Sen. Raphael Warnock
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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Thanks to the ways in which our system is awash in money,
Even when people, ordinary people on the left and the right agree, we can't get the things done.
Like there is more agreement between ordinary people on the left and the right, say on an issue like gun safety.
Right.
then our politics and what we've been able to pass would suggest... Fox News polls said 87% of Americans want universal background checks as we watch our children being massacred on any random day in America.
And yet we can't even get a vote on that in Congress?
Well, the prophet Isaiah...
who's the basis for this sermon that's become this book.
In the very first chapter, Nicole, Isaiah says, your princes, and by that he means politicians.
He says, your princes are rebels, companions with thieves.
Everyone is seeking a bribe.
They're all chasing after gifts.
They do not hear the concerns of the orphan and the concerns of the widow does not come before them.
He could have been talking about 21st century America, dark money, saying that literally because your princes are on the tape.
Someone else controls them.
And so widows and orphans, those would have been the folks who were the most marginalized in the society, the people who would need SNAP, the people who would need a little help getting some health care.
He said that their concerns don't come before you.
Because you're being controlled by bribes.
And we have a system of legalized bribery in our country.
I was proud of the fact that because I got elected, Democrats passed a bill in 2022 to finally give Medicare the ability to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.
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