CD084: Corporations Win the Midterm Election

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

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🗓️ 6 November 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this episode, the Republicans won control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. A press conference by soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gives us an idea of what they intend to do with their new power. Please support Congressional Dish: to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Information Presented in this Episode Mitch McConnell's press conference on November 5, 2014, the day after the midterm election. United States Election Project estimate of voter turnout in the 2014 midterm election. Jim Crow Returns: Millions of Minority Voters Threatened by Electoral Purge, Al Jazeera, October 2014. Where Are the Millennials? Midterm Voters Skew Old, NBC News, November 2014. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="520"] 88% of young people didn't vote in 2014.[/caption] Information Presented in This Episode Intro and Exit Music: by (found on by mevio)

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0:00.0	I am so damn tired of being like too. I don't think I can't deny it anymore. more.
0:23.0	You can stick to your story if you think it flies.
0:28.0	But I'm not going to buy it.
0:31.0	But I'm not going to buy it anymore.
0:37.5	Good morning everybody.
0:39.2	This is Jennifer Briny, host of Congressional Dish.
0:41.5	Thanks for checking out the 84th episode this is
0:44.1	going to be the episode about last night's election results last night was the
0:49.1	midterm election and the Republicans who in the last episode I told you everything that they did in the
0:56.3	113th most of it was horrible they not only got a bigger majority in the House but
1:01.6	they also took over the Senate. So this is going to be an
1:06.9	interesting few years here for for your host to Miss Jennifer who is in charge of reading all of the the bills that they pass so I'm
1:16.4	I'm definitely gonna talk about that in this episode I'm gonna go from bad to good
1:21.9	because it's occurred to me that this podcast has the chance of being the most
1:26.0	depressing podcast that has ever existed for the next two years and I'm going to do everything
1:30.0	I can to make that not true, at least everything in my power. So we're going to go from bad
1:35.4	news to good news. And there's a lot of bad news. But we're going to talk about a lot of things in this episode. It's not going to be a very long episode, but yeah, that's what this is.
1:48.6	But before I get into any of the election stuff, I need to apologize and let you guys know that I made a huge like
1:56.5	colossal I can't believe I did that kind of fuck up at the end of the last
2:01.5	episode the last episode number 83 was the one where I
2:05.3	summarized the most important things that happened in the 113th Congress and it was
2:09.2	it was supposed to be my masterpiece and it was actually a lot harder than I expected it to be because
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