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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein. We've got the votes and screwed the rest of

you. And Dr. Kavita Patel. These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with

all of our own shelves. Didn't catch people's eyes. Oh, I want to think of Words Matter

from the DSRnetwork. Each week Norm Ornstein and I will discuss the issues facing her

country as we head into another election cycle and try to get our leaders try, he

were it being to say and do something about them. Today we're going to cover a number

of topics in preparing for this episode. Norm and I were discussing a pretty interesting

week of hearings. You don't normally hear that phrase out of people in general, but it

is absolutely true not just within new Congress, but with the plenty kind of plentative topics

that we have in hearings. So we wanted to hit especially in discussing just some of the

things that struck our attention this week. There were subcommittee hearings on the

COVID response. There were hearings around China, hearing around Merrick Garland, a judiciary

hearing around the equal rights amendment and several others. But I think Norm it's

safe to say that what caught your and my our collective attention was actually something

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