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and early American history and political philosophy. My name is Jay Cost, and with me is my co-host

Luke Thompson, and we are continuing our deep dive into the American

Congress with this week's episode. We're changing gears a little bit. We had over the last

couple weeks, six or even seven weeks, I'm going to send us, I don't even remember now. We had

looked at Congress from a historical perspective to sort of see Congress evolve throughout the

generations and how Congress interacted

with the story of America politics. This week we're going to be beginning the second half of this

series on Congress today, looking at Congress as an institution as it exists today. And when Luke and I were sitting down earlier today to sort of flesh out, okay, well, where do we start?

Do we start with parties?

Do we start with committees?

Do we start with congressional procedure?

It seemed to us like the most obvious place to start would be the individual member.

And because, of course, Congress is an institution

that's made up of 535 individuals with their own incentives, with their own motives, with their own

beliefs, structures, and things like that. And there are similarities between members of Congress,

but there's also important differences. And I think it's the best place to begin is to look at what motivates members of Congress, but there's also important differences. And I think it's the best place to begin is to look at

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