The Happy Spring Congressional Dish. This is your host Jennifer Briny and welcome to the

22nd episode. In this week's episode I'm going to go over the bills passed by the house.

Don't get too excited.

There weren't very many of them.

But the two that were passed were pretty interesting,

so I'll cover those in detail with lots of clips from the House itself.

I've had a technological breakthrough that allows me to present a lot more to you guys

than just what happens on the floor of the House of Representatives, so I'm pretty excited.

Stay tuned for that.

But before we get started with what happened in the House this week,

I just want to let you know that this episode is only going to be half an hour long.

I'll explain to you in full detail why that is at the end of this

episode but just be prepared that I'm going to be changing a few things that you

might have gotten used to if you're a regular listener but let's not waste any

more time on this type of stuff. Let's get to the bills.

First up, HR 678.

Where there's a wheel, there's a way.

Where there's an oil well, there's a will there's a way where there is an oil well there's a better way and I'm not trying to be radical at all

But there's a bill to be paid and from the looks of it I'm afraid it's going to be paid by our

children and their children and their children. Now the first of the two significant bills that was passed by the House

this week was H.R. 678 and this bill authorizes the Bureau of Reclamation to approve private hydropower projects on waterways owned by the federal government.

Now that might sound a little complicated, but essentially what it is is you take an existing waterway, so let's say a canal that was built

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