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Radio: James Wallner on Infrastructure, The Filibuster, and More

by James Wallner

April 27, 2021

issues: Federal Government Affairs, Governance, Restoring the First Branch

originally published in Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson

The R Street Institute’s James Wallner is here to tell us what’s going on with infrastructure and other hot political topics.

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