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Friday, June 8, 2018
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Debbie Georgatos is guest hosting today! Jeremy Dys and Dr. Buddy Matthews will join her. She will also welcome Congresman Dave Brat to discuss US House efforts to try to force the immigration debate. Then Debbie and her co-hosts will talk about the upcoming G-7 gathering, tarrifs, Democratic obstruction of approving the back-log of judicial appointees, and a lot more!

It’s a super jam-packed show. and we would LOVE to hear your perspective, so give us a call at 800-351-1212 or you can post a comment or question on Facebook at facebook.com/pointofviewradio.

Debbie Georgatos
Debbie Georgatos
Lawyer, Political Consultant, Talk Show Host
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Debbie Georgatos is a lawyer, political consultant, conservative activist, and author, whose first book, Ladies, Can We Talk? America Needs Our Vote! encourages women to embrace liberty-upholding conservative solutions to the challenges America faces. Her book and book talks inspire women to step up and take a prominent leadership role in the American political conversation, and to recognize that theyRead More

Guests
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Jeremy Dys
Deputy General Counsel - First Liberty Institute
Mr. Dys graduated from Taylor University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, degree in Communication Studies while concentrating his minor study in U.S. History and Philosophy. During his undergraduate career, Dys also studied at the American Studies Program in Washington, D.C. where he interned with the late David Orgon Coolidge as part of the Marriage Law Project of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Dr. Merrill Matthews
Resident Scholar - Institute for Policy Innovation
Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).

He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.

Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.
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Five Undeniable Truths About Tariffs
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Dave Brat
Congresman - (R) VA, District 7 - U.S. House of Representatives
Dave believes that the United States was founded on three pillars which together made this nation the greatest on the face of the earth: the Judeo-Christian tradition, the rule of law and the free market system. He is honored and humbled to fight for these values and serve the people of Central Virginia’s 7th Congressional District which stretches from Culpeper in the north to Nottoway County in the south.

Congressman Brat has a B.A. in Business Administration from Hope College, an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the American University in DC.

Early in his career, he worked in the private sector for the accounting firm Arthur Andersen in Detroit and Chicago and then at the World Bank assisting developing world economies. Over twenty years ago he accepted a job at Randolph Macon College teaching economics and his family made Virginia home. He later became chairman of the economics and business department and also chaired the ethics minor program at the college.

He served two Virginia governors on their Economic Advisory Boards, as an Advisor to State Senator Walter Stosch, and also served as President of the Virginia Association of Economists.

The Brat family resides in Henrico County. He and his wife, Laura, have two children, Jonathan and Sophia who attend public schools in Virginia.

Congressman Brat is a member of the House Budget Committee, Education and the Workforce Committee, and the Small Business Committee. He is the Chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access.
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House Members Try to Force Immigration Debate
By: Chad Pergram - foxnews.com - June 6, 2018 A coalition of some Republicans and nearly all Democrats is attempting to go around House GOP leaders and force a debate later this month on a ...
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Conservatives Urge Congress to OK Trump’s $15 Billion Rescission of Spending
By: Jeremiah Poff - dailysignal.com - June 06, 2018 A major conservative-libertarian advocacy group has thrown its support behind President Donald Trump’s call for canceling more than $15 billion in spending as a good first ...
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Other Countries Impose Higher Tariffs; How Should the U.S. Respond?
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Unprecedented Democratic Obstructionism Justifies Cancellation of August Recess
By: Guy Benson - townhill.com - June 7, 2018 Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the upper chamber's traditional August break would be severely limited this year. Democrats have lashed out at the ...
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Democrats Try to Get Their Recess Back
By: Paul Mirengoff - powerlineblog.com - June 7, 2018 Earlier this week, Majority Leader McConnell cancelled most of the Senate’s August recess. He did so in response to the unprecedented obstruction of Senate Democrats in ...
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Economics 101
  By: Hank Berrien - dailywire.com - June 6, 2018 A tale of two Midwestern states: In 2014, Minnesota started implementing minimum wage increases, while Wisconsin did not. Minnesota instituted phased-in hourly increases on August ...
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Prison Reform Movement
By: Daniel Horowitz - conservativereview.com - May 29, 2018 “The liberal approach of coddling criminals didn’t work and never will. Nothing in our Constitution gives dangerous criminals a right to prey on innocent, law-abiding people.” ...
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Yes, House-Passed Jailbreak Bill Releases Criminal Aliens 
By: David Horowitz - conservativereview.com - June 5, 2018 Something funny happens when you actually take time to analyze a gravely transformative piece of legislation. It’s something that not a single member of the House ...
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