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    Cleaning the Barn and Passing the Gavel

    Today, Congress is likely to pass the first federal budget in five years. If the Senate agrees, the government will stay open and pay the bills until after the next election. For the most part, Democrats will be happy to go along, but Republican candidates for President and the right wing of the GOP are on the warpath against it .

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 28, 2015 • 33m Listen

    Today, Congress is likely to pass the first federal budget in five years. If the Senate agrees, the government will stay open and pay the bills until after the next election. For the most part, Democrats will be happy to go along, but Republican candidates for President and the right wing of the GOP are on the warpath against it. The likely new Speaker, Paul Ryan, won't have to deal with default or a government shutdown, but that looks like a curse to conservative colleagues. We hear how a temporary return to business as usual is dramatizing the Republican Party's radical change.

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    Passing the Speakership Gavel and the Budget
    1. 1:38Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty
    2. 8:38Cleaning the Barn and Passing the GavelYou’re reading this
    3. 42:14Ta-Nehisi Coates on Growing Up as a Black Boy Facing Violence
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Mickey Kaus

      Political Commentator and Author

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      James Fallows

      Atlantic

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      Vin Weber

      Mercury/Clark & Weinstock

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Passing the Speakership Gavel and the Budget
    1. 1:38Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Pleads Guilty
    2. 8:38Cleaning the Barn and Passing the GavelYou’re reading this
    3. 42:14Ta-Nehisi Coates on Growing Up as a Black Boy Facing Violence
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