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So, in provisions, are more successful at making their way to passage,

if we don't talk about them.

Obviously, we talked a great deal about how to the development and debate

over this proposal to reform the Electoral Account Act,

which was worked on, as you said, by members of the Senate and marked up.

In Senate committees earlier this year,

but then, I think, impart to sort of get it across the finish line

and given the way that some of the issues related,

either directly or less directly, to January 6th, have gotten increasingly politicized,

and obviously the January 6th committee is in the process of releasing its final report and documents.

I think this notion that maybe if we sort of didn't talk about the fact that

the Electoral Account Act reform was in the omnibus, that that would perhaps make it less likely

that someone would use its presence to jeopardize the prospect in the overall bill.

I'm Scott Arnterson, and this is the Law Fair Podcast for December 23rd, 2022.

Over the past few weeks, Congress has slowly brought two of its biggest pieces of annual omnibus legislation

to the finish line, the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA,

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