Second question was on transparency in FICO scores. Questioner didn't understand why his wife had better credit, though he was the breadwinner, and complained there is no transparency or appeal. King asked for a single-page doc to bring to Kevin Brady on Ways and Means Committee
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He minimizes the impact of the lost committee seats. Used to be 2-2.5 hours of hearings a week, now he goes to the floor and gives speeches. With Pelosi as speaker, Republicans on committees only play defense. So this is the least disruptive time. But he still wants them back.
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King talks about his relationship with Nancy Pelosi, in the context of a private bill King introduced to approve an experimental ALS treatment for Spencer resident Jaci Hermstad. Pelosi and her office were courteous, worked quickly with him to get this on the floor and passed.
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King then introduces Roger Johnson, a retired lieutenant living in Brno. Johnson says he learned fluent German at the Defense Language Institute, now goes on German and Austrian television in support of Trump. Wants to talk about accusations that King met with Nazis in Austria!
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Johnson says Freedom Party of Austria has been mischaracterized as far right, when they are center right. They've been in coalition for 27 of the last 30 years, hardly fringe. It's true the founder was a Nazi, but who wasn't at the time? He was agriculture minister, had to join
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"Scratch any Austrian or Bavarian of that generation, and you find a Nazi 1 or 2 layers deep," Johnson explains. Article on King meeting with Freedom Party was a hit piece. They have to make up stories about stuff outside the US, because people see what good King does in the US.
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King himself goes on to describe the meeting he had with Freedom Party members in an Austrian cafe. 'The gentleman on my right said, you should know, you're seated next to two homosexuals and a Jew. Then the guy across from me looks and says "who's the Jew?"' Room laughs heartily
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In this meeting, King claims he gave a strong defense of American-style freedom of speech. He told the Europeans they were less free because of hate speech laws. They countered that Americans were less free, because in the US you can lose your company for a non-PC donation.
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