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Andy Wright

Partner at K&L Gates co-leading its congressional investigations practice, and Senior Fellow and Founding Editor of Just Security; former Associate Counsel to President Obama.

Nov 6, 2026

5:59
What are the pitfalls of lack of coordination? How does those pieces fit together, do you think?
6:06
Yeah, no, it's a really good question.
6:07
And it's complicated and politically difficult to do.
6:12
So, you know, Congress is, I don't want to shock you, it's not a super command and control place.
6:18
There are certain areas where there's like procedural authority and it's very partisan and everyone gets in line.
6:23
But for the most part, you know, it's a power sharing relationship between a leader who relies on on membership to elect them, and then those folks also have leadership on committees.
6:35
So they have to hammer out these agreements based on the jurisdiction of the committees, the interests of the members involved, and then the need for coordination that's being sort of sold by leadership from the speaker's office or the majority leader on the Senate side.

15 MINS LATER

22:15
Yeah, well,

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