# Hour 1: The Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to advance a Republican-backed congressional map

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Podcast: [Newell Normand](https://stenobird.com/podcast/newell-normand-2482167)
Published: 2026-05-13T15:55:21+00:00
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## Resource

This hour, Newell addresses the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee, voting 4-3 along party lines to advance a Republican-backed congressional map that eliminates one of the state's two majority-Black, Democratic-leaning districts. Then, Michael Austin, Project 21 Ambassador at the National Center for Public Policy Research & Professor of Economics at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, joins the show to speculate on what may come of the meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping.

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