Ira Shapiro:
Is the Fever Breaking? What lies ahead for the US Senate and Representative Democracy?
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Ira Shapiro is among the foremost experts on the United States Senate in the country - and a regular friend of the podcast. In this podcast Ira shares not only his observations on the current state of the Senate but also some ideas for fixing these problems.
His latest book The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America details the ways in which the Senate has gone astray in recent years.
Ira began his relationship with the Senate as an aid to the legendary Jacob Javitts and was involved during that time in the 70s when the giants of the US Senate joined together to convince Richard Nixon to resign, rather than being impeached.
Ira Shapiro is the President of Ira Shapiro Global Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in international trade, U.S.-Japan relations, and American politics, which he founded in 2014. He brings to the firm 40 years of experience in senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate, the Clinton administration, and private law practice. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis, published in 2012. He has also written "Broken - Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?" and most recently, his newest book: "The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America"
The Betrayal
The Last Great Senate
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