Facing The Future | New Speaker...Same Problem
b'This week on\\xa0Facing the Future,\\xa0we begin with a status check on the stalled appropriations process on Capitol Hill now that a new Speaker of the House has been selected by the Republican caucus. Our guest for that segment is Tom Kahn who served as Democratic House Budget Committee staff director from 1997 to 2016. He now teaches budget policy at American University in Washington.\\n\\nThen we\\u2019ll talk with Richard Coffin, Chief of Research and Advocacy at USA Facts, a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic initiative that makes government data easy for all Americans to access and understand. That\\u2019s certainly a useful mission for anyone interested in things like the nation\\u2019s fiscal challenges.'