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<v 0>There's a lot of islands hurting right now.</v>

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There's a lot of islands just scraping to get by in a pandemic.

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We believe having, letting them,

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helping them keep more of their own money is a positive thing.

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And so if we can continue to lower tax rates, we think that's positive.

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<v 1>Parents and students. Uh,</v>

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we can do it safely and responsibly need to have the option to be a hundred

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percent in the classroom. And I'm telling you the stories and, um,

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that I've heard and it's being reflected in the, um,

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it'll be reflected in the assessments that we're seeing,

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or we've already seen some significant downturn and,

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and, um, D's, and F's, and we're talking about pass,

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fail on core subjects. And, uh, we've got kids that, you know,

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are that were a students that are failing and, and it's just,

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it's just not working and we need to recognize

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that and we need to fix it and move forward.

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<v 2>I think when you're looking at it, it's about access workforce, uh,</v>

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cost and then the cliff effect. I think those are four of the main key things.

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And then also trying to build some public private partnerships with businesses

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that want to try to step up and do more,

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to try to provide some incentives or some, uh,

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try to get regulations out of the way for them to be able to do that.

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So I think it's a multi-pronged approach, but from the house perspective, yes.

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Uh,

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there is interest in continuing to work off of the bills that we have worked on

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in the past.

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<v 0>We've got to find funding for mental health. It's interesting where</v>

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it's, it's, it's a, it's a large burden to be on, on, on property tax.

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That's causing a lot of problems for, for, for County and local government.

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And so the state just really hasn't stepped up and done its part.

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<v 1>I have full confidence that we will, we will approve a fair and balanced map.</v>

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Now Iowans deserve that. We've been able,

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I think for the most part to get it done in either step one or step two,

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and we really do a good job and it's required by law of really nesting

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our Senate and house state districts within our congressional and Senate

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districts. So I think we have a really good process in place.

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That's worked for a long time. I think it's fair and balanced,

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and I believe that's the intent of the legislature to, to maintain that.