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Mark, Matt, and Josh discuss special rules, leaders’ power, budgets, funding, McCarthy, the debt ceiling, and whatever else popped into Mark’s head. https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/March-2023-podcast.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (41.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | More
Senior Fellow Josh Huder sits down with political parties scholar Dave Hopkins to discuss what has changed and not changed in the Republican and Democratic parties. Dave is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College and author of multiple books, including Asymmetric Politics (coauthored with Matt Grossman) and
Laura and Matt are joined by Georgetown Law Professor Josh Chafetz to discuss congressional oversight, the importance of the type of oversight some people decry as mere “theater,” and upcoming high-profile oversight issues in the118th Congress. https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Dave-Hopkins-2-3-23.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (44.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | More
Mark, Matt, and Josh discuss the start of the 118th Congress in the Senate and the House. Emphasis on the House Speaker’s race and the implications on for the year! https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Pod-1-9-23-mixed.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (50.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | More
The Congress: Two Beers In crew ditch beer for bourbon as they discuss what happened in the 117th Congress. They also opine on the new Republican majority in the House, whether a Speaker will be elected on January 3, and the effects of an expanded Democratic majority in the Senate.
Gingrich Transforms the Party and Congress Professor Matt Green joins Laura and Josh to talk about his new book (with Jeff Crouch): Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur. Gingrich is contextualized in the ways he did -and didn’t- act as a congressional change agent. https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Matt-Green-podcast-11-1-22-Gingrich-book-MP3.mp3Podcast:
Josh and Matt are joined by political scientist and Bloomberg Opinion writer Jonathan Bernstein. We talk about the January 6th investigation, the committee’s presentations, American democracy, Watergate, House leadership, and several other topics that didn’t make it into this description. https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Episode-53-Two-Beers-In-Jon-Bernstein.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (57.0MB)Subscribe: RSS |
Josh and Mark are joined by James Wallner, senior fellow at the R Street Institute and lecturer at Clemson University, to discuss why the Senate is doing a lot and nothing all at the same time. https://media.blubrry.com/twobeersin/gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Episode-51-Two-Beers-In-Wallner.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (52.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | More
Mark and Matt are joined by 30-year Hill veteran and former staff director of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Jason Steinbaum to discuss the role of Congress in foreign policy.
Mark and Matt chat with Sue Lagon about the upcoming Supreme Court nomination, and also discuss the “framework” deal for FY22 appropriations.
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