“Generous Ferocity” with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
The Marianne Williamson Podcast
Marianne Williamson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Newly elected chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, joins Marianne for an in-depth conversation about the 2020 election, progressive politics and what’s needed as we move forward.
The co-chair of President-elect Joe Biden’s healthcare unity task force also explains why she doesn’t believe the Medicare for All bill she sponsored is ready for a floor vote.
After the interview, Marianne answers a listener question.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's see if we can put our hands on the moral arc of the universe and bend it more quickly towards justice. |
| 0:04.8 | I think people listen to us. |
| 0:06.0 | They gave us a shot. |
| 0:07.0 | But if we don't deliver in the next two years, actually deliver real relief and show that we are for working people, I think we'll lose many of those voters for a generation to come. |
| 0:31.9 | Thank you. for a generation to come. Hi, everybody. |
| 0:33.1 | Maryam Williamson here, and I'm really excited about the show today. |
| 0:36.6 | We have Congresswoman Pramilla Gaippol with us. In 2016, I used to do these conferences called the Sister Giant conferences about women running for office. And she was a newly elected congresswoman from the city of Seattle. And, you know, we didn't know then that she was going to be quite |
| 0:54.6 | the star that she turned out to be, but we were certainly encouraging her and excited for her. |
| 0:59.6 | She had just gotten to town and the conference took place in Washington. Well, she has become a real star. |
| 1:06.0 | And in this coming term, she will be the chairman of the Progressive Caucus in the House. |
| 1:12.1 | She's also the author, |
| 1:19.2 | the lead of that Medicare for All bill that everybody is talking about. She takes the lead in so many progressive issues, immigration. She has a great background in immigration, a lot of which |
| 1:24.1 | she will be talking about on the podcast when we have our conversation. But a lot |
| 1:29.1 | in her background, I think, is so interesting. She moved to the United States alone from India at the |
| 1:34.4 | age of 16 years old. Can you imagine what that would have been like for a 16-year-old girl to come |
| 1:40.1 | alone from India to the United States? She lived in the U.S. for 18 years before getting her citizenship. |
| 1:47.7 | She's got a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from Northwestern, and she is the first |
| 1:53.7 | South Asian woman to serve in Congress. She's only one of 14 immigrants currently serving in Congress. But more than anything, |
| 2:03.6 | she's got just a blazing heart. She is out there. She is standing for things. |
| 2:09.6 | Sort of everything that your heart would want her to be standing for if you do wish to see |
| 2:14.2 | an economic bottom line turn to a humanitarian one. I had a lot of questions for |
| 2:19.3 | her because we're living at a time, you know, geologists can't tell you when an earthquake is |
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