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Factually! with Adam Conover

The Congressional Modernization Committee with Reps. Derek Kilmer and William Timmons

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Congress is at a historic low point of dysfunction and voter confidence. Today on the show, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Congressional Modernization, Reps. Derek Kilmer and William Timmons, join Adam to make their case for how their committee can help Congress evolve in the face of unprecedented polarization and the upheaval of the events of January 6th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:57.4

Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Connover, thank you so much for joining me once

1:02.1

again as I talk to an incredible expert about all the incredible shit that they know that

1:06.5

I don't know and that you might not know.

1:08.4

Both of our minds are going to get blown together and we are going to have a wonderful time.

1:12.8

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1:40.0

Now let's talk about today's episode, today we're talking about congress which is a mess.

1:45.0

You know, there's a sense that it can't actually accomplish anything that it's to polarize

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to extreme and to capture by corporate interests.

1:52.1

Now political scientists will tell you that while this is a bipartisan problem, not both

1:57.2

parties are equally responsible for it.

1:59.8

One of them is becoming more polarized than the other and I'll let you guess which one

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