what you're talking about. I mean, there are the hot button topics that everybody will really get aggressive on, but then there's at varying levels. And this one, we were talking about January 6th. This particular question came out. And they... We around here are very passionate about that. They wanted answers. And I didn't have the answers that they wanted. I haven't had that opportunity. Good, man. If our people are climbing the damn walls, that's what that was. Our people were so upset and freaked out about they were climbing the damn walls. You don't have an answer for that. We were busy fighting those two wars. We got back trying to figure that out now. I ask people if you've ever been in a mob setting, if you have ever been inside the bubble. What does it say? Most people have it, right? You and I have. And there's an energy that lives. And once it grows, and if you become a part of it, you may be in find yourself in a situation that you're like, hey, I didn't intend to be here. This is where I'm at. And there's varying degrees of complexity when it came to January 6th. And I've seen a lot of the videos that you see from the DC police once I was elected. And I'd say 95, 99% of the people there got caught up in that just that movement. And then you had the nefarious actors that were peppered through the crowds. And I give the DC police so much credit. Some of the videos that I saw, and this makes people upset all the time when I say this. But the DC police did an amazing job of restraint. Because there were certain situations that they were just they were really getting just close to death. And never in history, that was an unarmed mob. And the police, there was only one shot fired. And that was where the Alamo was, with actually Babin, as sad as that was. They didn't have another choice, in my opinion. And the restraint for the DC police, I give them so much credit because a situation that you and I've been overseas, if they've escalated that much, there have been rounds going down range. You know, because they were feeling much. Today's the anniversary. Today's the anniversary Alamo. That's interesting. Yeah, it's so crazy. But it just it still resonates. I mean, that was a few years ago, but people are so patchy because they still have the January 6th rioters that are in incarceration in Washington, DC. And I'm doing my best to get the information to them. And the criminal justice system there is, you could say broken. And they don't allow access to the to the prison. So even as a congressional member, I can't get in there. I can request information. But there's still people in jail. Oh, yeah. I didn't realize that. Oh, there's people in jail that are that that haven't had an arraignment date yet. I mean, it's the do it's the breakdown of due process. Yeah, pretty sure it's clear the constitution to do that to him. It is. And what the questions that I've asked, and there's some there's some members that have been up there longer than I have had the opportunity to speak to some of their leadership inside the inside of the prison system. And it's apparently it's the Washington. I don't know this because this is what I've been told is it's the bottleneck of the system itself. They're so overwhelmed with just the caseload. And the January 6th folks are just in the in the pipeline. And they're still trying to. But DC is a, you know, you can argue a dumpster fire. I mean, they they they voted. They wanted everybody that led in DC to have the right to vote. Even if you were a Chinese citizen working for the Chinese government, if you're a Russian citizen working with the Russian embassy, you had the right to vote. Like I wouldn't be there on that day, but I know what it looks like when someone's holding a grudge. Is it a lot of that looks like that? Are they in a federal prison or? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, because it was on federal grounds. Federal crime. Someone trying to get somebody back for doing something. That's what that is. That's so crazy. Dolly, I don't. Okay, so I one of the questions I've been dying to ask you because I know a lot of people there's just misinformation about is what can a congressman do and what can they do? What is your role? That's really a great question. And you have to understand that as a congressional member in the lower chamber, what does that mean? Lower. So the house is broken into two chambers, the lower chamber in the upper chamber. Senate is the upper chamber. All right, they're they're judiciary more or less 50 of them. I'm sorry. There's a hundred of them. Two per state. I'm sorry. Yeah. And then there's 435 of us. And then there's always, always, always. And then there's eight non voting members like from Guam and Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. Was that they have representatives in the House of Representatives, but they don't have a congress. They don't have no they do. They have a member, but they're not they're not voting members because they're not states. Okay, so they have opinions to answer to they answer to their base, but they're territories. They're not states. So 435 state representatives in the lower chamber, which is so they have their own government. And they're they can't vote or anything. What was that? Well, they're so they know they represent their territories. Like we represent our states, but when it comes to passing laws and legislation, they can't they're not voting members. So the territories have their their they're governed on their own, but that's what we provide them funding and we claim them as a territory. They have representation in the House. We protect them. Someone tries to attack. That's all that is. Yeah. So as a congressman, my job is to pass legislation. That's it. Period. I can't and this is where there's a misconception and and depending on what's happening at the time, some members have gotten themselves in trouble saying, hey, look, I'm going I'm going I'm going after they're going to jail. I can't say that. It's it's it's not my fiduciary responsibility to to charge somebody with criminal act. My job is to hear testimony of anything that may be broken or fixed and create legislation and pass bills that fix problems. That's my job. Right. Whatever that may be, whatever legislature whatever, whatever piece of law needs to be passed, the lower chamber makes that happen. Another role and responsibility of the lower chamber of Congress is we control the purse strings. We control the money. Right. We provide funding for all of our appropriations bills, the their allotment for that and for that year. Okay. And right now, this past year, the omnibus bill, everyone's permitted with the omnibus bill is just a bunch of stuff together, just thrown together. Okay, it's just legislation from a civil rights thing or Green New Deal to gun rights. It's just a hodgepodge of we in the Republican party, we don't like omnibus bills, right? Because there's just no germaneness to it. You know, I could be pushing something across for defense and then somebody's going to throw in a transgender issue. Yeah, right. It's just off the charts. Well, in the last on us, build it passed for 1.7 tree and that paid for everything in 2023. Okay. So right now, the Republican party, since they're in control of the lower chamber, not to send it, but the the lower house, that means that we are just kind of have our hands tied until October 1st, beginning of the new fiscal year, we can say, all right, hey, look, you know what, you want money for your social programs? Secure the border. We're just gonna take it right away from you. And since they since Biden signed in the bill last year, everything's funded like the 87,000 IRS agents that we repealed in on this year, our first vote was to repeal 87,000 IRS agents. Okay, that'll go to the Senate. The Senate has to sign off on it. Then we'll go to the president for signature. The Senate will kill it. We don't own the Senate. The Democrats do, right? Okay. So even if we pass legislation out of the house and it goes to the Senate, the Senate most likely will kill it. Now, if you pass it to the Senate, let's say the Senate pushes it, the president can say, I don't like it. And he can veto that. But come October 1st, we can stop funding to those 87,000 IRS agents. And then that's what's gonna, that's what's gonna stop because right now they're still ramping up on everything. So passing legislations and controlling government money is what Congressmen and women do. That is our primary role. Now our reach, if you will, is while I walked into the Conro VA and they're still mandating masks. Talk to the secretary of the VA, Mr. McDud, the next day, great guy, great man. I'm gonna tell you right now, respect, respect. He was Obama's chief of staff, longest serving chief staff, very fascinating guy, had a great political career. I reached out to him. He actually came to my office and sat with me and chatted. And I said, Hey, sir, it's still mandating masks in Conro in my VA. My veterans don't want this being treated differently. He's like, give me two weeks. And then Friday, this past Friday, they came out with new legislation that says, I'm sorry, new new requirements saying that masks, it the only says on the facility. So if it's not a hotspot, no masks. If there's an outbreak and something, hey, we're gonna request you, we're gonna require you that you mask up. So that's whoever's in charge of that specific facility. Yeah, yes, yes. And they'll still go off a CDC guidance. So is it an absolute win? We're like, hey, we're getting rid of masks all together. You know, it's not a perfect world. There's negotiations there. But the secretary did a great job, I think, and getting this, you know, we're moving the pendulum and where we want it to go. So explain the difference between the bills that we passed for seven trillion that just come in one bill as opposed to what the the national debt is. Okay, so our that so the omnibus bill, well, what seven trillion, but we've over this this 1.7 trillion, but this admin, this current administration is taking up to a high, you know, below $10 trillion, right? The previous administration did a pretty substantial amount onto the national debt. So every time we pass a bill, and here's the problem that we're seeing, this is this is the problem that exists. Okay, make no mistake about it. We're here. It's not we're not at the cliff's edge, we're over it. We spend more as a country than we take in, either from our economy, locally, or imports, okay, tax revenue and all that combined. The numbers, you know, they kind of fluctuate, but we take in a doesn't make sense to do that. No, it's it's absolutely upside down. The who's been doing that? If we're okay, so we're here at 31 trillion dollars. You got in, brother. Yeah, one another. Okay. And I, I really, when I yeah, when I talk to folks, I'm like, Hey, look, no, I don't care about red or blue anymore. We're here. We're 31 trillion dollars in debt. The problem is in front of us. I don't care, right, which administration did it. Every administration added money. We got time to figure that out. I think Clinton was the only one that didn't right back in the house. He balanced it. He balanced. That's a good problem. Now, that with the debt in the debt ceiling, because that's coming up, we've, we've met our debt ceiling. What does that mean? So imagine you have a credit card. You have a $5,000 spending limit on that credit card. If you go over it, you either have to call the credit card company and say, Hey, I went over, I need you to extend my credit to $10,000 or you pay it. Okay. We for the past decades have been increasing our debt limit from 10 billion to 20 billion to trillions to trillion, trillion, trillion, all the way up to 31 trillion. And we're here and we hit it last month. Now, what we've, we as members of Congress have to vote on whether or not we're going to raise the debt ceiling. Okay. Now you can have a slick debt ceiling where, Hey, look, we don't want anything in return. We're just going to sign this. We're going to vote it in and we're going to increase the debt ceiling from, and I don't have the exact number, but it could be 35 trillion. It could be $40 trillion. Okay. Because we have to pay our debt to who, to the American public, to ourselves. Yeah. Well, it, the large percentage of it is to us and bonds and treasury bonds, which is the most secure bond there is because that's saying the American people, the American treasury bond is safe. It's secure. And if we don't pay it, the American public, we don't pay the American public. We, but we own money around the world as well. Okay. It's broken down into percentages. The vast majority of the money owed out with a national debt belongs to the American public. So we're extending down ourselves. Like the stock market crashes and all of that kind of stuff. If it gets to our money, if we, if we're born it against ourselves and we're the ones that have to pay it back, then then there are folks out there that argue like, hey, we're never going to be in national debt because we can print our own money. You just can't do that. I mean, that's standard. It's not good business. Yeah, we just, that makes no sense to me. It makes sense to some people. But if we, if we don't pay the national debt, if we, I'm sorry, excuse me, if we don't increase the debt limit, like for me, when I vote, when it comes time to vote for this debt ceiling, I want something in return. Hey, you're going to have to decrease spending somewhere. And this is where you hear, hey, hey, what is it that we're going to take money from? What is it that we're not going to spend money on? And depending on what side of the aisle you're on, people are freaking out. I was like, oh, the Republicans are going to take Social Security. They're going to take Medicare and Medicaid. They're going to take stuff. They're already gone. They're going to take stuff that I spent, right? No, that is, that's called mandatory spending. That no matter what, no matter what, Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, Veterans, and financial services all get paid and defense all get paid. Period. They just do. Are you looking to take control over your health? 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So we have a baseline standard each year that the government sets that everyone can pick from before that starts happening. You know, ideally what it would be is every year, every year, ideally, every year, ideally, in my opinion, what needs to happen is every single department, every single appropriations needs to come to the government with a slick budget and say, and you have to, you have to lobby for your new, you're, you're not, you don't get 22 trillion dollars. Yeah, it doesn't make sense to be able to solve this one, this problem that like you shouldn't have to cut next, I shouldn't even see your ass next year. Yeah, it would make more sense to actually have to have an accounting of what the money is going to come back. Well, here's, unless you're just defense or whatever. So those books are closed. They call, that's what they're called close. So mandatory expending is closed. Nobody looks at them. It's just whatever comes. What year? I don't have that. I don't have that answer. It's been there for a while. Is this the one was here? Oh, yeah. And what, what, what are we, brother? What talks? There's talks. Okay. Just hear me out here. I'm not saying this is definitive, but there are talks just saying, hey, look, let's open up the books on the mandatory side. And if there's something there that doesn't need to be there, let's, let's cut it. Okay, but you say that. And people on, on the left to be like, oh, they're cutting social security. That's why you need to vote Democrat. Oh, they're taking, like, when I was on a committee hearing last Friday, and one of the members said, hey, I want to show hands of all you veterans in the audience right there's like 250 of them. I want to show hands in the audience right now, who would be okay with the government taking money away from your health care? Show of hands. Of course, nobody raise their hands. And then, then the gentleman was like, okay, well, the Republican Party is going to take our credit, our spending back to 2019. So they're taking tens of millions of dollars away from you. I just want you to know that, which is not what we're doing. You know, I was almost tempted to say, hey, look, you know what, there's not a veteran in this room would take a hit if necessary. And I say it would happen, but if necessary in order to see their country come back to center, you know, but I wasn't there. I was there in order to help the veterans at that particular time. So that's where this is where the politics comes into it, right? Well, if we so let me close it up, if we don't, like I want discretionary spending, I want to see some some some spending taken away, right? And then if I need to vote for the debt ceiling, I'm like, okay, look, I'm okay with increasing the debt ceiling this much because we took away this many trillions or hundreds of billions of dollars. It needs to be said that if we don't increase the debt ceiling, if we don't do that and we default, that's a problem. That's a huge problem to the American public, to the global economy. See, we still are the beacon on the hill, right? Our currency is still the global currency. We default, global currency could switch to something else. And then we don't, and if we default and we don't pay, we don't pay veterans, we don't pay Medicare, Medicaid, we pay so security, you know, it could get to that. Now, there are funding lines out there that cover down, but you so here's the here's the game. Charge of waste fraud and abuse. There's there's departments inside the government. So here's the games, right? The Democrats, they did all the spending in the past four years, right? They've owned the house for the last four years, but why has been an officer two years? So this this spending line is on them, but now we have the house. So it's our responsibility to pay the bills. Oh, they put you in charge of taking the money away from the kids to who the bad parent is, right? Kind of like that. There's the back and forth, right? That's how this one parent throws a shitload of money at somebody to shut us up. And then the other one tries to make us follow the rules and then those two cause chaos. Anyway, so it's not a, I don't look at it again, like I said, I don't look at it as a red and blue problem. It's a problem. We have it. We're here. There's a point in time we'll be paying more on our debt than we will on the on the interest of the debt. I'm sorry, we will be paying more on the interest of the debt in the next five to 10 years than we pay on our defense budget. Don't fix that. We, there's a problem. So if you get the most brilliant people in the world have been watching the DC for the last 240 plus years, right? And we're still in this. We still have a problem. Now, COVID didn't help. The wars don't help. You know, there's there's problems that just pop up. They're like, we didn't see this company Ukraine, right? We're spending, we spent billions of dollars over Ukraine. That's a big source of contention. You know, I need, I'm a guy that says, hey, we need to have guardrails in place. We need to have some oversight to see where all this money's going. I'm not about reconstructions. What this thing ends. When does it end? I mean, here's all these, all these questions that just, isn't NATO supposed to do that? No, NATO's, I wouldn't know America's America. Yeah, they're, you know, they're supposed to, but America's, what the hell, what the hell they do? America's bigger. Everybody's supposed to take 2% other GDP, right? America's just in the past is paid. That's why, well, America will always be around because our boys will always go scrap for somebody else. Yeah. Okay. So another question that I had was, since you've actually been there, what are some of the things that you were surprised by that you're like, oh, I thought we could do that and we can't or just something that threw you for a loop? Let's see. I, seeing it firsthand, and I don't mean this in a good way or a bad way, it's just a way, but seeing it firsthand, the theatrics of Congress. When the camera's on or we're on the floor, and you see it, you see the podium, you know, and then they're in the committees and they're just going back forth with each other. And so, when I say theatrics, people will turn this switch on and they'll become these, these actors, you know, for their base and for the American public. And then when they walk off the floor, we're having a conversation like this. But it's say, it's to a point now that like, there's some members on the Democratic side that are great people. I mean, I enjoy hanging out with them. I enjoy social, I mean, chat with them. But when they turn on, I leave. And then when they turn the switch off, we have a conversation like we're having right now. How great is that though? What's what you're dealing with? I don't look at them. Like, there were some, there were some members that I was like, man, I just, I don't hate you, but I just, I disagree with you so much. I just don't want to be around you. But they do that for their base. They do, they represent, that's why they keep getting elected because their base loves it. And they are absolutely, it's a competition. Which means we have that type of person here, which means you have to respect us. So it's my job. Do you think that that's healthy, that they're actually acting to their base? It doesn't matter. That's what they, it's what they do to get the point across. So it would be clear when I say, when they, when it's an act, it's this stage performance, if you will. But a lot of the members, again, do amazing things for their constituents that don't have the same belief systems that we do here. Would you write? I totally get that. Yeah. So I don't look at, now, and I've only been there for two months, but I don't look at them as like my, they're my competition. They're doing something amazing that's winning over, you know, a large majority of people to their side, I'm like, I need to, I need to do that. You know, here, I'm saying, take your brother, it's just taking them in their house. They have to run their way. I mean, we're not here to decide that. That's, you know, I don't think you're really supposed to get along or love your, some other state's congressmen. If they're not from your area, you can't disagree with them. You're not from that area, but it's got to be great to see that in action. Some other things in this house. The power of the purse and the power of the pen was impressive to me. I mean, you literally can, you can, I can strike a law if I can get it through, it can change the course of history. You know, we've been doing that since I got out there and we're in the hundreds of bills that we pushed through. Not have made it to the president's desk, you know, that was an eye opening experience. And you're reach as a member, because you're elected by the people. What's that feel like? It's very, very humbling. Very, very humbling. Especially since we grew up here. You can't mess this up, big bro. I know. I think about that every morning. There weren't as much blood, sweat, and sweat as we pointed down with this. I'm the under secretary Perry. You know, I was appointed by the government, but I'm elected by the people. And so that's, that's almost 800,000 people that I speak for. And that's very, that's very powerful. I've never really understood this. Are your constituents, the ones bringing you policy change? I mean, do you have people that actually, because I've never in my life thought, oh, I'm going to change this bill because I don't like it. Well, like Brian Talley, we had him on the show. Yeah. He's a big, big veteran advocate. He got his own legislation. He walked, he literally flew to DC and riled and wrangled up some members like I need help. Right. And he got the Talley bill pass, you know, and I've been chatting with him since I was a candidate. And even after the fact, he's, he's bringing me, he, he talks to so many veterans in our district and across the country, across across the country. And I sit down with him a couple of weeks ago and he brought me a list of things like these is what the veterans want. And I'm like, I got it. So I walk, I go to DC, like this is legislation we need to change right here. That's where I was going to ask you because the veterans were coming after them. How's your in there? We're in there now. Well, I'm on the so I'm on the Veterans Affairs Committee. Yeah, real quick. Will you name the committees that you've been appointed to? Sure. I'm on, I'm on three committees and six subcommittees. So I'm on the House Armed Services Committee, which is DoD Defense. The two subcommittees for HASC, House Armed Services Committee, is Special Operations and Intelligence, which fits, fits my background very well, and cyber, which the total cyber geek. So two very, very, it's a Super B committee and then two great subcommittees. My second committee is Homeland Security. I'm the, I'm on Border Security for that one. I'm actually the Vice Chairman for Border Security. And then I'm on cyber as well for house, which is great because I can talk back and forth with the DoD and we kind of breaking those silos down. And then I'm on Committee for Veterans Affairs. And the two subcommittees there are Disability Assistance Memorial Affairs, we're on the Chairman and Health. So I literally have the opportunity to touch everything. I like, when Brian brought that, I was like, I got this. So Shield. So get that, it's basically Shield. That's awesome. That's a lot to keep up with. So you have Mr. T.J. Comlan intervention. Beat lobbyists stuff a lot and I get it because they just, you know, explain what that is. Abraham, Abraham Lincoln coined the word lobbyist because there was the people that would hang out in the lobby at his hotel and when he would come down, they would just bum rush him and say, we need this, this, this, and this and this. And this is what we'll do for you. You know, back in the day, it was a lot different. So lobbyists comes from Abraham Lincoln. Now what lobbyists do, depending on, let's just say you have an oil and gas company, they'll have a lobbyist that will come and meet with members and say, hey, look, my company needs this, this, and this. All right. And they go, they engage with you. Like they're the voice. Right. This is the kind of legislation we need that's concerning. This is what we need to do with this, how we need to do a, we need to do an amendment for this. And that's what lobbyists do. Those are pretty good hustlers up there. Oh, yeah. They're good, right? Yeah, a lot of them are former members. Really? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So they know, they know how they speak the language. You know, they know how to navigate. There you go. Right. There's something right there, man. Anyway, it just, I keep them at an arms length, bit their great source of like the Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, you know, or Chevron or, you know, or, or, you know, an environmentalist group, you know, we'll come in and say, hey, look, you know, this is really, it's like, okay, let's take a hard look at this. Let's see what we can do. I mean, every big organization has a team of lobbyists that work locally and in DC. Okay. Who doesn't love sleeping? I'll tell you, it's me, but only because I tend to sleep pretty hot. 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If it's numbered it's county if it's a if it's a name I may be getting this backwards if it's a number it's a state if it's a name it's a county. What does that mean? Like if I 45 is a state that's actually federal but if it's if it's 290 or 2920 text dot works on that road. If it's buddy Riley that's county. Yeah county charges picking up the trash. Marcus wants to talk to them. Okay. However that is you're gonna be getting a visit from me. That would be better Riley. One day. Charlie. I'm sorry if not buddy Riley. I mean call your elected officials. I'll put it. I'm looking at it. How's that fit? But here let me let me let me let me dig into this for you. So federal funding and the government will push out a certain amount of money that goes out to the states to help federal roads and bridges and infrastructure in a way and whatnot. And how that works from the federal government and I'm very new at this so if I don't get exactly right everybody out there listening don't don't beat me up too bad I'm still still learning a lot. So at the federal level they don't get the dog shit out of us man. They'll push money down to the state and then when the state gets the federal funding it's it has all of the counties in Texas will come to our state government and say we need this much money right and then the state government will allocate funds down and into the state and then how it's disseminated there that's you know that's politics 101 like Harris County they get a lot of money. Polk County hardly gets any so where my role comes in is I need to not I say if I'm fighting for federal funds to get to the state I'm gonna tell my state representatives I'm like hey look we need to take Harley Polk County or San Jacinto. You know I get Harris County's got all the people and they're having problems but don't forget about us country folk out here. Right and Harris County's roads are shit. That's my question how do the little people get maneuver to get in there if you got the big lobbyists in the way of everything. That should be through the elected officials. I mean every single. That's the trick. That's the key shot right. Everyone and I tell everybody's like hey I come talk to me you got to tell me but you know work your state officials because they're there. I mean it goes from actually your county chair your your party's leadership to your county to your city leadership to your county leadership. I'm talking everywhere from the mayors to the city council and then to the state representatives as your state senators. You need to talk to these people. I remember we're growing up and I saw Kevin Brady on the street I was like oh this Congress we came out. I know the sheriff was. You're not allowed to talk to him. But that's not that is absolutely backwards. You the only way we know exactly what the people need is they come up and talk to us. Like I gave away my my privacy rights the day that I was elected. I mean no matter where I'm at or where I'm standing if you got a problem you're supposed to come up and you're supposed to address that with me. So I can address it at my level and get and get information down and into again here the district in order to help people. But it's challenging just I mean just the scope of what we're doing here and everybody's personality is different. Everybody has just a week on what. That's the trick right there. Trying to try to make everybody happier getting everything for everybody is is very challenging. Right. That's right. I know your community and who you put in there. You do. There is a straight shot. We're figuring out like if you have something my favorite is when people complain about a road needing to be fixed and then while it's being fixed they complain. That it's being fixed. They're strapping. Okay so we're always going to have them. Okay that's a normal day. But it was like you have something straight up. There is a line of people that you can go talk to that will get it done or should get it done as opposed to having to go out spend a bunch of money to get that's not how it works. You already do that in your taxes. Well one of the biggest challenges I feel like you would face is that you only have two years to do this. I'm already campaigning again. And you have so you have to start campaigning. My election is on the fifth of next year and I've only been a congressman for three months. I feel like that's unfair that you. No it's brilliant. Yeah. Absolutely. The founding fathers did a great because if I'm up there messing up if I'm up there not doing the will of the base they can get me. Because you all got the money. That's true. It's like if someone's spending too much money to a fact it's rid of them suckers man right? Yep. That's part of it. If you get if you're a senator or that's that's kind of talks of kind of tweaking it term limits. Well I'm a term limits guy. Right. I'm all in term. I'm not going to be here. I agree. Yeah. I say give me my freshman year just let me figure out I'd be a congressman and give me three terms I'm going. Yeah I'd be having a word. Two years it seems short and it feels short. Because I'm out campaigning again but I'm also representing district eight. But that's great. It's supposed to be hard. That's why you and technically I don't complain. Everybody's how's it going. Is it miserable? It's like I would never complain about this job because I fought so hard to get it. You know it's like going through buzz team guy. Why would you bitch? It's a volunteer program. Yeah it's a volunteer. It has a challenge but the ones that are if you want to represent your folks bad enough and you prove to them that you're capable they'll elect you. So battle rhythm wise how long does it take you to because every two years you got to get elected. How long does it actually to get to know the system like to even to figure out the routine. That's got to be over a year right. After a year. For me for I can't speak for other members everyone's different. For me it's still a very vertical learning curve. There's just so much. It's got to change every time something. I'm just getting into my committee hearings and time. So I get up every morning. I get up every month for 40. I'm at baseball practice at 5.30. I'm back at the house at 7. My first meeting is at 8. I get home around 10.30 at night. I study until about 2. And then I go to bed. Because I have to study for my committee hearings the next day. And the reason I'm able to do that is because we're up there from Monday to Thursday or Tuesday to Friday. So I can go on two two hours of sleep for a couple of days and come home and rest. So just for the listeners for them to understand your schedule and what this is you're flying to DC from the Houston area greater Houston area to DC on Tuesday mornings about. So this week it's Tuesday morning. So I'll leave out early in the morning and I'll get and I'll get the DC right in early afternoon. And then we're briefed up on the week. So my staff is there waiting for me. They let me know what legislation is going to be for that day and that week. They have already sent me all this so I can read what we're and I'm versed on it. And then we'll have votes that evening because they call it a flying day. So we'll vote around seven o'clock. I think that evening that series of votes and then we'll adjourn. And then the day starts. I usually have an event after floor votes like a dinner or something that they'll have. I'll have somebody from the district in DC. Chamber of Commerce, whoo, whomever. And they like to meet with their congressman in Washington DC. So I'll go out and have dinner with some folks. And then that'll drag all the way again to about 10 30, 10 30. Then I go home and read over the next day's hearings and then crash out. Now get up and start the whole routine over again and then fly home. Like this week I'll fly home Friday night around seven. Then but then you have to do stuff in your district. So if we're on recess, like we were if if I'm if I'm home that entire week, it's the same operational tempo as DC. So the district staff and everybody and I'm going, you know, it takes four hours to drive across the district. So I'm meeting with as many people as I can. You know, DC, I'm meeting with someone different everybody every 15 minutes. And then depending on the committee meeting, it could be two and a half hours long, could be three hours long, it could be 30 minutes. You know, Homeland and Hasker. Those are some big committees or important committees. I traveled. We I was at I was in El Paso last weekend at the border meeting with the committee went out there. So we were meeting with the with the Border Patrol National Guard. How are they doing? They're struggling. I mean, the borders borders dumpster fire. So it's yeah, it's yeah, God bless them. And they're really how about that? They have. But that's okay. I enjoy it's very, you know, it can be very structured. It can get loose. There's some members up there. They got one meeting a day, you know, yeah, there's a lot of people that I've just heard feedback. They're like, Oh, what a cush job to be a congressman. I'm like, bullshit. Yeah, I'm saying man, we're that long. I told about the promise everybody I was going up there to work. Yeah, there's a handful of us that have three committees and six subcommittees and they're they're aggressive. And being a chair one's even, you know, because you're that that's yours. Yeah, if you want to be effective, you have to be, yeah, be there the whole time. It's exciting. I've got I've got to see thing back back back and get classified briefings again. You're back in the special being on special ops subcommittee, you know, special forces get spec out community comes briefs us, you know, we'll have classified briefings and like, all right, man, it's good to hear where it is. I'm the only sf guy on there too. So it's awesome. Yeah, I really enjoy that. Is there anything in DC that you just have fallen in love with history wise or anything? It's very humbling to walk through the halls and through the capital itself. There's just so much history on the walls, so many statues, there's so many stories that go along with a such a such member with this is where such such member was shot. This is such such members. This is where this discussion happened. You go into the link, you go you stand right there or Abraham Lincoln had his desk. You know, every member of Congress was right there. When we walk on to the house for, I mean, it goes it date. There was the guy that broke in, came in with a gun and fired two rounds off, you know, and they they they both hold still, they left the bull holes there in the desk, right in the desk and in the ceiling. Yeah. And just taking all that in. It's not you never go to work. It's like being like, you never go to work and do the same thing twice. Sure. And then you're just going to lay your up there. We're waiting for you to get sworn in. I started, you know, wondering around a little bit around the halls, putting those into some of the places that I'm probably what shouldn't belong. The staff's great. Like people who actually own work the city, the work the veins of the city. That's what I like. I'm glad you're up there now because that's where I'm going to get to know. I walk, I walk eight to 10 miles a day underground. Is King Darius with you? Is there it? You want to know? Darius? Remember I ran into him. I told you that you can pull this point out. Secret service to him when I went to poking into the speaker's office. Like you said, you knew him. Maybe tell him, I told Black guy Darius. Oh, he's for the, he's for the speaker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, guys, if you look, it's harder to get in shape and stay that way. Our sponsor, New Genix Total T, is offering a complimentary bottle when you text two three one two three one, and then her keyword T and Q. As we get older, our bodies change. 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You know, I don't know. That's a great trivia question because I found myself in places before I'm kind of... What is this? That's crazy. You know, they have a carpenter shop underneath the capital. They rebuild all the furniture so they don't outsource it. It's all built in. Yeah, that's the fun time I've like the hidden stuff's been around for since it's been around. George Washington's sarcophagus is underneath the capital dome. It's in this very unassuming little staircase you walk in and there's this office is covered by this black cloth. No sign, nothing. There's no signs or anything. And he's not there, but his casket is there. Gosh, it's like St. Peter underneath the Vatican. Did you get spanned? It's cool. And I try to take a mental note when I'm walking around just because things I haven't seen before, like, okay, I need to find out what that is. But just, I mean, it's our nation's history right there in one building and it's crazy. Okay, so speaking of campaigning, why does each congressman have to raise so much money? That's another great point. Because of the aggressiveness of social media, because of the aggressiveness of media itself, the more that you're seen on TV, radio, flyers and mailers in social media, the better chance you have of touching every single person in your district, as well as raising that capital and TV. That's all so expensive. So you have to raise the money in order to buy the ads. So most, you would say most money from the campaign is put to large majority of that, that you raise for your campaign sign is to pay for your campaign staff, campaign director, you field directors, the ones that are helping you, you know, navigate the district, as well as, yes, the medias and the flyers and the mailers and the yard signs and everything that goes into it, which is a lot. And it's numbers, it is a numbers game. It's statistically those who spend an absorbent amount of money just to get that word out. You see the commercials on TV, there's so much money spent on, like, there were so many commercials that there's bashing people. Yeah, that as your sister, that was probably the hardest thing for me is to see all the mailers that were blatant lies. But how can there ever be some sort of law put into place that it has to be a fact check to be printed or put out in media? Pretty sure there's something in the constitution that says you can freedom of speeches. But that's so shitty that some in the bible says don't bear false witness. So yeah, I just want to put it out there for all of our listeners. When you get a mailer in or things that you say on TV, they could be looking you straight in the eye and telling you a straight up freaking lie. And that was the hardest thing for me during your campaign is seeing just people lie even on social media. And there were a couple times where I sent back, you know, you don't know your facts, just check your facts and mark it like don't waste your time on those people. I mean, it doesn't stir us up. You pay any attention to it. I mean, it doesn't affect me and my brother. We grew up everybody trying to kill us and talking down to us. We're prepared for that. We've already been trained for that. So that that's smacking all that talk. I think a lot of our district appreciated. I never went, I never gotten in love with anybody. Yeah, we don't do that. The worst thing that I ever saw was one of your competitors or not competitor, but what do you call it? One of the other candidates. That's just if somebody's got to tell you what's bad about us as opposed to what's good about them, think about that. Because everybody that we grew up, we grew up here. Everybody knows exactly and I ran into my, I ran into three of my opponents, two actually the other night. Very cordial. Handy, you know, how you good to see you man, how you been? Well, if I could, I would smack one right across the face. Yeah. I don't remember. Sorry. Hey, that is really fun, man. You know, I don't remember that. That's nothing when you're up there with the members that just go through this grueling campaign cycle. They just get killed. You know, it just takes so much of a toll on them and their families and then they're there. Yeah. It is so hard to get up there. It is. I mean, you earn it. I don't, you earn the right. They say in order for it to become a great man in front of your people, you have to be humiliated, Bob. That happens every day. No, I'm sorry. That's the best. You know, they go into that phase right now. First we had to bleed for them. Now we got to go through this as an elected official that people will walk right up to you and tell you exactly what they think about you. I do appreciate that. Great. God bless America. Campaigning. You didn't participate in that negative like never went down. And not telling lies about other people. I think that I don't know any. I think that really helped you and your people. I know you don't know about people. I mean, who does it? They just make shit up. They literally made shit up. And I actually heard from a couple of people that said that they changed because we were working the polls at the elementary school. And a couple people came up to me and said I changed my vote because Morgan didn't participate in the bash talking. The candidate that I was going for, I saw that person bashing other candidates. And I don't like that. And so I changed my vote to Morgan. And I was, that made me happy. I was doing that. We got a high school. Our mentality, it translated very well into the actually the elected life. I don't. And I again, I'll go back to our first town hall. I don't deflect questions. I've got if somebody wants to go into a rabbit hole, I'll go, I crawl down in there with them. You know, my staff is like, man, no, don't do that. You know, but I stood up there, took it on the chin and answered the questions and I answered them to an exhaustion is in a because people want to know. And I kept telling them, like, hey, look, I'm here to provide you with all the information I have from Washington, D.C. You know, I give it to you straight, unfiltered. I'm not trying to change your opinion about anything. I'm just telling you what I've learned for you so I can share that with you with my job. I'm trying to do it y'all's way, but I don't understand. I mean, that's, that's what you put somebody up to. Do my best to never ask a question. I have a question somebody asked me because I'm not scared to say, I have no idea what you're talking about. But I've got my staff and I'll dig into that. And that's, for me, I'm hoping that that's going to get me reelected for a couple more terms than I'm out. You know, we'll see. It's politics and they can happen. Yeah. Definitely a different world now, man. You know, whatever. We are so proud of you. Oh, you're a great job. You know, earlier you mentioned you have softball practice in the morning baseball baseball. I know it's not softball. Yeah. So I actually tried out for the progression baseball team. It's baseball baseball baseball baseball. What a, so is it just a bunch of congressmen on it. Congressman, it's a big deal. It's on TV, right? Oh, yeah. It's huge deal there. It's just one game. We practice all year for one game. Really? It's June 14th this year. Who's in charge of the Democrat team? I need them to know I need a jersey so I can be on the other side. I don't know. So whoever's running that side, this is brother. You find me because I'm on some fun with this. You're probably going to be on some trouble. Yeah, that would be my worst fear to see you in a Democrat. On third base life. Beautiful. Heckling my brother. It's all time I'm going to do that, man. I know, but, golly, that's more painful to me than it is your own brother. Managing money can be overwhelming when you have competing goals that are important to you. You want to enjoy life and have fun, but at the same time, you also want to save for the future and be financially secure. It's a balancing act that can be tough to navigate on your own. That's where a Navy Federal Credit Union can help take the legwork out of saving and investing with a variety of different choices. If you want to supercharge your savings and earnings and get more money, Navy Federal is offering some of their best and highest rates in 10 years, making it the perfect time to get in on the action. And whether you choose to save or invest, you can make it all easier by automating. 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I come out from behind the plate and grab a whole that thing. That's 120 feet. I know how far it is. I remember. I bought your Major League at Tom Beringer. No, I got it. I mean, the first one there came out strong. Quite strong. It came out. And then maybe the second or third one started to, I got about some there. And about the fifth one, man. I had to throw it so high in the air to get it out. Long ball. And like came firing from a damn bow. I was telling that. Yeah. I had to tell him. I'm definitely heckling somebody when we get over there. Hey, man, I haven't thrown a baseball since like 25 years. You guys have to give me some warm-up time here. Like, yeah, no, I'm all Russ, because they, because this is, you know, I'm probably one of the younger guys on the team. So the coach was like, hey, y'all don't do nothing to hurt yourself. We're not running the bases. We're not sliding. We're not doing anything like that. Think about that, man. Y'all need to start recruiting young ones for these baseball games. That's what this is all about. Right. And you know, he's the coach. Oh, Roger Williams from Texas. Okay. So a congressman is the coach. Yeah. And he is. He's awesome. And he is a dog. I mean, he's like, hey, you're gonna be here if I practice starts at six and I don't mean warm-up. I mean, we're throwing at six o'clock. Well, I hope you get your brother at Jersey because he's gonna feel real left out. I'm not gonna be left out. I'm gonna be right there in it. Don't worry about it. I'm gonna be hiding behind the plate is a kiss away. We might switch that way. You gotta have. Y'all know nothing. You gotta have knee surgery on April 25th. You could have left that part out. Okay. Well, that's, but that's, okay. So, just so you know, that allows being on the team allows me to meet so many of the other members. Right. And also, it builds up relationships like with the other side too, because it's a sport. Right. That's the best. That's the best. I'm really glad that you don't have to eat together. That is nice. You know what I'm on? It's great. Who was it me and you talking like if we ever get sent back to war of 30, all need to go over and rotate on deployment? That's a good idea too. But there's there's basketball team. There's the baseball team. There's the where they play golf hockey because a hockey team that golf would be nice. Yeah, there's a hockey team too. Come on. I'm gonna play on that one. There's only it. I think there's a flag football, but if it was full pad, tack ball. Are you kidding me? There's not it's flag. It's not full pad. It ought to be mandatory that they have to play. Because I just gotta pull it up. That's when I was really pulling for Herschel Walker. I was like, bro, we could have got him in there. Man. Are you are you gonna do any of the other sports? I don't have time. Are all of them just one game a year like practicing up for one game? No, I think they have more because I was such a it's on national stadium. So I just kind of a that's the biggest thing. That one big game for you. All right. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean on the golf team. I mean that would be fun. I don't know with yeah, but they they play on the weekends. They probably play a lot more. And I'm home with Leslie and the boys. Yeah. I just that's my you got to write wound with the baseball thing. Well, no baseball's fun. I'm about that too, man. In the history book, because you know, our people record this, bro. Oh yeah. You know what I'm like? So you got us in there and on the baseball. Hey, that's kind of a big deal. I'm your biggest fan. So I played softball out of college in the in the military. I know you know, hitting the baseball is a lot different. Boy, it took a while for my bat to wake up. Finally, I was like, Oh, ah, here it is. We're practicing it. Oh, but I'll strike out. I'm super excited. Hunter, played baseball. Yeah, national champion. I'm so out of there. Let's get it. Makes me very excited. I'll be your coach when I become down to Texas. I need somebody to you know what I need? I need somebody one of our rangers pitch to me so I can work the plate. I got you call Roger. Every person we've ever met over our level never called in one favor. This might be it. Yeah. So Greg Stu. It looks like no fool. Greg Stuby's our he's our ringer right now. Yeah, I wouldn't do my best. Stuby is Greg Stuby's our ringer. Yeah, he's he's our pitcher. Him and August Fluger like there are pitchers, but Greg got hurt real bad. He fell out of a off a ladder out of a tree and he's broke. Oh, I should have got that leaf filter. So I've been I've been taking so I've been texting I was like, Hey, we need you. We need a pitcher then somebody run from for office and who's a good pitcher? I got on I got on the mound. It was throwing throwing. I was like, man, I hope you guys don't ever need me. But so who else is on the team? Oh, so we again, we had our first practice the other day. Let's see here. Jake Elsie. Oh, nice. Yeah, he's our right fielder. Cat Kamek from Florida. She's the one that freight trained that Democratic catcher last year. I heard about that. I mean, like plugged him. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Funny. Roger Williams. Kevin Brady was a die hard and that's why he's at the least. Yeah, at least the second baseman. He's obviously so die hard. He took a bullet for it. Love that, man. Joan Yeranch comes out. Oh, nice. Senator. She says she's so great. She seems like the senators can they come in a place? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a it's a house representative. So it could be upper. Oh, Roger that. How fun. My gosh. I love all the Texans. They're not playing. Not all of them. Judge Moran came out from over from Tyler and trying to get Wesley to come out. Crenshaw, Crenshaw plays soccer. I play soccer. Yeah. Crenshaw plays soccer. Good job. Well, come on. We'll see who up down in what Mexico or something. I know. Spend a lot of time down there. We'll see who else. I'm embarrassed. I can't remember everybody's names. I don't want to put you on the spot. That's all right. That's awesome though. I love the comradery like that you have to do something together where you're having fun and it's not just this at your throat thing. Well, good. Well, so for campaigning, what do you think is the best part of campaigning and what's the worst part? Oh, the best part is you get to meet so many people. Like, I would never got to meet half the people that I got in front of if I wasn't out running the roads. Yeah. So a lot of people showed up while we were away. Yeah. And it's back to how it wasn't when we were kids, right? We could put the point out who lived in each house? Well, I don't know that good yet, but you know, because it's normally who's your daddy? What did you do? It's normally large, large because I'm one guy trying to get in front of 800,000 people. So the best I can, I try to do my best chat with everybody. And that's a lot of fun because so many different stories, so many different personalities, some of the different just kind of people out there in our district. Luckily from here, I know a lot of people as well. And there's a degree of separation. So it's people come up like, hey, I'm, I'm buddies with Robert Walker. Okay. Yeah. That kind of thing. I'd say the hardest part about campaigning is it's, it's 24 seven. Yeah. You have to be switched on when you're outside regardless. And it's, it's a grind. I mean, whoever campaigns the hardest knocking doors, making phone calls, going to all the events that you can, sun up the sundown, breakers, much brunch and dinner. And then, you know, midrats, and you're trying to get everybody to believe in you. And that can be challenging. Because it's such a diverse, it's such a politics is so, so diverse. Even even in our district, because we have Harris County now, and I lost Harris County in the election. And you did? I didn't realize that. Yeah. So one, Polk's in just sitting and walking Montgomery. I won those, but I lost Harris County. Now, Harris County is not like Livingston. It's not like Point Blank. It's not like Conroy or Willis, Waverly, Huntsville. They're not like, they don't like those folks out there. And so I have to be able to, you know, I got to lead at all. So I got to speak the languages. What part of hair, like if you were looking at a map. So Cyprus, if you go 99 down to six, take six over, I'm sorry, 99 down to 10, take 10 over to six and come back up. Okay. That's, that's the flank on that side. And then we have just a fraction of Katie, like not even the town. So you're talking about the main election, you lost that. The general election, we lost Harris County. Good. Yeah. Unfortunately, we're fighting, we're down there. But you won all the others. So with Katie, do you have any of Fort, Fort Ben, that's Mr. Nails. Okay. Okay. And then you go all the way, your most northern part is Huntsville, but you go east really far. So we actually, there's a little horseshoe around the university, the town. So if you make the horseshoe around the town east and west, I go all the way up to 30 and out. Mm hmm. And then all the way in all of Sanderson and Polk County. Okay. So all about the Livingston's my furthest east town. Yeah. And then south is 1488. I lost the Woodlands to Mr. Grinchaw. Oh, yeah. So 1488 North. Okay. Here's mine. When I drive, when we drive to Louisiana, we take that back road, like Tilesville and we like all the way through Woodville and Stocker Babbins area. Yeah. And well, we see your signs. We go up to it. We go all the way out to right there on the edge of Polk County. Okay. Yeah. It's, it's awesome. When we're driving out there, I'm like, Oh, we're gonna all the way out here. Yeah. All the way. Yeah. It's fun because the majority like all of Montgomery County. So Montgomery Magnolia and then Conner Willis, that's where we grew up. Mm hmm. And then Huntsville's where we went to school, numerarily. Everything. Fishing and hunting out in Polk County, Livingston, Alabama, Cachata Tribe. Yeah. It is in my district and they're great. Yeah. We drive right past that entrance to that. Yeah. They're great. That was out there not too long ago. It's a great very, it's like, I call it a hybrid district, you know, because we have the Harris County on with us now. So I have to, I have to realize that. And I, you know, I have to explain because I represent right, right? So I have to explain. I'm very Christian conservative guy. I mean, like I'm, I'm not the hardest right guy in Congress, but I'm, I'm right a middle. Harris County's not like that. Yeah. You know, and they have 400,000 voters. They have the largest voting base in the district. In your district? In the district. 400,000 of Harris County. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. I didn't realize that. Well, um, so when does that kick off? I already started. You already started campaigning? Yeah. I think this is. I started, I started campaigning the day after I got elected, but if, I mean, we're a year out, March 5th. Okay. So do you have to do a primary again? That is it. Yeah. Oh my goodness. You're primary every year. And a general. Oh my. But we're, we're primary district. So that's the election for us. Yeah. Oh goodness. That sucks. That's the worst part about it. Yeah. It's all right. And I date myself work and if I win, I win. If I lose, I lose. There's somebody better me in there. Somebody they want more than me. And yeah. Hey, I'll support them. I hope it's not the case. Somebody find something else harder to do. Thank you for coming on today. We just wanted to hear you. I'm proud of you. Yeah. We're proud of you. And thank you for trying to help you out. How can we support or kind of keep up with what you do? Is there any any, oh yeah, um, channels or some of my official Facebook Instagram is, um, Repletrell. Repletrell TX. Okay. Repletrell TX. Uh huh. And campaigning, it's Mojo at Morgan Littrell. And then your website is just Morgan Littrell.com and that's how people can donate. We had so many people ask us, we went mail a check to Morgan or we went and I'm like, just go to his website. It has all of the information on there. If you want to mail a check, if you want to donate online or whatever, um, if you buy a shirt, it goes towards campaign money, right? If you buy it from the website. So the merchandise is good too. Yeah. We did. We did. We didn't jump it up. Oh yeah. Hunter's a model on your, we're going to follow this man. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you everybody for listening in. We'll see you next week. Bye. Bye.