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This is Words Matter with the Norma Ornstein. These are big things that matter a lot.

And Dr. Covida Patel. So it's a pretty incredible chunk of change. Well, and welcome to Words Matter

from the DSRnetwork. Each week, Norma Ornstein and I will talk about the issues facing our country.

So we head into the midterms and what our leaders are saying and doing, or not doing,

we're saying about them. Today, we are honored to be joined by our first inaugural guest. I can't

be more excited because we have always been... you and I have been speaking for weeks now about

the Inflation Reduction Act and did a previous pod on just trying to break it down so that people

kind of who might think that the title is reflective of what's in there are surprised to learn

how much is in there. And we couldn't be pleased to have one of your colleagues, someone I look up to

and do a lot of reading when he puts out scholarly work is Dr. Michael Strain. He is the Arthur F.

Burns Scholar in Political Economy and Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American

Enterprise Institute. The longer people don't know this, the longer your name is that think tanks

more important you are so we can go ahead and just assume he's got it all down. But Michael,

before his time at AEI and a lot of his current roles has been in the heart of many of the places

that have developed what I think is the foundation for the IRA and that includes being an assistant

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