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Congressional Dish

CD033: Let's Deepwater Drill

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Government, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the House of Representatives tries to approve ultra-deepwater drilling in the "Western Gap": The middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Links to Information in This Episode Song: The Oil Spill song by Steve Clark Congressional Dish summary of H.R. 1613: The Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act Text of H.R. 1613 Jamie Dupree: The guy who told me that the NDAA is not a funding bill How ultra-deepwater drilling is done The Bubba shrimp scene from Forrest Gump "Gulf oil spill's effects still has seafood industry nervious" - Craig Pittman, TampaBay.com, April 13, 2013 "Empty nets in Louisiana three years after the spill" - Matt Smith, CNN, April 29, 2013 Where is the Western Gap? "U.S., Mexico Sign Deal on Oil Drilling in Gulf - Tom Fowler, Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2012 Existing leases in the Western Gap area The Trans Pacific Partnership: The creepy free trade agreement Hillary Clinton promoted as Secretary of State Representatives Quoted in This Episode Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington Rep. Matt Salmon of Arizona Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon Rep. Maxine Waters of California

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Well, I heard our president say it would just the other day, what as offshore drill it got to do with fishing anyway.

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A torch a little spill will make the fishing better than before.

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You won't have to go out in the boat.

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They'll all wash up on shore so let them drill let up spill

0:28.0

why just think of all those nast

0:32.0

hey there congressional dish listeners welcome to the 33rd episode of Congressional

0:35.6

Dish.

0:36.6

I'm your host Jennifer Briny.

0:37.8

For those of you who have never heard this show before, the basic idea is that I'm reading the

0:41.7

bills that pass the House of Representatives

0:43.6

and letting you know what's in them. Thank you for listening. Now as for this

0:48.3

week those of you who listened last week there wasn't much on the schedule and one of the things that I was

0:55.0

afraid of considering it's been one appropriations bill after another after

0:58.7

another was that I would show up to my desk on Monday morning and there would be

1:02.2

an appropriations bill sitting there for me.

1:04.4

And when I showed up at my desk on Monday morning, there was an appropriations bill.

1:10.0

This one was for the FDA and it covered food stamps and a lot of stuff that was actually in the farm bill, so I'm kind of confused.

1:18.0

And I spent way too much time reading that bill because it never even came up this week. So I learned a

1:26.7

little lesson here in that I probably shouldn't jump ahead of Congress and

1:31.7

read really long bills not knowing if they're actually going to take

1:34.8

them up, which has been kind of confusing because most of the time every single bill that shows

1:39.7

up on the House schedule has been voted on. This is the first time that something that was on the

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