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…Yeah. There's sort of this dual responsibility as an elected official, specifically to those people that you represent, you raise money from, you are inspired by, and you understand their plight in a big way. But also, you sit on committees, and what those committees need to do is think in the best interest of everyone, not just the specific group that you represent. As we transition here into talking about some of the specific topics of your committees, I want to open with that question of, do those things ever come at odds or do you usually feel like representing your specific group and the broad American public is something that basically always works out? The way I think about it is, how closely do your values align with your voters' values? For me, the answer is most of the time, so it's not hard. There are occasional moments when those things are at odds. At that point, you have a choice. Your choice is, do I rely on my own judgment, which may cause me some problems back home? Or do you just sort of do the politically expedient thing? There are different schools of thought on that, honestly. But the way that I handled it was, to the extent that I thought I could do it, I always relied on my own instincts over the political expedience. I will admit, nobody can do that 100% of the time, or at least, I didn't feel like I could, because you only have so much political capital. I think you need to be careful about how you spend it. It doesn't mean you never spend it. Some people never spend it, by the way, and that's a really good way to keep getting re-elected. Everybody handles it a little bit differently. But the good news on that, for me is, like I said, for the most part, 99% of votes, they never really felt like I was making that choice. You're making decisions on a lot of very important things right now, but I do think it's worth giving listeners context of what your term has been like. If you're willing, take us through that second impeachment vote and how you thought about it. Just so we don't bury the lead here, Anthony voted in favor of impeachment of the president at the second vote.…

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