carley: joining us live congressman matt rosendale.s happening in montana all the way up north? >> yeah. well, we may be a northern border state, but we are experiencing problems from the southern border as well. i'm really proud of my former colleagues there in the legislature. i used to be the senate majority leader that worked together with governor jim forte and able to house bill 200 recently to ban sanctuary cities. i have been having discussions with our team, if you will, months ago, recognizing that we were going to have this problem on the border and that's why one of the first pieces of legislation that i proposed in congress was to pay us a bill or bring forward a bill, no tax breaks for sanctuary cities. so to address the investment money that that these sanctuary cities were basically receiving from investors and the federal government was giving them tax breaks on that funding. so we're trying to attack this all fronts if we possibly can. griff: congressman, this bill, h.b. 200 targets tax exempt status on municipal bond

host: matt rosendale was elected to congress in november.gressman, what did you do before coming to washington and why did you want this job? caller: i started my career in real estate, quite frankly, then i moved to montana 20 years ago and i spent eight years on my ranch chasing cows around. then the community recruited me to run for public office and i worked my way from the legislature into a statewide elected position, a was working for the state for the last four years. now i am serving as the only rep from montana to the united states congress. host: representing a state of one million people. come december of next year, what do you need to have accomplished to consider your first term a successful term? caller: i try to focus my attention on what we are going to address, so we took the two committees and said those will be our silos on natural resources, which montana has a wealth of, and veterans affairs, which 10% of my population is either veterans or active military. then i said we will have two more silos for other areas, number

host: there is pushback from a number of lawmakers including republican congressman matt rosendale who represents montana and he said the following quote, proposed vaccine passport systems are of gross violation of the rights of every american and make their own personal health care choices. they are a mandate that force individuals to either be vaccinated against their wishes or be denied access to the most basic functions of our society." the issue came up at a recent white house press briefing. >> -- given to a federally organized vaccine passport of some time. does the president see that as some kind of pool that can be -- tool that can be used or does -- press sec. psaki: the government is not now nor will we be supporting a system that requires americans to carry a credential. there will be federal back ssent -- there'll be no federal vaccination database or no one will be required to have a vaccination potential. tools are being considered by the private and nonprofit central -- americans rights and privacy should be protected so that these systems are not used against people un

coming up thursday morning, matt rosendale discusses biden's policies and the freedom caucus agenda. emanuel cleaver talks about housing as part of the $2.2 trillion infrastructure bill. watching c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning, and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> here is look at our live coverage. thursday on c-span, the house capriles and to consider a bill that would make washington, d.c. the 51st state. the senate is back on c-span2 at 10:00 a.m. for work on legislation to address the rise in hate crimes against asian americans and pacific islanders. at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3, has overnight subcommittee looks at the fossil fuel industry, and its impact on climate change with environmental activists greta thunberg can others. there is also more streaming live on our website, including a senate armed services committee. with leaders of the command on the budget request. also at that time, a on the f-35 joint strike fighter program. and at 10:00 a.m., a senate subcommittee from law enforce

coming up thursday morning, matt rosendale discusses environmental policy and the agenda. then congressman emanuel cleaver talks about helping as part of the 2.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning, and be sure to join the discussion with the bone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets. >> here's a look at our live coverage thursday. on c-span, the house gavels in at 9:00 eastern to consider a bill that would make washington dc the 51st state. on c-span2 the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. for work on legislation to address the rise in hate crimes against asian americans and pacific islanders. at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3, a look at the fossil fuel industry and its impact on climate change with environmental activist greta thunberg and others. there is more streaming live on our website including a senate armed services hearing with leaders of the u.s. central command and u.s. africa command on the president's 2022 defense budget request. that's at 930 a.m. eastern. also at that time, a on the f-35 joint strike f

. >> congressman matt rosendale with us until the bottom of the hour at 8:30 eastern. he represents the state of the montana in the u.s. house. phone lines split up. go ahead, start calling in. congressman, we've heard a lot about the southern border lately but montana making up a big chunk of the northern border. what has the northern border been like during covid and the lockdowns with international travel restrictions? >> john, i really appreciate that question. i went to the southern border to see what was taking place down there, but i've also visited the northern border and we have over 500 miles of border that we share with canada. i was very concerned that we were going to start having some of the illegal immigrants transferred up to the northern border for processing purposes, which then would be released right into the communities up there who, unfortunately, cannot support the medical and educational and housing needs of these people. it would just be absolutely wrong to dump literally these people into these communities that cannot afford it. but what we ha

host: there is pushback from a number of lawmakers including republican congressman matt rosendale whos montana and he said the following quote, proposed vaccine passport systems are of gross violation of the rights of every american and make their own personal health care choices. they are a mandate that force individuals to either be vaccinated against their wishes or be denied access to the most basic functions of our society." the issue came up at a recent white house press briefing. >> -- given to a federally organized vaccine passport of some time. does the president see that as some kind of pool that can be -- tool that can be used or does -- press sec. psaki: the government is not now nor will we be supporting a system that requires americans to carry a credential. there will be federal back ssent -- there'll be no federal vaccination database or no one will be required to have a vaccination potential. tools are being considered by the private and nonprofit central -- americans rights and privacy should be protected so that these systems are not used against people unfairly. th

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