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🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Congressional Progressive leaders Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan join Thom taking listener questions! Is the Postal Service being set up for privatization?.. Can the Postmaster General be prosecuted for destroying our machines?.. Will Trump succeed in getting elected by voter suppression?- and what might be his end game?..

Plus- Ending the revolving door between regulation and industry... And- campaign signs: the grassroots solution.

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman program.
0:15.0	And welcome back.
0:18.0	Tom Hartman here with you on the line with us.
0:19.0	The Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congressman Rowe-Kana.
0:22.7	He represents the Silicon Valley area of California
0:26.0	in the US House of Representatives,
0:27.3	his website, K-H-A-N-N-A-D-A-O-H-N-A
0:30.6	dot House.
0:31.9	And you can tweet him at Repro R. O. Cona.
0:34.8	Congressman Kana, welcome back to the program.
0:37.6	I am just astonished that not a single, to the best of my knowledge, I told my listeners
0:42.2	earlier there's probably about
0:43.2	10 minutes of the experience that I missed but it's appeared to me that not a single
0:48.0	Democratic senator asked what I think is the 600 pound gorilla question or the elephant in the room or whatever metaphor you want to use
0:55.8	Cliche which is when did federal agencies have to start operating at break-even or for profit.
1:03.2	When did the Department of Defense have to make a profit?
1:05.8	When did the Department of Health Education and Welfare, or you know the Education Department,
1:09.6	now it's called, have to make a profit?
1:11.4	When did HHS have to make a profit?
1:13.5	And why is it that the postal service,
1:16.0	which is called service, we're being told
1:18.2	it has to run like it's the postal corporation
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