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American Fever Dream

#511 Why Is The House Capped At 435 People?!

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Kaitlin and Amanda break down the drama with NYC’s mayoral count this week. Then they react to Nancy Pelosi deciding to name an additional Republican to the ⅙ committee and play our hardest game of would you rather yet. Then, as requested, Kaitlin explains the obscure 1929 law that capped the House at 435 members, and why this doesn’t serve Americans in states big or small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Betcha's media presents. Madame Speaker, Madame Vice President. You want

0:04.3

to hang out with us and get your back seat. And so I went to human resources.

0:09.2

There are some things I just can't tell you on air. The Betcha's sub podcast.

0:13.9

A woman's problem if you will.

0:18.2

Hello, I'm Amanda Diverman. I'm Caitlin Berry and this is the Betcha's sub podcast.

0:23.2

Where C-Span meets a group chat to help you process and laugh at the biggest topics in

0:27.2

US news and politics. I hope you guys enjoy that new intro. We had coming and at the top,

0:33.9

I wanted to mention that I, I misidentified Mount Rainier yesterday as being in Oregon,

0:40.0

not Washington and within like an hour, many, many people corrected me and sent me beautiful

0:46.0

pictures. And I felt very ashamed. I did not know that that gorgeous, gorgeous piece of

0:51.4

geography was in Washington and I will never forget it. Never. I feel like that is like

0:56.8

somebody saying like the Empire State Building is in Chicago or something.

1:01.8

That's fair. I knew those are the consider that regionally, you know, there might be like a

1:06.7

a little bit of a Washington Oregon showdown. I was honestly just flattered and I told

1:12.3

somebody this that we have such a strong Pacific Northwest contingent that is so reactive.

1:17.2

That makes me feel great. Keep it national, keep it international. Exactly.

1:25.0

Yeah. So today we are going to start by talking a little bit about the meltdown with New York

1:30.7

cities, mayoral race. This is worth talking about because it's pretty alarming and in similar

1:35.8

to some previous issues that have sort of cast some doubt and issues on the electoral process.

1:40.4

And then we're going to talk about some updates with the investigation into January 6th.

1:45.6

Caitlin, how have you been doing with this heat? Oh my gosh, it's so terrible. Like I cannot.

1:52.5

I was not built for heat or heat. I'm built for exactly four degrees between 60 and 72.

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