68: First Name Basis with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi
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🗓️ 28 September 2021
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Host Reed Galen is joined by the U.S. Congressman representing the 8th District of Illinois, Raja Krishnamoorthi. They discuss the recent decision by Speaker Pelosi to set the vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill for this Thursday, the status of the debt ceiling, and Rep. Krishnamoorthi’s personal account of January 6th. Plus, how can we break the fever that is Americans who continue to view all things COVID through a political lens?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today, I'm joined by |
| 0:13.2 | United States Congressman Raja Krishnamorthy, who represents the 8th District of Illinois. |
| 0:18.4 | That includes Chicago's West and Northwest suburbs. The Congressman serves on the House |
| 0:22.7 | Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, |
| 0:27.5 | and the Committee on Oversight and Reform. Congressman, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you so much, |
| 0:32.4 | Reed. So Congressman, today I want to talk about Speaker Pelosi's setting of Thursday as a day to |
| 0:39.2 | vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, as well as what you're seeing with the debt ceiling |
| 0:45.9 | and reconciliation and just what those things mean. But first, I want to talk about your experience |
| 0:51.7 | on January 6th, which I know that the Speaker set up a Select Committee. It is getting back to work |
| 0:57.0 | now. It's issued subpoenas. It's hard to believe it's been almost nine months. I think that some of |
| 1:01.7 | your colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle would like to pretend it never happened, |
| 1:05.3 | but I don't think that any of us can or should do that. So from your perspective, what was it |
| 1:10.3 | like to be there on that day? It was a horrifying day, Reed. You know, one of those days you don't |
| 1:15.8 | want to relive. And I was sitting in my office about to go and vote on the floor with regard to |
| 1:21.5 | the certification of the Arizona votes, which had been objected to. And all of a sudden, the police, |
| 1:27.4 | you know, bang on my door and roused me onto my office. You know, later on, I didn't know at the time, |
| 1:32.6 | but it turns out that there was a bomb planted 200 feet from my office window. You know, they basically |
| 1:37.7 | evacuated me to one building and then another. And I was there, hold up for about six hours until |
| 1:43.7 | nightfall. And then you know the rest of the story that day. But, you know, that particular day, |
| 1:49.3 | Kessel, very long shadow on all of us, you know, obviously traumatized the country and, you know, |
| 1:55.2 | personally affected us in ways we are still dealing with. So let me ask you this. And I know that |
| 2:01.8 | this is a tough question because you have to govern every day, right? You serve as a member of |
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