CD035: Energy & Water

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2013

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Most of this episode is dedicated to the Energy & Water funding bill that passed the House of Representatives; however, the House also pulled a fast one this week, passing a 608-page agriculture bill that was available for public-reading for less than one day. Links to Information in This Episode Intro Music: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Music: After the Flood by William Brooks David Seaman's Indiegogo fundraiser for Rise, his new morning news show Congressional Dish summary of H.R. 2609 "Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014" Status and text of H.R. 2609 from GovTrack Appropriations Committee report that explains the reasoning behind the funding levels in H.R. 2609 Status and text of H.R. 2642, the 608-page bill that was passed in less than one day Republicans promised to prohibit votes on bills that haven't been posted online for 72 hours. The problems in Kettleman City, California. Current United States drought conditions Flooding is happening in the Midwest in 2013 What are small modular nuclear reactors? Japan confirms that Fukushima has been leaking radioactive chemicals into the ocean for two years The Mark Sanchez Butt Fumble Representatives Quoted in this Episode Speaker of the House, John Boehner of Ohio Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts

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0:00.0	I am so damn tired of being like to. I don't think I can't deny it.
0:07.0	I'm so damn tired of being like to.
0:10.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
0:19.0	You can't stick to your story if you think it flies.
0:28.0	But I'm not gonna buy it anymore.
0:32.0	Hey there. Anymore.
0:37.0	Hey there, Congressional dish listeners, welcome to the 35th episode. I'm your host Jennifer Briny.
0:39.0	And I especially want to welcome anyone who has discovered this show in the last couple of weeks
0:44.1	from the David Seaman podcast. Those of you who did listen to those episodes you'll
0:49.3	know that I have agreed to become the new congressional correspondent for David's new morning news
0:54.8	show which will be broadcast every day over the internet. He's currently
0:58.4	fundraising for that so go and check him out on Twitter you can get links to that that fundraising campaign if
1:04.6	you want to help make that a reality, but I'm really excited about that and
1:07.4	go and check out those episodes if you haven't already. But on to this week in the House, which is what I cover here on Congressional dish.
1:16.1	I focus specifically on the House of Representatives because that's our branch of the government,
1:21.7	really. There was a time where we didn't even get to
1:24.3	vote for the Senate, but the House has always been ours and we don't pay nearly
1:28.3	enough attention to them. So what I do is I read the bills that pass the House of
1:31.9	Representatives and tell you what's in them.
1:34.0	And then often I go off on tangents and give you extra information and today's definitely one of those days.
1:41.0	But this week was ridiculous. They tricked me again, which I have been doing this now
1:48.2	since, I mean, committedly since January. And every week I would go and look on Monday morning
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