congressman lloyd smucker is our guest. a first timer on "washington journal" but third time in congress. taking your phone calls with us until 8:30 eastern. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. i want to shift it to vaccine mandates. i know you are leading one of the efforts to oppose the biden administration's efforts to impose vaccine mandates or testing on businesses with 100 plus employees. he ran a small business for coming to congress, so what would be the impact of that on the company that you ran? guest: covid has been a challenge for us. we have had remarkable success with a vaccine developed in record time. it is very effective. i took the vaccine, my family has taken the vaccine from the time it was first available. i encourage people to speak to their doctors about whether that is the right decision for them. and i think that is where the decision should be made. this is aided -- a decision every individual should make for themselves just as they make other health care

will discuss policy issues that impact you, tuesday morning because when you amber the house, lloyd smucker, the second present biden's build back better agenda that coming deadlines. and then the democratic congresswoman and appreciate an appropriations member that was talked about covid-19 in legislation and jeff miller's the gas price hikes, and the oil supply in the u.s. and watch washington journal, live at seven eastern tuesday morning hunt c-span, or cspan now, our new mobile app and join the discussion with your phone call and thank you for your calls and text messages and tweets. >> tonight center patrick lahey has the heel retire from the senate and great terms were selected in 1974, temporary longest-serving senator and he announced his retirement this morning the remarks capitol. [inaudible]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [inaudible]. the state is very special i think you all for being here not just because i used to - kelly salzman actually did a long time ago. [laughter] is one of the rules that i broke. having grown up right across the street to my sister mary had

. >> congressman lloyd smucker, our guest. a first timer here on the "washington journal." though in his third term in congress, representing the 11th district of pennsylvania. and taking your phone calls, with us until the bottom of the hour. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. i want to shift it to vaccine mandates. i know you're leading one of thefthe efforts to oppose the biden administration's effort to impose vaccine mandates or testing on businesses with 100-plus employees. you ran a small business before coming to congress, so what would be the impact of that kind of mandate on the kind of company you ran? >> well, listen, covid has been a real challenge for us to get through. we have had remarkable success with the vaccine. it was developed in record time. it's very effective. i took the vaccine, my family has taken the vaccine from the time it was first available. i encourage people to speak to their doctors about whether that's the right decision for them. and i think that's where the decision should be made. this is the decision that every indivi

congressman lloyd smucker is our guest.imer on "washington journal" but third time in congress. taking your phone calls with us until 8:30 eastern. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. i want to shift it to vaccine mandates. i know you are leading one of the efforts to oppose the biden administration's efforts to impose vaccine mandates or testing on businesses with 100 plus employees. he ran a small business for coming to congress, so what would be the impact of that on the company that you ran? guest: covid has been a challenge for us. we have had remarkable success with a vaccine developed in record time. it is very effective. i took the vaccine, my family has taken the vaccine from the time it was first available. i encourage people to speak to their doctors about whether that is the right decision for them. and i think that is where the decision should be made. this is aided -- a decision every individual should make for themselves just as they make other health care decisions

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i would recommend that caller, if you would agree, congressman, to call lloyd smucker's office. is next out of alabama, republican. good morning. caller: how are you doing? we don't have to worry about labor shortage because all these people coming across the border will drive the price of labor down, and there will be plenty of workers out there. the other thing is this broadband, didn't obama pass on bill eight years ago about we paid for broadband back then? i don't understand why we are paying for it again. thank you. guest: yes, on two different subjects. first of all, the border is a huge crisisin america. i took my oversight committee down to new mexico and southern new mexico. we went to the el paso detention facility, which is always in the news and toward that. it is a disaster. what is frustrating for me as a top republican on the house oversight committee is seen stacks and piles of building material that joe biden and his first action of president order to halt construction of the border wall. every border patrol resident, agent, law enforcement officer on the borde

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lloyd smucker, pennsylvania 11. you know, i was just in his district the other day. we were in a barn that the amish built. every walk of life in there. i wish you would have gone with me. i think if you'd gone with me you probably wouldn't vote for the bill. these are hardworking people. now, he wants to strengthen our workforce. you know, he had nothing. he had no money. going to school. borrows $1,000 and creates a construction company that's putting up plyboard. builds it into something more, so he knows about the workforce. now, that would require individuals be employed in the last 30 days and have an earnings history in at least four of the last five quarters in order to qualify for paid leave benefits. . that's really giving accountability to the taxpayer, sit not? we want to help these people, is it too much to ask, have you been employed in the last 30 days? i guess for the democrats it doesn't. here's brad wenstrup. madam speaker, you do need to meet brad wenstrup. i'll tell you a quick story. he's out of ohio 2. he joined the military late. he served over

and i now yield to my fellow pennsylvanian, good friend, congressman lloyd smucker. mr. smucker: i'd like to thank mr. keller for your leadership on this issue. wonderful colleague from pennsylvania introduced the congressional review act, and i rise today in strong support of this act, which would block president biden's misguided and frankly, i think, unconstitutional mandate. so thank you for your efforts. i'm very, very happy to be able to support that. you know, i'll say, first, that i think the u.s., and what we'd accomplish in developing a vaccine through operation warp speed, was a remarkable achievement of science and of system in our country that develops the best medical system, the best drugs from across the world. and to be able to do that in the amount of time that it was done and to manufacture those drugs in a large scale is nothing short of amazing. and personally for myself, my family, you know, we've discussed this with our doctor. we got the vaccine early on when it became available,nd i've -- and i've encouraged pennsylvanians to speak with their own

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will discuss policy issues that impact you, tuesday morning because when you amber the house, lloyd smucker, the second present biden's build back better agenda that coming deadlines. and then the democratic congresswoman and appreciate an appropriations member that was talked about covid-19 in legislation and jeff miller's the gas price hikes, and the oil supply in the u.s. and watch washington journal, live at seven eastern tuesday morning hunt c-span, or cspan now, our new mobile app and join the discussion with your phone call and thank you for your calls and text messages and tweets. >> tonight center patrick lahey has the heel retire from the senate and great terms were