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Thanks for this report. I live in Lawrence, and was surprised to see we were redistricted to the 1st from the 2nd district. I like what have seen of Mr. Mann.

As an aside, I was watching some Youtube or Rumble videos of congressional hearing on the "twitter files" and saw Jake LaTurner speak and ask a question or two of someone from Twitter. I was glad to see him get in on the action, although he didn't have a marquee position like Josh Hawley or Rand Paul have had. Of course they are senators...

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"Small business owner, Stephanie Lambert, who owns Steph’s Garden, asked Mann about small business regulations, claiming she had to change her business model, having been subject to two inspections by the state and one from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "

It's my understand the CDC only inspected one or two of the plants making COVID-19 vaccines in the course of a year. And yet the FDA (I think the CDC is under the FDA) is able to inspect somebody's little farm business.

Do you remember in 2021 March 2021 when Johnson and Johnson (the manufacturer) inspected Bioemergent Solutions' plant in New Jersey, found their quality control was appalling, and caused almost their entire run to be recalled? That was the manufacturer inspecting, not the FDA or the CDC.

And as an aside, even though those batches were supposedly not cleared to go yet, the US government announced that vaccine availability would be drastically reduced for the next few weeks, for reasons they never explained.

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