Lea Salonga (Originally aired: April 26, 2017)

Lea Salonga (Originally aired: April 26, 2017)

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 734 , Segment 6

Episode: History of Government Shutdown, Brandon Sanderson, Make Your Face Look Younger

  • Jan 26, 2018
  • 21:39 mins

Guest: Lea Salonga, Tony Award-Winning Broadway Performer The Broadway revival of “Once On This Island” features the Lea Salonga as Erzulie, the goddess of love. Salonga is one of musical theater’s biggest stars and the voice of Disney princesses Jasmine and Mulan. But when we met up with her during a visit to BYU last spring, she was sitting on the edge of a folding chair in a room of aspiring performers. A few had been chosen to sing for her.

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The History of Shutdown Politics

19 MINS

Guests: Chris Karpowitz, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science, BYU; Grant Madsen, PhD, Assistant Professor, History BYU Two weeks from today we’ll be back in government shutdown watch mode, unless Republicans and Democrats have come to an agreement on spending and immigration by then. The three-day shutdown that happened over the past weekend was the first to occur with a single party controlling the White House and Congress. But it’s not as if U.S. leaders all the way back to George Washington have managed to pass a budget on time every year. It’s just that until fairly recently, the whole government did not shut down when Congress missed a budget deadline. So why does it happen now? And are we better off for it as a nation?

Guests: Chris Karpowitz, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science, BYU; Grant Madsen, PhD, Assistant Professor, History BYU Two weeks from today we’ll be back in government shutdown watch mode, unless Republicans and Democrats have come to an agreement on spending and immigration by then. The three-day shutdown that happened over the past weekend was the first to occur with a single party controlling the White House and Congress. But it’s not as if U.S. leaders all the way back to George Washington have managed to pass a budget on time every year. It’s just that until fairly recently, the whole government did not shut down when Congress missed a budget deadline. So why does it happen now? And are we better off for it as a nation?