Weekly Roundup: May 27th

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Senate is negotiating over limited legislation aimed at reducing gun violence, although those negotiations are narrow in scope and unlikely to produce results. And the number of competitive elections to serve in the House of Representatives has been declining rapidly over the last 20 years, thanks to gerrymandering and partisan sorting.

This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Siva at the Hagermann National Wildlife Refuge in North Texas.
0:05.2	I'm here to Birdwatch and you're listening to the NPR Politics Podcast and the time now is...
0:11.8	12.08 pm on Friday, May 27th.
0:14.8	By the time you have listened to the show, I would have hopefully added a few more species to my
0:19.4	life list. All right, on with the show.
0:22.0	Sounds very peaceful. Birdwatchers are very passionate people.
0:30.5	Yeah, really into what they do. I applaud that commitment.
0:33.6	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress.
0:37.5	I'm Claude Agricellus. I also cover Congress.
0:39.8	And I'm Dominican Montenora, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.
0:43.2	And Senators are, once again, engaged in a new round of talks over whether they can reach
0:48.8	any bipartisan agreement on gun-related legislation. This comes after the elementary school
0:54.8	shooting in Evalde, Texas that left 21 dead, including 19 children. So, Claudia, what's the level
1:01.6	of optimism like on the hill that anything is going to come of this round of talks?
1:07.7	Well, there is a little bit. We have seen this play out before, but we see Senators such as
1:15.3	Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who of course saw a mass shooting in his state at Sandy Hook Elementary
1:23.0	in 2012. He's been working since on gun reform legislation. And he says he's determined.
1:29.0	He's meeting with all the key Republicans, including Texas Senator John Corne, who was just at
1:35.3	the scene of that shooting in Texas. And they're expressing optimism. But again, we have seen this
1:42.0	happen before. So, it's not clear they could really reach a deal this time. Are there any Republicans
1:48.2	or new Republicans engaging in this? You mentioned John Corne, but he is someone who in the past
1:53.7	has at least been open to some changes, at least to laws, about how you can access guns.
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