. >> that will come from claire mcfarland. senator you will respond first. >> covid-19 pandemic fall on us all over again today and knowing what you know now, would you do anything differently as a u.s. senator and what would that be? >> and as a doctor too. i am a doctor, i'm a u.s. senator i was for the vaccine and against the mandate. we need to make sure we are prepared. i think what we did was to prematurely shutdown the entire country. you look at the hospitals in wyoming that had to shut down, we had not even gotten to wyoming. we did not have the protective equipment that we needed. these are hospitals where nothing could be done. mammograms were not done performance because of him to shut down for different preventative care was not done. we should not have shut down the country at the way we did. that is a mistake. much further along with vaccine development. people should make the decisions by themselves that they want a vaccine. as a doctor i've taken it but as an individual jumping the government should tell you h

claire mcfarland and chris clements. now, ground rules that candidates have agreed to ahead of time. the debate is scheduled to last no more than 60 minutes, two minutes for an opening statement in alphabetical order. candidates will be questioned in order by the panelists. each candidate as the new question will have two minutes to respond and the other will have 90 seconds to respond to the same question. the original candidate will have 30 seconds for rebuttal or follow-up if desired. if the candidate were to fall off topic the moderator may allow a candidate to respond if a candidate is attacked personally. i beseech us not to have to go there. for each candidate to respond to the topics presented by the questions we ask them. the debate will be concluded with a two minute closing statement from the candidates speaking in reverse order from the opening statements. the candidate can see a red, yellow, green timing light. yellow will illuminate with 30 seconds time. they must end when the light turns red and they will

. >> thank you for the next question from claire mcfarland. senator you will respond first. >> republican delegates often complain about government spending. but debt and deficit continually risen under their watch. to fix that would require a drink unpopular things. but we could do to cut government spending? x first i want to finish something we talked about. we are working in a bipartisan way we talk about things that don't get reported on an upper part bipartisan way with regard to the funding. thirty-five chilean dollars. wyoming families have to live within their means. there the state legislature for five years. his present of the senate speaker. we balance our budget every year. please look at medicare, social security, something called the bull simpson dimension al simpson's probably wash from cody, wyoming was involved with that. that should have been adopted in a bipartisan way. we have to start the constitutional amendment to balance the budget. >> i guess we finally found an area of disagreement. it is to be expected. they're not

. >> thank you for the next question from claire mcfarland.spond first. >> republican delegates often complain about government spending. but debt and deficit continually risen under their watch. to fix that would require a drink unpopular things. but we could do to cut government spending? x first i want to finish something we talked about. we are working in a bipartisan way we talk about things that don't get reported on an upper part bipartisan way with regard to the funding. thirty-five chilean dollars. wyoming families have to live within their means. there the state legislature for five years. his present of the senate speaker. we balance our budget every year. please look at medicare, social security, something called the bull simpson dimension al simpson's probably wash from cody, wyoming was involved with that. that should have been adopted in a bipartisan way. we have to start the constitutional amendment to balance the budget. >> i guess we finally found an area of disagreement. it is to be expected. they're not on budget. when you