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The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)

Rationally Speaking Podcast

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Is That a Log Rolling Chip?

I wish politicians could hold something hostage that isn't so important and beneficial to the nation. One of the weird things about Congress is there tends to be an insistence that log rolling has to be internal to a specific issue area. I think stops Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell from bargaining across different dimensions of the issue space. It's just a sort of unfamiliar tactic. But I think, you know, if we want to ever have bipartisan bills on big subjects, I think ultimately that's what it's going to have to be.

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