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This is Words Matter with Norm Ornstein. We've got the votes and screwed the rest of you.

And Dr. Kavita Patel. These might be some of the smaller moments, you know, with all

of our own shells. Didn't catch people's eyes. Oh, I wasn't the words matter from the DSR

network. Each week Norm Ornstein and I will discuss the issues facing her country as we head

into another election cycle and try to get our leaders try, keyword, being to say and

do something about them. Today we're going to cover a number of topics. And preparing

for this episode, Norm and I were discussing a pretty interesting week of hearings. You

don't normally hear that phrase out of people in general, but it is absolutely true, not

just with the new Congress, but with the plenty kind of plentative topics that we have

in hearings. So we wanted to hit especially in discussing just some of the things that

struck our attention this week. There were subcommittee hearings on the COVID response.

There were hearings around China, a hearing around Merrick Garland, a judiciary hearing

around the equal rights amendment and several others. But I think Norm, it's safe to say

that what caught your and our collective attention was actually something related, but also

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