Democrats Race Against Time

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When the new Congress takes office in January, Democrats will lose control of the House of Representatives. Until that happens, they have a slew of legislative priorities, ranging from increasing the debt ceiling to codifying the right to same-sex and interracial marriages.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, and congressional correspondents Claudia Grisales & Deirdre Walsh.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Fact-checking by Katherine Swartz.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Asma Khalid, I cover the White House.
0:08.0	I'm Claudique Desailles, I cover Congress.
0:09.9	I'm Deer Jerval Shia also cover Congress.
0:12.0	And today on the show, we're going to talk about what might happen during the lame duck
0:15.8	session of Congress, which by the way, I've always thought is an interesting word to
0:19.1	explain duck.
0:20.1	But anyhow, Republicans will control the House of Representatives next year, but there
0:24.3	are still another several weeks during which Democrats will have full control of Congress,
0:29.8	full control of government.
0:31.0	And so I wanted us to spend some time today talking about what they might do in these
0:35.8	next few weeks.
0:37.3	Let's start with funding the government.
0:40.0	They need to do something in this next month just to ensure that we don't have a government
0:44.0	shutdown.
0:45.0	Right, they do.
0:46.2	The current funding resolution expires December 16th.
0:50.4	Congress pretty much manages every holiday season to try to ruin it for all of us who cover
0:54.9	it.
0:55.9	And so they have to come up with a deal to fund federal agencies through the rest of
1:00.5	the fiscal year.
1:02.0	This is all the various dozen appropriations bills that fund various government functions.
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