00:00Well, thank you. I want to, at the risk of being redundant, I think it can't be said enough that we actually have a responsibility here.
00:08We have a responsibility of the people that elected us, but the people that elected President Trump.
00:13We remember back in 2018, I do, in 2018, 2019, after we passed the 2017 jobs and tax relief bill that we passed,
00:24we saw people's salaries, people's wages going up, more people working in every single different diverse category of our workforce.
00:35And if it weren't for the pandemic, I think many of us wonder how far could we have gone in terms of our productivity, in terms of families becoming more prosperous.
00:44And so I think we do have a mandate to lead, to make sure our taxes don't go up, to make sure that we have our small,
00:53I visited small businesses while I was home.
00:55They are very anxious for the depreciation and the expensing so that they can grow their businesses and hire more people.
01:03These are extremely essential to every small business, which is really the foundational aspect of a small state like mine,
01:11where most of the employment arises and where people can stay and raise their families.
01:17So I'm excited about what we're going to do.
01:21We will not fail here.
01:22I'll make a prediction.
01:23We will not fail.
01:24We will bring forward from the Senate a robust product that will protect the American people,
01:31that will unleash our American energy, but also we'll make sure that those flourishing days of 2018 and 2019,
01:40when we were on a roll, will return for every single American.
