Mute ye, mute ye: What Congress might look like on videoconference

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

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🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Zoom videoconferencing goes to Washington. Since 9/11, disaster planners have been trying to warn Washington of the risks of a government based on stuffing all of America’s most important legislators into one place. Covid-19 is reviving the conversation in real time. Senior tech reporter Nancy Scola joins host Scott Bland to talk through the pitfalls of a Congress that could legislate remotely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, can you guys still hear me?
0:02.0	Wait, Nancy?
0:03.0	Yeah.
0:04.0	Yeah, I think we lost Scott.
0:06.0	Anyone, sorry, anyone still there?
0:08.0	Shoot.
0:10.0	I see the spinning wheel of death. I'm trying to I'm trying to get it back.
0:18.0	Oh yeah I see that. Hold on Scott. Scott can you hear us? Okay, we're back.
0:24.0	Oh, there is.
0:25.0	All right.
0:26.0	This is fun. So much fun.
0:28.0	Does that sound familiar to anyone?
0:30.0	I know a lot of people are also using video apps to try and connect right now and so is a mock version of Congress.
0:39.0	Hi everybody, welcome to this congressional continuity exercise.
0:43.6	Sort of.
0:44.8	I mean, they're trying to.
0:46.5	We now move to...
0:48.0	I eject!
0:49.0	Mr. Esterling is recognized. And all this connectivity stuff brings me to what we're talking about on the show today.
0:57.0	And that's the possibility of remote meetings in a place that is famous so far for rejecting them,
1:03.7	for everything being in person on paper, formal, formal, formal.
1:07.2	And that's the United States Congress.
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