Checks and Balance: Camera operators - a podcast by The Economist

Congress is flexing its muscles. The new president needs to pass a bumperstimulus plan. The old one faces trial in the Senate.Stakesare high for both parties, as the leadership vies with fringe members ever more adept at hogging attention. How will the new Congress work?

We speak to Idrees Kahloon,The Economist’s Washington correspondent. Josh Holmes, a former aide to the Republican Senate leader, and Sarah Bryner of the Center for Responsive Politics also join.

John Prideaux, our US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, US digital editor.

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