Content warning: The following episode contains discussions of rape and abortion. Listener discretion advised.

On this episode of Under the Dome for the week of Dec. 19, 2022, News & Observer politics reporter Dawn Vaughan talks with Sen. Jim Perry, a Kinston, NC Republican, about his views about legislation on Medicaid expansion, abortion, the state budget and more looking ahead to the 2023 legislative session. Plus how he became a senator, what he knows about Rep. John Bell, and Perry and Vaughan's picks for Headliner of the Week.

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