Ben Sasse: NBC Interview September 9, 2018 (Meet The Press, 9 min)

I've Met One Sitting Senator

I have only met one sitting Senator for an extended one-on-one meeting - Sen. Ben Sasse, from whom I wrote a report on genomics reimbursement in 2008.   He read the report with care and we had a half-hour discussion on the topic in his office at HHS when he was an assistant secretary in the Bush administration.*  Recently trained as a PhD political scientist at Yale, I was impressed that Sasse had absorbed the white paper and had come to the meeting with a complete, detailed and insightful view of reimbursement issues in genomics -- an incredibly arcane area.

NBC's Ben Sasse Interview: September 2018

On September 9, 2018, NBC featured a nine-minute detailed interview with Sen. Sasse about current events and trends in Washington, including relationships between the Hill and the White House.  See the Youtube video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YismPN8AM

I've also put a PDF transcript of the interview in the cloud, here.  Sasse is interviewed by NBC's Chuck Todd.

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* As of September 2018, the 2008 Quinn report was still online at HHS.gov, here.  It is also stored in a separate cloud location here.