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This is the Tom Hartman program.

We start with congressman rocona.

The vice chair of the congressional progressive caucus, he represents the 17th

district of California and the US House of Representatives.

His website is conna, k-h-a-n-a.house.gov.

His twitter handle is rep rocona, and he will be with us for the hour taking your calls at 202-808-9925.

Congressman, welcome to the program or welcome back to the program.

I'm curious your thoughts if I may to begin on this idea, you know, I laid it out in my rant yesterday,

that if Biden can't get a big agenda passed, and therefore the American people can't see that

Democrats can actually govern in a way that benefits them, and this shifts the momentum to the

Republicans as some are suggesting, I don't know if you've seen every lines piece in today's

Washington Post, could that mean that the next president, who would presumably be a Republican,

might be America's last president, that we would see the country going down the road of

Trump-style dictatorship? I think there's much reason to be concerned of the consequences if we

don't pass the agenda. I mean the striking thing about Ezra's article is the most popular policies

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