SCOOP: Reps. Beth Van Duyne, Pete Stauber, and Nathaniel Moran dish on the behind the scenes of congressional reconciliation

In the latest episode of the RSC's flagship podcast, Reps. Van Duyne, Stauber, and Moran take us behind the scenes of the One Big, Beautiful Bill and much more.

Shortly before the Schumer Shutdown commenced, lawmakers in the Republican Study Committee (RSC) gathered to film their latest episode of their Right to the Point podcast — which was obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter.

The latest episode featured Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R., Texas), Nathaniel Moran (R., Texas), and Pete Stauber (R., Minn.) spoke about everything ranging from the legislative wins in reconciliation to lima beans on the 20th episode of the must-listen podcast.

This time, Van Duyne took her turn in the host chair; all three RSC members previously served their communities in locally elected office — and are taking their skills to Congress.

The lawmakers give listeners a peek behind the curtain into the creation of the Working Families Tax Cut, which Van Duyne and Moran worked on closely with Rep. Jason Smith (R., Mo.), the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee that they serve on together.

Perhaps surprisingly, Moran said that he “love[d] the process.”

“I call it the conclave,” Moran said, “because we were in there and just, closed doors, were grinding it out. Provision by provision, lots of study ahead of time, lots of debate and deliberation and coming back to it. It was a bottom up process, as you know. Chairman Smith allowed for lots of discussion that he didn’t shove the end result down on anybody. He presented the facts, had lots of information for folks to debate. And then we came to a conclusion ourselves as a committee, a consensus. And then we put it out, for the rest of the body to debate and deliberate on to.”

But the GOP’s legislation didn’t solely come from the Ways and Means Committee. Stauber explained how his work on the Small Business Community helped him craft the One Big, Beautiful Bill.

Shortly before the trio recorded their podcast, Stauber spoke to the National Small Business Association, and he said that they are “thrilled with the Working Families Tax Cuts. They understand that we worked hard to give them the opportunity to succeed on Main Street.” Those policies include “making sure that people understood that the bureaucracy has to end the rules and regulations over burdensome rules and regulations. Every member or every witness…said enough from the federal government. We have to get the federal government out of our pocketbooks and off our shoulders so we can succeed.”

Moran spoke about how the Republican conference expanded how many committees worked on the bill. “Last time we did this process, in 2017, there were only two committees that were involved.” This time, it was 11.

That meant a lot of hearings, held in both D.C. and around the country. The lawmakers discussed some of the most impactful hearings that formed their viewpoints. One business owner came up to Van Duyne at one hear, and she described how “he said ‘my margins are this thin. If you pass this regulation, I’m not a big corporation. I don’t have a regulatory department, you shut my doors. I’m going to have to hire consultants to make sure that I’m abiding by this regulation. It’s going to cost me six figures. Plus I can’t afford it.’”

Stauber spoke about how he learned firsthand during hearings on the Small Business Committee about how the Biden administration added over $1 trillion in regulatory costs without a single vote in Congress.

During the last four years under under Biden, they crushed small businesses,” he said.

Stauber also sits on the Natural Resources Committee, which focused a lot on “harvesting and mined critical minerals and exploring for oil and gas,” he said. “That’s energy security.”

The Minnesota lawmaker also spent over two decades as a police officer, and he spoke about the importance of one of the GOP’s signature policies: no taxes on overtime, which every Democrat in Congress voted against during reconciliation.

While cops don’t usually seek out overtime, he said, the elimination of tax on overtime is the least Congress can do — and the uniformed opposition from congressional Democrats to that policy, as well as to the abolition of tax on tips and tax credits for research and development.

The lawmakers ended by reflecting on the legacy of Charlie Kirk, who was murdered just days before they recorded.

All episodes of the Right to the Point podcast can be found here.