What's Up at Congress with Quinta Jurecic and Molly Reynolds

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Congress, which has been on recess for the month of August, has a lot on its plate. The January 6 committee is starting to receive information, and it has gone into stealth mode. If Congress doesn't get its act together, the government is going to shut down and we're going to default on the federal debt. And there's actually been some oversight hearings recently. We decided to check in on it all with Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic, both of the Brookings Institution and both senior editors at Lawfare. They joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about what Congress has been doing, what's coming down the pike and if we are headed toward disaster.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:32.6	So basically what McConnell is trying to do is to push all of the political responsibility
0:39.5	for voting to address the debt limit on to Democrats by saying you have this opportunity,
0:47.7	this mechanism by which you can do this raise the debt limit without meeting any hope for
0:53.7	help from Republicans and we are going to try and force you to do that.
0:58.2	It's all just a giant sort of Gordian knot that needs to be untangled in some way,
1:04.7	less we incur really the massively negative consequences of defaulting on the debt.
1:11.2	I'm Benjamin Whitties and this is the LawFair podcast September 22nd, 2021.
1:18.2	It's been a while since we checked in with the first branch of government but Congress
1:23.5	which has been on recess for the month of August has a lot on its plate.
1:29.7	The January 6th committee is starting to receive information and it has gone into stealth
1:35.5	mode.
1:36.5	What's it up to?
1:38.3	If Congress doesn't get its act together, the government is going to shut down and we're
1:43.0	going to default on the federal debt.
1:45.6	What's up with that and are we really heading to a disaster?
1:50.1	There's actually been some oversight hearings recently.
1:54.1	We decided to check in on it all with Molly Reynolds and Quinta Juressick, both of the
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