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Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my

co-host David. Happy New Year David. Thank you. Happy New Year, everybody.

Yeah, we hope it's a slightly more prosperous and safe

New Year. And we also have, of course, to help us get us through it again. The man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

Hello, Ralph. Hello, everybody.

We have a great show today, as usual.

November's election gave us a Democratic lead in the House, a Republican lead in the Senate,

and a new president-elect in Joe Biden.

We've already seen vital COVID relief legislation

passed in the House and then stall in Mitch McConnell's Senate.

So as we start a new congressional session,

we'll be talking about what the Democratic leadership in the House hopes to

accomplish. But as we record this program, it looks like the Democrats will sweep the Georgia

runoff and gain narrow control of the Senate. How will that affect how the party approaches issues like raising the federal minimum wage,

improving access to affordable health care,

the size and scope of the next stimulus package, infrastructure, the fate of Social Security,

what will they do to mitigate the effects of climate change?

Now that the balance of power is apparently shifted, will their agenda be ambitious enough?

Or will they find new excuses to do very little?

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