If It’s Broke, Fix It - Why Congress Needs Reforms

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It’s an open secret that Congress is broken. Between extremism from House Republicans to an inability to pass a budget, there is something deeply wrong on the Hill. Norm and Kavita discuss the ways in which we can fix our ailing system, and why some solutions even have the ever elusive support of Republicans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Riley Fessler. I'm a podcast producer here at the DSR Network, which means that my job is to make sure that we have great content and great guests across all of our shows.
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0:45.1	dot com forward slash buy. Thank you very much for your support. This is words matter with Norm Ornstein.
0:57.0	We've got the votes and screw the rest of you.
1:03.0	And Dr. Kavita Patel.
1:05.0	These might be some of the smaller moments,
1:08.0	you know, with all the bombshells didn't catch people's eyes. Hello and welcome to Words Matter from the DSR network. Each week Norm Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country as we head into another volatile, chaotic, and sometimes humbling election cycle and discuss
1:38.0	what our leaders are saying and doing or not about the issues that Norm I think you have been doing a lot of
1:45.4	listening and talking and trying to trying to be a thoughtful productive member of
1:51.0	society by by some of their activities this week. I want to one how are you doing Norm and then two tell us
1:58.0	Tell us about what you and Don buyer did this week and maybe that'll help to generate. I certainly learned a lot just
2:05.6	that you're telling me about what you and Don did but I know our listeners will also
2:09.2	benefit. Well thanks, Kavita, and other than double ear infection that I've been struggling with this week,
2:18.0	Oh, no. You should never ask somebody at my age how are you doing you know but that aside you know I
2:29.0	frequently use the wonderful line of satchel page about aging which is if you wake up in the
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