I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, March 5th.

For the first time, a Trump appointee has been arrested in connection with the January 6th Capitol riot.

We'll talk about that in a minute with Politico's congressional editor, Alana Schor.

And breaking this morning and related, Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell has filed a lawsuit

against Donald Trump himself in conjunction with January 6th.

Also with Alana Schor, we'll talk about two potentially

historic bills that passed the House this week, but that might go to the filibustering Senate to die.

And speaking of filibusters, this wasn't technically one lasting into the middle of the night.

But before they got to this morning's official debate on the coronavirus

relief bill in the Senate, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin decided to make a show of his

opposition to the bill by having the Senate clerks read out loud the entire 628 page thing. The New York Times notes as a point of reference that the sixth Harry Potter book clocked in at 652 pages, and many of you know how thick that was. By the way, that was Harry Potter and the half-blood prints in case you were wondering. Imagine reading the whole half-blood prints aloud without a break.

The relief bill took 10 hours and 44 minutes at about the same length. Here's 44 seconds of what

that was like. Section 2705, funding for grants for health care providers to promote mental health

among their health professional workforce. Section 2706, funding for community-based funding for grants for health care providers to promote mental health among their health professional workforce. Section 2706, funding for community-based funding for local substance use disorder

services. Section 2707, funding for community-based funding for local behavior health needs.

Section 2708. Funding for the National Trial Traumatic Stress Network. Section 2709, funding for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

Section 2709, funding for Project Aware.

Section 2710, funding for youth suicide prevention.

Section 2711, funding for behavioral health, workforce, education, and training.

Section 2712, funding for pediatric mental health care access.

Section 2713, funding for expansion grants for certified community. And on it went. The reading ended at just after two in the morning,

Washington time. With me now is Alana Shore, Politico's Congress editor. Thanks for coming on,

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