CD007: The Realities of Solar Power

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

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🗓️ 15 December 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Doing nothing, literally, is planned until 12/28 and a special guest helps filter fact from fiction in regards to solar power. *Correction from CD004: failed this week. 1 million Primatene Mist (manufactured by Armstrong Pharmaceuticals) inhalers in a CA warehouse Primatene Mist and all other inhalers with ozone-depleting chemicals have been off the market for 11 months Needed 2/3 aye votes to pass because it was brought up under "suspension" : Extra "work" days during the holidays will be filled with fluff (passed House) Gives the House GOP the authority to bring up suspension bills until December 28th Suspension bills = insignificant bills that generally pass with a voice vote = time wasters (passed House) Banks will only have to send a notice if they change their policy Saves banks money * Conferees chosen to work on the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) The House and Senate will be merging their bills into one to be sent to the President. Vote possible next week. Interview: Special guest Joe Briney, commercial solar power engineer, discusses the solar industry.

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0:00.0	The Oh, Goodes, my amigos, my amigos, this is Jennifer Briney and welcome to the latest edition of
0:32.2	Congressional Dish.
0:34.2	As has become routine, this week marked another week
0:37.1	where Congress did almost nothing.
0:40.7	And a lot of that has to do with the fiscal cliff. Now there's a lot of news if you can
0:47.4	call it that about the negotiations in the fiscal cliff but nothing has been
0:52.2	determined so there is no news to
0:54.9	report as far as the fiscal cliff negotiations are concerned but the
0:58.9	strategy there's actually some really interesting things happening based on the Republican strategy.
1:03.7	And what's happening is that they are doing absolutely nothing with the time that they
1:08.9	were scheduled to be in session so that this fiscal cliff crisis which they're manufacturing goes
1:15.3	right up to the deadline and that's their way of trying to force the president and
1:19.2	the Democrats hand. The reason that they're doing this is that it's worked in the
1:22.4	past. This is how the Bush tax cuts were extended the first time.
1:27.0	So it's a strategy that's worked for them and is incredibly obvious based on what they're doing this week.
1:33.0	Now on Tuesday they passed a resolution and this was passed by the majority of the Republicans.
1:40.0	The Democrats were not supportive of this. and here's Democrat Jim McGovern of
1:45.2	Massachusetts to explain what exactly this resolution was. The bill that we are
1:49.6	talking about right now on the House floor basically gives the majority who run this house
1:56.4	the authority to bring up suspension bills from now until December 28th.
2:00.6	Suspension bills, for those who don't know, are bills really of not much consequence, by
2:06.1	and large.
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