CD043: Nothin’

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2013

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, after Russia took the Syria vote off the House schedule, the House did not fund the government for 2014 despite their September 30th deadline. In this episode, we look at what they did instead. Links to Information in This Episode Intro and Exit Music: by (found on ) President Obama's speech from Tuesday, September 10th regarding Syria: and Music: Get Out of Our House by (found on ) Incorrect assertion that the is already extended was made by , , and The that prompted the lazy news organizations above to report the fake extension House spending bill was this week; it did not get voted on to become Louisiana's Secretary of Veteran's affairs : The "Denali National Park Improvement Act" allows permits for small hydroelectric projects and a natural gas pipeline to cut through an Alaska national park. , lead sponsor of S. 157, has taken over $720,000 from electric utilities and over $670,000 from the oil & gas industry , Alaska's only Representative and person credited with pushing S. 157 through the House, has taken almost $1.2 million from the oil & gas industry Thank you for clicking this link to buy President Obama's extending the National Emergency from 9/11/01 Representatives Quoted in This Episode

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0:00.0	And the I am so damn tired of being lied to.
0:15.0	I am so damn tired of being lied to.
0:20.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
0:27.0	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 fellow irritated Americans.
0:50.0	This is your host Jennifer Briny and welcome to the 43rd episode of Congressional dish.
0:55.0	For those of you who are new to this show, I read all the bills that passed the House of Representatives and I let you know what's in them.
1:01.0	This week should have been a busy week. See
1:04.6	September 30th is a big deadline. It's the deadline for our Congress to fund the
1:08.6	entire government. This is actually their entire job and you can probably tell by my irritation that clearly didn't happen this week
1:16.5	So this is how this is supposed to go government funding the details of how the government's going to be funded is worked out by the House Appropriations Committee.
1:25.0	There are 12 subcommittees and each of those subcommittees covers a different topic.
1:30.0	Each subcommittee is supposed to come up with a funding bill that gets passed by the whole appropriations committee.
1:36.0	Those 12 different bills then go to the House floor and get voted on by all our representatives.
1:41.0	These bills then go to the Senate where the Senate can either approve them or edit them.
1:46.7	If the Senate approves them, they go to the President's desk to be signed.
1:49.8	If the Senate decides to edit them, the bills are brought to a conference with the House so the differences can be worked. The Senate
1:55.0	decides to edit them, the bills are brought to a conference with the House so the differences can be worked out. The bill that emerges from the conference then goes back to the House and Senate to be voted on.
2:00.0	When the conference bill passes both chambers of Congress,
2:02.0	then it goes to the
2:03.4	president's desk to be signed. It's quite a process, which is why they get a full
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