Talking Spirituality with Rep Emanuel Cleaver

We're talking baseball today, ahead of this week's annual Congressional Baseball Game. Team Manager Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA 18th District) is careful not to give away any strategy, but he does share how this fundraiser brings Washington together every year.

Representative Emanuel Cleaver has represented Missouri's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005. A United Methodist pastor and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Cleaver discusses the role of spirituality in public life and how he finds balance.

Representative Grace Meng of New York's 6th congressional district joins the podcast to share her perspective on recent violence and hate crimes targeting our Asian American Pacific Islander community.

Former members of Congress - Charlie Dent (Republican representative for Pennsylvania's 15th district) and Donna Edwards (Democratic representative for Maryland's 4th district) - discuss the current state of political bipartisanship and where it's leading us.

Chelsea Parsons, Vice President of Gun Violence Prevention at the Center for American Progress, is an expert on gun policy and the criminal justice system. She joins Congressman Huffman to discuss the driving forces behind gun violence in America and what can be done to stem the tide.

Congressman Huffman is joined by Erwin Chemerinsky, constitutional scholar and Dean of Berkeley Law, and Thomas McInerney, former San Anselmo mayor and an elector in the 2020 Electoral College. The discussion focuses on the dubious origins of the Electoral College and possible democratic remedies to our presidential electoral process.

In this virtual town hall–recorded live on June 16, 2020–includes Representative Karen Bass, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Dr. Curtis Robinson, President of the Marin County Board of Education, and writer and teacher Marshall Carr.

Epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant assisted in the World Health Organization's eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. Congressman Huffman speaks with Dr. Brilliant about our current efforts to control the spread of Covid-19.

Denis Hayes - Founder of the Earth Day Network and coordinator of the first Earth Day - joins the podcast to discuss the history and future of environmentalism.

Ernie Bergman, Mill Valley resident and Vietnam War veteran, and Erica Fein, Advocacy Director at Win Without War, join the podcast to discuss Congress's efforts to rein in the executive branch's war powers.