In Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day episode, Civil Beat’s chief political writer, Chad Blair, and Washington, D.C., reporter, Michael Levine, ponder if Congress is phoning it in on the sequestration debate. And how thankful are Kirk Caldwell and Dan Inouye this holiday weekend now that the feds are poised to give $1.55 billion to Hawaii for the rail project.

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