WAMC News Podcast - Episode 264

January 20, 2022 00:13:58
WAMC News Podcast - Episode 264
WAMC News Podcast
WAMC News Podcast - Episode 264

Jan 20 2022 | 00:13:58

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Show Notes

Before he was vice president and president, Joe Biden spent most of his adult life in the U.S. Senate. Now he has joined a growing chorus of Democratic voices that want to do away with one of the Senate’s most entrenched traditions: the filibuster. We speak with Ross Baker, a longtime student of the Senate and Rutgers University political scientist.

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