Congress' 2024 Outlook: More Legislating, Less Drama?
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondents Asma Khalid & Deepa Shivaram, and congressional reporter Eric McDaniel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm a Smachala that cover the White House. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Teva Shivram. I also cover the White House. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Eric McDaniel. I cover Congress. |
| 0:12.0 | And happy new year, folks. |
| 0:14.0 | It is now officially 2024. |
| 0:17.0 | And that means we have a new year for the 118th Congress, |
| 0:21.0 | though I will say I am not sure that I'm expecting Congress to have any sort of grand New Year's resolutions to do anything |
| 0:27.9 | fundamentally different than what they've done this past year. |
| 0:30.4 | Last year was a wild drama-filled year. We saw some lawmakers being fired, we saw |
| 0:36.1 | others just throwing up their hands and quitting, and today on the show we're |
| 0:39.9 | going to look back at what Congress was able to accomplish and what to expect in the year ahead. |
| 0:46.0 | Eric, I want to begin with you because you cover Congress and there was I would say a lot of |
| 0:52.1 | main character energy in the year of 2023. I'm thinking of |
| 0:56.1 | former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, former Congressman from New York, George Santos. |
| 1:00.6 | Just to name a couple, how would you describe what went on in |
| 1:03.9 | 2023? I mean let's focus on the house here for a second, right? It was |
| 1:08.0 | basically all the greatest hits of our fine podcast. It was fractious. It was |
| 1:11.9 | partisan. It was emblematic of a very broken system |
| 1:15.1 | and incentives in American democracy right now so there was a way for thin |
| 1:20.8 | House Republican majority they basically could not pass legislation |
| 1:25.8 | because of internal divides in the Republican conference. |
| 1:29.4 | And last January, after a record number of votes |
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