Brian Nienaber

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35 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 5 Feb

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Marketplace All-in-One · What do American families really care about right now? · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

I think a lot of it is, you know, one is sort of Congress's

As I think something mentioned, it's much more challenging to get things done now than it even was 10 or 15 years ago.

You know, I think there's a lot.

I worked in the Senate for a long time with Mike DeWine.

And I remember, you know, him working with Paul Wellstone and working with Ted Kennedy and working with, you know, whoever kind of meet him in the middle on things.

And he was he had a large family.

He was big on promoting, you know, safety and children's issues.

And when he found somebody who would work with him, he'd work with them.

It didn't matter how much they disagreed on other votes.

And I think we've lost a little bit of that, that there are members now that are much more interested in kind of headlines and press clips and maybe aren't as focused on the policy part of it.

And that becomes challenging when you try and sort of build a coalition about it.

And so I think there's an enormous number of members who –

do kind of, you know, grind into Congress every day and grind into the Senate every day and want to get things done.

But just the extremes who want to just, you know, make sure they get on cable news every night or make sure they get, you know, good social media outcome every night.

And that makes it really challenging to get things done.

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