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Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, I cover politics.

I'm Frank Ordonia as I cover the White House.

And I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.

And we made it guys, it is the new year, Happy 2021!

Happy new year!

Let's get it going.

Yes, 2020 in the rear view.

Thank God.

Alright, so let's get started. First podcast of the new year and by the way, we get a new Congress pretty soon.

So let's start there.

Kelsey, we're going to talk about what the 117th Congress will look like.

They are set to be sworn in on Sunday.

But it's worth talking first about what the current Congress is still up to this week, because they've still been working.

The big question has been about whether they'd pass those $2,000 stimulus payments.

So what's the latest on Capitol Hill?

Well, to give people a little bit of a reminder, there was this effort to get $2,000 direct aid checks approved.

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