Accountability is Gone but Not Forgotten in the Senate

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The House is its own special kind of crazy, but the Senate is no slouch either. Tom Cotton’s recent comments calling for Americans to “take matters into their own hands” in response to protests reminds us that Senators can seemingly call for acts of violence and get away with it. Norm and Kavita break down the fall of accountability in the Senate and why some Senators continue to embarrass the institution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On Tuesday, April 23rd at 6 p.m. the DSR Network and the New Republic will be co-hosting an evening featuring a conversation with Secretary of Transportation, Pete Budajudge.
0:13.7	The event will take place at the National Press Club.
0:17.3	If you are a member and live or will be in the D.C. area and would like to attend, please email Riley Fessler at R.M.
0:27.0	Fessler at TRG Media.com, that's R M-F-E-S-S-L-E-R at TRG media dot com. We have a few seats still available and would love to see you there.
0:50.0	This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein. We've got the votes and screw the rest of you.
0:53.4	And Dr. Kabita Patel.
0:55.6	These might be some of the smaller moments,
0:58.0	you know, with all the bombshells, didn't catch people's eyes. Hello and welcome to Words Matter from the DSR network.
1:15.8	Each week Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we come out of
1:20.8	one election cycle, hop into another and seem like we're in this never ending, it feels
1:26.2	norm like we're in one of those like a just constant like turntables, you know, entry doorways,
1:32.1	we're going in and out and in and out of not just cycles of news but I feel like the ups and downs of democracy
1:40.0	tilting on its head so I got to be honest you. I spent a lot of time this week in between other things.
1:47.2	A lot of time monitoring Donald Trump's sleep and trying to understand and make sure that the former president was getting as much nap time
1:56.6	as he needed during jury selection for his criminal trial that took place this week.
2:01.0	That's certainly what caught my attention. I know we're going to talk in our
2:03.6	members pod about some interesting developments during oral arguments in the Supreme Court that I really am
2:11.1	excited to hear your take on.
2:13.8	What other news items caught your attention this week and do you agree that
2:18.8	the never-ending horrible saga of our former president was a good distraction for you early
2:25.8	this week. It certainly was. There's one other thing that at least is worth
2:29.6	a mention, Kavita and that is another entry in the hypocrisy Olympics which is the House finally
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