Congress is daddy

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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DC is baby. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained . Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today explained, Sean Ramas firm, if I told you the United States Senate was working over
0:05.0	time last night, what would you think they were hashing out?
0:09.1	Something about Ukraine?
0:10.5	Maybe something about the debt ceiling?
0:12.4	Maybe they were talking about trained arrailments?
0:14.9	Turns out no.
0:16.1	The United States Senate skipped dinner to undo Washington DC's new crime bill.
0:22.7	The DC Revised Criminal Code Act is another example of how far left the far left is so
0:28.0	out of touch.
0:29.4	The resolution represents my chance to say, enough is enough.
0:34.7	It sends the wrong message that DC is not serious about fighting crime.
0:40.0	Why Congress and even the President of the United States took it upon themselves to govern
0:45.0	the nation's capital for the first time in over 30 years.
1:05.8	For many Russians, Vladimir Putin's full scale innovation of Ukraine also felt like an attack
1:10.4	on their own country's future.
1:13.0	Monsters of thousands fled.
1:15.0	I've been talking to this new exiles because their stories help bring to life the mystery
1:19.4	of why this senseless war began and how it might end.
1:24.0	Next year in Moscow from the Economist is out now on your podcast app.
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