CD030: Military Construction & Anti-Biotics

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, a look at the House's 2014 military construction and veterans funding bill's first-draft and then examine whether it's wise to continue a system that fast-tracks applications for animal anti-biotics. Links to Information in this Episode Music: "In Your Name" by (found on ) : Funding for military construction and the Department of Veteran's Affairs of President Obama's May 23, 2013 speech on national defense to National Defense University in Washington, D.C of President Obama's speech of the strategy allowed in Section 123 that transfers expired funds to the “Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense” account so that it can magically become unexpired : The privatization of their government for the benefit of U.S. corporations leaving Iraqi industries - including cement - to watch and go broke (by ) Music: from the (score by ) : "Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Re-authorization Act of 2013" Thom Hartmann segment on the consequences of factory farming from January 2013 Music: " by () : "The Safeguarding America's Pharmaceuticals Act of 2013" Representatives Featured in this Episode (in order of appearance)

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0:00.0	And the Hey there, friends, family, loyal listeners and new listeners. This is Jennifer Briny and
0:22.4	welcome to the 30th episode of Congressional Dish. Thank you so much for
0:26.8	tuning in. For those of you who are new, this show is just a girl reading the bills that are passing the House of Representatives
0:34.8	and letting you know what's in them. I am not a lobbyist. I am not a Congresswoman.
0:41.6	I am not someone who is connected in any way to anyone with any kinds of power.
0:48.0	I'm just a citizen who's sick and tired of not knowing what's going on and so I started reading the bills and I found
0:54.1	some really fascinating stuff and now I'm doing a podcast about it.
0:58.0	So last week or not last week two weeks ago because last week I took a week off.
1:04.0	But two weeks ago I told you guys I was having some technical problems and
1:07.4	they turned out to be much bigger than I thought.
1:09.8	Essentially all the equipment that I've been using is pieces of crap to be honest.
1:14.8	So I didn't really work that out.
1:17.1	I bought a whole bunch of new stuff which should be coming next week so one more week of
1:21.8	this tin can sounding situation, but it's fine.
1:25.4	You're here for the information, right?
1:26.9	Not microphone quality.
1:28.7	But I did get to work one thing out, and I'm really, really excited about this.
1:32.0	And that is that I now have a
1:34.0	voicemail number for you guys to call and leave feedback, leave your opinions
1:39.2	and get on the show. Now when you call this number and you leave a message and I say this on the message you're you're giving me permission to use it on the show but I want to hear your voices
1:50.1	I know that I have people all over the country and I want to talk to you. I mean I named this
1:56.0	congressional dish and so far I've I'm doing the Congress stuff but the dish part the
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