mr. mackenzie: i have an older brother. in a family with two sibling, one older brother, i looked up to my hold older brother, provided great guidance and direction throughout my life. somebody i still stay in close contact with. host: married? mr. mackenzie: married, have a 9-month-old son at this point. all of, my wife, thankfully she works remotely, and we have a rescue dog. we pile up in the car and come here to washington, d.c. we can make in it three to four hours. we'll go back and forth for session each week. host: your race was somewhat of a bellwether from 2024. you flipped a seat from blue to red. a lot of money spent. won by a few thousand votes. what was that like for you? mr. mackenzie: we knew it would be a challenging race. it's an r-plus two cricket, meaning it slightly leans republican. we had been represented by a democratic congresswoman for two term. she came in in the 2018 wave, and i felt like and our community felt like she was out of touch with our district. on so many issue she was voting a hard le

mr. mackenzie. >> thank you.e most important issues confronting our citizens today are the state of our economy and also the safety in our local economies. my focus while serving as an elected member of congress will be to address those two issues and the mess we have been handed over the past four years from the biden administration. not only those last four years but preceding that there were decisions made by state and local officials that made our country less safe and our communities at home in a vulnerable situation. i rise today as a member of the homeland security committee to speak about the safety of our lehigh valley community and how the actions of one local north hampton county executive exemplify the radical policy decisions can have on the safety of our law enforcement officers and safety of our community. five years ago in march, 2020. north hampton county executive should an order prohibiting law enforcement from cooperating with i.c.e. unless they acquired warrants to capture illegal immigrants.