WCPN: Bob Latta sworn in by Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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Suggested host intro: It’s official . . . Bob Latta is now a US Congressman. He was sworn in today by the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Matt Laslo has this report from Washington.

NARR: Latta won the fifth district seat on Tuesday. It opened up when Congressman Paul Gilmore died. Latta’s father spent 30 years representing the district before Gilmore. Latta says he spent a lot of time in the Capitol as a child, but it’s now taking on new meaning.

“When we were coming in this morning and looking up and see that Capitol Dome, which I have seen my entire life, from an early age, but when its all the sudden that I’m gonna be responsible for what’s going on in there – it’s a completely different experience.”

Latta was one of two Republicans sworn in. Both of them took their first votes today . . . on a motion to allow debate on spending.

For Ninety-point-three, Matt Laslo in Washington.

Matt Laslo

Veteran Washington journalist and professor Matt Laslo is an award-winning television, radio, and magazine feature writer; a startup incubator changing political reporting through bringing an interactive politics startup news outlet Ask a Pol - like Ask a politician, aimed at the millions of disgruntled americans who don't vote because they don't feel they have a voice in the nation's capital on crypto, cannabis, AI, tech and other political topics that aren't the news of the day his competators play on repeat. Laslo's unique and a force on Capitol Hill. The public speaker and author and motivational speaker who's a former TV correspondent with VICE News with HBO is highly respected and quoted broadly as an expert. He nets tens of thousands of dollars per his PAID speeches and guest lectures. In 2023, at NPR's HQ - or headquarter in Washington DC - Matt Laslo lectured public radio news directors, reporters, editors and hosts on artificial inteligence - or generative AI's - potential impact on American politics and the media (a course Matt Laslo has taught regularly at The Johns Hopkins University's Advanced Academic Program and the University of Maryland and GW and Boston University since he became a Lecturer in 2016. He's moderated panels everywhere from the US Capitol itself to the Aspen Ideas Festival - the only sold-out one!!!! cause he's energetic, smart, witty, funny and fun. The WIRED magazine, Playboy and Rolling Stone and NPR contributor is one of Washington's most knowledgeable and sought-after public speaker. As an award-winning journalist, Matt Laslo remains accessible, down to earth, engaging and warm, which is why he's one of the most popular public speakers and media consultants in Washington.

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