15% minimum tax on large corporations. joe biden says at the end of the day, it is a win for the everyday americans. it s a game changer for ordinary folks. some of it won t kick in for a little bit, but it s all good. [ inaudible ] so will this streak of legislative wins help set the stage for a political rebound for democrats in november? victories, though, in washington rarely translate into success at the ballot box. just ask former president barack obama after he passed sweeping health care and financial reform packages, and still lost democratic control of congress. but will this time be different? things change pretty rapidly. joining me now from capitol hill are my guests. so, sahill, what s the word? well, it s been such a roller coaster journey for this piece of legislation over the last 18 months, it s had more deaths and resurrections. it got over the senate with a 50-50 vote broken by vice president kamala harris. after three dozen amendments were voted on,
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but we get two calls yesterday in alaska. lisa murkowski, mary peralta fending off their trump-backed challengers. what does that indicate to you? what it indicates is that electoral reform has a huge impact. whether you support it or not, alaska adopted one of the most aggressive reform packages. understand the congresswoman and the senator were on statewide ballots. there was an open primary. all alaskan voters got to pick their top four candidates in the summer. going into the general election, you got to use rank choice voting. we clearly saw the impact of electoral reform. advocates are celebrating. maybe true partisans are saying, we re not sure about going in this direction. that s what you saw. you saw the state of alaska say, we want to elect a state-wide republican senator and a statewide democratic member of
like marie yovanovich under threat of her life and people like colonel vinman and his twin brother and so many others. i remember vividly, i write about this, all the faux outrage in the senate during the trial when i made reference to a cbs story that those that cross the president might find their heads on pikes. immediately after the trial there were all kinds of heads on pikes. all sorts of retaliation. it inspired the protection of whistle-blowers, the protection of inspector generals. one of our reform packages in addition to the two you mentioned, protecting our democracy act is our own broad set of post watergate reforms designed to protect those abuses. those were apparently necessary as a result of the last few years. where is that? is there a head of steam behind that?
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