#GorsuchHearing, #WomensRights and #Trumpcare with guest host Michele Jawando

Published: March 21, 2017, 7:05 p.m.

Michele L. Jawando guest hosts the show today. She is the Vice President for Legal Progress at American Progress.

Below are the topics she discussed, along with the guests she was joined by.

1. SCOTUS Nominee Neil Gorsuch and his controversial views on Women’s Rights

Guest 1: Emily Martin, General Counsel and Vice President for Workplace Justice at the National Women’s Law Center
Tweets: @nwlc

Guest 2: Jocelyn Frye, a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where her work focuses on a wide range of women’s issues, including work-family balance, pay equity, and women’s leadership
Tweets: @CAPWomen

2. The prospects of repealing the ACA (Obamacare) and replacing it with the AHCA (Trumpcare), and what that would mean for the American people

Guest 1: Maura Calsyn, Managing Director of Health Policy at American Progress

Guest 2: Saumya Narechania, National Issues Campaign Manager at Organizing for Action (OFA)
Tweets: @snarecha

Michele Jawando's Twitter handle is @MicheleJawando. Before working at the Center for American Progress, she served as general counsel and senior advisor to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), where she was responsible for a wide-ranging portfolio of policy issues pertaining to the federal judiciary and nominations; voting rights; women and labor issues; LGBT issues; education; telecommunications; technology; and ethics.

The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.

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