Weekly Roundup: November 19th

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The two-trillion dollar package still needs to pass the Senate, where it is expected to undergo extensive changes. Also, a look at what issues are dominating campaigns in a central Virginia swing district.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, congressional producer Barbara Sprunt, and congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jennifer Warren from Richmond, Virginia, where I just discovered that my new
0:04.4	knee brace has the word muller written across it in big bold letters, and I have thus decided
0:09.7	to name it the muller support.
0:12.2	This podcast was recorded at 1.06 pm on Friday, November 19th.
0:20.2	So things may have changed.
0:21.8	However, my love for cheesy puns never, ever will.
0:26.7	Enjoy the show.
0:31.6	If she likes cheesy puns, I will just tell you that speaking of muller, I have been thinking
0:36.1	about this investigation that Congress is having over January 6th, and I've been calling
0:41.0	it to friends and family muller life.
0:43.7	Oh my gosh.
0:45.0	That took me a second.
0:48.7	Is that like the muller high life of beers?
0:51.2	No.
0:52.2	Wait, what?
0:53.2	No.
0:54.2	Okay.
0:55.2	Our politics podcast, I'm Tamar Keath, I cover the White House.
0:58.8	I'm Kelsey Snelli, cover Congress.
1:00.4	And I'm Dominic O'Montanara, senior political editor and correspondent.
1:03.6	House Democrats voted to approve a roughly $2 trillion social safety net and climate spending
1:09.8	package.
	...

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