THE PROGRESSIVES HOLD THE LINE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Congressman Ro Khanna joins Thom to answer listener questions. How are Progressives fighting for Biden's Build Back Better agenda? Why do Republicans and some Democrats want to strip out funding for things like child care, Medicare expansion, and green infrastructure?
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| 0:45.6 | A lot of those congressmen, Rokana, represent the 17th district of California. |
| 0:50.0 | In the US House of Representatives, he's vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, |
| 0:53.6 | former national chair of the Bernie Sanders campaign actually years ago. |
| 0:57.4 | And involved in all these negotiations and what not. |
| 1:00.0 | Congressman Kanna, welcome back to the program. |
| 1:02.2 | I realize you may have to bail out at some point during this hour. |
| 1:06.8 | I may, Tom, I always love doing this. |
| 1:09.4 | Usually it is a non-negotiable time on my schedule, but the president may be coming to the House Caucus |
| 1:16.4 | and a lot of negotiations going on, as you know. |
| 1:20.1 | I mean, I'm very proud of Pramil Jaipal or Progressive Caucus. |
| 1:23.4 | We've held the line in ensuring that we get the full bill back better agenda. |
| 1:29.2 | That they really were pushing to just pass the infrastructure to late last night. |
| 1:33.7 | And there were calls back and forth with Senator Sanders, Pramila. |
| 1:37.5 | We had a late night caucus meeting around 10 o'clock. |
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