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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein. Democrats effectively have to rod the table and

doctor. We're in for some painful terms up ahead. Welcome to Words Matter from the DSR

network. Each week, Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country

as we head into the midterms. And today is an incredible episode where we are going to

spend the episode talking not only about the midterms, but what people, what leaders,

what campaign workers, what you are saying about them. So we're very excited. And we will

also just touch on a couple of highlights. We can't help but talk about the passage

Lisa Senate passing, the inflation reduction act and some of the incredible drama that

unfolded over the weekend, which amounted to, but I would say is still one of the most

generational achievements by a Congress. And hopefully Norm and I can talk a little bit

about that. So thank you, of course, always for listening and on with the show. Norm,

we have had quite a week and it's not even the end of the week. We've had significant

progress since our last podcast as we had hoped we had had the Senate finally cutting

that deal with Kristen cinema really, really pushing things to the wire and some action

by the parliamentarian on some of the Medicare drug provisions. But what ended up passing

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