Marshall here, welcome back to the Realignment.

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Everyone, welcome back to the show.

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Now, onto today's episode. Today's topic is the Senate.

And why it feels like the Senate doesn't function as an institution, able to confront

the country's problems in a way that it used to in the past.

I recorded this before shooting in your vow to Texas.

And obviously, the Democratic or left leaning parts, or even some of the

center parts of the audience have been thinking themselves,

why can't the Senate do anything about the issue of gun control and gun violence in the country?

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