Senator Marshall Joins Woodward and Whit on KNSS

Washington - U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Ted Woodward and John Whitmer on KNSS Radio's Woodward and Whit to discuss the SAVE America Act and voter ID, Senator Marshall's call for an investigation of Dr. Fauci and the handling of COVID-19, how the Democrats plan to shut the government down again, the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act to lower healthcare costs by $1000 a family, and the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham.

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On passing the SAVE America Act:

"Yeah, well, John, it is interesting why we cannot get 10 Democrats to vote for voter ID - to vote for proof of citizenship when you register, and then some type of reasonable guardrails around mail-in ballots. So that's what the SAVE America Act does. And by the way, Kansas does two out of three of those already - you know, we have voter ID, and then on mail-in ballots, we don't do the unsolicited ballots. But I think they could be tightened up a little bit more, so thank goodness for Ty Masterson and his team the last several years at our state house. But of course, that doesn't help us with California or Illinois or New York and these purple states or blue states that have no rules to speak of as well. So, I just want to emphasize how important this is. President Trump and I have both been fighting to get some type of vote on the Senate floor. I think we should just vote on them one at a time - let's make every Democrat, every Senate Democrat, vote against voter ID. They always have some reason when you show them a big bill, but let's do just that one piece, and then come back in a week, and let's vote on proof of citizenship, and then let's vote on something reasonable for guardrails around in-person ballots. The bill will provide some money for states already doing it, but that's not going to cut it with me. That's a nice little thing to say, 'Oh, we know this is a problem,' but my voters want voter ID across the country, period, full stop, end of the conversation. And right now we cannot get one Democrat to vote for it. It'll take 60 votes in the Senate to get this across the finish line for voter ID in every state."

On Senator Marshall's call for a special counsel to investigate Dr. Fauci:

"Yeah, John, well, over a million Americans died from COVID, and over 20 million Americans have long COVID - not to mention the other havoc it created in people's lives. So, as you know, about a month ago, Tulsi Gabbard, on her last week there in the job as intelligence director, released a treasure trove of information that shows how Fauci interacted with the intelligence community to influence the report they gave to Joe Biden. I mean, it was all a farce to start with - they already had a conclusion, and then they just needed to find a couple patsies that would agree with them. But today, both the FBI and CIA agree with everything that I've been saying now since 2020: that this virus was made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Based upon the information from that treasure trove of information, we're asking for a special counsel - for the Justice Department to look into Dr. Fauci's funding of COVID research, his involvement, his cover-up, and then how he somehow he was able to suppress whistleblowers within the government as well. And finally, we want them to investigate the auto pen pardon. So, it's a full plate. Now Fauci is going to be in the Senate next week getting questioned, but I bet he'll take the fifth on everything. So, we need a full-throated investigation; there needs to be accountability so this doesn't happen again."

On the possibility of another Democrat government shutdown:

"John, I would bet a lot of money that it's going to be another Schumer shutdown. You might as well just put it in the bank and start planning that September 30th will be the last day the government is funded. And they're not going to let us do anything. I'll give you an example - we're trying to get through these appropriations, which leads to funding the government, right? The NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, came out of committee with large bipartisan support. Every year, this is passed by us - this is what funds the military. And the Democrats, even the ones that voted for it in committee, were not allowed to vote for it on the Senate floor. I could give you example after example of the same thing, and how they switch their votes when it gets to the floor. So, Chuck Schumer is running for his political life; they're being pulled; that party is being pulled far, far to the left by these socialists - and they readily admit they're Marxists as well. These radical Marxist leftists are out there pulling the party to the left. One of the reasons they gave for the NDAA votes being switched is that it supported Israel - there's funding in there for Israel, as there has been every year. So, it's a new day in Washington, and all I can tell you is I'm just going to keep fighting, and we'll try and figure a way out through this. But right now, the Democrats hate Donald Trump so much they're not going to let anything get done."

On the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act:

"Ah, something positive, here we go. So, patients deserve price tags, not surprise bills. So, this is a bill that I've been working on now since I got to Congress eight or nine years ago and we've improved it every year. It forces healthcare providers to show you the costs up front - so when you need that hip replaced, you need an MRI or whatever it is, you can look at the cost difference, and then you can choose. An MRI for your knee at one place may cost $3,000 and that same MRI with the same doctor reading it at another imaging center may be $600. The difference on hip surgeries I've seen anywhere from $15,000 at one hospital to $60,000 to $80,000 in another hospital - and by the way, the one with the lower price has better outcomes. So, patients deserve price tags, and we're going to mark that bill up next week in committee. And I do have a large amount of bipartisan support for it. John Hickenlooper, the Democratic senator from Colorado, is helping me lead that bill. So, we will get it through the committee next week, and then we'll see if we can find a way to sneak it onto the floor, and Chuck Schumer let people vote positive on it. This can save patients $1,000 a month for a family on their insurance if you have transparency, letting patients become consumers again."

On whether Senator Marshall will take an appointment in the Trump Administration:

"The answer is no. I mean, the answer to your question is yes, I'm going to address it. But no, I will not accept something from the Trump administration to go work for him. I'd be honored - obviously having run a hospital, a physician overseeing health departments, now a legislator for nine years, I do have a good breadth of knowledge of healthcare. But nobody's going anywhere - Secretary Kennedy's doing a great job, he's right where he is, Dr. Oz is doing a great job as CMS director and I'm very honored to represent the people of Kansas. I have no intention - I am not going to go to President Trump's administration and would be honored to represent the people of Kansas again for another six years in the United States Senate."

On the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham:

"Oh gosh, Lindsey was a dear, dear friend. One of my besties up there. Our desks are 10 feet apart, and Lindsey just kept me laughing; every time I saw him he made me laugh - very witty. And the interesting thing about Lindsey Graham is I bet there's 98 other senators who would say they were one of his best friends as well. He had the gift of hospitality, he made everybody feel welcome, we're going to miss him dearly. We get really tight - there's only 53 of us and we have lunch together every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. So, I lost a teammate, a friend. You know, the great thing is Lindsey was a godly man - sometimes he had a little rough mouth - but he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Bible, and you know we'll get to see him again someday. So, we will miss him, and it's just now all starting to sink in."

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