Weekly Roundup: July 16th

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Voting rights activists feel that they have done the work of energizing and organizing voters to care about the issue. Now, they want President Biden to step up the pressure on Congress from the bully pulpit. And Hunter Biden's art sales will be anonymous, which the White House is calling an ethics win. Good governance experts aren't buying it.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Juana Summers, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving.

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0:50.5	my best friend. Okay, here's the show. Hey there, it's the npr. Politics podcast. I'm Scott
0:59.9	Dechro, I cover the White House. I'm Tamer Geath. I also cover the White House, and I'm
1:04.0	Wanda Summers. I cover politics and racial justice. So we talked about this earlier this week,
1:09.6	and we're going to talk about it again. President Biden gave a speech this week that a lot of
1:13.1	activists had been waiting for for weeks. On Tuesday in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center,
1:18.7	he called the fight against restrictive voting laws the most significant test of democracy since
1:24.4	the Civil War, and he called for congressional action. As soon as Congress passes before the
1:29.5	people act in the John Lewis Voting Rights Advance Act, I will sign it and what the whole world see it.
1:38.0	That will be an important moment. And yet, there is no sign at all that at this point in time
1:45.0	with a Philboster still in place that that law will get passed through Congress. And Wanda,
1:49.7	that is what we're going to talk about today because you spent a lot of time this week talking to
1:54.8	voting right activists, and they're pretty frustrated. Yes, Scott, that's right. I've been talking to
1:59.9	people who have been on the ground doing this work. And generally speaking, the reaction has been
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