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Dollar & Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast
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The Congress Can Come Together in a Crisis
I respect that practical politics but you know on this issue my own sense probably similar to yours is we could be simplifying procedures and regulations. We've got all this cumbersome regulation but instead of getting rid of it let's just do a sweetheart deal for this one project. I think another thing that this deal does in a broader sense is it helps restore a little bit of the notion that we have a functioning democracy. And so I think there's going to be a certain amount of reassurance that when it's really a crisis the Congress can come together.
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