Welcome back to the Dispatch podcast.

I am your host, Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes,

David French and Jonah Goldberg.

See, I switched up the order there on you this week.

We have a, well, it's an interesting podcast today, no doubt.

We're going to start with HR1,

the four-the-people act, sort of the grab bag,

first bill introduced by Democrats that has passed the house.

We're going to talk about GOP retirements in the Senate,

and what all you can actually read into that.

Then we'll do why we're talking more about Dr. Seuss

than about the COVID $1.9 trillion bill

that is about to be signed into law.

And I guess I'm just going to leave that last topic

as a surprise, except I don't know.

Brush up on your God save the Queen.

Let's dive right in.

All right, we're going to start with HR1.

This is known as the four-the-people act.

It has several components to it,

including an ethics component about lobbyists

and the definition of lobbyists,

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