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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bull News Readback podcast.

I'm your host, Max Cohen, and today I'm joined by fellow congressional reporter Mika Solner

for a chat about her latest story on the Equality Pack and the Equality Caucus in Congress,

which represents LGBTQ plus members in the United

States Congress. Mika, thank you so much for joining me. Thanks for having me. How are you doing?

Good. It's been a crazy week. It definitely has been a crazy week. I'm glad you can make some time

to join us. And this story, which you wrote, I think it's fair to say,

has been one of the most dominant of the week.

Just to give some context for our listeners out there,

Sarah McBride was elected to Congress in November.

She's a first ever openly transgender member of Congress.

And this week, Republicans took exception to her activities in Congress. Fill us in Mika

on what it was like to cover what that was like, the Sarah McBride coming to Congress and what

Nancy Mace did. Yes. So this is a classic culture war situation that has really hit Capitol Hill

to the max, I would say. So, you know,

I feel like the week started with Nancy Mace introducing this resolution to bar transgender

members from using women's facilities. Obviously, that only targets one member, Sarah McBride,

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