This is a significant, significant safety setback.

It represents an unacceptable risk to the flying public,

to commercial and military aircraft,

crews, and to the residents in the region.

It's also an unthinkable dismissal of our investigation and of 67 families,

67 families who lost loved ones in a tragedy that was entirely preventable.

This is shameful. It is shameful.

I am so damn tired of being lied to.

I don't think I can deny it anymore. You can't stick to your story if you think it flies.

But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 331 episode of Congressional Dish.

I am your host, Jennifer Briney.

And today's episode is going to be about the bills that became law in the month of December

2025 and some other things.

This is basically the summary of the last month of last year.

And this episode took me a while to get to you because I had to look through the National Defense Authorization Act, which was 1,259 pages.

Now, if you're not familiar with it, the National Defense Authorization Act is a bill that needs to

become law every single year because it authorizes our war-related activities. And this is actually a bill that needs to become law every single year because it authorizes our war-related activities.

And this is actually a bill that Congress never fails to get done on time. And if you have listened to

my episodes or know anything about government funding, you will understand how kind of wild that is

that the NDAA has been passed on time for decades. I think it's been over 60 years since they've

failed to meet that deadline. And because they always meet that deadline, it is seen as an excellent

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