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LEVER TIME PREMIUM: The State Of Congress (w/ Rep. Ro Khanna)
On this week’s Lever Time Premium: we speak with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) about the current goings-on in Congress; and interview author John Hendrickson about the political and personal impacts of speech disfluency.
On this week’s episode of Lever Time Premium: David Sirota sits down with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) for a substantive conversation on the latest congressional developments. First, they discuss Ro’s ongoing House Oversight Committee investigation into fossil-fueled disinformation campaigns. The two also cover the U.S. airline industry debacle, the debate around banning gas stoves, and the recent votes for House Speaker — and why progressives have yet to wield the same power as right-wing Republicans (9:16).
Finally, for this week’s bonus segment, The Lever’s managing editor Joel Warner interviews author John Hendrickson about his new book Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter. John’s viral 2019 article about President Joe Biden’s lifelong struggle with disfluency prompted him to write a book on the issue and his own experience with speech disfluency (40:50).
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A rough transcript of this episode is available here.