mrs. hinson: when i ran hi to give up my job. a lot of legislators when they run for statehouse they were able to keep their day job. because i was on the air as a journalist i had to make that tough decision to give up my career fully to do this job. my husband and i had a lot of soul-searching conversations. he decided he's in sales. he decided, ok, i have to go sell more insurance, i guess. which i was like great job, honey. i think i also learned some lessons from being in sales. that's the answer is if you don't ask the answer is always no. that applies absolutely to politics. it also applies to asking for help from people. you have to be willing to ask for help with mentors and those relationships. it's incredibly important. my first campaign speaker linda up myer in iowa was sitting across the table from me in my kitchen giving me the hard sell why i should run and step up. i had this apprehension. she gave me her cell phone number and i might have abused it during the campaign process. there is no manual for how to step u

mrs. hinson: when i ran hi to give up my job. a lot of legislators when they run for statehouse they were able to keep their day job. because i was on the air as a journalist i had to make that tough decision to give up my career fully to do this job. my husband and i had a lot of soul-searching conversations. he decided he's in sales. he decided, ok, i have to go sell more insurance, i guess. which i was like great job, honey. i think i also learned some lessons from being in sales. that's the answer is if you don't ask the answer is always no. that applies absolutely to politics. it also applies to asking for help from people. you have to be willing to ask for help with mentors and those relationships. it's incredibly important. my first campaign speaker linda up myer in iowa was sitting across the table from me in my kitchen giving me the hard sell why i should run and step up. i had this apprehension. she gave me her cell phone number and i might have abused it during the campaign process. there is no manual for how to step u

mr. hinson: an unprecedented power to target working families across iowa and across america. this government snooping is a complete invasion of privacy and a massive overreach into our lives and our lively hoods. this scheme is a lose, lose, lose. it will increase the existing backlog at the i.r.s. exponentially and jeopardize the privacy of millions of americans. it will destroy our community financial institutions and it will hurt rural communities and working families hardest of all. democrats claim this is about tax evasion. everyone should pay the taxes that they owe. that is not the argument here. but this misguided proposal isn't about tracking down missing revenue, it is about expanded government control umaine and simple. this proposal, by design, will hit normal working families bank accounts. a total of $10,000 of transactions in a user, that's a year's rent, a series of farm equipment bills, for example. the i.r.s. should be focused on being more efficient at its current job, not emboldened and certainly not unleashed on hard-working americans. so we do not need t