CD036: Factory Farm Bill

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2013

⏱️ 32 minutes

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During the week of July 10-11, the House of Representatives passed a funding bill for agriculture programs which had only been available to read for 20 hours. In this episode, we take a closer look at what was in that surprise bill. Links to Information in This Episode Intro and Exit Music: by (found on ) : The original Farm Bill which failed to pass the House in mid-June : The Factory Farm Bill, which passed the House on July 11, 2013. : The Factory Farm Bill TITLE I: Commodities programs TITLE X: Crop Insurance Paige McClanahan published by The Guardian, July 19, 2012 Music: by (found on ) Representatives Quoted in This Episode During the week of July 10-11, the House of Representatives passed a funding bill for agriculture programs which had only been available to read for 20 hours. In this episode, we take a closer look at what was in that surprise bill. Links to Information in This Episode Intro and Exit Music: Tired of Being […]

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0:00.0	And the I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:15.0	I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:20.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
0:27.0	You can't stick to your story.
0:31.0	You can't stick to your story if you think it flies
0:40.0	But I'm not going to buy it anymore.
0:45.0	Hello congressional dish listeners and welcome to the 36th episode of
0:49.3	Congressional dish. I'm your host Jennifer Briny.
0:51.7	And as promised last week this episode is going to be
0:54.8	about the factory Farm Bill which is the surprise Farm Bill that was
0:58.8	introduced out of nowhere in the middle of last week. For those of you that are new to this show,
1:04.4	I cover the House of Representatives.
1:06.7	The name of the show is Congressional Dish,
1:08.4	and sometimes I'll tell you what's going on in the Senate.
1:10.6	But what I'm doing is I'm reading all the bills that pass the House of Representatives and let you know what's in them. And the reason that I pick the House is, well, one reason is that the Senate gets plenty of coverage in the mainstream media. It's pretty easy to find out what they're doing. But the house is largely
1:24.6	ignored, at least the details are, and the house is our house. It's supposed to represent
1:29.7	the people and we've let it get completely out of control, so I want us to know exactly what's going on in there.
1:34.4	Now what's been going on in the house over the past couple of months is that now that the
1:38.2	sun is out and the kids are out of school and all of us are distracted the house is
1:41.8	passing one huge funding bill after another, after another,
1:46.1	and I quite frankly can't keep up.
1:48.1	And so I am now officially behind on the schedule.
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