Debate: Sen. Whitehouse & Sen. Cassidy try to build a better Senate through dialogue

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Chuck moderates a debate between Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) as part of the fifth installment of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute and Orrin G. Hatch Foundation's joint "Senate Project." They debate climate change, how to view China, health care and more.

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0:00.0	Hello from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd, cast. So last week I had the chance to moderate
0:12.1	a debate.
0:13.2	No, not that one.
0:14.5	It was at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston,
0:18.9	Senator Sheldon White House, Democrat from Rhode Island,
0:21.5	Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican from Louisiana,
0:24.4	joined me for the Kennedy Institute's Senate Project Debate Series.
0:29.2	It's a deep and thoughtful conversation.
0:30.8	We thought you'd enjoy it as we celebrate Independence Day this year.
0:34.0	We're going to be off this Friday, so here's my discussion with Senator White House and Senator
0:37.8	Cassidy. Again, it is for this US Senate project where basically the Ted Kennedy Institute and the Orn Hatch folks are working together to essentially, can we build a better Senate?
0:50.0	Can we build a better senators to debate, if you will, they've done quite a few of these.
0:57.6	And one thing about Senators White House and Cassidy is they accept the premise of the idea of debating. I do believe you will learn something'm looking forward to it. Quick little note on our format.
1:26.2	You're going to hear from both senators.
1:27.7	Two minutes at the start to talk about what we're doing here
1:30.8	itself, the Senate project.
1:32.4	And then we're going to have three issue areas
1:34.6	that we debate.
1:35.2	It's going to be divided up into sort of three 15 minute segments.
1:38.0	One, the first one will be on climate and energy.
1:40.6	The second one will be on border and policy and immigration and the
1:43.9	third will be health care. There are plenty of topics we're not going to get to, but
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