Off The Cuff With Jared Huffman

We're talking baseball today, ahead of this week's annual Congressional Baseball Game. Team Manager Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA 18th District) is careful not to give away any strategy, but he does share how this fundraiser brings Washington together every year.

Representative Emanuel Cleaver has represented Missouri's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005. A United Methodist pastor and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Cleaver discusses the role of spirituality in public life and how he finds balance.

Representative Grace Meng of New York's 6th congressional district joins the podcast to share her perspective on recent violence and hate crimes targeting our Asian American Pacific Islander community.

Former members of Congress - Charlie Dent (Republican representative for Pennsylvania's 15th district) and Donna Edwards (Democratic representative for Maryland's 4th district) - discuss the current state of political bipartisanship and where it's leading us.

Chelsea Parsons, Vice President of Gun Violence Prevention at the Center for American Progress, is an expert on gun policy and the criminal justice system. She joins Congressman Huffman to discuss the driving forces behind gun violence in America and what can be done to stem the tide.

Congressman Huffman is joined by Erwin Chemerinsky, constitutional scholar and Dean of Berkeley Law, and Thomas McInerney, former San Anselmo mayor and an elector in the 2020 Electoral College. The discussion focuses on the dubious origins of the Electoral College and possible democratic remedies to our presidential electoral process.