Why can't Democrats pass legislation? Plus, 'Succession'

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sam chats with NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson about why dysfunction in the Democratic Party is putting the big "Build Back Better" spending bill in Congressional limbo. Plus, The New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. Felix on Succession, representations of class on TV, and why the plethora of shows about white people being terrible (Succession, The White Lotus, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers, Hacks ... you get the idea) are so addictive. Then, they are joined by The New York Times metro reporter Jazmine Hughes for a game of Who Said That?

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sounds Like Betty.
0:02.8	This week on the show, why Democrats can't seem to pass
0:06.8	President Biden's big spending bill.
0:09.8	All right, let's start the show.
0:11.6	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute
0:14.4	from NPR.
0:15.5	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:16.6	And on the show today, to start, we're
0:18.8	going to talk politics.
0:20.4	President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats
0:22.7	control the White House, the US Senate, and the US House.
0:27.3	And since they won all that, they
0:28.7	have promised a lot.
0:30.4	Historic investment, the nation's roads and highways, bridges
0:34.3	and transit, and our drinking water systems in broadband,
0:37.7	clean energy, environmental cleanup,
0:41.1	and making infrastructure more resilient,
0:44.0	and the climate crisis much more in our minds
0:48.0	than how do we deal with it?
0:49.4	Child care, infrastructure, and fighting climate change,
0:53.4	all the things.
0:54.4	Right now, in fact, Democrats are trying
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