Podcast
Jane Mayer on How to Kill a Bill
With Dorothy Wickenden
April 5,
2021
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/jane-mayer-on-how-to-kill-a-bill
The
investigative reporter Jane Mayer recently received a recording of a meeting
attended by conservative power brokers, including Grover Norquist,
representatives of pacs funded by Charles Koch, and an aide to Senator Mitch
McConnell. The subject was the voting-rights bill H.R. 1, and the mood was
anxious. The bill (discussed in last week’s episode) would broadly make voting
more accessible—which tends to benefit Democratic candidates—and would raise
the curtain on “dark money” in elections through stringent disclosure
requirements. The problem for these conservatives, a political strategist says,
is that the bill is popular among voters of both parties, but H.R. 1, they
insist, must die. As we hear the meeting’s participants tick through options to
tarnish the bill’s public appeal, Mayer notes how the political winds have
shifted in Washington, leaving the Republican coalition newly fragile.
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