CD173: War & Prairie Chickens

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 125 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The law that funded the government for 2018 is 2,232 pages and Jen has finished reading a quarter of it. In this episode, learn about the most interesting provisions she found in the Department of Defense and environmental sections of the quickly passed funding law. Please Support Congressional Dish to contribute using credit card, debit card, PayPal, or Bitcoin 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! The 2018 Government Funding Law Read the latest Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD171: CD168: CD167: CD145: CD131: Additional Reading Report: by Colin Demarest, Aiken Standard, May 11, 2018. Statement: , National Nuclear Security Administration, May 10, 2018. Report: by Loveday Morris, Ruth Eglash, and Louisa Loveluck, The Washington Post, May 10, 2018. Article: in Syria by Laurent Lozano, Yahoo News, May 10, 2018. Report: by Isabel Kershner and David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, May 10, 2018. Article: by Sammy Fretwell, The State, May 10, 2018. Report: by Staff Reporst, The Augusta Chronicle, May 10, 2018. Article: , BBC News, May 9, 2018. Report: by Dan Williams and Angus McDowall, Reuters, May 9, 2018. Report: by Yochanan Visser, Israel Today, May 9, 2018. Article: by Rachel Christiansen, Nevada Public Radio, May 9, 2018. Report: by Zeina Karam, Time, May 8, 2018. Article: by David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, May 8, 2018. Analysis: by Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz, April 29, 2018. Report: by Ben Hubbard and David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, April 9, 2018. Article: by Colin Demarest, Aiken Standard, March 14, 2018. Report: , Office of Fossil Energy, March 8, 2018. Article: , Aljazeera, February 23, 2018. Article: by Barbara Opall-Rome, Defense News, February 12, 2018. Report: by TOI Staff and Agencies, The Times of Israel, February 11, 2018. Report: by Maayan Lubell and Lisa Barrington, Reuters, February 10, 2018. Report: by Donna Abu-Nasr and Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg, February 10, 2018. Article: by Ari Natter and Catherine Traywick, Bloomberg, February 8, 2018. Opinion: by Patrick Leahy, The New York Times, November 22, 2017. Article: by Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal, New York Times, November 16, 2017. Analysis: by Amos Harel, Haaretz, April 3, 2017. Article: by Gili Cohen and Almog Ben Zikri, Haaretz, March 19, 2017. Article: by Bethan McKernan, Independent, February 1, 2017. Article: by Robert Parkhurst, Environmental Defense Fund, December 13, 2016. Article: , The New York Times, February 9, 2016. Report: by Amitav Ranjan, The Indian Express, January 5, 2016. Article: by Sandra Fish, Aljazeera, December 13, 2013. Article: by Simon Black, Business Insider, March 29, 2012. Report: , CBS News, April 30, 2008. Report: by Reuters Staff, Reuters, December 8, 2007. Report: by Items copiled from Tribune news services, Chicago Tribune, February 15, 2006. Report: by Faisal Islam, The Guardian, February 15, 2003. Resources Bill: Bill: Bill: Bill: International Atomic Energy Agency: National Nuclear Security Administration: Office of Fossil Energy: Open Secrets: Open Secrets: Open Secrets: Open Secrets: Open Secrets: Press Release: Visual Resources Sound Clip Sources Hearing: ; Senate Foreign Relations Committee; October 30, 2017. 8:00 Chairman Bob Corker (TN): In his last War Powers Resolution letter to Congress, the president identified the following 19 countries where U.S. military personnel were deployed and equipped for combat: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Kenya, Niger, Cameroon, Uganda, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, Cuba, and Kosovo. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: by (found on by mevio)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:09.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
0:15.0	You can't stick to your story if you think it flies but I'm not going to buy it anymore.
0:31.0	Hello and thank you for listening to the hundred and seventy third episode of the
0:34.5	listener supported congressional dish I'm your host Jennifer Briny and if you're
0:38.2	just hearing this podcast for the first time I am just a regular American
0:42.4	taxpayer who was curious about what Congress was doing
0:45.6	with my money and in my name and so for this podcast I read laws and bills and I
0:49.9	watch congressional hearings looking specifically for the things that we aren't
0:53.8	being told by the corporate media, and I tell as many people as I can about what I'm finding.
0:59.4	And today's episode is about a law, the law, so far of the Trump years and the 115th Congress, which started
1:06.0	in January of 2017 and mercifully ends in January of next year.
1:10.8	Hopefully, after we fire a significant portion of the people currently, not really
1:15.3	representing us in November.
1:17.0	Now, the law I'm going to tell you about today is a portion of the omnibus which funded the
1:21.2	entire government in a bill that was 2,232 pages and available
1:26.6	for members of Congress to read for less than a day and a half before it became law, which
1:31.0	means that they didn't fucking read it, and so I am.
1:34.0	And so far I've made my way through about a quarter of it,
1:37.0	and I've finished the sections that fund defense, energy, the environment,
1:40.0	and the Department of the Interior.
1:42.0	Now, I told you already about some of the big stories and I did this in episode 171 called 2,232 pages.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jennifer Briney, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jennifer Briney and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.