Rep. Kevin Hern Slams 'Monstrous' Spending Bill as Deadline Approaches

Dec 21, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    60% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    56% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    30% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"It's border security."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Massive amounts of people coming across the southern border."
Positive
0% Conservative
"So we'll be working on those three areas -- economic security, energy security, border security -- looking at how we fix our national security stance and the posture in those areas."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"When you look at what's happening with energy security, this president, this White House, these Democrats have worked overtime to destroy our fossil fuel industry in our country, only now to go beg Iran and Venezuela to start up their oil production and for us to send literally billions of American taxpayer dollars to these rogue nations when we could be doing that work here."
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-22% Liberal
"The Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, was supposed to be about lowering health care costs."
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-36% Liberal
"Well, Rep. Kevin Hern, thank you so much for joining the podcast today."
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26% Conservative
"Rep. Kevin Hern is joining the podcast today."
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24% Conservative
"It's amazing to me that the Democrats have been in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate, Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., says about the omnibus spending package."
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18% Conservative
"Rep. Kevin Hern:"
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8% Conservative
"So what Kevin McCarthy has said, and I totally agree, is we're going to pass a budget out of the House that cuts discretionary spending, that looks at the opportunities we have out there to get our budgets balanced and put a balanced budget on the floor, and then send that and the appropriations bills to the senators and let them deal with it."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Hern joins this episode of The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the gigantic omnibus spending bill, some of the Republican Party's top priorities for 2023, and how conservatives can navigate with slim control of only one chamber of Congress."
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0% Conservative
"Yeah, so, looking at what's happened in the past, and future [House Speaker Kevin] McCarthy has spoken to this, is that Republicans in the House have kind of worked back and forth with the Senate and actually missed deadlines because they're trying to put together a package on the House side that the senators, the Republican senators, will support, only to find out when they send the bill over there that it gets changed so much and it comes back to the House."
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-6% Liberal
"Since January of last year, they've not passed a budget, Hern says."
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-14% Liberal
"What you're also going to find, I think, is the Democrats have gone so far left, so far progressive, so far toward the socialist democrat factions of their party that the American people that are moderate Democrats are going to start pulling the party back toward the center, which is what happened in the days of Bill Clinton."
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-18% Liberal
"Here we are at the very end of the funding, which was supposed to be done by Sept. 30, [and we] keep kicking the can down the road, says Hern, who was unanimously elected last month as chairman of the Republican Study Committee."
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-20% Liberal
"Back in '97 through 2001, we actually had budget surpluses under President Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott."
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0% Conservative
"Back in '97 through 2001, we actually had budget surpluses under President Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott."
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0% Conservative
"Back in '97 through 2001, we actually had budget surpluses under President Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott."
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0% Conservative
"And Bill Clinton picked out some areas where he needed to work with Republicans to save the nation."
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-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : It's border security.
50% : Massive amounts of people coming across the southern border.
48% : So we'll be working on those three areas -- economic security, energy security, border security -- looking at how we fix our national security stance and the posture in those areas.
39% :When you look at what's happening with energy security, this president, this White House, these Democrats have worked overtime to destroy our fossil fuel industry in our country, only now to go beg Iran and Venezuela to start up their oil production and for us to send literally billions of American taxpayer dollars to these rogue nations when we could be doing that work here.
32% : The Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, was supposed to be about lowering health care costs.

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