Congress Does Something

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🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Senate is readying a vote on two bills to fund the government. The measures aren’t expected to pass, but they might signal the beginning of the end of the shutdown. Guest: Jim Newell, who covers Congress for Slate. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon, with help from Danielle Hewitt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:07.0	Hey, Jim.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up?
0:12.0	What's up with you?
0:14.0	Oh, just sitting around the Capitol waiting for the end of the shutdown.
0:19.0	Jim Newell covers Washington for Slate.
0:22.0	He joined me from a phone booth in the Senate press gallery to talk all things shut down.
0:27.0	We're at 33 days.
0:29.0	Is that ice stop counting?
0:31.0	Yeah, somewhere in the 30s, I know we are.
0:34.0	I mean, in the last five weeks, how many bills of pasting Congress trying to reopen the government?
0:40.0	In the House, they're voting this week on the 10th and 11th.
0:44.0	10th and 11th?
0:46.0	Yeah.
0:47.0	The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, she's been especially busy.
0:52.0	Yesterday, she wrote a note to the White House postponing the State of the Union.
0:56.0	Then her office drafted yet another budget proposal aimed at opening up the government.
1:01.0	It offers more money for border security, but not a wall.
1:05.0	Over in the Senate, on the other hand.
1:07.0	In the Senate, they are, well, most of them currently aren't even here.
1:12.0	This week, it's been that they've been on 24-hour notice of if they're going to vote on anything.
1:18.0	Some have been here, some have not been, but they sort of just been waiting for the bad signal
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