Senate To Vote On Tax Bill, Two Directors Claim Control Of CFPB

The NPR Politics Podcast

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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has stepped down from his role on the House Judiciary Committee, amid an ethics investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. President Trump has all but endorsed Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race. There is a dispute over who is now the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And Senate Republicans are aiming to pass a major tax bill before the end of the week. This episode, host/congressional reporter Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith and congressional correspondent Susan Davis. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Scott Detro.
0:03.8	Before I covered Congress for NPR, I spent a lot of time covering state houses for NPR
0:08.9	member stations.
0:09.9	First, WITF in Pennsylvania, then KQED in California.
0:14.5	Before that, I covered City Hall for WFUV in New York.
0:18.6	The point is there are public radio reporters all over the country covering local politics
0:23.6	and covering state politics.
0:25.6	And this year, they've been really busy.
0:28.6	When you support public radio, you're supporting journalism that covers your City Hall, your
0:32.5	county government, your state house, and your supporting the work we do on the NPR politics
0:37.7	podcast to try and make sense of everything that's happening nationally.
0:42.5	One contribution really does help support all of that up and down, because first it goes
0:47.6	to your local NPR affiliate and then part of that goes to NPR.
0:51.8	So this week, we're asking you to help public media on all levels by supporting your local
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1:14.8	Thank you so much.
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1:16.8	And now, here's the show.
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