What's the 'biggest' thing on our political radar for next year?
The NPR Politics Podcast
NPR
4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It's the latest installment of our series, "Political Mosts," where we answer a superlative-type question about covering politics and our careers in journalism. Today, Sarah McCammon (national political correspondent) and Sam Gringlas (Congress reporter) each share the "biggest" issue or issues on their political radar for next year. They also answer this question from a listener: “What person or event was the ‘biggest’ influence on your decision to become a journalist?"
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Sarah McCammon. Real quick before we get things started, this is a special bonus episode of the NPR Politics Politics Podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | Usually, this would just be for our politics plus supporters, but in this season of giving, we're sharing this with everyone, just to give you a sense of some of the things we do in our bonus episodes. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're already a plus supporter, thank you so much. It means a lot. |
| 0:22.6 | If you're not yet, we hope you'll consider joining, you know, in the spirit of giving. |
| 0:26.9 | It's a great way to support NPR and public media. Just go to plus.npr.org slash politics. |
| 0:35.7 | Hey there, it's Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. |
| 0:38.6 | And I'm Sam Greenglass. I cover Congress. |
| 0:40.8 | So Sam, we're here for our turn at what we're calling political most. For those of you |
| 0:45.1 | unfamiliar, the idea is pretty simple. These are short conversations where we each take a turn |
| 0:50.3 | answering a most or other superlative type questions about what it's like covering politics or |
| 0:56.2 | our journalism careers. And before I reveal today's question, Sam, let me just welcome you to our |
| 1:02.0 | first bonus episode. Thanks, Sarah. Everybody might not know you officially joined NPR as a Congress |
| 1:07.7 | reporter just a couple months ago. Although you're not really a newcomer to NPR. |
| 1:11.9 | You and I worked together in a previous life when you were a producer, right? |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah, this feels like a little bit of a homecoming. I started my professional journalism career |
| 1:21.8 | at NPR as in all things considered intern back in the summer of 2016. And then I stayed on as a producer for |
| 1:28.7 | almost six years after that before I headed to Atlanta to cover Georgia politics at the |
| 1:34.2 | member station there, WAB, and now I'm back in D.C. and slowly getting adjusted to being back |
| 1:41.0 | in the Capitol. Well, we are glad to have you. So let's go to our first most question. |
| 1:46.5 | When it comes to your reporting beat, what is the biggest thing or things on your radar for the next year? |
| 1:53.2 | Sam, I'll let you go first. |
| 1:54.6 | Okay, well, I cover Congress. |
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