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Rep. Mondaire Jones on Starting Out in Congress
U.S. Representative Mondaire Jones (D-NY17, Rockland County and part of Westchester County) talks about his first weeks in Congress in the wake of the attack and amid the pandemic, as the Biden administration gets underway. Where do his progressive politics fit in with the Democratic-controlled Congress?