- 75
- Episodes
- 31
- Transcribed
- 31
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Understanding Congress
Congress is the least liked and perhaps least understood part of government. But it’s vital to our constitutional government. Congress is the only branch equipped to work through our diverse nation’s disagreements and decide on the law. To better understand the First Branch, join host Kevin Kosar and guests as they explain its infrastructure, culture, procedures, history, and more.
- Publisher
- AEI Podcasts
- Category
- government · history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
31 of 75 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Happens If Congress Gets Blown Up? (with John Fortier)
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Are We Being Too Hard on Congress (with Kevin R. Kosar)
3 Aug 2026
How Can the Average American Influence a Member of Congress? (with Brad Fitch)
Inside a recent episode
What Happens If Congress Gets Blown Up? (with John Fortier)
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The primary issue is, unlike the Senate, there is no way to replace a deceased member of Congress and the House of Representatives quickly. You have to have a special election. Those elections take, we calculated on average, a number of months. It's hard to speed it up too much. And you can imagine that, A, one possibility is maybe there's so many members dead that you don't even have a quorum to proceed. And there's some arguments about what the quorum is, but the Constitution says it's a majority. Or you have just a body that is very decimated and doesn't look anything like the body before. So the big Republican majority now turns out to be 20 members of the House from the other party or from one state, or looks kind of illegitimate. […]
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- John Fortier
- Brad Fitch
- Matthew Dull
- SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor
- Stephanie Bice
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 23 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100
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- Quality
- 48
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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