COMING DOWN TO THE WIRE WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVES
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Progressive powerhouse Pramila Jayapal joins Thom live to talk about the future of the Progressive Caucus. Can it be transformed to assert much greater accountability among its members on the issues that count? And what are the crucial issues a Democratic majority should pursue?
Also, Progressive leader Mark Pocan takes on listener questions; What is the most important thing we can be doing right now to ensure a fair vote?.. How should Democrats in Congress respond to years of Republican rule-breaking if they take power?..
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.5 | We are getting right down to the wire. |
| 0:19.6 | Next Tuesday is the election, although odds are we probably won't know the outcome for |
| 0:24.4 | a few days. |
| 0:25.4 | So share that thought, but it is too late to get your ballot in the mail. |
| 0:30.8 | Thanks to Lewis DeJoy and Donald Trump, so be sure that if you have not yet turned |
| 0:34.8 | in your ballot that you do so physically, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is with us taking |
| 0:40.3 | your calls. |
| 0:41.6 | She is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:44.4 | She represents the 7th District of the Great State of Washington of the US House of Representatives. |
| 0:49.4 | Here for her website is Jayapal, J-A-Y-A-P-A-L dot house dot gov. |
| 0:53.6 | And you can tweet her at Rep. |
| 0:55.0 | Jayapal. |
| 0:56.0 | Representative Jayapal, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:57.8 | So glad to have you with us. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm curious what's at the top of your list of things that we should all be thinking about |
| 1:02.7 | and talking about today. |
| 1:04.1 | We got to focus on the election. |
| 1:05.5 | We have to get Donald Trump out of the White House. |
| 1:08.2 | We've got a ditch mish. |
| 1:09.4 | We've got to get a more progressive house in because we have massive crises in front of |
| 1:15.2 | us. |
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