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A House Democrat Reflects on Her Defeat

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The 2020 election has a lot of Democrats asking: What happened? As it turns out, it’s a question one outgoing member of Congress has been asking herself, too. Guest: U.S. Representative Donna Shalala, Democrat from Florida.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0

Congresswoman Donna Shalala

0:36.0

has had a lot of different jobs.

0:38.0

First of all, Representative, how shall I refer to you?

0:41.0

Representative, Secretary, what do you prefer?

0:44.0

Oh my God.

0:46.0

I have so many titles.

0:48.0

You do.

0:49.0

I guess for the moment it's representative.

0:53.0

For the last couple of years, Shalala's represented Florida in Congress.

0:58.0

Before that, she ran the Clinton Foundation,

1:00.0

led three different universities and spent eight years as the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton.

1:07.0

The longest tenure on record, as far as I can tell.

1:11.0

Yeah, probably no one I'll ever meet that again because I was confirmed the day after the president was sworn in.

1:17.0

And no one gets to do that anymore.

1:20.0

I was speaking to one of Slates political reporters about this interview before we did it.

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