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The Transition: Meet the new Congress, more weird than the old Congress

Political Theater

English - January 04, 2021 22:05 - 20 minutes - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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The 117th Congress is under way, and it is already weird. A time usually filled with ceremony, celebration and at least a faint trace of optimism is clouded over by the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spectacle of members of Congress attempting to overturn the results of certified elections and the uncertainty of who will even be in charge of the Senate, depending on the results of two dramatic runoffs in Georgia. Jim Saksa and Stephanie Akin discuss the spectacle that has already defined the beginning of the new year.
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The 117th Congress is under way, and it is already weird. A time usually filled with ceremony, celebration and at least a faint trace of optimism is clouded over by the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spectacle of members of Congress attempting to overturn the results of certified elections and the uncertainty of who will even be in charge of the Senate, depending on the results of two dramatic runoffs in Georgia. Jim Saksa and Stephanie Akin discuss the spectacle that has already defined the beginning of the new year.

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