Sen. Brian Schatz and why Senate Democrats are walking on eggshells

POLITICO Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza interviews Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) to talk the next bill on the Democrats’ agenda, whether or not Democrats will have to go around Republicans to get anything done and what his philosophy degree can tell us about this moment. Come for the policy, stay for the Kant*.

*Actually it was the German poet Novalis (formally Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg) who said “Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.” There’s your trivia for the week.

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