Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) | Bipartisanship #PolicyTalks
Channel: Ford School of Public Policy
Date: 2023-05-16

Question from Michael S. Barr, the former Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy:

I know you spend a lot of time working on these relationships across the aisle, you had a very close relationship with Senator McCain. You have a group of senators, you get a lot of stuff done with behind the scenes, but the public mostly doesn't see any of the bipartisanship, they just see the clash. Is there something we could do to build a better foundation for the bipartisan work you wanna do and change the nature of the public conversation so that we began as a country to be able to listen to each other again and to learn from each other and to talk with each other in a way that might allow us to hear each other? It's such a fundamental challenge.

A Policy Talks @ the Ford School and Vandenberg Lecture event.