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New in the House: Rep. Delgado; Voting Reform in New York; What to Expect from Tech in 2019; Calling for the End of Life Sentences

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi administers the oath to members of the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019.

 

Coming up on today's show:

  • U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19, Upstate New York, including the Hudson Valley and Catskills), talks about his first weeks in Congress and the latest news from Capitol Hill.
  • New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie (D 20th, Brooklyn) talks about proposals to reform New York's voting laws.
  • Brian X. Chen, lead consumer technology writer and author of the Tech Fix column for The New York Times, previews the year ahead in tech.
  • The Sentencing Project’s executive director Marc Mauer and senior research analyst Ashley Nellis, co-authors of The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences (The New Press, 2018), argue against any sentence longer than 20 years.