They’re Actually Going Back To The Capitol Tomorrow In Support Of Insurrections
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, September 17th. |
| 0:14.2 | As we come to the end of the week, the headline for Democrats in Washington might be deal, no deal. |
| 0:23.5 | It looks like party leaders have a deal with centrist Senator Joe Manchin that would unify the party on voting rights. As described by |
| 0:29.7 | Bloomberg News, the version Manchin agreed to would create an automatic voter registration system |
| 0:35.1 | through each state's motor vehicle agency, make election day a public |
| 0:39.3 | holiday, and provide voters with at least 15 days of early voting for federal elections. |
| 0:46.1 | But the Democrats have no deal on lowering prices for prescription drugs. Have you heard this? |
| 0:52.8 | Three Democrats defected from a bill, and that was |
| 0:56.3 | enough to kill it. It would have allowed Medicare to negotiate with drug companies on price. |
| 1:02.5 | Democrats have wanted to get that through Congress for 15 years. How many times have we talked |
| 1:06.9 | about it on this show? And they thought that maybe they had the votes now, but three of |
| 1:12.2 | them walked away, including very much in the spotlight over this, Long Island Congresswoman |
| 1:18.1 | Kathleen Rice, who had run for re-election on campaign commercials like this. |
| 1:24.1 | In times of crisis, you see what really drives someone. For Kathleen Rice, it's always been the health and safety of the Long Island she loves, meeting the moment of this pandemic by securing billions in aid for testing and treatment in New York, taking on the drug and insurance giants to lower costs and restore coverage to those hit hardest by the downturn, |
| 1:45.4 | and fiercely protecting a woman's right to choose no matter the politics. |
| 1:49.8 | Kathleen Rice for us. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm Kathleen Rice, and I approve this message. |
| 1:54.7 | She did when she was on the campaign trail, but this week she did not approve |
| 2:00.1 | allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug |
| 2:03.0 | companies for price rather than just like the companies dictate it. So for Democrats in D.C. this |
| 2:10.4 | week, deal with Mansion, no deal with Kathleen Rice. Let's add one more. We can call it deal, |
| 2:17.0 | no deal, maybe deal. Did you see that |
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