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LIVE AT AMERICA’S TOWN HALL: Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)

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🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode – originally published on our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall – Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) breaks down the recent developments related to The Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, which he co-sponsored. (We explored the constitutionality of the act on this week’s episode of We the People.) Sen. Coons also shares his plans to make the Constitution a bigger part of the work of the Senate, and asks, what ever happened to Senate debates? He sits down with National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen (his former Yale Law School classmate!).

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Hi We the People listeners. This week we're bringing you a bonus episode originally published on our live in America's town hall podcast,

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the podcast that shares live constitutional conversations held here at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and across America.

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On this episode, Senator Chris Coons sits down with Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the Special Council Independence and Integrity Act, the same act that we explore on our regular

0:24.9

episode of We The People This Week.

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If you like this episode, please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall, where you can hear

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more constitutional conversations just like this one.

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Enjoy the show. Welcome to Live at America's Town Hall. The podcast bringing you live constitutional conversations held here at the National

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Constitution Center in Philadelphia and across America. I'm Tenaya Tauber, director of

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Town Hall Programming.

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Today's episode features Senator Chris Coons of Delaware,

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who join NCC President Jeffrey Rosen on stage

1:09.0

for a one-on-one conversation on November 28th. The senator discusses the Special Counsel Independence

1:15.3

and Integrity Act, a bill he co-authored and the President's firing power as well

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as broader issues like the future of the Senate in the wake of the midterms

1:24.3

and its desire to make the Constitution a bigger part of the work of the Senate.

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This panel was produced in partnership with the Atlantic as part of our National

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Symposium, the Constitution

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and Crisis, what would the founders think? Here's Jeff to get us started. Thank you so much Senator Coons in the tradition of your fellow Delaware and Senator Biden jumping off the train and coming right to the NCC,

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and you just left a floor of vote in the Senate where the Special Protection Act for Robert

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Mueller, which you have co-sponsored along with Senators Bookie and Booker and

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Lindsay Graham, was blocked by your and Tom Sellers was blocked by your fellow

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co-chair of the Madisonian Commission that's convening today Senator Mike Lee

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